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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Agents told him his visa was revoked.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 They were confused—then said that was revoked too.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.

zeteo.com/p/breaking-dhs-detai

Zeteo · BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates SayBy Prem Thakker
Replied to Nonilex

#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
bbc.com/news/articles/cr52q7l6

Red paint is daubed across a white building with red tiled roof. It is across the white stonework and windows. The main Turnberry hotel can be seen in the background.
www.bbc.comTrump Turnberry vandalised by pro-Palestine groupPolice Scotland is investigating the incident at the Ayshire resort owned by the Trump Organisation.

#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.'

scenenoise.com/Features/The-Di

SecneNowThe Digital Archive of Arabic Music in the Age of Streaming it's surprising that we're only now hearing about the first digital archive dedicated to independent musicians in the region.

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": tni.org/en/article/the-emergin

@israel @geography 🧵

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

middleeasteye.net/news/promine

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

Middle East EyeProminent Canadian activist and author arrested for pro-Palestinian activismYves Engler's arrest in Montreal has been labelled an 'attack' on free expression in Canada
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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.]

#JonathanCook

"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."

jonathancook.substack.com/p/th

Jonathan Cook · Thirty years of Middle East lies just keep coming back to bite usBy Jonathan Cook

📷 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: obsidianurbexphotography.com/r