Taarik 🇵🇸

Dad. Code detailer. Petrolhead.
🇵🇸 انا دمي فلسطيني

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Hello. Some of you mean well and I always appreciate and reflect on your counsel. But not always. For months, @Dischem 's Mark Saltzman (who has now deleted his account ( called me a bitch. I did nothing. I assumed he was another angry troll. I didn't know who he was until he outed himself and talked about his mommy's money.

Last week someone accused me of taking CR17 money. They retracted and apologized. Previously it's CIA, Stellenbosch Mafia, USAID and mysterious "handlers." I let it go so many times. So when you advise me to be restrained you must know I HAVE BEEN restrained. But there are days when things must be addressed. Today is one of them.
Presumably @Dischem is familiar with Mark's vocabulary and they know that he exercises his freedom of speech by calling people who disagree with him "BITCHES" for opposing Israel. I do hope that unlike Mark, they don't demand that their philanthropic interventions are conditional to South Africans supporting Israel. We don't have to. But I can live with the son of the founder of @Dischem and a major shareholder calling me a bitch. Repeatedly. But don't accuse of taking any money that I have not earned. I have also lent my name, time and access to worthy courses. Including for the some of the people who now call me antisemitic. The difference between me and them is that I don't think contributing to OUR South Africa must be transactional and conditional on them bending to my will. In conclusion, please do call me a bitch any time you want. But do not lie about serious things. I won't play along.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Disgraceful!

The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering.

It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov

And Trump just bombed it...

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Terrifying reality check. Al Jazeera confirms the US and Israel have bombed over 760 schools and 350 health centers in Iran. They are intentionally obliterating mental health hospitals and residential markets. The scale of these war crimes is absolutely sickening.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

If a monkey or a penguin had done this, the internet would be overflowing with feelings of pity...

[Jenni @hashjenni]

So let me get this straight: Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz is ,unfair’ but blocking oil shipments to Cuba in order to collapse their whole country is what? Fair?

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

“the fourth school in 6 days”

Read that again.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is just one trick media use to manufacture consent for war.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The most deadly attack on a medical facility in world history might be Bill Clinton's 1998 attack on the Al-Shifa medicine factory near Khartoum.

Fourteen cruise missiles hit the plant, turning what had been one of the most important pharmaceutical buildings in Africa into rubble.

Although not a hospital, the destruction of Al-Shifa was vastly more lethal than any other attack listed, as crucial antibiotics, antimalarial, and diarrhea medications were now non-existent in the country.

The German Ambassador to Sudan estimated the death toll of the strike as "many tens of thousands".

Virtually nobody in the United States has heard of the incident.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Let’s stop calling it settler violence. It is settler TERROR. These criminals roam the West Bank with impunity, and the world stays silent.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The difference is by design.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Against Iranian schoolgirls?

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

Arab regimes intercepting Iranian missiles above their cities and risking the lives of their own citizens to protect Israel and US bases is one of the most disgusting scenes we will keep witnessing in this war

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Why is Israel allowed to compete in the Olympics, but Russia is not?

Those who dictate which countries are permitted to play in the games are the same nations that are complicit in Israel's atrocities. It is not just Israel, but a Western alliance that sustains the genocide.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

You can know everything there is to know about Israel's depravity and you will still discover new crimes every day.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

The situation is so bad that even the BBC got a headline right

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The most moral army in the world™

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Forensic probe finds Israeli forces shot Gaza medics at point blank range, fired over 900 rounds
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A joint investigation by Forensic Architecture and Earshot—published by Drop Site News—has concluded that Israeli forces fired more than 900 bullets at a convoy of clearly marked emergency workers in Tal al-Sultan, southern Gaza, killing 15 aid personnel during a two-hour assault on 23 March 2025. The victims included eight members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, six Palestinian Civil Defense workers, and one UN staff member. The findings, based on audio analysis, video evidence, satellite imagery, and survivor testimony, indicate that several aid workers were shot at close range, some from as little as one meter away.

The reconstruction shows Israeli soldiers positioned on elevated ground with a clear line of sight to ambulances and rescue vehicles with emergency lights activated. At least 93 percent of the recorded gunfire was directed at the convoy, with the majority of shots fired within five and a half minutes and at least eight shots fired at point blank range. Investigators say troops advanced toward the vehicles while shooting and carried out what they described as execution-style killings. The bodies were later discovered in a mass grave, and the vehicles were crushed and buried under sand.

Israel’s military initially issued conflicting accounts before concluding in an internal inquiry that the incident resulted from operational failures and poor visibility, rejecting allegations of execution and recommending no criminal charges. The report’s authors and legal experts say the evidence points to serious violations of international humanitarian law and reflects a broader pattern of attacks on protected medical personnel amid ongoing concerns over accountability.

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

Life in Gaza:

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

Russia remains banned from participating in the Olympics for being at war with Ukraine.

Israel is allowed to participate after killing nearly 73,600 people in a genocide, around 20,000 of whom are children.

Can someone explain this to me?