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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 20h
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our friends and neighbours! An oral history of 9/11, as told by kindergarteners at ground zero 20 years ago www.today.com/specials/9-1...
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An oral history of 9/11, as told by kindergarteners at ground zero 20 years ago
Former students at an elementary school blocks away from the twin towers detail their memories of 9/11 and how it changed their lives.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 31/08/2026
Naama Lazimi is being hailed as the Israeli left's rising star. But when she isn’t busy making excuses for the genocidal turn in Israeli society and politics, she’s advocating for a return to good old-fashioned apartheid. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/meet...
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Meet the new ‘superstar’ of the Israeli left, who is so progressive she only supports apartheid
Naama Lazimi is being hailed as the Israeli left’s rising star. But when she isn’t busy making excuses for the genocidal turn in Israeli society and politics, she’s advocating for a return to good…
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
x.com/muhammadsheh... Trump's Board of Peace are yet to call Israel once for burning Palestinians alive in Gaza every single for 324 days of Trump's ceasefire, but it took the Board hours to attack me for a tweet! Every crook in that Board has the blood of 1260 Gazans on their hands!
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Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) on X
Trump's Board of Peace are yet to call Israel once for burning Palestinians alive in Gaza every single for 324 days of Trump's ceasefire, but it took the Board hours to attack me for a tweet! Every c...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 30/08/2026
Church leaders, activists, and Palestinian media keep sounding the alarm: Palestinian Christians are leaving the Holy Land. We need an institutional and economic strategy that makes staying a viable choice, not just a moral one. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/pale... #Palestine #Israel
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Demand Darden Dean Grushka-Cockayne's Resignation . Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/demand...
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Demand Darden Dean Grushka-Cockayne's Resignation
We refuse to let our University be led by people who endorse, support, and actively took part in genocide, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing. Sign this petition to demand the resignation of Darden Dean ...
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
substack.com/@tritaparsi/... They changed the algorithms so that you wouldn't get to see what Israelis say: "What do I care? Kill them. I don't care.” - “The Bible says, this place is for us, it's promised for us, so they can starve to death” - “I think we need to be united and kill them all.”
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi)
They changed the META and TikTok algorithms so that Americans wouldn't get to see what Israelis actually do or say: - "What do I care? Kill them. I don't care.” - “The Bible says, this place is fo...
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Shaiel Ben-Ephraim (@academic_la) on X
Israel terrorist settlers have taken peace activist Finn Joughin, a British citizen, hostage and his location is unknown. This is a crisis situation.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Rights Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Targeting ICC www.hrw.org/news/2026/08...
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Rights Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Targeting ICC
Four human rights groups (the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, and the Open Society Institute) filed a lawsuit in US federal court challeng...
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Most Americans can't read this document, from the era of American slavery! #shorts #americanhistory
YouTube video by Lindsay Winslow Brown
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
open.substack.com/pub/mearshei... Israel and its lobby are 1) a strategic liability, as they played a key role in causing 9/11, the 2003 Iraq War, and the 2026 Iran War; 2) a moral liability, as Israel has been executing a genocide, and 3) the greatest threat to free speech in the US.
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Israel Is a Strategic Liability
On 4 August 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with the Judge mainly about Israel.
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/isad/... A Turkish Islamic studies journal has published a forum on Sherman Jackson's "The Islamic Secular," with four reviews, followed by Sherman's responses. I was one of the four reviewers, along with Rachel Scott, Roshain Abbasi and Florian Zemmin.
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İslam Araştırmaları Dergisi - 2026
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
dawnmena.org/what-egypts-... “Successful teams in sports are a microcosm of a smoothly operating democracy. A democracy, like a team, is also more than a sum of its parts.”
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What Egypt’s National Football Team Teaches Us About Democracy and Authoritarianism - DAWN
This was a record-setting year for Egyptian football. The national team became the first to qualify for the knock-out round at the World Cup, as well as the first to win an elimination game. Were it n...
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Palestine at the World Cup: Everywhere and Nowhere
FIFA and its hosts erased Palestine from the tournament, but fans and players made it impossible to ignore.
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Click the link, support the Canadian Museum for Human Rights' Nakba Exhibition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...
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We Stand with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Its Curatorial Independence
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights recently opened Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present, an exhibition examining Palestinian history, culture, displacement and lived experience. The exhibition...
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
abovethelaw.com/2026/07/kent... “What’s the “extraordinary circumstance” here? Well . . . it’s who the partisan powers-that-be wanted seems to be the answer. Everything leading up to the selection was set up to vest decision making in the fewest — and most easily lobbied — hands possible.”
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Kentucky Law Professor Sues To Stop New Dean And Every Federal Judge Already Recused - Above the Law
Soon-to-be UK Law dean Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove got sued in his own old courthouse.
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
www.aclu.org/press-releas... “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit today struck down the higher education provisions of the Stop W.O.K.E. Act, a classroom censorship law in Florida that severely restricted educators from teaching about race and gender in schools and workplaces.”
