cynical optimist

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

If you left an empty seat for each person you’ve killed in Gaza, the stadium would be empty.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

You killed 567 Palestinian football players in the past three years

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Sixteen Palestinian doctors held in Israeli torture prisons, rights group says

16 Palestinian doctors are being held in Israeli prisons in isolation, denied family visits, and subjected to starvation, medical neglect and torture, the Palestinian Center for Prisoners Advocacy said, calling it retaliation against medical staff who stayed at their posts during the war on Gaza.

The group highlighted the cases of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who has faced abuse, isolation and threats, and Dr. Marwan al-Hams, who has been denied medication and family contact as his health deteriorates. It also noted that the whereabouts of some doctors are deliberately concealed.

The doctors:

1.Dr. Ahmad Shehadeh
2.Dr. Mahmoud al-Hallak
3.Dr. Raed Mahdi
4.Dr. Murad al-Qouqa
5.Dr. Hamza Abu Subha
6.Dr. Ahmad Mousa
7.Dr. Nahed Abu Tu’ayma
8.Dr. Ghassan Abu Zuhri
9.Dr. Musab Samaan
10.Dr. Hassan al-Muqayyad
11.Dr. Mohammed Obeid
12.Dr. Akram Abu Odeh
13.Dr. Marwan al-Hams, former director of Gaza’s field hospitals; reportedly denied medication and family contact, with deteriorating health
14.Dr. Omar Ammar
15.Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza; reportedly subjected to abuse, isolation and threats
16.Dr. Medhat Abu Tabanga

The group called for their immediate release.

[Euro-Med Monitor @EuroMedHR]

The immediate release of Abu Safiya and Al-Hams, who are civilian doctors with protected status under international humanitarian law, is a top legal obligation that must be fulfilled and cannot be overlooked
https://t.co/KqiFtrkeFo

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

When’s the speech about Israeli interference in U.S. elections? 🍿

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

We are funding the terrorists. Our media lied to us our whole lives and told us that the Israeli terrorists were the good guys and their Palestinian victims were the terrorists. It was the most successful propaganda campaign in history. This is the truth they hide from us.

[Eric J @EricJafMN]

Wesley Bell (D-MO), Haley Stevens (D-MI), and Angie Craig (D-MN) voted today to keep funding Israel while it commits war crimes.

We should support their Democratic Primary opponents: Cori Bush in Missouri, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, and Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

A dozen dead Israelis would be called a massacre. A dozen dead Palestinians is called a ceasefire.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️ NEW UPDATE: Israeli Guards Beat Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Again, Keep Him in Solitary Confinement and Deny Him Adequate Medical Care

“Do everything possible to get me out of this place,” Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya told lawyers during a July 14 visit at Israel’s underground Rakefet detention facility, according to Physicians for Human Rights Israel.

Abu Safiya said prison guards beat him again following his previous legal visit on July 2, leaving his hand bruised. He has remained alone in solitary confinement since that visit and is being denied adequate medical care despite his injured hand and a visible problem with his right eye.

He underwent an X-ray but was never told the results. His pain medication was later discontinued, while Israeli authorities have refused to provide PHRI with his medical records or allow an independent physician to examine him.

The legal visit itself offered no privacy. Abu Safiya was concealed from his lawyers behind an opaque partition and forced to communicate by telephone while masked prison guards remained close enough to hear the conversation.

The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital has been imprisoned without charge or trial since December 2024 after refusing to abandon his patients. PHRI demanded his immediate release, an end to his solitary confinement, his transfer out of the underground facility, and independent medical and legal examinations.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ decision to oppose an amendment to cut $3.3 billion in U.S. military aid to Israel comes weeks after AIPAC’s PAC sent a record $149,300 earmarked contribution to his joint fundraising committee, Sludge reports.

It is the largest earmarked disbursement AIPAC’s PAC has ever made, and nearly 30 times the standard $5,000-per-election limit for a multicandidate PAC giving directly to one candidate.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

These 50 GOP Senators just voted to merge the U.S. military with Israel’s military. Every single one of them should be tried for treason.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is being held and reportedly tortured in an Israeli prison with no charges, no trial and no Due Process. Netanyahu's government must immediately release him from these lawless, horrific and life-threatening conditions.

[mitra @mitrajoy_]

It took Kamala Harris losing an entire election and watching three primaries go anti-genocide before she’d even get on the phone with Mamdani or meet with pro-Palestinian activists. Yet it took Lindsey Graham zero effort to get a heartfelt eulogy out of her. That’s who she is.

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

republicans in 2024: “kamala can’t just take joe biden’s place in the election. nobody voted for her. that’s not democracy.”

republicans now: “it’s totally fine that lindsey graham’s sister is taking his place.”

[Bobby Fakename, Esq. @BobFakeNameEsq]

Appointing Lindsey Graham’s sister — who by any metric is woefully unqualified— is genuinely fucking insane. Being a senator is not a lordship. He wasn’t the goddamn Lord of Riverrun. Why can’t Republicans be serious about anything?

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

So we’re passing seats in the senate to family members? No elections, no voter choice? 😂🤣 Quite the democracy.

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

“You shouldn’t celebrate anyone’s death.”

- say the people who celebrate every man, woman, and child murdered by Israel in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Girl, 9”

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

EXPLOSIVE! An arrest warrant should be promptly issued against this self-confessed war criminal.

The more Israeli leaders get away with their crimes, the more the system meant to protect us all gets irreparably destroyed.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Instead of apologizing for holding a US Congressman at gun point - with guns we bought them - the Israeli Ambassador attacked @RoKhanna politically today. That’s Israel telling us - WE HAVE NO RESPECT FOR YOU. It’s humiliating the way we don’t even stand up for our own.