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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

It's surreal how she has a sweet smile on her face in spite of everything she's going through. Her message should be heard by everyone.

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Al Jazeera locates young girl in Gaza seen carrying injured sister | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Footage has surfaced online showing blindfolded and detained Palestinians being transported by Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza. The video shows Palestinians on the backs of Israeli military trucks wearing what appear to be hazmat suits while blindfolded, being driven to an unknown location:

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

"The mass killing and the destruction of the conditions for life that the attack in the Gaza Strip is causing is not an unintended result of the response to the Hamas attack on October 7, but a goal in itself. They are a component of the overall Israeli strategy ..." 1/

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Children torn to pieces. Witness accounts of tired and starving mothers running away with their surviving children while leaving behind the limbs of the their killed children on the floor of bombed shelters.

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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Hearing some progressives argue that Jill Stein is some sort of anti-imperialist, anti-war candidate, or some sort of viable moral protest vote just makes me think that people are willing to ignore inconvenient history. You can't "educate" a candidate who looked at Syria or Ukraine & said "okay."

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

After every protest, authorities say: "You are protesting the wrong way, you need to do it this way instead." Protesters: * protest in the suggested manner * Authorities: "No, not like that."

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

What is happening in North Gaza is facilitating a population wipeout. No food, no water, just barrels of explosives falling on displaced and entrapped families and children. This unmitigated cruelty should make the entire world stop in its tracks, but instead it has been turned 'business as usual'

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Intense bombardments, mass displacements and lack of access in northern Gaza force the postponement of polio vaccination campaign

Due to the escalating violence, intense bombardment, mass displacement orders, and lack of assured humanitarian pauses across most of northern Gaza, the Polio Technical Committee for Gaza, including t...

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

There is enough evidence here for several war crimes tribunals to examine, not one. Much of this info was available to the US State Department, yet, they concluded Israel's army was not violating US law.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

I should not have read this before sleeping. Might be the most horrible document of human behavior i have ever read. If you want to see how genocide thinks - here you go.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

After it gaslit everyone into thinking Palestinians bombed their own hospital (Al-Ahli), levelled another it said without proof was a “Hamas command centre” (Al-Shifa), Israel has absolutely relinquished any benefit of doubt when it comes to assessing hospitals Don’t believe it on Al-Sahel

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Remember the “Hamas command centre” under Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza? You know the one for which Israel and the US couldn’t produce any evidence, even after flattening the medical centre? That’s this again. Manufacturing consent for massacres www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

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Israel claims Hezbollah bunker under Beirut hospital holds millions of dollars

Sahel hospital evacuated despite Israel saying it would not attack it although at least four people died in nearby strikes

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Look at the horror of the last year in Gaza: it can still get much worse, if this is allowed to continue. This is where it is going. The elimination of Palestinians between the river and the sea through direct killing, siege, and expulsion. It can happen in mere 2-3 years.

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Barring international press, barring UN orgs, barring humanitarian aid, barring medical orgs, cutting off telecom are ways to fast-track ethnic cleanisng, starvation & mass atrocities in Gaza. Not 1 condemnation from the Biden/Harris regime--only rewards.

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

"In a testimony to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in June, Zaken said that on many occasions, soldiers had to “run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds.”" -- and when they say terrorists, they really mean Palestinian men. period. This genocide is continuously unfolding.

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‘He got out of Gaza, but Gaza did not get out of him’: Israeli soldiers returning from war struggle with trauma and suicide | CNN

For many soldiers, the war against Hamas in Gaza is a fight for Israel’s survival and must be won by any means. But the battle is also taking a mental toll that, due to stigma, is largely hidden from ...

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

In Jabalia, the Israeli army is bulldoziung homes in real time with innocent families screaming inside. This US govt funded extermination campaign is santizied in our media feeds with banal headlines like "Scores dead in Gaza" --- Out of breath and out of words.

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

We've long known about this atrocity, but academics, media figures, and govt mouthpieces have done crazy gymnastics to avoid calling these actions what they are: war crimes. Our lives and bodily integrity as Palestinian men are deemed of such little value to many in these 'esteemed' professions

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How Israel’s Army Uses Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza

Israeli soldiers and Palestinian former detainees say troops have regularly forced captured Gazans to carry out life-threatening tasks, including inside Hamas tunnels.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

“Hints” is a stupid word in the headline. But what the article details is a plan for mass murder and forced displacement. Future generations will wonder why we let this happen.

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Israeli attack on northern Gaza hints at retired general's "surrender or starve" plan for war

Giora Eiland tells Jeremy Bowen that Israel should tell Palestinians to leave northern Gaza before sealing it off as a way of pressuring Hamas.

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Videos of displaced families burning in their tents, photos of human shreds, and screaming children holding onto the leg of their dead mother cannot be the new normal. These are mass atrocities, and I wish political scientists weren't turning their eyes away. Make your opposition noted and publicly.

