Nancy Okail

President & CEO @CIPolicy. Ex-convict, Scholar, Tango dancer. Advocate: Justice, Human Rights, Peace & Security. @Stanford, @SussexUni. Fmr ED @TimepDC

[Nancy Okail @NancyGEO]

“This verdict should not be seen as the end of the chapter, but rather as a beginning of many effective reforms. I still remember the words on the wall of that cage.” My Oped in the NYT about the happy news of our acquittal from the #NGOtrial today. https://t.co/KjgOvHyIsq

[Rep. Ro Khanna @RepRoKhanna]

This is a simple question. Do we do more for Israel now or less? I introduced an amendment to strike 224 because I am for the American people calling the shots, not Netanyahu. I am for Team America.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The House voted to end the war in Iran, as four Republicans sided with Democrats in a striking rebuke to President Trump. https://t.co/Oeeox0iq9q

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Thomas Massie and I are not done working together. Section 224 of our defense bill means to integrate our military with Israel's military.

As a senior member of the Armed Services committee, I am introducing an amendment to stop financing and enabling war crimes.

[Negar Mortazavi نگار مرتضوی @NegarMortazavi]

Told @democracynow that the U.S. and Iran are close to the finish line of a peace deal. But the ceasefire has been messy, and there is still a last minute risk that diplomacy could be derailed and war could resume.

WATCH: https://t.co/bo2SOCaecp

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨Israel added to UN blacklist of perpetrators of sexual violence, a huge blow to r@pe deniers

It takes a substantial amount of evidence of systematic & widespread sexual violence for the UN Secretary General to add a gov or entity to this blacklist

Guterres has been avoiding calls to add Israel to this UN blacklist list for years, despite an abundance of cases. So the fact he accepted to add it now speaks volumes about the amount of sexual violence cases the UN has documented!

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

Progressives need strong organizations to help build and mobilize our movement. But they cannot do that if those organizations facilitate impunity rather than accountability.

Democrats Can’t Avoid a Reckoning With Gaza.

My piece in @thenation https://t.co/1OhS0kbuTN

[Senator Peter Welch @SenPeterWelch]

I agree with @ChrisVanHollen.

The status quo on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is unacceptable. Netanyahu’s government is burying the two-state solution with U.S.-funded weapons and a blank check.

The next Democratic President should recognize a State of Palestine and stop providing offensive weapons to Israel until Israel agrees to a plan to end the occupation.

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

When Trump launched his “Board of Peace”, @CIPolicy’s @NancyGEO warned it was “another unserious Trump vanity project [that] will not produce stability.”

Today, Israeli war crimes in Palestine and Lebanon continue as the Iran war destabilizes the region.

https://t.co/7CKMlW2NuN

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

Strong piece from @VanHollenForMD on the need for Democrats to course correct on Israel-Palestine. https://t.co/7kN8dsKJkI

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

Sen. @ChrisVanHollen makes clear that Biden officials who enabled Israeli atrocities in Gaza should no longer have a role in US foreign policymaking — and that it matters to voters: https://t.co/AlUZwDXGHk

Sen. @brianschatz made a related point last week: https://t.co/SDqhDHde6q

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

An insanely generous offer has been on the table for 24 years that would get 56 Muslim countries to immediately normalize relations with Israel if it would only give Palestinians 22% of our land

Every single Israeli government rejected it! It’s called the Arab Peace Initiative

[Negar Mortazavi نگار مرتضوی @NegarMortazavi]

Spoke to Australian TV @abcnews about US-Iran peace talks, last minute change of rhetoric by Trump, and the narrow path to diplomacy to end the war on #Iran.

[Negar Mortazavi نگار مرتضوی @NegarMortazavi]

Spoke to @LBCNews about the possibility of a US-Iran peace deal, contents of the deal and some sticking points, the importance of Israel and Lebanon, and ultimately: Who won this war?

[Sina Toossi @SinaToossi]

I was on BBC News last night discussing the reported US-Iran framework deal.

It should be judged against the war aims Trump himself publicly set out.

Lebanon will likely be the most fragile front of any deal, while Iran is determined to retain “management” over Hormuz transit.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Khanna on DNC autopsy: Did you notice it doesn’t mention Gaza? This party needs to start telling hard truths. One of those truths is that Israel committed a genocide—that we shouldn’t give a single dollar to commit that genocide. That was an issue in 2024, it will be an issue in 2026 and 2028. So we need another report on the impact of Gaza on 2024.

[POLITICO @politico]

‘A huge omission’: Everyone is baffled by the exclusion of Gaza in DNC autopsy https://t.co/zujHGonGwN

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

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

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@SenSanders: "Thomas Massie—somebody who I have very little in common with politically—was defeated by $9M in contributions from AIPAC and $7M from Trump megadonors. And what was the great crime that Massie committed?…He refused to be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump."

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 JUST IN — Thomas Massie concedes the race:

“I would've come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede.”

“And it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.”

That line is going to detonate across Washington.

Massie just turned his concession speech into a missile aimed directly at the flood of outside money and foreign policy influence that consumed this race.

The most expensive House primary in U.S. history ends with one final message:

This wasn’t just Kentucky voting.

This was the political establishment making an example out of someone who refused to fall in line.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The Senate voted to advance a resolution to block President Trump from ordering further strikes on Iran.

The 50-47 procedural vote was a breakthrough for Democrats, but it still faces hurdles before it can force Trump to end the war. https://t.co/yZokQ3bqRT