Hosna Sheikholeslami

[Equator @Equatormag]

“Witnessing, or looking and weeping, did not stop the atrocities.”
In a brilliant essay for our first print issue, Isabella Hammad traces the motif of “weeping over ruins” in Arabic poetry – and the impossibility of mourning in Gaza, where destruction is relentless and ongoing:

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

❌️💧Meta's closed loop cooling system at a new data center in Wyoming unlawfully released a rare bacterium into a city's wastewater system, contaminating the reuse system, prompting months of cleanup, its permit revoked, and a suspension on more data center discharges. 🧵

[Based Meth Enjoyer @methadvocate]

One more thing. Today is a mournful day for me.

12 years ago, my cousin, Mohammed Abu-Khdier, was kidnapped from his home in East Jerusalem by three Jewish settlers. He was beaten with tire irons, doused in gasoline, forced to drink gasoline, and then burnt alive.

I’ll never forget his death, I remember the night when his body was discovered, Mohammad’s mother called my mother. We were both in the living room, and I could hear the poor woman shrieking and crying in grief from across the room.

What is worse, is not just the murder, but the humiliations that the Jews brought to the family: within a week, Israel police had ‘leaked rumors’ to Israeli media that Mohammad was actually killed by his own family members for supposedly being a homosexual. Both claims being obviously untrue, and were very humiliating to his family.

Then, during his funeral, IDF detained another one of his relatives, Tariq, an American citizen from Florida. They dragged him into an alley and stomped this poor 15 year old kid unconscious. We know about this because there is recorded video of them doing it, and Tariq was even interviewed by George Stephanopolous.

I will never forget, I will never forgive. I wrote an article about his death on my substack two years ago, I hope you’ll read it, it’ll be below.

May God have mercy on your soul, Mohammed.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

This report is devastating in its detailing of the function of sexual violence faced by Palestinian women, men and children. You will not find any major self-described Feminist or Feminist / women’s organization talk about this.

Our Feminist ‘icons’ and orgs are so deeply intertwined with imperial violence that women who are victimized by our bombs and tax dollars simply do not exist, they are simply an inconvenience. I’ll never forget their silence over the last three years (and sometimes, their directly complicity).

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Palestinian footballer Salim Al Ashqar, 31, was killed yesterday by Israeli army fire in southern Gaza.

He had married five months earlier and was expecting his first child. He was the only son among seven sisters.

The number of athletes killed since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza has now risen to 1,009.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

compare the 2014 headline below to this unforgettable headline from Nov 5, 2023

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

NEW: The Board of Directors at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets. Israeli, American, and Ukrainian journalists who work for state-funded outlets or are embedded with the military will remain recognized as journalists, of course.

The move was catalyzed to appease the right-wing Zionist rag The Free Beacon, which has repeatedly accused Palestinian and Lebanese journalists of being undercover militants or used their political opinions or affiliations as justification for their killing by the IOF.

This is a racist scandal of massive proportions for everyone involved, and it makes a mockery of the purported mission of the organization. It is absolutely abhorrent that the organization’s resources are wasted on this cowardly witch-hunt, at a moment in history that is the deadliest for journalists, especially in Palestine and Lebanon.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

Read @UssamaMakdisi on the Lebanon surrender agreement:

“Israel sees two models for Lebanon: one is the West Bank model, featuring a neutered PA-style “government” that is totally subordinate to Israeli will, but financed by others to carry out “security” on behalf of Israel, as is the case in the contemporary West Bank where Israeli settlers and soldiers routinely terrorize Palestinians and while Israel methodically annexes ever more Palestinian land. The other model is “Gaza,” by which Israel means its campaign to obliterate and ethnically cleanse the south of Lebanon after having carried out genocide in Gaza. The irony is that no matter how many Lebanese think that their future is different from that of the Palestinians, history, geography, fate, and geopolitics always trump antihistorical fantasies of separatism.”

https://t.co/RrAXJ0eo2e

[Glumcore @theprimalplot]

Another essential read from Farah El-Sharif who asks us to reflect on what Islam means to us in this moment of deep crisis, what it means to be Muslim as we witness the genocide of Muslims in Palestine and Sudan, and the breakdown of the global order. https://t.co/7yXIa8X502

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

Wow. A Lancet study says Elon Musk will have killed 14 million people by 2030. Lancet is the world's top medical journal.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Israel’s assault on Palestine and Lebanon has reconfigured how children understand the world.

https://t.co/gMnWJcG3fN

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Veteran journalist Mujahid Abu Mufleh, before and after his detention in the Israeli Auschwitz camps.

[lucile desmoulins ☭🔻 @lucile_darling]

this is so fucking insidious. there’s literally NO good reason to have a concealed camera connected to the internet available for general use. they will absolutely be training AI with the feedback, too. evil invention from evil people — i wish you nothing but the worst

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The sentences handed down today are a huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression. Everyone should be learning about this case. https://t.co/XLki7OBuID

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Three years with international journalists banned from Gaza and Gaza journalists hunted and killed

[Avantika Tewari @avantikatewari]

“Now?” How else could algorithmically dynamic pricing ever have been possible?

Read also: @veenadubal on Algorithmic Wage Discrimination.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

This video shows the truth I have been talking about, a truth that shocked the world and was reported by international media.

The young man was sitting in a café in central Gaza, in an area considered one of the safest in the city.

Despite being about 10 kilometers away from the front lines, he was struck by a direct bullet while sitting with his father in the café, and he died instantly during an ordinary moment of his life.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

The visa rejection rates in the US for African football fans have been off the charts for the World Cup.

This is a scandal of epic proportions for a sports tournament that prides itself on being global and multicultural. This story is not getting nearly enough coverage.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Wasn’t sure a new low was possible, but we’ve reached it in Gaza: daily killings, continued bombardment and forced starvation - with zero media coverage. Complete normalisation of genocide.

[Niki نیکی @niki888]

In the WC excitement, this devastating story has not gotten much attention. A mother rescued after seven hours under rubble only to find out that her two children and husband had died in the bombing of Isfahan, now dead herself from the grief.