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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man

@omerman.bsky.social
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Director of Research for Israel-Palestine at DAWN. Bygone journalist.└A expat. Former ed-in-chief at +972 Magazine. All views my own...for now.

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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I see it now. He’s darth vader.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
My intergenerational traumas are in retrograde this month
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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump’s threats to force universities to silence protests are a “twisted new form of transnational repression. Restricting free speech...by cutting state funds, or more accurately, creating a chilling effect by threatening to do so, is a hallmark of autocratic takeovers,” said @omerman.bsky.social.
aljazeera.com
Can Trump legally force US universities to silence protests?
Trump threatens universities with withholding federal funding if they allow ‘illegal protests’ to resume on campuses.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
So what are the chances that this grows into a benevolent dictatorship?
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
New president, new flag on the house
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Alon Pinkas @alonpinkas.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
In case Trump doesn’t read Hebrew, here is Smotrich’s statement: “Netanyahu gave us assurances that Gaza will become uninhabitable…he agrees with and accepts our approach: The war will change and Israel will control Gaza”. Smotrich may be a theocratic-messianic fascist, but he’s no liar. Believe him
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
3) Nobody will do anything about it. (8/8)
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
They will portray Trump lifting the settler sanctions as the right moment to carry out a renewed ethnic cleaning campaign, as if to say “ball don’t lie.” (7/8)
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The settlers have been ramping up their demands to do to Jenin, Nablus, and Tulkarm what was done to Gaza. This is the part they’ve been waiting for. Settlers will try and drive entire Palestinian communities off their land, as they did after Oct 7. (6/8)
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
2) Israel will launch a major military operation in the West Bank soon. The Israeli army will largely withdraw from Gaza per the ceasefire deal, but will regularly send in troops to operate there. The world will be too focused on the killing and destruction in West Bank to even object. (5/8)
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I’m reminded of the days before Mohammed Abu Khdeir was murdered. But at such larger of a scale. It’s terrifying. (4/8)
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Netanyahu will use this manipulatively aggravated national trauma to double down on the need to eliminate Hamas completely, but it will also tear at an already fractured Israeli society. And the genocidiers will use it as a tool to further dehumanize and demonize Palestinians. (3/8)
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Hamas has long been saying the two children and their mother were killed in an airstrike but Israel has never declared the family to be dead, so Israeli society has been holding up photos of this baby for 15 months as a symbol of the urgency of a hostage release—and to dehumanize Palestinians. (2/8)
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Three depressing predictions re Israel-Palestine: 🧵📜 1) The Israeli baby (Bibas family) who was taken on Oct 7 along with another sibling and their mother, is supposed to be returned in one of the early rounds of hostage releases. (1/8)
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Define winning and losing however you want, but this man always figures out how to live to see another day.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This way Netanyahu buys himself another six weeks to avoid making up his mind about whether to go back to genocide and stay in power or end the war and face uncertain elections.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Meanwhile, Lapid has publicly offered to keep the government in power in order to get a hostage deal done (but only that long).
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Parliamentary politics, amirite? Ben Gvir says his party will leave the government if it goes for the ceasefire, but it will rejoin the government if and when the war resumes.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I'm sorry but the Biden Admin's failure to achieve a ceasefire for 15 months was so much larger and more consequential than whoever managed to get it done today. Regardless of who is credited with a ceasefire, Netanyahu and Biden deserve full credit for genocide.
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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
"Ending Israel's genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza is of course a long-overdue welcome development but without guarantees that Israel can never again carry out such atrocities, it is but a single gulp of fresh air," said DAWN's Israeli-Palestine research director @omerman.bsky.social.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Of course Netanyahu is the one who put Ben Gvir in charge of the prisons. And of course Israel doesn't even have a law explicitly criminalizing torture. Scapegoating the extremist he himself empowered allows Netanyahu to make a systemic issue seem like the non-systemic work of a bad apple.
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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"Israel Bonds are one of the most significant sources of financing for illicit Israeli activities in Palestine, from the violent expansion of West Bank settlements to offsetting the enormous costs of the genocidal campaign in Gaza," said DAWN's @omerman.bsky.social.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Hot take: Netanyahu will throw Ben Gvir under the bus for turning Israeli prisons into full-on torture camps, both to hold off int'l accountability (complementarity) and making himself seem like the responsible adult in the room to mainstream Israelis ("he's the sadist, not me").
