David Bahia

Master of None

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

UN Special Rapporteur @profbensaul in 2024: "Germany & the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel. They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons that kill the Palestinians"

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: Al Jazeera confirms Israel bombed a Lebanese hospital for the THIRD time. The ICU is completely destroyed.

A mother desperately rushed to find her premature baby alive amidst the rubble. Washington is fully complicit in these war crimes!

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Yesterday, the IDF seized 4 students from their homes in the West Bank, including 20-year-old American, Sama Safi.

The Israeli govt didn’t tell her family or the U.S. Embassy where or why she was being taken & is holding her without charges.

America must secure her release NOW.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Soy de las Naciones Unidas y vine del Líbano hace 2 semanas, como nadie hizo nada en Gaza, Israel está haciendo lo mismo en Líbano, no han dejado ni un pueblo en pie. 3 compañeros mios fueron asesinados y a nuestro gobierno le importa una mierda".

Un trabajador de la ONU en Canadá, denuncia el genocidio de "Israel" en Líbano y Gaza mientras enfrenta a la policía canadiense que reprime a los manifestantes que protestan contra los sionistas en las calles.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly, has declared that Israel is a terrorist state. You won’t find this kind of courage anywhere in the Zionist-ruled US and UK governments.

[JmRoyle #LFC #YNWA #BLM #RejoinEU @MyArrse]

Just a reminder that speaker Lindsey Hoyle's father,
MP Doug Hoyle founded Labour Friends of Israel.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

I can’t see you how you can possibly avoid using the term ethnic cleansing, without losing your last remaining shreds of integrity as a journalist, @adamparsons.

Lebanon's internal displacement rate is now 22.6 percent — more than one in five of its people. Over 1.2 million people, including 350,000 children, have been forced from their homes, with the IDF launching more than 1,840 attacks on Lebanon since March 2, killing more than 1,497 people and injuring more than 4,639.

Moreover, the language used by Israel Katz to describe his aims in Southern Lebanon is extraordinarily explicit and self-incriminating. He has confirmed that Israel's military would establish a permanent "security zone" inside Lebanon up to the Litani River, that hundreds of thousands of displaced residents would be "completely prevented" from returning, and that "all the houses in the villages adjacent to the border in Lebanon will be demolished in accordance with the Rafah and Beit Hanoun model in Gaza."

The targeting of civilians for displacement specifically identified by their religion (Shia), combined with the destruction of their homes to prevent return, combined with the explicit statement that they will not be permitted to return — these are precisely the elements that international law identifies as forcible transfer and ethnic cleansing. Human Rights Watch has said that "the displacement of the Shia population looks less like a temporary military necessity and more like a move to permanently displace the civilian population based on their religion."

Its not complex, Adam. You just haven't got the balls to say it straight, and that failure makes your reportage worse than worthless. It makes it morally bankrupt.

[Prof Colin Talbot (rerum cognoscere causas) @colinrtalbot]

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.

Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison

Huge coverage of both

Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.

Media coverage? You judge.

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Israel destroying the foundations of humanity, literally & figuratively.
As the world unifies in horror, we can unify to stop the madness.
Complete military, economic, diplomatic boycott of genocidal Israel now.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies of Ukraine.

But of course that's a 'good' invasion.

So there is silence.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

THIS from last August is disturbing

@CommonsSpeaker has BLOCKED disclosure of his communications with Israeli politicians

Grave questions have been raised about his pro-Israel bias, which at a time Israel is carrying out war crimes, including GENOCIDE, is a matter of public concern

[Oxford Union @OxfordUnion]

A statement from the President, Arwa Elrayess:

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

“I want to kill someone today & it might be you"

"They wrenched my trousers & underwear down & I was raped by one of the soldiers"

"Other people had guns inserted inside them"

"My daughter was syringed with an unknown substance"

Juliet Lamont's Gaza Flotilla testimony:

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Absolutely hilarious for the FT to argue the West is losing to China because "liberal market democracies operate with greater accountability to voters."

Hilarious and, of course, absurdly wrong. China is winning precisely because it's obsessively focused on delivering for its people: infrastructure, improving living standards, reducing poverty, etc.

