Watch very carefully how western news media will report on Israelis impacted by the inevitability of their government and society’s genocide & expansionism.

Watch as we see the individualization of violence and its impact. We will see how they are presented as ‘unworthy victims’ of this violence.

The genocide of Palestinians is ofc mass violence and it is reported on as mass violence - albeit carefully curated and the crimes of the perpetrators are, at best, obfuscated and justified.

There is little to no allowance in our news media to sit with a Palestinian man, woman or child who has lost everything. To learn their names, their experiences, their losses. There is no space given to understand their claims as legitimate, as worthy of consideration.

There is no individualization of the atrocities - individualization which allows people to connect with the affected & empathize. Instead, violence against Palestinians is presented to us - as it always has been - as a tragic but inevitable outcome for faceless, poor victims who are seen as worthy of the violence rained upon them. from Feb 2024:

https://twitter.com/sanasaeed/status/1755636271190286576

India absolutely pulled the water treaty - knowing that Pakistan is one of the most water scarce countries in the world- because it saw the lack of response and consequences for Israel starving Palestinians.

We are living in a completely different world order where the facade of int’l law compliance - esp on the Big Things - has been ripped off and shredded.

Going forward, expect more of the ‘Israel Model’ to be emulated by major states against vulnerable populations. Now, will this actually go through? Hard to see that happening without China getting involved and the situation escalating even further. But the point here is that even if we look at the revocation of this treaty as posturing, it still shows how the impunity given for the last 18 months to Israel to completely destroy any appeal to international law will embolden hegemonic states to carry out similar actions or threats of them.

The Muslim dating app Salaams, with over 6M users, was acquired by the Match Group.

This is the Match Group’s new CEO, who boasted about giving financial assistance to American Jews to go commit war crimes & genocide against Palestinians.

It seems zero announcements were made about the purchase & users I’ve spoken to have said they received no email notification discussing the acquisition.
The only Match Group mention I could find of Salams was their Feb 4th report on fourth quarter and full year results.

Rascoff’s appointment as CEO (after he served on the board) was announced the same day.

This whole Bernie-AOC rebranding project feels like brain rot surrealism - like Sanders didn’t support the genocide of Palestinians before remembering he hates Netanyahu and AOC chiding anti-genocide voters who she said needed to ‘be adults’ and vote for Biden. one of the biggest markers of the death knell of capitalism is this genocide - harping on billionaires and corporations, at this point, is easy. You’re not standing with any working class when you’re supporting the extermination of a people, through supporting their genocidaires.

The Star of David has been rendered into a symbol of genocide & torture by the Israeli state. The single largest producer of antisemitism is the state of Israel—it requires the conflation of Jews & Israel, it necessitates antisemitism to sustain its myths for existence and perpetuation of violence against Palestinians.

The responsibility of this is not - nor should it ever have been - on Palestinians and anti-occupation activists, who nevertheless have worked hard for decades to fight that conflation because we understand what’s at stake and what the occupation is ultimately rooted in. This isn’t a one off thing either. Before this genocide and especially during it, we have seen Israelis - IDF, police, etc - consistently brand, Palestinian bodies and land and infrastructure with the star of David.

And so if you are branding the bodies you kill and torture, homes you destroy and land you raze with the symbol that is most recognized as the emblem of your country & community — what are you saying? What does that symbol signify now? Especially to those outside your community & nation?

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60 Mins sat on this story for months. They spent 15 months doing egregious propaganda justifying the slaughter of Palestinians (and Lebanese) - they were instrumental in the genocide propaganda. Now this.

It is the marker not of cowardice but of complicity to release this as the administration that oversaw the extermination of Palestinians is heading out in a few days. Much of this information by Biden resignees has been available for over a year. Hala, herself, resigned in April of 2024, she was on Democracy Now! talking about this.

The MSM purposely ignored her & other resignees - and what they were saying - because not only do these newsrooms believe in & propagate this genocide, they wanted to keep their access to this butchering administration.

Former IDF Ronen Bergman is a reporter for the New York Times and his name is in the bylines of the some of the most egregious propagandistic lies from the Israeli government that have been passed off as reporting. He has worked with AIPAC, who he has said ‘has the backs of Israelis’.

