Devaksha Vallabhjee

This self-branding shit is hard.

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

A “leaked study solicited by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs... found that the most effective tactic in shifting public opinion would be to drive fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism.”

Israel needs you to hate Muslims.

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

3. Around 60% of food sold by SA supermarkets is halal-certified & has been for decades. The same goes for most major fast-food chains, like KFC, Nando’s, McDonald’s & Spur. Again, all it means: animals slaughtered ethically, no cross contamination, non-pork food, no pork. Dassit

[Zakes van Tonder @ZakesvanTonder]

If should be a much bigger story that @geordinhl thinks Navi Pillay's work doing *literally her job* is divisive. She's just been named a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and the 2nd biggest party is unable to congratulate her cause she made a finding based on evidence?

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

We hosted a landmark conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tareq Baconi and Nesrine Malik at London's Southbank Centre this week.

You can watch the whole event here: https://t.co/zCZ6T6Z46h

[Pieter Kriel @pieterkrielorg]

The N2 wall is a masterclass of apartheid-era thinking disguised as a safety solution. It’s the ultimate proof that when the DA can’t manage basic service delivery, they just build a concrete wall so you can’t see the suffering they mismanage.

[Iman @Iman4ii]

Palestinian skaters in Gaza continue skateboarding among destroyed buildings and damaged streets despite the war

[Cressa Moore @cressida_moore]

True punk is the perseverance of the human spirit.

[Mondoweiss @Mondoweiss]

Absolutely psychotic: people are digging their families out of rubble with their bare hands and an American charity is installing AI audio recording to make sure nobody sounds too resentful about it.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

when everything is owned by ten people and you’re drinking a $25 latte while watching a warner bros romantic comedy starring netanyahu

[Pierre de Vos ⚖️ @pierredevos]

Cape Town’s Airbnb surge exacerbating the housing crisis — what are political parties proposing?
With an estimated over 22,000 active listings, Cape Town now hosts more Airbnbs than Singapore, San Francisco and Amsterdam combined. https://t.co/Lb72WDmvJo

[Dan Corder 📺 @DanCorderOnAir]

One month before an election, accounts here suddenly claim that asylum seekers can vote. This is a lie. it is designed to undermine the election. You are being played. Just like last time, when MK made up that the election was rig, and never ever proved it, because it wasn't

[Patricia Simón ✍️ @patriciasimon]

Qué forma tan extraordinaria de mostrar una de las múltiples consecuencias del genocidio: Gaza tiene ahora el mayor número de niños amputados per cápita en el mundo, según datos publicados por la ONG Aldeas infantiles.

Un extraordinario trabajo del fotoperiodista gazatí Saher Alghorra, que muestra cómo la población de la Franja intenta reconstruir sus vidas mientras el genocidio sigue en curso.

https://t.co/0AFOaOA5FT

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Three years into Israel's genocide in Gaza, the newly launched Gaza Genocide Center is building a permanent, verified record of it, starting with testimonies from survivors.

Its first, recorded in Gaza, is from Somaia El-Swerki. On Dec. 2, 2023, when she was 19, an Israeli airstrike destroyed her family's home in Gaza City. She lay trapped beneath the rubble for 21 days. Her mother died beside her on the seventh day. It's the first in a series of survivor accounts.

The center is led by historian @JehadAbusalim, who is originally from Deir el-Balah and is a PhD candidate in History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.

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[GOŁƊ @vidxn_]

NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:

"...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.

You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."

[TINASHE @Tinashe]

FREE PALESTINE ‼️‼️‼️

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Google Maps just updated its satellite imagery of Gaza ... exposing the utter devastation left behind by Israel’s genocide.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇮🇱 Israeli PM Netanyahu secretly met UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed on Sunday and asked him to deny that he warned Netanyahu of a major Hamas attack days before October 7, a source with firsthand knowledge told Haaretz.

Haaretz reported this month that bin Zayed spent 45 minutes on the phone with Netanyahu about ten days before October 7, explicitly warning that Yahya Sinwar was planning a major operation. Netanyahu reportedly said Hamas was focused on the West Bank and never briefed his security chiefs. The New York Times has since confirmed the warning.

Netanyahu calls the report an "absolute lie" and has threatened to sue. He also denies reports by The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal that Egypt's intelligence chief repeatedly warned him too.

[Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen]

A truly revelatory aspect of this film for me was how much of the technological architecture that carried out the genocide in Gaza was designed and implemented by members of Israel's liberal elite, not its far right fringe.

[Amal Mudallali @AmbMudallali]

One of UNGA’s best quotes this year.