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Anthony Bourdain holding a Palestinian baby, during his visit to Palestine (2013) “The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity.” - Tony Bourdain

'Rape with Bottles, Metal Rods and Knives': UN Expert Says Israel’s Torture on Palestinians is 'State Doctrine' thewire.in/world/rape-wit…

@lizzabees @DavidSchwartz70 which is so hard to do in a world where there is a lot of fear (some real, a lot of it imagined). Glaring example : Intergenerational trauma from the Holocaust would prevent you from seeing that not everyone who calls out Israel for its crimes automatically hates Jewish people.

@DavidSchwartz70 it’s not a unique skill, you too can learn to be like this by basing your life on a belief in the inherent dignity of humanity

Zohran Mamdani is being heckled right now at a press conference in Brooklyn, NY, by someone whose words I can't hear, but watch how he's dealing with it. Mamdani has the unique skill of knowing how to handle and walk into every room and engage with people, no matter how toxic they are or how their feelings are against him. And many times, make them feel heard. Elected officials, nonprofit and religious leaders, advocates, and activists on both sides of the political spectrum who met with him told me that. Don't take my word for it, President Trump is pretty public about it. That's why he's currently the mayor of New York City. If you don't like his politics or you're like me, who opposed his candidacy and is still troubled by some of his actions and statements, then don't take this post the wrong way; read into it how you should be better to communicate your message. Yes, putting ego aside for any public figure is not easy.

Journalist and war correspondent Janine di Giovanni: ​"If a missile hits a hospital in Ukraine, Europe calls it a war crime." ​"But if multiple missiles hit Gaza and 100 people die, it becomes Israel's right to defend itself."

The Israeli military tortured an 18-month-old Palestinian child. They tortured him with cigarette burns to force his father to "confess". This is what Western impunity has done. They think they can get away with anything.

This is objectively extraordinary: x.com/clashreport/st… Jake Sullivan, one of the most senior former U.S. officials, says that the U.S. is in a war aimed solely at destroying Iran, one of humanity's oldest civilizations, against the U.S.'s own interests, at the behest of Israel, a 76-year-old state. Listen to the video: he says that Israel's objective in the war "is just break Iran -cause chaos," basically destroy the country, "because as far as they’re concerned, a broken Iran is less of a threat to Israel." Which he says is not in the US's interests "because a broken Iran means a broken global economy, as they continue to threaten the Straits of Hormuz. It means a potential refugee flow, like we saw after the war in Syria into Europe." He also says the Trump administration cannot answer what their own objective is in the war "because they don't know why they're there in the first place," implying that they're there mainly at the behest of Israel (otherwise they'd be able to articulate at least one reason). The curse of the "former official" strikes again... This is the same Jake Sullivan who, as National Security Advisor, oversaw the unconditional U.S. support for Israel's destruction of Gaza. Apparently breaking a people at the behest of Israel is only bad when a different administration does it...

“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.” — Hossam Shabat, killed by Israeli forces, March 24, 2025 sourced.press/a/killing-gaza…

Taline Shehab would have celebrated her 5th birthday last week. She was killed by an Israeli strike along with her father, a well-known drone cameraman who worked in Lebanese television. Her mother, Natalie, remains in a coma, unaware her husband and only child are gone. “She was our little princess,” said her uncle, Ali.

@bbcnickrobinson @paulmasonnews @ZackPolanski When the overwhelming body of experts describe it as genocide, and you still disagree, this is making a judgement. The BBC would not deny climate change. Nearly every major human rights and academic experts on genocide have determined Israel has carried out genocide.

Tucker Carlson - "The idea that Israel accidentally killed tens of thousands of women and children in Gaza is a total lie-they murdered them on purpose. It's not even debatable; it's a fact..."

Richard Gere récite un poème de Mahmoud Darwich Palestinien.

Today I watched the Israeli army bomb Khiam, Lebanon, with white phosphorus. This is a banned substance, therefore a war crimes. Americans, your tax dollars are paying for chemical warfare.

@BernardWetheri2 @coffeelovest @mhdksafa @MalaakSafa As long as America is inhabited by human beings (and not machines), people should feel pain and outrage at the torture of a one year old child, wherever it happens.

@coffeelovest @mhdksafa @MalaakSafa I’m only a problem to those that don’t stand for American freedom and the security of the American people!

Israel kidnapped and tortured a one-year-old child in front of his father for 10 hours, burning cigarettes and inserting nails into his legs, in an attempt to extract a false confession under duress. Israel kidnapped and tortured a baby!

“Israeli strikes have killed more than one thousand people; displaced well over a million; and there is a growing list of potential violations of international humanitarian law.”

@NickKristof Seems like Israeli's are already committing them: x.com/tparsi/status/…

1.) President Trump appears to be threatening a war crime; 2.) This will go over badly with other Gulf countries, for Iran will then attack their power plants and perhaps desalination; 3.) Iran won't reopen the Strait, because closure is what gives it leverage.

@bing_bong_banjo @izharalhaqq @Martina Bezalel Smotrich held it 'justified and moral' to let everyone in Gaza die of starvation. Ben-Gvir has glorified the settlers committing violence as 'heroes'.

@izharalhaqq @Martina The guy in that video is not in the Israeli government.

This ideology cannot survive, can it?

@CloseNatalie9 @RealCandaceO And this is the reality of 'the most moral army in the world' claim: x.com/Lowkey0nline/s…

@RealCandaceO Reliably informed, really? Did it come to you in a dream? There was a time I actually listened to your podcasts.

Iran has a right to exist. Also, they warned they would strike which I have been reliably informed makes them the most moral army in the world. Lastly, the children harmed were used as human shields. Did I miss anything?

“In order to assassinate Ali Larijani, Israeli terrorist regime killed more than 500 people…” And not a single one of those souls has been mentioned in English-language media.

@CloseNatalie9 @RealCandaceO She is flipping the very arguments Israel uses to justify their crimes against humanity: Right to exist, most moral army in the world, children were used as human shields when IDF fired at kids. Someone from Isreal must have used - 'we were reliably informed' as well.

@shashj @owenjonesjourno Given the shock value of the claim, it was highly irresponsible. Seems @TheEconomist has gained a reputation You should be examining your biases and be willing to call out Israel for its horrifying acts, carried out on a massive scale and are still ongoing x.com/DalrympleWill/…

@owenjonesjourno Some of these reports have turned out to be untrue, and yes, I was wrong to be as confident in what was reported as first-hand evidence as I was, particularly given the fog of war in those initial post Oct 7th days. x.com/shashj/status/…

Have you ever apologised for this, @shashj? Or explained why you falsely claimed there was “first-hand evidence”? This isn’t a minor mistake. The grotesque lie that Israeli babies were beheaded was used to justify slaughtering countless actual Palestinian babies.