Reporter, The Guardian. US. Formerly Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Mexico City, London, Perranporth. Author of 'American Overdose, The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts'.
This is why Israel kept journalists out of Gaza. It doesn't want the world to see what
@UNICEF
describes as ‘utter annihilation’. “The depth of the horror surpasses our ability to describe it.” by
@burke_jason
Crowd now moved on Arby’s. “We’ve got the meats bitch” shouted the man who lobbed a chair through the window. It’s clear protesters feel have free hand because despite periodic cries that National Guard is coming, no sign at all of them or cops
Israeli diplomat tried to pressure Bard College in New York to drop course on Israel's brand of apartheid. Boston Celtic's co-owner Robert Epstein resigned from Bard's board over course.
@NathanThrall
@BardCollege
@celtics
Former head of Human Rights Watch,
@KenRoth
, tells me how he was blocked from Harvard Kennedy School fellowship over criticisms of
#Israel
: "I falsely assumed that the dean of the Kennedy School values academic freedom."
@HRW
@Kennedy_School
Columbia university barring journalists from covering today's pro-Palestinian protest on campus claiming it is in order to maintain "a safe community and workplace".
@columbia
@columbiajourn
30 years ago, I reported on the Rwandan genocide as the world stood by. Afterwards, governments made another promise of "never again". Now they are failing Gaza.
Shireen Abu Aqleh's famiy accuses US of covering for Israel: “If Shireen was killed in Ukraine, I’m 100% sure the reaction would have been completely different. There would have been action taken from day one."
#ShireenAbuAkleh
@LinaAbuAkleh
An update.
@Columbia
have a change of heart. Now saying "we will be accommodating outside press on campus". Waiting for details. Thanks to all who helped throw a spotlight on this.
Open letter signed by prominent Israelis: “American Jews have long been at the forefront of social justice causes but have paid insufficient attention to the elephant in the room: Israel’s longstanding occupation that … has yielded a regime of apartheid”
Palestinian American supermodel Bella Hadid denounces Israel's far-right national security minister
@itamarbengvir
for his claim that Jewish settlers have more rights than Palestinians in the occupied territories.
There is growing evidence Israel is targeting Palestinian journalists in Gaza. That's a war crime. Why isn't there more outrage at this, including from news organisations?
@pressfreedom
Israeli and international civil society organisations ask the UN to reject the controversial
@TheIHRA
definition of antisemitism because it is being “misused” to protect
#Israel
from legitimate criticism. Signatories include
@btselem
@hrw
@amnesty
@ACLU
Biden drops leading lawyer James Cavallaro's nomination to human rights post over calling Israel an apartheid state: “My nomination would not have affected US policy on Israel. What has the withdrawal of my nomination achieved?"
@JimCavallaro
US and British doctors accuse the Israeli military of systematically destroying Gaza’s health infrastructure and committing "appalling atrocities".
@MedicalAidPal
@MedGlobalOrg
Would this be the same
@ADL
that attacked Nelson Mandela and sided with South Africa’s apartheid regime in the 1980s because of its military alliance with Israel? The same ADL that illegally spied on anti-apartheid activists in the US?
After
@btselem
@YeshDin
@hrw
&
@amnesty
all conclude “apartheid” is correct word to describe Israel today, ADL still attacks
@RepRashida
for saying so, & can’t bring itself to deal with Israeli policy that sees journos as “armed Palestinians. They’re armed with cameras.”
Former head of Mossad spy agency joins growing band of prominent Israelis saying their country imposes apartheid on the Palestinians: “There is an apartheid state here,” he tells
@AP
.
This extract from
@NathanThrall
excellent new book is worth your time. A telling insight into the routine daily cruelties of Israeli occupation and domination.
#Israel
#Palestine
The problem of the Israeli army investigating itself over the killing of unarmed Palestinians, by
@mck_beth
: "The overall purpose of this system is not justice: it is to repel internal and international criticism."
Me on the orchestrated outrage over the Amnesty report - outrage that not only denies what many prominent Israelis say is true but, in effect, denies their right to say it
@amnesty
@btselem
@DanielSeidemann
Israel has joined a notorious band of authoritarian states with a history of imprisoning journalists by detaining Palestinian reporters without trial since the beginning of the latest war in Gaza, according to new report from
@pressfreedom
My piece for Guardian Opinion on the mistake western governments made in writing a blank cheque for Israel's war on Gaza: Amid the slaughter and with famine looming, Israel’s allies must say enough is enough. If not now when?
