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Rani Abi-Haidar

@raniabi.bsky.social
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History, Political Science & Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and American University Beirut 🌸 migration / postmigrant society / (anti)facism / theory / WANA-Region / memory culture working at BIM (HU Berlin) 🏴🚩

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The @nytimes.com confirms the @haaretzcom.bsky.social report that the UAE secretly warned Netanyahu that Hamas was planning a major attack on Israel shortly before Oct. 7; Bibi did not relay the warning to security officials. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/w...
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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials sai...
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Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Kam das eigentlich gestern irgendwann noch, oder wurde die CDU Berlin bei der ARD wirklich an keiner einzigen Stelle nach den veruntreuten Antisemitismusgeldern, dem Take des Kanzlers über Juden als Ausländer oder ihrem Generalsekretär mit rechtsradikaler History gefragt? Wäre ja weird, wenn nicht..
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Typically, the most difficult part of any prosecution for the crime of genocide is demonstrating "intent."
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Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Seit Jahrzehnten wurde spekuliert, dass pro-palästinensische Linke hinter dem Anschlag auf das Wohnheim der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde München 1970 steckten. Nun sieht die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft den Verdacht gegen einen Neonazi als erhärtet an. (1/2) www.deutschlandfunk.de/antisemitisc...
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München - Antisemitischer Anschlag mit sieben Toten von 1970 womöglich aufgeklärt
56 Jahre nach einem Brandanschlag auf ein jüdisches Altersheim in München mit sieben Toten meldet die Justiz bei der Aufklärung einen Teilerfolg.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today marks 6 years since the Beirut Port Explosion, one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions. It killed +218 people, injured +7,000, and displaced+300,000 from their homes. Holding in my heart those whose lives were never the same and uplifting their calls for justice.🤍
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/08/2026
BREAKING: The death toll climbs to 67 in Spain’s Ceuta border crisis with Morocco, the Spanish government said Saturday.
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Death toll in Spain-Morocco border crisis in Ceuta reaches 67
The Spanish government reports that the death toll in the Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67.
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Heike Kleffner @heikekleffner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
#KeinVergessen Armela Segashi, Can Leyla, Dijamant Zabërgja, Guiliano Kollmann, Hüseyin Dayıcık, Roberto Rafael, Sabine S., Selçuk Kılıç und Sevda Dağ wurden am 22.7.16 in München von einem rechtsterroristischen Täter ermordet: am 5. Jahrestag von Utøya und Oslo. muenchen-erinnern.de/2026/06/25/g...
Das Foto zeigt eine Liste von neun Namen und neun Porträtfotos in hellgrau vor grünem Hintergrund und mit einer stilisierten Blume. Die Überschrift lautet: Seit 10 Jahren fehlen: Armela, Can, Dijamant, Guiliano, Hüseyin, Roberto, Sabine, Selçuk, Sevda.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It's out! The full "Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World" is available open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...
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Michael Bloss @michabloss.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Es ist zum kotzen. Rechte und Rechtsradikale „feiern“ im Europaparlament das Abschiebegesetz mit Sprechchören: „Send them back“. E Mittendrin: Manfred Weber.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It’s like we are actively looking at dystopian novels for inspiration
Cameras are meant to check who you are and how well-behaved you are.
The Green-Black coalition in Baden-Württemberg plans to be the first German state to roll out dual Al video surveillance: cameras that monitor people for suspicious behavior and simultaneously analyze them using facial recognition. The pilot project is set to launch in Mannheim and two other cities.
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
On March 2, Malika's mother was killed by an Israeli strike. Her last act alive was using her body to protect 4yo Malika, who sustained burns, shrapnel to her face, and damage to her eye. I wrote about how this war is impacting children in Lebanon www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Lebanon’s children face physical, psychological trauma amid Israel’s war
Experts warn of lasting trauma for Lebanon's children as war continues to shatter their sense of safety.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is a truly remarkable event in that Iran is initiating attack on Israel in response to an Israeli attack on Lebanon. Unprecedented development.
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Melissa Chemam @melissaontheroad.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Israel continues to strike southern Lebanon despite Trump’s effort to reach a ceasefire: Warplanes carry out dozens of airstrikes and Israeli army issues evacuation warning for city of Nabatiyeh www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Israel strikes southern Lebanon despite Trump’s effort to shore up ceasefire
Warplanes carry out dozens of airstrikes and Israeli army issues evacuation warning for city of Nabatiyeh
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Israel has now launched its largest invasion of Lebanon since it withdrew from the country in 2000, ICYMI
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Israeli soldiers reach Nabatieh, one of southern Lebanon’s biggest cities
Israel’s military has advanced beyond Lebanon's Litani River for the first time since 2006.
