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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

The only ideology they have is infinite consumption, and he has affected that, so now they are upset. What they wanted, by the same token, was not free speech but infinite speech - to say what they liked without backlash. And that deserved backlash is upsetting them too. That's basically it.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 1d

Al Jazeera: At least 104 people have been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces since Friday, the day Trump called on Israel to halt its bombing campaign.

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 1d

21bn is in military aid
with another 9-12 bn being in US military operations in Iran and Yemen

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 1d

"Israel must choose between perpetual war or living in peace. This can only happen if the country recognises Palestinian self-determination... At the culmination of this war, Israel might end up destroying Gaza, but it will also destroy itself."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This war of revenge has lasted two nightmare years. There’s only one hope for peace: Israel recognising Palestine | Raja Shehadeh

Donald Trump’s proposals are in play, but here in the West Bank we live in fear that the devastation of Gaza is coming our way, says writer and lawyer Raja Shehadeh

www.theguardian.com

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 1d

A pair of reports released today by the Cost of War project show that Israel could not have continued war in Gaza and elsewhere across the region without US military & diplomatic support.

US has provided Israel w/ over $31 billion since Oct 2023

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Reports: Israel couldn’t wage wars on Gaza, Lebanon Iran without US support

Twin reports from the Costs of War Project find the US has backed Israel with more than $21bn since October 2023.

www.aljazeera.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

Since Israel signed a ceasefire deal with Lebanon, Israel has:

- killed 280 people
- wounded 625 people
- violated the agreement around 4,500 times

That’s in under a year

www.instagram.com/reel/DPdvEgY...

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 2d

wish Chotiner would have done this interview

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Every New York Times piece about internal Israeli divisions is like "we talked to five Israelis who agree that Palestinians don't deserve freedom but disagree on Netanyahu" and then at the end "we also talked to two Palestinians who are sad for indiscernible reasons".

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 4d

Criticism of biased media coverage of Gaza is often discarded as baseless..

so we set out to study the coverage of Palestinian and Israeli victims by German press systematically!

The resulting study 'Hierarchies in Death' was just published #OA by Peacebuilding www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.tandfonline.com

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 7d

Just ended a policy-oriented meeting of Washington types and I'm kinda stunned that more of them don't seem to understand that Israel has become a real problem for the United States. Not just morally. Not just in terms of public opinion. But in terms of basic strategic priorities.

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 7d

"Today, that sorrow is eclipsed by the ruin of Gaza. Yet the Israeli rhetoric of security endures, destroying cities and taking lives, leaving only barren ground and desolation – for Israelis as well as Palestinians."

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Leila Sansour | Recognition: A First Step

Recognition of Palestinian statehood is an act not of concession, but of discipline and clarity. It formalises the...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 7d

Joseph Daher on Sweida's calls for Israeli help:

"We should oppose these actions and positions, and at the same time support the right of Sweida’s population to defend itself. Moreover, we should condemn Israeli opportunistic actions to increase divisions in Syria."

syriauntold.com/2025/08/24/s...

Sweida, Not to weep or laugh, but understand | SyriaUntold | حكاية ما انحكت

How did a part of the population in Sweida end up demanding Israeli support? This is a question that many of us are asking today. In this article, Joseph Daher attempts to answer, starting from the pr...

syriauntold.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9d

Random, but I’m still looking for stable employment (research/analysis/writing/teaching) and I’m happy to send along my CV in English/French. Job has to be in the UK, Canada or online.

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 8d

there are a number of points that I also highly doubt the US or Israel would actually implement, so once again there has to be faith put in a group of actors that have a severe advantage of power militarily and diplomatically (for now), who have hardly, if ever, worked in good faith.

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 9d

thanks, Howard. much appreciated

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10d

BREAKING: Israeli warplanes have "launched a series of raids" on southern Lebanon, targeting areas between the outskirts of the Medena Plain, Kfarreman, and Jarmaq, reports Lebanon’s National News Agency.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/6ihov1

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 10d

You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 11d

All those who lost loved ones to that genocidal state were forced to hear the voice of their loved ones’ murderer because Israel enjoys reminding its victims that they have absolute power.

There is no limit to Israel’s barbarism

“In an unprecedented action, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a live broadcast from the UN building in New York, has announced that the IDF took control of the telephones of Gaza residents and Hamas members, and that his speech is now being broadcast live via the telephones.”

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 12d

Netanyahu orders IDF to broadcast his UNGA speech over loud speakers in Gaza. I'm dead serious.

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 14d

For some reason my video won’t upload here but there is a very loud drone above Beirut today. x.com/sallyhayd/st...

Sally Hayden on X: "Assuming this is an Israeli drone, it’s the loudest one I’ve heard since getting back to Beirut on September 1. #lebanon https://t.co/7cpY4lKbWe" / X

Assuming this is an Israeli drone, it’s the loudest one I’ve heard since getting back to Beirut on September 1. #lebanon https://t.co/7cpY4lKbWe

x.com

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 14d

rewatched it last year

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah i didnt mean to imply you were.

Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 15d

Yuval's done some of the world's best reporting over the last two years.

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 15d

The arguments minimizing death counts and civilian casualties in Israel’s war on Gaza were obvious bullshit at the time. The arguments got more ghoulish and divorced from reality as the war progressed. I don’t think anyone ever believed them, they just went with whatever was useful at the time.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 16d

The figures presented in an investigation by journalist Yuval Avraham, published by +972 & The Guardian, lead to the conclusion that "only about 17% of the dead were armed or identified as Hamas members."

🆓🔗 archive.is/1tN72

More and more evidence shows – most of the Gaza war deaths are civilians

Israel No Longer Bothers to Dispute the Gaza Health Ministry Figures, Which Show That the Number of Civilians Killed Since October 7 Is the Highest in Any War in the 21st Century

www.haaretz.com

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 15d

My hot take is the rapture already happened and we are living in what’s left.

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