Nour Joudah

Reposts ≠ endorsements | Lost Geographer | Assistant Professor @ UCLA

[Nour Joudah @nsdoud]

A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share far and wide and encourage colleagues to give generously!

https://t.co/31Zz21wuOI

[Nour Joudah @nsdoud]

So basically once again, the U.S. either cannot or refuses to get Israel in line with a ceasefire agreement.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Trump demands Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan sign Abraham Accords as condition of Iran deal

President Trump posted on Truth Social Monday demanding that all countries involved in Iran negotiations simultaneously sign the Abraham Accords, describing it as a prerequisite for any deal and warning those who refuse would be excluded from the agreement.

“It should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords,” Trump wrote, naming Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain as targets. The UAE and Bahrain are already members.

🔸Trump warned: “If they don’t, they should not be part of this Deal in that it shows bad intention.”

🔸He said it “should start with the immediate signing by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and everybody else should follow suit.”

🔸He also dangled Iran’s own potential membership, writing: “If Iran signs its Agreement with me… it would be an Honor to have them also be part of this unparalleled World Coalition.”

🔹The Abraham Accords, brokered during Trump’s first term, normalized relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Kazakhstan. Trump’s demand would require the mediating countries to recognize Israel and normalize relations as a condition of ending the Iran war — a significant ask given that Saudi Arabia has publicly conditioned any normalization on a credible and irreversible path to Palestinian statehood, a position shared in various forms by Turkey, Egypt, and others on the list.

🔹The demand comes as the U.S. has allowed Israel to continue the daily killing of Palestinians in Gaza for more than seven months since the October 2025 Trump-brokered ceasefire, with over 900 Palestinians killed since the agreement was approved by Israel. The U.S. and Israel are also deliberately blocking minimum levels of food, medicine, shelter, fuel, and reconstruction aid.

🔹President Trump has also removed sanctions on the most violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, where rampant state-backed settler violence to uproot Palestinian families has gone unchecked since the start of his second term.

🔹Trump closed his social media post with a warning: “It will only be a Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all — Back to the Battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever before.”

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Less than 24 hours after US President Trump proclaimed a US-Iran agreement was “largely negotiated”, Tehran says that Washington has 'retreated' on key mutual understandings, reports Al Jazeera's @Alihashem.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/OnXU573m9O

[Nour Joudah @nsdoud]

Goodbye to Salah and Robbo. Congrats to Arsenal. And as always - thanks to Everton for absolutely nothing, who are just useless and can never be depended on to do a job for the league.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨NEW: A senior Iranian official tells Drop Site News that Tehran believes it is “very close” to signing an agreement to end the war, and says Israel is mounting a last-ditch effort to sabotage the negotiations.

🔸In a statement shared with Drop Site reporter Jeremy Scahill, the official said “today’s constructive negotiating approach” had made “the prospect of peace in the region highly attainable,” signaling what appears to be the strongest public indication yet from Tehran that a framework agreement may be nearing completion.

🔸The official said Iran recognizes Trump is facing a major political decision that must balance U.S. interests, regional stability, and “respect for Iran’s fundamental rights.”

🔸The senior official added that “Israel is currently undertaking its final extensive efforts and applying considerable pressure” to derail the agreement during its final stages, while expressing hope that the White House would make decisions “independently of external influence.”

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Drop Site conducted a series of in-person interviews with Palestinian resistance leaders last week in Istanbul.

Palestinian negotiators told Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and officials at Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” have trashed the original October ceasefire agreement, and presented a new framework that demands the total disarmament of the Palestinian resistance before implementing even the most basic terms of the originally signed deal — including the entry of minimum levels of food, medicine, and shelter aid, as well as the start of reconstruction for Gaza’s 2 million displaced residents.

The full story is here: https://t.co/bdPvP5xWo9

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

The IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency reported that U.S. officials involved in the negotiations sent indirect messages to the Iranian side through intermediaries urging them to “ignore Trump’s tweets,” saying his public statements are “purely for domestic and media consumption” and that “his position at the negotiation table is completely different.”

A source told Fars that Trump “has realized that Iran is not one to give concessions” and sends word through intermediaries that his statements “should not be paid attention to.”

[Nour Joudah @nsdoud]

The problem here is not the pull-out quote itself as written below. It is that Khalidi is acutely out of touch with what is actually happening in the movement and has been for decades now. The irony being the “tiny minority” of elder Palestinian intellectuals to whom he belongs…

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 Professor Rashid Khalidi on the dangers of “purity politics” and why meaningful political change requires broad coalitions, strategic alliances, and building power beyond politics as “self-satisfaction.”

Khalidi says that if the goal is to stop arms sales, advance divestment, and shift policy, movements cannot remain trapped in a “tiny, ineffective minority.”

