"I'm the first person to condemn violent settlers but" says the person who literally never condemns settlers

Miscellany of developments in Britain/Europe on settlement trade bans. 1. 25 June 2026: @laylamoran.bsky.social tables private members’ bill in Commons to ban trade with Israeli settlements. bills.parliament.uk/bills/4252

Webinar: Emergency Panel Calling for the Cessation of Torture and the Immediate Release of Dr. Abu Safiya and Thirteen Other Palestinian Physicians Detained in Israel cugh.org/events/webin...

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Mere four years after they got Fetterman elected, Democrat heavyweights endorsed this nazi-tattooed pandora box because he looked the part.

Misogyny works just fine 🤷

Seriously, 95% of Rahm Emanuel's speech could have been written by Golda Meir

Unfortunately, psychopaths are often charismatic and good liars. That's why there's so many of them in politics

I see Dropsite news are back to form, downplaying sexual violence, obfuscating the Platner story

I cannot over emphasize how much banking sanctions would be a #1 game changer

Rahm Emmanuel (checks notes) just called for sanctions on Israeli banks involved in settlement construction in the West Bank. This probably means all Israeli banks

The discussion on Biden admin policy failure in Gaza typically focuses on spring-summer 2024. By that time, Netanyahu had momentum, and he was ready to defy and challenge Biden. But the real failure imo took place between Oct 23 to Jan 24. At that point, Netanyahu was the weakest he's ever been. 1/

Fun fact: in 1918, there were more Jews in Missouri than there were in Palestine

Even Hamas are calling on Platner to drop out

Today is the official "fucking idiots we so much absolutely told you" bluesky day or maybe one of those days

and there we go. again, all this could have been avoided by the simple rule of 'don't support a candidate with a Nazi tattoo'. Not a challenge! www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Since Oct 7 2023, the Israeli military and settlers killed 240 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank. Read the B'Tselem report. www.btselem.org/video/202606...

Israeli medical human rights group, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel: Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been held in Israel's Ofer Prison– without charge - for over a year, faces immediate risk of death. Calls for his immediate release.

THIS IS VERY SERIOUS 🚨🚨🚨🚨 According to his lawyer, Nasser Odeh, Dr. Abu Safiya was struggling to breathe and speak, and during the meeting he appeared close to losing consciousness several times.

My colleague @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social, who covers antisemitism for @forward.com, is from San Francisco and has an excellently local assessment of what just happened (twice) to @scottwiener.bsky.social. .

For the incoming UK PM Burnham, changing policy on Palestine/Israel is a low hanging fruit that could serve as an indication of his political courage. To be sure, foreign policy is not his comfort zone. At the same time, he's aware of the damage Starmer's approach has done. 1/

How UK higher education -- and education policy/the country in general -- is viewed in Germany. Wie peinlich. What a mess.

Certainly describes my situation: facing redundancy from a humanities job in weeks, no chance of another academic role, and at a university that went from teaching 15-20 languages to none.

Can we think of the early Zionist colonies as part of the Palestinian landscape? This is the question I ask in my chapter on the Dutch photographer Frank Scholten 1920s depiction of the colonies as part of his journeys in Palestine. Open access here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

There's a shortage of Goyim because of the blocked Hormuz Straits. The price of Goyim is going through the roof

My brain hurts

Joyous faces in Washington DC as Israel and Lebanon sign agreement

The reporting and stories coming out of Israel's prisons and detention centres of the treatment of Palestinians are absolutely horrific. This is torture of the worst level

Growing up in Jerusalem, summer temperatures of 30 celsius (86f) and above were not unusual. We managed well without AC, not because of endurance skills, but because the building were well insulated and we had shutters, and these kept the heat out, and many streets were shaded.

After a week in the US, I finally understood that "amazing" is basically used as a comma

Very happy this mensch is going to be a US Congressman

I dreamt Mamdani came to fix my plumbing. As part of municipal service. Very strange. I can't imagine he's good with plumbing.

Another Israeli elections prediction: Ben Gvir's "Jewish Power" party will outperform the current polls, attracting many disappointed Likud voters. In current polls, Likud gets around 22 seats and Ben Gvir 9. I expect the figures to be much closer. 1/

Somehow those "tough decisions" are always about making poor people even poorer, not about nationalisation or taxing the super rich.

Four months away from Israeli elections, I will go out on limb to say that Gadi Eisenkot will be Israel's next PM. He would be the first Jew of North African heritage to become Prime Minister, and also the third former IDF chief-of-staff to do after Rabin (74-77, 92-95) and Barak (99-2000). 1/

As I said

I was today's years old when I found you can deposit a paper cheque through your bank's app

Associate Professorship in Middle Eastern Politics at the University of Oslo. The position is linked to the Middle Eastern Studies group, with 12 permanent faculty with expertise in Persian, Turkish and Arabic, politics, anthropology, literature, media, and history. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Selling property in occupied territory is potentially money laundering. news.sky.com/story/homes-...

כולכם הייתם בסכנת מוות המוני!

The scepticism is appropriate and well earned. Perhaps the main difference is that today Palestine/Israel is a live and potent electoral issue - on a level it's not been before - as we see in the UK, Netherland, Spain and elsewhere.

Today: Germany (among others) vetoes EU proposal to sanction on Ben Gvir While at the same time The US effectively denies Ben Gvir a visa The Trump (!) administration is tougher on Kahanists than the EU. Unbelievable. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Let the spin begin. Both Iran and the US will claim victory while Israel sulks and waits for the whole thing to unravel (because nothing is really agreed). A massively disruptive and wholly inconclusive war in which Iran nevertheless emerges relatively better than its foes in the short-term.

In short, the US and Israel are on a collision course. At other times, Israel would have been open to show more restraint, but not this government, not months before election. Trump would have to do more than scream at Netanyahu and badmouth him to reporters to solve this one.

Without a Israeli-Lebanese agreement on full Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon, the next regional escalation is just around the corner. It would involve Israeli attacks on Beirut, Iranian missiles on Israel, Israeli attacks on Iran, and the suspension of movement through Hormuz Straits.

Magal is one of the closest people to Netanyahu and this would not be published without his approval. They're in the anger stage of grief. Trump? Loser Witkoff and Kushner? "Two little Jews" VP Vance? a lowlife

Tonight, dozens of settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Dir Dibwan (West Bank). They set ablaze the door of the mosque while people were praying inside. Settlers also torched six cars. - Haaretz, Matan Golan. Every. day.

It took me 10 hours and watching countless youtube videos, but I think I figured out how to use the Interrail/Eurorail app

Best thing I’ve read on this. Indeed best thing I’ve read on the politics of the politics of this catastrophe - for a long time. Binary thinking - in or out - cannot find a path through. We need to exercise judgement. We need to think as we act, and act as we think.