My review of 'Against Erasure', a photographic collection of Palestine before the Nakba. "The book stands as proof of life of a Palestine many in Israel want to pretend never existed".
@haymarketbooks
I worked with Ghada Ageel in Gaza during the second intifada. She is a third generation Palestinian refugee. Last week, 36 members of her family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Yunis refugee camp. She has written about it for the Guardian.
CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’.
@CNN
insiders say pressure from the top results in credulous reporting of Israeli claims and silencing of Palestinian perspectives.
‘Obsession’ is a word
#Israeli
officials use to try and discredit reporting about the realities of 55 years of occupation with no end in sight. Field hospitals in
#Ukraine
do not take away from that reality.
With
@ChrisMcGreal
in the
@guardian
its always the same story! Israel obsession constantly from the same angle.
I've yet to see a piece on 🇮🇱's orphan intake, Israeli unis offering to accept students or the planned field hospital 🇮🇱 is due to set up in 🇺🇦
New bill before New York’s state assembly to stop registered charities from sending tens of millions of dollars a year to fund illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank
#Israel
#Palestine
@ZohranKMamdani
"Weeks before, a 13-year-old boy died alone in a London hospital, separated from his family, who were also unable to attend his funeral... Every single person at the Downing Street party would have known that story" devastating by
@MarinaHyde
The Committee to Protect Journalists has accused the Israeli military of targeting journalists and their families in Gaza amid the highest death toll of media workers in any recent conflict
@pressfreedom
Members of Congress call for
#Israel
to end “onerous and discriminatory restrictions” against
#Palestinian
Americans. Also condemn “arbitrary” process against US citizens critical of Israeli policies
@RepMarieNewman
@RepDonBeyer
The original article is here. You can decide who to believe. Israeli soldiers describing their experiences or a Boston-based organisation that serves as an apologist for occupation.
New York civil liberties group sues Joe Biden for allegedly failing in his duty under international and US laws to prevent Israel committing genocide in Gaza.
@theCCR
In speech to US Congress, Volodymyr Zelenskiy compares Ukrainian soldiers to American troops who resisted Germans at the Battle of the Bulge in Christmas 1944
Democratic Senator
@ChrisVanHollen
calls on Joe Biden to “get more personally engaged” in stopping “racists” in Israeli government or risk damage to the US’s credibility. Says should set conditions for US's massive military aid.
@POTUS
Angry African American man tells white protesters to stop provoking federal paramilitaries at Portland courthouse because it distracting from rally for
#BlackLivesMatter
. Calls white protesters behaviour “racist shit”
#portlandprotests
Just been told by
@Columbia
press office that journalists are barred from this afternoon's pro-Palestinian protest on campus in order to "a safe community and workplace". Astonishing for university with one of the best journalism schools in the US.
@columbiajourn
Leading Jewish Americans urge Biden to block visit by "Jewish supremacist" Israeli minister who wants to "wipe out" a Palestinian town: “Welcoming Smotrich here will harm, rather than help, support for Israel.”
@jstreetdotorg
@ADL
@AIPAC
@Conf_of_Pres
Netanyahu says Israel will maintain permanent military occupation and there will not be a Palestinian state. Which leaves two options: equality for Palestinians with Israelis or perpetual apartheid. Guess which Netanyahu has in mind.
An extract from my new book Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain is today's Long Read in The Guardian
The paranoid fantasy behind Brexit | Fintan O'Toole
Latest on Israeli army shooting of Shireen Abu Akleh: Israel will not cooperate with FBI inquiry into killing of Palestinian American journalist
#ShireenAbuAkleh
@LinaAbuAkleh
BBC: Israel accused of targetting and killing group of Palestinian civilians with no links to armed groups and who posed no threat to Israeli forces, according to witnesses in the occupied West Bank. By
@LucyWilliamson
.
Spoke to filmmaker
@juliabacha
about her documentary
@TheBoycottFilm
on laws to punish boycotts of Israel: " There’s a growing attempt to shut down the conversation because if you can’t win a debate, you try to not allow the debate in the first place."
A public feud has broken out between the US’s leading pro-Israel lobby groups
@aipac
&
@jstreetdotorg
over who represents the true interests of the Jewish state in Washington under the most rightwing government in its history.
My piece on calls for
#Biden
to use his executive order to sanction political and settler leaders behind West Bank violence against Palestinians, and to stop US groups funding settlements.
