Joseph Clowry

Over the past year, we have been working on a narrative study documenting the story of Nadia and Ahmad, a young Palestinian couple from northern Gaza forcibly displaced over a dozen times since 7 October 2023. Their harrowing account reveals the detention, abuse, and threats to life they endured even as they consistently complied with Israeli military orders — a microcosm of the broader patterns of genocidal violence we have observed over the last two years. Read more and watch the film: forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…

Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar and writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas and the history of Palestinian resistance, points to three factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed to continue. The gaslighting by governments and major media creates a “dual reality” that denies what people can see for themselves. And at its core, he says, the genocide exposes the colonial foundations of Western power. Baconi stresses that the path between a fascist or decolonial future runs directly through Palestine. via @PalFest

I have some incredible news to share. Today, after 9.5 agonizing months, Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim was released from Israel’s Ofer Prison and into his father’s arms. The Israeli military had no right to take him in the first place, and the family credits the relentless grassroots campaign that kept up the diplomatic pressure to free him. He’s in rough shape, but okay, and on his way to the hospital for treatment. Once he’s discharged, his mom, dad, brother, and sisters will have his favorite meal and a very belated 16th-birthday celebration waiting for him at home. I’ll share more details soon. Now that Mohammed is free, the family is asking all his supporters to keep fighting for the hundreds of Palestinian children still unjustly trapped in Israeli military prisons. The family requests privacy for now. Happy Thanksgiving everyone — lots to be thankful for.

@MintPressNews I saw it coming,and I have said it repeatedly. No one can brazenly dehumanise someone (as many Israelis have done with the Palestinians) without losing their humanity in return. And the realisation may provoke unbearable feelings. Franz Fanon has magistrally explained it.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, a series of decisions made in London by people who had never been to Palestine. The Balfour Declaration would lay the foundations for Israel, a triumph for the Jewish people, but a catastrophe for the indigenous Palestinians: 85% of Palestinians in the territory that became Israel were displaced in 1948, with about 700,000 to 750,000 people fleeing or being expelled from their homes, and many ending up on the sand dunes of Gaza where they remain under Israeli fire. Listen to our @EmpirePodUK episode on the Origins of the Arab Israeli conflict with Tom Segev share.google/848yj9clLgTFMz…

A line of Israeli military outposts (in yellow dots) forming along the crest of a sandstone ridge overlooking the ‘Yellow Line’ closely to the west. The soil between the ‘Yellow Line’ and the coast, as the image shows, is predominantly dunes, west of it are Gaza’s fertile soils.

Complicit. My book on Britain's role in the destruction of Gaza is out now and available here orbooks.com/catalog/compli…

Britain has been an active partner in the destruction of Gaza. In this column for Middle East Eye I expose British complicity in the Smotrich programme of land seizure, settler violence and the eradication of ancient communities across the West Bank: middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-uk…

@CarlowWeather Dumha Thuama, south of Belmullet around 6:30

Multiple reports of strange light moving in sky over Ireland in last 15 minutes with some describing as a like a big object with light in front but no noise and moving very quickly. Reports from Southeast, Midlands and West. Moving West to East. Anyone else spot it

UPDATED: the Cartography of Genocide platform shows atrocity by atrocity the way Israel destroyed of ALL aspects of Palestinian life in Gaza. We will keep monitoring. The genocide does not just end with ceasefire. It continues as long as conditions of life are not restored.

This aerial image from the 1960s shows that the 'yellow line' of Israel's redeployment in Gaza is roughly matching with the border of the area's coastal sand dune, leaving Gaza without the absolute majority of its agricultural areas on the fertile soils in the east.

The world has witnessed two years of Israeli genocide: countless massacres, widespread displacement, engineered famine, and the annihilation of civic infrastructure. Israel has successively occupied North Gaza, Rafah, and Khan Younis, sealing them off, and razing them to the ground. Yet it has failed in its strategic aim — the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from all of Gaza. Any ceasefire must protect what remains of Gaza City, and dismantle the military corridors, so that Palestinians can return to their land. Without support for Palestinian-led reconstruction, the genocide will continue. We mapped the evolution of Israel’s two-year assault on Gaza: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/two-years

“They make a desert and call it peace.” - Tacitus

“My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it.” New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him, just after he heard that he had been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry. In this interview we speak about his early life as a refugee in Jordan and the overwhelming draw of the beauty of chemistry: “I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems.” Listen now:

Oh FFS BibiC! No of course Blair can't govern Gaza A) Because Gaza belongs to the Palestinians B) Because it's not 1825 & we don't do colonial governors any more C) Because he's a war criminal Trump trusts Blair, others don't - could he govern Gaza? bbc.com/news/articles/…

It is with heavy hearts that we share news of the passing of Adnan Yahya, a survivor of the massacre committed in Tantura in May 1948 by Zionist paramilitary forces. We were fortunate to meet Adnan in his home in March 2023, where he generously shared his memories of the Israeli occupation of his village, helping us reconstruct his experience of displacement, imprisonment, and later exile. Adnan continued to corresponded with members of our team over the last two years as the genocide in Gaza unfolded. Like most Nakba survivors of his generation, Adnan understood the deliberate eradication of Palestinian life and society to be deeply engrained in Israeli land policies past and present. With Adnan's passing, we are reminded of the urgency of continuing to document the Nakba as an ongoing violence against Palestinians, and as a colonial strategy of erasure that will continue, and continue to escalate, without sustained collective resistance.

😍25,000 Gael ar shráideanna Bhaile Átha Cliath ar son CEARTA: Agóid Náisiúnta na nGael ag éileamh chearta teanga fud fad na hÉireann ✊25,000 march through Dublin for CEARTA: The National Protest for the Irish Language and the Gaeltacht

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.” Milan Kundera

The Corncrake is bouncing back thanks to conservationists and the farming community working together with 250 farmers and landowners now managing close to 1500 hectares for corncrakes. 281 corncrake territories recorded in 2024- an increase of 20% on last year. @CorncrakeLife