professor media criticism, accountability, critical media literacies, MENA @LSEMiddleEast @UniWestminster. Ed board @journstudies & Internl Journ. of Comm.
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New & OPEN ACCESS in @thirdworldq
"Gaza as diagnostic: genocide, power, and the unraveling of the Global North"
My introduction to this special issue, co-edited with professor @i_fraihat reads Gaza not as an exception but as a diagnostic site, exposing the structural crisis of the Global North: state complicity, the ethical collapse of Western media, the weaponisation of aid, the selective enforcement of international law, and the repression of dissent at home.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/01436597.202…
#Gaza #Palestine #GlobalSouth #SettlerColonialism #MediaStudies #Genocide #DecolonialStudies #AcademicChatter
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Went on BBC Politics Live to discuss why Zionism is a racist ideology. The anchor and all three panelists looked like they were about to cry at the end. Very weird behaviour.
Join the Green Party.
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Of course Jake Tapper completely erases the fact they put the 51-year-old Palestinian woman in the hospital.
Hideous: In “the West Bank town of Jalud, masked settlers attacked an NBC News crew as they were interviewing a Palestinian woman.”
Sending prayers to the NBC crew. cnn.com/2026/08/30/middleeas…
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.@HunterBiden tells @mehdirhasan that he came to recognize that Israeli actions in Gaza constituted genocide while his father was still president.
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/…
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Do you understand who and what we are dealing with here?
Matt is an esteemed reporter for NBC. I have respected him for years.
His team was all badly beaten by Jewish supremacists - and they beat their Palestinian guide, a 51 year old woman, UNTIL SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS.
We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years.
But yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu.
A group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious.
We’re all ok now - and Aida is out of the hospital - but this is just one incident among an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank.
Here’s out story on yesterday’s attack on Sunday Today on @NBCNews.
#Israel #WestBank @TODAYshow
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We have launched whofundedgenocide.com - a searchable database of pro-Israel political money in US politics.
It includes:
11,168 named donors, searchable + employer
523 members of Congress and the money behind each one
Senate + house votes on resolutions to block arms transfers
165 candidates the network built fundraising pages for
105 recipient committees in the Democracy Engine conduit data, every row linked to its FEC filing.
Full methodology, sources, and a member-by-member reconciliation
How we got it:
One of these networks misconfigured its website/ left its front door open, and a memeber of our team was able to walk in and take the info. They've patched it since, but not before the data was downloaded and secured.
We encourage you all to look up your own representatives.
Please follow our backup accounts @ZionismExposedx and @IsraelExposedAr
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We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years.
But yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu.
A group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious.
We’re all ok now - and Aida is out of the hospital - but this is just one incident among an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank.
Here’s out story on yesterday’s attack on Sunday Today on @NBCNews.
#Israel #WestBank @TODAYshow
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Congratulations South Africa Legal Team. What a gift to humanity you are.
South Africa has officially submitted a substantial dossier to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), detailing Israel’s continued non-compliance with legally binding provisional measures.
The submission, formally handed over on 25 August 2026, serves to assist an ICJ committee of judges tasked with monitoring the implementation of the court’s orders in Gaza.
According to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), Israel’s non-compliance directly undermines the protective functions of international justice.
Hence, the submission is a vital milestone in the struggle for global accountability. By formally documenting Israel’s refusal to adhere to the court’s binding provisional measures, Pretoria is doing far more than advocating for Palestinian survival.
Read the latest commentary by Iqbal Jassat.
palestinechronicle.com/south…
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"The Hanover Institute has no listed scholars, no bylines, not a single named author. In just over a week it published over 100 reports on Israel, Palestine, and antisemitism, engineered to manipulate AI search and chatbot responses."
- via @Cybernews
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So when you read about eight members of an NBC News Team being beaten by Israeli settlers today in the West Bank, it's important to note two things:
1. The settler wouldn't do this to Americans had they not received a green light from the Israeli gov.
2. Israel's gov would not have given such a green light unless it felt confident that the US gov - and Amb. Huckabee - wouldn't lift a finger to defend the Americans.
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Related: Leaked 2015 emails show ex-Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz was coordinating with David Ellison on a nascent campaign, including private Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube, to spy on and sabotage the @BDSmovement & critics of Israel.
