Barış Bilenser

Publisher @ Year Zero

[Barış Bilenser @barisbilenser]

@EugeneSmarts @Reuters They are not caught in crossfire they are killed on purpose by Israili army to prevent their genocide to be heard and documented.

[Barış Bilenser @barisbilenser]

@Reuters You are a disgrace. Let me do your job. “Israel assassinated Lebanese journalist after sending her series of dead threat messages.”

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

🚨BREAKING🚨Israeli forces are now issuing direct death threats to Lebanese journalists on WhatsApp as well as besieging them.

Al-Akhbar correspondent @AmalKhalil83, who has been documenting the devastation across southern Lebanon, received these messages from an Israeli number ([phone]):

“We know where you are… we will reach you… leave if you want to keep your head on your shoulders.”

First message:
“Alright, my lady, you are moving from one village to another, but you still haven’t gone to enough funerals or hospitals. There is a lot of grief & sorrow behind that smile you try to show on Twitter. Let’s see what your answer will be… Is your house still standing, Anisa (Miss)? I hope so?”

Second message:
“We know where you are & we will reach you when the time comes. Even though you are not important to us, in the end we will take everything into account. I suggest you flee to Qatar or somewhere else if you want to keep your head connected to your shoulders :)”

This is not intimidation. This is the IDF issuing an explicit death threat to a journalist for covering their crimes.

At the same time, Israeli forces besieged Amal al-Khalil & journalist Zeinab Faraj in al-Tayri, blocking the Red Cross & Lebanese Army from reaching them.

They were in a delegate vehicle when a drone strike hit a vehicle behind them, killing two people. Both journalists were trapped at the scene.

Amal contacted the Red Cross before her phone died. Her last message confirmed she was still safe.

Rescue teams still cannot reach the two besieged journalists, Amal al-Khalil & Zeinab Faraj. They are just 500 meters away, but the road has been cut off by an Israeli strike, according to Red Cross paramedics.

This is targeting journalists in real time. This is a crime.

Pure state terrorism against the press.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Lebanese journalist @AmalKhalil83 murdered by I$rael 💔

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Hoy, con el presidente Xi Jinping he constatado que el vínculo entre España y China sale reforzado tras este viaje oficial.

En un mundo cada vez más incierto, España apuesta por una relación UE-China basada en la confianza, el diálogo y la estabilidad.

Debemos seguir avanzando hacia un orden multipolar construido desde el respeto y el pragmatismo.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Israel has wiped the Lebanese village of Naqoura off the map.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

The German police have no issue with this abomination of a placard. But they don't hesitate to arrest and beat up anyone who campaigns for equal political rights from the river to the sea!

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

Israel has now seized a larger percentage of Lebanon's total landmass than Russia has taken from Ukraine since its 2022 invasion. The latter was immediately met with international uproar and unprecedented multi-sectoral sanctions while the former is barely even mentioned.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Gaza toddler released from Israeli custody with suspected torture wounds

https://t.co/cROc1imkkr

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

Hats off to whoever authored this tweet

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Is the world really going to have to burn because the USA can't impeach a president?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Please sign my petition on getting Palantir out of our NHS - now at over 110,000.

https://t.co/oqsZdtN3pZ

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

It's an illegal attack. There is no evidence Iran was about to strike Israel, or about to acquire nukes. There is zero justification under international law for Israel bombing Iran.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

NEW | Instagram has removed the verified account of Gaza slain journalist Saleh al-Jafarawi, who had 4.5 million followers.

Archived snapshots of his page on the Wayback Machine, the largest public internet archive, also appear to have been wiped or disabled, raising concerns about digital erasure of Palestinian documentation.

Al-Jafarawi, known for his frontline reporting on the Gaza genocide, had previously faced repeated censorship. He was killed yesterday by an armed group collaborating with Israel.

Observers warn that these developments may signal “a new phase in efforts to erase evidence of Israeli war crimes from the internet.”

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Israeli-Aligned Billionaires Seize TikTok in Battle for U.S. Narrative Control

The White House has announced that the forced sale of TikTok will be finalized this week. The new ownership led by Larry Ellison - the largest individual donor to the IDF - will take control of U.S. user data and the algorithm which the White House says will be "retrained".

Ellison, who made his fortune developing Oracle - a database system he originally built for the CIA - already controls CBS, Paramount, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon (which makes kids shows) as well as Channel 10 in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. Ellison is also expected to finalize control over Warner Bros. Discovery (including CNN, HBO and the Discovery channel) before the end of 2025.

Even before the forced sale is finalised, censorship of TikTok content critical of Israel, including of the deal itself, has reached extreme levels as the platform moves to align with its prospective new owners. Fox – a Murdoch asset - is also seeking to join the Ellison consortium, a move that could enable cross-promotion between Fox and TikTok, further tightening the Israeli-aligned information bubble.

Disapproval of what Israel is doing in Gaza has risen to 60% of the US population, nearly double the approval rate of 32%.

The U.S. still has over three years of Trump left. Israeli-aligned Jewish billionaires control OpenAI, Google, Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, Palantir, CBS, HBO, and most of Conde Nast (Reddit, Vogue, The New Yorker, Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair) as well as numerous Hollywood studios, regional papers and radio stations.

Europe, meanwhile, remains largely absent, offering little real competition in the information space. Its one real success story? Telegram, which it managed to comprehensively alienate after France arrested its founder, supposedly for not handing over enough user data.

Will the EU and other U.S. allies align with the “Israelified” TikTok algorithm, or attempt to create a politicised alternative of their own?

Decentralised alternatives like Keet and Nostr offer strong resistance to censorship but are still young. Larger platforms like Telegram and Rednote carry serious risks of censorship, including eventual sell-off to other interests. For users the sweet spot may be to use both. One for political reliability, the others for a (politically temporary) audience.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Updates from the Global Sumud Flotilla: more boats are joining the mission, strengthening the fleet on its way to Gaza

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Israel has just bombed Doha. Yesterday they bombed Tunis in attack on the flotilla. Last week they murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen. These are brazen acts of war. What other country gets away with all of this?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Palantir CEO Alex Karp laughs about profiting from killing Palestinians using AI.

He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'.

But there is only one terrorist here, Palantir are war criminals.

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

Incredible that the Palestinian resistance in Gaza is still fighting like this. Sorry but if you think that's anything less than heroic you're insane.