Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social)

Legal scholar. Write on Nat Sec, Intl Law & the MENA region. Non-Resident Fellow Quincy Institute. Author, Future of the Arab Spring.

[Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) @MsJamshidi]

My latest law review artcle "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to US nat'l security both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against unis over the last 2 yrs /n https://t.co/KLWuHLYhvx....

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

How do you say Schadenfreude in German? 😜

[Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) @MsJamshidi]

Only took the House 3+ months to pass a War Powers Resolution that will get vetoed by Trump. Pardon me 4 not being impressed by this election year effort to curry votes. The Democratic Party is not opposed to this war; they just want Trump to pay the cost https://t.co/Hcd4Ux0Baj

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

“This politicization of the death toll number will undoubtedly cast a shadow over... the events of Jan. 8-9.”

Law professor @MsJamshidi takes an in-depth look at the death toll of Iran’s protests & explains why it could undermine accountability for the violence that took place.

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

The Global Sumud Flotilla has released a press release on the 11 (correction) sumud land convoy activists: "Eleven unarmed civilian volunteers, comprised of doctors and humanitarians, remain unlawfully detained in Libya."

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

The ten sumud land convoy activists are still in custody, and they include civilians from Spain, Poland, the USA, Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Tunisia, and Italy.

This should be way more prominently in the news.

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

There's no public outcry about the unlawful detainment of the flotilla land convoy activists, because eastern Libya has nothing to do with Israel? Hmm, let's look a little closer at eastern Libya's warlord leader and his relationship with Israel.

Oh

https://t.co/iA9RLpFGsv

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

They want to distract you with stories about Trump yelling at Netanyahu while, in the real world, Israel is destroying southern Lebanon.

[Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) @MsJamshidi]

🐊 😭

[Adla Massoud @Adlamassoud]

🇺🇳Two Middle Eastern countries still haven't served on the UN Security Council: Saudi Arabia and Israel

[Sina Toossi @SinaToossi]

👇Indeed, it's an undeniable fact that the US uses airports in allied regional states to support its military operations, including against Iran.

Look no further than Ben Gurion Airport, which is now a major hub for US military aircraft, much to the frustration of many Israelis.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

An Israeli military reservist blows the whistle on Sde Teiman, saying an investigative Israeli tv news program failed to cover the systematic torture there. Captives from Gaza were starved, operated on without anesthesia, many left in body bags.
https://t.co/NiKJmVLZe0

[United Nations @UN]

Five new non-permanent members have been elected to the UN Security Council.

Austria
Kyrgyzstan
Portugal
Trinidad and ​Tobago
Zimbabwe

The countries' two-year terms will begin on 1 January 2027.

https://t.co/GG0pBn9swn

[Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) @MsJamshidi]

When Dems say they oppose financial “aid”
to Israel, they are just aligning with the new Israeli talking points which seek to shift the framework from “aid” to “partnership.” The money will continue to flow to Israel just in different form.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

Lmao Netanyahu rubbing salt in the wound, thanking Congress for merging the US and Israeli militaries.

Where sovereignty USA?

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇰🇼 Kuwait’s Ministry of Defense says drones struck Terminal 1 at Kuwait International Airport, causing “significant material damage” and injuring multiple people.

In an official statement, military spokesman Brig. Gen. Al-Otaibi blamed “Iranian aggression” for the attack and said Kuwaiti forces remain on high alert.

Iran has not said it targeted the airport. The statement from Kuwait is the first official acknowledgment that a site was hit in the escalation. CENTCOM had said earlier that the U.S. intercepted all attacks directed at Kuwait and Bahrain.

📸 Circulating images of the damage:

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔹 Abraham Accords states overtake U.S. as buyers of Israeli arms

Arab countries that signed the Abraham Accords, a series of normalization deals that bypassed the Palestinians, bought more Israeli defense equipment than the United States in 2025, according to Israeli Defense Ministry figures published Tuesday and reported by Haaretz.

Israel’s arms exports surged 30 percent year-on-year to a record 55.25 billion shekels ($19.2 billion), with exports to Abraham Accords countries rising to 15 percent of total sales, jumping fivefold in two years, while Europe’s share fell sharply to 36 percent from 54 percent a year earlier and Asia-Pacific’s share climbed to 32 percent.

The figures show Israeli defense exports have more than doubled in five years and now account for about 12 percent of Israel’s total exports, with roughly 90 percent of sales generated by Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This was on May 28 during a conference in an israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Savage terrorists!!

Netanyahu:
we are now at 60 percent of the Gaza Strip territory. We were 50, and we moved to 60. My directive is to reach…

Audience:
100! 100!

Netanyahu:
We can start gradually, first to 70. Let’s start with that.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"To this day – nearly six months after the events of Jan. 8-9 – the allegation that the Iranian government killed 30,000-40,000 protesters remains wholly unproven or meaningfully corroborated," writes @MsJamshidi, who examines the numbers & the sources:
https://t.co/eMyMc8Ze4L

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

Finally, some good news.

[Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) @MsJamshidi]

@AdHaque110 Love how angry she looks 🤣

[Adla Massoud @Adlamassoud]

🇺🇳Results of voting:
Zimbabwe - 182
Trinidad - 181
Austria - 131
Portugal - 134