Story: jackpoulson.substack.com/p/d…
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The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
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Juries now have refused to send Palestine Action astivists to jail as well as Tony Greenstein. His speech to the Jury that refused to send him to jail for ‘terrorism’ worth reading in whole, but here is an excerpt:
‘In the second world war, the Nazis walled the Jews of Warsaw, half a million of them into a ghetto — a sealed district, starved and diseased, from which the trains left for the Treblinka death camp. And in 1943 the young Jews who remained did something nobody expected. With a handful of smuggled pistols, against tanks and the SS, they rose. They knew they could not win. They rose because it was better to die resisting than to be led away quietly. It is one of the proudest moments in Jewish history.
The last surviving commander of that uprising was a man named Marek Edelman. And in his old age, Edelman wrote to the Palestinian resistance and addressed them as fellow fighters — much to Israel’s annoyance. When he died, Poland gave him a state funeral, a fifteen-gun salute, the President gave the oration. Israel did not send the lowliest clerk at the Israeli Embassy. Edelman wasn’t a Zionist.
Edelman, who led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis, described Gaza as a ghetto. I have used his comparison for years before October 2023. Two million people, most of them refugees or the children of refugees, sealed into a strip of land under blockade for 16 years, where the majority are children who have never once been allowed out. When I wrote “ghetto,” I meant a ghetto. My blog supported the Uprising just as I would have supported the slave uprisings of the 19th century. That is a political opinion. It was a political opinion on 7 October 2023, and it is a political opinion now.
And here is the crazy thing. Read section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and ask what it would have made of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters. If this Act had existed in 1944, they could have been classified as terrorists. So could the French Resistance.’
greghadfield.medium.com/tony…
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here are my thoughts on Jason Arday, who just committed suicide after being incessantly hounded by the entire UK and US media class from across the ideological spectrum, The Guardian to The Telegraph and New York Times. After it was revealed that he committed plagiarism in his PhD thesis and academic work, he resigned, but it was not enough. They kept picking at him every day, over and over. They wanted to turn him into a symbol for the lack of ability of every non-white scholar. They wanted to make him the poster-boy for "woke 1", to use AOCIA's phrasing, and all its evils and depravities, so they couldn't let it go even after he had resigned and it was already over.
So I want to compare and contrast Arday with another person: Bill Ackman's wife Neri Oxman, who is an Israeli Zionist Jew. She completed her PhD at MIT in 2010, and in the same year joined MIT's media lab as part of the faculty. There she was allowed to found a "research group" that was heavily funded, including by Jeffrey Epstein. Her PhD was found to be filled with plagiarism:
businessinsider.com/neri-oxm…
businessinsider.com/bill-ack…
businessinsider.com/neri-oxm…
As you can see there, her plagiarism was massive, and included literally copy-pasting from Wikipedia and plagiarizing from another already caught plagiarist: retractionwatch.com/2024/01/…. This is worse than anything Arday was accuse of by a million miles. She didn't even copy-paste from other academic sources, she copy-pasted FROM FUCKING WIKIPEDIA.
This was a marginal item for a few days, her husband Bill Ackman, a fanatical genocidal Zionist, defended her plagiarism by saying that copy-pasting from Wikipedia and all the rest is actually completely normal and fine, and he pressured Business Insider's owners to review and retract the reporting (washingtonpost.com/style/med…), and then everyone forgot about it and she still has her PhD in good standing.
If she hadn't already left her MIT position in 2021, she would still have it today, and everyone knows it because no one dares touch a Zionist Israeli Jew who can hysterically cry ANTISEMITISM ANTISEMITISM and get Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, everyone at the NYT, BBC, CNN, Guardian alongside the vast Israel lobby and regime to rise to their defense.
No one attempted to make her into the symbol for Zionist Jewish supremacists and their deception and lies and how they worm themselves into elite academia and then use their Zionist Jewish supremacist husbands and the entire Israel lobby to defend them when they get caught.
Jason Arday had no one. A few marginal voices attempted to call of the dogs, but they were themselves swamped with death threats and insanity. He was systematically murdered by the media and political class, while countless Neri Oxman's slither around at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, Oxford without a worry in the world because they know exactly where power really, actually lies.
