Bruno Sorrentino

Filmmaker. Citizen of one world. Director “Rooted in the West Bank” and "In Search of India's Soul".

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

“As a Palestinian, I am the direct subject of Zionism. I’m an expert on it, in fact, because it is practised on my body”

Mohammed El-Kurd defines Zionism in under 5 minutes. He says everything that needs to be said👇

[Bruno Sorrentino @BrunoRosso12]

@CNN Shekel diplomacy

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Donald Trump exhibits the classic traits of psychopaths -- superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation and incapacity for remorse or guilt.

But is he evil?

If, as the philosopher Susan Nieman writes, evil is not simply the opposite of good but inimical to it, if the aim of evil is to destroy all moral distinctions, then Trump qualifies as evil. Morality, for Trump, is for losers. All life is transactional. Self-interest and self-enrichment usurp all other considerations. No one else matters.

In her new book, “Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era,” Neiman argues that evil “isn’t cruelty but something much worse: the ideas that allow cruelty to become ordinary.”

She continues:

There’s a difference between calling one action evil and calling another a crime. Crimes are things for which we have procedures—at least for punishing, if not for preventing. This means that a crime can be fit in some way into the rest of our experience. To call an action evil is to suggest it cannot—and that it thereby threatens the trust in the world that we need to navigate it. There’s no signpost on the border between evil and awful. Evil is what you say when your jaw begins to drop if you sense that a line has been crossed.

Trump crosses line after line. He declares wars on a whim. He enriches himself and his family in crypto schemes, from which he has made over a billion dollars. He orders assassinations and the kidnapping of heads of state. He uses billions of taxpayer dollars to sustain genocide in Palestine and since January 2025 has provided over $20 billion in new arms sales to Israel. He guts government departments designed to lift up the vulnerable and bloats the war budget. He builds rogue paramilitary forces to terrorize citizens and immigrants. He attacks and attempts to censor the news industry.

In short, he does what all who commit evil do.

He fosters a world where nothing is sacred and where democracy and civic virtues do not exist.

Read my full column, 'Donald Trump and the Age of Evil' on Substack at the link below.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

It's worth reading Macklemore's full letter regarding how Robert Kraft, owner of Gillette Stadium, pressured Ed Sheeran to cancel Macklemore, and how Sheeran caved to this pressure, despite 1) his decade-long friendship with Macklemore, and 2) how Sheeran had no problem eschewing "neutrality" when it came to Ukraine.

What this shows is exactly what @EliClifton and Ian Lustick write about in their new book "Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power."

It's no longer just about how Israel or pro-Israeli elements push US foreign policy in a direction that undermines US national security (such as starting a disastrous war with Iran).

It's now also about how these elements constitute a direct threat to the freedom of speech of ordinary Americans, and as a result, a threat to American democracy.

[JO @withlovejohana]

All of Ed Sheeran’s openers have now withdrawn from the Looper Tour. Please realize how big this is. This is what unity looks like. Billionaires are terrified of people realizing how strong they can be when we come together for a cause. Continue speaking out. Support the new artists that are deciding to put their careers at risk to take this stance.

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

What is happening in Israel now is truly scary. It was maddening before, making one angry in a heartbeat. It is now scary, a masterclass in how nazism came to power. More than 21% of the country's population identified as "enemies from within", alongside its current elites. The erasure of any and all differences between Jewish politicians, attempts othewise at the sole cost of those attempting to differntiate. Calls for the stripping of citizenship from journalists who made a documentary film the entire country has not seen. A xomplete and utter rejection of anyone who is not "zionist" (read "jewish") as a traitor. This hasn't happened in the world for quite some time. It is happening now, to the fullest extent of "hapening".

[Bruno Sorrentino @BrunoRosso12]

@owenjonesjourno @edsheeran So disappointing

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history, is not responsible for triggering the decline of the American empire, but he is responsible for its fatal denouement.

This is the end.

U.S. bases in the oil-rich Persian Gulf have been damaged or destroyed and I expect will not be rebuilt. Our allies, even those in Europe, are abandoning us. The decadence and immorality of American society, embodied in the vulgarity, stupefying ignorance and cruelty of Trump, are the defining characteristics of the Empire. The Global South, horrified at the Empire’s flagrant disregard for international humanitarian law, including the enabling of genocide in Gaza, sees us as the enemy. Abu Ghraib Prison may have receded from our consciousness, but for the rest of the world, its images of U.S. soldiers and contractors sadistically humiliating and torturing imprisoned Iraqis has replaced the Disneyfied version of America we once exported. The war on Iran, which has disrupted the world’s oil supply, is rapidly pushing the global economy over the cliff.

