#lebanese journalist

[alwayswiselight]

A couple of nights ago while on YouTube, I discovered this Lebanese journalist Ali Mortada in an interview on Break Through News. His videos are both informative and hilarious. They are generally directed at Israelis. So, he begins by saying: "Hello, my enemies" and "Hope you're having a bad day". He is truly the man!

[mariacallous]

[notyourtoday]

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[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Response to President Biden's tweet about the murder of a Muslim child in Chicago by Lebanese-American journalist Rania Khalek.

[sayruq]

Hezbollah has spent the past 2 months attacking Israeli settlements, military sites and installations, and soldiers. Israel has swung from threatening war to asking the West to intervene, in between bombing Lebanese villages and killing civilians and journalist. We now have entered a new chapter

As this thread goes on to explain, Hezbollah would never agree to disarm even it means Lebanon regains all its territories. In fact, Hezbollah criticised Hamas' 2017 charter because it was willing to accept the 1967 border and therefore the two state solution. Nothing less than neutralising the Israeli threat would do.

The thread goes on to explain that Israel is hoping to use domestic pressures to get Hezbollah to agree to this plan. One problem: Hezbollah operates regardless if whether or not it has national support. At any rate, the organisation will never accept the proposed plan.

Weeks ago, a minister in Israel's war cabinet threatened to leave unless a war with Hezbollah is considered. As you can see in this post and in this article, tens of thousands of Israelis evacuated from the Northern territory want war with Hezbollah so they can return to their settlements. For weeks, the mayors of those settlements have made statements saying Israelis can never return unless Hezbollah is removed from the border. The general idea is that once Hamas is defeated in Gaza, Israel will go to war with Hezbollah.

But Hamas isn't being defeated and Hezbollah is significantly stronger than all the Resistance factions in Gaza. Israel is losing in Gaza. It has the gotten to the point where it can't even resupply its troops from the ground. So many of its soldiers are wounded and left disabled that they're now sending them to civilian hospitals because they've run out of space in their de facto military hospitals (the speculated number is over 10,000 injured since Oct 26th).

What this proposal shows is that Israel has never been more weaker. Israel is terrified of Hezbollah and I can't blame them because if they're struggling this much against the Gazan militia groups, imagine how badly things will go if they ever decide to make the conflict at the border into a war. They lost against Hezbollah twice already, a new war will make it three loses.

Israel would never negotiate unless it was backed into the corner. That's what the temporary truce also showed. Hamas sent their terms for a ceasefire, Israel laughed them off, then weeks later, after taking a great deal of damage, Israel returned to the negotiating table to hear the same exact terms that they were given before.

After Israel refused to extend the truce, Hamas has changed its approach. No more temporary truces. Hostages will only be exchanged after a comprehensive ceasefire. Rumour has it (its practically confirmed in Arab media) that Israel has asked Qatar and Egypt to restart mediation after pulling away Mossad negotiators two weeks ago.

Now, that Israel has shown its belly vis-à-vis Hezbollah, I expect all the Resistance Axis to continue tightening the noose around Israel.

Palestine has never been closer to liberation than it is now and it will be closer still tomorrow.

[opencommunion]

"The historical struggle against colonialism and imperialism ... is waged at the same time as a struggle over the historical and cultural record. One of the first targets, for example, of the Israeli Defense Forces when they entered the Lebanese capital of Beirut in the fall of 1982 was the PLO Research Center and its archives containing the documentary and cultural history of the Palestinian people. Similarly the United States police squadron which in August 1985 arrested in San Juan, Puerto Rico, eleven Puerto Rican independentistas on charges of bank robbery and violation of interstate commerce laws also entered the offices of the journal Pensamiento critico where they confiscated the journal's archival resources as well as its copier and typewriter. The struggle over the historical record is seen from all sides as no less crucial than the armed struggle."

Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature (1987)

[ahaura]

(Nov. 21)

@HadiNasrallah: Israel is bombing the Syrian capital Damascus. Today Israel bombed Lebanon killing Lebanese civilians and journalists. While also bombing Gaza and killing Palestinians in the West Bank. Tell me again how Israel is the victim here?

[pbscore]

If a person doesn’t have a single post about freeing Palestine or any posts directly from Palestinian people about their own culture/history and/or they refuse to acknowledge or even use the word ‘genocide’ for what’s happening right now…that person is most likely going to be a Zionist.

