Brussels-based journalist, ex-@Guardian, @TRF_Stories, @PoliticoEurope & author of Israel/Palestine books.
Brussels, Belgium
Joined June 2011
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Rajiv Menon defended the liberties of all UK citizens when he appealed to the conscience of the jury in the Filton 6 trial. His prosecution on contempt of court charges - which carry a poss 2 year prison sentence - is an attack on all our civil rights. Please sign the petition.
A petition in support of Rajiv Menon KC launched by @DefendOurJuries and Netpol has now exceeded 11,000 signatures. The details are below
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🔴 Video shared by Press TV correspondent Hadi Hoteit appears to show the moment an Israeli drone targeted him with a strike while he was filming in southern Lebanon. Hoteit notes he was standing in an open area, clearly identified as press with markings on his car, vest, helmet, and equipment, when the drone targeted his position. He was wounded by six different pieces of shrapnel, and described the attack as a war crime.
Full video below.
Israeli drones targeted me while I was clearly filming a report in an open space with all requirements (press signs on the car, vest and helmet with press signs, cellphones open and not doing anything else.
I was told that Lebanese army was blocking the road somewhere, so i went there searching for where the Lebanese army is.
I stopped at Arnoun-Yohmor-Kfartebnit roundabout because i didn't want to go further.
I got outside my car, with my cameras in the cage and my microphone with PressTV logo.
I was filming when the Israeli drones deliberately attacked where I was standing, and not my car.
Two brave men were able to come to my rescue after about 15 to 20 minutes. I was trying to get away from my car as I was expecting they might retarget it.
6 shrapnels hit my body (1 right chest, 3 right leg, 2 left leg).
I am better now.
Targeting journalists is a war crime.
I wish if any international legal side was able to benefit from this video to
Glory to the resistance, our only hope in front of those zionist criminals.
The destruction of Vjosa-Narta to please Trump and Kushner is a stress test of the EU's premise that governments are accountable to citizens and the law, argues @ArielBrunner who kickstarted the story. aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…
A short film about my mother Diana Neslen's journey from Cape Town's Jewish suburbs to the barricades, as an anti-Zionist activist. youtube.com/watch?v=M-1OmCUG…
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WOW!
@Theintercept reviewed more than 12000 print articles and 5000 TV segments to check for biases on Israel-Palestine.
I thought it would be bad.
I had no idea it was THIS bad.
No wonder Gaza killed what little credibility mianstream media had.
In NYT, Israel's right to defend itself was invoked 99 times. Only once for Palestine.
On CNN and MSNBC, it was invoked 755 times for Israel. But only 8 times for Palestine.
Emotive words such as slaughter and massacre were used frequently when Israelis had been killed. They were NEVER used in print when Palestinians were killed.
In Ukraine, 262 children were killed in the war, and it was mentioned 4223 times.
In Palestine, more than 10,000 children were killed, but it was mentioned only 3632.
The full article is in the subtweet. It's a MUST READ:
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Palestinians high schoolers in Gaza striving to be journalists so Israel is more likely to kill them and put them out of their misery. One of the most disturbing things I’ve ever heard.
Israel normalised the mass murder of brown-skinned journalists in Gaza. Europe shrugged. Now it's happening in Lebanon, Europe will shrug again. @EU_Commission commitments to freedom of the press should be read in this light.
How about the US and Israel removing the enriched uranium from Gaza's soil?
I don’t know if anyone will even care about what I’m saying now but the truth is harsher than any person can imagine.
A large number of children in Gaza are being born with shocking deformities: open spine defects, severe heart abnormalities, missing limbs, deformed heads, and faces that look as if they were burned inside the womb. They come into the world already marked by the war before they even take their first breath.
Mothers have been inhaling rocket gases and toxic smoke for months, drinking water contaminated with explosives residue, and living on soil saturated with toxins.
I saw photos and videos myself of children in extremely difficult conditions unbearable to look at. Babies screaming in pain during their first hours of life, their tiny bodies horribly deformed. Doctors say they have never seen such cases in their entire lives, and they warn: “These deformities are unprecedented and will increase because of the pollution.”
Here, we don’t just suffer from hunger and epidemics we are giving birth to an entire broken generation from the moment they are born. We live inside a giant prison, deprived of medicine, clean food, electricity, and even the basic right to have healthy children.
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The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.
So, who stands to win?
Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵
Shell and Exxon made $66bn out of the Groningen gas fields since 1963. 1,600 earthquakes, 80k damaged homes and 16 related deaths a year later they're suing NL in an #ISDS court for billions of €s over the compensation costs. My story last week: sustainableviews.com/shell-l….
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To believe this is about drug smuggling, you have to ignore Trump’s pardon of the former Honduran president for drug smuggling.
To believe it’s about Maduro’s democratic legitimacy, you have to believe Trump cares even slightly about democratic legitimacy.
Alternatively:
How the EU chopped down its deforestation regulation - with a little help from logging countries, multinationals and a new far right @Europarl_EN alliance. The law's original author speaks out about the result, in this story, by me. theguardian.com/environment/…
If Ukraine had not pushed - and been pushed - to join Nato it "certainly" would have prevented the war, says Dr Amanda Sloat, President Biden's special asst and senior director for Europe at the National Security Council. Worth a thought...
According to @Grok, the clip is unedited, authentic, as yet undenied, and comes from a prank call released on Dec 10th by two Russian comedians "Vovan" and "Lexus".
A Gazan journalist whose family were killed by the IDF will be extradited to Austria - and poss on to Isr@el - to face terror charges he says are trumped up. Story by me: thenational.scot/news/256146…
Journalist sacked for asking @EU_Commission If Israel should pay for the reconstruction of #Gaza. The newsroom chill on calling out Israeli war crimes continues to sweep Europe.
Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference. interc.pt/3LJafZX
How to game the EU system. US firms fund think tanks to produce reports favorable to their positions. These get hawked to MEPs, journos and roundtables. Their findings are then cited as 3rd party conclusions by EU officials to explain legislative decisions ftm.eu/articles/a-third-of-f…
@keeporganizing actually said the same thing to me earlier this month equaltimes.org/ituc-campaign…
