Danny Swagman

No1 supporter of L. Hewitt and the Australian Davis Cup Team. Aussie at heart. Tweets are my own, unless stolen. #teamhewitt

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

It’s hard to recall a period with higher stakes, or a greater mismatch between the demands of the time and the small-mindedness of those in power. https://t.co/QG25KEY5ca

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

The final nail in the coffin of genocide denial:

UN Commission of Inquiry concludes on reasonable grounds that Israel have committed and is continuing to commit the following actus reus of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

As I attended the CoI press conference today in Genf, someone asked me if I’m "happy" that they confirmed my findings. Absolutely NOT. I wish I had been wrong. I wish there had be no genocide still ongoing, 18 months after my report, with neither end nor accountability in sight.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH THE FULL 3min!

UN emergency coordinator @TFletcher says people should read the IPC report about the Israeli-made famine in Gaza "in sorrow and in anger."

"Be in no doubt that this is irrefutable testimony. It is a famine that we could have prevented."

It is a famine "that strips people of dignity before it strips them of life. That forces a parent to choose which child to feed."

"It is a famine openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war."

It is a famine "caused by cruelty, justified by revenge, enabled by indifference, and sustained by complicity."

"My ask, my plea, my demand to Prime Minister Netanyahu: Enough!"

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

You should watch the whole discussion between @ChrisVanHollen and Green Beret Anthony Agular, but this part really shocked me.

This is how Agular found out that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's client was the IDF.

At one of the distribution sites in Gaza, some starving kids had been lifted up onto a berm to save them from being crushed. An Israeli officer tells the GHF soldiers to get them down - or he would. Agular tells him to calm down, so the Israeli official radios the nearby IDF position to shoot the kids.

Agular intervened and prevented the murder.

One of his superiors then took him outside and told him to never say no to the "client" again...

[Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב @bartov_omer]

My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. https://t.co/gmQtbhrj48 via @NYTOpinion

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

https://t.co/1SZFnbVZKZ

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Oh my goodness—how did I miss this until now?

The timing of Israel’s assassination of Dr. Marwan al-Sultan, the director of the Indonesian Hospital and one of Gaza’s top cardiologists, was no coincidence. It happened on the very same day Gaza: Doctors Under Attack was scheduled to air on Channel 4 and Zeteo.

This is the same documentary that the BBC had commissioned and cleared for broadcast back in February 2025—before abruptly pulling it on June 20.

Dr. al-Sultan’s daughter, Lubna, said the missile struck the only room where her father was staying.

It seems like the world still does not understand.

[Afif Aqrabawi @AjAqrabawi]

I just want the lawless, senseless murder of Palestinians to end.

[Tarek Baé @Tarek_Bae]

„Holocaust“, das fordert ein regierungsnaher israelischer Moderator wortwörtlich bezüglich Gaza. In einem mittlerweile gelöschten Statement stellt der bei Channel 14 arbeitende Fernsehmoderator Elad Barashi die Forderung auf, alle Menschen Gazas sollten „ohne Gewissen und ohne Mitleid“ einfach „abgeschlachtet, zerschlagen, eliminiert und zerschmettert“ werden. Gemeint sind, so Barashi selbst „Kinder und Eltern, Frauen und Mädchen“.

Es gäbe in Gaza „keine Unschuldigen“, an ihnen allen müsse ein „Holocaust“ verübt werden. Dass es in Gaza „keine Unschuldigen“ gäbe, ist eine weiterverbreitete Propagandaposition unter Israelis, Zionisten und Israelfanatikern. Israels Präsident Isaac Herzog betonte bereits am 14. Oktober, das für ihn „keine unschuldigen Zivilisten“ in Gaza existierten. Die Propagandisten Karoline Preisler teilte im März auf Instagram einen Beitrag, in dem es heißt „es gibt keine unschuldigen in Gaza.“ Auch der ehem. CDU-Kanzlerkandidat und heutige Israel-Lobbyist Armin Laschet sprach im Februar von „sogenannten ‚unschuldigen Zivilisten‘“.

Elad Barashi wurde für seine offene Menschenverachtung nicht entlassen. Inhaltlich deckt sich die Forderung nach einem Holocaust mit dem Profil des Senders Channel 14. Dort ist Premierminister Benjamin Netanyahu häufig zu Gast. Der Sender gilt als ausgesprochen regierungsnah und vertritt die Positionen des israelischen Regimes.

Elad Barashi lässt keinen Zweifel daran, von wem er sich für seine Vernichtungsfantasien inspirieren lässt: „Gaskammern, Zugwaggons und andere grausame Todesarten“. Für alle Menschen, jung und alt, sei „ein grausamer Tod bestimmt“, so Barashi.

Das Wort Holocaust wiederholt er mehrere Male. Das Foto zeigt Barashi mit dem israelischen Minister für Nationale Sicherheit, Itamar Ben-Gvir.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Things that have been normalised:

- Killing children
- Killing journalists
- Killing medics
- Killing aid workers
- Starving people to death
- "Aid massacres"

The world doesn't turn back from here.