This ain’t even a joke y’all and this isn’t about ‘witch hunting’ people either. A LOT of Zionists/soft Zionists (people who do the ‘both sides’ bs) have the same theme to them:

They’ll constantly boost posts only about antisemitism (which on the surface, is valid to talk about at any time) but there will be NO posts about aiding Palestinians, no posts from Palestinian bloggers, news outlets, journalists on the ground, videos of the devastation happening, etc. They’ll hyperfocus ONLY on antisemitism, which can range from posting about an armed antisemite walking around outside of a synagogue (clearly bad) to getting mad at anti-Zionists and Palestinian people in general, validly criticizing Israel’s genocidal policies (literally, bare minimum human decency).

Far too many popular ‘liberal/leftie’ blogs here on tumblr have already unmasked themselves as softcore colonialists just because they need to center themselves in a situation that isn’t about them, specifically and are easily giving ammo to white nationalists against Muslims and Arabic people worldwide.

Listen, I know people want to highlight the importance of how dangerous antisemitism and islamophobia are for Jewish and Muslim people right now and it is paramount that more people can clock it when it happens or try to prevent it from happening.

However…A LOT of liberal/leftie Zionists who act like they’re doing that by speaking on behalf of the current peoples being murdered without actively engaging with or sharing ANY media or material created by Palestinian, Lebanese, or any other peoples that Israel is attacking (especially if that media does not portray Israel in a good light) are not actually dedicated to decolonization or anti-imperialist activism. Period.

And one last point I want to make:

Zionism is not synonymous with Judaism. They are not the same thing and Jewish people have a much longer history within anti-Zionist activism than a LOT of liberal/leftie Zionists think. Some of them are fully aware of it and just want to use Judaism as a shield against any criticisms targeting Israel’s inherently colonialist history of the past 70+ years. That isn’t fair to Jewish people who are and have been constantly protesting against Israel’s occupation of Palestine nor is it fair to any of the people in Palestine and Lebanon and Egypt who have been and currently are dealing with the impact of the occupation’s wrath.

[handweavers]

Can you recommend any podcasts about anything history related, maybe even specifically about imperialism and war? I’m always wary to start podcasts about those topics when I’m not sure of where the hosts stand

i use pocket casts as my podcast 'hub' so ill link to them all thru there but you can also find them through whichever app you prefer

ancient history & prehistory - tides of history is consistently excellent, interviews archaeologists and historians currently working in the field and makes an effort to highlight issues in the field, address misconceptions about various ancient peoples and jumps around the globe a lot so it's not eurocentric, the host emphasizes social history/the lives of every day people, and i know that he is a fellow traveller

current events regarding war and imperialism - rania khalek dispatches, she's a lebanese-american journalist based in beirut and interviews a lot of left wing anti-imperialist journalists and scholars and activists, her reporting is consistently excellent and explicitly marxist & materialist, i love her. she works for breakthrough news which is also a good news site for similar reasons

war and imperial history and current events - radio war nerd is a classic. lots of interviews with left wing anti imperialist scholars and activists, series where they cover histories of various conflicts and empires, ongoing coverage of wars and genocides. they did a series on the us civil war that was great. they do talk about the weapons of war, tactics and strategy, etc more than the others on this list do which could be a pro or a con depending on who you are, but it's always interesting.

history of american imperialism - blowback, genuinely the best 'primer' to american empire in the podcast space. each season is a different war - they've covered the iraq war, the cuban revolution, the korean war, and most recently the history of american empire in afghanistan. if you can't/don't want to pay for premium there are bootleg feeds out there (i can send you one if you dm me lol)

irish revolutionary history - revolutionary ireland, not as much to say about this one but it's excellent and his accent is lovely lol

[kaapstadgirly]

Al Jazeera news ticker: 16 February 2024.

