Middle East, international politics & Director @Caabu Council for Arab-British Understanding. Views mine alone https://xitter.cf/t.co/re36Ty0I3z

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Reportedly .... the details of this incident are not clear. Any independent verification?
Netanyahu vows vicious reprisals after 2 Palestinian gunmen attacked Israeli troops near Hebron. Is it a surprise that after decades of illegal Occupation, killings, home demolitions and land theft, Palestinians fought back? haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…
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Satellite images reveal widespread destruction in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon, with homes and heritage sites reduced to rubble, raising questions about the future of forcibly displaced residents. Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports.
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I covered the first intifada with @SarahHelm1 , the last time the IDF shooting Palestinians kids made the headlines. We witnessed brutality & injustice we will never forget "How a U.K. Official’s Wife Set Off a Debate Over Free Speech and Palestinians" nytimes.com/2026/10/23/world…
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Truly appalled by this senseless and unprovoked attack on funeral attendees in Karak, Jordan. My thoughts are with the injured and families of the dead.
BREAKING: At least seven people killed after gunmen open fire at church in Jordan Read more: aje.news/0wymgc
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بيان وزاري مشترك بشأن خطر حدوث مجاعة في #السودان يدعو الطرفين المتحاربين إلى: 👈التصريح بدخول العمليات الإنسانية إلى أنحاء السودان 👈حماية موظفي العمل الإنساني 👈الكف عن ضرب البنية التحتية المدنية كما يدعو المجتمع المدني إلى زيادة التمويل استجابة للاحتياجات المتنامية gov.uk/government/news/joint…
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Having failed to start a war with Iran, Netsnyahu, 4 days before the elections hopes to spark the 3rd Intifada with aggressive collective punishment in Hebron. He also seems hell-bent on dispelling any doubt that he is indeed a war criminal.
Netanyahu: We'll apply the 'aggressive' counterterrorism model to the Hebron neighborhood the terrorists came from: evacuate residents, search house to house and destroy terror infrastructure
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Highly misleading. Israel issues yellow plates for cars registered in Israel and in settlements but they can drive in West Bank too. The Palestinian Authority issues a different coloured plate but Israeli authorities decide where those vehicles can and cannot go, incl on which roads. Bottom line - Israeli soldiers can determine through the plates if the car is Palestinian from the West Bank, outside Jerusalem. Cars with Palestinian plates get held up at checkpoints. Cars with Israeli plates typcially never do.
A straightforward lie. All plates issued by Israel are the same. If a plate isn't issued by Israel, it's not an Israeli plate.
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UK antisemitism report questioned as 'three in five' student claim and other findings fall apart
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What details of this attack have been independently confirmed?
Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the full closure of the West Bank after suspected Palestinian gunmen were shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Five Israelis were wounded and two remain in critical condition after a 20-minute shoot-out at the Judea Junction near Hebron⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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When the government announced the review, the terms of reference stated: “It is not a review of the level of antisemitism in schools and colleges.” Yet the alleged level because the headline - based on a sample of 70 students. 29 said they'd personally experienced antisemitism
The government's antisemitism in schools report is a travesty. It's riddled with errors, distortions and contradictions. And it will be used to silence people over Palestine 👇 zeteo.uk/p/debunked-the-anti…
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We need answers to this. It is a very serious issue.
The frustrating thing about the Bell report is that this is a v serious topic. In the wake of the genocide I've no doubt this is a really difficult time for Jewish kids in schools, through no fault of their own. A serious, professional study of the difficulties they face and a thoughtful, sensitive analysis of how they might be tackled - without victimising other children who are traumatised by the genocide - would be very useful. Instead we get this half baked, amateurish, patently partisan hit job that basically extends the antisemitism smear to Britain's children. It is absolutely shocking that the government has said it will simply adopt it unquestioningly. If implemented it is likely to do enormous damage to how other children view Jewish kids in schools. youtube.com/watch?v=6pEiZYoR…
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Eliora Kolichman is a candidate for the opposition party Yisrael Betenu. Here, she is criticizing Netanyahu and Smotrich for being too soft on Gaza and calling for cutting off electricity and water and leading to a Palestinian state. This is the Israeli opposition. A different flavor of genocide.
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Let's be clear. A closure/lockdown of Hebron means a closure for Palestinians. Israeli settlers will just continue their lives as usual.
Israeli PM Netanyahu says he has instructed the military and security forces to ‘immediately impose a closure on the city of Hebron’. The move follows an early-morning shooting at the city’s northern entrance. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/qsl91b
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Can you ever imagine a BBC presenter saying "I'm sure many on the Hamas side would dispute the use of the word terrorism"? They'd be sacked the same minute! Anti-Palestinian racism is so deeply normalized
BBC presenter after Anton Goodman refers to settler terrorism in the occupied West Bank "I'm sure many on the settler side would dispute the use of the word terrorism"
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The news site @MadaMasr has been a light in the darkness of Egyptian and Middle East journalism for the last decade, and @linaattalah the shining star at its helm. Frightening and worrying that the authorities should be coming after them now.
Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah was referred to trial on Thursday on charges of establishing and managing a website without a license. Sessions will begin on October 27, according to lawyer Hassan al-Azhari, Mada Masr’s legal counsel, who described the “haste” in the trial referral, which came just hours after the interrogation closed, and its scheduling for the coming week as “unjustified urgency” given the absence of circumstances in the case that require rapid resolution. storage.googleapis.com/madam…
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Pleased to announce the return of the @CheveningFCDO programme to #Oman, as part of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik’s state visit to the UK. Investing in the leaders of tomorrow will strengthen the connections between our two countries for generations to come. 🇬🇧🤝🇴🇲
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My mother has been planning for this for years. My estimate is that she has enough stores for at least two weeks probably more.
🚨This is well worth downloading - it is a v useful guide about the kind of supplies you and your household might need to be self sufficient for 72 hours in the event of an emergency - from a flood or a power cut to war: beready.campaign.gov.uk/wp-c…
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Israel army stepped up attacks in southern #Syria. On Thursday a man w/ disability killed by fire during an incursion into the village of Jamla in Deraa province.The Syrian Foreign Ministry has condemned "the intensification of incursions by Israeli occupation" in Quneitra, Deraa
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Boasting of ethnic cleansing
NEW: Netanyahu says he is working "a great deal" with third-party countries to facilitate the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. "The problem is the countries that would receive them. We are working on that too. I am working on it a great deal, and there are beginnings. I don't want to go into detail."
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