This is now our reality.

[Danny Swagman @_TeamHewitt]

Right. Israel’s self control in Gaza will be studied for generations to come

[🇺🇸🌸Pink Lady 4 America🌸🇺🇸 @pink_lady56]

@normposter Because Israel has self control and Iran does not.

[Israel Defense Forces (Parody) @IsraelDefenseF]

We are the victim.

Always.

Remember that.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

Australian Singer Iyah May lost her Job for refusing to change these lyrics.

You’re a hero Iyah 👏🏼

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

What an Orwellian world we live in. Israel launches a clearly illegal and unprovoked attack on Iran, in violation of the U.N. charter, and with no imminent Iran attack in sight, or any Iranian nukes developed, and its western allies come out to say they reaffirm *Israel’s* right to defend itself, not Iran’s. The aggressor’s, not the victim of the illegal attack.
This, I guess, is the west’s ’rules-based international order.’

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Israel is an existential threat to every human on the planet.

[Danny Swagman @_TeamHewitt]

For the same reason Israel has the right to defend itself even before it is attacked while no other country has the right to defend itself when it is attacked by Israel. #thezionistlogic

[Norm Cruise @normposter]

Why can Israel have nukes, but Iran cannot?

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

@IDF "Have you tried surrendering & releasing the hostages?"

[Danny Swagman @_TeamHewitt]

Sounds very much like the opening chapter of Orwell‘s „1984“… and it’s all true

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Refresher on the rules for discussing Israeli wars:

Rule 1: Israel is never the aggressor. If Israel attacks someone it's either a response to an aggression that happened in the past, or a preemptive attack to thwart an imminent aggression in the future.

Rule 2: History automatically restarts at the date of the last act of aggression against Israel. If someone attacks Israel it was completely unprovoked, because nothing happened before the attack on Israel.

Rule 3: Anything bad that Israel does is justified by Rule 2. This is true even if it does things that would be considered completely unjustifiable if it were done by a nation like Russia or China.

Rule 4: Israel has a right to defend itself, but nobody else does.

Rule 5: Israel never bombs civilians, it bombs Bad Guys. If shocking numbers of civilians die it's because they were actually Bad Guys, or because Bad Guys killed them, or because a Bad Guy stood too close to them. If none of those reasons apply then it's for some other mysterious reason we are still waiting for the IDF to investigate.

Rule 6: Criticizing anything Israel does means you hate Jewish people. There is no other possible reason for anyone to oppose acts of mass military slaughter besides a seething, obsessive hatred for a small Abrahamic faith.

Rule 7: Nothing Israel does is ever as bad as the hateful criticisms described in Rule 6. Criticisms of Israel's actions are always worse than Israel's actions themselves, because those critics hate Jews and wish to commit another Holocaust. Preventing this must consume 100 percent of our political energy and attention.

Rule 8: Israelis are only ever the victims and never the victimizers. If Israelis kill Iranians, it's because the Iranians hate Jews. If Iranians kill Israelis, it's because the Iranians hate Jews. Israel is an innocent little lamb that just wants to mind its own business in peace.

Rule 9: The fact that Israel is literally always in a state of war with its neighbors and with displaced indigenous populations must be interpreted as proof that Rule 8 is true instead of proof that Rule 8 is ridiculous nonsense.

Rule 10: Muslim lives are much, much less important to us than western lives or Israeli lives. Nobody is allowed to think too hard about why this might be.

Rule 11: The media always tell the truth about Israel and its various conflicts. If you doubt this then you are likely in violation of Rule 6.

Rule 12: Unsubstantiated claims which portray Israel's enemies in a negative light may be reported as factual news stories without any fact checking or qualifications, while extensively evidenced records of Israeli criminality must be reported on with extreme skepticism and doubtful qualifiers like "Hezbollah says" or "according to the Hamas-run health ministry". This is important to do because otherwise you might get accused of being a propagandist.

Rule 13: Israel must continue to exist in its current iteration no matter what it costs or how many people need to die. There is no need to present any logically or morally grounded reasons why this is the case. If you dispute this then you are likely in violation of Rule 6.

Rule 14: The US government has never lied about anything ever, and is always on the right side of every conflict.

Rule 15: Israel is the last bastion of freedom and democracy in the middle east and therefore must be defended, no matter how many journalists it has to assassinate, no matter how many press institutions it needs to shut down, no matter how many protests its supporters need to dismantle, no matter how much free speech it needs to eliminate, no matter how many civil rights its western backers need to erase, and no matter how many elections its lobbyists need to buy.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

The safety of the entire world is now threatened by one violent, racist, colonial regime that is on trial for genocide in the ICJ and led by a deranged lunatic who is indicted by the ICC for crimes against humanity. Every drop of blood spilled now is the predictable product of those in the West who created this Frankenstein monster and built a wall of impunity to protect it, those in the Middle East who bowed down to the beast in hopes of appeasing it and its ruthless imperial master, and those across the globe who have refused to stand up to the monster’s serial crimes. The world needs to get up off its knees and hold the regime accountable, before it’s too late.