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Peter Tregear retweeted
Jason Alexander says he feared visiting Palestine as a Jew until 10 Palestinians protected him during an Israeli army raid in Ramallah
“How much of a risk would I be taking as an American Jew walking into Palestinian cities? And Mohammed said, ‘The greatest dishonor that could happen to a religious Muslim is to allow harm to come to an invited guest’”
“And he said, ‘Jason, if they had to, they’ll take a bullet for you.’ And what was so interesting about that trip is, we were having lunch in Ramallah with a bunch of actors and artists at a sort of outdoor restaurant”
“And the Israeli army was conducting a raid on a bank that they thought had terrorist ties a couple blocks away. And they must have, to announce themselves, just shot into the air. And I remember 10 of those guys at the table surrounding me. And I went, ‘Oh my God, he wasn’t kidding. They’re not going to let me get hurt’”
Peter Tregear retweeted
I whistleblew to @UofGlasgow on research integrity, safety & bullying. They instructed a law firm. I am a sole artist. The article reflects my experience: a “university might see it in their interest to play dirty because research is often about winning and money, not people.”
Notice something wrong at your university?
Perhaps you witness bullying of a colleague, data fabrication or a professor having an affair with an undergraduate student?
You do what you're supposed to do
You report it, right?
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Peter Tregear retweeted
בגלל העניין והחשיבות הציבורית אני ורחלי החלטנו ביחד עם הגרדיאן שהסרט נז״א יהיה נגיש באינטרנט בחינם, ללא הגבלת זמן, כדי שכל אדם יוכל לצפות בו ובעדויות החיילים. זה יקרה בעוד כמה שבועות, בנובמבר, במועד הכי מוקדם שהצלחנו לקבוע. עד אז פנינו לבתי קולנוע בישראל והצענו להם את הסרט ללא עלות, בתקווה שיוקרן בארץ כבר עכשיו, במקביל להפצתו בבתי קולנוע בעולם. הצגתו תהיה החלטה אמיצה אל מול אלימות גדולה שמכוונת להסתרתו. אני יודע שיש ביקוש אדיר לצפות בסרט ואני מקווה שבאופן הזה כולם בקרוב יוכלו לראות אותו: בין אם בבתי הקולנוע ובין אם באינטרנט בעוד כמה שבועות.
הרבה דברים לא נכונים נאמרו עלינו ועל הסרט בשבוע החולף. הסרט מבוסס על תחקיר עיתונאי מקיף של שלוש שנים והפרטים בו מאומתים ומוצלבים. הוא ידבר בעד עצמו והאמת סופה להתבהר.
עשינו את הסרט כדי לעורר דיון ציבורי לגבי המעשים של הממשלה בעזה, ההרג של יותר מ73,000 בני אדם, רובם אזרחים, הנרמול של מלחמת השמדה, של התפיסה ש״אין בלתי מעורבים״. עשרים וארבעה חיילים וחיילות עשו צעד ודיברו מול מצלמה על מה שחברה שלמה לא רוצה לדבר עליו.
ההכרה בזוועות בעזה לא מפחיתה לרגע מהטבח הנפשע של השבעה באוקטובר, שחמאס אחראי עליו, שחיילים מדברים עליו בסרט, ושאין לו שום הצדקה. להפך. הרי ההתעלמות ממה שקורה בעזה היא מהגורמים שסללו את הדרך לשבת הנוראה ההיא. וההתעלמות הזו נמשכת.
עיתונות היא לא בגידה. ביקורת היא לא בגידה. זו חובה של כל אזרח שממשלתו מבצעת פשעים לדעת ושל כל חייל שהיה עד להם לספר. מסתובבים כאן אלפי חיילים כאלה, שיצפו בסרט ויזהו את מה שמתואר בו באופן אישי: את ההרג של אנשים לא חמושים שחוצים קו מדומיין, את אישורי הנז״א במאות, את התקיפות המערכתיות בבתי משפחות, את השריפה וההשמדה הפיזית של עזה, רצח וירי על אנשים רעבים במרכזי מזון ופשעים נוספים שאין להם הצדקה. גם אם זה מפחיד, זו חובתכם למצוא את הדרך להעיד על מה שראיתם. יגידו לכם שכדאי להסתיר את האמת למען הסברה בחו״ל, אבל זה קשקוש. שם יודעים כבר הכל. פשעים לא מסבירים אלא עוצרים. הסתרת האמת קודם כל מרעילה את החברה שלנו ומעל הכל מאפשרת לפגיעה בבני אדם בעזה להימשך.
