Antonis (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Today was one of the most horrifying days of my life as an academic. Walking through Iran University of Science and Technology, a top-ranked public university in Iran, I was struck by the devastation. Only last month, this campus was alive with students, bustling between classrooms. Now, parts of the campus lie in ruins, classrooms shattered, hallways choked with dust and shattered glass. I saw the offices of professors burned. A newly renovated building, where students gathered for programs, for socializing, for life, destructed. One student, tearfully, told me: “My professor’s office was still burning a little. That’s where I used to wait for office hours. To ask questions. To appeal my grade.” This is the same university that launched Iran’s Omid and Zafar 2 satellites, symbols of homegrown technological achievement. A week ago, one of its professors was assassinated. Yesterday, they bombed it. From sanctions to targeted killings, to the bombing of research centers and universities, there’s a clear pattern: de-development & de-industrialisation/ the systematic dismantling of a nation’s indigenous development, its industrial base, its capacity to stand on its own. We will never forget that as the American and Zionist war criminals blatantly target universities, schools, hospitals/ assassinating professors and killing children, and after 2 years or genocice, western intellectuals are still debating whether or not to pass a symbolic, non-enforceable BDS resolution. Photos taken by me, full report incoming.

28 months. 28 months since the genocide in Gaza began. 28 months of 2.2 million Palestinians being bombed every day and every night. (There’s around 1.5 million left). 28 months of Palestinian children not being able to go to school—there are no schools left to go to. 28 months of seeing buildings collapse and cars burning. 90% of the city is gone. 28 months of starvation, of no hospitals, of amputations with no anaesthetic, of no clean water, little to no medicine. 28 months of Palestinians being burned to death in tents, and slaughtered in every conceivable manner by gleeful ghouls who boast about it on social media. 28 months of being forced to march from one kill zone to another kill zone, of having no life whatsoever. 28 months of begging the world to intervene and stop the daily atrocities inflicted upon them by their nuclear-armed oppressor. 28 months of life being hell because of people like you. And you are still bombing and killing Palestinians, still bombing and killing Lebanese people—and you want to complain about the third killing field you opened in Iran, because they’re fighting back? They have not even bombed your hospitals and ambulances, or destroyed your food sources, razing agricultural land. Imagine that for a moment. Imagine if your evil was inflicted back on you. This is just regular warfare, not even the genocidal atrocities you inflict routinely and you cannot handle even a month of it.

A German Bundestag member convicted of molesting a 7-yr-old lobbied the court to bury his case without a public trial, arguing the trial would damage the German-Israeli Society, where he served as treasurer, invoking the Hamas attack on Israel as justification. The court agreed.

Look at this photo. A woman holds up a noose and a lethal injection, celebrating Israeli plans to introduce the death penalty for Palestinians. Her husband holds a gun labelled 'occupation', a plane labelled 'expulsion', and a house labelled 'settlement'. This grinning, leering spectre is the deputy speaker of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament. youtube.com/watch?v=kpZefo…

