Mikael N.

Historian • Wrote: Détruire les Arméniens. Histoire d’un génocide, PUF 2015 • if you know about unpublished Armenian testimonies on 1915, let me know

[301🇦🇲 @301arm]

BREAKING: All Christian schools in Jerusalem, including Sts. Tarkmanchatz Armenian School in the Armenian Quarter, will suspend classes beginning September 1, 2026, after Israeli authorities failed to renew entry permits for more than 70 teachers and staff members from the West Bank.

By decree of the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Archbishop Nourhan Manougian, Sts. Tarkmanchatz Armenian School will join the city’s Christian schools in suspending classes.

The decision is expected to affect more than 8,500 students across Jerusalem.

According to statements issued by Sts. Tarkmanchatz Armenian School and the General Secretariat for Christian Educational Institutions in Jerusalem, the permits were not renewed ahead of the 2026-2027 academic year and without prior notice, preventing teachers, administrators, health workers, cleaners, support staff, and employees responsible for school security and safety from reaching their workplaces.

Following consultations with the Committee of Christian Schools in Jerusalem, school administrations, parents’ representatives, and relevant authorities, the schools decided to suspend student attendance until the permits are renewed and staff members are able to return.

Christian educational institutions stressed that they have served Jerusalem for centuries and remain an essential part of the city’s cultural, social, and educational life.

They warned that repeated restrictions on staff access undermine the stability of the schools and directly affect thousands of students, families, educators, and the wider community.

Sts. Tarkmanchatz reaffirmed its commitment to its students’ right to education and called for the permits to be restored without delay.

Classes are expected to resume once the affected teachers and staff regain access to Jerusalem.

301 Correspondent: @kbalian90

[Daniel Seidemann @DanielSeidemann]

I have been working on the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem for 35 years

My work has brought me into close contact with a few heads of date, numerous foreign ministers and countless senior diplomats.

Let's leave for some interesting, gissipy close-up observations about senior people in the corridors of power.

Most of the people I met were decent human beings. I liked many of them.

That is what baffled me. I saw decent people exercising poor judgment and advocating mistaken , even unthinkable measures when it came to Palestinians. (There were if course saintly exceptions).

Deciphering this was not merely personal quirk of mine. I needed to understand what really motivated them in deciding the matters that I shared with them.

It took me a while, (probably far to long) that these decent souls based their policiesbased on the diminished humanity of Palestinians. And from that point on, everything made sense.

I am not talking about vulgar racists. I saw them too, albeit in small numbers. I am talking about men and women who "are one of us".

Spare me the scolding over my generalizations. If course there were numerous exceptions. But they were just that: exceptions. What I am describing is often systematic.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Dear Board of Peace,

1- I have a tender issued under your name on 20 May 2026 that includes "levelling & compacting" work in occupied Gaza, do you deny that document?

2- Is the Israeli company Terra Firma NOT doing "rubble clearance" in Gaza allegedly with machines that take rubble & spit out dust while the IDF is doing road-paving work (specifically near Erez)?

3- Are you NOT in any way paying, compensating, subsidising or aiding Israeli companies, contractors, individuals, the Israeli army or government for rubble removal & road paving in Gaza?

4- If you are involved, can you explain whether any effort is being made to separate human remains from rubble or detect potential mass graves under the roads being paved? The Israeli government is silent on this.

5- I have satellite images that show clear & significant rubble removal work in East Gaza in the months of May & June. Do you deny any involvement in this?

6- Do you have anything to say on Israel killing over 1,200 Palestinians under your watch since your ceasefire started? how about Israel restricting humanitarian aid and preventing prostatic limbs from going to largest cohort of child amputees in modern history? How about Israel preventing repairs of basic infrastructure (water, electricity, sewage, hospitals, bakeries), or releasing all children & women still in detention without trial or charges?

All of those unfulfilled commitments were part of phase one of President Trump's 20-point plan!

Remarkable how none of Israel's violations of your ceasefire ever caught your attention once in 323 days, but my sole tweet did in mere hours.

[Daniel Seidemann @DanielSeidemann]

By all indications, today's pogroms - a term that applies with surgical precision - in the occupied West Bank exceeds everything we have witnessed to date.

And what we have witnessed to date is state condoned terrorism.

They don't hide their objectives (and by "they" I mean also members of the Netanyahu's government who are being courted by Netanyahu).

They seek ethnic cleansing and an eruption of violence in the West Bank. Each objective serves the other.

I ask my friends in the international community: what will it take? What will it take?

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

Dear followers
This is a truly brilliant article by Henry Farrell. Not because it defends me against the Economist (I have moved on). It’s the way Farrell frames and analyzes the issues surrounding technooptimism and AI. The Acemoglu Wars Are All About AI. https://t.co/gEjCxjHrza

[Nicolas Tenzer @NTenzer]

An infamy.
Mladić, a war criminal, guilt of crimes against humanity and of genocide, will receive a state funeral with military honors, according to the Serbian Minister of Justice.
This desecrates the memory of the more than 8,000 victims of Srebrenica.
https://t.co/XQPbioxJD7

[Guillaume Perrier @GuillaumPerrier]

Quel symbole! Un site de massacres utilisé pour célébrer le criminel. La négation est la poursuite d’un génocide par d’autres moyens.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Bezalel Smotrich has released an AI campaign video, in it he advertises his new plan to ethnically cleanse the Galilee and Negev by treating them the same way as the West Bank. The racist video mocks Palestinians panicking over the plan. This is the next stage, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the 1948 territories.