ובנימה אישית: אני כותב על מדיניות האש של הצבא בעזה בעברית ב״שיחה מקומית״ כבר שלוש שנים. התחקירים זכו להתעלמות בישראל. עכשיו בפעם הראשונה משהו נסדק במסך ההתעלמות - וזה דבר חיובי. זה דבר בריא. כן, זה מגיע עם מחיר אישי גדול. היה שבוע קשה. אבל בתוכו גם יש המון תמיכה, והרבה נדיבות. מה שבטוח: האיומים לא יעזרו. זה לא מרתיע אותנו. אני ורחלי נחזור לארץ ונמשיך להיאבק על עתיד המקום הזה ביחד עם שותפים רבים.
Peter Tregear retweeted
I was interviewed for this story by @ArnoRosenfeld in @haaretzcom:
Antony Loewenstein, a journalist and author of “The Palestine Laboratory,” agreed that accountability for Israeli abuses in Gaza was the only mechanism likely to ensure that other countries did not follow Israel’s model of leveraging AI to provide a framework to achieve military objectives that are prohibited under international law.
“If no one is putting Israeli intelligence officers or officials on trial, why would other countries not look to Israel as an inspiration?” Loewenstein, whose book argues that Israel has used the West Bank and Gaza as a proving ground for new military technology, said in an interview. “Otherwise you’ll see many, many other militaries deploying remarkably similar technology and using AI as a cover to do mass destruction.”
'NAZA' exposes a blind spot in U.S. safeguards for AI weapons haaretz.com/us-news/2026-09-…
Peter Tregear retweeted
Just been to see LIFE SUPPORT, remarkable film about Gaza as seen through the eyes of British and other international doctors. Utterly harrowing. Genocide. It is on Apple TV but should be on the Beeb. And every MP should see it.
Peter Tregear retweeted
If you care about supporting Palestinian freedom, opposing (actual) antisemitism and defending free speech down under, follow @jewishcouncilAU. It's an amazing organization.
Pro-Israel groups are pressuring governments & institutions to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which would prohibit legitimate criticism of Israel. We can’t let widespread adoption of this definition cement further censorship.
Add your name: jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08…
Peter Tregear retweeted
A new Haaretz exposé reveals that Netanyahu was warned about about a possible Hamas attack days before October 7th but kept the information from security officials. But what does that mean for Israelis today? | Linda Dayan explains
🔗Read the full exposé here: haaretz.com/israel-news/isra… haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…
Peter Tregear retweeted
In October 2023, Hamas offered to release all civilian hostages if Israel promised not to invade Gaza. Netanyahu rejected it. Some of us noted this at the time; establishment media did not, being too busy spreading pro-genocide atrocity propaganda about Hamas raping women and beheading babies.
The only open question is whether Hamas asked for anything at all. Qatari PM Mohammed al-Thani says Hamas agreed to free the hostages without conditions. Mossad chief David Barnea insists Hamas "set unacceptable conditions, such as halting the IDF's incursion into Gaza and new rights for worshippers on the Temple Mount."
Correct: because the natives had dared to resist their occupiers, it was unacceptable to stop Israel from destroying Gaza, or from denying Palestinians access to one of Islam's holiest sites.
A senior Israeli military official now tells Haaretz that when the Hamas offer reached the military, it was ignored: "To be honest, the issue of the hostages was not seriously on the agenda at this stage, and no one at the military or political level was open to discussing the proposal."
Antony Blinken was told of the Hamas offer directly, and rejected it too. "Israel is still under attack, and there's no one to talk to," he told the Qatari PM. This is the same Blinken who would soon claim that if Hamas freed the hostages, "this could end tomorrow." That was ghoulish on its own terms, endorsing mass murder as the means to an "end." It also wasn't honest, which for Blinken was the default.
Former CIA chief William Burns now says: "The basic problem was that Hamas was looking for a 'permanent end to the conflict,' as they called it." Yes. And the Biden team pretended Hamas was the obstacle, to help Israel put a permanent end to Gaza as a society and to Palestinians as a people seeking self-determination.
