Fouzi Slisli

Professor of Literature and Theory, but really just an eternal student. The questions are more important than the answers. RTs do not mean endorsements.

[Fouzi Slisli @Fouzi]

The depth, the simplicity… what a combination!!

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Settlers attack a Bedouin family east of the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah, after establishing a settlement outpost nearby

Just look the age of these kids, from top to bottom this society is pure definition of genocidal and racist society

[Fouzi Slisli @Fouzi]

It’s more accurate to say that “a Hadith attributed to Muhammad teaches that …” the nuances there are not slight…

[GabrielSaidR @GabrielSaidR]

Folks often say: the Bible speaks of God creating the first humans in His own image (Gen 1:26), but the Qur'an does not. That is strictly true...but Muhammad does teach that God created Adam in His image in a hadith.

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

The greatest threat to #Syria’s socio-political transition are #subversion campaigns trying to sow discord, polarize and mobilize the public via weaponized narratives

🧵A thread on the external information warriors wanting to see #HTS fail in building a national consensus 1/

[The War Journal @TheWarJournal]

As Bashar al-Assad fled Syria to Russia, a Shia Iraqi TV presenter warned pro-Iran Shia militias that their days are numbered in Iraq and slammed them for sending poor Iraqis to war while they became billionaires. He says soon they will be forced to flee back to Iran.

[Fouzi Slisli @Fouzi]

The execution book of Sednaya Prison has 29000 case of execution recorded.

[Bassam Barabandi بسام بربندي @BASSAMVA]

*🛑 كتاب موت سجن صيدنايا: عثر مواطنون سوريون على الكتاب الذي سجل فيه 29 ألف حالة إعدا�� في سجن الأسد المرعب، في محاولة للعثور على معلومات عن ذويهم.

Syrian citizens found the book that recorded 29,000 cases of execution in Assad's prison.

[كولومبوس 🐪 @Columbuos]

أيقونة اطفال سوريا #حمزة_الخطيب ، رحمة الله عليك وعلى جميع موتى المسلمين.

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

NEW -- #HTS just issued a statement on "Chemicals in #Syria," declaring "full readiness to cooperate with the international community in.. monitoring weapons & sensitive sites."

This comes after concern chemical weapons may have been seized south of #Aleppo.

[Monika Borgmann @MonikaBorgmann]

A glimpse into the horrors of the Syrian Gulag...
With #LokmanSlim

[ADAM @AdameMedia]

This picture is 10 years old…

[Norman Finkelstein @normfinkelstein]

“The insinuation that Jewish donors secretly plotted to influence government operations is an all too familiar antisemitic trope that the Washington Post should be ashamed to ask about, let alone normalize in print” -- From a 3,000-word article in today's Washington Post ("Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show") documenting how a cabal of billionaire Jewish supremacists have plotted to crush academic freedom and freedom of speech in our country in order to abet the Jewish Supremacist State's genocide in Gaza. AM YISRAEL CHAI! SIEG HEIL!

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

Centrists argue the presence of radicals and extreme proclamations, even if they are not at all characteristic of/speaking for the vast majority of protesters, is enough to discredit the student protests.

By that standard, there simply has *never* been a legitimate protest.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Did you know that in the 1970s & 1980s, Israel looted one of the most important Canaanite sites in Gaza, which also was linked to ancient Egypt? The following thread tells the story of how Israeli archaeologists and military looted historical treasures from Deir el-Balah. 1/15

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Since October 7, the UN "has recorded 573 attacks by settlers in the West Bank..., with Israeli forces accompanying them half the time. At least nine people have been killed by settlers, and 382 have been killed by Israeli forces." https://t.co/C3XbOwjywO

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Posting an image with protestors holding signs to ‘stop the genocide,’ while arguing that’s hostility towards the genocidal entity, perfectly sums up the sheer delusion and entitlement of Israeli society

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

If you read anything today, let it be this. This is Israel.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Growing up in France I was always surrounded with people of North African or Levant origins but it took me living in other countries during my adulthood - countries actually respectful of the diversity of cultures in their midst - to realize just how uniquely intolerant France was.

Our education system, our institutions, basically enforce one culture which we call "universalist" but which is fundamentally at odds in myriads of ways with the culture of those six million people. Six million people of whom we know absolutely nothing: we're not told their history (or only the parts that clashed with ours, told from our vantage), we don't know anything about their traditions, and their language not only isn't taught at schools but speaking it is frowned upon, seen as a lack of "integration".

School basically teaches these kids "our ancestors the Gauls", which would be laughable if it wasn't so depressing... The result is that you end up producing generations of kids who feel they don't really belong - they're like "wait a minute, our ancestors weren't actually the Gauls..." - but who also progressively lose their culture of origin, since they, alongside everyone else, aren't taught anything about it.

And as is painfully obvious with Macron's geopolitics, politically speaking they're largely disenfranchised. In the eyes of the French state THE big victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are the Israelis. Macron has organized national pro-Israel tributes almost on a monthly basis since Oct 7 but not a single one for the Palestinians. What message does this send to these six million French citizens?

I could add a million other things, like our media ecosystem that routinely accuses these people of being the root of all of France's problems, or the yearly "laïcité" (secularism) national debate we have around this or that Muslim practice not being "compatible with the values of the French republic", which is a clear dog whistle.

Having now seen how things are done so much better in other countries - particularly Asian countries like China, Malaysia or Singapore - I'm amazed at the lack of wisdom of the French way. It almost feels viciously backwards and ignorant. The Asian approach typically is that it's foolish to try to make people change their culture, it's better to respect them as they are, but in return ask for the same amount of respect back. In short "I won't try to teach you that your ancestors are the Gauls, I won't try to suppress your language and your traditions and make you adopt mine, live the way you want BUT don't ask me to change my ways either. Let's all live together in harmony, respectful of our differences."

For instance here in Malaysia where I am writing these lines there's a large "native" Malay Muslim population, as well as a large Chinese Malaysian and Indian population. And all their most important festivals are national bank holidays: Eid, Chinese new year and Deepavali! We just celebrated Chinese new year and the whole country stopped for it, with fireworks everywhere in the streets.

Same thing in China: if you belong to one of the 56 recognized ethnic minorities of the country, you are bathed in your own culture, you learn your own dialect, wear your ethnic clothes and China is extremely careful to celebrate this diversity at any opportunity they get (just watch the latest CCTV Chinese New Year gala).

Of course there are still some tensions between communities in these countries, some resentment on specific matters, but it's immensely more harmonious than in France, in fact it's not even remotely comparable.

Not sure where France goes from there. Insanely the trend seems to go in exactly the wrong direction: with even less respect for difference, more Le Pen-like hardline, more foolish "integration" which I'm afraid can only fail. The only wise way, I think, is mutual respect instead of suppression.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

"Israeli forces bombarded the southern Gaza border city of Rafah with airstrikes, killing multiple civilians.“ But "'there is no place for the people to run to. Everyone from all other parts of Gaza ended up in Rafah. I don’t know where to go,'” says one. https://t.co/kOvYGBct6j