UK billionaire Len Blavatnik is selling Israeli TV channel 13 to a Natanyahu ally. In the UK, Blavatnik puts his name on the Tate, Oxford School of Government, and as producer of "Zone of interest" In Israel, he is helping Netanyahu to kill a TV channel critical of the government.

"Why is this antisemitic?" It's not my job to educate you on this. Go do your reading.

On December 28, 2024, the IDF kidnapped Dr Hussam Abu Safiya from his post as pediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. He had refused to abandon his patients. He has been held in Israeli prison without charges ever since, tortured, starved, refused family visits.

If any followers unironically repost this antisemitic BS from the Canary, please remove yourself, thank you

shocked, shocked to find this person lied

You tell me.

It is all but certain that Starmer will go in the next few months, and that the next Labour leader would take the party+government towards the left. Because that's where they're losing votes. The question is on what issues and how much.

Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.

According to Btselem, the IDF killed 89 Palestinians in the last six days. Some of them were, according to Israeli military sources, Hamas/Islamic Jihad activists on Israel's hit list (that is, it was retribution rather than specific threat). The vast majority of casualties were civilians.

Dr. Intissar Shamlakh Al-Rubaie was killed today in an IDF airstrike on her home in Gaza City in northern Gaza, reports the Palestinian Medical Association. She leaves behind her husband. Today and every day, healthcare workers are not a target.

Stumbled across this article from 2008. How times have changed – not just the policies but also the tenor of political discourse 😔 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Mazel tov to Phylisa Wisdom on being appointed to head the @mayor.nyc.gov Office to Combat Antisemitism. @phylisawisdom.bsky.social is the perfect person for the job. I’ve had the blessing to watch her lead @nyjewishagenda.bsky.social in many critical moments.

All the president's men

American-made munitions have played a significant role in Israel’s operations in Gaza. Bellingcat has collated scores of incidents where the remnants of US-made munitions have been found in the aftermath of Israeli strikes. Read here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

"We’re witnessing a murder," writes @ashleyrparker.bsky.social. "Jeff Bezos ... and Will Lewis, the publisher he appointed at the end of 2023, are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Deciding on what not to comment is as important as whatever you have to say. Sometimes - usually - the best thing is to move on.

I did wonder about this WWI cemetery. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Muhamad Majadla (ch12, Israel) reports that Palestinian returnees were "offered flights to third countries as an alternative to going back to Gaza".

Why I am not a Diasporist - my 15,000 word treatise that will be written one day

Haaretz reports that only 12 Palestinians (9 women and 3 children) were allowed to cross from Egypt to Gaza yesterday. They were taken by the pro-Israel Palestinian militia for interrogation by Israeli officials, and their luggage was mostly confiscated. 38 Palestinians were turned back to Egypt.

The NYT website is a cemetery of ledes. You have a story that Iran is allegedly willing to shut down its nuclear program. Headline: U.S. and Iranian Officials to Meet as Trump’s Threats Loom.

Don't mess with genealogists

Israel is terminating Doctors Without Borders operations in Gaza (MSF). MSF calls decision "pretext to obstruct humanitarian assistance" and says it did not hand over staff names because Israel failed to provide assurances to guarantee their safety. www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

Literally EVERY lecturer who had papers as a (sub)test this year:

Marking now takes double the time as I chase fictitious sources and hallucinated citations. I guess the era of coursework is over. I'm not supportive of return to exams (even though it may be a practical solution). Not sure where we go from here.

Before anyone gets too angry about this, several things. (1) Universities in the UK, unlike the US, are pretty much under the financial and admin control of central govt. If RefUK moves to wipe them out, as they will, then some will choose life. (1/3) www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities. People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.

The powerful front page of the reformist newspaper Sazandegi features the names of 3,000 individuals who, according to government reports, were killed during the protests in Iran. #Iran #IranProtests2026

The US is likely to launch a war on Iran this week and the collective response seems to be a shrug. Everyone seems resigned for Trump to do whatever he wants. PS. Recent historical record tells us that extensive US military intervention is a recipe for disaster.

oh my god

And it seems the link on this post doesn’t work. Here it is again actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-t...

The Rafah crossing, a key passage between Gaza and Egypt, is set to reopen after Hamas and Israel agreed to a ceasefire in October. The New York Times visited two hospitals in Gaza to meet some of the sick and wounded awaiting medical evacuation. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

It's a familiar pattern. Israel perpetrates a crime which has the potential to shock and attract global attention (it's not easy at the age of the polycrisis) some critics rush to tell us "no there's nothing new here, it's always been like this" Please explain to me how this helps?

A US colonel who fought in Falluja and Mosul, rejects comparisons to Israel's conduct in Gaza "In Gaza, risk was routinely transferred from Israeli forces onto civilians. The resulting toll ... [was] the product of deliberate decisions". warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza...

"Yet these perpetrators would not have succeeded in their scheme without substantial support from state authorities whose legal duty was to protect the residents of the occupied territory"

Ras ein al-Uja, the Ghor (Jordan valley). This small village was expelled in its entirety by the settlers in recent weeks. Settlers also vandalised the school, and wrote on the whiteboard: All Arabs will die. Source: Mistaklim (Looking the occupation in tye eye) www.mistaclim.org/en

Lew, like McGurk, Sullivan, Blinken: more than complicit. Meaningfully responsible.

The Trump Peace Board will not last longer or fare better than the Trump University. The guy can stick his name on things. He can't build institutions

Any serious person who knew anything about Gaza knew that the official Gaza Health Ministry death toll was an undercount. We also know (beyond doubt) that the overwhelming majority were civilians. Common sense, a bit of knowledge+analytical skills, and not being racist, get you there.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

NEW: Today, we’re excited to announce the creation of the Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research (NCAR), which will work to improve the quality of research, data, and analysis available to advance the broader mission of confronting hate and promoting Jewish safety.

After two years of BS propaganda The IDF: about 70,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza

Hopefully future Democratic presidents are watching and, to quote some of our unfriendlier critics, "you will never be enough."

The ADL's ETF currently holds 8,350 Tesla shares and 7,588 Palantir shares.

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

Choose your warrior

Giving a talk that will present some of the early findings in my research for a biography of James Sanua- Abou Naddara cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_eve...

שיחה מקומית הסרט "דו-קיום, בתחת שלי!" זמין כעת לצפיה ישירה לצופות וצופים בתחומי ישראל-פלסטין בשיחה מקומית! צפו כאן - coexistencemyass.mekomit.co.il

Claim to fame: I once sat behind Philip Glass in a concert in Chennai (part of the Margazhi Music Season).