“This was Trump unfiltered and unleashed – as he has been since the start of his second term, with no domestic or international restraint on his power and no need for even the mildest diplomatic niceties” — my latest for @theguardian.com on Trump's unhinged UN speech

Very proud of the new issue that’s up today. If you’ve been struggling with genocide-worklife balance, this one’s for you

Got any questions for me? Please write in 👇🏽 This months’ q is from a man who wants to know why he’s still bothered that he can’t get through to his liberal Zionist friend

“The US is deeply complicit in the starvation and unspeakable suffering that Israel is inflicting on the people of Gaza. Thanks to an unlimited supply of US weapons and diplomatic cover, Netanyahu has been able to continue Israel’s genocide with impunity” — my comments to @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social

I keep forgetting BlueSky exists 🙄

Very proud to have been editor on this piece. Please read:

Tell me this isn’t the earth fighting back

In three days of bombing, Israel has murdered nearly 1,000 Iranians. That is over 300 people per day. While continuing to carry out massacres in Gaza, dropping bombs & also directly gunning starving people down. Get this malignant cancer out of our region for the love of humanity

For this month’s Dear Souseh column, I answer a question from a Lebanese mother in France concerned about how and how much to tell her kids about the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Do you have a question for Souseh? Pls write to [email protected] themarkaz.org/afraid-for-o...

Badar’s fellowship is partially subsidized by the Scholars at Risk program, which works with U.S. universities to host international scholars facing threats in their countries. He never imagined that a country with a Scholars at Risk program would one day pose a risk to scholars. A powerful essay ⤵️

"In our special brotherhood of that summer of ’72 in London, the absence of words – in Arabic, in Persian, in distant English – did not require our names." Salar Abdoh for @codastory.bsky.social and @strangersguide.bsky.social:

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Please donate to help Sarah — she has no way of supporting her surviving children except through your donations 🙏🏽

Please help Dr. Hussam Farhat and his family! He can no longer practice and requires help to be able to support his children 🙏🏽

Please help Lubna and her husband Muhammad; Lubna miscarried her first born at 9 months due to the immense stress and fear of trying to survive a genocide. Donate, boost, help them escape and survive 🙏🏽 ❤️

I’m still building up my following on this app and don’t have nearly enough reach as I did on the other to amplify but 🚨 🚨 please please if you see this, repost to help Anas and Ahmad circulate their story

What do you do with your bf if "after watching eighteen straight months of savagery & genocide by slaughter, torture, forced exile & famine... jailing, disappearing, deporting people... if, after all that & doubtless worse yet to come, he’s still calling what’s happening “politics”?

🚨 🚨 The Markaz Review is debuting a new monthly feature this week! Dear Souseh: An Existential Advice Column for Third World Problems. Read & share AND if you have your own question for Souseh write her at [email protected] & look for it in an upcoming column! themarkaz.org/dear-souseh-...

Last October, Israel's military propaganda arm released a "kill list" of journalists, as my colleagues @thepublicsource.bsky.social accurately put it. Hossam was one of them. Now he's dead. Where the hell are Western media? Where's all the free speech warriors? thepublicsource.org/blog/press/i...

US admin basically just said to Lebanon: “Normalize with our genocidal colony or we bomb you back to the Stone Age.”

Just openly admitting to war crimes.

Back to unchecked genocide. Back to reality cleaved in two. Back to fire & death & abomination in one world, hand-wringing & empty words in the other. Back to the East suffocating & the West looking on. Back to the empty husks of institutions now crumbled into dust. Back to the dimming of any future

This has become increasingly clear & is the reason why the west can watch a live-streamed genocide & not just shrug it off but help manufacture consent to buy the killing machine more time. The explanation for how the Holocaust happened in Europe was never “no one knew.” It was “no one cared.”

Writer Shuja’s AlSafadi mourning his son after forty days. Read the english version carefully.

An empire in decline is the most dangerous.

Info graphic by Liz based on Joseph Daher's interview in Tempest mag tempestmag.org/2024/12/unde...

I feel like someone punched all the air out of my lungs. Those monsters. I wish so badly to believe in another world where he is now reunited with his beloved granddaughter Reem 💔

These men in Damascus all went to the mom of a man who was killed by the Assad regime and chanted “Oh mother of the martyr, we are your children” From the looks of it they went to multiple parents to honour their children www.instagram.com/reel/DDhMstR... #Syria

All of my Syrian friends, without exception, have expressed apprehension about the future. And all of my Syrian friends, without exception, are thoroughly overwhelmed with joy and relief that the Assad regime is at long last gone

My brilliant friend Asser Khattab on what the fall of the house of Assad means to him and so many other Syrians. www.ft.com/content/455a...

In less than a week, Israel killed in Gaza: a mayor, municipal officials, the north’s last orthopedic doctor, a judge in Gaza city’s court of appeals, journalists, and first responders on their way to rescue civilians who were killed and injured as a result of an Israeli airstrike.

Or as my grandpa allah yerhamu used to say: “I’m not a rich man and so I can’t afford to buy something cheap.”

The year since October 7 has shown us that Israel can neither be accommodated nor reformed. It must be dismantled, and Zionism must be brought to an end.

Anyone know anyone coming from Beirut to Montreal in the next couple of weeks? Please dm if so 🙏🏽

I spoke with Beirut-based journalist @justinsalhani.bsky.social for “The Fire These Times” podcast about Lebanon — before and after the ceasefire thefirethesetimes.com/2024/12/09/l...

There is nothing more soul-moving than liberating prisons.

The horrors of Hama have been our shared Syrian omerta for the past 40 years. May its people have peace at long last, and may theirs be the beginning of ours.

This year December feels unreasonable and impossible. We’ve seen enough, wrap it up.

Look at this gorgeous little face. Please share, amplify, donate and help this young family ❤️

Israel killed 100 people in Gaza today. I listened to NPR this evening, and this wasn’t even reported in passing. There was even a report about an initiative to save endangered wolves somewhere, but no mention of the 100 people who were killed in less than 24 hours.

If this is about people who oppose Israel & its genocide(s) vs Zionists & their apologists then yes this is a correct statement. If this is about US democrats vs US republicans then you have neither a difference in political opinion nor morality, sorry, & it’s laughable to think you do

This is what Western media likes to call a “war” as though it were a conflict between equal sides