Sima Rabinowitz

Writer and editor

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Alarm is growing over the fate of Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, held by Israel without charge for over 500 days. He has reportedly suffered severe torture and believes he will be killed in captivity.

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

Deeply alarmed by the reports that there is an imminent threat to Dr. #HussamAbuSafiya’s life. Israeli authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Abu Safiya. Pending his release, we call on the Israeli Prison service to ensure he is fully protected from abuse, granted urgent adequate medical care and allowed immediate visitation by independent monitors.

Act now: https://t.co/NQrwQAgwL9

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

[Bowles Lab @bowles_lab]

New pre-print from us! We compare two iPSC-microglia protocols, and take a look at the cell autonomous and non-cell autonomous effects of MAPT mutation:
https://t.co/SDy6jUKFgd

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears, and neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially struggled to recognize him.

🔹Attorney Nasser Odeh, who saw Abu Safiya Thursday at the underground Rakefet interrogation facility in Nitzan Prison, said he arrived shackled hand and foot, escorted by masked guards, struggling to breathe and speak, unable to sit upright, and repeatedly on the verge of losing consciousness.

🔹Abu Safiya told him that after his Supreme Court appeal was heard June 10, four or five guards entered his solitary cell at Ganot Prison and beat him with a hammer and batons, and that since his June 24 transfer to Rakefet he has been beaten daily, losing consciousness several times without receiving medical treatment.

🔹“This is the last time you will see me,” he told his lawyer. “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving. This is the end.”

🔹PHRI notes the escalation in torture began directly after Abu Safiya challenged his detention in court. He has been held without charge since December 27, 2024, under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law.

🔹The group has appealed to Israel’s attorney general and prison service demanding his immediate transfer, an independent medical examination, and an urgent judicial visit “before it is too late.”

Photo: Amnesty International

[Omar Fateh @OmarFatehMN]

We honor the life and legacy of our beloved friend, Former State Representative Karen Joy Clark 🌻

Karen dedicated her life to making Minnesota a better place and has left a lasting impact on Minnesota for generations to come.

We are deeply grateful & indebted for her service.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

I’m so sad to hear that today, on the last day of Pride Month, we have lost a long time Minnesota state legislator and a fierce fighter for justice and freedom for all people: Karen Clark.

Karen was the longest serving openly lesbian legislator in the United States. Her time in the Minnesota House spanned nearly forty years from 1980-2019. She played an instrumental role in Minnesota’s transformational law to legalize gay marriage.

Raised on a farm in southwestern Minnesota, Karen championed local food systems. As a nurse, she was an indomitable advocate for health care for all and immigrant rights. Karen was a progressive champion, and hugely influential in my political life as a friend and mentor.

May her memory be an inspiration to us all as we keep up the fight.

[Dr. Patrick Hwu @PatrickHwuMD]

Macrophages are some of the immune system’s most important “first responders.” 🧬

In the latest episode of #TheImmunoverse, Dr. Miriam Merad (@MiriamMerad) breaks down what #macrophages are, how they support tissue health and why they are becoming an exciting focus in cancer immunotherapy. @SinaiImmunol @IcahnMountSinai @MoffittNews

Listen to the full episode to learn more! https://t.co/1kauiQwmpj

#Immunoverse #Macrophages #Immunology #CancerResearch #CancerImmunotherapy

[Rami Elghandour @RamiElghandour]

I produce films about the people power would rather you never hear.

Amy Goodman has made a career of bringing their voices to the world.

I'm excited to share I've joined Steal This Story, Please!, a film about Amy's remarkable life and Democracy Now!, as an Executive Producer.

For 30 years, Amy's done the one thing power can't stand: she refuses to look away. East Timor. Standing Rock. Ground Zero. Gaza. The stories power wanted buried, she carried into the light.

She built Democracy Now! on a radical idea - that a free press exists to serve the public, not the powerful.

I've admired Amy for years. Fun fact: I dialed for dollars for Democracy Now! in college, and was a total fanboy when I had the chance to be interviewed by Amy this year.

So getting to help carry this film forward is an honor and a privilege.

To Carl Deal, Tia Lessin, and the whole team - thank you for making something this brave.

Go see it! Support honesty and tenacity. Bring someone who's stopped believing the truth can still win. And if you're around my age, enjoy the nostalgic replay of the biggest moments of our lives from a completely new, eye opening, angle.

Now in theaters. 🎬
@stealthisstoryplease @democracynow @janefonda @rosariodawson @tommorello

[Olivia Becker @oliviaLbecker]

“Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent, every protest held before its time. It is because we love this nation that we will not leave it. Who loves America more than those who have sacrificed to make it free?"

Proud of this team every day, but especially today

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

NYC is opening city grocery stores in every borough — and we need the right spaces to make it happen.

If you own or know of a site in Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, submit to the NYC Groceries Sites Portal by June 30: https://t.co/ovcyLePA9P

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Israel has just killed 13-year-old Ellen al-Farra after firing a shell into Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis.

Ellen was struck in the head by shrapnel and killed.