Source: Shu-Kaman (full interview below).

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🎙️Thierry Henry on the new 2026 World Cup ball that needs to be plugged in and charged before kick off:

“Football is finished. Completely finished. We are charging footballs now? Charging footballs before kick-off like they’re iPhones? And people still want to tell me this sport has ‘romance’ left?

The biggest sport on earth, the most emotional game in the world, and now the football itself has a battery inside it like it’s a smartwatch. Think about how insane that sounds for a second.

“They keep calling it ‘progress’, but sometimes I look at modern football and honestly wonder if we’re slowly killing the soul of the game.

Back in my day, the ball was a ball. You kicked it, you controlled it, you scored. Simple. Now we have sensors inside the ball, 12 cameras watching every blade of grass, computers tracking every heartbeat, and VAR officials sitting in a room deciding football frame-by-frame like it’s some science experiment.

And don’t tell me this is ‘for accuracy’. Accuracy for who? Because all I see is the game becoming more robotic every single year. Strikers can’t celebrate goals anymore because they’re waiting for a microchip inside the ball to tell them if someone’s shoelace was offside three passes earlier.

You score a goal now and nobody celebrates properly anymore. The striker looks at the linesman. The fans look at the screen. The referee puts his finger to his ear. Then everybody waits 90 seconds for a laboratory decision from people sitting behind monitors.

The funniest part? FIFA will market this as ‘innovation’. Innovation? No. It’s control. Football was the most human sport in the world because of emotion, controversy, chaos, mistakes, that’s what made people fall in love with it. Now everything is engineered.

Soon they’ll have AI referees, automatic red cards, and maybe balls that vibrate when a player dives. We laugh now, but look how fast this nonsense is moving.

And people wonder why old-school fans say modern football has lost its soul. We went from street football to Silicon Valley football in less than 20 years.

Imagine telling Ronaldinho, Zidane, or R9 that one day the World Cup ball would need charging before a final. They would think you were joking.”

Modern football keeps calling itself ‘evolution’. Sometimes it looks more like the death of spontaneity.”

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW

A website is DOCUMENTING Israel’s crimes with GEOLOCATION, dates, categories of crimes, and footage of the incidents themselves.

One click and you can see EXACTLY what Israel did.

An enormous digital archive built for ACCOUNTABILITY.

Link: https://t.co/TWKgXJ41NC

Direct Link: https://t.co/qWkrhx1FT7

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Seven people were wounded in this Israeli bombing of a house in Al Nuseirat refugee camp..

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

This is so close to home. This is where my family prays, where their community sends their babies to school. Mama is okay & gave thx that the assailants didnt show up on a Friday. Electeds & pundit bigotry is outrageous & should be treated as outrageous.

https://t.co/zI27OufeRC

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

Israel acquitted 5 men who raped a Palestinian man on camera & they returned to service while criminally investigating the military lawyer who leaked the video. The fixation on whether such assault was “ordered” is a distraction from structure of domination feat sexual violence.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Exposed: Israeli military medics are training on donated bodies supplied by two U.S. universities – all without the donors' consent. @Dena investigates from California.

[Euro-Med Monitor @EuroMedHR]

⚠️Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Eyal Zamir, has allowed members of Unit 100, who had been accused of abusing a Palestinian detainee from #Gaza at Sde Teiman military facility, to resume reserve duty after charges against them were dropped

A thread🧵

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

Look at that. The attack you see in front of you targeted a funeral in a cemetery. All that fire power to kill Lebanese mourners in a funeral. Israel is demonic beyond comprehension

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

We are in an era in which Israel detonates and blows up entire towns just like that

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Reminder: Texts of the 10-point plan circulating online are unofficial. Iran has not published the official text of the framework and has only provided details through the Supreme National Security Council’s statement published by Iran’s IRIB. The statement confirms the key details Drop Site reported last week and Monday morning. Our reports are linked in the replies to this post. The details from the Council’s statement are published below. ⬇️

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

We knew Gaza would have far-reaching consequences. Allowing Israel to act with totally impunity changed things. Now the president can threaten the annihilation of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, without protest from Congress or global leaders.

Genocide has been normalized.

[Nour Joudah @nsdoud]

Interview form limits, but this is truly mediocre from an alleged top thinker on history & politics of the sport. The answer on the USMNT is just pathetic. The rest exemplifies one who claims they’re looking at global processes only to stay focused on UK & Europe to explain them.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Next month’s World Cup will be the biggest public spectacle on the globe.

It will also be a microcosm of broader conflicts in society between capitalist’s demand for profit and our own desire for a sense of community: https://t.co/7diqbkdAOC

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.

The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.

This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.

A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.

So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.

Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.

Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.

Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.

The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.

What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?