NEWS: Last night, the Department of #HomelandSecurity detained a #Palestinian who helped lead the #Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
If you have not watched "No Other Land Yet" do yourself a favor and fix that. #nootherland #FreePalestine #Palestine #resist #resistance #love #propaganda #meme #antifa #anarchism #hamas #middleeast #marxist #marx #Leftist #liberal #democrats #rebel
#Trump caused widespread international criticism after repeatedly proposing to empty the #Gaza strip of all #Palestinians & turn the area into a resort.
He proposed taking ownership of the Gaza Strip & redeveloping it, after saying earlier that Palestinians should move out of the region.
"The US will take over the Gaza Strip & we will do a job with it too," Trump said during a joint conference w/ #Israel’s PM Benjamin #Netanyahu last month.
A pro-Palestine group has vandalised parts of #Trump's Turnberry golf resort in Scotland.
#Palestine Action posted photographs on social media showing red paint daubed across one of the buildings at the Ayrshire course.
The words "#Gaza is not for sale" are sprayed across one green & another green appears to have been dug up.
#geopolitics #USexpansionism #USpol #Israel #war #MiddleEast
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr52q7l6drdo
#Arabic #MiddleEast #independent #music #musicians
'On February 24th, 2025, the Arabic Independent Music Archive (AIMA) officially launched its digital platform at the Goethe Institute in Cairo, marking a significant step toward documenting and preserving the independent music scenes across the Arab world.'
https://scenenoise.com/Features/The-Digital-Archive-of-Arabic-Music-in-the-Age-of-Streaming
Israel is blocking all entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza in order to pressure Hamas into a new ceasefire deal.
@AssociatedPress has the details:
@mondoweiss @palestine @israel What #Trump , #Musk and #Israel are selling in the ‘#Riviera of the #MiddleEast.’
What you can expect in #Gaza if the #UnitedStates ‘owns it’. 
Long read: How a peripheral state can leverage its wealth, strategic geography and alliances to exert outsized influence on regional and global affairs
"How the UAE can simultaneously be both a subject of imperialism and an agent of imperialist practices within its spheres of influence while challenging traditional imperialist actors": https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-emerging-sub-imperial-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-africa
Prominent #Canadian activist and author arrested for pro-#Palestinian activism
#YvesEngler arrest in Montreal has been labelled an 'attack' on free expression in #Canada
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 20 February 2025 21:44 GMT
Alex Tyrrell, party leader of the Green Party of Quebec, who accompanied #Engler to the police station on Thursday, spoke to the Middle East Eye about Engler’s arrest.
“I think it’s a shocking attack on free expression and democratic rights and criticism of Israel in Canada - a country that’s supposed to be a free, democratic society. We’re supposed to speak out about a genocide," Tyrrel told MEE.
#ActivismIsNotACrime
#DefendFreeSpeech
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#USHandsOffICC
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel
A new study published in the Lancet finds that #life expectancy in #Gaza dropped by nearly half, from 75.5 years to 40.6 years, during the first twelve months of the #genocide. #Apocalyptic.
And barely a word on this from #Western #media.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02810-1/abstract
#OrangeHitler is such a dumbass. He is now demanding that #Hamas "release ALL the hostages by Sunday at 12 noon" OR ELSE.
He thinks he's going to be known as the one who finally "brings peace to the #MiddleEast."
How much of a "peacemaker" are you when your means of getting everyone to submit it to threaten to obliterate them? 
#ConvictedFelon #WarCrime #WarMonger
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Unlike major #ForeignPolicy announcements w/past presidents, including #Trump, the notion of the #US controlling #Gaza had never been part of a public discussion before Tues.
But privately, Trump had been talking about US ownership of the enclave for wks. And his thinking had accelerated, acc/to 2 admin ofcls, after his #MiddleEast envoy, #SteveWitkoff, returned from Gaza last wk & described the horrific conditions there. [apparently Trump hadn’t heard. Willful ignorance.]
#UnitedStates to TAKE OVER the #Gaza Strip
AMSTERDAM- DAMRAK - Pro Israel vs. Pro Palestina in verhit debat met volledig arrestatie team van tien+ man rondom. #politiek #Amsterdam #straat #Damrak
#MiddleEast #peacenow
"#AdamHanieh discusses the displacement of #Palestinians, the prevalence of the #OilIndustry, and how capitalism operates in the #GulfStates...
"His new book, #CrudeCapitalism: #Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market is out now with #VersoBooks: https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2760-crude-capitalism?utm_campaign=crude_capitalism_25&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube "
#Palestine #MiddleEast #MiddleEastPolitics #imperialism #PoliticalEconomy #petropolitics #geopolitics #ArabPolitics #PoliticalTheory #ArabMarxism #books @palestine @bookstodon
"If you believed all of these stories, and still believe that the West is doing its best to bring to heel Islamic extremism and a supposed Russian imperialism in Ukraine, then you presumably also believe that Israel levelled Gaza, destroyed all its hospitals and starved its entire population of 2.3 million simply to “eliminate Hamas”, even though Hamas has not been eliminated."
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/thirty-years-of-middle-east-lies
‘Doomsday Clock’ hits 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the annual announcement citing threats that include climate change, proliferation of nuclear weapons and instability in the Middle East.
#science #politics #environment #nuclear #MiddleEast #World
https://globalnews.ca/news/10982120/doomsday-clock-2025-close-to-midnight-threats/
Rose House, Lebanon 
The Rose House is a once-grand palace in Lebanon. The architecture combines traditional Ottoman characteristics with more Western influences. The main living area is typical of historic Lebanese buildings, with high ceilings and an internal triple-arched arcade leading to a balcony.
Read more: https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/residential/rose-house-lebanon/
