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…

NEW: Why do so many survivors of wartime sexual violence go unheard? Human rights lawyer @saribashi and journalist @Sara_Cincurova join @kliwewe on Global Insights on The Lede to discuss such violence as a weapon of war from Israel-Palestine to Ukraine. newlinesmag.com/podcast/the-wa…

This conversation with @JeremyBenAmi was difficult but important to have. On sexual violence against Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody and why it's so hard for American Jews to hear that. @stoptorture_il jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/icymi-kristo…

🗣️ 'When they found out I'm South African, they pulled me into a room and beat me up' Ebrahim Peters, a South African activist from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, says Israeli forces tortured him because of his nationality, linking the abuse to South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel

After Israeli strikes destroyed much of his life’s work, a Lebanese painter is now documenting the losses endured by his community — including the destruction of his own paintings. Lovely story by @ShenazKermalli ! ricochet.media/war/in-lebanon…

“If Canada believes that such behaviour is ‘unacceptable’ it should prove it.” Some commentary from me and others in his article by @emmapaling 🙏 Mark Carney Should Call For Prosecution of Israeli Minister readthemaple.com/mark-carney-sh… #BenGvir #Palestine #ICC

Ben Gvir inadvertently did journalism a service. Without his public broadcasting of the abuse, flotilla detainees' testimonies would have been met with denial and a smear campaign against them and reporters who carried their accounts.

I wrote about Drake’s years long flirtation with Arabic & Arab culturs, his new DJ Khaled diss & how Palestine is often used as a celebrity litmus test, even as Israel’s genocide & Palestinians themselves are ignored . newlinesmag.com/spotlight/drak…

Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir released a video showing detained participants of the intercepted Gaza-bound flotilla being bound and dragged in Israel's Ashdod Port, writing, "That's how we welcome the terror supporters. Welcome to Israel." Read more here: haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

A nine-year-old boy who survived the San Diego mosque shooting that killed three people has described seeing ‘bad stuff’. His mother, a refugee from Gaza who came to California two decades ago, gave permission for reporters to speak to her son.

Hawaa Abdullah, daughter of Amin Abdullah, the security guard who was killed along with two others in Monday's shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, honored her father as a role model and the "absolute best dad in the world." abcnews.link/szqfszC

"This strikes me as odd only because if a Canadian citizen died in Ukraine, would you be asking Moscow to investigate?" -- Scott McLean questions Anita Anand on Israel leading the investigation into the death of a Canadian killed by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon

This may seem like a SLAPP suit, but it's a real opportunity for law to speak to power. Defamation cases like this can act as conduits for truth-telling, requiring parties to submit evidence & shining even greater light on atrocities. My money's on @NickKristof & the NYTs.

In some cases, like that of the doctor Adnan Al-Bursh, the prisoners died reportedly as a direct result of the sexual abuse they suffered while in custody. From April, 2025 972mag.com/systematic-sex…

BREAKING: Israel's government to pursue defamation lawsuit against New York Times: Israeli foreign ministry 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/umfqfg?update=…

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…

From Shireen Abu Akleh to Amal Khalil, the killer is the same. Important piece by @ShazaAbed on the impunity granted Israel in the murder, imprisonment, and targeting of journalists in Palestine and Lebanon.

Kristof's piece was rigorous & human. It did not break news. Sexual torture of Palestinian detainees has been extensively documented. Israeli authorities know it bc they regularly receive complaints from @stoptorture_il -and close them wo concrete action stoptorture.org.il/wp-content/upl…

A very serious investigation has been published in @nytimes about rape and sexual violence carried out by the authorities in Israel. I am also quoted in this article as one of many, many people who provided accounts to this newspaper, which is considered extremely pro-Israeli. In response, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote that these are antisemitic “blood libels.” It is clear that the reports already published by Al Jazeera in 2024, and by me in 2025 when the BBC censored and deleted the interview with me, are true. People simply need to listen to Palestinians. But the world does not listen to Palestinians. It only listens when it is written in The New York Times — and now it is written there.

“In wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. nyti.ms/4ue9mtV

An absolutely astonishing account of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in the @latimes They called 62-year-old Ahmad Turmus and asked: “Ahmad, you want to die with those around you or alone?” His response, below, is chilling. Story by @nabihbulos latimes.com/world-nation/s…