Shawintala Banwarie

Journalist with special focus on South Asian minorities // Factchecking far right in Bangladesh

[Emine Uğur @overlistener]

Als je jarenlang getrouwd was met een van de grootste aanjagers van dit “debat”, is het echt onmogelijk om hier verbaasd over te zijn.
Waar ze verbaasd over is, is dat het ook háár begint te raken en niet alleen Ali de asielzoeker en Hasan die elke vrijdag in de moskee bidt.

[Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arash_tehran]

If you truly love Israel, try to fix it instead of embarrassingly trying to deny its crimes and shut down and shout down its critics.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Tonight in Jaffa, the Rana Choir — Muslim, Christian, and Jewish women singing together — performed at the 21st Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Ceremony.

This annual ceremony brings together bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families who have lost loved ones in the conflict.

[BharatKeMandir @bharatkemandir]

The Barabar Caves in Bihar are the oldest surviving rock-cut caves, dating back to the Mauryan Empire - 3rd century BCE

[Shekar Iyer @SHEKARSUSHEEL]

Tributes to Asha bhosle
Bambai ka Babu 1960
A catchy racy song by Asha for Suchitra Sen. Music SD.

[Emine Uğur @overlistener]

@MonaKeijzer @D66 1) Sinds wanneer is het martelen en mishandelen van kinderen niet politiek?
2) Israël is een staat en joden zijn niet verantwoordelijk voor de wandaden van die staat. Dat u joden gelijkstelt aan Israël en kritiek op Israël als kritiek op joden beschouwt is pas puur antisemitisme.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

This is what Israeli settlers do to Palestinian olive groves in the West Bank. And they never face consequences.

Spare us the hypocrisy.

[Shawintala Banwarie @Shawintala_Devi]

@IhabHassane Most persecuted Christians are in North Korea

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis__]

“I am personally proud of the holocaust of Gaza, and that 80 years from now, they will tell their grandchildren what the jews did"

May Golan. Israeli Minister of Social Equality.

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

Brilliant speech by Ghazal Diani, speaking at a rally of Iranians Against Imposed War.

She says, ‘People are obsessed with Iranian women wearing bikinis on the beach, as if this were the most urgent concern of highly educated, ambitious, and capable Iranian women.’

[Keren Hirsch @KerenHirsch]

‘Dat zijn verhaal zeker niet op zichzelf staat. Het beeld dat hierin naar voren komt is glashelder: door het hele land voelen Nederlandse Joden zich steeds minder veilig op straat.’

https://t.co/pzHt8FFKi9

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

The world has completely forgotten Gaza.

But Gaza is still in ruins. Mor than 1.5M still displaced. Thousands still injured, waiting for a chance to receive treatment. 2 million people with no basic necessities.

The news moved on. Gaza didn’t.

[Mustafa Akyol @AkyolinEnglish]

As a reformist Shiite scholar, @Mohsen_Kadivar has bravely opposed the Iranian regime for decades

Now he warns:

"The war will only strengthen religious fundamentalism around the world, and it has already weakened democratic forces within Iran."
https://t.co/QDndOipIsJ

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

Under Ben Gvir's law, if a Palestinian terrorist kills an Israeli, then they will face the death penalty.

But if a Jewish terrorist kills a Palestinian they will not face the death penalty.

How is that fair?

Surely the law should be equal for both sides?

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Israeli Defence minister says:’All homes in villages near ​the ⁠border in Lebanon will be destroyed, according to the model of Rafah and Beit ⁠Hanoun ​in Gaza, in order ​to permanently remove threats near the border to northern residents’ in Israel.

[Āyudhika @Ayudhika1310]

It's disheartening 💔 to know that many Hindus don't even know which Navratri just went by. We are letting our heritage slip away.

These aren't just festivals, they weave us into one powerful community. The moment we live our traditions, we'll feel the oneness we are missing.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Remember the rule: nothing justifies October 7th but October 7th justifies everything.

🤷🏽‍♂️

[Uzay Bulut @bulutuzay_]

I write in my latest @GatestoneInst:
https://t.co/YBCkcFdlM9
Christians in Syria are once again under attack by Islamic groups affiliated with the country's jihadist regime, headed by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader also known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani.

Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the terror group led by al-Sharaa, has, since it overthrew the Assad regime in late 2024, increasingly subjected Alawite, Druze and Christian civilians to targeted killings, arbitrary arrests, abductions, sexual violence, destruction and seizure of property, forced displacement, and other atrocities.

HTS clearly has genocidal intent towards religious minorities in Syria, who need their own defense forces and local autonomy. Western nations urgently need to provide direct aid.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump @WhiteHouse should never have allowed HTS and al-Sharaa – who justifiably had a $10 million bounty placed on his head by the U.S. State Department – to use Syria to entrench Sunni Islam by jihad (holy war). Al-Sharaa should be replaced at once. @StateDept https://t.co/YBCkcFdlM9

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog responded to a letter from Diaspora Jewish leaders about Israeli settler terrorism in the West Bank with a letter that is, frankly, disgraceful in its framing.

While he acknowledges “acts of violence,” he avoids naming who committed them—Israeli settlers. Instead, he relies on vague language, stripping the phenomenon of its political and legal reality. Yet in the same letter, he has no hesitation in explicitly naming “Palestinian terror.”

This double standard is telling. When Palestinians commit violence, it is clearly defined and condemned as terrorism. When Israeli settlers carry out repeated attacks on civilians, it is softened into “violence” and wrapped in moral language, without direct accountability.

A response that cannot even name the problem—Israeli settler terrorism against defenseless Palestinians—is not a serious attempt to confront it.

[Shawintala Banwarie @Shawintala_Devi]

@AkyolinEnglish @Ruud_Koop_mans With all respect; but how can a genocide on Christians seen as suppressing rebellion?