Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
@omerman.bsky.social
Director of Research for Israel-Palestine at DAWN. Bygone journalist.└A expat. Former ed-in-chief at +972 Magazine. All views my own...for now.
I see it now. He’s darth vader.
Elon Musk's social media platform X has suspended several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey amid widespread civil unrest in the country.
Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.
www.politico.eu
March 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I see it now. He’s darth vader.
My intergenerational traumas are in retrograde this month
March 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
My intergenerational traumas are in retrograde this month
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Exiting a time machine and explaining to the Seattle comrades that the real estate guy killed the WTO, NATO and USAID
March 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Exiting a time machine and explaining to the Seattle comrades that the real estate guy killed the WTO, NATO and USAID
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Trump’s threats to force universities to silence protests are a “twisted new form of transnational repression. Restricting free speech...by cutting state funds, or more accurately, creating a chilling effect by threatening to do so, is a hallmark of autocratic takeovers,” said @omerman.bsky.social.
Can Trump legally force US universities to silence protests?
Trump threatens universities with withholding federal funding if they allow ‘illegal protests’ to resume on campuses.
www.aljazeera.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Trump’s threats to force universities to silence protests are a “twisted new form of transnational repression. Restricting free speech...by cutting state funds, or more accurately, creating a chilling effect by threatening to do so, is a hallmark of autocratic takeovers,” said @omerman.bsky.social.
So what are the chances that this grows into a benevolent dictatorship?
February 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
So what are the chances that this grows into a benevolent dictatorship?
New president, new flag on the house
January 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
New president, new flag on the house
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In case Trump doesn’t read Hebrew, here is Smotrich’s statement: “Netanyahu gave us assurances that Gaza will become uninhabitable…he agrees with and accepts our approach: The war will change and Israel will control Gaza”.
Smotrich may be a theocratic-messianic fascist, but he’s no liar. Believe him
Smotrich may be a theocratic-messianic fascist, but he’s no liar. Believe him
January 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
In case Trump doesn’t read Hebrew, here is Smotrich’s statement: “Netanyahu gave us assurances that Gaza will become uninhabitable…he agrees with and accepts our approach: The war will change and Israel will control Gaza”.
Smotrich may be a theocratic-messianic fascist, but he’s no liar. Believe him
Smotrich may be a theocratic-messianic fascist, but he’s no liar. Believe him
Three depressing predictions re Israel-Palestine: 🧵📜
1)
The Israeli baby (Bibas family) who was taken on Oct 7 along with another sibling and their mother, is supposed to be returned in one of the early rounds of hostage releases. (1/8)
1)
The Israeli baby (Bibas family) who was taken on Oct 7 along with another sibling and their mother, is supposed to be returned in one of the early rounds of hostage releases. (1/8)
January 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Three depressing predictions re Israel-Palestine: 🧵📜
1)
The Israeli baby (Bibas family) who was taken on Oct 7 along with another sibling and their mother, is supposed to be returned in one of the early rounds of hostage releases. (1/8)
1)
The Israeli baby (Bibas family) who was taken on Oct 7 along with another sibling and their mother, is supposed to be returned in one of the early rounds of hostage releases. (1/8)
Parliamentary politics, amirite?
Ben Gvir says his party will leave the government if it goes for the ceasefire, but it will rejoin the government if and when the war resumes.
Ben Gvir says his party will leave the government if it goes for the ceasefire, but it will rejoin the government if and when the war resumes.
January 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Parliamentary politics, amirite?
Ben Gvir says his party will leave the government if it goes for the ceasefire, but it will rejoin the government if and when the war resumes.
Ben Gvir says his party will leave the government if it goes for the ceasefire, but it will rejoin the government if and when the war resumes.
I'm sorry but the Biden Admin's failure to achieve a ceasefire for 15 months was so much larger and more consequential than whoever managed to get it done today. Regardless of who is credited with a ceasefire, Netanyahu and Biden deserve full credit for genocide.
January 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I'm sorry but the Biden Admin's failure to achieve a ceasefire for 15 months was so much larger and more consequential than whoever managed to get it done today. Regardless of who is credited with a ceasefire, Netanyahu and Biden deserve full credit for genocide.
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"Ending Israel's genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza is of course a long-overdue welcome development but without guarantees that Israel can never again carry out such atrocities, it is but a single gulp of fresh air," said DAWN's Israeli-Palestine research director @omerman.bsky.social.
January 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"Ending Israel's genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza is of course a long-overdue welcome development but without guarantees that Israel can never again carry out such atrocities, it is but a single gulp of fresh air," said DAWN's Israeli-Palestine research director @omerman.bsky.social.
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"Israel Bonds are one of the most significant sources of financing for illicit Israeli activities in Palestine, from the violent expansion of West Bank settlements to offsetting the enormous costs of the genocidal campaign in Gaza," said DAWN's @omerman.bsky.social.
January 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"Israel Bonds are one of the most significant sources of financing for illicit Israeli activities in Palestine, from the violent expansion of West Bank settlements to offsetting the enormous costs of the genocidal campaign in Gaza," said DAWN's @omerman.bsky.social.
Hot take: Netanyahu will throw Ben Gvir under the bus for turning Israeli prisons into full-on torture camps, both to hold off int'l accountability (complementarity) and making himself seem like the responsible adult in the room to mainstream Israelis ("he's the sadist, not me").
January 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hot take: Netanyahu will throw Ben Gvir under the bus for turning Israeli prisons into full-on torture camps, both to hold off int'l accountability (complementarity) and making himself seem like the responsible adult in the room to mainstream Israelis ("he's the sadist, not me").