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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Israeli bond profits “get handed out largely to [Israeli] government coalition agreements, which oftentimes are where budgets for settlements come from”, said DAWN's @omerman.bsky.social. For that reason, “Anybody investing in Israel bonds is risking violating the settler sanctions.”
aljazeera.com
Millions in bonds for Israel put US states at odds with investment policies
US states spend millions on Israeli investments but risk non-compliance with their own policies.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The lawsuit, supported by DAWN, documents how the State Department has created unique, insurmountable processes to evade the Leahy Law requirement to sanction abusive Israeli units.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Palestinian Families Sue State Department To Suspend U.S. Military Assistance To Abusive Israeli Security Forces dawnmena.org/united-state...
dawnmena.org
United States: Palestinian Families Sue State Department to Suspend U.S. Military Assistance to Abusive Israeli Security Forces
(Washington DC, December 17, 2024) - Palestinian families devastated by Israeli human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank filed a federal lawsuit today under the Administrative Procedure Act (...
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Gaza vs Blinken Our latest at @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
open.substack.com
Gaza v. Blinken: Palestinians Sue Secretary of State Over 'Failure' to Follow US Law on Sending Military Aid to Israel
"For too long, the State Department has acted as if there’s an ‘Israel exemption' from the Leahy Law,” says group supporting the lawsuit.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Imagine a time traveler going back to January 7th, 2021, and telling you that this would happen less than four years later.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“We only publish opinions our billionaire owner likes, and only after making sure they don’t contain anything the regime-aligned plutocrats might find objectionable” sounds dystopian - only it’s not an imagined future or alternative reality, it’s where we are. Quite the “fourth estate” we have.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"At this point, nobody wants to hear what we have to say anymore. They simply refuse contact ... the momentum of academic boycotts is increasing." www.shomrim.news/eng/judicial...
shomrim.news
Shomrim - Israel’s Returning Judicial Coup Targets the Academy and Serves the BDS Movement
Since the start of the war, there has been a ‘flood of incidents’ of Israeli academics being boycotted and the BDS movement has waged an aggressive campaign on university campuses. At home, a blitz of...
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Irin Carmon @irincarmon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is how they cover up what abortion bans do — fire anyone who helps tell the stories of harm. Everyone who is or can be pregnant will pay the price. www.propublica.org/article/geor...
propublica.org
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
But with an algorithm trying to build on how youtube scared the masses about vaccines and deep-state pedophiles.
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Fascinating that experts in extremism (which Marc is, btw) now see X as their core platform for research. (For over a decade, you had to delve into small telegram groups and other networks to track what extremists were saying.)
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It's snowing!
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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"In light of the threats already made by president-elect Trump and existing US legislation known as the 'Hague Invasion Act,' the EU and other major democratic powers should immediately put in place measures to protect the safety and integrity of the ICC and its staff," said @omerman.bsky.social.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
What if all ICC member states came out of the ASP with a unified declaration that alongside a commitment to arrest Netanyahu and Galant, they will grant asylum to Israelis fearing persecution for refusing illegal orders?
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
How long until the U.S. criminalizes any cooperation with the ICC?
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Or over zoom, for that matter.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Legal commentator on Israel tv right now: "At least they didn't charge them with genocide..."
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It gives me the slightest bit of hope that at a moment when the international system is under the most serious stress test in (my) lifetime, the forces of justice and international law refuse to be cowed by threats and intimidation. The only question now is whether they can survive.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
media.tenor.com
a man in a pig costume is flying in the air
ALT: a man in a pig costume is flying in the air
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Waleed Shahid @waleedshahid.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The Democratic Party establishment sold Biden as electable, neglected any real transition plan, and gaslit the public about his readiness—a far more sweeping failure than anything from progressive groups.
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The past year in microcosm: Israel sends a letter to the Biden administration promising not to do things in Gaza which it is, in practice, already doing, and the administration will basically shrug and take those "assurances" at face value. www.axios.com/2024/11/20/i...
axios.com
Letter: Israel vows not to forcibly displace Palestinians from northern Gaza
The Israeli letter was sent in response to an ultimatum from the Biden administration.
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
How gangsters took over Gaza's aid routes: "Senior UN officials argue that such brazen theft could not happen without the assent of Israeli forces. 'These guys are probably the only people in Gaza who can get 100 yards from an Israeli tank without being shot.'" www.ft.com/content/6a03...
ft.com
How gangsters took over Gaza’s aid routes
Armed thieves who raid UN trucks are acting with Israel’s tacit support, officials say
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Assad’s brutal war against the Syrian people was infamously one of the bloodiest campaigns of mass slaughter in recent memory. And yet.
Chart showing average number of children killed per year in global conflicts. Ukraine - 501. Syria - 4,725. Gaza - 11,355
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Remember that time the ICC almost issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu?
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’m getting some strong Igby Goes Down vibes from this cauliflower
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