John Simister

I teach economics at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). My research includes household spending, domestic violence, economic recessions. All views my own

[Rania @umyaznemo]

Yes, the US is 100% complicit in this genocide!

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

"Sky News just documented the establishment of a new illegal Israeli settlement on the outskirts of Jericho.

Settlers took over eight Palestinian houses. The IDF is guarding them. The Palestinian families fled amid violence and intimidation. Many of their homes have been demolished.

The settlers' goal? As their leaders admit, it's about 'dismantling the Oslo Accords-house by house and family by family.'

They don't even pretend. They just steal, threaten, and call it their divine right. And the Israeli army-the 'most moral army in the world'-is there to protect them.

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

#Palestine: For 10 days, Palestinians in Hebron, #WestBank have faced military raids, forced evictions and severe movement restrictions, making it harder for people to reach care.

The lockdown also forced our teams to suspend care. https://t.co/o4YcLUMn8e

[Janine di Giovanni @janinedigi]

Just returned from West Bank. It is the worse Israeli violence against Palestinians that I’ve seen in 31 years. Settlers acting with vicious impunity while the @IDF stands by or protects the settlers. This level of violence, total erasures of Palestinian communities can’t go on

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 Israeli settlers seize Palestinian homes near Jericho, say they are “dismantling the Oslo Accords”

Around 30 Israeli settlers, some of whom were armed, took over eight homes in Ein Al-Duyuk Al-Tahta on the outskirts of Jericho in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.

Activists warned that settlers could be reproducing the situation in Hebron, where armed Israeli settlers live in enclaves inside the Palestinian city, contributing to displacement and severe restrictions on Palestinian freedom of mobility

🔴 The operation near Jericho was organized by the Nachala settlement movement, which claims to have secretly purchased the properties.

🔴 Sixty-five Palestinian residents fled after settlers attacked them with stones, an activist told the Times of Israel. Residents said that Israeli forces subsequently blocked access to the area, leaving homeowners afraid to return.

🔴 Yisrael Gantz, head of the West Bank settler council, framed the move as an effort to dismantle the Oslo Accords, declaring: “Today we begin reversing the trend, dismantling the Oslo Accords through actions, house by house, family by family.”

🔴 Palestinian National Council Speaker Rawhi Fattouh condemned the takeover as “organized terrorism” carried out under Israeli government protection, charging Israel of encouraging settlement expansion and forced displacement.

🎥 @DalalIRIQAT / X

[ע'זאווי אל-נימר @ghazzawy_elnemr]

@the_andrey_x This is nothing compared to the real terrorism they spread whenever they enter a place. Watch this:

[בירייה @Miriambendavid]

@the_andrey_x Rights activists and whistleblowers faced attempted murder and were punished by anti-justice systems under a regime of global terror.
They exposed Tomer Liani, Shimon Atiya, and Nevo Nadelsky for crimes against humanity at the Yatta junction.

[בירייה @Miriambendavid]

@the_andrey_x Here are armed, unrestrained killers—an activist and independent reporter named Andrei. According to documentation and reports, Andrei—along with activist Adel Shoko and an American journalist named Jasper Nathaniel—was attacked in the village of Umm al-Khair, in Masafer Yatta.

[בירייה @Miriambendavid]

@the_andrey_x Approximately 93% of all investigation files concerning harm to Palestinians or human rights activists are closed without an indictment being filed—
citing reasons such as "perpetrator unknown" or "insufficient evidence," even in cases where the incidents were captured on camera.

[Karen Anderson @KarenAnder76485]

@the_andrey_x The world is waking up to the Israeli lies after decades.
These evil demons can't stop the world from knowing who they are and what they are.😈 They are certainly not God's chosen.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

We were nearly killed two days ago.

Settler-terrorist Tomer Liani bashed my head against the ground repeatedly, then the IDF and police blocked the ambulances and prevented hospitalisation.

All because we caught the settlers locking locking a gate to more than 20 Palestinian communities, trapping entire families.

We exposed Tomer Liani, Shimon Atia and Nevo Nadalski directly committing crimes against humanity in Masafer Yatta, and we were punished by the Israeli police and court for this.

Israeli state terrorism in the West Bank is at its peak, and the authorities are doing everything to keep Palestinian voices silent.

[John Simister @SimisterJ]

@haaretzcom please explain what happened to @the_andrey_x to your readers.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

We were nearly killed two days ago.

Settler-terrorist Tomer Liani bashed my head against the ground repeatedly, then the IDF and police blocked the ambulances and prevented hospitalisation.

All because we caught the settlers locking locking a gate to more than 20 Palestinian communities, trapping entire families.

We exposed Tomer Liani, Shimon Atia and Nevo Nadalski directly committing crimes against humanity in Masafer Yatta, and we were punished by the Israeli police and court for this.

Israeli state terrorism in the West Bank is at its peak, and the authorities are doing everything to keep Palestinian voices silent.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

Everyone and their mother watched us being attacked by a settler in the West Bank.

But when journalists get attacked, the attack itself is rarely the real story.

The real story is WHY they got attacked. What were they reporting on?

Here is what we were reporting on:

https://t.co/qvXjfL2wFk

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters at a school in Al-Mughayyir village,
northeast of Ramallah, suffocating students while disrupting their education.

[John Simister @SimisterJ]

Thank you @AbdulElSayed for your inspiring speeches.

As @SangitaMyska says, you gave a masterclass in how it's OK to be a Christian, a Muslim, a member of another religion, or an atheist - and still be a politician representing everyone.

Congratulations on being elected, Abdul.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

Abdul El-Sayed is a politician for the social media age. Watch him deconstruct the implicit bigotry in a question he’s asked for the benefit of his inquisitor, the audience, and the camera. It’s a masterclass.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Families in Gaza struggle to prepare for the winter while Israel bombs displacement camps.

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have arrested at least 45 people since Tuesday.

Al Jazeera’s Hala Al Shami has the latest.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

First the UK media buried its own role in Jason Arday’s death & then it white-washed it. This week, it celebrated it. Re-posting my piece from August because the de-humanisation continues. The UK press continues to fact check a corpse, while refusing to correct a single false claim
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[John Simister @SimisterJ]

@AOC it'd be great if you help progressive Democrats
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but you're busy!
Please record a YouTube video for each candidate you back: explain why voters should pick them e.g. Medicare for all.

Do you back these?
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[Team AOC @TeamAOC]

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[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Here's who should be panicking right now:

Those who argued Benjamin Netanyahu was the problem.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸💢 NEW: 6-year-old Tahani Mohammed Saeed Shalalfa was killed Tuesday morning, shot by Israeli forces in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, according to medical sources cited by the Palestinian outlet Shehab News.

She is the second young girl killed by indiscriminate Israeli fire in the area's displacement tents this week, after 7-year-old Jouri al-Soufi who was killed yesterday.

Ahmed Yassin Bseiso, a man, also died Tuesday of wounds from an Israeli strike on Thawra Street in central Gaza City several days ago, the report said.

Israeli forces also opened heavy fire on tents of displaced families in western Rafah and shelled the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza, Felesteen reported.

Credit: 🎥 Mohammed Emad al-Amour (Instagram) via EyeOnPalestine