"Liberal market democracies" are losing precisely because they forgot who democracies are supposed to be accountable to.

Src: https://t.co/tQjkt6OSg4

[Yanis Hamad 𓂆 @yanis_hamadGaza]

What does it mean to confine nearly two million people to just 30% of the Gaza Strip’s territory, a territory that was already extremely limited in size?

In my view, this amounts to a policy of slow death, forcing people into an exceptionally small and overcrowded area, effectively turning that part of Gaza into a densely packed human enclosure.

The Gaza Strip covers approximately 362 square kilometers and was home to around 2.2 million people before the war, making it one of the most densely populated places in the world, with an average density of about 6,000 people per square kilometer. If the population is confined to only 30% of the territory, the density would surge to roughly 18,000 people per square kilometer.

For comparison, population density averages around 90 people per square kilometer in Morocco, 125 in Egypt, 40 in the United States, 150 in China, 290 in the United Kingdom, 500 in India, and 400 in Belgium.

This represents a massive population being forced into an extremely limited area without even the minimum requirements for public health services, wastewater treatment, healthcare facilities, education, or productive economic activity. The situation is further compounded by the presence of tens of thousands of injured people—especially children—individuals with mobility impairments, elderly people, and thousands of widows who lost their providers during the war. These are vulnerable groups that require significant support even under normal circumstances.

The areas of Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, Rafah, and parts of Deir al-Balah have historically constituted Gaza’s agricultural heartland. They contain water wells, desalination facilities, and wastewater treatment projects, and they represented the territory’s primary reserve for future urban and agricultural expansion.

Gaza’s population has been growing by approximately 60,000 people annually. Under normal conditions, such growth would require the construction of dozens of new schools, healthcare facilities, cemeteries, sports clubs, and other public services each year. This is in addition to the enormous challenge of rebuilding the hundreds of schools, hospitals, homes, and factories destroyed during the war.

Without access to sufficient land, it will be extremely difficult to build new schools, drill water wells, establish agricultural projects, create social and recreational facilities, or even provide adequate burial space. It is worth noting that many areas of Gaza already faced shortages of land for schools and cemeteries even before the war.

Most of the land that has become inaccessible to the population consists of public land that would ordinarily be used for schools, universities, sports facilities, cemeteries, water infrastructure, wastewater treatment systems, solar energy projects, and other essential public services. If border areas continue to be treated as security or buffer zones, it is difficult to envision large-scale urban development or the construction of new cities in those areas.

In 2012, the United Nations issued a report projecting that Gaza could become unlivable by 2020 under the conditions that existed at that time. If such concerns were raised before the current war, the question today is: what will Gaza’s future look like after the immense destruction and deterioration of living conditions caused by the conflict?

The loss of 70% of the Gaza Strip’s territory is not merely a matter of losing land. It also means the erosion of the foundations necessary for economic, social, and urban life. The likely consequences include increased displacement, worsening living conditions, the spread of disease, and a severe reduction in the population’s ability to sustain a dignified and viable existence.

#Y_M_H

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Europa was a legendary Phoenician princess from Tyre - after which Europe has its name.

Now Tyre is being destroyed, and almost every government in Europe either enables, or cheers on, the destruction of the values it claimed to uphold.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Cenk Uygur on UK BAN:

"I can criticize the king. I can criticize the UK government. I can criticize the prime minister.

But I cannot criticize Israel. Just like in the old days when you couldn't criticize the king"

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Not just the media. Some vile academics like @NAChristakis made sure to transform Palestinians into monsters & got rewarded with membership in some academy of science.

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

Reading How To Sell A Genocide, the NYT called every major population centre in the Gaza Strip a "Hamas stronghold" at some point.

They actively worked to militarise civilians in Gaza to justify genocide

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

The Future of Israel's "Ungrounding" Genocide: Crippling and/or Expelling?

In the first in a new Substack series on Israeli genocide, I discuss its Gaza aims in the light of Eyal Weizman’s seminal new book, alongside insights from Raphael Lemkin and Gideon Levy's latest warning.

https://t.co/kox62fWNBs