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my friend the former NY times reporter in Gaza offered this article to major London, NY and DC newspapers they all turned her down. Haaretz published it
haaretz.com/opinion/2026-08-…
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الانهيار الأخلاقي لوسائل الإعلام الغربية: إسكات صوت غزة
ورقة بحثية محكمة ومتميزة تكشف السقوط الاخلاقي للاعلام الغربي في #غزة، للعدد الخاص الذي قمنا بتحريره في مجلة Third World Quarterly للباحثان الدكتورة @abeernaji والدكتور زيد بوزيان. المقالة متوفرة للتحميل مجاناً خلال هذا الشهر على الرابط التالي:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
تتناول هذه الورقة البحثية تغطية وسائل الإعلام الغربية التقليدية للحرب على غزة، ولا سيما المؤسسات الإعلامية التي تتمتع بنماذج أعمال تسمح لها بالاستقلالية، وبالتالي عدم خضوعها الكامل للتأثيرات السياسية والاقتصادية. وتفترض الورقة أن دراسة أولية لتغطيتها للحرب تُظهر كيف تُسهم هذه المؤسسات في انتشار بيئة ما بعد الحقيقة، حيث تُهمَّش القيم الصحفية الأساسية، كالدقة والاستقلالية والتوازن. ومن خلال دراسة حالة نوعية، تهدف الورقة إلى تحليل تراجع أخلاقيات الإعلام الأساسية لدى وسائل الإعلام الغربية التقليدية، وتحديد نمط من السرديات المتحيزة، والحذف الانتقائي للحقائق، وهيمنة المصادر الحكومية الإسرائيلية الرسمية على الأصوات الصحفية النزيهة والمتوازنة والمستقلة. وتجادل الورقة بأن هذا التصوير المشوه يُجرِّد الصراع من سياقه التاريخي، ويُشوِّه تعقيداته، كما يُعزز ديناميكيات القوة والهيمنة القائمة. وتدعو الورقة إلى إعادة تقييم الممارسات الصحفية وأخلاقيات الإعلام في سياق تغطية النزاعات الدولية. يؤكد هذا البيان على أن ازدهار الديمقراطية يتطلب تحولاً جذرياً في ممارسات الإعلام، مع إعطاء الأولوية لإعادة ترسيخ النزاهة الصحفية والالتزام بقول الحقيقة، حتى في مواجهة الضغوط السياسية واختلال موازين القوى والدعاية.
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إلى القنوات التلفزيونية الناطقة بالعربية ؟
ممكن السيرة الذاتية (CV) الكاملة لكل من يظهر على شاشات التلفزيون للحديث في الشؤون الدولية والاستراتيجية؟
هذا سؤال جاد، ولا أريد إجابة إلا من خلال السيرة الذاتية (CV).
من أي جامعة تخرج؟ ما تخصصه الأكاديمي؟ ما الجامعات التي درس أو درّس فيها؟ ما خبرته المهنية؟ ما كتبه أو أبحاثه المحكمة أو مؤلفاته في المجال الذي يتحدث فيه؟ وهل لقب دكتور الذي تكررونه عرفي ولا متعه ولا دكتوراه بحد من جامعة محترمه؟
وإذا كان صحافيًا، فما خبرته الميدانية التي تؤهله لتحليل القضايا الدولية؟ في أي الدول عمل؟ وما الملفات التي غطاها من الميدان، لا من خلف المكتب أو شاشة الاستوديو؟
وإذا كان خبيرًا عسكريًا، فما تخصصه العسكري؟ وما خبرته الميدانية في الموضوع الذي يعلّق عليه؟ وما دورات الأركان أو القيادة والأركان أو الدراسات الاستراتيجية التي حصل عليها؟ وهل له مؤلفات أو دراسات منشورة في الفكر العسكري أو الأمن القومي؟
الظهور التلفزيوني ليس مؤهلًا في حد ذاته، كما أن كثرة الظهور لا تصنع خبيرًا.
وليس من الصعب على القنوات التلفزيونية أن تنشر السيرة الذاتية (CV) لكل من تقدمه للجمهور على موقعها الإلكتروني. لا توجد أعذار لعدم القيام بذلك. فمن حق المشاهد أن يعرف مؤهلات من يخاطبه قبل أن يستمع إلى آرائه.
دعوا الجمهور يحكم بنفسه بعد أن يعرف السيرة الذاتية (CV) للمتحدث، لا بعد أن يسمع رأيه فقط.
من يعرف فليتحدث، ومن لا يعرف فالصمت أكرم له وللمشاهد.