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Megaphone News @megaphone.news · 29/05/2026
During her Class Day speech at Harvard University Medical School, graduate Leen Ezzedine paid tribute to the “youth of Dahiyeh, the sons of Nabatieh and the people of Tyre,” as well as Palestinians and Lebanese, praising their resilience amid Israeli occupation and the genocide in Gaza.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Israel is targeting and killing healthcare workers in Lebanon nearly every day. Since March 2nd, Israeli attacks have killed 124 health care workers. The total death toll in Lebanon now stands at 3,185. — Lebanese Ministry of Health
Screenshot of chart produced by Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health:

Overview of Israeli War in Lebanon 2026: Deaths and Injuries from 02/03/2026 to 25/05/2026.
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Megaphone News @megaphone.news · 24/05/2026
At dawn on Sunday, Israeli forces carried out a wave of airstrikes on Nabatieh, destroying restaurants and shops, including Rammal Original and a fuel station. The city’s Civil Defense center was also struck and completely destroyed. 🧵
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Rani Abi-Haidar @raniabi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
In der Stimmungsmache gegen die alljährliche Demonstration zum #Nakba-Gedenktag wiederholt der @tagesspiegel.de die Erzählung des durch Demo-Teilnehmer*innen verletzten Polizisten in einer falschen Tatsachenbehauptung: www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei... www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
There is no ceasefire in #Lebanon or in #Gaza
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Josep Goded (Backup Account But Still Active) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
An entire family was killed today in an Israeli strike in Salsakiyeh, southern Lebanon.
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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Weizsäcker bereitete den Weg hin zu einer Sicht, in der viele ihre Ahnen als Gegner des NS wähnen. Eine (selbst-)kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den strukturellen Ursachen des Nationalsozialismus wurde damit eher behindert. Das wirkt bis heute nach.
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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Einige Anmerkungen zum heutigen #TagDerBefreiung. Weizsäcker setzte einen wichtigen Punkt gegen Revisionismus, aber er bot den Deutschen auch eine Entlastung. Befreit wird man von etwas Fremden, das man nicht selbst war. /2
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Rani Abi-Haidar @raniabi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
You can always rely on the #German Government to not even be ashamed of their complicity in illegal occupation in #Lebanon, ceasefire violations, and Genocide in #Gaza. "Germany’s [FM] offers qualified support for Israel’s military operations in Lebanon" www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
People fleeing Beirut (Dahieh) after the Israeli airstrike (Al Jadeed)
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Israel just bombed Dahieh, Beirut
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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Amal Khalil, the Lebanese journalist at Al Akhbar Newspaper, who was targeted and killed by the IDF yesterday, had shared with ARIJ her testimony on the explicit threats she received from Israel for her revelatory work www.linkedin.com/posts/arijne...
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في ملتقى أريج عام 2024، شاركتنا الصحفية آمال خليل شهادتها الحية حول التهديدات الإسرائيلية الصريحة التي تستهدف حياتها بسبب عملها الصحفي وإصرارها على كشف الحقيقة. لم تكن آمال تبالغ؛ بل كانت توثّق… | AR...
في ملتقى أريج عام 2024، شاركتنا الصحفية آمال خليل شهادتها الحية حول التهديدات الإسرائيلية الصريحة التي تستهدف حياتها بسبب عملها الصحفي وإصرارها على كشف الحقيقة. لم تكن آمال تبالغ؛ بل كانت توثّق بصوته...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF. Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it. The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.
Amal KhalilRescue workers removing her body
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Two Lebanese journalists were trapped by the IDF in South Lebanon. One of them, Amal Khalil, is still trapped. Israel did a triple tap strike. Again. The second strike injured the journalists. The third strike trapped them.
Rescue teams managed to pull injured correspondent Zeinab Faraj from Tayri. However, al-Akhbar correspondent Amal Khalil remains trapped in the town.
The two correspondents were covering an Israeli strike on a car in Tayri, which killed its two occupants, Mukhtar Ali Bazzi and Mohammad al-Hourani. The Israeli force then struck the site again, injuring the journalists. A third strike then targeted the main road connecting Tayri and Hadatha to cut access to ambulances and trap the two journalists.
When the Red Cross arrived, they recovered the two bodies and rescued Faraj, before the Israeli army dropped a stun grenade on them, forcing them to withdraw without reaching Khalil. They returned to Tebnine Governmental Hospital with no further information about her condition.
The Union of Journalists has appealed to relevant authorities to take immediate action to secure her evacuation, while the Ministry of Information condemned the attack and held Israel responsible for her safety.Zeinab Faraj and Amal Khalil Occupation forces still besieging reporter
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 16/04/2026
If Israel tries to maintain lasting military presence inside south Lebanon, as it did after November 2024, I'm not sure it will be uncontested this time. In retrospect, absence of Hizbullah attacks 2024-26 looks like a strategic choice, as Hizb was preparing for this conflict.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
98% of documented white phosphorus attacks in south Lebanon — tracked at whitephosphorus.info — fall within the IDF-declared "Forward Defense Zone." The zone Israel now claims as a military buffer is the same territory it systematically struck with that munition.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Mapped the IDF's newly declared "Forward Defense Zone" in south Lebanon. Its maritime boundary fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement. @weatherwar
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Blowing up civilian homes as "terror infrastructure" as revenge for IDF's failure to occupy the village in 2006. "I've come for payback. To kill the murderers of Hezbollah, and to blow up their homes, which became terror infrastructure".
