James McElvaney

[Haitham in Gaza 🇵🇸🍉 @HaithamElmasri1]

After the Israeli occupation forces forcibly displaced us from my city, Beit Hanoun, located in northern Gaza, we were forced to flee to the city you see before you now — Rafah.

Just a few days later, on a sudden night, the Israeli occupation forces issued orders for the complete evacuation of Rafah, paving the way for its destruction and the seizure of its land. This exposed us to some of the most horrific, brutal, and devastating crimes and massacres.

Rafah was one of the most beautiful cities in Gaza — a vibrant city that embraced its people, their homes, and their memories.

But this is what Israel did to it…

It turned an entire city into rubble, displaced its people, and destroyed its landmarks, its homes, and the lives of those who lived there. 💔

[Un Étrange En Terre Étrange @LoinDuTribu]

So here’s a modest proposal.

Jason Arday is dead. The circus has lost its main attraction. The tent is still up, the popcorn machine is still warm, and several of the ringmasters are wandering around pretending they were merely checking the fire exits.

Perhaps The Telegraph, The Spectator, Kathleen Stock, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Julie Bindel, Andrew Neil, Brendan O’Neill and the rest of Britain’s newly discovered Society for Relentless Academic Due Diligence could turn their tremendous investigative appetite towards Nathan fucking Cofnas.

You know Nathan.

The self-described race realist whose intervention helped detonate the Arday story.

The bloke who already believed DEI was corrupting academia.

The bloke who has argued that genuine meritocracy would leave vanishingly few Black professors at elite institutions.

The bloke who talks about a “hereditarian revolution”.

The bloke who, while discussing what comes next for his own career, joked that after “the revolution” he might become head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard.

That Nathan Cofnas.

Come on, lads.

You have just spent weeks demonstrating that no biographical pebble is too small to overturn in the sacred pursuit of Truth.

So get the fucking tweezers out.

Go through his history.

Interview the old classmates.

Find the former supervisors.

Call the ex-colleagues.

Dust off the teenage writings.

Read Reptiles with a Conscience from cover to fucking cover.

Check every citation.

Check every footnote.

Find out what he believed before he acquired the qualifications he now uses to defend those beliefs.

Ask when exactly the fascination with hereditarianism began.

Ask what evidence changed his mind.

Ask what evidence could change his mind.

Ask whether race realism emerged reluctantly at the end of an exhausting empirical journey, or whether the destination appeared on the map first and the intellectual road-building project came afterwards.

You wanted to know whether Jason Arday really ran every marathon he claimed.

Excellent.

I would quite like to know whether Nathan Cofnas has actually demonstrated that Black people are genetically less suited to elite intellectual life, or whether he has spent years developing increasingly elaborate reasons for believing something he found compelling in the first place.

Seems at least as fucking interesting as somebody’s 10K split time.

And while we are at it, perhaps ask why the alleged misconduct of one Black academic became so magnificently useful to a man whose existing political project already concerned Black representation, DEI and declining standards.

Was Arday merely a plagiarism case?

Or did Cofnas look at him and see Christmas morning?

Because once you have spent years arguing that progressive universities are artificially elevating Black academics, discovering a celebrated Black Cambridge professor with serious questions hanging over his work must feel less like stumbling across evidence and more like finding a fucking golden ticket inside your ideological Wonka bar.

And apparently that angle is not worth the same excavation?

Really?

Jason Arday tells a tall tale about running and Fleet Street behaves like somebody has discovered the Pentagon Papers.

Nathan Cofnas spends years developing a political programme around hereditarianism and race, then helps frame a national scandal involving a Black professor, and suddenly everyone develops a tremendous respect for intellectual privacy.

How curious.

I am not asking for another pile-on.

I am asking for the same thing you all claimed to worship while Arday was alive:

scrutiny.

Context.

Provenance.

Motivation.

Evidence.

Standards.

Those lovely grown-up words everybody suddenly remembers when they are about to put somebody else under the microscope.

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[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Richie Sadlier👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

"It's baffling to me, how...it is controversial or contentious or objectionable that someone suggests...do you know what maybe let's not play football against them.

Maybe instead of playing a match against them, maybe let's not play a match."

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Imagine the BBC broadcasting this. A panicky controller would have cut the feed within seconds.

[Compute The Resistance™️🍉 @MixtUpMixy]

Israel often outlaws Palestinians from experiencing or expressing joy, especially at the release of a loved one from arbitrary detention.

Here they are smashing up a Welcome Home party. Bc they’re cunts.

It happens so often, I made a thread about it ⬇️

[Pals @palsofnations]

Tawfiq Canaan was born in 1882 to Palestinian Christians Bishara and Katrina Canaan in Beit Jala-Bethlehem, Palestine 🇵🇸

His father, the first Arab pastor in the Arab Lutheran Church, strongly shaped his early education. Canaan studied in Beit Jala and at the Schneller German School in Jerusalem before moving to the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut to study medicine. Despite financial hardship after his father’s death, he graduated with honors in 1905.

Returning to Palestine, Canaan worked in several Jerusalem hospitals and later directed a municipal clinic.

Between 1906 and 1914 he conducted pioneering research on germs and tropical diseases, publishing his first medical studies during this period. He also trained in Hamburg and Berlin. In 1913 he became director of Jerusalem’s Anti-Malarial section and opened the first Arab clinic in Musrara-Jerusalem.

During World War I he served as an Ottoman army doctor across Palestine, Sinai, Damascus, and Aleppo, surviving cholera and typhoid and supervising major military laboratories. After the war, he led the Leper Hospital in Talbiyya-Jerusalem and later served as chief of internal medicine at the German Hospital until 1940.

