Alex MacDonald
@alexjaymac
Middle East Eye, reporter/commentator. Mainly talk about Iraq, Iran, Israel-Palestine, UK and Turkey. Folk musician. He/him. DM any story tips!
"Shameful Reform is planning to restore some I spent a year fighting to keep myself, suspended MPs over and had to be dragged kicking and screaming to repeal"
Yeah, just because the Israeli parliament voted specifically against the creation of a Palestinian state just a few months ago and the government and nearly all major political parties say they're oppose to it - reading anything into that is pure bigotry, obviously. Replies turned off, natch.
I suppose it goes without saying that this person disabled replies and QTs after posting this. For anyone else who is interested, the people who arguably did more than anyone to spread the evidence of expulsions during the Nakba in Europe and US were the Israeli New Historians, who were/are Israeli
If there's one thing you can say about Hillary Clinton, it's that she'd never stoop so low as to spread racist photos of Barack Obama:
Mamdani obviously does not want this, but this person has turned off replies and quotes so...
A lot of people seem to really like Hillary Clinton on this site...
The president of the US has literally threatened to invade Iran over it, while the EU just today added the IRGC to its terror list. Not exactly a "silent" response from the West, is it?
It is hard to keep up sometimes with whether the PKK and SDF are pawns of Israel or Iran:
If anyone's around in southeast London this evening I'll be playing at this along with a bunch of other great musicians:
In July 2023, before the current conflict began, Israel held more than 1,100 Palestinians captive in administrative detention, the highest number since 2003:
In other news, Twitter is currently advertising overt Neo-Nazi memorabilia - 1488 being a reference to the white supremacist "14 words" and 88 a reference to HH or "Heil Hitler":
Growing up, David Lynch was more important to me than any other cultural figure and influenced my whole view of art, cinema, music, aesthetics, whatever else...can't believe the man's gone:
After 14 years with around 600,000 dead, millions displaced and wider regional chaos including genocide...not sure it's a great model:
Worth remembering he called for Assad to step down as early as 2017. Also never denied Assad used chemical weapons unlike a lot of other Iraqi leaders:
I assume all this makes sense to someone somewhere because this makes no sense to me:
...did this really happen or this some kind of fever dream I'm having reading this?