بسنت عماد الدين عبدالمنعم محمود مطر

"Under the banner of diversity, we are told to bring ourselves and our perspectives. But, if we bring too much of them, we are marked and kept back." For @walrusmagazine, I wrote about my decade in journalism and the cost of being The Only One In The Room. thewalrus.ca/objectivity-is…

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

A Palestinian aid worker who organized World Cup watch parties across the Gaza Strip was killed in an Israeli missile strike shortly before soccer fans gathered to watch the Egypt-Argentina game on Tuesday evening, according to a local hospital director. cbsn.ws/4gvb469

Israeli strike kills World Cup screening organizer in Gaza just before kickoff ctvnews.ca/world/israel-h…

This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital. This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

After another, quieter, week of layoffs impacting local staff, the Washington Post has now laid off all of its reporters who have covered Gaza full time since 2023. This is a choice about what coverage and whose voices matter.

Members of Egypt's national football team staff were violently assaulted by Dallas police while posing for a photo with a young fan.

I've interviewed 20+ journalists about their experiences in mainstream newsrooms since the start of the genocide, but I'm looking to speak to at least that many more in the coming weeks. If you'd like to talk, email me on sara@palfest.org

My latest for @cbcsports is on the 2026 men's World Cup and access. Visa denials and obstruction of joy in Canada: Can football really unite the world? Or does it only apply to those with privileged passports? cbc.ca/sports/soccer/…

remembering the CNN article expecting us to empathize with Israeli soldiers not being able to eat meat anymore because it reminds them of the people they've crushed to death cnn.com/2024/10/21/mid…

"I have three questions today for Israeli people through this press conference. I want to speak to them directly," said Sidoti. 🔴What kind of people are your soldiers who would allow a 14 year old child to bleed to death over a 45 minute period? 🔴What kind of people are your military leaders that would inculcate a culture that soldiers feel free to do this, acting with total impunity? 🔴What kind of people are your leaders? When they give orders, they make statements that encourage this kind of conduct, not merely permit it, but encourage it?

Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62 More on their new report ➡️ bit.ly/4uXq9kD

"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families" He means Israel would go after them too.

This exhibit is long overdue and has been a major gap in our magnificent Human Rights Museum’s treatment of the history of mass displacement and genocide in the world. Congratulations to the Museum for adhering to the principles on which it was created. @MarcMillerVM

Excerpt: At first I was not sure I had heard the doctor properly. “C4, like the explosive?” “Yes, they thought it was cheese. They found it along with some bottles of water and Pepsi.” It’s towards the end of Nov 2024 and I’m in Gaza City. The IDF had recently withdrawn from the area this family lived in. The family had briefly returned. Read here (it’s free): open.substack.com/pub/arwadamon/…

This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1

🇺🇸 🇵🇸 Sama Safi, a 20-year-old American citizen and honors psychology student at Birzeit University, remains in Israeli detention after soldiers seized her from her family’s home near Ramallah at 3 a.m. on June 2, with lawmakers warning her life is at risk. Safi, whose family lives in Florida, was taken without charge and transferred to Ofer prison, then to the Moscovia interrogation center in Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society. Her family says she has a chronic condition that causes fevers up to 105°F and requires daily medication and a quarterly injection she travels abroad to receive. She was one of five Palestinian women detained that week, including two members of the Palestinian women’s national football team. The Israeli military said the women were suspected of “promoting terrorist activities.” Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Sen. Chris Van Hollen have both demanded her release. “I am really sick and tired of the Israeli government taking American taxpayer dollars and then mistreating Americans,” Van Hollen said. Israel has not told her family or the U.S. embassy where she is being held. Rep. Tlaib said, “Her life is at risk—our government must free her now!”

He has shown tremendous grace throughout this but my heart breaks for him. He was born in the midst of war and rose to the top of his field despite every possible disadvantage. Only to have the biggest moment of his career become a humiliating ordeal!

He had everything. But when he landed in Miami, he was forced to spend 11 hours in a tiny room overnight where border agents grilled him with questions about Somalia and terrorism. He was then kept in a cell before he was effectively deported without explanation +

but for entry into Western states period, with Somalia among a small number of countries whose citizens are subject to additional travel restrictions. He had to travel to another country, Kenya, simply to secure the appropriate travel documents, a valid visa to work in the US +

I don't think most people are fully grasping what happened to Omar Artan. Citizens of African countries cannot travel to the US without first navigating a highly restrictive, discriminatory visa process. Africans face the highest refusal rates globally, not only for US visas +