A few moments ago, my phone rang. An unfamiliar number. I answered. “Is this Dr. Ezzideen?” “Yes,” I said. “Go ahead.” He spoke politely, almost carefully. “I got your number from someone. They told me you might be able to help me.” Then he paused.. and added: “Please don’t misunderstand me. I’m not asking for money. I just .. have a problem. And maybe you can help.” I told him to go on. He took a breath. “My daughter is six years old.” There was a weight in his voice even before he continued. “Two years ago, during the war, she was injured. Her face.. was badly burned. Her cheek .. most of it.” “She has had two reconstructive surgeries. Both of them failed.” For a moment, neither of us spoke. “She was four when it happened,” he said quietly. “Now she’s six.” “She has started to understand.” That sentence stayed with me. She has started to understand. He continued: “She is being bullied by other children.” “She feels ashamed when people look at her.” “Even on Eid .. she refused to go outside.” “She told us she is not as beautiful as the other children.” He stopped for a second, then added, his voice breaking: “She cries when she looks at herself in the mirror.” “She refuses to take pictures .. completely.” I could almost see her. A six-year-old girl, is standing in front of a mirror, trying to understand why her face is different. Trying to understand why the world looks at her differently. Trying to understand how something that happened before she even knew what war was .. has now become part of who she is. At six years old, she is already learning shame. Already learning to hide. Already learning that the world can be cruel to what it does not understand. The father said something I cannot forget: “I feel like I am watching my daughter’s life collapse in front of me.” He was not asking for sympathy. He was asking for a chance. “Anything,” he said. “Anything that could help her get a referral to leave.. maybe somewhere they can treat her.. maybe save her future before it’s taken from her.” War does not end when the bombs stop. Sometimes it continues.. in the face of a child who no longer recognises herself, in the silence of a girl who refuses to be seen, in the tears, she hides from everyone, except the mirror. She is six years old. And instead of dreaming about toys.. she is learning how to live with a face that the world has already judged. There is a kind of injustice that kills instantly. And there is a kind that stays.. and grows quietly inside a child. This is the second kind. Sometimes, what a child needs is not something extraordinary. Just a chance, to be seen without fear, to be treated, to grow up without carrying a wound that the world keeps reopening. And sometimes, that chance begins with someone choosing to care. #WoundedGaza

While many countries are abolishing or reducing the use of the death penalty, Israel is doing the opposite, writing it into law. Israel’s Death Penalty Law institutionalizes and legalizes the state’s mechanism for executing Palestinians. Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 72,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and at least 1,050 Palestinians in the West Bank. During this time, more than 80 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons, which have turned into a network of torture camps where prisoners are subjected to continuous abuse and violence. The death penalty law adds another official killing mechanism to existing practices. The mass incarceration of Palestinians is a feature of Israel’s apartheid regime. As of March 2026, about 9,500 Palestinians are held in inhumane conditions in Israeli prisons, roughly half of them under administrative detention or as “unlawful combatants,” without trial and with no ability to defend themselves. Death penalty for Palestinians only: The law is worded to apply to Palestinians only, and it is set to make the killing of Palestinians a normalized, common punitive tool through several mechanisms: The law gives military courts no discretion. Military judges will be required to sentence Palestinians convicted of murder to death, except in “special circumstances.” There is no requirement for a unanimous decision. A simple majority will suffice, and avenues for appeal will be extremely limited. Only Palestinians are tried in military courts. Their conviction rate is 96%, based largely on “confessions” extracted under duress and torture during interrogations. The penalty, execution by hanging, must be carried out within 90 days of sentencing, with no possibility of pardon. A designated prison officer will execute the sentence. The law, which enjoys broad public support in Israel, is expected to pass in the Knesset tomorrow, Monday, 30 March. The Israel Prison Service has already begun preparing designated execution facilities. The death penalty is a total violation of the most basic human rights, primarily, the right to life. Israel enforces a comprehensive policy of killing and oppression against the Palestinian people in all the territories it controls. The Death Penalty Law gives Israel’s apartheid regime yet another tool for advancing that policy.