Peter Tregear retweeted
El momento en el que el ejército de "Israel" bombardeó anoche al periodista libanés Ali Shabib, en la ciudad de Nabatieh, en el sur del Líbano.
"Israel" ha matado más periodistas en Gaza y Líbano que en las 2 guerras mundiales y todos los conflictos del último siglo juntos.
Peter Tregear retweeted
Israel just demolished a 120-year-old home in Ni’lin because it didn’t have a building permit.
The house was built around 1906.
The State of Israel was founded in 1948.
The occupation of the West Bank began in 1967.
So the paperwork they demanded was issued by an authority that didn’t exist when the walls went up. Bold bureaucratic innovation: retroactive zoning for a country that arrived later than the stone.
Imagine the clerk:
“Sir, we’re going to need the Ottoman-era permit, the British Mandate stamp, and the Israeli one you never applied for because we hadn’t invented ourselves yet. Also the land is now strategically important. Have a nice day.”
Nothing says “rules-based order” like fining a building for missing a form that predates the form-maker. Next they’ll ticket the olive trees for growing without a 2024 agricultural license.
Free Palestine.
And maybe start requiring permits for founding states on other people’s already-built villages.
Peter Tregear retweeted
After nearly three years of U.S.-backed Israeli destruction of virtually every aspect of civilian life in Gaza, U.S. Amb. to the U.N. Mike Waltz is lashing out at an aid coalition leader because, while detailing Israel’s restrictions on basic necessities, she did not “condemn [Hamas’] rape” on October 7.
Thus far, none of the leading human rights organizations has confirmed a single rape committed on October 7. Israel has presented zero forensic evidence and has blocked any comprehensive investigation capable of establishing the rape narrative repeatedly asserted by Israeli and U.S. officials.
Athena Rayburn, executive director of the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA), which represents an umbrella group of more than 100 international humanitarian and development organizations operating across Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Why Waltz thinks Rayburn’s remarks before the U.N. Security Council detailing Israel’s ongoing killings in Gaza and failures in meeting humanitarian commitments needed to include an unproven rape allegation is unclear.
And if an individual Hamas fighter committed rape on October 7, that would not give Israel and the United States license to block crutches, prosthetic limbs, medicine, specialized doctors and fresh produce from more than 2 million Palestinians.
It's outrageous that a so-called “expert” lectured the UN Security Council about the situation in Gaza while never once saying the word Hamas much less condemning its rape, torture, terrorism of the Palestinian and Israeli people.
Of course this “expert” brought plenty of criticisms but ZERO credible solutions on how to break Gaza free from the cycle of violence. Pathetic.
Peter Tregear retweeted
New York magazine says it decided that “genocide” was “an accurate description of the atrocities in Gaza, that accusations of antisemitic intent were in fact obfuscating an overwhelming scholarly consensus, and that its use would be allowed in our pages” nymag.com/article/comments-w…
Peter Tregear retweeted
This is the real scandal in UK universities
There's a highly paid managerial class that has presided over failure
While demanding more & more pay, less & less accountability
theguardian.com/education/20…
Peter Tregear retweeted
IDF marks Palestinian detainees with numbers as it expands northern West Bank operations. MK Ahmad Tibi wrote, 'An image reminiscent of dark periods, and one that should shock everyone' haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-0…
Peter Tregear retweeted
Clear evidence of settler-terrorists and IDF working together to lay siege to a Palestinian family:
Peter Tregear retweeted
An FT visual investigation found systematic destruction across Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon, crippling systems essential to civilian life, from water and energy infrastructure to medical care. Raya Jalabi reports on the scale of the devastation. ft.trib.al/atpwoGT
Peter Tregear retweeted
🚨 UPDATE: The White House has intervened and is now seeking clarification from Israel over why Israeli settlers have been allowed to maintain a five-day siege of a Palestinian home belonging to an American citizen in the village of Qusra, in the occupied West Bank.
For five consecutive days, Israeli settler terrorists are surrounding the home of an American citizen in the Palestinian village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank, leaving the family trapped inside their own home.
Yes, the owner of this house is an American citizen.
For five days, his family has been trapped inside under threat, yet I have not seen a single public condemnation from the U.S. Embassy in Israel or from U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee demanding that Israeli authorities protect this American citizen and hold those responsible accountable.
Does an American passport suddenly mean less when the person carrying it is Palestinian?