Tarek Anous

🚨 Breaking: Israeli forces raided Birzeit University north of Ramallah on Monday, storming the campus, injuring students, and detaining several people, according to Anadolu Agency and other outlets. At least 11 Palestinian students were injured, some by live fire and others by tear gas inhalation and shrapnel, and were treated in hospital, Anadolu reported. Witnesses said Israeli troops smashed the main gate, entered multiple university buildings, and fired tear gas, stun grenades, and live ammunition as students fled across campus. Several students, journalists, and the university’s vice president for academic affairs were detained during the operation, according to Xinhua. Israeli forces also seized equipment and property belonging to student groups, the Times of Israel reported. The raid followed a student event held in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails and coincided with preparations to screen the film “Hind Rajab,” which documents Israel’s murder of the five-year-old child during Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Israeli forces entered the campus shortly before the scheduled screening, which had been organized as part of student-led activities, Anadolu reported.

הארץ חדשות @haaretznewsvid Translated from Hebrew Documentation: Students at Birzeit University near Ramallah flee as gunfire is heard in the background, today. Use according to section 27A of the Copyright Law

🚨 Breaking: Israeli forces raided Birzeit University north of Ramallah on Mon., storming the campus, injuring students and detaining several people, according to Anadolu Agency & other outlets.

At least 11 Palestinian students were injured, some by live fire and others by tear gas inhalation and...

That ship set sail in Gaza

overthrowing govs, sending people to detention facilities for torture, cutting taxes for the rich, slashing social spending for the poor, increasing military spending, promoting christian nationalism, demonizing gays, surveilling citizens under "national security." same old GOP.

Statement in response to historic tweets I am shaken that, just as I am being reunited with my family for the first time in 12 years, several historic tweets of mine have been republished and used to question and attack my integrity and valu...

I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.

Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.

#FreeAlaa Always.

freealaa.net/alaa-response

YouTube video by visionsdureel Trailer | Coexistence, my Ass! | Amber Fares

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By the way Noam shuster's doc "coexistence my ass" is so fucking good. You can rent and stream it off kinema now

Rifftrax commentary is the only thing that can make that movie bearable 😅

Amazing how legacy media panics over a leftist mayor, compared to how chill they were about an actual fascist becoming president. Really clarifies their priorities.

See new posts Conversation איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh @AyOdeh Translated from Hebrew Ben Gvir's police force has been operating in Tura al-Sharqiya in the Negev for four days already. Hundreds of police officers arrived at the settlement, not to enforce the law but to participate in the TikTok Minister's propaganda videos. And in the end, it turns out: they came to arrest children. Ben Gvir is weak against criminals, and strong only against children. Rate this translation:

“Ben Gvir is weak against criminals, and strong only against children.”

— Israel’s Knesset member Ayman Odeh writes. Read below.

See new posts Conversation איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh @AyOdeh Translated from Hebrew This is what the home of a 60-year-old citizen in the country—an activist against crime—looks like after Ben-Gvir's police raided it on the claim that it contained weapons. What did they actually find? A folded Palestinian flag in the closet, and a few magnets on the fridge. And while organized crime rages in our streets, and real weapons flow freely, the Kahane government isn’t fighting crime; it’s fighting those who truly oppose it, and mainly the Arab citizens. Rate this translation:

⭕️ December 2025 monthly briefing by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society documents the latest in Israel’s “campaign of extermination” inside Israel’s prison and military detention system, currently holding more than 9,300 Palestinian prisoners. Based on dozens of lawyer visits, the report notes Israel has institutionalized torture, starvation, and medical neglect as policy since the start of the Gaza genocide, treating prisons and military camps as extensions of that war. Prisoners are beaten daily, denied food and treatment, frozen through winter, completely isolated from families and lawyers, and deliberately humiliated. Women, children, the sick, political leaders, and Palestinian civilians abducted from Gaza are all subjected to the this system. The report describes practices that constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, while Israeli courts and authorities continue providing cover. Key findings in thread below 🧵👇

See new posts Conversation Ryan Grim @ryangrim · Dec 26 I think it’s hard for people to fathom what daily life in these Israeli detention centers is like. Hell on earth. Quote Workshops4Gaza @Workshops4Gaza · Dec 26 We need more interviews like this from recently released prisoners. Exposing what they deliberately try to cover up and hide is also resistance. x.com/infinite_jaz/s…

Ryan Grim @ryangrim For instance Quote TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza · Dec 27 Israeli occupation forces released a detainee from Gaza after he lost both of his eyes due to torture inside the detention facility.

⭕️ Dec. 2025 monthly briefing by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society documents the latest in Israel’s “campaign of extermination” inside Israel’s prison & military detention system, currently holding more than 9,300 Palestinian...

Key findings in thread below 🧵👇

Cartoonishly evil stuff here

Abd el-Fattah's historic tweets are leading to calls for his UK citizenship to be revoked, and a UK Government review of his case, while Nigel Farage's history of racism and Nazi goose-stepping has led to a few Guardian front pages.

New Egyptian museum brings fresh pressure for return of Nefertiti’s bust One of Egypt’s most famous and beautiful artifacts lies in a Berlin museum, and the calls for its return have received a renewed push with the opening of a new museum.

Over 100 years after a 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti was first taken to Berlin, the largest effort to bring her back to her homeland is underway.

But German museum authorities are hardly eager to hand over one of the country’s most famous artifacts.

Donald Trump just bombed a hospital on Christmas. But a cashier at Target said "Happy Holidays" to me when I was doing a return this morning. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.

“The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race.”

Such a good @adamserwer.bsky.social piece.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat...

I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

if you're not dropping n bombs in the group chat, can you really be trusted?

Yes, but it’s not a “nuclear option.” It’s the most basic, obvious, conventional option available if you want to actually do something effective. The fact that they’re not immediately promising it en masse tells us something, and that something is not good.

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

"Suck it up, raise your game, success isn't a birthright" is a good response to modest unfairnesses. It's a message that stops selling when the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding people of your race and sex at all.

The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them

TLDR: Proportional representation would prevent the undemocratic allocation of federal seats away from parties that lost elections by narrow margins.

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.

3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.

4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.

It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.

Story to come.

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Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’ Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’

Hunger strikes by prisoners protesting human-rights abuses are commonplace in my home country, Egypt. Looks like the practice has followed me here, as has the apathy of our politicians.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

Sitting in a comfortable home with a steady income; living a life of almost unbearable tedium and routine; fantasizing about the psychopathologies potentially unleashed by the fall of civil society, the only freedom still possible for him.

People who couldn't handle the mild inconvenience of social distancing are somehow going to endure the far more immense disruption of getting randomly shot by their neighbors?

Sure, ok 👍👍

It's wrong to accuse Pete Hegseth of murder: those two Venezuelans had pre-existing health conditions.

by Bret Stephens