Alex MacDonald

Middle East Eye, reporter/commentator on Iran, Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Turkey, UK etc.

Folk musician. Also on Bsky and Instagram.

[email protected]

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

The Polisario Front's top diplomat tells me the US and Europe have voted against their own interests in letting UN mission in Western Sahara collapse:

"The alternative to diplomacy is war. That’s the message the UNSC have sent to the world"

https://t.co/209g3bOrWl

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

@commontruth_ Well I'm sure it is news to you, hence why you should trying researching things before making random statements on social media, eh?

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

"Under-16s in the UK could now be banned from YouTube Kids."

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[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK could now be banned from Spotify, Lego Play and YouTube Kids under expanded Government proposals to widen the scope of its social media ban

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

@OfSymbols @bongomansam @DosPepsi I'd turn it on its head and say there's hardly anyone whose been consistently funny forever, so why should Dril be...

[Ahmed Rasheed @Ahmed_Rasheed_R]

NEW: Iraq barred a plane carrying Iran's national football team from landing in Basra because of U.S. sanctions on Iranian airlines, airport sources told Reuters. The team will enter Iraq by road from Abadan.
#Iraq #Iran #MiddleEast #football #USA

https://t.co/WRFDNWeL8S

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

Ed Miliband on 8 September:

"To those who finance or facilitate illegal settlements, let me say this: you will face the full force of UK sanctions … Settlements are illegal.”

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[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

AJ EXCLUSIVE: The UK awarded £10.7m ($15m) in new public contracts to firms linked to illegal Israeli West Bank settlements, despite UK gov’t pledges to punish companies that profit from settlement activity, an Al Jazeera investigation reveals.

🔗: https://t.co/zmWXKMvVKI

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

AJ EXCLUSIVE: The UK awarded £10.7m ($15m) in new public contracts to firms linked to illegal Israeli West Bank settlements, despite UK gov’t pledges to punish companies that profit from settlement activity, an Al Jazeera investigation reveals.

🔗: https://t.co/zmWXKMvVKI

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

No way, Walliams?!

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

@PhilipEdwaahzj @curtisdaly_ It's just embarrassing, dude.

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

@PhilipEdwaahzj @curtisdaly_ Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. I mean, you can literally just google it.

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

@PhilipEdwaahzj @curtisdaly_ Go on, explain why

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

Wait until you read about the Mughals! You're in for a lot of surprises!

Also, Persian Muslims celebrate Nowruz...its a big surprising world!

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

This would be considered blasphemous in Islam. El Sayed is full of surprises.

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

@lurking2472 @BenBurgis I have never done that, no.

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

@CaillteGoMion @lurking2472 @BenBurgis Yeah. In other words, he's not been "cancelled."

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨 BREAKING: A child has died due to extreme cold at Al-Anan Camp in the Al-Katiba area, west of Gaza City.

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

@CaillteGoMion @lurking2472 @BenBurgis No, you're the one misrepresenting the truth - virtually everyone on the left extols the merits of Fisher while criticising that essay. You seem to think that the criticism of that essay means people are dismissing him as a whole. That's not correct.

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

@matthew_petti If I had children, I wouldn't expect them to follow the same religious beliefs as me. But as I already said, that's a minority view.

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

@CaillteGoMion @lurking2472 @BenBurgis Uh, wrong, but that's also beside the point - your implication is that Mark Fisher has been "cancelled" whatever that means, rather than many people simply criticising him. Do you think he should not have been criticised at all?

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

Multiple free live music venues in central London.

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

Millennials, what was considered completely NORMAL in 2005 that would be absolutely unhinged today?

[Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac]

@CaillteGoMion @lurking2472 @BenBurgis Yeah, like suggesting that defending a convicted rapist like Brand, a man who was already known to be a bit of a wrong'un, is bad actually?