Netanyahu has offered military escorts to foreign journalists for guided tours of Gaza that sanitize and legitimize genocide. We call on our peers to refuse to embed with these Israeli propaganda tours. #BoycottIDFEmbeds Read our statement: https://t.co/b9oAeUAG1E

📢Stay tuned for more pieces from this series, as we look at the source of some problems facing Lebanon's water infrastructure. Till then, catch up on the rest of our work under our “Public Services & Infrastructure” topic:

Second, the water used to irrigate our crops (Akkar as a case study): - Akkar grows 14 percent of Lebanon’s produce - Akkar's streams and rivers are contaminated with raw sewage - Local farmers are forced to irrigate their crops with either contaminated river water or raw sewage

First, the water we bathe in. While private water vendors serve as the de facto national water supply system: - Their operations are largely unregulated - They operate with little to no government monitoring or taxation - Most lack permits and licenses - Most do not follow legal

🌊Do you know what’s in the water we drink, bathe in, or use to irrigate the crops we consume every day? In light of the recent Tannourine water affair, we revisit two investigations from our “Water (In) Crisis” dossier that answer some of these questions 👇

How Western media manufactured consent for the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Most correspondents transmitted Israeli military talking points without question claiming Hezbollah was preparing to invade northern Israel, instead of the other way around.

🔗 Read the interview with Jaldía Abubakra by Julia Choucair Vizoso & Farah-Silvana Kanaan. It traces Masar Badil’s transnational origins, its rejection of peace deals that sideline Palestinian agency, & its reliance on grassroots funding.

In 2021, Masar Badil (@MasarBadil) was launched simultaneously in Beirut, Madrid, and São Paolo during a period of growing transnational solidarity sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The objectives of the Palestinian struggle are complex because we’re not fighting a small, local

At 18, she left Egypt for Madrid. “When I got here, my struggle was educating people on Palestine and showing them that Palestinians have the right to return and the right to resist.”

Jaldía Abubakra's political consciousness developed at an early age. She was nine years old when her family left Gaza in 1967, a formative rupture that would shape the rest of her life.

🚢🇵🇸Born in Gaza, Jaldía Abubakra sails with the Global Sumud Flotilla (@gbsumudflotilla). She's also co-founder of Masar Badil (@MasarBadil) & a leading Palestinian figure in Spain. Julia Choucair Vizoso & Farah-Silvana Kanaan spoke with her last month.

The Global Sumud Flotilla (@gbsumudflotilla) is about six days from reaching Gaza. Since setting sail earlier this month, it has come under Israeli drone attacks. This week, Spain and Italy have announced they will send ships to protect the flotilla.

Jasbir Puar on the Pager Attacks and the Right to Maim https://t.co/3bJlHsbBWT via @ThePublicSource

The pressures of life under occupation are woven into the curriculum at Birzeit (@BirzeitU). Read Maysa Mustafa (@maysamustafa) and Zach Hussein’s reporting, co-published with Writers Against the War on Gaza (@wawog_now):

Layla was arrested at dawn on Sept. 17, 2024. At Damon Prison in Haifa, she felt that she was walking into a giant cage that was hosting a school reunion: classmates cheered her name when they caught glimpses of her through the glass window of the prison’s large sliding doors.

Some students have experienced Zionist prison before even starting college. Occupation forces came for Shadi when he was just 16, locking him up for two months, subjecting him to beatings, and mocking his Christian faith.

Death, too, is stitched into campus life. When a student is martyred, their body returns to the school’s grounds one last time. Classmates carry the martyr’s coffin on their shoulders in a solemn procession before burial.

Birzeit University (@BirzeitU) has shaped Palestinian political life since 1970, making it a target of the Israeli regime and the Palestinian Authority, both of which seek to dismantle student power and criminalize political expression.

At Birzeit University (@BirzeitU), getting a degree can mean doing time in Zionist prison. In our latest (Dis)order Report, Maysa Mustafa (@maysamustafa) and Zach Hussein share how students have been surveilled, arrested, or killed by the Israeli occupation.

After the pager attacks last year, we reached out to Jasbir K. Paur, author of “The Right to Maim.” Read her thoughts on why such a tactic was used and what is being normalized through it: https://t.co/GEBtqsxfKm

“Maybe I won’t be able to help this country in any way, but at least I will have shown the survivors: I feel with you,” said Wafa, a former detainee of Khiam Prison who hails from Bint Jbeil. “It is not easy to lose your sight,” she said while holding a poster that read: “We are