Rory O'Farrell

'Wet tent syndrome' is killing Gaza's infants Israel’s restrictions on shelter and medicine have left displaced families helpless as newborns succumb to exposure and preventable disease.

Every baby in Gaza that dies of cold and illness has been murdered by apartheid Israel, these dire living conditions are a deliberate part of its genocide of Palestinians. #GazaGenocide
Wet tent syndrome’ is killing Gaza’s infants
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Israeli strike kills teenage cousins gathering firewood in northern Gaza The killing of the two children brings the total death toll since the ceasefire to 483

Apartheid Israel murdered two Palestinian children as they gathered firewood in Gaza yesterday. There is no ceasefire. Did you even see this reported in our media? #GazaGenocide

Israeli strike kills teenage cousins gathering firewood in northern Gaza www.middleeasteye.net/news/two-pal...

I'm coming to the conclusion that a trade war is something we just have to have out with the US and we should coordinate with China, Mercosur etc. 🇪🇺🇨🇳

It will be hard for the US to dominate Latin America as it did up to the 1980s.

Relative to the US, the economics of Mexico and Brazil are larger than they were.

Workers have been collectively going on strike for fair pay and better conditions for a long time.
As far as we know, for more than three thousand years.

The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration.

"Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"

Faced with Trumps' tariff chaos, the EU needs to reach a understanding with China, to reduce disruption. But it cannot be based on China massively diverting sales from US to EU while curtailing exports of critical materials for European production and clean tech on.ft.com/42FMvvI

Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing

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What has to happen - must the lDF write GENOCIDE on their tanks & WAR CRIME on their planes - b4 Israel's backers, condoners, financiers and armourers put a stop to this clearly articulated criminal plan?
Europe has failed completely to use available tools.

I've certainly noticed it when talking to students and comparing with my time as a student.

Humanity has quietly passed a remarkable milestone: Alcohol consumption is declining, a turning point in a habit at least as old as civilization itself. This unnoticed shift suggests other long-standing habits (from smoking to red meat consumption) could potentially fade just as effortlessly.

“The world cannot silently just watch while this humanitarian crisis is happening & this siege is also, of course, a continuation of many, many decades of illegal occupation.”

Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg explains how Israel bombed a Gaza Aid ship w/ drones w/ humanitarian volunteers on board.

And it's such an easy thing for other countries to retaliate against: simply don't enforce copyright of US films.

Countries can still watch them, but the US loses.

‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown Palestinians trying to access Christianity's holiest sites in the Old City of Jerusalem face restrictions and hostility

Israel has been blocking Palestinian Christians from visiting their churches in Jerusalem this Easter, while "religious intolerance and antichristian sentiment has been made mainstream by Israeli political leadership". ✝️☦️

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Wave of Israeli airstrikes kill at least 40 across Gaza, says civil defence agency Missiles hit encampments for displaced Palestinians as talks on response to Israel truce offer ‘almost complete’

The murderous attack from the air on defenceless civilians, in cynical pursuit of political aims is met with horror in the case of Ukraine, and in the case of Palestinians with indifference.
The glaring double standard is shameful. #Sumy #Gaza
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In Ireland, since Covid there has been a strong sustained increase in teen employment, especially for girls working part-time.
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(Boys have higher rates for working full-time, so overall employment rates are fairly equal.)

Caving disguised as divide and rule.
The EU and other countries should not indulge the bully and be seduced by his blatant attempt to make China the fall guy.

How about odious and obsequious? 🤔

Brings home the full insanity of it all. USA dismantling production in an area, clean energy, where it had (thanks to IRA) a good claim to comparative advantage. And raising #tariffs against countries like Vietnam so as to reshore footwear and low-end electronics production 🙄

Oh and the climate...

The silences produced by the generic framing of Trump as authoritarian, or Trump v. the constitution are not merely happenstance. Many of those defending universities are uncomfortable naming the crackdowns on pro-Palestinian, Israel-critical speech that have helped shape the Trump administration's most aggressive attacks on academia to date. Matters are not helped by the fact that the University administration makes a show of actually embracing the charges as a reasonable description of the situation on campus and a matter of the utmost urgency. Rather than addressing this concession head on, the resistance sidesteps it by aligning Trump with Erdogan or Orban, or treating him as a threat to the 1st Amendment. The result is an incomplete and incoherent account of how we have ended up where we are at.

Great essay by @adamtooze.bsky.social that explores why Palestine is so central to US campus politics. This section is worth highlighting, as it articulates the shortcomings of framing anti-Palestine repression primarily through discourses of free speech or Democracy v Authoritarianism (link below)

I’m just a girl standing in front of a boy telling him it’s not true he has become more right-wing… it is me who has become more left-wing 🫠

Belatedly and agonisingly slowly, US support for Israel is declining and sympathy for Palestinians rising. But by the time the curves cross and US backing of the slaughter stops, it may well be too late. 💔
(Via @adamtooze.bsky.social)

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Je suis Khalil The fate of the detained Columbia University graduate is a test of how easily Trump can slide into lawlessness

Excellent piece by @edwardluce.bsky.social ! Thank you Ed for speaking out.
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NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s

What should we make of this?

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