The Arabic on Ellen’s shirt reads: “Moons, not numbers.”

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Palestinian voices are consistently ignored by Western media. But Jewish American journalist Amy Goodman has been handing them the mic for decades.

@yelmjouie talks to the Democracy Now! host about the fight against pro-Israel media bias through independent journalism.

[Julie Rehmeyer @julierehmeyer]

I'm looking for someone in New York who can go ASAP to St Anthony's Hospital in Warrick, Orange County, to advocate for a very severe, barely speaking patient and explain ME and MCAS. It's the worst situation I've witnessed in the US. Please help if you can.

[Carlo Verdelli @CarloVerdelli]

Italiani come noi. Domenico Centrone, 36 anni, docente. Dina Alberizia, 67, insegnante. Sono prigionieri in Libia, sequestrati dalle milizie di Haftar. Passavano di lì per portare aiuti a Gaza con la Flotilla. Era il 24 maggio. Qualcuno vuole muoversi o ci limitiamo a “vigilare”?

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“They knew exactly who Mona Khalil was.

They knew the bright orange house in Mansouri, south Lebanon. They knew it was not a military site, not a command center, not a battlefield position. It was one of the most recognizable symbols of environmental conservation on Lebanon's southern coast; a sanctuary dedicated to protecting endangered sea turtles and preserving life.”

Marwa Osman writes about Israel’s deliberate targeting of a prominent environmental activist in Lebanon. ⬇️

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

🔴 Gaza Update: 10 Palestinians were killed in israeli terr*r attacks across the Gaza Strip since this morning.

Gaza City and northern Gaza:

• Three members of the same family were killed when an apartment near the Al-Tayaran intersection was struck:

Hussein Al-Safadi (father)
Zeina Hussein Al-Safadi (child)
Lana Hussein Al-Safadi (child)

• Ahmed Al-Zaza was killed and others were wounded in an israeli terr*r strike near Al-Saftawi intersection, north of Gaza City.

• Taghreed Zomlot was shot and killed by Israeli terr*r forces in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.

• Kamal Al-Sayed, 62, was killed by gunfire from Israeli terr*r naval boats that targeted tents sheltering displaced families along the Gaza seafront in the Al-Amadi area.

Central Gaza:

• Three people were killed in a terr*r strike on the Hassouna family home in Block 3 of Al-Bureij refugee camp:

Photographer Ahmed Washah
Siba’i Abu Hasna
Abdul Rahman Abu Gharqoud

Southern Gaza:

• Mohammed Osama Saba Al-Eish was killed and several others were injured in a terr*r strike near Dream Palace Hall, west of Khan Younis.

[Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15]

NIH: Immune system may attack nervous system in some Long COVID patients

“Our study now shows that if you are in a subgroup of Long COVID patients who have autoantibodies circulating...a quantifiable sign that you may be a good candidate for these drugs"

https://t.co/utBz7Mmxp6

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨BREAKING: At least 30 civilians have been killed since midnight in a wave of Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon, local journalist Hadi Hoteit reports.

The Press TV correspondent said more than 25 residential sites were hit by airstrikes, drone attacks, and artillery fire, with the Nabatieh area bearing the brunt of the attacks. He also reported new strikes on Zebdine and Doueir as fighting and Israeli military operations continue in the south.

📸 Photos of the people killed overnight.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 It is Day 985 since October 7, 2023.

It has been 2 years, 8 months, and 12 days since Israel last allowed the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit Palestinians held in its prisons and detention centers, where torture, rape, and other forms of abuse are systematically carried out against detainees.

🎥 Al Jazeera’s documentary Bodies of Evidence documents Israel’s state-sanctioned torture system and the treatment of Palestinians in Israeli custody.

[Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal]

La prestigiosa rivista medica *The Lancet* ha pubblicato una petizione in cui si chiede il boicottaggio dell’Associazione Medica Israeliana e la sua espulsione dall’Associazione Medica Mondiale, a causa della sua mancata condanna del genocidio perpetrato da Israele contro i palestinesi e il collasso del sistema sanitario di Gaza.
100 medici israeliani hanno pubblicato una lettera chiedendo all’esercito israeliano di bombardare e distruggere l’ospedale Shifa a Gaza.
La campagna, lanciata dal movimento Boicottaggio, Disinvestimento e Sanzioni (BDS), da Operatori sanitari per la Palestina e da Medici per Gaza, ha ricevuto finora il sostegno di oltre 1.150 professionisti sanitari e organizzazioni mediche.
I medici israeliani hanno preso parte attiva al genocidio.
I medici israeliani hanno fortemente incoraggiato i bombardamenti e la distruzione degli ospedali di Gaza, nonché l'uccisione di massa di migliaia di pazienti e medici.

I medici israeliani hanno partecipato alle torture dei ostaggi palestinesi a Sde Teiman, hanno mandato dei tirocinanti a condurre esperimenti su di loro, li hanno operati senza anestesia e hanno negato loro medicine e cure!

La richiesta di espulsione sarà sollevata durante l'assemblea generale dell'Associazione Medica Mondiale che si terrà a ottobre.