We are going down. And we will bring many with us.

Osama Bin Laden may be in a watery grave in the North Arabian Sea. Al-Qaeda may be a shadow of itself. But Bin Laden’s most fervent dreams have been realized in the last twenty-five years of gross miscalculations of the Empire — its squandering of trillions of dollars on military debacles and the ascendancy of our version of Ubu Roi, Donald J. Trump.

Read my full column, 'Osama Bin Trump' on Substack at the link below.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

“The labs are saying to governments: ‘We’re quite likely to kill every human being on Earth; please stop us.’ Governments respond with ‘Can we give you a tax break? Build you a datacenter?’ Perhaps at some point governments will remember that their voters prefer not to be dead.” https://t.co/6ANyBtMePt

[Bruno Sorrentino @BrunoRosso12]

@TariqAli_News Totally outrageous.

[Bruno Sorrentino @BrunoRosso12]

@sarobertson_ Malevolently ignorant

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

The US ambassador to Israel has called for "severe consequences" to stop violence in the occupied West Bank, as he met with Palestinians who have suffered from Israeli settler violence.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Soldados sionistas posan orgullosos con un civil palestino torturado y maniatado de Gaza, como si fuese una presa de un safari, los psicópatas sonríen disfrutando de su sufrimiento y luego lo suben a redes sociales.

El sionismo debe ser estudiado en las universidades como un nuevo nivel de maldad humana, al igual que en su día se estudió el nazismo.

[Paddystinian @Paddystinian]

Israel just demolished a 120-year-old home in Ni’lin because it didn’t have a building permit.

The house was built around 1906.
The State of Israel was founded in 1948.
The occupation of the West Bank began in 1967.

So the paperwork they demanded was issued by an authority that didn’t exist when the walls went up. Bold bureaucratic innovation: retroactive zoning for a country that arrived later than the stone.

Imagine the clerk:
“Sir, we’re going to need the Ottoman-era permit, the British Mandate stamp, and the Israeli one you never applied for because we hadn’t invented ourselves yet. Also the land is now strategically important. Have a nice day.”

Nothing says “rules-based order” like fining a building for missing a form that predates the form-maker. Next they’ll ticket the olive trees for growing without a 2024 agricultural license.

Free Palestine.
And maybe start requiring permits for founding states on other people’s already-built villages.

[Bruno Sorrentino @BrunoRosso12]

@DalrympleWill The piece ended with an insinuation of anger at the “regime that brought this war to our doorsteps” (note, not the Israelis and Americans). Is the Guardian pushing some agenda here?

[Bruno Sorrentino @BrunoRosso12]

@Jerusalem_Post This handily aligns Greece with Israel’s future war on Türkiye

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

A video shows an Israeli settler terrorist assaulting an elderly Palestinian amputee in Hebron - beating him with a club.

An elderly man. Missing a limb. Unable to defend himself.

And a settler - armed with a club - is beating him

The West’s “most moral country” proudly demonstrating its morality once again.

[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

The judge who presided at the show trial of Tony Greenstein "spewed bile and venom" to persuade a jury to convict him of terrorism. But her deep animus was thwarted by the jury who swiftly reached a unanimous verdict that Tony was not guilty.
https://t.co/dNI5j6iwhe

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Carney: "The U.S. introduced in the last hours, efforts to restrict our ability to have other trade deals. We're the partner of choice in many respects for countries around the world, and the Americans wanted to restrict that. Unacceptable."

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is absolutely hilarious: the guy on the picture posted by the Department of State is NOT the Abdoulaye Seye from the ICC that they sanctioned.

He is also called Abdoulaye Seye but he works for Unicef, not the ICC - as is obvious from the picture with the Unicef flag (taken from his Linkedin profile: https://t.co/sWVtejD3JF).

In other words, they're so eager to do Israel's bidding against the ICC that they don't even take the time to know what the people they're sanctioning look like. Israeli official accounts, on their end, got the picture right (https://t.co/89FgKzrtGc): they know who they're after.