John Lyndon

Big news: UK will host March meeting to launch Int Fund for 🇮🇱🇵🇸 Peace. Allowing scaling of civil society peacebuilding at moment when future is more contested than in living memory. Can help ensure those committed to peace & equality write the next I/P chapter

www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2025...

Is civil society the missing piece in post-Gaza diplomacy?  | Euractiv Palestinians and Israelis are painfully aware that the status quo has failed them. In such a moment, the ideas that take hold – whether constructive or destructive – will shape the future for a genera...

Excellent piece by ALLMEP’s Brian Reeves on civil society’s role in Gaza & wider I/P diplomacy:
“Civil society stands ready to build the ground game that turns political frameworks into lived reality.
It is time for the international community to meet them halfway.”
www.euractiv.com/opinion/is-c...

Would hope I’ll make something by time summer swings around!

Radiohead in London on Monday, Wolf Alice in Paris on Tuesday.
Both amazing (tho very different!) shows. And as an overworked father of two small kids: prob my gig-quota for six months, filled in 24hrs

Proud to join- and grateful to- the 80+ Palestinian & Israeli ALLMEP members who came out to meet today to strategise about the way ahead. And how civil society can buttress this fragile (esp in recent hours) ceasefire, & lay groundwork for it becoming something much more transformative and lasting

Every heart should soar to see Israeli captives home w/ their families. Oct. 7, 2023 was an atrocity.

*And* we must recall that, of the ~2000 Palestinians released in exchange, many were innocent captives of Israel, which prohibits them from speaking to media once released

@johnlyndon.bsky.social

“Finally, we will be able to close this dark chapter & move on to the next chapter of Israeli-Palestinian peace.”

Exactly the right attitude. Celebrate this reprieve & the lives it will save. But make this *a first step toward actual peace,* which requires ending the occupation.

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More details will come, and long road ahead. But guns are falling silent, hostages are returning, aid is reaching Gaza, and parents may reunite with their kids. No one should go to bed fearing for their life or loved ones. Many will feel that vital thing: HOPE.
For the first time in v long time…

2yrs since one of worst days in living memory, catalysing darkest/most dehumanised period in 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 history. My hope is that historians speak of this nightmare as prologue. With a turn toward peace & equality from those now staring into abyss. Proud to know many people working everyday to make that so

Haunting pictures of people wandering in the displacement camp near the Al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza after a drone attack, yesterday.

📸 Zaher Saleh

Most non Jews don’t know how securitised Jewish spaces now are. Guards (often armed), metal detectors, security doors. I’ve spoken at mosques, churches etc: No other faith has this, is targeted as frequently nor is subject to as much/any whataboutism or geopolitical context when threatened or scared

Bomb proof doors. Barbed wire. Coordinating with police. Community security service. Drilling congregants about the security protocol. Withholding the details of events publicly for security reasons. Always being on high alert. The list goes on.

And it’s still not enough.

What more can we do?

The Day After: How Israelis, Palestinians and global peacebuilders seek to shape a new way forward

Good to join @whilderbrandt.bsky.social to discuss how France & Saudi Arabia made ending Gaza War & the TSS the chief themes of #UNGA80; Macron roundtable with ALLMEP & I/P civil society; & how POTUS can transform trajectory of events on Mon with Bibi meeting

www.france24.com/en/video/202...

Thx Anna! We presented to Macron and Barrot in UNGA on monday and the data also had impact. We’ll do some more surveys in coming weeks and see how trajectory is changed by events this week

Thanks Anna. The margin of error is 5.8% as we prioritised doing three consecutive studies (April, May, Aug) to track trends. Rather than one bigger snapshot. But it you subtract the margin the findings still fairly definitive

Good to join @f24debate.france24.com to discuss ALLMEP & @parispeaceforum.bsky.social civil society roundtable w/ Macron at #UNGA80 as Pal state recognised. With:
✅ new ALLMEP poll showing 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 🇺🇸 support for regional TSS deal
✅ vital role civil society must play on the ground in making it a reality

🇺🇳🇮🇱🇵🇸It might actually be a positive that Trump's hour-long speech before #UNGA barely mentioned efforts for a two-state solution, argues ALLMEP's @johnlyndon.bsky.social
Could U.S. position be in flux at this "fork in the road moment" for Israelis and Palestinians?

