Nils Simonsen

Mental health and international development. University Amsterdam

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has shared a disturbing concentration camp video depicting Palestinians being placed into a machine on a conveyor belt, entering overweight and emerging thin, distressed and crying.

The video comes as Ben-Gvir openly advocates to make already difficult conditions harsher for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.

He has boasted that “the good conditions in the prisons are over” and said he was “pleased” with the conditions under his policies.

Ben-Gvir has also championed the death penalty for Palestinians and shared footage of a facility being prepared for executions, saying that “the death row and hanging facility are also starting to take shape”.

His 50th birthday cake was decorated with a noose and the words “Sometimes dreams come true”.

Ben-Gvir is known for his extremist views, having in the past praised a mass murderer of Palestinians, while also calling for targeted killings in Gaza “every night” to “kill 30 or 40” Palestinians, and advocating the forced migration of Palestinians from Gaza.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

As Israel's election season begins, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir uses AI-generated dehumanizing imagery of Palestinians as campaign propaganda, boasting: “We promised, we delivered.”

The video depicts starving Palestinians being fed into a conveyor-belt machine in a disturbing concentration-camp-style scene.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Netanyahu appeals to Israeli voters by boasting that he manipulated Trump:

“it took a long time to get the US to come to its senses” but I finally got it to attack Iran due to my “influence” over its leaders through “1000 hours on American television”

[Bashar Zapen @BasharZapen]

Hey @itamarbengvir, why did you delete your video fantasising and promising Israeli concentration camps for Palestinians?

[Bashar Zapen @BasharZapen]

Germans will look you in the face and tell you there's no genocide in Gaza because Israel hasn't made industrialised concentration camps.

Then Israeli ministers advertise this:

[Matt Bradley @MattMcBradley]

We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years.

But yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu.

A group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious.

We’re all ok now - and Aida is out of the hospital - but this is just one incident among an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank.

Here’s out story on yesterday’s attack on Sunday Today on @NBCNews.

#Israel #WestBank @TODAYshow

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

This is so embarrassing for @Google and served as a reminder that billionaires will always side with authoritarians, because authoritarians will always protect billionaires at the expense of democracy and the working class.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I’m writing these words to you from inside Gaza City, and I say this with complete honesty: the reality here has become far worse than you can truly imagine.

Poverty has affected more than 90% of people here. Tents are packed tightly together in overcrowded camps; they have worn out, torn apart, and filled with holes, and they no longer protect us from the heat, cold, or rain. The area of the city where we can actually live is no more than 30%, and every day, homes that survived the war are being targeted.

Skin diseases are spreading frighteningly among children. Hospitals are out of service, and dental clinics have also started shutting down. There is an extreme shortage of water, foreign organizations have almost completely stopped operating, and cars are beginning to break down because of the lack of engine oil and spare parts. Education has completely collapsed, and the very limited supplies entering Gaza are nowhere near enough.

Life here is almost completely nonexistent. We live on promises, but nothing changes except that the suffering grows, needs multiply, and every day life becomes harsher and more complicated.

Gaza is not coming back to life… we are simply trying not to die.

[Emma Fourreau @emma_frr]

L’invisibilisation du peuple palestinien jusque dans les arts.

Même l’image de jeunes Palestiniens jouant au football au milieu des ruines de Gaza dérange.

Retirer la photographie de Jehad Alshrafi du Deauville Sport Images Festival est une décision indigne. Les organisateurs et la municipalité doivent s’en expliquer. Je leur ai adressé un courrier.

[Luke 'Ming' Flanagan @lukeming]

How Nazi Germany is expanding settlements in Europe in drive to reshape the continent.

[MSF International @MSF]

We are deeply disturbed by reports of the arrest of Dr Dima Mohammed Amin, a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology, from her home in the West Bank, Palestine. Dr Dima is the latest victim in Israel's systematic campaign of hunting down and detaining Palestinian medics.

She joins Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, Dr Iyad Al-Rantisi, Dr Mohammed Obeid and scores of others in arbitrary Israeli detention. They have not been charged with any offence; they were simply treating patients. That is not a crime.

We demand the immediate and unconditional release of all healthcare workers arbitrarily detained by Israeli forces.

[DER SPIEGEL @derspiegel]

Die deutsche Entrüstung über die radikalen Aussagen des israelischen Ministers Ben-Gvir ist scheinheilig. Er redet seit Jahren so – und spricht nur aus, was Israels Armee und Regierung längst tun. https://t.co/xCqinPdRWY

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

ANTI-ZIONISM PROTECTED BY UK LAW

We have set a binding legal precedent!

Anti-Zionism is now a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. Full stop.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal finally handed down its judgment this morning. The University of Bristol’s attempt to overturn my 2024 Employment Tribunal victory has been comprehensively dismissed. We won on every single count.

This is a public humiliation for the genocidal Zionist regime, whose assets in Britain bullied the University into sacking me and then dragged them into this futile appeal. Their legal strategy has collapsed. Their pressure campaign has spectacularly backfired.

Thanks to everyone who believed in me and supported me. This is a victory for the whole anti-Zionist movement.

A full statement will follow shortly.

From the River to the Sea
Palestine will be free! 🇵🇸

#DismantleZionism

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Don’t recall seeing a headline like this about Israel…

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Sky News reports that a 28-year-old Palestinian woman, six months pregnant and suffering severe internal bleeding, was being transported from Qaryout in the occupied West Bank to Rafidia Surgical Hospital in Nablus when Israeli soldiers stopped her ambulance at the Awarta checkpoint.

Video shows Israeli forces detained the ambulance crew for more than 30 minutes, subjected the bleeding, critically ill woman to a physical search, and ordered the driver to turn off the engine, cutting power to the vehicle’s onboard medical equipment.

During the forced delay, a nurse was forced to deliver the fetus stillborn inside the stranded ambulance. The woman was eventually allowed to proceed to the hospital, where doctors performed emergency surgery and saved her life. The baby could not be saved.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

If private equity is bad for football

Why is it ok for our NHS, social care, education, housing, energy, transport, water companies etc?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Let me be very clear: opposing the genocide in Gaza is not antisemitism.

[Martin Sonneborn @MartinSonneborn]

Free Ulm5!
Fast ein Jahr Untersuchungshaft, Handschellen und Verhandlung in Stammheim hinter Panzerglas - und das wegen Hausfriedensbruch & Sachbeschädigung beim Drohnenhersteller Elbit Systems... 5 Idealisten brauchen Unterstützung!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

FREE MARWAN BARGHOUTI

Free Dr. Abu Safyeh

Free all Palestinian hostages from the brutality of the Apartheid.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

Israeli soldiers executed a group of Palestinians lying face down in a field today.

But you would never know that from this headline which doesn’t even mention ISRAEL.