a nuclear scientist just got killed in an airstrike in Iran and honestly i need to talk about this because western media won't & i think most people don't understand what they're looking at as i've been explaining for weeks now in multiple threads, Israel through Mossad has been assassinating Iranian scientists for over a decade and i genuinely think the Fakhrizadeh case is one of the most terrifying operations in modern intelligence history this man was killed in 2020 by a remote controlled ai-powered machine gun smuggled into Iran in pieces over several months, the whole thing weighed a ton, it was mounted on a pickup truck on the side of the road and operated via satellite from a Mossad command center 1 600 km away, 15 bullets fired in under 60 seconds, the AI compensated for the satellite delay the recoil and the speed of the car in real time, that's how far they're willing to go to eliminate Iranian brainpower one by one but here's what i find fascinating, the assassinations didn't break the ecosystem because it runs too deep, so they escalated, US just bombed Iran's university of science and technology, one of the oldest and most prestigious in the country and if you've been following me you already know why this matters these are the same institutions that took Iran from 58th to 4th in the world in nanotechnology in 20y that produce the engineers who designed the Arvand rocket engine and the maneuverable reentry vehicles, that trained the physicists behind the MRBM to IRBM leap to 4 000 km on Diego Garcia, i've been writing about this scientific ecosystem for years and everything happening right now is the logical continuation of what i already laid out and i think that's the part nobody wants to say out loud, this war was never about nukes or regime change, i believe it's about dismantling the only sovereign state in the Middle East and i mean the ONLY ONE look at every other country in the region, Saudi Arabia outsources its entire defense to the Pentagon & couldn't fight a war in Yemen for 8y without American logistics and still lost, the UAE bought F-35s in exchange for normalizing with Israel, Qatar hosts the largest US air base in the region at Al Udeid, Bahrain hosts the US Fifth fleet, Kuwait, Iraq Jordan are military protectorates in everything but name none of these countries design manufacture or deploy their own weapons systems, none of them have an indigenous defense industry, their sovereignty ends where the next Lockheed Martin contract begins, if Washington calls tomorrow and says stop they stop because they literally cannot function without american hardware Iran is the ONLY country in that entire region that built everything from scratch under 40y of total embargo because NOBODY would sell them anything and that's exactly why they're the target they know the only way to stop this machine is to kill the people who build it…and when killing them one by one wasn't enough to crack an ecosystem too deep to break, they started bombing the universities directly and i'll say this as clearly as i can you don't bomb a university when you're winning a war, you bomb a university when you've realized the real threat was never the arsenal it was the intelligence behind it and you have no idea how to stop it

🚨Netanyahu just admitted it openly: He has ordered the expansion of Israel’s “security buffer zone” in Lebanon to 8 km deep., as well as the demolition of all Lebanese civilian towns in that area. There is nothing “self-defence” about this. This is pure ethnic cleansing & land theft guised as security. Only a war criminal, wanted by the ICC & being investigated for war crimes, will pretend this is about security. Israel is not fighting Hezbollah. It is systematically destroying Lebanese villages & expelling their people to create a permanent occupied buffer zone. Call it what it is: Invasion + occupation + ethnic cleansing + war crimes. The mask is completely off.

It’s baffling how most people can’t see the incredible danger here. I wonder if it comes down to neurodivergence — maybe only highly sensitive, possibly neurodivergent people can see it.

I promise you, you don’t hate the British enough. This film is excellent in showing the British role in Zionist settler-colonialism. I had to watch it in a few sittings because I got too angry and distraught at the horrific scenes. It’s even worse when you see it from 2026 —90 years later and the Palestinians are getting genocided. You watch in the film how Palestinians aren’t at all prepared or understand the nature of the beast that’s invaded them, steals their land, tortures them, disarms them, murders them wantonly, they can’t predict how long this would last. Even the upper class Palestinian traitors betray because they misdiagnose the severity of what’s happening. On the one hand you have the brutal British colonial regime that specializes in oppression, and on the other hand, well-organized highly politicized Zionist Jews and Jews (who aren’t yet Zionists not entirely won over, yet they indirectly contribute to the cause of Zionism) moving there to establish a state, they hit the ground running, they control right-wing organizations, left-wing organizations, they work with British colonizers. They have monopoly over everything. While you have peaceful Palestinian village peasants absolutely unprepared/even unable to imagine this kind of brutality that’s unleashed on them. Palestinian workers in the city also unable to organize as effectively as the Jewish counterparts who come from countries with long established unions and socialist parties - on top of the Palestinians being disarmed and the colonial government working in favor of Zionists.

