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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 8h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7h

And we already know from Anthropic's own code release that they do absolutely *wildly* inefficient stupid shit like "download the entire database each time you need to do a search operation, in a dozen different places"

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Kenan Habul @kenanhabul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Snart tre år. Alla som velat har kunnat se vad som händer i Gaza. Otaliga palestinska vittnesmål, uttalanden från israeliska politiker, det orgiastiska våldet. Ändå har motståndet mot folkmordet "straffats" hårdare i Sverige än stödet för detsamma. Den skammen.

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Eivind HM. @eivind1984.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dette er helt fullstendig ødeleggende for tilliten til absolutt alt som kommer fra noe departement, er det ikke det da? Har alle blitt Per Sandberg nå? "Det KUNNE vært sant", liksom?

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John Erik Sloper @jesloper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I let loose 1000 self-driving cars in a city, each explicitly trained to ignore traffic laws and find more "efficient routes", and some of them then drive the wrong way in a one way street and crash into stuff did the cars then "go rouge"? Are the cars responsible or am I?

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 26/09/2026

we’re gonna beat the cute little animated avatar to death with hammers sorry

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Her forklarer jeg på under 12 minutter hvordan språkmodellene faktisk genererer tekst og hvorfor KI-genererte tekster og sammendrag IKKE er objektive. Jeg bruker bl.a. NTBs KI-genererte sammendrag av Telenorrapporten som eksempel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBi...

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Lex konference 2026: Jill Walker Rettberg - Maskinens blik - når algoritmer former vores forståelse

YouTube video by Lex - Danmarks Nationalleksikon

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Palestinian student Mais Khamis Bazazo was killed by a tank shell fired by Israeli forces in Gaza while returning home from school. Mais, a student at Ain Al-Hilweh Al-Zahraa School, had just taken part in the school’s theatre program before leaving for home.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 21/09/2026

Since I've had to remind multiple people over the last week: Microsoft is still under active BDS protest. That means Xbox and it's subsidies including Activision, Blizzard and Bethesda Yes that means the new Diablo. Yes that means the new DOOM. Yes that means World of Warcraft Forever

nogamesforgenocide.com

No Games For Genocide

The games industry is complicit in genocide. It’s time to divest.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you want a different voice on this, go to the source, @timnitgebru.blacksky.app was one of the first people lifting this issue.

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Is AI Really Going to Kill Us? Timnit Gebru Explains | Vibe Check

YouTube video by Vibe Check

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 20/09/2026

Highly recommend those who still cling onto the two-state paradigm, especially one which rests upon the concept of demilitarization or the transfer of military control to a consortium, examine just how deep Israeli control goes. This was from 2009. We're 17 years away from this.

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Dismantling the Matrix of Control - MERIP

Almost a decade ago I wrote an article describing Israel’s “matrix of control” over the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It consisted then of three interlocking systems: military administration of mu...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And every day there is more Fresh AI Hell. What's worse than polluting the information ecosystem with synthetic text dressed up to look like news? Dressing it up further as the work of fake Indigenous journalists: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News

The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

💥 Israel is wiping another ancient village in South Lebanon off the map. Mays al-Jabal — a village older than most nations on Earth. This is a war crime, and a crime against humanity. 9/19/26 @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In the last decade, the IDF prosecuted one (1) soldier for unlawfully killing a Palestinian in the occupied territories. Elor Azaria served 9 months in prison. Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record. A clear message of 100% impunity.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"we asked a statistical model of the english language whether we should bomb a boat" what the fuck are we even doing here

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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Norzola @norzola.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is Israel. Not just Netanyahu, it's Israel. With a few, brave exceptions, it's like Israel is in a state of mass psychosis; it's a cesspool of hateful and frantically self-righteous, constantly scheming megalomaniacs, forcing their rape culture and obnoxious notion of supremacy onto the world.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A vibecoder will bake in an awful architectural mistake, bake in a shitty design that ensures constant awful fucking hassle when, not if, the code has to be maintained and extended. And they won't even notice, they can't even be arsed to make a mental model in the first place.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/09/2026

An extensive Financial Times investigative report, done in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, demonstrates that more than SIXTY FIVE PERCENT of Israeli damage and destruction done to Lebanese population centers occurred AFTER the so-called ceasefire agreement of April 16th.

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Eivind HM. @eivind1984.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Den tidligere digitaliseringsministeren er sikkert lykkelig over å se at KI også har inntatt domstolene, her ved at dommeren selv har glemt å ta ut prompten sin av domsteksten. Kan man stole på resten av denne dommen? Andre dommer? Ingen vet! Men er det så farlig? Det er jo bare rettsstaten 🥳

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/09/2026

Another year full of climate extremes... Did you know the last 100 days have all set new daily records for global sea surface temperatures? Learn more about our rapidly warming oceans in our webinar this week, & bring your questions! 📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Who is draining Africa? This figure shows net-appropriation of resources from Africa's CFA zone, illustrating two key facts. 1) Eurozone countries are the biggest appropriators, benefitting from the Francafrique system. 2) Contrary to conventional Western narratives, China's appropriation is tiny.

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John Erik Sloper @jesloper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Over 3000 terroristangrep bare første halvdel av 2026! Støttet av den israelske stat og IDF.