Alongside medicine, Canaan became a leading scholar of Palestinian folklore.
As president of the Palestine Oriental Society, he published widely on supernatural beliefs, folk medicine, and peasant traditions, recognizing their role in shaping Palestinian identity.
He collected over 1,400 amulets, later donated to Birzeit University.

Politically active, Canaan opposed British policy and Zionist immigration, leading to his arrest in 1939. In 1944 he co-founded and led the Arab Medical Association, which aided Palestinian fighters.

In early May 1948, his house in Jerusalem’s Musrara quarter was hit directly by mortar fire coming from Jewish militias positioned in the western part of the city, Canaan and his family were forced to flee and take refuge in the Greek Orthodox Monastery in East Jerusalem.

From the monastery, Canaan watched militias enter his home, loot its valuable contents, and plunder his large personal library, which contained rare books, manuscripts, and decades of research.

Three manuscripts that were ready for publication were destroyed, and shortly afterward, the entire house was set on fire, burning the remaining library and possessions.

This loss was devastating, but Canaan continued his medical work and leadership in the Arab Medical Association despite the destruction.

From 1949 he headed the Lutheran World Federation’s medical work in Jordan, helping establish clinics and the Augusta Victoria Hospital.

Canaan authored more than sixty medical studies and forty-five works on folklore, establishing himself as the foremost Palestinian scholar writing for international audiences.

Honored with multiple decorations, he continued publishing until his death, leaving an enduring legacy in medicine, ethnography, and cultural history.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen seems to have slept through her clssses on the Nuremberg tribunals, which dealt with the Nazi legacy.

Nuremberg defined a war of aggression – of the kind committed by the US and Israel in attacking Iran – as the “supreme international crime” because "it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole".

In other words, parties like the US and Israel that commit the crime of aggression are responsible for everything that flows from their crime – and that includes Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz.

It is not Iran’s actions "putting global economic stability at risk.” It is the criminal endeavours of the US and Israel.

The Nuremberg judges understood that this cause and effect had to be understood correctly, otherwise the logic of the Nazis would take hold again.

It is deeply disturbing that the lessons of Nuremberg are so utterly lost on von der Leyen and Starmer.

[Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch @BabakTaghvaee1]

BREAKING: Evidence of a war crime committed by the Israeli Air Force this afternoon in Karaj. The B1 Bridge—one of the tallest engineering marvels in the Middle East, connecting Karaj to Northern Iran—was targeted and nearly destroyed. The strike has resulted in numerous civilian deaths and injuries.

​These crimes are being carried out with direct support from the U.S. Air Force, National Guard, and Air Reserve Command. U.S. tankers are enabling these long-range strikes from bases including:

- ​Souda Air Base, Crete, Greece
- ​Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv
- ​Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia

​Without this refueling support, these strikes on our civilian infrastructure would be impossible.

​#OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Five paramedics, three journalists and six Syrian farm workers were killed today in targeted Israeli strikes.

This is the report I was working on today when I received news of a massacre in Jezzine. It turned out to be Ali and Fatima.

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

In reality, the headline should read:

“Israel tortured and starved Palestinian child, Walid Ahmad, whom it held hostage under administrative detention, without charge, in its prison.”

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

If you can’t get enough. Here’s 8 more minutes of pure deconstruction of the regime. 😂

[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

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is raining bombs on civilian homes in Tyre, South Lebanon — a city that has stood for more than 4,000 years.

Not military sites.
Civilian neighborhoods.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This was an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs. Over 1 million people have already been displaced in Lebanon in just a few weeks. This is nearly one-fifth of the entire population of a country that already hosts the world’s highest number of refugees per capita.

The homes of entire families have been wiped out and towns emptied. Bridges that connect communities to the transportation of supplies have been blown up. The death toll is rising faster than during any previous war in Lebanon. This has quickly become a humanitarian disaster.

And many of the 1 million displaced civilians (like in previous wars in the Middle East) will be forced into fleeing their war torn lands and migrate as refugees across Europe to seek safety and survival.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Cuba is not in a crisis because it is communist or has an authoritarian government, it’s having a catastrophic humanitarian crisis because the United States is carrying out an illegal siege against the island with the goal of starving and killing thousands for financial gain.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

“Body after body, tiny little bodies are being carried to their graves”

CNN documented the funeral of four young Lebanese children buried together by their mother, the oldest is 13 and the youngest is only 6 years old, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike while playing together in their family home.

The strike wiped out almost the entire family.

Since March 2, at least 110 children have been killed by Israeli attacks in Lebanon

[Will Christou @will_christou]

Lebanese medics are adopting strategies as they know they are targets:

— Not seeing family or friends so that if they are bombed, they don’t take their loved ones with them

— Reducing team sizes

— Sleeping in ambulances far away from each other so a single strike doesn’t kill them all

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Streets of Havana right now.

Full blackout across the entire island.

Hospitals, nursing homes, people's lives....all in total darkness.

For US imperialism.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Liberating the Iranian people by bombing their oil refineries, poisoning their air, destroying their fresh water supplies, exploding their elementary schools, and now "obliterating" their power plants. Who wouldn't be grateful for this?

[John McEvoy @jmcevoy_2]

Britain can forcibly depopulate an entire archipelago, turn its largest island into an airbase, repeatedly use that airbase to bomb the Middle East, and now allow the US to use it to prosecute an illegal war on Iran.

But if Iran retaliates, it is "reckless".