I just saw a 10-year-old Palestinian boy with half his face missing, after another Israeli attack on Gaza, and it’s not even a news story. It never stops being shocking.
The unthinkable has been normalized, the consequences will be devastating.
This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO
To make it clear.
This is the justice palace in Afrin.
The sign is written in Arabic and Turkish - carries the colour of Turkeyiye.
The Syrian Government and its supporters are perfectly happy with it - no protests nor demands that the sign be changed.
Despite the fact that Afrin does not have a Turkish population and that this sign is illegal according to Syrian law.
Yet in Hassakeh they are vowing military actions against the Kurdish people if the sign includes the Kurdish language.
It is not about the law, nor is it about *Syrian Sovereignty* - it is purely driven by hostile intentions towards the Kurdish people.
To figure out why Cole Allen did what he did, I obtained a copy of his resume and talked to his former friends. The portrait that emerges is unlike what the White House is saying:
https://t.co/UisQVHYnKh
A Danish citizens' campaign has been making the rounds this spring, claiming our main public service broadcaster's coverage of Israel is biased and even fuels antisemitism. They've put together 50 "case examples" they say prove it.
I went through all 50 side by side with the original coverage and ended up writing a 120‑page rebuttal.
The article and report are in Danish, but online translation will get you most of the way there. Link to the full report inside the article.
https://t.co/6cGiRDRfuZ
🚨Must read: Israeli soldiers with moral injury admit to unspeakable atrocities they committed in Gaza. They say it "reminded [them] of the Holocaust."
One says they put a Gazan civilian in cage, stripped him down, a soldier peed on him while the others laughed
Another emptied his machine gun into an elderly man with 3 children. When the commander came to the site, he spat on the bodies & called them "sons of bitches."
Another soldier says they encountered an unarmed Palestinian civilian who held his hands up. An Israeli soldier "came near him, waited a few seconds & just fired, without asking questions, without the suspect doing anything," then reported the incident as a "terrorist eliminated."
Another describes how IDF Soldiers "would just take pleasure in destruction" & stealing the belongings of murdered Palestinians.
He said soldiers would steal "electric appliances, gold necklaces, cash, everything" & "called it a blessing to steal from [Palestinians]."
NONE of those soldiers have ever been held accountable, despite their public confessions to their crimes.
The IDF refuses to even recognize "moral injury" as a mental disorder because it negates their propaganda slogan that "Israel has the world's most moral army." Instead, the IDF quietly calls it "identity injury" to imply those soldiers are to blame for feeling bad about murdering Palestinians.
Argentinian voter: “I voted for Javier Milei and now I can't afford rent. I’ll either vote for Milei again or I’ll leave the country, but I’ll still never vote for the socialists.”
Owning the left by owning nothing at all. This is what capitalist indoctrination does to a person.
Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney#Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE
I would not seek to provoke and alienate Europe if I were Israel. Europe has been very tolerant and supportive of Israel. But if Netanyahu wants to have a fight with Europe and be left with only the Trump government as their friends, this kind of rhetoric can surely achieve it.
Two Weeks Ago Marco Rubio: “The people that run this country [Iran] are radical Shia clerics, these are religious fanatics.”
Today Trump posts an image of himself as Jesus Christ
Every accusation is a confession...