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Raja Asvanon retweeted
Dr. Marandi just described the US policy perfectly:
"The other guest is openly genocidal. He's talking about starving the Iranian people to trigger an 'organic revolution.' That's the opposite of organic - that's let's kill the kids, let's kill the women. Starve the people, make them suffer, because they don't like the revolution.
This is deeply sinister. It shows the nature of the U.S. empire. There's a lust in the United States to make Iranians starve. It's a deep sickness."
Raja Asvanon retweeted
BREAKING: The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry has concluded that Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, including extermination, persecution, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, while continuing the genocide in Gaza.
In today's report, the commission found that Israeli military operations and settler violence in the occupied West Bank have formed part of a widespread and systematic campaign against Palestinian civilians since October 7, 2023.
The report also accused Israeli forces of deliberately targeting Palestinian children, using sexual violence to intimidate and displace communities, and expanding territorial control through forced displacement. More than 34,000 Palestinians remained displaced in the West Bank as of August 2026.
In Gaza, investigators concluded that Israeli forces continued committing genocidal acts despite the ceasefire agreement, including killing and injuring civilians near the so-called Yellow Line.
The commission also criticized the Palestinian Authority for suppressing dissent and failing to investigate abuses by its security forces.
It called on Israel to end its occupation, dismantle settlements and return confiscated Palestinian land, while urging the Palestinian Authority to investigate violations and provide remedies to victims.
Raja Asvanon retweeted
Some of the sharpest analyses of Israeli politics come from Daniel Levy.
This should be subtitled in every language. Short, clear, impeccable.
Daniel Levy | Former Israeli Peace Negotiator | US/Middle East Project (@USMEP):
Netanyahu did not alone commit genocide for 3 years. He did not alone maintain decades of illegal occupation. It was system-wide.
Eisenkot was part of it & served in the military. He sat in the emergency unity security cabinet after Oct. 7 - during the genocide.
Israeli generals, soldiers & judges - all part of a system-wide mobilization. Dissenting voices existed but remained marginal.
Raja Asvanon retweeted
New UN report: Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amid continuing genocide in Gaza
"The report, delivered to the U.N. General Assembly, noted that between the cease-fire announced on Oct. 10, 2025, and the end of September 2026, Israeli airstrikes, artillery and gunfire had killed 1,431 Palestinians in Gaza, including 300 children. The report rejected a claim in May by the Board of Peace set up by President Trump that the cease-fire had “largely held.”"
- via The New York Times
Raja Asvanon retweeted
📰 My new report “Truth under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide” is out
🔗 Available in all official UN Languages: ohchr.org/en/documents/count…
🇺🇳 FOLLOW THE PRESENTATION
@ the UN General Assembly, New York
>Monday 26 October
2pm EST/ 7pm CET
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Raja Asvanon retweeted
Israel is a satanic entity and Zionism is a satanic cult.
Inside the mass graves, they found children & babies with their hands bound with zip ties.
This photo is from 2 mass graves discovered at Nasser Hospital, southern Gaza.
During the genocide, the @EuroMedHR documented over 130 mass graves of victims of the Israeli genocide
Raja Asvanon retweeted
Zelensky's cancelled elections in Ukraine and banned opposition media. His strongest rivals are in jail or exile. He's worked to prevent his former spokesperson, Iulia Mendel, from speaking anywhere in the EU. And his former business partner, Timor Mindich, fled to Israel after extorting millions from a state company.
He has more in common with his fellow former TV star Trump than he thinks.
In a defiant interview with the FT, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Donald Trump had an instinctive affinity for autocrats and the super-wealthy. The Ukrainian president explained his views on the relationship between the US and Russian heads of state ft.trib.al/u7fXLMI
Raja Asvanon retweeted
If you want to understand Israeli Jewish society, I highly recommend watching this 4 minute clip.
The host asks representatives of major Israeli Jewish political partiies, "do you support a Palestinian State, yes or no." The responses:
#1: "hell no"
#2: "of course no"
#3: "no, definitely not”
#4: "clearly not”
#5: "this is a useless discussion”
#6: "no. we will do everything to prevent it.”
#7: "clearly no”
#8: "no government in the history of Israel has done more to avoid a Palestinian state than this government [that I am in]."
This election is a competition among Jewish Israelis over who is the biggest Nazi. Who embraces Nazism more than their opponents?
Israel is by far the most genocidal country in the world. there is no 2nd place or 3rd place. it's an entire society completely and utterly drunk on apartheid & genocide.
Israeli TV brings together a host of different candidates "from across the political spectrum" and asks them if they support the establishment of a Palestinian state.
They uniformly declare "No!"
"We'll fight it tooth and nail! … It's against God!"
By Israeli standards, Netanyahu is a moderate who is not genocidal enough.
Raja Asvanon retweeted
Televising a public execution is beyond disgusting and barbaric. The death penalty should not exist, let alone be a live-streamed spectacle.
This is a grotesque violation of human dignity. We must oppose this - and the death penalty - everywhere.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmy0…
Raja Asvanon retweeted
forgot to mention:
Congratulations to lawyer and human rights activist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on her Nobel Peace Prize.
Few have devoted their lives to justice, peace and human dignity like she did.
From the violence of apartheid in South Africa to the horrors of the Rwandan genocide, she has confronted some of humanity’s darkest chapters.
She has looked the brutality of injustice in the eye and never looked away.
She is the defender of the persecuted, the vulnerable, the voiceless and the excluded.
Of the rule of law over the right of might.
In a world that needs justice more than ever, her courage and moral clarity are a precious compass.