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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Florida’s Unconstitutional Classroom Censorship Law | American Civil Liberties Union
The “Stop W.O.K.E.” Act was signed into law in 2022 and prohibited teachers and professors from discussing topics related to race and gender in the...
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Excited for tonight’s Doha Debates’ Townhall on the commodification of football @dohadebates.bsky.social
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
An epic film coming to a movie theatre near you!
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This passage from @davidlat.bsky.social perfectly captures the false dichotomy you see so often from the Supreme Court's defenders: The Court is held out as "independent" because it doesn't *always* rule for Trump. That whitewashes (1) how often it *does*; & (2) its bad behavior in non-Trump cases.
Screenshot from David Lat's "Original Jurisdiction" newsletter that reads:

Runner-up for Judge of the Week: Chief Justice Roberts. The end of a Term brings with it evaluations of the Supreme Court—and, of course, the Chief Justice as its leader. For critiques of the current conservative Court—and, implicitly, Chief Justice Roberts—see the views of Professors Kate Shaw and Steve Vladeck in this spirited debate in The Times (gift link).

I call it a “spirited debate” because of the vigorous pushback that Shaw and Vladeck received from Professor Will Baude (who clerked for the Chief). See also this post at Executive Functions by Professor Jack Goldsmith—no fan of the Trump administration—titled “The Powerful, Resilient, Independent Supreme Court.” Or if Goldsmith is too conservative a commentator for your tastes, check out this staff editorial by The Washington Post (gift link), “The Supreme Court’s not-so-MAGA majority.”
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 03/06/2026
Dr. Salman Khan, an infectious disease specialist, traveled to Gaza on a three-week medical mission in February 2026. He found infectious diseases running rampant, all directly due to Israel's siege and genocide. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/how-...
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How Israel is weaponizing infectious diseases in Gaza
Dr. Salman Khan, an infectious disease specialist, traveled to Gaza on a three-week medical mission in February 2026. He found infectious diseases running rampant, all directly due to Israel’s siege...
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KriSol @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
More than 100 distinguished scholars of Middle East Studies, Antisemitism Studies, and Holocaust Studies criticize the “Draft Act on the Criminalization of the Denial of the State of Israel’s Right to Exist,” submitted by the State of Hesse to the Bundesrat. krisol-wissenschaft.org/wp-content/u...
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Strangle, Expel, Collapse: The Smotrich Doctrine for Bringing Down the Palestinian Authority
A religious-right Israeli outlet celebrates the freezing of Palestinian funds and the spread of chaos in the West Bank as political achievements Amira Hass. Haaretz. May 18,  2026. With the di…
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/... ““We have books written about it. We have testimonies. We have film testimonies even of the soldiers committing these acts,” says Ben Marmarelli, an anti-Zionist Israeli lawyer and author, “the world only listens when the New York Times publishes it.”
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‘They’ve Been Raping Palestinians Since 1948’: Israeli Lawyer From NYT Exposé Speaks to Zeteo
Marwan Barghouti’s lawyer Ben Marmarelli discusses the health of the Palestinian leader, torture in Israeli prisons, and why liberal Zionists are ‘the worst.’
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/... “We have books written about it. We have testimonies. We have film testimonies even of the soldiers committing these acts,” says Ben Marmarelli, an anti-Zionist Israeli lawyer and author, “the world only listens when the New York Times publishes it.”
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Rioting for the Right to Rape Palestinians
This is what it's like to live in Israel today.
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
x.com/faisalkutty/... “A deeply disturbing and meticulously documented report by historians Liat Kozma and Lee Mordechai of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem traces the starvation of Gaza over the past three years.”
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TheMuslimLawyer on X: "A deeply disturbing and meticulously documented report by historians Liat Kozma and Lee Mordechai of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem traces the starvation of Gaza over the past three years through data, testimony, official statements, food prices, aid access, and powerful https://t.co/c8x7RLrbQk" / X
A deeply disturbing and meticulously documented report by historians Liat Kozma and Lee Mordechai of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem traces the starvation of Gaza over the past three years through data, testimony, official statements, food prices, aid access, and powerful https://t.co/c8x7RLrbQk
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
More on the most moral army in the world (story from 1995). "Israeli soldiers killed hundreds of Egyptian prisoners of war during the 1967 Mideast war -- deaths that commanders who are now prominent leaders have known about for years." goodtimesweb.org/diplomacy/20...
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AP: Historians: Israeli Troops Killed Hundreds Of Egyptian POWs
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
As you can see, Arab Israelis enjoy full equalities, they even serve as public prosecutors
Haaretz front page, Sunday 10 May 2026. 
Police beat Arab prosecutor in his Be'er Sheva home and arrest him
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
bearing-witness.com/starvation-s... We aim to trace here a chronicle of starvation, from the beginning of the war to spring 2026: from the declared intent, through the sustained practice of siege, to the consequences for family life — the young man walking kilometers in hopes of securing flour.