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Israeli bond profits “get handed out largely to [Israeli] government coalition agreements, which oftentimes are where budgets for settlements come from”, said DAWN's @omerman.bsky.social. For that reason, “Anybody investing in Israel bonds is risking violating the settler sanctions.”
Millions in bonds for Israel put US states at odds with investment policies
US states spend millions on Israeli investments but risk non-compliance with their own policies.
www.aljazeera.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Israeli bond profits “get handed out largely to [Israeli] government coalition agreements, which oftentimes are where budgets for settlements come from”, said DAWN's @omerman.bsky.social. For that reason, “Anybody investing in Israel bonds is risking violating the settler sanctions.”
The lawsuit, supported by DAWN, documents how the State Department has created unique, insurmountable processes to evade the Leahy Law requirement to sanction abusive Israeli units.
Palestinian Families Sue State Department To Suspend U.S. Military Assistance To Abusive Israeli Security Forces
dawnmena.org/united-state...
dawnmena.org/united-state...
United States: Palestinian Families Sue State Department to Suspend U.S. Military Assistance to Abusive Israeli Security Forces
(Washington DC, December 17, 2024) - Palestinian families devastated by Israeli human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank filed a federal lawsuit today under the Administrative Procedure Act (...
dawnmena.org
December 17, 2024 at 5:38 PM
The lawsuit, supported by DAWN, documents how the State Department has created unique, insurmountable processes to evade the Leahy Law requirement to sanction abusive Israeli units.
Palestinian Families Sue State Department To Suspend U.S. Military Assistance To Abusive Israeli Security Forces
dawnmena.org/united-state...
dawnmena.org/united-state...
United States: Palestinian Families Sue State Department to Suspend U.S. Military Assistance to Abusive Israeli Security Forces
(Washington DC, December 17, 2024) - Palestinian families devastated by Israeli human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank filed a federal lawsuit today under the Administrative Procedure Act (...
dawnmena.org
December 17, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Palestinian Families Sue State Department To Suspend U.S. Military Assistance To Abusive Israeli Security Forces
dawnmena.org/united-state...
dawnmena.org/united-state...
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Imagine a time traveler going back to January 7th, 2021, and telling you that this would happen less than four years later.
December 14, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Imagine a time traveler going back to January 7th, 2021, and telling you that this would happen less than four years later.
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A tale as old as time: Random woman becomes internet famous for describing sex act -> uses fame to execute seeming crypto scam -> Jews blamed
December 6, 2024 at 2:31 AM
A tale as old as time: Random woman becomes internet famous for describing sex act -> uses fame to execute seeming crypto scam -> Jews blamed
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“We only publish opinions our billionaire owner likes, and only after making sure they don’t contain anything the regime-aligned plutocrats might find objectionable” sounds dystopian - only it’s not an imagined future or alternative reality, it’s where we are.
Quite the “fourth estate” we have.
Quite the “fourth estate” we have.
Scoop: After the LA Times published a piece about Elon Musk that carried a headline owner Patrick Soon-Shiong didn't like, a new rule was implemented: Prior to publishing opinion stories, headlines must be emailed to Soon-Shiong, where he can then choose to weigh in. www.status.news/p/los-angele...
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Staffers at the Los Angeles Times described to Status a demoralized publication depleted of its spirit in which employees are "confused," "offended," and "frustrated."
www.status.news
December 5, 2024 at 3:04 PM
“We only publish opinions our billionaire owner likes, and only after making sure they don’t contain anything the regime-aligned plutocrats might find objectionable” sounds dystopian - only it’s not an imagined future or alternative reality, it’s where we are.
Quite the “fourth estate” we have.
Quite the “fourth estate” we have.
"At this point, nobody wants to hear what we have to say anymore. They simply refuse contact ... the momentum of academic boycotts is increasing."
www.shomrim.news/eng/judicial...
www.shomrim.news/eng/judicial...
Shomrim - Israel’s Returning Judicial Coup Targets the Academy and Serves the BDS Movement
Since the start of the war, there has been a ‘flood of incidents’ of Israeli academics being boycotted and the BDS movement has waged an aggressive campaign on university campuses. At home, a blitz of...
www.shomrim.news
December 5, 2024 at 3:39 PM
"At this point, nobody wants to hear what we have to say anymore. They simply refuse contact ... the momentum of academic boycotts is increasing."
www.shomrim.news/eng/judicial...
www.shomrim.news/eng/judicial...
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This is how they cover up what abortion bans do — fire anyone who helps tell the stories of harm. Everyone who is or can be pregnant will pay the price.
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2024 at 12:41 PM
This is how they cover up what abortion bans do — fire anyone who helps tell the stories of harm. Everyone who is or can be pregnant will pay the price.
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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Fascinating that experts in extremism (which Marc is, btw) now see X as their core platform for research.
(For over a decade, you had to delve into small telegram groups and other networks to track what extremists were saying.)
(For over a decade, you had to delve into small telegram groups and other networks to track what extremists were saying.)
X is now one of the core platform for research, with regards to terrorism and violent extremism. X faciliates TVE content and activity, in as much as Telegram. I honestly feel less trepidation logging into Gab or Truthsocial or the chans for research than than I do X, due to how vile the content is.
November 22, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Fascinating that experts in extremism (which Marc is, btw) now see X as their core platform for research.
(For over a decade, you had to delve into small telegram groups and other networks to track what extremists were saying.)
(For over a decade, you had to delve into small telegram groups and other networks to track what extremists were saying.)
It's snowing!
November 22, 2024 at 3:42 PM
It's snowing!