Rhana Natour

Mostly Silent Twitter Lurker I Independent Journo I 2025 National Magazine Award Winner I Director of Emmy nominated @AJFaultLines film "All That Remains"

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

This is also one of the first times we have internal reports from a GHF contractor that help map out what higher ups knew re incidents at aid sites (a lot) and what they did about it (nothing).

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

EXCLUSIVE: A new GHF whistleblower speaks out for the first time to @rnatourious.

David McIntosh, a former contractor with Safe Reach Solutions, says he saw Israeli soldiers use deadly force at aid seekers who posed no threat including one incident involving a 12-year old boy

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

@DanPino Publically commenting could also put his granddaughter or his daughter in danger too from retaliation or this guy having a lot less to loose.

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

Guys, Rep Max Miller still has unsupervised access to his daughter/Sen Moreno’s granddaughter. There could be concerns over this child’s safety or a bigger play we dont know.

This young girl had a broken collarbone but it couldn’t be proven it was due to child abuse/Miller but that is what is what Miller’s ex wife suspects.

Plus public statements on Miller can neg impact the family court case for all we know

[Frank Thorp V @frankthorp]

Sen MORENO asked by @elliskkim why it took so long to issue a statement on Rep Max Miller:

MORENO: “You know, I hope you never have to go through a situation like this, and you wouldn’t ask that kind of fucking question.”

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

@JulianAndreone What is she even talking about w this ICE/human trafficking business?

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

The admin sanctioning the ICC and affiliated ppl also means Americans and U.S. orgs have to stop engaging w them bc they risk severe fines and law isn’t clear what would trigger that.

In this filing @DAWNmenaorg says it had to scrap plans to bring @FranceskAlbs on as a fellow, shelved plans to work with her on training events after she was sanctioned.

Based on past rulings the court could be swayed on some the arguments here.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

A new lawsuit is the first to challenge the constitutionality of the Trump administration's campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court. It argues that sanctioning ICC judges and affiliated organisations violates American’s free speech rights

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

It’s actually incredible

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Guy accused of spousal abuse gives the most spousal abuse confirming statement in the history of spousal abuse

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

MISSOURI — Nixon and Glendy, a couple living in Overland until they were deported last year were found bound, gagged, and murdered in a sugarcane field in southern Guatemala. Their 14 month-old was found crying behind her mother's corpse. Candlelight vigil is planned at Overland City Hall on Aug 2 at 6PM: https://t.co/nmoNi8dtwE

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

The two death call incidents I talk about here went viral in Lebanon and beyond bc of how dystopian it all felt.

Both men chose to die alone. Both were killed within seconds. But what's broadly relevant to all of us is how mass surveillance of the population in Lebanon--which has been happening for years--made Israel's near-total digital occupation of Lebanon possible today.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

MEE’s Rhana Natour dives into how the Israeli army weaponises data, AI and drone surveillance in Lebanon to mark targets before giving them a notorious "death call", in which they are told they can either be killed alone or have their friends and family killed alongside them.

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

@samueljrob Yes!

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

What typically happens after an ICE agent shoots and kills someone? Journalist @lilahass has looked at years of data on this & says that overwhelmingly nothing ever happens. + ICE/DHS are not required to share any findings with the public and rarely ever do. @communalpress @teamtrace @typeinvestigate

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

New reporting from @Haleaziz is that these newly arriving white South African refugees to the U.S will get a welcome bag with an Android tablet, and a Trump-commissioned report that downplays the role of slavery in the country's founding.

The transformation of America's refugee resettlement program and the details wrapped within it is an incredibly telling view into what is--and what is not-driving Trump's 2nd term immigration policies.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

The only refugees the US government says it will admit in 2026 are white South Africans, a group that didn't qualify as refugees until a presidential carve-out last year declared them to be racially persecuted refugees

[Hamed Aleaziz @Haleaziz]

NEW: In the coming weeks, the US plans to provide a welcome gift to white South Africans.

They will get an Android tablet, an American flag. They will also receive a packet of literature that provides a sanitized, Trump-approved view of American and South African history.

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

White South Africans are the only immigrant group to be welcomed by the Trump administration. But even they are not insulated from all these new ant-immigrant state laws once they get to America. In fact one such law in Ohio has driven out over 100 south african refugees since last year. @MiddleEastEye

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

The only refugees the US government says it will admit in 2026 are white South Africans, a group that didn't qualify as refugees until a presidential carve-out last year declared them to be racially persecuted refugees

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

@LailaAlarian such bs

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

@prem_thakker the video of the owner crying over the dogs body is so heartbreaking.

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

Mohammed Amin is a journalist from Sudan who is nominated for Journalist of the Year at the One World Media Awards

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Middle East Eye journalist refused entry to UK for awards ceremony

[Rhana Natour @RNatourious]

Trita says here that his working theory is that rogue actor within the State Department planted the Free Press story that there *was* an investigation into him and an attempt to rescind this green card in hopes that the story would actually prompt there efforts. The State Dept put out a statement denying the existence of an investigation soon after the story came out.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

I have fought the neocons and warmongers in Washington for more than 25 years. Throughout, they have tried to silence, discredit, slander, and cancel me. Only recently, however, have they tried to deport me.

At least, that appears to have been the aim of a hit piece in Bari Weiss’s The Free Press, which claimed that Marco Rubio’s State Department was “investigating” me for allegedly seeking to “undermine the U.S.”—presumably because of my opposition to war with Iran.

Yet just hours later, the State Department issued a statement to reporters clarifying that “the State Department has no plans to revoke the green card of Mr. Parsi at this time.” Nor did it provide any confirmation for the central premise of the Free Press story—that an investigation of me existed in the first place.

So here’s what I think happened.

Read the full piece on my Substack: https://t.co/bjh5aEoLnL

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Friends, many of you have contacted me about the FreePress "story" and that I am set to be deported. I haven't had a chance to write, but will do so shortly on my Substack to explain what happened. Thank you all for all the support you have shown!

https://t.co/5FlhMigPRv