Drew Favakeh

Freelance journalist and media critic with a focus on foreign policy

[AJE Sport @AJE_Sport]

"We are one team under one flag."

With the World Cup days away, Iranian footballers Saeid Ezatolahi and Mohammad Ghorbani reflect on representing a nation at war and their determination to bring moments of joy to people enduring hardship.

🔗: https://t.co/EMnvVEnj6F

[The Intercept @theintercept]

How many acts of war must occur before the mainstream media accepts there is no ceasefire between the U.S., Israel, and Iran? https://t.co/WRmOmBxUI3

[Sam Husseini @samhusseini]

🧵Good that Castro finally asked about Israeli nukes. I’ve asked this question for decades, here’s some of it — video by @decensorednews —

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Rep. Castro: Will you tell us, the Congress and the American people, whether Israel possesses nuclear weapons?

Rubio: Most of the world assesses that they do, but they never acknowledge that publicly.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Satellite imagery analysed by Al Jazeera shows Israel has built 40 military outposts in Gaza since the October 2025 ceasefire, including eight built after the announcement, despite agreeing to fully withdraw its forces.

🟥 Read more: https://t.co/tsxQueIYdS

[Drew Favakeh @drewfav]

In late May, Netanyahu said that Israel controls 60 percent of the Gaza Strip, per Truthout. He has "instructed the military to expand its control to 70 percent of the territory." Last October, Israeli military controlled 53 percent of the Gaza Strip.

https://t.co/Oq3ZFsMpJC

[Drew Favakeh @drewfav]

Since a "ceasefire" took effect in October, Israel has killed more than 900 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded more than 2,900. Since a "ceasefire" took effect in mid-April, Israel has carried out strikes nearly every day in Lebanon and systemically targeted and killed paramedics

[Drew Favakeh @drewfav]

Citing the Lebanese Health Ministry, Drop Site noted today that "at least 3,516 people have been killed, and 10,674 wounded, in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March 2."

https://t.co/4cvaVis7m1

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

🚨My latest:

The UN has now verified rapes of Palestinians by Israeli forces.

But almost three years after 7 October, it still cites no Israeli rape victims.

This exposes how atrocity propaganda was laundered through the UN to justify genocide

https://t.co/h0ZvRqabgY

[Drew Favakeh @drewfav]

And yet this is how the Wall Street Journal reports on such "ceasefire" violations.

- "Fighting persists on every front"

- "Israel continues to target militants"

- "Israel and Hezbollah, also a U.S.-designated terrorist group, have been engaged in fierce battles"

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

capitalism has really ruined people's outlook on the world and made people think it's okay to be extremely selfish and greedy when it isn't.

it's not normal to think human beings should go without shelter, food, and healthcare if they have no money. it's so dystopian

[Responsible Statecraft @RStatecraft]

This provision would greatly expand coordination w/Israel to seemingly every area of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and many more. It also proposes “network integration” and “data fusion.”
https://t.co/BcSyOBJCbw

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Drop Site News was scheduled to host a panel discussion at SXSW London on June 3. We have informed the organizers we will not be moving forward with the event following SXSW’s refusal to condemn the British Home Office’s state censorship of our colleagues Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, who were also scheduled to speak at SXSW. The banning of our colleagues is part of an intensifying campaign by the UK government to stifle criticism of Israel and criminalize pro-Palestine activism at a time when the genocide in Gaza is continuing.

[Responsible Statecraft @RStatecraft]

In their zeal to deconstruct Russian propaganda, Western elites created a propaganda myth of their own: there are no Nazis in Ukraine.

@HavryshkoMarta explains the problem with this narrative:

https://t.co/5ks3gCR5jj

[Robin Andersen @MediaPhiled]

My latest piece about how Israel security forces rape people all the time and how media reports it. Balancing Act at the New York Times https://t.co/CNQFSGpM8K

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

US counter-terror fusion centers are watching your anti-AI data center posts on social media, according to a document we obtained warning of “disruptive First Amendment activity." Keep in mind next time you joke about the Butlerian Jihad. https://t.co/NLNul1eHOO

[Drew Favakeh @drewfav]

https://t.co/2IiJBNaVPZ

[Drew Favakeh @drewfav]

The New York Times is perfectly fine with war so long as the one doing it has a "discernible strategy" and acts more like Henry Kissinger, who is simply a "statesmen"

[Drew Favakeh @drewfav]

Kissinger "had the blood of at least 3 million people on his hands, according to his biographer Greg Grandin," Turse also noted

[Drew Favakeh @drewfav]

Kissinger "helped prolong the Vietnam War and expand that conflict into neutral Cambodia; facilitated genocides in Cambodia, East Timor, and Bangladesh; accelerated civil wars in southern Africa; and supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America," as Nick Turse noted

[Drew Favakeh @drewfav]

https://t.co/zXdTKHCSwj