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Starvation Story — Witnessing the Gaza War
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Tomorrow 6pm I will talk about Ashkenazi medical practitioners in the Middle East, in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine. Please join in person - or on Zoom! see details below
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Prominent Christian Zionist Group Is Lobbying U.S. Lawmakers on Israel—Without Revealing It's Funded by Israel
This week, Eagles’ Wings is spearheading a push on Capitol Hill against Israel’s public relations crisis. They don’t disclose their $700,000 Israeli check.
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The MESA Academic Freedom Initiative tracks and analyzes threats to academic freedom on North American campuses since October 7, 2023. Our databases record experiences of faculty, staff, and students to enable understanding of these issues. afi.mesana.org
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The MESA Academic Freedom Initiative
Featured Data Employment Retaliation Database Find data about retaliation against faculty and staff by their institutional employers in connection to pro-Palestine advocacy. Type of Retaliatory Action...
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Two years after the NYPD SRG raided our campus and discharged a firearm in the building where I teach, one year after our trustees signed a “deal” with Trump, the effects on morale and confidence among my faculty and staff colleagues have been documented. opir.columbia.edu/content/colu...
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Columbia Employee Climate and Engagement Survey Findings | Columbia OPIR
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
"The former editor of (‘First Source’) wrote a tirade in that paper . . . argu[ing] that American Jews are traitors to the Zionist cause because they could have come to Israel by the millions, but chose to remain in the “disgrace of their willful exile.” mondoweiss.net/2026/04/an-i...
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An Israeli Op-Ed calling U.S. Jews ‘traitors’ for refusing to emigrate to Israel points to the looming Jewish fracture over Zionism
An Op-Ed by a well-known right-wing Israeli journalist has laid bare the looming conflict between Israeli and U.S. Jews as more Americans abandon Zionism.
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: What do you do when you’re living next door to a fascist state?
We must expect the United States could remain fascist far into the future. As with naiveté, hope is not a strategy
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Author of ‘Israel: What Went Wrong?’ Omer Bartov talks on the moral dege... youtu.be/5mEJGXL9Yfc?si… He declares #Zionism to be unreformable and responsible for the genocide
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Author of ‘Israel: What Went Wrong?’ Omer Bartov talks on the moral degeneration of Zionism
YouTube video by The Newsmakers
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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This president’s voters chose him to protect and dignify women’s sports They never minded his record of locker room talk Here is how he chooses to congratulate a women’s sports team To be this misogynistic, you really have to try To be this incompetent, you really have to be misogynistic
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
open.substack.com/pub/sethacke... Still genocidal. “To salvage Israel’s dwindling support, Jonathan Chait wants pro-Israel Democrats to throw a bone to the public: let Israel buy its weapons from the US, rather than giving them the weapons for free.”
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The weirdness of the aid-to-Israel discourse
To salvage Israel’s dwindling support, Jonathan Chait wants pro-Israel Democrats to throw a bone to the public: let Israel buy its weapons from the US, rather than giving them the weapons for free.
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Republican anti-Muslim hate has no bottom.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"This is no brain drain; it's political exile" says to Haaretz a Israeli doctor who left for the UK. Tens of thousands of Israelis left the country in recent years due to political reasons. If Netanyahu's coalition survives in power after the October election, this trend is likely to accelerate.
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
www.csohate.org/press-releas... "It is a coordinated campaign that uses social media to generate fear, legislation to codify that fear into policy, and a formal congressional caucus to institutionalize it. Nearly 90 Republican elected officials are involved.”
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Inside the GOP's Anti-Muslim Social Media and Legislative Campaign
This policy report examines the stark disconnect between India's official AI rhetoric and the ground reality of AI-enabled hate, surveillance, and repression targeting minority communities.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
International journalists have been barred from Gaza for two years and seven months. It's been seven months since the "cease fire" came into force, and two months since the Rafah crossing started to operate. Israel continues to prevent the entry of journalists.
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
www.linkedin.com/posts/ugcPos... Watch this clip of David Resnick’s interview with Omer Bartov, who declares Zionism to be unreformable, and the Israel needs to be reconstituted on completely different grounds.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Netanyahu is keen to keep Israel in perpetual state of war and emergency. If the war in Iran and Lebanon is indeed ending, the next targets are likely to be Gaza. The failure to reach an agreement on Hamas disarmament would be used as a pretext for Israeli invasion.
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
x.com/pularjs/stat... “There is now overwhelming evidence of the use of dogs to rape Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons - first reported in our Oct 2024 Al Jazeera Investigative Unit film GAZA. /1”
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Lebanon Needs More Than Aid: Canada Must Act to Protect Civilians and Uphold International Law
Canada’s response to the crisis in Lebanon cannot stop at humanitarian assistance. While aid is urgently needed to save lives, there’s a further need to address a crisis driven by ongoing violence, at...
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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
x.com/dawn_journal... "The conflict is exposing a fundamental tension: governments continue to align with U.S. policies as their publics reflect increasing disillusionment with them," writes Yara Bataineh on repression in the Middle East amid the regional war.
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