Colter Louwerse

PhD in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter. Adjunct Professor @goUFV.
My website:

[Colter Louwerse @ColterL]

🧵1/13 Over the last two years, I have compiled into a table investigations by six human rights organizations and fact-finding bodies into no less than 37 separate incidents of Israeli strikes in Gaza since October 2023. Together, these strikes killed at least 1573 Palestinians.

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

Guess what they did in 1948... (from book by Adam Raz, Loot)

[Yezid Sayigh يزيد صايغ @SayighYezid]

Open access to "The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries," by my amazing mother, Rosemary Sayigh, who turned an impressive 99 this month. Published in 1979, it went thru several reprints & translations and remains a landmark book:

https://t.co/TgcYEI9M2J

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Inconceivably evil.

[Colter Louwerse @ColterL]

A second contractor for the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation blows the whistle on Israeli forces murdering Palestinian aid seekers: "If you document something that is wrong, then you should put it out there ... I’m exposing war crimes.”
https://t.co/hBnrHyvcsL

[OR Books @orbooks]

GAZA APOCALYPSE by MOUIN RABBANI. A leading analyst dissects the Gaza genocide and its global ramifications.

@MouinRabbani

Pre-order here: https://t.co/cIOg4Sp2Ft

[Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @CJPME]

The “Israel Office Director” of @CIJAinfo, Canada’s largest Israel lobby, writes in the Jerusalem Post that Israel should “redraw its borders” in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, seeking the “long-term military control of critical territories alongside diminution of hostile civilian populations.” This is an endorsement of de facto annexation and ethnic cleansing. Is this CIJA’s official position on how Israel should treat its neighbours?

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An extremist group in Washington, DC has claimed credit for the terrorist attack on the Iranian bridge, promising further attacks on civilian infrastructure if its demands aren't met

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Moron Maher explains that Egypt invaded Israel in 1956 and 1967, Lebanon invaded Israel in 1982, and Iran invaded Israel in 2025 and 2026. Only in America.

[Colter Louwerse @ColterL]

The war on Iran is expected to conclude in days not weeks.

The war on Iran is expected to conclude in weeks not months.

The war on Iran is expected to conclude in months not years.

The war on Iran is expected to conclude in years not decades.

The war on Iran…

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is completely false.

I've just spoken to the Red Cross (@ICRC).

They confirmed that they do not - ever - release information about the health of detainees.

This pro-Israel account is spreading a lie.

Please share this, and never trust anything this account tweets 👇

[Colter Louwerse @ColterL]

This article coulda been one sentence: "We are calling Israel's invasion of Lebanon an invasion because that is what you call it when a country invades another country".

[Abby Sewell @sewella]

The @AP is now calling Israel’s military actions in southern Lebanon an invasion. Here's why we made that decision:
https://t.co/YeiamT7C1k

[Colter Louwerse @ColterL]

Important piece on Israel’s targeted killing of Gaza’s journalists.

[SourcedPress @SourcedPress]

“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”

— Hossam Shabat, killed by Israeli forces, March 24, 2025

https://t.co/pWpoTD6qgW

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

The decision to drop charges against IDF soldiers accused of raping a male Palestinian prisoner is immoral and depraved. It also collapses the defence against genocide charges made by Israeli lawyers at the Hague. Irfan Chowdhury and I write for MEE:

https://t.co/EaECFdsp9x

[Colter Louwerse @ColterL]

Arafat was interested, but when the Palestinians insisted that the agreement conform to international law Clinton literally yelled at them: “This isn’t the Security Council here. This isn’t the UN
General Assembly. I’m the president of the United States.”

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

This is literally the dumbest war in human history. No hyperbole.

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

Israel is preparing to deploy the “Gaza model” in Lebanon in plain sight — mass ethnic cleansing, annihilation of entire cities and villages, long-term occupation, and perhaps eventually Israeli settlements and annexation.

My latest in the Guardian.

https://t.co/7nQHOIO0cW

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

So Israelis are the victims because they kill 20 people a day

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Important thread on the practices of the only state in the world that holds right-to-rape marches, and where cabinet and parliament members riot in support of rape as a right.
Israel, the Epstein state.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Since 2024 British and other European air forces have repeatedly taken to the skies of the Middle East and spared no effort to intercept drones and missiles heading towards Israel.
While airborne it has never occurred to these forces to intercept a single Israeli drone or missile that they knew was targeted at Palestinian and other Arab civilians.
Tells you all you need to know.

[Colter Louwerse @ColterL]

Source: https://t.co/FgXbTTs738

[Colter Louwerse @ColterL]

When Hegseth said “no stupid rules of engagement” would restrain the US war machine, he meant it.

Already before launching an illegal war on Iran and bombing a school full of children, Trump and co. systematically gutted the military’s civilian harm miligation measures.