Elham Fakhro
@elhamfakhro.bsky.social
Hello! I post about the Middle East, surveillance, climate change, and justice. I'm a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School. Check out my book 👇
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-abraham-accords/9780231212380
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-abraham-accords/9780231212380
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ICYMI: RAG Poisoning? How Google's Gemini AI is Learning Pro-Israel Disinformation From Social Media marcowenjones.substack.com/p/how-google...
How Google's Gemini AI is Learning Pro-Israel Disinformation From Social Media
A fake quote attributed to Hamas official Khalil Al Hayya is being regurgitated by Gemini AI
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October 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
ICYMI: RAG Poisoning? How Google's Gemini AI is Learning Pro-Israel Disinformation From Social Media marcowenjones.substack.com/p/how-google...
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
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The top benefit claimants in the UK.
1. The Royal Family £500m a year.
2. Billionaires £320m a year EACH.
3. MPs many claiming more than £50,000 a year in PERSONAL benefits.
Yeah lets crackdown on these ridiculous benefits multimillionaires/billionaires
1. The Royal Family £500m a year.
2. Billionaires £320m a year EACH.
3. MPs many claiming more than £50,000 a year in PERSONAL benefits.
Yeah lets crackdown on these ridiculous benefits multimillionaires/billionaires
October 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The top benefit claimants in the UK.
1. The Royal Family £500m a year.
2. Billionaires £320m a year EACH.
3. MPs many claiming more than £50,000 a year in PERSONAL benefits.
Yeah lets crackdown on these ridiculous benefits multimillionaires/billionaires
1. The Royal Family £500m a year.
2. Billionaires £320m a year EACH.
3. MPs many claiming more than £50,000 a year in PERSONAL benefits.
Yeah lets crackdown on these ridiculous benefits multimillionaires/billionaires
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To those sharing the Shamkhani wedding video:
1. This is clearly a women-only wedding, that's why the bride is wearing a revealing dress. It is customary for the groom and father of the bride to show up at the end, that's also why other women are covered up in the background ..
1. This is clearly a women-only wedding, that's why the bride is wearing a revealing dress. It is customary for the groom and father of the bride to show up at the end, that's also why other women are covered up in the background ..
October 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
To those sharing the Shamkhani wedding video:
1. This is clearly a women-only wedding, that's why the bride is wearing a revealing dress. It is customary for the groom and father of the bride to show up at the end, that's also why other women are covered up in the background ..
1. This is clearly a women-only wedding, that's why the bride is wearing a revealing dress. It is customary for the groom and father of the bride to show up at the end, that's also why other women are covered up in the background ..
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"Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal." wapo.st/471KaMZ
Arab states expanded cooperation with Israeli military during Gaza war, files show
Documents from U.S. Central Command show a series of meetings over the past three years between Israeli and Arab military officials to coordinate on regional threats.
wapo.st
October 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal." wapo.st/471KaMZ
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“Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's plan for running the Gaza Strip after the war proposes a multilayered, hierarchical structure in which senior international diplomats and businesspeople are on top and the Palestinians running things on the ground are at the bottom.”
A century removed from Western colonial powers casually drawing Middle Eastern borders with a ruler while disregarding the will of local populations, the region gets Tony Blair to dream up schemes of governing Gaza with little say by its people.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Draft of Tony Blair's Gaza plan: Remote governance, little Palestinian representation
Haaretz Reveals the Full Document Proposed by the Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a Postwar Gaza Strip: A Regime Run by Affluent Foreigners With Palestinian Executives at the Bottom
www.haaretz.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's plan for running the Gaza Strip after the war proposes a multilayered, hierarchical structure in which senior international diplomats and businesspeople are on top and the Palestinians running things on the ground are at the bottom.”
"Hezbollah's effort to blunt international pressure on Lebanon to disarm the group by appealing to Saudi Arabia last week was the result of back-channel diplomacy by Iran, sources said"
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Hezbollah's effort to blunt international pressure on Lebanon to disarm the group by appealing to Saudi Arabia last week was the result of back-channel diplomacy by Iran, sources said"
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Iran’s Messaging After Israel’s Qatar Strike @giorgiocafiero.bsky.social agsi.org/analysis/ira...
