Dan Brown

No, not that Dan Brown. MENA politics prof {Civil Society, protests, propaganda, and autocracy} Likes & RTs ≠ endorsement

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Deliberately inflicting on the people of South Lebanon conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.

[Dan Brown @danielpbrown]

@ohad3 @nurityohanan Go go Gadget Genocide!

[Nurit Yohanan @nurityohanan]

מתנחלים צרים כבר יממה על בית משפחה פלסטינית שמתגוררת בקצה הכפר קוסרה דרומית לשכם ומונעים מבני הבית לצאת או להיכנס. יוסוף חסאן, בעל הבית שגר עם אשתו ושתי בנותיו הקטנות - בנות שנתיים וארבע, סיפר לי בטלפון כי מאז אתמול מתנחלים הקימו סוכה מול הכניסה לביתו -->

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Western media: Israelis went for a hike in their ancestral homeland.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Imagine a group of Palestinian "hikers" with machine guns storm Tel-Aviv, threaten & intimidate Jewish Israelis. If an Israeli grabs one of their guns & shoots them with it, he'd be shaking hands with Netanyahu & celebrated as a national hero, the "hikers" would be condemned as terrorists, their homes demolished & their families punished (standard Israeli procedure).

Now ask yourself why the entire Israeli political mainstream (including left wing leaders like Yair Golan) are calling the terrorist settlers with machine guns "heroes" & the Palestinian who defended his village a "terrorist"!

PS. It's even illegal under Israeli law for any Israeli to enter this village, Tell, as it's located in area A (the caged reservations Palestinians are confined to).

[Elizabeth Tsurkov @LizHurra]

גדלתי בהתנחלות בשטחים הכבושים. בבית הספר אח"י תקוע שבו למדתי ביסודי היינו יוצאים לטיולים בתוך ישראל ובגדה המערבית. אף אחד מהטיולים לא היה לתוך כפרים של פלסטינים בתוך שטחי סי, שלא לדבר על כניסה לשטחי איי או בי.
הכניסה לכפרים פלסטיניים היא חלק ממדיניות מכוונת של המתנחלים האלימים שמטרתה או לפגע, או להתגרות ולגרור תגובת נגד שתצדיק התעללות קשה עוד יותר בפלסטינים.
הפלסטינים לא הולכים לשום מקום. התפיסה שעליה חונכתי שהם "ערבים" חסרי תחושת לאומיות ושניתן יהיה לכפות עליהם שלטון צבאי לנצח ו"לנהל את הסכסוך", או לגרשם שגויה מיסודה.

[Elizabeth Tsurkov @LizHurra]

The Israeli government is now in violation not only of multiple international law conventions but also Israeli law and an explicit Supreme Court ruling.

[Dan Brown @danielpbrown]

@WOWCare as in "Wow! My internet is down again because it is garbage!"

[Elizabeth Tsurkov @LizHurra]

Since Israel invaded southern Syria following Assad's fall, its forces routinely entered the village of Abedin in Daraa, searched houses and interrogated locals. Sources in southern Syria tell me that last week, the Israeli Army established a permanent position close to Abedin (pictured), and prevented locals from approaching their fields and collecting their harvest, which they toiled to grow all year long. 90% of Syrians are below the poverty line, Quneitra was the most impoverished governorate of Syria even before the Syrian uprising and civil war. People in Quneitra are not eating enough, yet Israeli forces are preventing these impoverished farmers from accessing their lands.
Today, the children of Abedin laid rocks on the road to prevent the Israeli Army patrols to enter their village. The Israeli soldiers shot in the air to scatter the children.
According to Israeli security sources speaking to Israeli media at the time of the invasion, there was no concrete information whatsoever about any Syrian plans to carry out attacks against the Golan or Israel. Still, Israel invaded Syria, justifying it by fearing a repeat of Oct 7th. Since then Israeli forces have destroyed homes, fields, beehives, arrested dozens of locals and searched multiple homes in the middle of the night. Today, the children of Abedin resisted peacefully. It is only a matter of time until this changes. Then Israel will justify its occupation by saying the area is swarming with "terrorists."
A U.S. official told me that the agreement between Israel and Syria is pretty much done. Yet, Israel keeps trying to place obstacles. I believe Netanyahu doesn not want to reach this deal because it'll cost him domestically to withdraw from Syria. High-level US engagement is needed to seal this deal.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The Johns Hopkins Agora Institute embedded researchers in super-red counties in Wyoming, Michigan, and South Carolina for an ethnographic study of Trump voters. Fourteen of 21 participants had an immediate negative reaction when asked about democracy. The reasons they gave were consistent.

