Christopher Alam

Journalist

[Christopher Alam @_chrisalam]

It’s online now 🙌🏼 Check out my short story COFFEE ON THE STOVE published by the incredible ⁦@RustedRadishes⁩ https://t.co/3ioG5tDTMl

[American Community Media @AmCommMedia]

For our latest episode of SoundOnSight, Journalist and photographer Manuel Ortiz speaks with ACoM’s Peter Schurmann about his current reporting mission in El Salvador. According to Ortiz, conditions have grown more dire. President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang violence has resulted in a police state targeting the nation’s poorest people.

Listen to the full episode in https://t.co/zGGRqPdzoN

[Christopher Alam @_chrisalam]

My latest for EMS: Mahmoud Khalil Deportation Revives Century of Citizen Rights Violations https://t.co/w4XGz2pZ4w via @EthnicMediaSvc

[Younis Tirawi | يونس @ytirawi]

Israeli military assassinated 5 Palestinians journalists last night while they were carrying out publicly & openly their journalistic work, using a term never before coined in the history of Israel’s military operations until 31.07.24

The term “combat propaganda”.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Cannot emphasize enough what an absolutely atrocious display of “journalism” this is.

60 mins has been running some of the most insidious propaganda for this genocide for 15 months but this is something special. I don’t gamble but I��d bet they were approached for this story, that it ‘landed’ in their laps vs an actual organic investigation.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

"When you enter Gaza, you are God": Inside the minds of IDF soldiers who commit war crimes / Prof. Yoel Elizur
https://t.co/6E6MSe51av

[Tez @tezilyas]

If Israel is bombing Lebanon, then the ceasefire hasn’t held has it???

Or is the ceasefire only broken if the other side retaliates???

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Wow…watch StateSpox refuse to say Lebanon has a right to defend itself.

@willy_lowry: You said under the ceasefire Israel retains right to defend itself, does that right transfer to Lebanon

Patel: I don’t think there’s a desire from Israel to attack Lebanese people

Lowry: It still killed 12 Lebanese—

Patel: I’m not trying to minimize the impact on Lebanese civilians…Israel, if it is threatened, has the right to self defense

Lowry: Does Lebanon then not retain that same right, say Israel is the aggressor—

Patel: We’re going down a slippery slope of hypotheticals

Lowry: It’s not that hypothetical

Patel: It is…I think these situations are not totally comparable but I really appreciate you trying

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Hey Trump voters.

Hate to break it to you - but here’s what actually happened on Tuesday.

Watch. Bernie explained it 20 years ago.

[UNIFIL @UNIFIL_]

UNIFIL statement:

Early this morning, peacekeepers at a UN position in Ramyah observed three platoons of IDF soldiers crossing the Blue Line into Lebanon.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

I was illegally detained by the Israeli Army with four other journalists. Here's what happened:

On October 8th 2024, at approximately 01:00 PM, a car with five journalists (an American journalist, a Palestinian journalist, a Russian-Israeli journalist, a Canadian-Israeli videographer, and an Israeli photographer) was stopped at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank. The checkpoint separates Areas C and B, all the journalists are allowed to be on both sides by Israeli occupation law. They were held for an hour and a half in their car, while the IOF collected their documents. The IOF searched the car, going through personal items. The photographer later discovered that her underwear was removed from her bag, placed on top of their belongings.

The soldiers then illegally requested that the journalists hand in their phones, and when they refused, the soldiers pointed a gun at one of the journalists, hit him with their hands and the barrel of a gun, then dragged him out of the car and slammed him onto the concrete. When lying on the ground, they pointed 2 guns at his head. The rest of the journalists exited the car and the military raided it, confiscating phones, cameras, and personal items.

The journalists were told to sit in the sun, in 35°C heat on the side of the road. After an hour, the Palestinian journalist began to feel faint and requested an ambulance be ordered. The soldiers refused and didn’t let anyone move to the shade, shouting insults and Israeli nationalist slogans. After two hours, the soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded the journalists. The Israeli photographer had a panic attack and started throwing up, and after stating she was Israeli, was allowed to remain without a blindfold. The Palestinian journalist was left in the sun for two more hours, then he was released. In the meantime, the other four journalists were stacked on top of each other into a military jeep, and taken to a military base. There they were held blindfolded and handcuffed on the floor for two hours, while being insulted and interrogated by the soldiers. The soldiers told the female Israeli photographer that she should have been raped by Hamas.

At approximately 04.00 PM the IOF passed the illegally detained journalists to the police, who took them to the police station. The two male journalists remained blindfolded until arriving at the Maale Adumim Shai Police Station in an illegal Israeli settlement 1 hour later. At the station, the journalists were forced to be photographed in front of an Israeli flag with a nationalist slogan on it, while the officers were insulting them. A journalist was threatened with physical violence for smiling.

The journalists were interrogated in regards to their political affiliation and work, refused the right to see a lawyer, denied food and water until many repeated requests (the two male journalists were denied food completely). The two female journalists were released without charges at 11:00 PM. The Russian-Israeli journalist was released at midnight. The American journalist was held for three days and was released Friday, October 11th. The army confiscated two phones and one camera that they have yet to return.

This marks a precedent for IOF treatment of Israelis and internationals, but this is the standard procedure for kidnapping Palestinians across the West Bank.

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[Christopher Alam @_chrisalam]

My debrief from today on @KALW Crosscurrents: 'Golden Gate 26' protestors have first hearings in court https://t.co/jWdVdzh1zz

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Heated moment in State briefing

@cosgrove_iv: This admin has financed a genocide in Gaza for the last year and every day you’re up there denying it

Miller: There’s plenty of places in Washington you can give a speech

Liam: People are sick of the bullshit here, it is a genocide

[suhauna hussain @suhaunah]

I’m sick. Unimaginable to have to keep reporting as your colleagues are slaughtered around you. we have failed palestinian journalists

[Christopher Alam @_chrisalam]

March has settled at Dolores Park, speakers continuing

[Christopher Alam @_chrisalam]

Right now: large rally at 16th and Valencia protesting one year of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and recent attacks on Lebanon. #SanFrancisco #breaking

[Christopher Alam @_chrisalam]

Just spoke to a SFPD officer on motorcycle ahead of the march. I asked him if they intended to contain the crowd at any point.

“Not at all. We are here to defend free speech, they’re within their rights.”

As I type this they are turning again and going down 18th