-> Gaza Health Ministry: At least 28, 663 Palestinians killed and 68, 395 injured in Israeli attacks since October 7

-> Gaza Media Office: 126 journalists killed in Gaza strip since October 7

-> Gaza Health Ministry: Hundreds of Palestinian health workers killed since war began

-> UN Relief and Works Agency says 1.7 million Palestinians displaced in Gaza and 1.5 million are sheltering in Rafah

-> UN Relief and Works Agency says 156 United Nations staff members killed in Gaza since October 7

-> Health Ministry: 395 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and settlers in Occupied West Bank since October 7

-> Prisoners Society: More than 7, 003 Palestinians detained in Occupied West Bank since October 7

-> Israeli Government: 1, 139 Israelis killed in Hamas attack on Southern Israel on October 7

-> Israeli troops storm besieged Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis

-> Israeli soldiers force patients and families sheltering in Nasser Hospital out of the facility

-> Israeli strike kills at least 8 Palestinians in Rafah, Southern Gaza

-> Video emerges of decomposing premature babies left to die during Israeli forced evacuation of Gaza Hospital in November

-> Israeli strike on a car in Gaza City kills at least two people and injures five

-> At least 12 people killed in Israeli bombing of house in Al Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Central Gaza

-> Ceasefire talks between Egypt, Israel, the U.S. and Qatar end without breakthrough

-> Hezbollah fires rockets at Northern Israel in response to attacks across Lebanese border

-> Funerals held for victims of Israeli air raids in Southern Lebanon

-> Israeli air strikes kill three fighters in southern Lebanese town of Qantara

-> Israeli army says 15 rockets fired from Lebanon towards Kiryat Shmona

-> Leaders of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand 'gravely concerned' by Israel's planned ground offensive in Rafah

-> South Africa urges International Court of Justice to consider action on possible Israeli ground operation in Rafah

-> UN trade body says Gaza will need new 'Marshall plan' for post-war reconstruction

-> Palestinian authority president urges Hamas to speed up exchange of captives held in Gaza for prisoners in Israeli jails

-> Israeli forces raid towns and villages near Jenin in Occupied West Bank

[akajustmerry]

haven't done this in a longggg while! here's a round-up of some faves I've written over the last few months!

“I Carry Their Experiences In My Heart”: Patrick Abboud On Investigating Australia’s Only Gay Prison - an interview with gay Lebanese-Australian journalist and author Patrick Abboud on his 5-year-long investigation into Australia's only gay prison.

How The ‘Succession’ Finale Takes The Roys Back To The Beginning - explaining how the Succession grand finale paralleled the pilot.

Why ‘The Great’ Is So Great? Because It Feels Australian - analysing how Hulu's The Great is secretly, philosophically, very Australian.

‘Ted Lasso’ Is Officially Out Of Its Depth - explaining how Ted Lasso as a show grossly mishandles the stories of its marginalised characters.

Will White People’s “Didgeridoo” Jokes Ever End? - why I am sick of non-Aboriginal peoples making our sacred instrument into their punchline.

The Wes Anderson Trend And TikTok’s Tendency To Forget About Context - discussing TikTok's culture of context collapse, using the Wes Anderson trend as a case study!

Succession’s Masterful Vibe Check - My review of 'America Decides' and analysis of how 'Succession' generally inspires conflicting empathy and disgust in viewers.

How To Degender Award Shows, According To A Very Serious Non-Binary Person - what it says on the tin. Just me having fun imagining how we could de-gender award shows.

The Strange, Surreal Feeling Of Going About Your Day While The World Crumbles - Explaining what "hyper-normalisation" is and why so many people think they're feeling it right now.

[memecucker]

More journalists have been killed in the first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year, according to CPJ data. By December 20, 2023, at least 68 journalists and media workers had been killed since the October 7 start of the conflict. Of those 68, 61 were Palestinian, four Israeli, and three Lebanese

[hussyknee]

Just found out that the baby baked in an oven thing Zionists accused Hamas of doing is actually something Zionists themselves did during the Deir Yassin massacre of 1948. And the fetus cut out of the pregnant woman's womb is something that was done in the massacre of the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Lebanese militants in concert with Zionists. We already know that they rape women and children in detention. I think the only other huge fucking lie about Oct 7th was the beheaded babies, and I'm legitimately afraid of learning whether or not that was also just something Zionists themselves did at one point.

