I explore fractured modernities across the Arab world & the Mediterranean. Political sociologist, public scholar & @UNESCO advisor for the Arab region.
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Amro Ali retweeted
I honestly find Ben Gvir and Smotrich and radical Zionism more honest than liberal Zionists. At least they don’t pretend their vision comes without consequences.
They want a Jewish ethnonational state, but liberal Zionists want the same endgame w a nicer PR package, distancing themselves from the dispossession and inequality required to maintain it.
U can’t defend the project, condemn the ugly bits, and pretend they have nothing to do with each other. U don’t get to wash ur hands of the consequences while defending the system that produces them.
"There is NO Diet Coke Version of Zionism"
In this episode of Palestine Deep Dive, Irish journalist and commentator Barry Malone and American writer Benjamin Moser, author of Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, join host Ahmed Alnaouq for a wide-ranging discussion on Zionism, anti-Zionism, media complicity and the language shaping public debate around Israel and Palestine.
Drawing on the history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, the conversation explores Britain’s role in the Zionist movement, the politics of antisemitism and the silencing of dissent. They also examine the Green Party’s recent adoption of its “Zionism is Racism” motion and the debate it has sparked.
With Israeli elections bringing renewed attention to Benjamin Netanyahu, the discussion also addresses whether a change of prime minister would address the deeper questions of Palestinian self-determination and equal rights
@benjaminfmoser | @malonebarry | @AlnaouqA
Amro Ali retweeted
You can’t make this up. Minouche Shafik, the former @Columbia president who caved to hostile politicians in a disastrous hearing, called the NYPD onto her own campus, had students arrested by the hundreds, then resigned in disgrace, is now in charge of @LSEnews new forum for “democratic debate.”
Will she call the police on the debaters too?
lse.ac.uk/news/latest-news-f…
Amro Ali retweeted
😂 Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed fires back at Trump calling him “Abdul Ramadan”:
“Groceries under his leadership have gotten so expensive, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s like, listen, we could just do Ramadan for all!”
What a comeback!
Amro Ali retweeted
I think MAGA has met its match in this guy whose response to rank bigotry against his people is not the usual (well-intentioned) attempt to rhetorically refute the claims or to reason with the bullies, but to punch back—hard—while recentering the issues.
EL-SAYED: RFK JR. was in town this week. He said that the 500 million Arabs in the world had never contributed anything to science. But to be fair, he is an expert on people who never contributed anything to science.
He didn't bother to show up when 8000 people were infected by the shit lettuce. But he wants to come here and lecture you about potentially electing and arab-american to the U.S. Senate
My guy has zero doctorates. I have two of them
Amro Ali retweeted
This. Is. The. Best. Thing. I’ve. Seen. In. My. Life.
“I no longer feel proud to be Israeli… We are occupiers, yes… wait, i thought we were on commercial break!”
Amazing — Israeli actress Chelli Goldenberg accidentally tells the truth when she doesn’t realize she’s live on the air. (H/T @MintPressNews)
More: israelnationalnews.com/news/…
Amro Ali retweeted
EL-SAYED to TRUMP: I will go through a metal detector if you will sit for a lie detector. My first question, Epstein. Second question, did you win the 2020 election? I will go through a metal detector every day if you sit through a lie detector one time.
Amro Ali retweeted
this Apartheid era propaganda video makes history feel like a series of copy/paste commands.
Today, you'll be flooded with Israeli propaganda about "we're a true democracy, not an apartheid"
All of their talking points are copied from Apartheid South Africa's propaganda (watch👇)
Apartheid South Africa's Tricameral Parliament was 42% colored & Indian in 1983, after the regime allowed 2.8 million colored & 850,000 Indian citizens to vote (while excluding 22.7 million black South Africans). Colored representatives even held ministerial positions, but without portfolios (i.e. no real power).
This is just like Israel allowing 2 million Palestinian citizens to vote while excluding 6 million in the occupied territory & 8 million in exile. The less than 15% of Israel's Knesset that is Arab are excluded from power (both Netanyahu & the opposition parties refuse to form a government with Arab parties).
Apartheid South Africa had black policemen, soldiers, engineers, doctors, & professors whom they loved to show in propaganda videos to claim "we're a cosmopolitan society". But that was only a fig leaf to hide the disenfranchisement of the overwhelming majority of blacks.
Apartheid South Africa also claimed a God-given right to the land. They also screamed "we're facing an existential threat" & are "surrounded by enemies who want to destroy us".
They also bragged "we're the only democracy in Africa", "we have Western values", "we're the only industrialized state in Africa", "we're one of the 20 most developed states on earth"... It was still an Apartheid!
Don't fall for Israel's recycled apartheid propaganda!