These voters do not believe they are a silent majority. They believe they are a minority under threat from a wicked cultural majority. They do not want majority rule. They want minority rule - specifically, the ability for their group to exercise power over a majority they find morally repugnant.

Patricia, 50s, South Carolina: "Democracy is two wolves and one sheep deciding who's for dinner." Kyle, mid-20s, Wyoming, a delivery driver: "Every single small town would be outvoted by every single city. We wouldn't be able to feed people cows. We'd all be eating seaweed." Clint, 70s, Michigan: "If we do have a democracy, it'll be a problem."

JVL is scrupulous about the limits of a 21-person sample. He notes Sarah Longwell's counter-thesis - that millions of Trump voters are genuinely motivated by affordability and economic hardship - is also correct. But the study documents something specific: a coherent worldview in which democratic processes are only legitimate when they produce outcomes the participant approves. That is not a misunderstanding of democracy. It is a rejection of it.

[Annie Tracy Samuel @ATracySamuel]

The Dangers of Misreading Iran: Lessons from Saddam Hussein https://t.co/Hfma3zOLGp via @YouTube @DeutscheWelle @Monirghaedi @dwnews

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israel expelled ~430,000 Palestinians & Syrians from their homes in 1967 & yet most people know little about these expulsions. So I wrote a concise but comprehensive history of Israel's ethnic cleansing operations in 1967:

[Arab Center Washington DC @ArabCenterDC]

📄 Many Christians in #Lebanon reject the fact that Hezbollah, representing only one sectarian constituency, has plunged the country into a war with #Israel that is exacting unbearable costs on all Lebanese.
Read more 👇

https://t.co/oUrJQM5fIG

[Arab Center Washington DC @ArabCenterDC]

📘 With #Syria emerging from civil war into a new era, Daniel Neep’s #Syria: A Modern History offers a holistic and detailed account of political contestation, state formation, socioeconomic change, popular movements, and geopolitical pressures.
Read more 👇

https://t.co/S5ClTSm13f

[asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل @asadabukhalil]

Most enjoyable interview with Tarif Khalidi. Fascinating.

[Dan Brown @danielpbrown]

@mysteryatheist1

This also you, Astroturf Amira?

[Dan Brown @danielpbrown]

@avidseries @mysteryatheist1 What's your point, @mysteryatheist1? Say it with your stupid chest.... We're waiting....

[MERIP @meriponline]

NEW: We collected 11 essays on the war on Iran and the region from our contributors and editorial committee. They encompass the political turmoil in Iran to the role of Christian nationalism in the US drive for dominance in the region.

READ NOW

https://t.co/RgDuv0ZoiP

[Dan Brown @danielpbrown]

@mysteryatheist1 I see you're proudly popping off in the most disinforming way you can here but can't be bothered to reckon with the comments I made on your defamatory posts... Curious that... Do you get continuing ed credit for shilling for the right?

[Elizabeth Tsurkov @LizHurra]

4 days have passed since Israeli soldiers killed 4 members of the Odeh family in the occupied West Bank & none have been questioned. The delay provides the killers with an opportunity to coordinate the tale they'll tell investigators.
https://t.co/F9NjRk1Fjx