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Graham Bartholomew retweeted
💢 Israeli forces have mostly leveled 48 of the roughly 60 villages and towns in occupied southern Lebanon, according to a New York Times analysis. Most of the destruction came after the April ceasefire.
The Times found the razing was largely carried out through controlled demolitions. Nearly all the destroyed villages were majority Shia, while Christian, Druze and Sunni villages were largely spared. About 270,000 people remain barred from returning home.
🔗 Story linked below.
This does not worry the Lebanese ruling regime:
“Today, 48 of the roughly 60 villages and towns within Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon are mostly leveled, the Times analysis shows.”
Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Intensified After the Cease-Fire nytimes.com/interactive/2026… via @NYTimes
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
This story is insane.
The Palestinian Bedouin Israeli Yusef Alziadna is widely regarded as a hero in Israel after having saved 30 lives on Oct. 7.
Today, in recognition of his bravery, Israeli security forces arrived at his home with bulldozers & demolished the foundations of his family's home. They also demolished his storage shed & a chicken coop & damaged the area used by his brother’s flock of sheep.
It's not just his own property -- it's the whole neighborhood Israel wants to destroy. 65 demolition orders hang over the homes in the neighborhood. Just a week ago, his nephew got married; shortly before the wedding, he, too, had received a demolition order for his home. When the bulldozers arrived, it turned out that the newlywed had already demolished his own home to avoid a forced demolition.
There is 1 and only 1 reason Israel is trying to wipe Yusef's neighborhood off the map:
Yusef and his family have P-positive DNA. They are Palestinian Arab Bedouin, not Jewish. But Israel is a state for people with J-positive DNA. Jews. That means Israel will do whatever it can to push Yusef, his family and community off their land, because they have the wrong DNA.
Rahat itself was constructed decades ago to force Bedouins off their ancestral lands in the Naqb, into settled communities where they would have no access to land where they could tend to their flocks of goat, sheep, animals, etc.
Today, Yosef was scheduled to give an interview on Reshet Bet and recount once again how he saved... ...many on October 7th. He cancelled the interview. Instead of coming to the studio, he invites people to come to him and see what the bulldozers did in his neighborhood today. mekomit.co.il/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D…
Yosef Alziadna was one of the great heroes of October 7th. That morning he was asleep in bed when a friend called him to help. Alziadna drove past Be'eri under fire, reached the party grounds and packed 30 people into his 14-seat minibus.
Today, the State of Israel destroyed his storage shed and chicken coop, tore out what was left of his nephew's house (the nephew had already knocked it down himself to avoid a forced demolition), and damaged land.
This is how Israel treats its Palestinian citizens. No matter how much you serve the Zionist regime, you will remain subhuman to them.
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
L’ex vicepresidente del Parlamento israeliano, Moshe Feiglin, sostiene che la morale ebraica imponga di “spazzare via” Gaza, annettere la Cisgiordania occupata e cacciare il popolo palestinese dalle loro terre.
Alla domanda: «È un punto di vista ebraico voler spazzare via tutta Gaza e annettere la Cisgiordania?», Feiglin risponde senza esitazioni: «Al cento per cento».
E NON si ferma lì. Per Feiglin, tutti i palestinesi di Gaza - compresi i bambini appena nati - sarebbero “il nemico”, non soltanto Hamas.
«Ogni bambino, ogni neonato a Gaza è un nemico», ha dichiarato esplicitamente lo scorso anno. «Il nemico non è Hamas».
Condannare questo incitamento allo sterminio, denunciare chi predica l’espulsione collettiva, la pulizia etnica, la distruzione di una popolazione e la disumanizzazione dei bambini, NON è antisemitismo. È il minimo dovere morale di chi rifiuta il genocidio coloniale e le barbarie e la carneficina in corso contro i civili.
Eppure, i propagandisti filo genocidio israeliano e sostenitori dell’impunità, cercano di rovesciare la realtà: pretendono di presentarci come “vittime” coloro che hanno ucciso Hind Rajab sotto una pioggia di proiettili - 335 - mentre dipingono come “estremisti” gli umanisti, i medici, i giuristi e tutti coloro che chiedono semplicemente una cosa: fermare il massacro, proteggere i bambini, porre fine al genocidio.
Non si può accettare questa inversione morale.
Non si può normalizzare la propaganda israeliana che definisce “nemico” un neonato.
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
Si tratta di una delle distruzioni più disumane e documentate al mondo. Perfino i soldati dell’#IDF che le mettono in atto si riprendono orgogliosamente e pubblicano i video sui social network. Eppure, nonostante tutto questo, c’è ancora chi continua a negare la cruda realtà che stiamo vedendo in #Palestina, in #Libano e anche in #Siria.
Un esercito che occupa, distrugge e commette crimini di guerra. Tutto sotto i nostri occhi!
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
dropsitenews.com/p/minab-sch…
Please share this story with as many people as you can.
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
🚨🇶🇦 Qatar's prime minister said Hamas agreed on the first day of the war on Gaza to “release all civilian hostages,” asking only for a ceasefire window to get them out, and Israel refused to even "entertain the idea."
"We got an agreement" to release "all the civilian hostages," Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told Piers Morgan. Israeli officials replied that if Hamas wanted to free them, it should do so without a pause in fighting, he said.
His on-record account follows a Haaretz report this month that he relayed the offer to then-Mossad chief David Barnea on the evening of Oct. 7.