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

If you are thinking about publishing a piece about the great opportunities Israel has opened for Lebanon, please pause, take a deep breath, and then drop a 2000 pound bomb on your laptop.

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

"US credibility, already compromised by Washington’s close alliances with the repressive likes of Egypt, Saudi Arabia & the UAE, has been profoundly undermined by Biden’s aiding & abetting of Israeli war crimes in Gaza..that vote could have resulted in an overwhelming repudiation of the Biden admin"

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The US won’t run for another term on UN human rights council. Israel is likely why | Kenneth Roth

Balloting would have provided a rare opportunity for the world’s governments to vote on complicity in Israeli war crimes

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

This only enables more mass atrocities.

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

"The results of this study suggest indiscriminate bombing in dangerous proximities to hospital infrastructure, which is afforded special protection under international humanitarian law (IHL)." - Next time a state dept spox claims, we're still gathering evidence, hand him a copy.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Hala Rharrit, an 18-year veteran of the US Foreign Service, explains why she resigned from the State Dept. due to US policy under Biden with respect to Israel/Gaza. She also shares how US policy supports violations of international law and argues that current US policy violates US law as well.

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I resigned as a US diplomat because I will not be the face of a policy supporting Israel’s slaughter in Gaza | The National

America's actions violate US law, and work against the interests of its people

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Universities should stop calling the police on peaceful student protestors. This would show commitment to the rights of free expression and assembly and better protect students, say @daniellalock.bsky.social & Alex Benn politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/univers... #University #Protest #UKpolitics

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Universities Should Stop Calling the Police on Peaceful Student Protestors

As the academic year begins, the topic of protests at universities is likely to feature in the news again.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Daraya, Chouf 🇱🇧

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Netanyahu warns Lebanon to “throw out Hezbollah” (as if that were something any Lebanese actor could do) to avoid “destruction like we see in Gaza.” If international law still meant anything, the ICJ and ICC would be taking careful notes and disregard the passive voice. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Netanyahu warns Lebanon of 'destruction like Gaza' - BBC News

Benjamin Netanyahu's appeal came as Israel expanded its ground invasion against Hezbollah.

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

The UNGA declared Israel’s presence is unlawful and must end “without delay.” Last week’s General Assembly vote upholds the International Court of Justice ruling. Read the full story by @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social here: goodauthority.org/news/the-u-n...

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Israel's occupation of Gaza must end, the U.N. says.

The U.N. General Assembly said Israel's occupation of Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem is illegal. Israel isn't likely to comply.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Israel's large defense firms have European subsidiaries that manufacture components for Israeli weapons systems. Israel fears that arms embargoes by the U.K., Germany and other countries will impair their ability to supply critical equipment to Israel Oded Yaron www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Arms embargo: Will Israeli-owned foreign companies be barred from selling to Israel?

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

US: we don’t mind if you do genocide or launch new wars, just don’t surprise us so we can be ready to help Israel: surprise! US: oh you kid. Here’s some more new weapons but we’re gonna leak to Axios that we mad.

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Palestinians aren't "caught in the middle" of anything. They are the target. In Gaza, in the West Bank, and in Lebanon. Their expulsion, ethnic cleansing, and killing is not a "consequence"--it's been the aim as we've seen throughout this past year. Call out narratives that routinize our slaughter.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Barricaded by barbed-wire fences, tanks and soldiers, civilians in Gaza are effectively imprisoned in a 141-square-mile strip of land between Egypt and Israel that has become a killing zone. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/w...

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Nowhere to Go: How Gaza Became a Mass Death Trap

Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been prevented from fleeing the narrow strip of land even as bombs have rained down, famine has loomed and disease has spread.

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Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Bit's work is always brilliant! Check it out

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Israel’s siege now blocks 83% of food aid reaching Gaza, new data shows in joint press release by 14 aid organizations. 1.87 million people in need of shelter but only 25,000 tents have entered Gaza. www.nrc.no/news/2024/se...

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Israel’s siege now blocks 83% of food aid reaching Gaza, new data reveals | NRC

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POMEPS @pomeps.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Less than two weeks to apply for the POMEPS Travel – Research – Engagement (TRE) Grants for 2025! The deadline to apply is September 30th. For more information on how to apply, click here: pomeps.org/call-for-pro...

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Call for Proposals: 2025 Travel Research Engagement Grants - Project on Middle East Political Science

The Project on Middle East Political Science announces a call for proposals for POMEPS Travel – Research – Engagement (TRE) grants for 2025. Awards of up to $3,000 will be offered to support research ...

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

This was an Israeli missile attack on a displaced persons camp with over 200 tents. People are not "feared" killed. People were killed. Not knowing the precise number of deaths does not change that.

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