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Good @nytimes editorial on the ugly rise of anti-Muslim hatred in the United States, with a quote from me:
nytimes.com/2026/03/19/opi…
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Maarten Dirkse retweetledi
As the International Criminal Court has charged, attacking electrical infrastructure is a war crime. It is a civilian object not subject to attack, and the harm of an attack to the civilian population is disproportionate to any legitimate military effect. trib.al/tvoUHVI
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IDF strikes on over 100 medical facilities in Lebanon kill 40 medical workers, Health Ministry says
haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
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Hundreds of settlers participated in a night of attacks on the Palestinian community across the occupied West Bank. This violence keeps escalating and expanding because the Israeli government doesn't want to enforce the law.
Matan Golan@MatanGolanPhoto
עפי מערכת הביטחון הלילה התקבלו מעל 20 דיווחים על אירועי פשיעה לאומנית בגדה שכללו יידוי אבנים והצתות מבנים ורכבים. אלו הגיעו לאחר הקריאות שהופצו ברשתות גלויות לצאת לנקמה על מותו של הצעיר הישראלי שנהרג מפגיעת רכב פלסטיני אמש אחה״צ בבית עומרין. בשלב זה במערכת הביטחון עדיין לא מגדירים את התאונה בה נהרג כפיגוע. למעשה תחילה במערכת סברו כי ככל הנראה מדובר בתאונת דרכים, ולאחר ששרים בציונות הדתית טענו שנרצח - במשטרה ובצבא הוציאו הודעות כי נבחן חשד לפח״ע . ברקע הדברים - התאונה (נכון לעכשיו עדיין מוגדרת ככזו) התרחשה בשטח A, ועפי חלק התרחשה במהלך ״סיור קרקעות״. ישנן שמועות שלמיטב הבנתי אינן מבוססות על גניבת הרכב הפלסטיני ע״י ישראלים. עפ״י גורם בטחוני הנהג הפלסטיני נפצע אף הוא בהתנגשות ופונה לטיפול רפואי ועל כן טענה על גניבת הרכב מסתמנת כלא סבירה בשלב זה. בסילת א דהר ופונדוקומיה הוצתו בתים ורכבים, בקרבת חומש והמאחז ממנו יצא הריינג׳ר. האירועים התפשטו גם דרומה לאזור סבסטיה וכן לקריות וג׳אלוד שם עשרות רבות של פורעים פשטו על הכפרים וביצעו הצתות. יידויי אבנים על רכבים בצידי הדרך נרשמו במספר מקרים לרבות בברוקין וכן דיווח של הסהר האדום על אמבולנס שהותקף באזור שילה ללא נפגעים. בשלב זה לא ידוע על עצורים בתקריות.
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Yesterday, Israel targeted the home of Lebanese journalist Mohammed Sherri, killing him and his wife and injuring his grandchildren. Sherri was the head of political programs at Al Manar TV. While the channel is affiliated with Hezbollah, it remains a media outlet licensed under Lebanese law, and Sherri himself was a civilian. Under international law, this constitutes a crime.
Predictably, there will be little to no outrage among many journalists. He was Arab, Muslim, and held views they oppose, apparently sufficient, in some eyes, to render his killing acceptable.
#IsraeliCrimes #Lebanon
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"I don't think anyone in Israel should feel sorry for those Gazans. Not for adults, not for the elderly, not for the young and not for children... As far as I'm concerned, let them starve to death"
From the backlog, CH14, Feb 10, 2024: Haredi media figure Yaki Adamker with the usual genocide incitement on HaPatriotim, the government propaganda outlet's flagship talk show.
B.M.@ireallyhateyou
Judeo-Nazi media person (Kol BaRama radio, Channel 14) Yakir Adamker rejoices over the complete destruction of Gaza.
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The Israeli police officers who massacred four members of a single family on Saturday have not been questioned
Quds News Network@QudsNen
A heartbreaking farewell to the Bani Odeh family, who were executed at point blank range by the Israeli army last night in the town of Tammun, northern West Bank.
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"Iran posed no imminent danger to Israel or the US to justify a...strike in self-defense. The Iranian regime has committed heinous crimes against its people, and there was no guarantee" of a nuclear accord. "But none of this makes [bombing Iran] lawful." trib.al/nW0sxKi
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Israeli settlers sexually assaulted a Palestinian man during a violent overnight raid on Khirbet Humsa in the northern Jordan Valley, according to witness testimonies reported by Haaretz. Witnesses say dozens of masked settlers stormed the community around 1 a.m., dragged families from their tents, zip-tied men, women, and children, and forced them to watch as the man was stripped, doused with water, and beaten into the ground with clubs.
Residents and two international activists said settlers beat girls and teenage girls, smashed heads and limbs, and piled bound family members—men, women, and children—on top of each other while continuing the assault. Victims were blindfolded, kicked, and struck repeatedly, while settlers threatened to kill the children and rape the women.
Settlers also cut one man with a knife, stole valuables, and released livestock. Six people were evacuated for treatment. Residents said Israeli soldiers later detained them, allowing the settlers to flee.
Full story below ⬇️
Haaretz.com@haaretzcom
Israeli settlers sexually assaulted Palestinian man in Jordan Valley, witnesses say haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
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People who dislike Israel should not conflate it with American Jews -just as people should not conflate the PRC with Chinese Americans or ISIS with American Muslims.