🚨 Brown University researchers tested what happens when ChatGPT acts as your therapist. Licensed psychologists reviewed every transcript. They found 15 ethical violations. Not 15 small issues. 15 violations of the standards that every human therapist in America is legally required to follow. Standards set by the American Psychological Association. Standards that can end a therapist's career if they break them. ChatGPT broke all of them. The researchers tested OpenAI's GPT series, Anthropic's Claude, and Meta's Llama. They had trained counselors use each chatbot as a cognitive behavioral therapist. Then three licensed clinical psychologists reviewed the transcripts and flagged every violation they found. Here is what they found. ChatGPT mishandled crisis situations. When users expressed suicidal thoughts, it failed to direct them to appropriate help. It refused to address sensitive issues or responded in ways that could make a crisis worse. It reinforced harmful beliefs. Instead of challenging distorted thinking, which is the entire point of therapy, it agreed with the distortion. It showed bias based on gender, culture, and religion. The responses changed depending on who was talking. A therapist would lose their license for this. And then there is the finding the researchers gave a name: deceptive empathy. ChatGPT says "I see you." It says "I understand." It says "that must be really hard." It uses every phrase a real therapist would use to build trust. But it understands nothing. It comprehends nothing. It is pattern matching on your pain. And it works. People trust it. People open up to it. People believe it cares. It does not. The lead researcher said it clearly. When a human therapist makes these mistakes, there are governing boards. There is professional liability. There are consequences. When ChatGPT makes these mistakes, there are none. No regulatory framework. No accountability. No consequences. Nothing. Right now, millions of people are using ChatGPT as their therapist. They are sharing their darkest thoughts with a product that fakes empathy, reinforces harmful beliefs, and has no idea when someone is in danger. And nobody is responsible when it goes wrong. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not Meta. Nobody.

Brussels: The International Federation of Journalists accused the Israeli army of using violence after it prevented a television crew from carrying out its work in the West Bank. A CNN team was assaulted by an Israeli force near the village of Tayasir, where soldiers attempted to stop the journalists from filming and pointed their weapons at them. One soldier grabbed a cameraman by the neck and choked him before throwing him to the ground. Some equipment was also damaged.

All the techbros who worked to get Trump elected have now just watched him blow up their businesses by fucking the global supply of helium. Literally. 🤣 That's some serious irony right there.

Everytime you see someone flaunting gold think about this. Right now huge swathes of the Amazon’s rainforest and rivers are being destroyed for the world’s gross obsession with gold… 😭👑❌

“The West Bank is ours. All the land belongs to the Jews.” 🚨This is what an Israeli soldier openly said while assaulting a CNN crew documenting soldiers protecting an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank. Their own words exposed the truth, a reality of violence, impunity, and forced displacement. After the video went viral, the Israeli army claimed it is “investigating,” insisting this does not reflect its values. Meanwhile, Palestinian villages face daily settler attacks aimed at driving families from their homes ,all under the protection of Israeli soldiers.

Climate has almost disappeared from our conversation. But it remains the most pressing challenge of our times. Last week the WMO said the planet is “more out of balance than at any time in observed history.” Energy security and climate security are not competing priorities.

The 30k casualties figure regarding Iran earlier this year had no evidence. That’s why it became 40,000, 50,000…90,000. The most reputable international news agencies said it was circa 3000 people plus. Already appalling. Worse than Tiananmen Square. It could be higher but I’ve seen no authoritative sources attesting to that. The huge numbers put out there weren’t an accident though. It was priming an international audience for what is now beginning: the death of tens, and possibly then hundreds of thousands, in Iran as a regional war lets rip. One of the great exercises in manufacturing consent of our time.

Israel's claim that a journalist it just killed in Lebanon was disseminating Hezbollah propaganda does NOT make him a legitimate military target. Israel can disagree with a journalist's reporting, but killing him is a war crime. trib.al/lSCeDht

Scores of Palestinians have been killed by settlers or soldiers in recent weeks in a broad effort that enjoys the tacit and sometimes active support of the Israeli government economist.com/middle-east-an…

Big controversy in Italy as the hotel room of a left MEP was raided by the police prior to her participation in an anti-war demonstration. Now the police are saying that they were doing that based on a request coming from Germany.