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dransct.bsky.social @dransct.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"AI wins not when it becomes more human, but when humans become more like AI: disengaged and devoid of original thought." . "I am AI disobedient, and I will stay that way." -Sarah Kendzior

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Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Here's what I currently use to set expectations regarding AI in my courses. Image 1 from @nsousanis.bsky.social Image 2 from my syllabus. Links in alt-text Image 3 from @metalclassicist.bsky.social It's not syllabus-writing time for me yet, but this morning's bsky adventures got me thinking.

Graphic by Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social spinweaveandcut.com .

Nothing can do this for you for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning.

Rather it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create. This is learning.

Review of Expectations: AI.
tl; dr: DON’T USE IT.
USE OF TECHNOLOGY AND AI: Within the classroom, I expect all of us to actively listen to one another and to participate fully in all classroom activities. If you choose to use laptops or tablets in this class, please be conscientious to perform only class activities during class time. Please do not use your phones at all during classroom activities. Violating this policy will affect your participation grade. While Northwestern sanctions the use of Microsoft Copilot for students, I do not recommend the use of any generative AI for this class. For the purposes of studying, AI is not a reliable resource. It may give you information, but it is not necessarily correct information. Talk to me about better resources and strategies!

Use of AI to complete translations, revisions, reflections, or anything that you submit to Canvas constitutes a violation of academic integrity. DO NOT USE ANY FORM OF AI TO COMPLETE ANY OF YOUR ASSIGNMENTS. Do not use AI for graded work, complete/incomplete work, or revisions. . I hope that you have chosen to take this course to enhance your thinking and communication skills. Outsourcing your work to artificial intelligence would counteract this goal. For more information on the drawbacks and costs of AI, please see my colleague Dr. Thomas’ AI Syllabus Statement.

Better resources and strategies: https://magistracohen509.weebly.com/study-resources-for-students.html

Dr. Thomas' AI statement: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Hg0fjjKypdC5VrV3kU3RleZzS4QBsNgs2cy32tMHkc/edit?tab=t.0

Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist AI policy.

AI Policy 🤖

Generative AI is any artificial intelligence software, such as ChatGPT, that is used to generate ideas and content that are not one’s own. Beyond alarming environmental impacts, these programs operate by stealing the art and writing of others, and are on that basis unethical. Such programs prevent, and discourage, the development of human beings both into free and critical thinkers and into proficient and creative writers and communicators.

Therefore, the use of these programs to assist in any way with any assignments in this course constitutes a violation of academic integrity and is therefore strictly forbidden.

First offense = zero for the assignment
Second offense = failure for the course

If you are ever tempted to use AI because you ran out of time and energy to finish an
assignment on time, just email me for an extension!

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A few months ago I started wondering if not using LLMs for coding right now would be a detriment to me as a programmer, but I concluded that the idea is nonsensical. I could start Not Writing My Own Code at any moment, and having stopped programming 2 years ago wouldn’t make me a better programmer.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits

OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.

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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Walking up to AI developers like "so are you the kind of AI developer who knows they're a fraud or the kind of AI developer who thinks they're a slaver?"

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 03/09/2026

Soldiers coming across a border and detaining citizens of another country, then transferring them back to their own prisons, is clearly a breach of international law, experts say. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have described Israel's actions in southern Syria as possible war crimes.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 03/09/2026

Syrians who live under and near the new Israeli occupied territories since 2024 say that Israel is turning southwestern Syria into a new West Bank— checkpoints, military bases, closed roads, demolition orders on villages, the kidnapping of civilians into military prisons without charge, and more.

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Why is Israel's military presence growing in Syria?

The recent Israeli attack on a Syrian airbase is just one of many Israeli incursions into Syria. In southern Syria, locals say Israeli troops have detained them, destroyed infrastructure and set up mi...

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 04/09/2026

What does it say about the European Union that von Der Leyen can simply choose to not table a proposal and therefore allow these states to avoid even voting on their bare minimum basic legal obligations?

aljazeera.com

EU remains divided over trade sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements

Irish Foreign Minister Helen McEntee says the bloc 'should be moving collectively' in upholding international law.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Germany has been arming Israel’s genocide, apartheid and illegal occupation. Don’t let it get away with it. Follow the ICJ hearings from 7 September and make them impossible to ignore. Demand your government end every military transfer to Israel.

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Anders S. Løvlie @anderslovlie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Disarm Israel

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

By “anything remotely like this” he means the leopard wasn’t supposed to eat _his_ face. Also, fuck both these clowns.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 30/08/2026

Growing up with the phrase “Wikipedia isn’t a valid source,” only to end up in a daily life where everyone says, “Just ask ChatGPT.”

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John Erik Sloper @jesloper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Norske politikere som enda snakker om en 2-stats løsning, bør konfronteres med dette kartet og bli bedt om å forklare om de ser for seg at Israel fjerner alle disse israelske bosetningene. Uansett løsning kreves det et enormt press mot Israel som vi så langt har sett absolutt ingenting til.

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Contrary to the Jewish Leadership Council’s statement, Britain is not “singling out” Israel. Britain already restricts trade with illegally occupied Ukrainian territory. What is exceptional is that Britain has spent years applying a different standard to illegal Israeli settlements.

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