Antonella Montanari

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

Se l'opposizione italiana si allinea al refrain «Trump è pazzo» rischia di sprecare la crisi della destra. Trump ha una logica cafona, brutale ma coerente: un Occidente come una specie di nuovo Patto di Varsavia, con USA egemoni senza ipocrisie e alleati subordinati. La ribellione di Meloni sull'Iran gli è sembrata un tradimento e per questo l'ha sfanculata: del resto, mezza UE aveva approvato o taciuto davanti una guerra criminale e scriteriata.

Ma il punto fondamentale è che quel tradimento di Meloni nasce anche da una società meno disposta alla guerra di civiltà. L'opposizione deve scegliere se fare passare l'idea che l'Occidente deve essere allineato dietro a gente "perbene" (l'Iran andava attaccato con gli Obama e i Clinton) o piuttosto la realtà di un atlantismo che non funziona più, approfittando della crisi di Meloni.

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

92.1% of Israelis believe that Iran emerged as the winner of the war.

82.9% believe that the military campaign against Iran has weakened Israel’s long-term security.

86% have a negative view of the outcome of the war and the U.S.-Iran agreement.

56.4% rate Netanyahu’s handling of the war as “poor” or “a failure.”

69.1% rate Donald Trump’s handling of the war as “poor” or “a failure.”

Only 10.8% consider it “good” or “excellent.”

(Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Agam Institute, June 17–20, 2026)

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

La funzione pubblica di Emanuele Fiano è quella di ostacolare, dall'opposizione di sinistra, qualsiasi riforma radicale della nostra diplomazia nei confronti di Israele. Perché, se cambiamento ci dovrà essere, ci devono pensare gli israeliani. Con questi argomenti spiega alla storica Paola Caridi che non bisognerebbe pensare neppure a delle sanzioni:

«Ditemi se hanno avuto effetto le sanzioni contro l'Iran. O le sanzioni contro la Russia: hanno avuto qualche effetto?... Scusami, ma tu di un assassino che non ha un verdetto di colpevolezza dici già che è un assassino?... Eh, mi dispiace, io sono garantista».

[Samuele Tofano @samgam75]

Ho passato molto tempo in una casa simile, di cari amici di famiglia a Jaffa, bellissima, con una magica corte interna (in foto). Poi un giorno mia mamma mi disse “ma certo, è una casa di palestinesi che sono stati cacciati!” (Sia chiaro, con enorme disappunto)

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.

Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.

That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.

The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

With respect, @eu_eeas High Representative @kajakallas, if Israel's Foreign Minister chooses rupture, reciprocity must follow. The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations is not a menu from which one selects convenience: it rests on mutual respect, equal treatment, and the discipline of diplomatic parity. Relations with Minister @gidonsaar should therefore be terminated.

Political prudence also points in the same direction. The question of suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement must now return to Member States @EUCouncil. If unanimity is not forthcoming, then the legal consequences of Israel's gross and systemic breaches of peremptory norms, protected by the Agreement and the constitutional order of the European Union, should be placed without delay before the European Court of Justice @EUCourtPress by the Commission.

A bent knee will not advance the two-State solution. It will not deliver justice and it will not bring peace. That posture has been tried, tested, and failed. It is time, long past time, for a different one.

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

“I was a doctor when they took me, and I am a doctor now that I have returned.

My commitment to my patients remains the one thing they could not take away.”

Dr. Ahmad Mhanna, former director of Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, shares his harrowing testimony of survival.

In the occupied Gaza Strip, Palestinian healthcare workers have been facing unprecedented dangers, with many detained by Israeli forces under conditions that violate international humanitarian law.

Amnesty International continues to document these systemic abuses, including Israel’s widespread use of torture and other ill-treatment against Palestinian detainees, while demanding the immediate and unconditional release of all those arbitrarily detained.

Read by: Max Porter

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

UN expert report finds death penalty is torture, calls for abolition of practice globally @UN_HRC. “It is not only a denial of the right to life, but also an affront to human dignity for those subjected to it and their relatives.” #HRC62

https://t.co/pOSjX1oN8F

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Israeli authorities are accelerating home demolitions and forced evictions of Palestinian residents in the Silwan district of occupied East Jerusalem.

New from HRW: https://t.co/kpIPRghnjP

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

Iran: Deadly drone strikes on Bahrain and Saudi Arabia may constitute war crimes – @Amnestyinvestigation.

The attacks on civilian infrastructure - most likely using Shahed drones - violated international humanitarian law

https://t.co/kCF52y4i2E

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

US and Iranian officials have signed a deal to end a months-long war that spilled into neighbouring countries, killing more than 6,000 people across the Middle East.

But to ensure a sustainable end to hostilities any deal signed must centre the protection of human rights, accountability, and justice and reparations for victims of crimes under international law.

https://t.co/PDuUTTWjGB

[Elizabeth Tsurkov @LizHurra]

Settlers driving ATVs provided to them by the Israeli government attempt to steal sheep from Palestinians near Hebron. The Israeli Army comes in and arrests... 6 Palestinians whose sheep the settlers tried to steal. This is the daily reality in the occupied West Bank.

[United Nations @UN]

"Palestinians in Gaza remain deprived of the basics that you would all demand for your own families: safety, shelter, clean water, healthcare, education."

@UNReliefChief tells Security Council civilians continue to be killed in daily airstrikes & gunfire. https://t.co/aLQCP2V0MB

[James Elder @1james_elder]

You’ve heard that there's a ceasefire in Gaza… that the worst is over.
How we wish that were true.

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

These figures do not include the more than ten thousand Palestinians who have disappeared, nor the almost uncountable and unfathomable number of indirect deaths resulting from the complete destruction of everything that sustains life in Gaza.

[roqayah chamseddine @roqchams]

This week, I'm reporting from south Lebanon where I've surveyed the villages of Zibqin, 'Abba, Jibchit, Harouf, Nmeirieh, Marwanieh, Dweir, and the southern city of Nabatieh.

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

Justifying the cutting off of water and electricity and the creation of living conditions leading to the destruction of Palestinians as a group. Operating surveillance flights on Gaza and sharing intelligence while the Israeli army was carrying out massacres. Sending weapons.

[chantal melonì @chamelons]

Time for Europeans to listen to what Israeli journalists write about Israel themselves

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

"The dehumanization of Palestinians has become completely normal in Israeli public and political discourse," explains Yuli Novak, director of B'Tselem, describing the process that led to the genocide in the Gaza Strip. She calls on the international community to confront this reality of ongoing genocide.

Novak spoke on a panel with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Dr. Noura Erakat, Dr. Josh Ruebner and Rebecca Abu Chedid, in the @Netroots_Nation annual conference for progressive activists, organizers, and policymakers in the US, held this year in Philadelphia.

@theIMEU