Iran’s Messaging After Israel’s Qatar Strike - Arab Gulf States Institute
Iran has moved quickly to try to capitalize on cracks in U.S.-Gulf relations after Israel’s unprecedented attack on Hamas officials in Qatar.
agsi.org
September 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Iran’s Messaging After Israel’s Qatar Strike @giorgiocafiero.bsky.social agsi.org/analysis/ira...
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“We are facing a planetary emergency. The breach of the Ocean Acidification boundary is a stark scientific warning and a moral call to action. Without healthy oceans, peace, prosperity & stability are at risk everywhere. We must act now...to safeguard this life-support system for future generations"
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone
24.09.2025 - A new report from the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) reveals that 7 of the 9 critical Earth system boundaries have now been b...
www.pik-potsdam.de
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
“We are facing a planetary emergency. The breach of the Ocean Acidification boundary is a stark scientific warning and a moral call to action. Without healthy oceans, peace, prosperity & stability are at risk everywhere. We must act now...to safeguard this life-support system for future generations"
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JUST IN: Netanyahu faces mass walk out protest at UN speech
Netanyahu faces mass walk out protest at UN speech
Israel is deeply isolated internationally as it presses on with the war in Gaza.
www.axios.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
JUST IN: Netanyahu faces mass walk out protest at UN speech
The Hind Rajab Foundation is "gravely concerned about a serious and imminent security threat against our Chairman, Mr. Dyab Abou Jahjah, and his family"
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/news/officia...
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/news/officia...
Official HRF Statement: Serious and Imminent Security Threat Against Chairman Abou Jahjah
The Hind Rajab Foundation is gravely concerned about a serious and imminent security threat against our Chairman, Mr. Dyab Abou Jahjah, and his family. Credible information indicates that individuals....
www.hindrajabfoundation.org
September 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The Hind Rajab Foundation is "gravely concerned about a serious and imminent security threat against our Chairman, Mr. Dyab Abou Jahjah, and his family"
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/news/officia...
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/news/officia...
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The US will have to consider itself on notice that the Gulf states are now formally moving on and that, while none of them are interested in breaking ties with Washington, the idea that they can rely on the US for defense is, for the time being, practically discarded
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Israel’s Attack on Qatar Forces a Gulf Strategic Realignment - Arab Gulf States Institute
The GCC states now consider an attack on one to be an attack on all, and Saudi Arabia may be covered by a Pakistani rather than U.S. military umbrella.
www.google.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The US will have to consider itself on notice that the Gulf states are now formally moving on and that, while none of them are interested in breaking ties with Washington, the idea that they can rely on the US for defense is, for the time being, practically discarded
www.google.com/url?q=https:...
www.google.com/url?q=https:...
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Good short article about derailment risk that @laurielaybourn.bsky.social and I have been working on. www.garp.org/risk-intelli...
The Missing Climate Risk: Derailment Explained for Risk Professionals
Our capacity to act on climate change and nature loss can itself be eroded by increasing physical and transition risks, possibly derailing the sustainable transition. This article explains what risk p...
www.garp.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Good short article about derailment risk that @laurielaybourn.bsky.social and I have been working on. www.garp.org/risk-intelli...
Every word of this extraordinary trainwreck of an interview is worth reading. The self-serving, moral bankruptcy of a celebrated liberal (and legal) scholar, in his own words
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Can Liberalism Be Saved?
The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.
www.newyorker.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Every word of this extraordinary trainwreck of an interview is worth reading. The self-serving, moral bankruptcy of a celebrated liberal (and legal) scholar, in his own words
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Both these men belong in the Hague
Sharaa jokes to Petraeus, “my mission in Syria is more difficult than yours in Iraq was—you had the choice to leave”
Credit @simnasr.bsky.social
Credit @simnasr.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Both these men belong in the Hague
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علاء علي الاسفلت!!!!
Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!
Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!
September 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
علاء علي الاسفلت!!!!
Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!
Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!