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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 4d

“As more journalists were being slaughtered and there were no consequences for Israel, their response became increasingly brazen.”

— Sharif Kouddous (@dropsitenews.com) on Israel’s systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists in Gaza.

Watch Smear. Kill. Repeat. ⤵️
youtu.be/kUSx9znXXYM

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 9d

“This is utter hypocrisy.”

Inès Abdel Razek, Michael Lynk and Séamus Malekafzali spoke with us about the countries continuing to aid Israel’s genocide in Gaza despite recognising Palestinian statehood.

Full report ▶️ youtu.be/W78mjsGF4RE

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 11d

Sudan’s civil war has displaced more than 13 million people and killed up to 150,000.

Reporting is sparse… but the coverage that has trickled out bears striking similarities to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

@meenakshirv.bsky.social has the details.

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 18d

On the show this week:

• After Charlie Kirk’s killing, a crackdown is underway in the US

• Israel accuses the UN of sympathising with Hamas...again — and very few people are buying it

• How Donald Trump injected unpredictability into Russia’s war on Ukraine

Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/S2l0czCH7G8

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 24d

“I’m chair of the most important public finances committee in parliament [and] I battle to get protection. What chance does an ordinary South African have?”

Songezo Zibi on the lack of protection of whistleblowers covering corruption in South Africa.

Full report ⤵️
youtu.be/sZJdhdMsYLY

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 24d

What did Trump know about the Doha bombing?

As the White House struggled to form a coherent response to Israel’s strike on Qatar, Trump’s credibility began to take a hit.

Full report ▶️ youtu.be/BoDxk8ZPCM0

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 25d

On the show this week:

• Israel's attack on Qatar reveals a state out of control...has the narrative caught up with that reality?

• A conflagration years in the making - Nepal's uprising

• Whistleblowers paying with their lives for calling out corruption in South Africa

▶️ youtu.be/BoDxk8ZPCM0

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Sep 6

On the show this week:

• Expulsion and ethnic cleansing in Gaza as Israel launches a lethal offensive in Gaza City

• An absurd Israeli AI smear campaign against Palestinian journalists

• The cyberpunk dystopias inspiring Big Tech elites

Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/atVgHwOVH8s

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Sep 6

A new AI-generated website unveiled by an Israeli minister claims to “uncover the hidden ties” between Palestinian journalists and Hamas.

Sloppiness aside, it follows a pattern of dangerous smears against Palestinians.

Tariq Nafi reports.

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Aug 10

“This is my duty…reporting the suffering of a people that I am living amidst, suffering that I am experiencing myself.”

– Reporter Anas al-Sharif in what would become his final interview with us just weeks before being killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Full report ⤵️
youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Aug 2

On the show this week:

• The rhetoric Indian politicians and media are using to demonise and expel Bengali Muslims

• Israel’s PR campaign to deflect blame for the famine it is inflicting on Gaza

• Alex Shephard on Donald Trump’s war on press freedom in America

Watch ▶️ youtu.be/m-udJsQEu8I

Inside India’s expulsion of Bengali Muslims | The Listening Post

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jul 27

“if anybody should be awarded for excellence in journalism, it is all of those Palestinian journalists in Gaza who have risked their lives to live stream a genocide”

– @dianabuttu.bsky.social on journalists like @Anas al-Sharif covering Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Full report ▶️ youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jul 26

On the show this week:

• Famine has been turned into a weapon of war in Gaza and journalists are as hungry as those they are reporting on

• The wave of post-war nationalism sweeping across Iran

• Ghana's most dangerous beat for journalists - illegal gold mining

Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jul 26

Since its 12-day war with Israel, Iran’s TV channels, news bulletins and newspapers have been in patriotic overdrive.

@meenakshirv.bsky.social reports on the wave of nationalism sweeping across the country.

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jul 19

On the show this week:

• In a presidency rife with scandals, the Epstein crisis is in a class of its own

• New York Times finally uses the term 'genocide' to describe Gaza

• The crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech in Germany

▶️ youtu.be/AWp0DgSuP1I

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jul 14

“On Fox and CNN, their advertisers and shareholders want a pro-Israel line – and if they don’t get it, they will take their money elsewhere.”

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@mjplitnick.bsky.social on the challenges major news organisations face if and when they report on Gaza.

Full report ⤵️
youtu.be/HAo3XwHUxHs

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jul 12

On the show this week:

• Netanyahu cranked up his flattery of Trump with a Nobel nomination but cracks are starting to form in MAGA’s stance on Israel

• The escalating criminality of the GHF in Gaza has prompted increasing scrutiny

• The political power struggle in Georgia

▶️ youtu.be/HAo3XwHUxHs

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jul 11

Many of the same operatives behind the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - a joint US-Israeli venture - are now cooking up new plans for the Palestinians in Gaza. Details of these are now coming out in some key reporting.

@meenakshirv.bsky.social reports on the revelations in the FT & Reuters.

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jul 6

“The BBC does not have a backbone. It gives into influence from lobby groups, complaint campaigns and the government.”

Karishma Patel and Peter Oborne spoke with us about the BBC and its coverage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Full report ▶️ youtu.be/ZjaEjI-G4CY

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jul 5

On the show this week:

• UK outrage as chant in Glastonbury is deemed too far, yet genocide in Gaza deemed not far enough

• Mainstream media goes all-in against Dem candidate for New York mayor Zohran Mamdani

• How anti-Palestinian abuse became normalised in Israel

Watch ▶️ youtu.be/ZjaEjI-G4CY

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jun 29

“Iran has behaved in a pretty pragmatic way through this crisis… the idea it is the most crazed actor in the Middle East is not the truth.”

— Séamus Malekafzali on how Iran’s actions have undercut its portrayal in Western media

Watch the full report ▶️ youtu.be/MUknejMSoak

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jun 28

On the show this week:

• Trump struggles to control the narrative on how much damage US bombs did to Iran’s nuclear programme

• Massacre of Palestinians in Gaza's aid hubs is becoming a bigger story

• Assal Rad on the contradictions rife in news headlines

Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/MUknejMSoak

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jun 27

Over the last two weeks, at least 169 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get food from aid distribution points in Gaza.

Nicholas Muirhead reports on the sites UN officials have began calling “death traps”.

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jun 23

“He doesn’t understand foreign affairs, much less anything about the Middle East…I’m not surprised the Israel lobby has got to him.”

– Chris Hedges on Donald Trump bringing the US into Israel’s war with Iran.

Full interview ▶️ youtu.be/a8dzL3biesA

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · Jun 21

“The Israeli argument is that the mouthpiece of the Iranian regime is a legitimate target to be bombed…would anybody consider [Israeli] channels legitimate targets? Of course not.”

Assal Rad on Israel’s targeted bombing of Iran’s state broadcaster this past week.

Watch ▶️ youtu.be/juxvNOwfSsI

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