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🎥 Juliet Lamont, an Australian documentary filmmaker and Gaza flotilla activist, speaks to Double Down News about being raped by Israeli soldiers after the aid vessel she was aboard was intercepted earlier this month.

Lamont says soldiers pulled down her trousers and underwear and that an Israeli soldier forcibly penetrated her vagina while she was in detention. She was among more than 450 activists seized when Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud flotilla in international waters. Organizers say at least 15 detainees reported sexual assault or rape while in Israeli custody.

Full interview is linked below.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

After winning an Emmy, Al Jazeera’s @joshrushing dedicated the award to colleagues and journalists killed by Israel in an emotional speech.

@AJFaultLines documentary on Kids Under Fire won ‘Outstanding War or Violence Conflict Coverage’ at the 2026 News Emmys.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎓 “Peace be upon you. From the students of Harvard, to the youth of Dahieh, to the sons of Nabatieh, and the people of Tyre.”

Harvard Medical School graduate Leen Ezzeddine, from the southern Lebanese town of Arabsalim, used her graduation speech to remind her peers of the students in Gaza and southern Lebanon who do not benefit from the same “arbitrary luck and circumstance” that she and her classmates have enjoyed.

Ezzeddine said her presence at that podium was “evidence of what survives the border, the bomb, and the exile,” and of “what becomes possible when people the world has tried to erase are allowed to live.”

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The 22-minute monologue that begins this show offers clear, compelling proof that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.

It's then followed by a harrowing interview with Dr. Maynard and the atrocities he saw in Gaza.

Anyone denying the value of this is either a fraud who doesn't believe what they say about the Israeli/US genocide, or is very dumb, or both.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

At some point every Holocaust museum will be forced to include an exhibit on what’s happening in Gaza right now. It’s only a matter of time. Dr. Nick Maynard of Oxford University medical school has been a witness to the genocide.

[MuslimMatters @MuslimMatters]

Eid Mubarak to everyone. May Allah bring peace to the world and justice for the oppressed.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Eid Mubarak!

Today as we honor Prophet Ibrahim, Eid al-Adha reminds us that sacrifice is not a burden. It is an opportunity to see ourselves as part of something larger. To extend a hand to those who need it most.

I am honored to be New York City's first Muslim Mayor and I am determined to lead through solidarity. Together, we are working to ensure every New Yorker can afford the groceries, housing, and child care they need.

Our solidarity is our strength. Eid Saeed, New York.

[Dr. Yasir Qadhi @YasirQadhi]

The best day of the year - the day of ‘Arafah is here! Don’t let it pass without taking advantage of it: do your Adkhaar, read Qur’aan, and most importantly, make a LOT of Du‘aa.

[MuslimMatters @MuslimMatters]

Glenn destroying typical Israeli hasbara.

[Dr. Yasir Qadhi @YasirQadhi]

These days are almost over, so do not let what remains pass like ordinary time. Fill them with fasting, dhikr, Qur’an, dua, repentance, charity, and every good deed that brings you closer to Allah.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It's hard to pick one incident as "peak woke," but a leading candidate:

At the U of Washington, adult Jewish students wept and begged for a peaceful pro-Palestinian rally to be stopped, and Fox's Hannity demanded all colleges ban such protests because it creates discomfort:

[JM News Network @JMNewsNetwork_]

This is one of the oldest known footages of the Hajj, lasting only seven minutes yet vividly capturing the atmosphere of that era.

Filmed in 1928, nearly 100 years ago, it shows pilgrims traveling from Jeddah to Mecca, scenes of the holy Kaaba, and the arrival of King Abdulaziz overseeing the organization of the Hajj.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW

A website is DOCUMENTING Israel’s crimes with GEOLOCATION, dates, categories of crimes, and footage of the incidents themselves.

One click and you can see EXACTLY what Israel did.

An enormous digital archive built for ACCOUNTABILITY.

Link: https://t.co/TWKgXJ41NC

Direct Link: https://t.co/qWkrhx1FT7

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

May it be 'a lightning rod moment'.
In the past 2years+ the State of Israel has institutionalised the 'right to torture' Palestinians and by extension (it seems) those who defend them. BenGvir is the public face of an entire system that deserves to be investigated/prosecuted.
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[Abier @abierkhatib]

“They took my pants and grabbed me by the genitals and told me, ‘Let’s see how resilient you are”

Sadistic bastards.

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape.

Shot with rubber bullets at close range.

Tens of people’s bones broken.

While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages.

Don’t let up. Statements of condemnation are not enough. This moment must be seized by people worldwide to apply the necessary pressure to end this colonial violence. Pressure officials. Escalate boycott and divestment tactics. Organize direct action.

“Please, if this can be a lightning rod moment, let it be that … join us wherever you are and rise up so that we can end this occupation, end this colonialism, end this violence.”

Free Palestine NOW.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

X is teeming with appalling accounts of brutality by Israeli guards - including sexual assaults - against flotilla volunteers abducted in international waters.

BBC entirely ignoring it. Leads on Green candidate in Makerfield standing down over social media posts. Staggering.

[TRT World @trtworld]

The fatal San Diego attack on May 18 killed 3 worshippers. But it did not happen in a vacuum. We look at how an online ecosystem of anti-Muslim hate across the West — from the very top and across the media — has provoked harassment and growing deadly violence against Muslims

[Israel Genocide Tracker @trackingisrael]

An Israeli unit's "homecoming" party featured a display of their well-documented annihilation of southern Lebanon's villages, met with cheers and laughter from crowds of soldiers, their relatives, and family members.

It is a scene impossible to see anywhere but Israel.

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them.