Mohamed El Dahshan

Whenever you see the words "AI targeting", mentally replace them with "indiscriminate bombing".

Screenshot of a tweet commenting on a BBC news headline stating "battered and isolated Hezbollah drags Lebanon into another war". The comment includes a screenshot from the very BBC article,which states that "despite a ceasefire that ended a devastating 13-month war in 2024, israel has continued with its bombing of Lebanon almost every day". The tweet is accompanied by some choice insults to the BBC for being spineless liars devoid of ethics, principles, or shame.

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Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The Minab school was struck deliberately.
Twice.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...

This is the confirmation message when you apply for a job at the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
In a sea of "only shortlisted candidates will be contacted", this was refreshing.
(and funny).

Memory, Return, and the Meaning of Home in Syria Basma Alloush provides a personal account of returning to Syria after years of exile, tracing how war, a new regime, and a return that was previously unplausible have altered both the physical landsca...

Basma Alloush's story of her return to Syria is unmissable. timep.org/2026/02/03/m...

I've doubled down. It's my infinitesimal - albeit significant - resistance.

Since we published this @timep.bsky.social explainer on how Lebanon got pulled into the war on Monday, the death toll has risen to 72 people, 437 have been injured, and the number of those officially displaced (and registered with the state) is now 83,847.

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Trump has no plan. This is a damning summary from The Economist’s Middle East Correspondent Gregg Carlstrom.

facebook is censoring even news links about child casualties.

Manufacturing consent requires keeping the public in the dark about the real cost of war.

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

Headlines moved on quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names; no media profiles about their lives and aspirations. No smiling photos attached to quotes from mourning families.

How unfair that some dead are memorialised while others are relegated to ‘estimated casualties.’

So Iran had a supreme leader who agreed to a deal with robust international monitoring to curtail his country's nuclear program, Trump tore it up because he hates Barack Obama, and then we murdered him. I'm sure the assembly of experts will replace him with a US lackey. Totally.

But no salty and pissed off good morning to Harris who enabled genocide? Instead, you're blaming the people who followed their conscience?
How... unsurprising.

I know it's difficult but if you're going to pretend to be journalists, ACT LIKE IT

White House officials believe ‘the politics are a lot better’ if Israel strikes Iran first As the administration mulls military action in Iran, officials argue it’d be best ifIsrael makes the first move.

This from 3 days ago.

Voila.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Attacking US military bases in the latter three. But facts don't fit your narrative, do they.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

powerful academics getting to retire after being linked to a child sex trafficer is not "accountability" or "facing consequences" or "a reckoning" or "justice" it's just them retiring. These institutions continue to beclown themselves. Divest.

'Pay or he dies', families told as more Egyptians risk Mediterranean crossing Weeks after Hamdy Ibrahim left his village in Egypt's Nile Delta hoping to reach Europe, his brother's phone rang with a chilling message from Libya: pay now or the boy would die.Hamdy earned just 500...

Last year, thousands of Egyptians risked migrating to Europe via the Mediterranean crossing, becoming the top African nationality to arrive on its shores. TIMEP's @tekaldas.bsky.social speaks with @afp.com's Menna Farouk about the root causes of this emigration surge. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The Arab Uprisings at 15 and the Road Ahead Fifteen years ago, Tunisian fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi stood in the middle of traffic, shouted “How do you expect me to make a living?”, and set himself on fire, sparking popular protests in Tunisi...

Fantastic speakers tomorrow (Monday), do register!!
@timep.bsky.social
timep.org/2026/02/16/t...

Oh so age verification is a surveillance mechanism? You don't say.

These atrocities in Sudan were entirely predictable. So why did the rest of the world fail to stop them? | Husam Mahjoub Western governments have put elite bargains before civilian lives. If El Fasher is to mean anything, this approach must change, says Husam Mahjoub, co-founder of Sudanese TV channel Sudan Bukra

"The liberal peace-building model that privileges armed actors and elite bargains has already failed Sudan. It treats generals and militia leaders as indispensable stakeholders and relegates civilians to observers."
New approaches are required indeed.
#Sudan
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Okay I did not expect tears.
(Me, not her.)
Thinking of, and admiring the folks protesting for justice.
On a #Jan25, no less.
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a man in a plaid shirt is saying " get outta here " ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is saying " get outta here "

Is that the @nytimes.com that made up accusations of 40 beheaded babies just to whip up anti-Palestinian hate and justify a genocide? THAT NYT?

BREAKING - Americans are just discovering their star journalists don't actually do journalism, and that their media primarily exist to serve or justify the state's agenda.
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Yemen deserves so much better than this. Than those.

Reconstructing Gaza According to Trump’s Plan Would Be a Disaster Although Trump’s 20-point plan does not say much about Gaza’s economic reconstruction and recovery, what is known raises significant concerns. Yet there are better alternatives on the table that can s...

"Rebuilding Gaza: How to do Better"

My latest article for the @mecouncil.bsky.social .
I compare plans for the reconstruction of Gaza, highlighting the elements that should be integrated into ongoing thinking.

Comments and feedback welcome!

mecouncil.org/blog_posts/r...

Also convicted 5 times for racial hatred and one of the few French celebrities aligned with the far right.