Jeff Smink

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The under-reaction to mass displacement and death in Lebanon would be shocking except it comes on the heels of under-reaction to mass displacement and death in Gaza and the West Bank. The world can’t go on like this.

@ahmetgemici2990 @rulajebreal .

Posso farti una richiesta?! Per favore, non smettere di parlare della Palestina... Lascia un puntino per interrompere l'algoritmo. 💔🇵🇸

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

The crackdown at universities included expulsions, criminal charges, the actual jailing of students for as little as an oped, new campus rules that made criticizing Israel a punishable offense, the banning even of megaphones at demonstrations…and then Neera “wonders” where the protests went. Such a mystery!

It really can’t be overstated how, after the US paid for Israel to lay waste to Gaza, it feels like we’ve drifted beyond help, beyond guardrails or pretence of international law, both our major political parties stripped of credibility, & now it seems anything at all can happen.

I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.

“Diplomacy is not reality TV. The world is not a casino. Statecraft is not a real estate deal.” @UNReliefChief @TFletcher tells me that as the war with Iran continues to escalate, “We’ll be paying for this war for years to come… “We’re deeply frustrated… that’s diplomatic speak for saying we’re furious. Because rich people are winning out of this. The arms dealers are winning… And the people I serve are losing.”

Wow it’s almost like there was a deeply engaged protest movement by college students 2yrs ago that was the largest in 50yrs and the publication you work for—along with every other major outlet—smeared them as antisemites, then they were all systematically kicked out of school.

Pay attention to Lebanon. Trump and Netanyahu started a regional war in the Middle East, creating a humanitarian disaster. And now, the Israeli army has killed over 1,000 people in Lebanon—about 20% of them are kids. Congress should not bankroll this escalating war of choice.

@ezzingaza Your writing is beautiful and heartbreaking.

Some stories are too small to appear in the news, but they reveal the true cost of war. It was the end of a long day. The waiting room, usually full of noise and movement, had fallen into an unusual silence. Only one woman remained, sitting quietly on a chair with her small child in her arms, giving her a Ventolin inhalation that I had prescribed. Nearby sat another girl, perhaps eleven years old, waiting patiently. I asked her if she was waiting for her turn. She shook her head and said she was waiting for her mother, who was helping her little sister with the inhalation. At that moment, I had been thinking about doing something small for the children in the neighborhood, perhaps a little activity at the clinic, or simple gifts for Eid. So I asked her a question. “If I could give you a gift for Eid,” I said, “what would you like?” She answered immediately: “A handbag.” I smiled. It was such a warm, ordinary answer, or at least it seemed that way. Then she added, almost as if she were already imagining it in her hands: “I want it to be brown.” I asked her why that color. “So it matches my Eid dress,” she said. I asked her, curious, “Did you already buy a dress for Eid?” I always enjoy hearing children talk about the things that make them happy. She nodded. “Yes. My sister and I bought the same dress.” At first I misunderstood. I thought she meant they had bought two dresses of the same design. So I told her, smiling, “Then maybe you need two handbags, one for you and one for your sister. “No,” she said gently. “We bought the same dress. We share it.” For a moment I didn’t understand what she meant. So I asked her how that worked. She explained it simply, as if it were the most natural thing in the world: “I will wear it on the first day of Eid, and my sister will wear it the next day, because that’s what we can afford.” In that moment, the room seemed to grow smaller. Something tightened in my chest. I looked toward her mother, who had been listening to the entire conversation while sitting beside her sick child. She lowered her head quickly, avoiding my eyes, perhaps so I would not see the quiet fracture in her dignity. But what she did not know was that I was the one who broke in that moment. I wished, for a brief second, that the ground would open beneath me before I had to look again into the shining eyes of that little girl, eyes glowing with happiness as she spoke about the dress she would share with her sister on Eid. She was happy with half a dress!!. She did not complain that she would not wear it every day. She did not resent her poverty. She was simply hoping someone might help complete what she saw as a small, unfinished joy a brown handbag that would match the dress. And since that moment, I cannot stop thinking about something painfully simple: There are children in this world who dream of toys. And there are children who dream of finishing half a dress .!! #WoundedGaza

‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ star Motaz Malhees says he cannot enter the U.S. for the #Oscars this Sunday because of his Palestinian citizenship: “It hurts. But here is the truth. You can block a passport. You cannot block a voice.”

It’s not just Iran. It’s Lebanon. In less than 2 weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and displaced 750,000 — over 10% of the entire country. Residential buildings are being bombed with no warning. The U.S. cannot continue to be complicit in Netanyahu’s wars.

Six Palestinians were murdered in their homes this week by marauding fanatical Jewish gangs. AP called them "interactions" - it's almost unbelievable. AP controls much of the "news" across Ireland and it is blatant pro Israel and US propaganda to give cover to depraved crimes.

The US taking the IDF strategy ("we're investigating" with no results to the investigation) cannot stand. Every one of those girls was as precious as our daughters.

A New York Times investigation indicates that it was a US strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, mostly children. nytimes.com/2026/03/05/wor…

This image of rows of freshly dug graves for schoolgirls and their teachers is heavy for humanity. Each grave represents a child who should have been safe in a classroom, a future interrupted, a family changed forever. My father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., warned that war robs us of both the present and the promise of tomorrow. When children become casualties of conflict, we must confront the moral failure at the heart of violence. Nonviolence is not naive in moments like this. It is necessary. It calls us to protect innocent life, to restrain the impulse toward destruction, and to pursue justice without sacrificing our humanity. In our shared World House, the loss of these girls is not distant. It is a wound to us all. #MLK #Nonviolence #Peace #ProtectChildren

Let us in. For more than two years, we’ve been barred from entering Gaza to report freely. It’s long past time for Israel to lift this ban and #LetUsIn. Join us. Share this post. And sign the FPA’s petition: c.org/BfXbQdXjd9

Check out this must-read op-ed from @jeffsmink in the @timesunion: Commentary: New York has more work to do to get literacy back on track timesunion.com/opinion/articl… #NYEarlyLiteracy #Literacy #NYLiteracy