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@peterbeinart.bsky.social's new book is "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza." He says it is "addressed to my fellow Jews and trying to say that something has gone catastrophically wrong in our community."

www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/pet...

Trump to impose sanctions on ICC over Israel arrest warrants The US president is due to order financial and visa sanctions on individuals and their family members who assist in ICC investigations of US citizens or US allies

Trump to impose sanctions on ICC over Israel arrest warrants - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-impose-sanctions-international-criminal-court-says-white-house-official

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Netanyahu-Trump visit does two things:
1) normalizes international travel for an accused war criminal = US middle finger to ICC and rule of (international) law
2) idea of US invasion of Gaza normalizes expulsions & forceful territorial conquest = US middle finger to rule of (int'l) law and norms

Kartalkaya'da can kaybı 76'ya yükseldi İçişleri Bakanı Yerlikaya Kartalkaya'daki otel yangınında can kaybının 76'ya yükseldiğini açıkladı: 9 kişi gözaltında. 56 naaşın kimlikleri tespit edildi, 45'i ailelerine teslim edildi.

76 people lost their lives in ski resort fire in Bolu, Turkey. Unfathomable loss. May all rest in peace.
Kartalkaya'da can kaybı 76'ya yükseldi
www.gazeteduvar.com.tr/kartalkayada...

CONFIRMED

Syria's Interim Justice Minister Shadi Al-Waisi, is seen sentencing/overseeing death penalty of women for adultery/prostitution, as a part of Al Nusra Front's application of Sharia law back in January 2015 in areas the front controlled in Idlib.

1/5

Uncertainty looms for female judges in post-Assad Syria As Syria transitions under HTS control, female judges fear their hard-won roles in the judiciary may be eliminated under the new leadership's policies

www.newarab.com/features/unc...?

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Ann Telnaes quit the washington post saying “ I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, “Democracy dies in darkness”. open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Israeli Settlement Plans: "Within a Year, We Will Be Living in Gaza" The Israeli army is systematically destroying towns in northern Gaza and expelling the population, DER SPIEGEL reporting has found. It is laying the groundwork for a military occupation - and for the ...

"The path we are being led down is one of conquest, annexation and ethnic cleansing,” warns the former Israeli general, Moshe Ya’alon
www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Over the next four years there'll be a fair amount of (justified) moralizing about the rule of law.

Worth recognizing that the Biden admin's disregard for US & int'l law in providing military support to Israel has itself been corrosive to the rule of law & norms of executive branch lawyering.

Emmioğlu Ferdi Tayfur · Prangalar · Song · 1992

RIP Ferdi Tayfur open.spotify.com/track/0LQzDa...

Let’s be hopeful for 2025.

​​​​​​​Jimmy Carter: The US President who shaped the modern Middle East dies aged 100 The engineer of the peace deal between Egypt and Israel later saw his presidency paralysed by the Iran hostage crisis

www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-pres...

Almost one in five children live in conflict zones, says Unicef UN humanitarian body warns that dramatic increase in harm to children should not become the ‘new normal’ Nearly one in five of the world’s children live in areas affected by conflicts, with more than 473 million children suffering from the worst levels…

Almost one in five children live in conflict zones, says Unicef

DAMASCUS

Families gathered in Damascus’ Al-Hijaz today, holding photos of forcibly disappeared loved ones and demanding continued searches, rejecting claims they are all dead. The demonstration called for uncovering the truth and achieving justice for Syria's missing.

#Syria

IDF confession

IDF confessions

IDF confessoons

This Haaretz piece of IDF soldiers’ confessions of human rights violations absolutely wrecked me

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...

Five Thoughts on Syria's Unfrozen Conflict Plus say farewell, or good riddance, to 2024 with our final MENA Academy roundup

Five Thoughts on Syria’s Suddenly Unfrozen Conflict - new post by me.

abuaardvark.substack.com/p/five-thoug...

US judge finds Israel's NSO Group liable for hacking in WhatsApp lawsuit A U.S. judge ruled on Friday in favor of Meta Platform Inc's WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.

This is a big deal. It means a modicum of accountability for NSO Group, the world's most notorious monger of malicious spyware. And it's a warning to the many other outfits that are making money by helping terrible regimes persecute journalists, human rights activists, and political dissidents.

Take a listen to my dear friend Nergis talk about her new book

An Indian state used citizens’ data on political beliefs to deny benefits Andhra Pradesh’s governing party weaponised data to wrongfully deny welfare benefits to opposition-inclined voters.

Personal data weaponized for political gain and denial of rights
aje.io/qos4nr

Can the International Criminal Court survive the next four years? The arrest warrants it issued for Israeli leaders left the court facing an existential threat.

The future of the ICC is on the line. aje.io/3ipxge

True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave His prisons held hundreds of thousands of people: relentlessly tortured and abused, many of them did not survive.

Must watch Channel 4 report on the mass graves in Syria, with over 100,000 dead estimated to be buried in just one site. The challenge to forensically document these sites will be huge.
www.channel4.com/news/true-sc...

Hüsnü Öndül, the doyen of Turkey’s human rights movement has lost his life. May he rest in peace.

🧵 It is incredulous that within just days of the Assad regime's fall, a number of European countries, including Germany, Austria, Denmark, and others have announced pauses in the processing of asylum applications. (1)

Syrians, in a triumph of hope, turn the page on the horrors of Assad The Syrian revolution is profoundly significant to those who suffered suffocating repression, surveillance and everyday indignities under a brutal dictator.

Syrians, in a triumph of hope, turn the page on the horrors of Assad. The latest piece by @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social theconversation.com/syrians-in-a...

WOWWOWIWOWOWOWWO

A historic moment from Omayyad Square, the Free Syrian Army in the heart of Damascus.

DAMASCUS:

From the heart of Damascus, in Ummayyad Square, those celebrating this monumental event and those fleeing the city now breathe the same air, as opposition forces move to fully take over.

Assad reportedly left the country hours ago.

ITS OVER

The Assad family’s 53-year strangulation of Syria ended today. Like many Syrians, I’m speechless - all I can keep thinking is that for the first time in 15 years, I’ll be going home.

Artwork by Hani Abbas: “The first time the sun rises at night.”