I mean it's not even improbable because this type of unfathomable cruelty is par for the course with genociders, that only happen when the dominant group has so much disproportionate power in the region that there is only mindless hatred and perfect impunity. (The Brits used to use native infants as crocodile bait.) The reports of IOF ripping babies from their mothers arms, shooting them dead, throwing them aside and dragging the mothers off in front of witnesses were numerous even before this. I've also heard reports of young parents being dragged off and abandoning their toddlers and infants on the roadsides (saw a video of it and I'm going to be haunted to my grave). So those premature babies being left to die of starvation at the hospital was shocking but only surprising because there were so many eyes on the situation due to the efforts of the aid workers and journalists. We thought that Western governments wouldn't pull this shit with the whole world watching. As it turned out, the only reason the last twenty-odd premature babies at Al Shifa Hospital survived was because the director of the place refused to leave them until they were safely shipped off to Egypt (unaccompanied, God knows if the parents will ever get them back. Egyptian governments refused to let the few critically injured people allowed safe passage by the US to go through without visas and passports so they died in the ambulances). Then the IOF kidnapped the director right afterwards. He's still missing.

The organ harvesting thing is also true btw. We've been talking about it ever since they made off with those dead bodies at Al Shifa Hospital. Whether they were going to use them to stage their own propaganda, harvest their organs and skin, or just did it to deprive their families of giving them a burial. Probably all three.

I'm so tired of you people refusing to pay any attention to the news streaming out of Gaza via their own citizen journalists and Al Jazeera and Quds News and families of activists and then accusing us of spreading conspiracy theories! "There's so much misinformation" just say you don't trust Palestinians to tell the truth about their own genocide with your whole chest. Say that your charges of antisemitism is about how much you fear Black people and Muslims. Say that you don't reblog calls for the Jewish community to interrogate their whiteness and their enmeshing with Zionism over the decades because you feel like "it's not your place" to amplify Black and brown people challenging whiteness. Say that you shut us down and police our language about Zionists because you're philosemites who believe Jews could never be as genocidal and bloodthirsty as every other group on the world given the same power. Say that you still don't think Zionists are "as bad as" Nazis because they haven't murdered enough people yet.

I'll take the Zionists cheering over the deaths of people we're mourning over all the hidden polite lethal racism you're hiding under your white liberal tongues. I can't take this death by a thousand cuts shit anymore. Seriously why are you scrolling past? You think we aren't talking about you?

[zvaigzdelasas]

Gideon Levy, a journalist at the Israeli daily Haaretz, has told Al Jazeera that if the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah actually ends up joining the ongoing escalations, then Israel is bound to face a crisis. “We will be facing a totally different reality where Israel has to fight two fronts, and maybe three, if the occupied West Bank gets into the picture. That’s a new game and  Israel will go through something it never faced before,” he said.

Al Jazeera Live Story, 5:49 GMT, 8 Oct 23

[newsfrom-theworld]

On international women's day let me introduce you to some of the victims of ''Isr@el''

1. Shireen Abu Akluh

On 11th of May 2022 around 6:30 the prominent American Palestinian Journalist was killed by Isr@eli snipers; they also attacked her funeral.

The shaky video, filmed by Al Jazeera cameraman Majdi Banura, captures the scene when Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian-American was killed by a bullet to the head at around 6:30 a.m. on May 11.

She had been standing with a group of journalists near the entrance of Jenin refugee camp, where they had come to cover an Israeli raid.

While the footage does not show Abu Akleh being shot, eyewitnesses told CNN that they believe Isr@eli forces on the same street fired deliberately on the reporters in a targeted attack.

All of the journalists were wearing protective blue vests that identified them as members of the news media. ​

2.Farah Omar

A Lebanese correspondent of Al-Mayadeen TV, was killed by an Isr@eli strike on Tayr Harfa, south Lebanon, on November 21, 2023, according to Al-Mayadeen.

4. Heba Sami

Dr. Heba Sami Al-Jourani who was known for her intelligence and determination lived elsewhere she could have been working in a very important hospital as a physicians to help those people who were wounded in wars and accidents, But unfortunately Heba had to put her dreams aside and stand face to face with death.

Heba’s family home in Rafah was targeted by Isr@eli warplane, minutes ago before she lost her life, Heba was sending messages and checking telegram groups to know where is the bombing she’s hearing, unfortunately that was her last scene,

Heba’s family became the breaking news at 11:48 am, on November

5. Walaa Saadah

A passionate filmmaker, writer, and blogger normally work day and night, travel, sometimes receiving awards but not if its a Palestinian woman in lives in Gaza and that’s the story of "Walaa Saadah, who was born in Beit Hanoun, Northern Gaza, in 1990.