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Israel detonating what’s left of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon. They were already destroyed. Israel is obliterating everything. Day 2 of the “ceasefire” between Lebanon and the genocidal nation
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This is what’s left of the historic town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon after Israel passed through it
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Ingwar Perowanowitsch @ingwarpero.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Der Tankrabatt kostet für 2 Mon. 1,6 Mrd. €. Dafür, dass sich Öl-Konzerne bereichern, SUV-Fahrer besonders entlastet & fossile Kriege finanziert werden. Das Deutschlandticket kostet für 12 Mon. 1,5 Mrd.€. Dafür, dass 14 Mio. Menschen entlastet, Stau reduziert & fossile Unabhängigkeit gestärkt wird.
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Mohanad Hage Ali @mohanad.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
In the past day, Israel claimed its targets in the Beirut massacre were valuable Hezbollah cadres. No names I have seen confirm this. More innocent civilians than anything else. This is an atrocity designed to derail the Iran-IS agreement, detach Lebanon’s ceasefire as a standalone one
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Rani Abi-Haidar @raniabi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#Lebanon: Lebanese Ministry of Health: Update Death toll from Wednesday’s Israeli attacks rises to 357, with 1,223 injured 1,953 killed and 6,303 injured since the start of the war in March.
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Rani Abi-Haidar @raniabi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
#Lebanon Ministry of Health: 303 killed and 1,150 injured in yesterday’s attack by Israel. Among them 110 children, women and elderly. There are still people under the rubble.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This seems to be the most recent update of the death toll in Lebanon following today’s Israeli strikes
Hermel district
9 killed and 6 injured
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26
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Beirut
92 killed and 742 injured
Dahiyeh
61 killed and 200 injured
Baalbak district
18 killed and 28 injured
Saida district
12 killed and 56 injured
Aley district
17 killed and 6 injured
Nabatieh district
28 killed and 59 injured
Tyre district
17 killed and 68 injured
Civil Defense
254 KILLED
IN ATTACKS TODAY
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Photos coming out of Beirut today look like the opposite of a ceasefire
From Getty: BEIRUT, LEBANON - APRIL 08: A firefighter walks through destroyed cars as a building burns after an Israeli airstrike on April 08, 2026 in Beirut, Lebanon. Israel has stepped-up its attacks on Lebanon following President Donald Trump's announcement of a two-week ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran, conditional on shipping being allowed to resume through the Strait of Hormuz. Israel says it will observe the ceasefire with Iran but insists Lebanon was not included in the deal, and has since launched the "largest coordinated strike" on Hezbollah targets since the cross-border war began on March 2. Iran and Pakistan - which has been coordinating peace talks - have said that the ceasefire would include Lebanon, while the US has yet to weigh-in. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
When I spoke to one of my displaced cousins in Beirut today, he said: “Now that Israel isn’t sending its warplanes to bomb Iran, they have a lot of extra time to bomb us”
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medico international @medico2.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Die völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffe auf den #Libanon müssen umgehend gestoppt werden. Die Bevölkerung ist in Angst, die Krankenhäuser sind überfüllt, Millionen wurden intern vertrieben. In Beirut herrscht Chaos. 2/3
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medico international @medico2.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In diesen Stunden sind die medico-Kolleg:innen @starosta.bsky.social, Imad Mustafa und Rachide Tennin und in #Beirut und stehen unseren Partner:innen bei. Wir verurteilen die Angriffe auf den #Libanon, bei denen über hundert Menschen getötet und verletzt wurden, aufs Schärfste! 1/3
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Israel has used 50 warplanes to bomb Lebanon in the past few hours alone. This figure comes from the IDF itself
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Baby supplies and canned food among the ruins left behind by Israeli airstrikes in Beirut Israel wants you all to believe this is Hezbollah
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Rani Abi-Haidar @raniabi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Lebanese Civil Defense: 254 killed and more than 1,129 wounded in today's Israeli airstrikes
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
More attacks on Beirut just now. White House saying Lebanon not included in ceasefire. Iran saying attacks must stop or they will not take part in discussions.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The death toll in Lebanon is now at 80 with over 200 injured at least according to the Lebanese Red Cross الصليب الأحمر اللبناني: 80 شهيدًا و200 مصاب جراء الغارات الإسرائيلية وسط استمرار عمليات الإنقاذ في مواقع القصف
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Megaphone.news did a quick report on the Israeli strikes on Lebanon so far. These are just some of them.
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Rani Abi-Haidar @raniabi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
#Israel named the mass attacks on #Lebanon on a Wednesday afternoon at crowded areas targeting literally everything in Beirut and beyond “Eternal Darkness” - proudly announcing death and destruction. They now threat to attack further, manipulating the Iran-ceasefire which was bound to Lebanon.
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