🎥 Piers Morgan Uncensored (YouTube)
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
Okay, so I noticed that most, if not all, of the accounts sharing Google Maps’ latest satellite imagery have focused on the city of Rafah.
But from my previous coverage, I remember documenting how Israel wiped out the village of Khuza’a, west of Khan Younis, as well as the city of Abasan al-Kabira.
Looking at these images, it feels as if someone took each of these houses, put them in a pestle, and crushed and ground them with a mortar.
I generated a link to the area so you can all look for yourselves on your own devices.
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
"נוח לחשוב על האלימות בגדה כמעשה של כמה 'פסיכים מהגבעות'. אבל כמה נערים על ריינג'רים לא יכולים להשתלט על כמיליון דונם, להקים מאות מאחזים ולגרש עשרות קהילות. בשביל זה צריך מדינה: קרקע, תקציבים, תשתיות והגנה צבאית; מערכת שבה הרועה הפלסטיני נתון למשפט צבאי, והמתנחל הישראלי למשפט אזרחי; וציבור שמוכן לקבל את כל זה", כותבת יולי נובק, מנכ"לית בצלם במאמר ב-@Haaretz ומרחיבה: "זהו פרויקט המחיקה: לא אלימות של כמה קיצונים, אלא פעולה של מדינה שמפרקת את התנאים שמאפשרים לפלסטינים להישאר בגדה ולקיים בה חיים כחברה"
לקריאת המאמר המלא >>
haaretz.co.il/2026-09-17/ty-…
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
RIP to the 2,976 people that lost their lives on 9/11.
And RIP to the 3.7 million people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan who paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit.
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
An implacable, clinical takedown of the Board of Peace’s record in Gaza:
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
Cette photo mérite absolument tous les prix. Elle a même sa place au Louvre.
Elle relate précisément l’inertie de l’individu face à l’effondrement.
Regardez la composition. Un chef-d’œuvre involontaire.
Au premier plan, le sable doré, les tongs abandonnées, la glacière. Le décor ordinaire du bonheur estival. Deux personnages assis, de dos, comme dans un tableau de Caspar David Friedrich. Sauf que Friedrich peignait des hommes contemplant le sublime. Ici, ils contemplent la catastrophe. Et ils ne bougent pas.
Au centre, le parasol. Publicitaire, criard, dérisoire. Un pastis face à l’apocalypse. C’est presque trop parfait : la France qui prend l’apéro pendant que le monde brûle. Aucun scénariste n’aurait osé.
Et puis le ciel. Les deux tiers de l’image. Cette muraille de fumée qui avale la lumière, ce dégradé d’ocre et de noir digne d’un Turner. La nature qui reprend la palette des maîtres pour peindre notre propre fin.
La femme photographie l’incendie avec son téléphone. Mise en abyme totale : nous documentons notre disparition au lieu de l’empêcher.
Cette image dit tout. Le déni, le confort, l’habitude. Nous sommes tous sur cette plage. Nous voyons tous le nuage. Et nous restons assis, parce que l’eau est bonne et qu’on a posé nos congés.
Les historiens de l’art parleront un jour de cette photo comme on parle du Radeau de la Méduse.
Sauf que cette fois, le naufrage, c’est nous qui le regardons depuis la plage.
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Noooo 😭😭😭
Sam Neill, the versatile actor who appeared in more than 150 productions including the “Jurassic Park” series, has died. He was 78.
nyti.ms/4pikYu7
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
CAA released a statement calling out the privacy risks of Meta‘s new AI model Muse Image, which gives users the ability to create an AI photo of someone just by plugging in their public Instagram handle.
variety.com/2026/digital/new…
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
On AI Appreciation Day (July 16), Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is hosting a special event in LA to celebrate "AI Un-Appreciation Day" 👏
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62
More on their new report ➡️ bit.ly/4uXq9kD
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
"Controlamos entre el 60%-70% de la Franja de Gaza, estamos destruyendo toda su estructura, todo el mundo sabe lo que esto significa. Gaza se quedará en ruinas y los habitantes tendrán que migrar porque alli no habrá nada donde vivir en las próximas décadas".
Bezalel Smotrich, ministro de Finanzas de "Israel", habla orgulloso de la limpieza étnica y la destrucción sistemática que perpetran en Gaza, asegurando que el objetivo es hacerla inhabitable para que los palestinos tengan que huir de allí.
En mundo medio normal, después de que un ministro suelte esta barbaridad, tendría que ser detenido inmediatamente por crímenes de lesa de humanidad.
When is the world going to stop these monsters?
⭕️ Israel’s far right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir responds to Vice President JD Vance: “For every tear shed by an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers should cry. All of Lebanon should burn.”
He writes:
“With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not up for grabs. All of Lebanon should burn. Our highest duty is to protect Israel’s citizens and IDF soldiers, and that commitment comes before any other consideration.
I tell the Prime Minister, including in our meetings: for every tear shed by an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers should cry.
Enough with the ping-pong. In the Middle East, you do not win through measured responses and restraint. You have to go crazy. Erase. Defeat terrorism.”
Graham Bartholomew retweeted
If you were to write this headline or article in a variety of US, UK, German or French media outlets, your career might be on the line and you’d probably be accused of antisemitism.
And yet the author of this piece is a former prime minister for Israel.
haaretz.com/opinion/2026-06-…