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

New paper by Acemoglu et al. on how automation may ultimately undermine democracy. As automation (think AI) shifts income from workers to capital, containing the risk of revolt requires ever more redistribution, making repression more attractive to the capitalist state.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

"Israel is sending armed militias to commit war crimes – and I have to protect them"

A Haaretz investigation, based on IDF soldiers' testimonies, sources in Gaza and satellite imagery, reveals how Israel is cultivating a network of armed militias in Gaza https://t.co/vx7fYK2e4T

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 Board of Peace Calls Israel’s Gaza Shelter Policy “Not Acceptable” as Another Winter Approaches

Board of Peace High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov told the UN Security Council that adequate shelter remains unresolved for Palestinians living amid Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

“Winter is around the corner, and Israel’s present policy on quality shelter is not acceptable,” Mladenov said. “The Board of Peace urges the State of Israel to allow better shelter into the Strip for dignity, for health, and for safety.”

He later warned: “Another winter is coming for people living in rubble and in tents. Ceasefires that deliver nothing visible are not sustained by patience. They are only exhausted by it.”

Mladenov also cited continuing Israeli restrictions on materials entering Gaza and UN warnings that food and other critical humanitarian supplies could run short by the end of September.

Despite declaring Israel’s shelter policy unacceptable, the Board announced no consequences or enforcement measures, merely urging Israel to change its draconian restrictions now continuing for almost three full years.

[Joshua Landis @joshua_landis]

Always worth listening to @stephenWalt on why Trump took America to war with Iran

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

If these individuals were Jews, the whole of the internet would share photos of Nazis stripping Jews naked and lining up to be sent to concentration camps or to death.

But because the victims are Palestinian, not Jewish, making the same comparison is deemed anti-semitic.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

The Israeli cabinet statement as captured in Israel Katz’s social media posts claiming to treat balloons and kites flown in the Gaza Strip as military drones further strips away any prospects for moments of joy for children in Gaza, who have been denied a childhood by Israel’s ongoing genocide. Third states must act and end Israel’s genocide. No more impunity for Israel’s disregard for international law.

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

Here are my thoughts on Daron Acemoglu's important new book, "What Happened to Liberal Democracy?". The book is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of liberalism.

Link below.

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

"Among the contemporary cultural realities liberals must grapple with are widely held subjectivist conceptions of value which beguilingly seem to cater to the liberal ideal of individual freedom, but which are in reality corrosive of it."

My review for Daron Acemoglu's "What Happened to Liberal Democracy?"

👇

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

"The crucial point is that Acemoglu has arrived at conclusions very close to those of the post-Keynesian and even Marxist schools but through different concepts and methods. Mainstream economists cannot fault him for want of technical brilliance, which is amply established. But they are frightened by the political conclusions that follow from his deviation."

A good read.

https://t.co/yksgdmPO4r

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

Israel has created the world’s largest population of child amputees—now it blocks the entry of prosthetics into Gaza.

[Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش @citrinowicz]

This is not really about whether Netanyahu could serve as a minister in a future government. Given the criminal charges against him, that scenario is highly problematic in any case, making talk of a political rotation largely beside the point.

The much more consequential issue is what would actually change if Netanyahu were replaced.

Listening to the leading candidate to head Israel’s next government, whether on the establishment of farms in Area C, his criticism of Yair Golan’s approach, or the broader Palestinian question, it is increasingly difficult to identify a meaningful alternative diplomatic vision. Most importantly, there appears to be very little willingness to seriously engage with the Palestinian issue at all.

He has not even clearly condemned statements by the leader of a new Israeli political party presenting the “voluntary migration” of Palestinians from Gaza as a political solution.

And that gets to the heart of the problem. For those leading Israel’s political opposition, the most important question should not be whether they will sit with Netanyahu in the next coalition. The question should be whether replacing Netanyahu would actually produce a different Israeli foreign policy.

At the moment, there is reason for serious doubt And I am not even addressing another deeply troubling issue: the categorical exclusion of roughly 20 percent of Israel’s citizens, its Arab citizens, from the possibility of serving their own country as members of the Israeli government.

Israel could replace Netanyahu without replacing Netanyahu’s policies. And if the next government continues essentially the same approach toward the Palestinians, Israel should not expect a fundamental improvement in its relations with Europe, the Arab world, or even, over time, with Washington.

Replacing the prime minister is not a foreign-policy strategy. The real test is whether Israel’s next leadership can offer a credible political vision for the day after Netanyahu. At the moment, this appears to be the most likely reality in Israel even if Netanyahu’s tenure as prime minister comes to an end.

Netanyahu may leave office, but Netanyahu’s core policie, particularly toward the Palestinians, could remain largely intact. And without a genuine change in those policies, a change of prime minister alone is unlikely to fundamentally alter Israel’s international trajectory.

The problem is not simply Netanyahu. The deeper problem is that no major political force in Israel currently offers a genuine ideological and strategic alternative to Netanyahuism.

That is why Israel could wake up the day after Netanyahu leaves office with a new prime minister, but without a fundamentally different vision for the country’s future.

Instead of offering Israelis a sense of hope, a political horizon, or a credible vision for the country’s future, the political debate has increasingly become a competition over who can sound tougher and more militaristic.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Israel has evicted 33,000 Palestinians from three refugee camps: Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur al-Shams, since early 2025.

The IDF is still refusing to let them return to their homes and is building permanent bases where their homes once stood, making the eviction permanent. They are considering moving on the refugee camps in Tulkarm and Nur al-Shams next.

The people thrown out of their homes are living with their families, in mosques, or trying to start lives elsewhere and depending on meager humanitarian aid. Ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.