Walaa since 2010, with too much passion worked in cinema and filmmaking, starting as a screenplay writer, she also worked in civil society organizations as a coordinator who directed several films that shed light on the suffering of the people of Gaza to the world.

Walaa was killed on March 2, 2024, in an Isr@eli airstrike on displaced people in Deir al-Balah city. walaa dream ended before having any chance to raise and shine as prominent filmmaker

6. Asmaa Hamdan

Asma a beloved 22-year-old, brought joy with her infectious smile. In high school, she was the heart of our large group. After a beautiful love story, she married Shadi and welcomed Sham, the light of her life. As an engineer, she graduated days before war disrupted everything.

Despite the hardships, Asmaa's resilience inspired us. Tragically, on December 25th, Asmaa and her daughter Sham were martyred in a massacre caused by Isr@eli occupation rockets, which claimed the lives of 100 martyrs in Al-Maghazi refugee camp, leaving behind a painful void.

7. Nagham Abu Samra

Nagham Abu Samra, 24 years old, was a professional karate player before Isr@el deprived her of that. She suffered from a critical head injury, and her leg was amputated after her home in Gaza was bombed by Isr@el.

Her uncle was pleading with the world to intervene and help Nagham travel abroad for treatment, but no one responded. Nagham was martyred, succumbing to her injuries from the Israeli bombing on January 12, 2023.

8. Talal Baalusha

A high school student, creative in traditional dance (dabke), and a member of the "Asayel Watan" group She also owned a clothing store.

She bid farewell to her family after they were martyred, then others mourned her.

She was martyred with her mother.

9. Hind Rajab

After she appealed to the world for help to save her, 12 days passed without communication.

On the 10th of February, the body of the martyr, the child Hind Rajab, and 5 members of her family were found.

Her Grandfather said: “We found the body of Hind and the rest of the family decomposed”.

10. Ayat Khadoura

Ayat, a Palestinian freelance journalist and podcast presenter, was killed along with an unknown number of family members in an Isr@eli airstrike on her home in Beit Lahya in northern Gaza, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes, the news website Arabi 21, and London-based Al-Ghad TV.

Ayat shared videos on social media about the situation in Gaza, including a November 6 video, which she called “my last message to the world” where she said, “We had big dreams but our dream now is to be killed in one piece so they know who we are.”

Ayat was killed on November 20, 2023, at the hands of the Isr@eli occupation.

They aren't just numbers.

The UNRWA said 9.000 women where killed in this genocide.

Your feminism is trash if you aren't speak up for the women of Gaza, who are using pieces of tends as sanitary pads.

And always,

Free Palestine

[matan4il]

Daily update post:

Tonight, four weeks after Oct 7, we'll remember the Israelis (and non-Israelis who happened to be in southern Israel when Hamas attacked) who were murdered, who were wounded, who were traumatized, and who were kidnapped. If you'd like to join in, please light a candle in memory of the innocent victims of Hamas.

One of the most important questions is what do regular Gazans, who are abused by Hamas, think of Israel's operation to remove it? Here's the answer of one of them:

I was wondering if "Ashraf" understands that there is no way to remove Hamas without casualties for both Israelis and Gazans, but I figure that, since he's old enough to have experienced the fighting in 2014, he knows.

Oz Katerji is a Lebanese British independent war journalist. Sometimes I agree with his opinions, sometimes I don't, but I respect the risks he takes to do his work (he has reported from Syria and Ukraine), the fact that he has been vocal in coming out against antisemitism. This is his tweet about the massacre he had seen committed by Hamas in kibbutz Kfar Azza:

The IDF holds a daily briefing for the press. Today's was dedicated to showing de-classified evidence that Hamas is using hospitals and other medical facilities for terrorist activity. For example, they showed pictures of the Indonesian hospital (personal note: I have two online friends from Indonesia, so this hit me closely) being used for rocket launching and to fire at Israeli solders from.

At least 29 Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza since the start of the ground operation there. One of them is Yehonatan Yoseef Brand, the brother of one of my colleagues:

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)