@truahrabbis
@DAWNmenaorg
.
Members of US Congress demand PayPal end a ban on doing business with Palestinians in the occupied territories while permitting Israelis in illegal West Bank settlements to use the digital payment platform.
@RepMarkPocan
@repblumenauer
@RashidaTlaib
Former US ambassador accuses Israel's far-right government of breaking a written agreement with Washington and of "creeping annexation" of Palestinian territories
#Israel
#Palestine
Minutes before Howard County caucus began, Alexandra Frost and Alexandria Van den Heuvel arrived to register as Democrats in order to vote for Bernie Sanders. Van den Heuvel is 21 and a first time voter.
@guardianUS
#IowaCaucuses
"France’s ambassador to Haiti said France and the United States had effectively orchestrated “a coup” against Mr. Aristide, and that his abrupt removal was “probably a bit about” his call for reparations from France, too".
Israel votes to strip citizenship from Arabs but not Jews convicted of terrorism: “An Arab who commits an offence is a conditional citizen. If a Jew commits the same offence or a more serious one, they don’t even think of revoking his citizenship.” by
@mck_beth
"With their overwhelming spending,
@AIPAC
hopes to send an intimidating message to others: cross our red lines, and you could be next"
@jstreetdotorg
@LaraFriedmanDC
Amid all the noise, this
@LRB
piece by the excellent
@adamshatz
is one of the best about the Hamas attack and Israeli response. Particularly if you haven't been paying attention to what else has been going on there over the years.
Biden and Netanyahu's far right government: “No administration has ever encountered an Israeli government like this.... They are going to go to extreme lengths to avoid a sustained confrontation with the Israelis.”
@aarondmiller2
@elgindy_
My review of the documentary 'Boycott' about the flood of US state laws to punish boycotts of Israel: “I regret not knowing more about the issue when I voted. Having heard from my constituents, I probably would have voted against it.”
@juliabacha
@TheBoycottFilm
@ArkTimes
Ayanle Hashi who spent Thursday night guarding his Minneapolis apartment building as crowds looted shops below and neighbouring stores. “There are disabled and old people in this building. If it was on fire we would never get them out”.
#georgefloyd
Israeli Knesset member
@KarivGilad
warns of “rightwing forces in the Jewish community in America and ultra-right players” in the US behind Netanyahu's assault on democracy and tightening grip on occupied Palestinian territories.
#Israel
#Palestine
Our 3-part docuseries “The Power of Big Oil” charts when the fossil fuel industry began researching climate change & investigates the lengths to which it went to cast doubt on the science & influence public perception. Part 2 premieres on
@PBS
4/26.
This is significant. For years, the highly respected South African and Israeli journalist Benjamin Pogrund defended Israel from charges of practicing apartheid. Now he's changed his mind: "It’s like watching the replay of a horror movie."
#israelapartheid
The always excellent
@chakrabortty
on ailing Britain: "Cabinet ministers dare not call a halt to the entire farrago, perhaps realising that under another leader two-thirds of them would struggle to find gainful employment as milk monitors."
Police moved against entirely peaceful protesters at 5th precinct and it turned nasty very quickly. Rubber bullets, flash bangs, tear gas.
#GeorgeFloydProtests
An American doctor in Gaza: “I asked the nurse, what’s the history? She said that they were brought in a couple of hours ago. They had sniper shots to the brain. They were seven or eight years old.”
Borisland: "One of the biggest donors to Britain’s Conservative Party is suspected of secretly funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the party from a Russian account". By
@jane__bradley
in
@nytimes
Those who signed what
@CAMERAorg
calls an "extreme, antisemitic petition" include a former speaker of Israel’s parliament
@Avrumburg
, renowned Holocaust historian &
@TheIHRA
honorary chair Yehuda Bauer, and Benny Morris, one of Israel's most respected historians.
In his latest attack on Israel and its supporters, the
@Guardian
's
@ChrisMcGreal
promotes an extreme, antisemitic petition signed by hundreds of academics titled "Elephant in the Room."
It's difficult to overstate just how dishonest and ahistorical this petition is.
Aipac money is being poured into a handful of Democratic primaries in an attempt to block female candidates aligned with “the squad” of progressive members of Congress critical of
#Israel
.
You rarely hear from mothers of Russian soldiers. This lady came up to us at an anti-war protest in Moscow, desperate for the safety of her 22 yr old son. She told us there were only 10 men left in his regiment. If there are voices Putin fears, it’s these