Oh my God. Hossam is one of the few journalists who has been able to get us any information from North Gaza. Israel has been targeting and killing Palestinian (and Lebanese) journalists with impunity - they want to silence whatever information is able to get out. This is horrific & our media here is complicit in this genocide and in the targeting of these heroic journalists. Hossam, btw, is a young, young man - he’s 23. He was born in 2001. His entire life has been the open air prison that is Gaza. His work has been and remains indispensable. He, like so many other Palestinian journalists, has shown us what real journalism is - it is empathetic, it is kind, it is fearless; it holds power accountable and it is willing to be vulnerable.

Praying for his recovery & safety.

Great reporting from @umaribnfarooq on the national Uncommitted Movement taking money from a Democratic Party-aligned PAC, which does not allow beneficiaries to endorse anyone but Harris.

It was controlled opposition— this is why the Democrats were never worried about Uncommitted & didn’t care to give them even crumbs at the DNC.

People in our communities called it out, but outsiders, in media & activist circles, vested in protecting the Dems pushed Uncommitted national.

middleeasteye.net/news/us-electi…

Statement from National Uncommitted— despite trying to go after the reporter and claiming the allegations are baseless, they don’t actually deny any of the major allegations including the point about endorsement and about suppression of organizers in uncommitted state chapters (they do a blanket rejection, nothing specific). There’s also nothing in the article about a “secret agreement” but rather about a condition on the money received.

x.com/uncommittedmvm…

This is a striking moment but it isn’t the damning moment for Muslims & Arabs as many may think it is - it is the sign of the demise of the Democratic Party, even in its ability to maintain optics.

And optics are at the core of politics.

A thread 🧵

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1850290875026260195

Kamala Harris, Joe Biden & the Democratic Party have refused to even share a stage with Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians - not even for the sake of optics or for the sake of their electoral interests. Instead, Harris & her party have chosen to castigate & marginalize Arabs & Muslims - who overwhelmingly vote Democrat - at every single turn.

Many of us have been calling this out for years, and especially this past year. This industry doesn’t need IDF ops but it’s not a coincidence they lead on all the big propaganda stories.

The WSJ story on the “UNRWA dossier” that was used to decimate UNRWA had a former IDF soldier & active Israel advocate Carrie Keller Lynn on its byline.

AXIOS’ Barak Ravid, an IDF reservist until 03/23 & former member of Unit 8200, has been at the forefront of Israeli/US “leaks” & was one of the first to push Hamas mass rape stories in the U.S.

Screams without Words had two Israelis on the byline, including Anat Schwartz who was former IAF intelligence.

The recent ‘Hamas minutes detailing Iran knew about Oct 7’ NYT piece had two Israelis, including Ronen Bergman who served in IDF intelligence. The other Israeli is Adam Rasgon who was on the byline for the horrendous Oct 30th, 2023 New Yorker piece that painted Palestinian journalists as legitimate targets for Israeli slaughter.

This barely scratches the surface of how much IDF presence there is not only in the U.S. news industry but specifically on covering the genocide the IDF is enacting. Carrie Keller Lynne, WSJ:

https://x.com/sanasaeed/status/1752111335536521523?s=46

Why did Israel publish this alleged footage of Yahya Sinwar’s last moments?

I’ve written about this before: Israeli propaganda is meant for Israelis and Zionists. Every bit of propaganda they put out is, from their vantage point, meant to humiliate Palestinians as well as show a spectacle of their ‘defence’ and might.

🧵 The Israelis have zero self awareness on this front, they are consumed by narcissism. They see Sinwar’s last moments and see their victory; ending the lives of Arabs is that victory. /2

With the death of Sinwar, the Israelis have a brief PR win but ultimately a narrative loss. Neither Haniyeh nor Nasrallah’s deaths served to weaken resistance against Israeli aggression. They also did not weaken regional and global support for the resistance.

And what does it look like, from a narrative standpoint, to continue the slaughter & decimation of Palestinians in Gaza when you have achieved what you claimed was a key goal? /1 Israel could use this opportunity to declare an end to the war, but that assumes that “eliminating Hamas” was the goal. It wasn’t - the annihilation of Palestinians was and remains the goal. Israel & the U.S. are irrational actors committed to genocide & regional war.

is the message here that Trump in practice is actually pro-trans rights? is that what the Harris campaign is saying here. is that the dunk.

https://twitter.com/kamalahq/status/1846610665135317226

Not sure how else to read this especially since this falls in line with the Harris campaign’s turn to the right, over its own base.

