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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 19h

Great essay by Aziz Rana.

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Who’s Afraid of “Settler Colonialism”? - Dissent Magazine

If we dismiss concepts because of particular examples of misuse, we encourage the repression of discomforting histories and ideas.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 2d

My American Public Health Association membership was revoked after over 20 years because I protested for Palestine. As authoritarian norms spread in government, they are metastasizing into civil society institutions that should be resisting them.

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Civil society should be resisting Trump’s authoritarianism. It’s succumbing to it instead.

My American Public Health Association membership was revoked after over 20 years because I protested for Palestine. As authoritarian norms spread in government, they are metastasizing into civil society...

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 3d

They don’t even know who they’re killing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 4d

The OLC memo is definitely nonsense, as @jahimes.bsky.social says. There is nothing the memo could say that would make these strikes anything other than murder.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

Jim Himes: "If Lindsey Graham and other Republicans want to go the route of saying it's okay to kill people legally just so long as the American public supports it, the American public really needs to think that through...It's a very dangerous path for this country to go down."

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 4d

Throughout the Gaza war, Israel has debated what to call it. The military says “October 7 War,” while Netanyahu wants “War of Redemption.” What's clear is that Israel believes it can only resolve its ongoing cycle of crisis through genocidal violence. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...

Israel seeks redemption in the Gaza ruins

Throughout the Gaza war, Israel has debated what to call it. The military says “October 7 War,” while Netanyahu wants “War of Redemption.” What’s clear is that Israel thinks it can only resolve its…

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 4d

Half of Portland's City Council has pledged to investigate the city's connections to Israel, including the manufacturing and transportation of weapons intended for the country. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/port...

Portland’s City Councilors pledge to investigate city’s ties to Israel

Half of Portland’s City Council has pledged to investigate the city’s connections to Israel, including the manufacturing and transportation of weapons intended for the country.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 4d

After answering a call for general surgeons, Dr. Monica Chaudhuri, an Ontario doctor and activist, recently returned from Gaza. Dr. Chaudhuri shares what it was like working alongside the brave Palestinian healthcare workers.

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Doctors' Duty: Travelling to Gaza

Podcast Episode · Blueprints of Disruption · 2025-10-28 · 52m

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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 5d

OMG!

Jewish-American doctor recounts how Israeli soldiers took two Palestinian children, tied their hands behind their backs, and buried them alive.

"Their cries being muffled by the dirt as it was poured upon them while they were being buried alive."

These were children!”

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Trita Parsi on X: "OMG! Jewish-American doctor recounts how Israeli soldiers took two Palestinian children, tied their hands behind their backs, and buried them alive. "Their cries being muffled by the dirt as it was poured upon them while they were being buried alive." These were children! https://t.co/oyhDOjCU7G" / X

OMG! Jewish-American doctor recounts how Israeli soldiers took two Palestinian children, tied their hands behind their backs, and buried them alive. "Their cries being muffled by the dirt as it was poured upon them while they were being buried alive." These were children! https://t.co/oyhDOjCU7G

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 5d

Almost 2/3 of Canadians want our government to recognize Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide. Yet our political class remains deeply out of sync. Why?

Watch and read the report: www.jewishfaculty.ca/cija-report

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Jewish Scholars Expose CIJA’s Anti-Palestinian Racism | Avi Lewis

YouTube video by Avi Lewis

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 5d

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Humanitarian Access Is Not Optional: The ICJ 2025 Verdict on Israel’s Obligations in Gaza and Beyond

The International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Israel in Relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organisations and Third States ...

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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 10d

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Trump terminates all U.S. trade negotiations with Canada over Reagan tariffs TV ad

President Trump claimed Canada had ran an ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs to influence a pending U.S. Supreme Court case.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11d

The Gaza Ministry of Health published photos of the mutilated bodies of Palestinian prisoners. Most of them showed clear signs of torture — hands and feet bound, blindfolded, bodies showing marks of tank tracks, burns, fractures, and deep wounds.

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Israel returns 195 dead bodies to Gaza, many mutilated with hands bound, signs of torture

The Gaza Ministry of Health published photos of the mutilated bodies of Palestinian prisoners. Most of them showed clear signs of torture — hands and feet bound, blindfolded, bodies showing marks of...

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 10d

1/ Last night at the @canadianlabour.bsky.social forum, I said what needed to be said: we need solutions as big as the crises we face.

National rent control. Price caps on groceries. Public ownership across the economy.

Tanille Johnston, Avi Lewis, Tony McQuail, Heather McPherson, Rob Ashton, and CLC President Bea Bruske on stage at the CLC NDP leadership forum

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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 10d

Canadian friends, write to the CRA demanding it investigate the activities of the Nathan and Lily Silver Foundation that are inconsistent with its status as a registered charity. Just follow the link for the ugly details:

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Fascists Making Deserts, Calling It Peace on X: "Canadian friends, write to the CRA demanding it investigate the activities of the Nathan and Lily Silver Foundation that are inconsistent with its status as a registered charity. Just follow the link for the ugly details: https://t.co/xnMVRLPGOv" / X

Canadian friends, write to the CRA demanding it investigate the activities of the Nathan and Lily Silver Foundation that are inconsistent with its status as a registered charity. Just follow the link for the ugly details: https://t.co/xnMVRLPGOv

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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 10d

Compelling scholarship by Rami Koujah on the genealogy of legal personhood in Islamic law and legal theory.

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Rami Koujah, “The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: From Artifact to Ontology” - ILSS 2025

On Tuesday, October 14, 2025, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST via Zoom, Dr. Rami Koujah (Harvard Law School) presented “The Invention of Islamic Legal…

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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 13d

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‘Complete Bullshit’: Mehdi Calls Out Palestinian Erasure Under Trump’s ‘Ceasefire’

Prem and Mehdi discuss holding ‘King’ Trump accountable, Israel shredding the Gaza ceasefire, and more, on ‘Ask the Editor.’

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 13d

This piece in the @bostonreview.bsky.social by Jed Purdy and Dave Pozen is exceptionally insightful and spurred me to think more deeply about what we're living through. Highly recommend. www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

What Are We Living Through? - Boston Review

Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.

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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 13d

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“We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed”

Gaza’s olive groves have been bulldozed by the Israeli military, dried up from lack of water, or remain inaccessible, leaving Palestinian farmers with little to harvest.

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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 16d

CBC report on how "charitable" organizations, whose donors received tax deductions from the Canadian government, are funding illegal settlements.

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Investigating charities getting tax breaks for funding Palestinian displacement | Full episode

YouTube video by the fifth estate

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 22d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 21d

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Why would Israel refuse to release a respected surgeon? There are reports from his lawyer than Dr. Abu Safiya has been severely tortured & presumably the Israelis now fear detailed accounts emerging about their war crimes against Palestinian doctors. But the truth will out

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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 21d

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"In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s announcement on Thursday the Israeli military launched an arson spree, setting fire to civilian infrastructure, including the destruction of an essential sanitation plant in Gaza City." #GenocidalIntent

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

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shanfaraa.bsky.social @shanfaraa.bsky.social · 23d

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