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A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share far and wide and encourage colleagues to give generously! leonardeducation.org/the-palestinia…

- "Are you left-wing or right-wing?" - "Center" - "Can we live with the Arabs of Israel?" - "No, a good Arab is a dead Arab" An average Israeli woman answers an average Israeli street poll. Posted on Instagram on February 13.

UCLA public health students spent the past year creating a course on Palestinian public health, and it’s now online for anyone who wants to take it. sites.google.com/view/ifimustdi…

🚨 CONFIRMED: Footage reviewed and geolocated by Bellingcat confirms US tomahawk missiles hit the girls’ primary school in southern Iran that killed 180 people, most of them children. Researcher Trevor Ball notes Israel does not possess Tomahawk missiles. United States does.

If anyone saw this in their city or town, they would think: "This is what liberation looks like. We are so grateful to the foreigners bombing our civilian and economic infrastructure and dropping bombs in our neighborhoods." Iranian girls in particular are swooning with joy:

Wait, I thought it was about rescuing the Iranian people???

There’s no opposition in Israel. Just different murderers with different names. Someone who talks like that belongs in an asylum.

Important investigative report by the New York Times finds that the US was the likely culprit in the devastating precision strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh girls school in Minab, Iran, which may have killed as many as 175 students and teachers.

Iran is allowing CNN, an American network from a country currently bombing Iran alongside Israel, into the country to document the war. Imagine Israel allowing Iranian media into their country? Israel arrested me, an American journalist from its "closest ally" simply for documenting Iranian attacks on the country the wrong way.

Measuring the displacement zone in Beirut across other major cities. (Source: IG: spatial.data.candy and odaymansour)

"You don't hit a muslim country, especially in Ramadan" says a Kuwaiti academic on @AJEnglish to the Iranian guest, as the Saudi guest agrees. Last I checked, Yemen is a muslim country, and they had no problem bombing & starving it for a decade.

There's been a lot of talk lately regarding AI in general; this powerful piece from Bassam Emad in Gaza grounds and reminds us that these are not abstract conversations. The Smart Genocide: Reflections on AI and Life from Gaza jadaliyya.com/Details/47215 via @jadaliyya

"Hate Trump, love war on Iran" gotta be an ideological combo held by no more than 1% of the general population and yet it's like 90% of liberal pundits and at least half of liberal politicians

First day of war and they kill 160 children. It’s like they have been practicing for 2.5 years.

🚨Just In: Ali Larijani accuses Trump of turning “America First” into “Israel First” Iran’s top security official Ali Larijani said President Trump “plunged the region into chaos with his delusional fantasies” and now fears more American troop casualties. “With his delusional actions, he turned his self-made ‘America First’ slogan into ‘Israel First’ and sacrificed American soldiers for Israel’s power-hungry ambitions,” Larijani, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, writes on X.

Teach your students about the lack of professionalism and consistent unethical filth of American mainstream media, especially when it comes to Israel--with thousands of articles/titles like this one to back up this charge:

Scene from aftermath of "precision strikes" in Tehran.

Again, again, and again, teach your students the meaning of “western values” when values really count.

If I tweeted an appeal to bomb British towns and cities I would have been arrested by now. @metpoliceuk do your job.

Some observations and comments on Trump and Israel's war on Iran: 1. Tehran is not looking for a ceasefire and has rejected outreach from Trump. The reason is that they believe they committed a mistake by agreeing to the ceasefire in June - it only enabled the US and Israel to restock and remobilize to launch war again. If they agree to a ceasefire now, they will only be attacked again in a few months. 2. For a ceasefire to be acceptable, it appears difficult for Tehran to agree to it until the cost to the US has become much higher than it currently is. Otherwise, the US will restart the war at a later point, the calculation reads. 3. Accordingly, Iran has shifted its strategy. It is striking Israel, but very differently from the June war. There is a constant level of attack throughout the day rather than a salvo of 50 missiles at once. Damage will be less, but that isn't a problem because Tehran has concluded that Israel's pain tolerance is very high - as long as the US stays in the war. So the focus shifts to the US. 4. From the outset, and perhaps surprisingly, Iran has been targeting US bases in the region, including against friendly states. Tehran calculates that the war can only end durably if the cost for the US rises dramatically, including American casualties. After the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran says it has no red lines left and will go all out in seeking the destruction of these bases and high American casualties. 5. Iran understands that many in the American security establishment had been convinced that Iran's past restraint reflected weakness and an inability or unwillingness to face the US in a direct war. Tehran is now doing everything it can to demonstrate the opposite - despite the massive cost it itself will pay. Ironically, the assassination of Khamenei facilitated this shift. 6. One aspect of this is that Iran has now also struck bases in Cyprus, which have been used for attacks against Iran. Iran is well aware that this is an attack on a EU state. But that seems to be the point. Tehran appears intent on not only expanding the war into Persian Gulf states but also into Europe. Note the attack on the French base in the UAE. For the war to be able to end, Europe too has to pay a cost, the reasoning appears to be. 7. There appears to be only limited concern about the internal situation. The announcement of Khamenei's death opened a window for people to pour onto the streets and seek to overthrow the regime. Though expressions of joy were widespread, no real mobilization was seen. That window is now closing, as the theocratic system closes ranks and establishes new formal leadership. Again: The question "How will this end?" should have been asked before this war was triggered. It wasn't.

The Biden-Harris years proved liberals are just as deplorable, racist & violent as MAGA but they keep behaving like they think we’ve forgotten. We have not. 💀