And (not but) synagogues should not say "We stand with Israel" because it encourages that conflation. It makes congregants less safe but, more importantly, given what Israel is doing, it's morally indefensible.
It's like a Russian Orthodox church saying "We stand with Russia" after the invasion of Ukraine. peterbeinart.substack.com/p/lessons-from…
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In Israel, driving over a five-year-old Palestinian girl with the goal to kill her is not a crime. Reporting it to the authorities is.
Haaretz.com@haaretzcom
Israel to deport Jewish-American activist who reported car hitting Palestinian girl in West Bank haaretz.com/west-bank/2026…
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In many cases, the Israeli army deliberately exhumed graves and converted cemeteries in the #Gaza Strip into military barracks under the pretext of searching for the bodies of Israeli detainees
euromedmonitor.org/a/7004
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Dear pro-war Iranians,
Look, I don’t like the regime. My entire extended family is Baha’i. I lived in Iran as an adult and saw the rot and repression first hand.
But as a journalist, I also covered Iraq and saw what Americans did to the place. I was in Lebanon when the Israelis were shelling apartment blocks. I witnessed Libya being torn apart after a violent upheaval without any plan. I saw firsthand what happened to Syria when it became a playground for regional and world powers.
These countries won’t recover for 30 years.
You now have a senile gameshow host and an indicted war criminal launching a war against Iran. They killed a school full of children on day one and sent a toxic cloud over Tehran on week one. They are hitting Unesco sites and apartment buildings filled with bewildered civilians and destroying the country’s economy.
They have no plan, or strategy, or internatonal support. Even Americans don’t support the war. Trump and Bibi are gonna smash up a lot of stuff and leave the place a mess, with Khamenei still in charge. Then China will move in and buy up the country cheap, and maybe Russia will get a Persian Gulf base.
None of this will lead to democracy. Trump and Bibi don’t even believe in democracy for their own countries. But it also won’t lead to constitutional monarchy or anything decent or normal.
It will only lead to ruin, blackouts, water outages, poverty, hunger, lawlessness, and despair.
(100% organic writing, no AI)
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"They tried to beat Mustafa and I stood in front of him so they beat me instead."
Khaled is 11 years old. Mustafa is 8.
These are children like yours and mine.
Haaretz.com@haaretzcom
Ali Bani Odeh, 37, his wife and two of their children, 5 and 7, were killed in the West Bank's Tammun when Israeli forces fired on their car. Two of the children, Mustafa and Khaled, survived the attack to tell the story in full.
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Note how she wants not Hamas but ‘the Palestinians’ to be ‘isolated’. A proper genocidal racist Israeli politician considered to be on the liberal Zionist end of the spectrum.
B.M.@ireallyhateyou
"If the Ayatollahs' regime collapses, the Palestinians are once again isolated... We must make sure we do not save them from this (and do not allow) other actors to become the supporters of Palestinianism" Genocidal propagandist Einat Wilf inadvertently tells us what this war is really all about. All of Israel's crimes throughout history stem from the Zionist pursuit of one root goal - the destruction of Palestinians. Posted on March 2 by Wilf's Oz Party.
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Israel soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian couple and two of their young children last night (15 March).
Last night, around 1:30 A.M., Israeli troops operating in the village of Tamun in the northern Jordan Valley opened heavy fire at a vehicle driving inside the village. In the vehicle were members of the Bani ‘Odeh family, who were on their way home from shopping in Nablus for the ‘Eid al-Fitr festivities marking the end of Ramadan later this week.
The shots killed ‘Ali Khaled Sayel Bani ‘Odeh, 38, his wife, Wa’d ‘Othman ‘Aqel Bani ‘Odeh, 36, and two of their children: ‘Othman, 6, and Muhammad, 5.
After the shooting, soldiers removed from the vehicle two other children, Khaled, 11, and Mustafa, 8, from the vehicle, both lightly injured by shrapnel. The soldiers violently interrogated the elder boy at the scene. Initially, the forces prevented ambulances from reaching the area, and only after some time were medical teams allowed to approach. The troops confiscated the family’s vehicle, which was riddled with bullets.
Since the beginning of the Israel-US attack on Iran on 28 February, Israel has killed 13 Palestinians in the West Bank. Of these, 8 were shot by the military, including 2 minors, and 5 were shot by settler militias. The most recent victim prior to this incident was Amir Mu‘tasem ‘Odeh, 28, who was shot and killed yesterday (Saturday, 14 March) in Qusra, Nablus District, by a settler militia that attacked the town.
Since the beginning of 2026, Israel has killed 24 Palestinians in the West Bank. Of these, 18 were shot by soldiers and 6 by settler militias.
This is part of Israel’s violent campaign of ethnic cleansing, which has intensified during the attack on Iran. Under Israeli rule, the lives of Palestinians are treated as entirely expendable.
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The children were 5 and 7 years old. They shot them in their car.
I don’t know who still needs to hear this, but murdering families for sport is not normal.
BBC News (World)@BBCWorld
Israeli forces kill Palestinian couple and two of their children in occupied West Bank bbc.in/4bc4WwL
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