Niya Shahdad

Writer

[Ayub Dawood @Aiyub_Dawood]

Satluj (Punjab 95) has been removed in India because disappearances, state violence & killings of innocent people in Punjab may have stopped after the 90s, but they continued, in Kashmir, Bastar, & still do in many parts of India.

It shows how easily the police & army can either

[banojyotsna ... @banojyotsna]

Umar Khalid's interview in The Guardian
https://t.co/ZBaS7Y3lhL

[AnnieZaidi PhD @anniezaidi]

And the problem of the badly behaved domestic tourist abroad is essentially the problem of the same behaviour at home: fear of one's own culture & hegemony being challenged in the smallest way, the need to dominate public space, a lack of curiosity about other people's cultures

[David Wingrave @davewingrave]

This in @Equatormag by Nasser Abu Srour, about surviving three decades in Israeli prison, is a genuinely important piece of writing.

https://t.co/mBk6Pa68Zl

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

Beginning to suspect that the Western obsession with best books of the century (not new, but certainly more pressing and frequent) is driven by anxieties over imperial decline.

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

Imagine how lacking in humanity you must be, to read testimony of systematic sexual assault in detention & to take issue with details of who raped, how the rape happened but be silent on the fact of rape in captivity. We are witnessing the apex of moral bankruptcy and depravity.

[Nada Maucourant Atallah @MaucourantNada]

“I told her, ‘I’m next to you.’
She told me, ‘Don’t fall asleep and leave me.’ I said, ‘No, no.’ Then exhaustion took over. I closed my eyes for a moment. Then I heard Amal scream. They struck the room again. Amal was gone.”

Reporter Zeinab Faraj recounts the harrowing hours her and journalist Amal Khalil waited for evacuation, as Israeli strikes pursued them, while preventing rescuers from reaching them.
Our full interview translated:

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Amal Khalil was alive for hours. She phoned her family and the Lebanese military for help. People followed in horror as her colleagues updated the world on what was happening. And yet Israel blocked the Red Cross from reaching her for seven hours. That is stone cold murder.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

‘The English language has three voices: an active voice, a passive voice, and a secret unlockable exhonerative voice that journalists only use when describing Israeli war crimes.’

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then firing on international rescue crews, all with the world watching in real time. There are no words left for the horrors that U.S. political leaders are enabling.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Someone really needs to write an essay on the problem with asymptotically dying liberal zionism and its pernicious role as the far left flank at NYT. How he can say all these (objectively true) things and still do the Right To Defend Itself box-checking is staggeringly unserious.

[Niya Shahdad @niyashahdad]

Third-rate power

[Niya Shahdad @niyashahdad]

This

[Mukul Kesavan @mukulkesavan]

To listen to Zakaria and Klein mourning Trump's destruction of US moral leadership is to realise that Beltway liberals are strange orchids rooted in the fungus of American exceptionalism.
https://t.co/yb6NaMlXcu

[محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf @mb_ghalibaf]

همراهان من در این پرواز
#Minab168

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

“One of the things I find very disturbing is when they’re bombing Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean, you have two [sets of] people talking on western media. One says we should bomb them and get rid of them and take their oil. And the other group days: ‘Well, Maduro is evil and it’s a dictatorship,’ but we should know for me there is no difference between these two…Who are you to say Maduro is evil. Go and say your own government is evil.” - @s_m_marandi

https://t.co/CPO6OoaXEz

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

"a whole civilization will die" and "less radicalized minds" in the same paragraph is the most American thing ever

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Barbarians

[Mukul Kesavan @mukulkesavan]

We shouldn’t be surprised that when the editor-in-chief of The Economist was called out on Gaza by a far-Right conspiracist, notorious for flirting with anti-Semites, it was Carlson who emerged as the even-handed liberal while Beddoes was reduced to Israel’s stooge.

[Dan Qayyum @DanQayyum]

https://t.co/0qn0qChdDU

[Jonathan Shainin @jonathanshainin]

Welcome to the post-American world, you have nothing to lose but your illusions
https://t.co/3qgeighfho