Danny Postel

Popularity contest between the Israeli defense minister and Barca/Lamine Yamal is great for everyone who hates genocide

Xenophobia in South Africa is changing as vigilantes run ID checkpoints at schools and clinics, while the state largely looks away. As @kliwewe reports, who belongs in the rainbow nation is now being decided on the ground. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/sout…

NEW: Britain is in the midst of a political crisis. Yet behind the palace intrigue lies a bigger question — nobody seems able to explain what Britain is anymore, @FaisalAlYafai argues in @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/running-notes/…

NEW: Generations of Catholic women in Bosnia sported intricate tattoos on their hands and arms. But the tales that they were designed to keep Christian maidens safe from Ottoman overlords are only skin-deep, writes @dr_anasekulic for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/essays/the-ori…

"Drones have allegedly been provided to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) by Egypt and Turkey, and to their rivals in the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) by the United Arab Emirates. It is part of a global shift in how war is waged." | @sophie_neiman newlinesmag.com/reportage/dron…

The controversy around Israel’s participation in Eurovision extends well beyond the atrocities committed in Gaza. In the contest’s 70 year history, only one of the seven Arab nations that are members of the body that runs Eurovision has ever competed. newlinesmag.com/reportage/euro…

"Her voice alone, they recall, was enough to silence entire cells." Hala Mounir Mohammad led a double life as a hairdresser and a feared guard in one of Assad's prisons. @PalomaDinechin tracked down her family, neighbors and survivors who hunted her. newlinesmag.com/reportage/insi…

Seven Arab countries are full members of the body that runs Eurovision, yet in 70 years, only one of those nations has competed. @UnaHajdari explains why for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/reportage/euro…

@thefuzzybastard @hasanthehun @brianhioe Except that Piker has never called for ethnically cleansing Jews from the Middle East, or anything like it.

@DannyPostel @hasanthehun @brianhioe “It’s one thing to call for ethnically cleansing Jews from the Middle East, but insufficient love for Taiwan is where I draw the line.”

I fully agree with progressives who are defending @hasanthehun against the establishment Democrats attacking him and falsely accusing him of antisemitism. But Asian leftists like Kevin Lin & @brianhioe find his views on China problematic. My latest ⤵️ newlinesmag.com/running-notes/…

Megastreamer Hasan Piker is the subject of heated debate in the Democratic Party, especially over his views on Israel. But his fondness for the Chinese government may be a deeper problem, writes @newlinesmag Politics Editor @DannyPostel. newlinesmag.com/running-notes/…

This exclusive is still the craziest story you'll read: Beloved Damascus hairdresser's double life — as the torturer prison guard with the green pipe. For @newlinesmag, @PalomaDinechin tracked down her family, neighbors and survivors who hunted her. newlinesmag.com/reportage/insi…

The great @clarissaward on the Damascus hairdresser who divided her time between cutting hair and prison torture. Read the hair-raising story here newlinesmag.com/reportage/insi…

Egypt’s new personal status reforms formalize long-standing Christian family law, which remains governed by church-based systems, not a unified civil code. Critics say the reforms reinforce a sectarian model of citizenship. | @chrysographer newlinesmag.com/running-notes/…

“Musk can stand in for a certain era of digital capitalism, similar to the way that people have used Ford to understand a moment of high industrial manufacturing in the last century.” Quinn Slobodian joins @FaisalAlYafai on The Lede to discuss his new book "Muskism." newlinesmag.com/podcast/how-el…

The notorious corruption of Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israel’s prime minister, is once again in the news, this time because of her role in inflating the cost of customizing Wing of Zion, the plane for government officials, writes @lisang. newlinesmag.com/running-notes/…

"Drones have allegedly been provided to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) by Egypt and Turkey, and to their rivals in the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) by the United Arab Emirates."

@Anand_Gopal_ @newlinesmag Get the book: plutobooks.com/product/days-o…

“The most remarkable literary exercise in centering Syrian revolutionaries — in fact, perhaps the most remarkable nonfiction book I’ve ever come across” Days of Love and Rage by @Anand_Gopal_ reviewed in @newlinesmag: newlinesmag.com/review/how-syr…

Stories like these explain why the Assad regime’s chapter cannot simply be closed with a cold reference to “the past.” Behind every torturer who lived an ordinary life, there was a victim being crushed in a cell, a dignity being violated, and a family left waiting. The new Syria does not seek revenge; it seeks justice for the victims, and says clearly: No criminal will escape accountability. @newlinesmag

@newlinesmag Imagine discovering that the woman who did your updo for your wedding was moonlighting as one of the most feared guards in the regime's torture chambers. newlinesmag.com/reportage/insi…