My first monograph "Conflict, International Intervention and Local Agency. Education in a Changing Global Order", is out with Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding. Many thanks to the series editor Vjosa Musliu Aidan Hehir and Pol Bargués. https://t.co/seJv4LSo7i
Hi, thankfully, all of the people who sailed with GSF, myself included, were released this morning after extremely severe abuse and mistreatment by the Israelis, from the container ship prison boat to Ashdod port to Kitziot.
There is much more to report and say about our detainment, but I can say it's worse than ive experienced across my times in Israeli custody.
If they can do these heinous things to us, just imagine what they can and been documented doing to Palestinians---every day and without accountability.
GSF participants spent the whole day giving legal testimony, getting full physicals and blood and urine testing, and receiving medical care. More soon. Will be taking and reporting testimonies and sharing more of my experience.
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Saif Abukeshek and Thiago de Avila were seized at sea on a humanitarian mission to Gaza—over 1,000km away, in Greek waters. They are being held in an israeli prison.
The detention of Palestinians is at the heart of israel’s colonial domination and an integral part of the ongoing genocide.
10,000+ Palestinians imprisoned, more than double since October 2023.
3,500+ without charge and on indefinite detention. 450 women and children.
We know how israel treats political prisoners through the report of detainees Dr Hussam Abu Safiya and Marwan Barghouti.
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, has been held without charge, tortured and denied medical attention for more than 450 days.
Marwan Barghouti, a former elected member of the Palestinian Authority, has been in prison for 22 years. Brutally assaulted and often held in solitary confinement, he has been denied visits from his family since October 2023.
How far will israel be allowed to go before governments around the world call a halt to this apartheid?
Go to https://t.co/JXqiOlTSS0 to send an email to the foreign ministers of Spain, Sweden, Portugal and Greece to take action for Saif and Thiago’s release.
Take action for all political prisoners by writing to your foreign minister.
Free Saif.
Free Thiago.
Free Marwan Barghouti.
Free Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.
FREE ALL PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS NOW.
Tonight, the world is witnessing the export of the Israeli military’s doctrine of engineered abandonment. In a violent raid in international waters, Israeli naval forces have intercepted, boarded, and systematically disabled various boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
After smashing engines and destroying navigation arrays, the military retreated—intentionally leaving hundreds of civilians stranded on powerless, broken vessels directly in the path of a massive approaching storm. Furthermore, communications with multiple vessels have been jammed, severing their ability to coordinate or signal for help.
While flotilla participants face a calculated death trap at sea, the people of Gaza remain the primary targets of a relentless, years-long campaign of starvation and slaughter. The logic being deployed tonight is identical: the Israeli state creates the conditions for death, sabotages the means of survival, and then waits for "nature" or "circumstance" to finish the job.
Apocalyptic scenes in Lebanon’s capital right now.
Israel has launched 100 airstrikes on Lebanon in 10 minutes.
Striking South Lebanon, Beirut and the Bekaa Valley simultaneously.
This isn’t a ceasefire.
It’s mass bombardment of civilian areas.
Israel has passed the death penalty solely for Palestinians, enforced through military courts with a 96% conviction rate.
Israeli Minister Ben Gvir popped champagne.
The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.
Patrice Lumumba was the first democratically elected prime minister of Congo. A socialist who sought to nationalise the country’s vast resources. A US-backed coup kidnapped him, tortured him, and shot him, then dissolved his body in acid. All that remained was a single tooth.
A new study has found that almost half of children in Gaza wish to die, as a result of the trauma they have been forced to endure.
Every single supplier of arms to Israel has blood on its hands — and the world will never forgive them.
BREAKING:
Israel just bombed the Lebanese National Public University in Beirut.
They murdered the Director of the Faculty of Science, Dr. Hussein Bazzi, and Dr. Murtada Srour.
They are not just killing people — they are erasing knowledge and attacking the future of Lebanon.
No better deconstruction of writerly mythography than Bolaño's By Night in Chile—the most textured prose, but also the most cloistered, and narrated by a successful literary critic who can't escape that success has meant self-deceit and complicity with crimes of the state.
💢 “Black rain” and “nuclear winter” effect reported in Tehran after Israeli strikes on oil facilities
▪️ Israeli strikes on oil depots around Tehran have released massive quantities of toxic hydrocarbons, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides. Mixed with rainwater, these chemicals are causing highly acidic precipitation that can cause skin burns and severe lung damage upon contact, according to Iranian authorities.
▪️ Dense plumes of black smoke from the Shahran and other refineries have blotted out the sun, plunging parts of the city into darkness and creating a "nuclear winter" effect, NYT reported. Authorities warned that these noxious fumes cause acute respiratory distress and eye irritation.
▪️ Oil-saturated rainwater has blanketed the city, leaving rooftops, balconies, and streets covered in a thick, murky black liquid and oily soot. This contamination poses a long-term risk of heavy metals like nickel and vanadium leaching into the soil and local water systems.
▪️ Environmental groups warn the pollution threatens migratory birds crossing the Persian Gulf. The "black rain" and smoke plumes can cause internal organ damage and destroy the insulating properties of bird feathers, leading to hypothermia and death.
The Iranian Red Crescent Society warned of the dangers of the rain, advising residents to protect themselves and to cover exposed food from oily soot particles. Officials said the rain is highly corrosive and could potentially damage civilian structures.
🎥 Day time in Iran (clip via @tparsi). CNN reports on “oil rain” below.
Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo 🇨🇩 who was executêd in a firing squad and his body was dissolved in sulfuric acid, by Belgium/USA allies because he tried to protect his country’s minerals.