Amro Ali retweeted
Apartheid South Africa had WAY MORE colored members of parliament than Israeli Arabs in the Knesset
Apartheid's 1983 Tricameral Parliament allowed 2.8 million colored & 850,000 Indian citizens to vote. 42% of parliament members were colored & Indian Reps.
Still Apartheid!
Israel’s Arab citizens, men and women, are turning out in historic numbers to vote. They can vote, run for office, and serve in the Knesset, rights denied to many Arabs and women across much of the Middle East.
Our critical ally in the fight against terror, Israel, is the only democracy in the region, and today shows it.
Amro Ali retweeted
Very nice @RitchieTorres. Now let’s check in on the direct to taxpayer costs of merely the last eight months of this special relationship that everyone hates.
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🚨 BREAKING: An Egyptian court has fined Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah 3 million Egyptian pounds, ordered the closure of the independent news outlet’s website and the confiscation of its property. Attalah was taken into custody following the ruling.
The court rejected the defense’s requests to present documents and call witnesses. The judge then abruptly appointed a lawyer unknown to Attalah’s defense team. Attalah objected, but the judge refused to record her objection in the court minutes, according to Mada Masr.
The judge then began recording requests on behalf of the court-appointed lawyer, who had not spoken, before reading out the conviction amid protests from the defense.
Mada Masr, one of Egypt's last remaining independent news outlets, has repeatedly applied for a license since 2018 and has never received a response from Egyptian authorities.
Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah was fined LE3 million by the New Cairo Misdemeanor Court, which convicted her on charges of managing an unlicensed website, issuing an order for the website’s closure. Attalah was taken into custody after the issue of the ruling.
Tuesday’s session at the ninth circuit of the New Cairo Misdemeanor Court, presided over by judge Mohamed Mubarak, was temporarily suspended for deliberations after Attalah’s defense counsel requested time to review the case file.
After the court returned from deliberations, the judge ordered the courtroom cleared of everyone except Attalah and her defense counsel, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights’ executive director Hossam Bahgat, who was also present, told Mada Masr. The room then filled with plainclothes officers and guards, with a National Security Agency officer in attendance, he added.
The presiding judge and a Supreme State Security Prosecution representative returned to the session and the judge announced that the court has decided to stand by its rejection of all the procedural arguments presented by the defense, including requests to bring in any documentation or hear any witnesses.
The judge then asked the defense team to present its plea. The counsel insisted that it would not submit a plea as long as its requests were unanswered by the court.
The judge then abruptly asked for a lawyer unknown to any member of the defense counsel to be brought in, “in a move that astonished all those present,” said Bahgat, and announced that the court decided to appoint a lawyer for Attalah.
At that point, all members of the defense counsel cried out to reject the court’s appointment of a lawyer when the eight chosen lawyers were present. Attalah herself spoke to say she did not accept the court-appointed lawyer acting on her behalf, an objection the judge refused to have recorded in the session’s minutes.
"In an even more shocking move,” said Bahgat, the judge himself began to log down the requests of the court-appointed lawyer, without the lawyer having said a word. The judge then read out the conviction amid shouts and protests from the defense counsel.
The judge sentenced Attalah to the maximum possible penalty: a LE3 million fine, the closure of Mada Masr’s website and the confiscation of its property.
Security personnel then surrounded Attalah, lifted her off the ground and took her out of the courtroom, where she remains in custody in the courthouse.
Amro Ali retweeted
If the Interior Minister of Japan started committing war crimes with our tax dollars we'd get to know him.
Amro Ali retweeted
Does he support ending the occupation? No.
Does he call for Palestinian statehood? No.
Does he endorse full equality for all Israeli citizens? No.
Did he call to starve Gaza? Yes.
Did he join Ben Gvir to ban Sami Abu Shehadeh? Yes.
Why is Socialist International endorsing him?
🇬🇧 The Socialist International wishes Yair Golan (@YairGolan1) and our member party, The Democrats (@DemocratsIL), every success in tomorrow's legislative elections in Israel. 🇮🇱
Amro Ali retweeted
What a line:
"Most Israeli Jews now see the world the way Netanyahu has long seen it. That is Netanyahu’s great victory. But it is matched by his great loss: Much of the world now sees Israel the way Gazans see it." nytimes.com/2026/10/25/opini…
Amro Ali retweeted
His position on Israel has been used to attack his electability so don’t complain when his ads respond with why it matters.
Amro Ali retweeted
Israeli election debate
Candidate 1: "I have killed SO MANY Arabs"
Candidate 2: "Liar, he is lying! He has not killed NEARLY enough Arabs. He even spares the children!"
Candidate 1: "FALSE! I've killed countless Arab children and I WILL KILL EVEN MORE if you vote for me"