Full show ➡️ f24.my/BSFK

Smotrich: the Gaza Strip is a real estate bonanza, we're already discussing with the US how to parcel the land

Dozens of settlers injured at least ten, inc man & woman in 80s, 13yo boy & a pepper sprayed 6 month old baby.
All less than 40 days since civil society activist Awdah Hathaleen was murdered by Yinon Levi. Who was since released & could plausibly have been involved last night.

Total impunity

Defense chiefs to Netanyahu: Gaza City takeover won't defeat Hamas, push for limited deal ***

- All heads of security branches favour ceasefire, say op won’t defeat Hamas.
- Likud ministers Sa'ar, Gamliel, Levin (!!) & Amsalem had tough Qs- latter warned of “Israel’s Vietnam”

Yet operation grinds forward. As does hasbara pretending this is all normal and fine
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Dutch and Swedish foreign ministers send joint letter to the EU foreign affairs chief urging tougher action on Gaza/Israel.
Note penultimate bullet point: the Commission is supposed to have drawn up an analysis about whether the EU itself is in compliance with International Court of Justice opinion

No, quite the opposite. It is an atrocity and I have no time for people denying it

Fifth time IPC declared famine in 20yrs, first time outside Africa, & pretty sure first time where McDonalds is 20min drive away.

I’m not really interested in blame game. And have no time for atrocity deniers. Israel and Egypt should open 👏 every 👏 single 👏 crossing, and flood Gaza with food

Now at the Gaza border: Hundreds of Jews and Palestinians calling to stop the annihilation, let aid in, and end this madness!!!

“We need the people to act for our justice. I think it’s the last time, it’s the last chance.”

Awdah Hathaleen was a light for our community. Yesterday, he was murdered by a settler. May his memory be a revolution.

In his own words on ALLMEP’s Groundwork podcast:

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Gazans fear being forgotten: ‘They keep bombing. We keep dying.’ Palestinians in Gaza say they are contending daily with deadly air strikes and widespread hunger. But they fear the world is looking away, as the Israel-Iran war has pushed the Israel-Hamas war from f...

Gazans fear being forgotten: ‘They keep bombing. We keep dying.’

“Starvation is killing us. I used to grow everything we ate. Now I stand in line and pray we don’t die trying to feed our children.”

Ghada Abdulfattah

www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...

Earlier today Netanyahu’s office denied the nytimes report about the difficult conversation between him and Trump where T said Israel shouldn’t strike Iran now.
Netanyahu’s office also denied the existence of a new US proposal on Gaza. Witkoff now says IS will send its new term sheet.

YouTube video by Tanaferry David Bowie - Cracked Actor - BBC Documentary - Diamond Dogs / Soul Tour - 1975 (2013 Broadcast)

RIP Alan Yentob. A real one.
We’ve got used to being told we can’t have folks as interesting as him at commanding heights of culture.
It’s worth asking why that is…
In interim, here’s his 1975 masterpiece, “Cracked Actor”, on Bowie at moment of psychic implosion

youtu.be/UlJoN9DHUdI?...

Exclusive: Iran-Iraq-Israel prisoner swap 'nearing' execution Amid progress in nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States, a complex prisoner exchange between Iraq, Iran and Israel is nearing implementation. The highly rare swap entails members of L...

Hoping this is true. Bring Liz home.

Exclusive: Iran-Iraq-Israel prisoner swap 'nearing' execution

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“Tzedek tzedek tirdof— Justice, justice shall you pursue.”

Tzedek for *all* the victims. And those who made them that way. Whether slain in kibbutzim, bombed from the air, or starved to death. From Oct 7th til the day this abomination is ended, and from the Jordan to the Mediterranean