This is the point that underscores the breadth, depth & power of American imperialism and why comparing it to Chinese or Russian ‘imperialism’ has never made any sense. The global order of law and of violence is controlled by the U.S. - no other country.

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https://twitter.com/naksbilal/status/1838219072074301909

No country has the power to cripple nations in the way the U.S. can with sanctions. No country holds the influence over other countries the way the U.S. does. No country has anywhere near as many military bases as the U.S. does globally.

No country can enact NFZ the way the U.S./NATO allies can - can you imagine asking the Chinese for an NFZ in the West Bank or Gaza or Beirut?

One day of tragedy used to destroy hundreds of millions of lives over two decades. If our rage were allowed it would crumble mountains with its screams.

1. An anti-war protest sign, at a rally in DC, in 2005. This image was taken one month after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, which gave us horrifying footage of Black Louisianans left to fend for themselves on their rooftops as the water levels reached higher and higher. 2. Guantanamo Bay, 2002. Over 300 Muslim men & some boys were held without charge and on flimsy ‘evidence’. Aby prison that is made to hold a specific population of people only is illegal under international law. It is a torture camp. Between 91-‘92, over 40k Haitian asylum seekers fled after a US/France-backed coup of Haiti’s first democratically-elected leader. HW Bush turned them away & the coast guard rerouted them to Gitmo.

Gitmo then became a concentration camp for Haitians w/HIV, later ruled unconstitutional.

In the morning, the House Ways and Means Committee will be discussing HR 9495, a bipartisan bill which includes provisions threatening to revoke the tax exempt status of any nonprofit the govt deems a "terrorist supporting organization” — a new legal category.

It’s transparent what this is: an attack on Muslim, Arab, Palestinian organizations in particular as well as an attempt to silence any and all organizations which have & continue to condemn the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians.

No coincidence they’re discussing this on 9/11 either.

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It’s already illegal to intentionally provide support to “terrorist organizations” but this bill takes away any necessity of showing “intent”. It has, instead, created a new designation: “terrorist-supporting organizations”. And there is nothing in the bill that protects *any* nonprofit from this designation./2

Biden-Harris administration resignee Maj. Harrison Mann last night at an event at Georgetown:

The intel community was well aware of the high [Palestinian] casualty counts, from the beginning. There was also concern about being implicated in war crimes so a decision was made to take the assurances of Israeli intelligence as credible. He resigned.

/1 Former State Dept official Josh Paul:

On Oct 8th Israelis were coming in and asking for this weapon and that weapon. His role was to say yes and he was not willing to do it. He asked senior leadership to take a pause and a have a discussion. There was not only no interest in that, but there also was no interest in approving weapons transfers and having a discussion. There was a complete absence of debate. He resigned.

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This Canadian kid on TikTok, who focuses on marketing mishaps, made a video called ‘The Downfall of Kamala Harris’ and coconut-pillers bullied him into taking it down & apologizing. But my favorite part of the backlash has been the people flashing their Poli Sci degrees as tho that degree means absolutely anything🥲 (I say this as someone who did poli sci as one of her majors)

As I sit on @AOC lying about Harris ‘working tirelessly towards a ceasefire’, the angrier I get. It’s not just a lie, it is complete historical and moral revisionism meant to cleanse Harris of any and all culpability in the genocide of the Palestinians.

But there’s more.

🧵 AOC is ostensibly speaking to young progressives when she says this — meaning she is weaponizing that positionality to bring votes for a woman who’s done nothing but back Israel & its genocide.

The US threatens global starvation because federal law mandates defunding the UN in the case of Palestine becoming a member state.

Difficult to see the US as anything other than pathologically evil - in the true moral sense - in its capacity & willingness to harm.

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https://twitter.com/halalflow/status/1792944530389393422

Federal law (1990) explicitly states that the US will have to pull funding for the UN or any specialized agency that gives the PLO the same standing as a member state.

Now, at the UN - the PA’s name was changed to ‘State of Palestine’ in 2013. But a 1994 law still prohibits the US from funding the UN or any affiliate if they admit any group/org that does not have “internationally recognized attributes of statehood” as a full member.