Kimberly Katz
@kbkatz0710.bsky.social
Historian, Middle East, Palestine, Jordan, Human Rights
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they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a controversial U.S.- and Israel-backed company that provided aid to Gaza, said Monday it would shutter operations.
US-backed aid company in Gaza shutters operations
The U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food, has said it will shutter operations.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.
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Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton says "we're in this second shutdown of the year because of how ineffective [Chuck] Schumer was at handling the first shutdown, when all of us stood together in the House to block the Republicans from shoving their bill down our throats, and then the Senate just gave in"
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton says "we're in this second shutdown of the year because of how ineffective [Chuck] Schumer was at handling the first shutdown, when all of us stood together in the House to block the Republicans from shoving their bill down our throats, and then the Senate just gave in"
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ICJ: Israel must facilitate aid to Gaza and meet Palestinian needs - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/icj-israel-must-facilitate-aid-gaza-and-meet-palestinian-needs
ICJ: Israel must facilitate aid to Gaza and meet Palestinian needs
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>The International Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that Israel was obliged under international law to facilitate the delivery of aid to Gaza, emphasising that the country must provide for the basic needs of Palestinians.</p>
<p>ICJ President Yuji Iwasawa said Israel was "under an obligation to accept and facilitate aid programs provided by the United Nations and its entities."</p>
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www.middleeasteye.net
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
ICJ: Israel must facilitate aid to Gaza and meet Palestinian needs - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/icj-israel-must-facilitate-aid-gaza-and-meet-palestinian-needs
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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Trump in 2011: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the only who has to get people together!"
October 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Trump in 2011: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the only who has to get people together!"
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Herzl Halevi was IDF COS until March. He confirms that 10% of #Gaza's population have been killed or injured, more than 200 K people, just the same count as the #Palestinian Health Ministry's.
So cut the bullshit about Palestinians inflating the numbers.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
So cut the bullshit about Palestinians inflating the numbers.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Herzl Halevi was IDF COS until March. He confirms that 10% of #Gaza's population have been killed or injured, more than 200 K people, just the same count as the #Palestinian Health Ministry's.
So cut the bullshit about Palestinians inflating the numbers.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
So cut the bullshit about Palestinians inflating the numbers.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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The mendacity is breathtaking - blaming universities, which bent over backwards to host Kirk’s hate-speech TPUSA events, spending thousands on extra security with minimal student interest, over the objection of the many targeted by his attacks & forced to watch him pocket their student fees… 1/
the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks
September 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The mendacity is breathtaking - blaming universities, which bent over backwards to host Kirk’s hate-speech TPUSA events, spending thousands on extra security with minimal student interest, over the objection of the many targeted by his attacks & forced to watch him pocket their student fees… 1/
For some, the further up one ascends, the less moored to reality, ethics, and justice they become.
September 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
For some, the further up one ascends, the less moored to reality, ethics, and justice they become.
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i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social
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Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.
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There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
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The AAUP believes that unions provide the best way for higher education workers to fulfill our duty to the wider public to ensure higher education contributes to the common good.
Happy Labor Day!
#DefendHigherEd
Happy Labor Day!
#DefendHigherEd
September 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The AAUP believes that unions provide the best way for higher education workers to fulfill our duty to the wider public to ensure higher education contributes to the common good.
Happy Labor Day!
#DefendHigherEd
Happy Labor Day!
#DefendHigherEd
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Talk about not knowing how to read the moment…
BREAKING: Kamala Harris will NOT be running for Governor of California.
Kamala Harris is Not Running for California Governor
The decision was made after months of deliberation.
meidasnews.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Talk about not knowing how to read the moment…
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Devastating account of
-the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza
-our collective moral failure
-applicable legal obligations right NOW
by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal &
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
-the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza
-our collective moral failure
-applicable legal obligations right NOW
by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal &
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
justsecurity.org
July 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Devastating account of
-the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza
-our collective moral failure
-applicable legal obligations right NOW
by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal &
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
-the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza
-our collective moral failure
-applicable legal obligations right NOW
by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal &
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
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Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
July 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
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Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
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Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
March 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
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Dems are Clintonians playing the game of alternating with Republicans for the sake of corporations. They think right now it is the other team's turn so they don't want to speak out of turn. Anyway the corporations they serve are fine either way. Same as letting Netanyahu genocide the Palestinians.
Ok. Others are asking this question too. Good.
Practicality aside from the lunacy of it all, they're just dumping how many thousands of people into the job market.
Democrats don't seem to understand how bad the aftershocks from that are going to be and it's baffling.
Democrats don't seem to understand how bad the aftershocks from that are going to be and it's baffling.
February 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Dems are Clintonians playing the game of alternating with Republicans for the sake of corporations. They think right now it is the other team's turn so they don't want to speak out of turn. Anyway the corporations they serve are fine either way. Same as letting Netanyahu genocide the Palestinians.
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BREAKING: A plane just crashed in Covington, GA, leaving two dead. That’s the seventh plane crash in recent weeks.
February 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
BREAKING: A plane just crashed in Covington, GA, leaving two dead. That’s the seventh plane crash in recent weeks.
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Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students
These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza
www.sussex.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
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The muted market reaction to Trump's tariff and Treasury threats suggests that investors discount whatever he says as the ravings of a confused, weak old man. And this is working to his advantage!
February 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The muted market reaction to Trump's tariff and Treasury threats suggests that investors discount whatever he says as the ravings of a confused, weak old man. And this is working to his advantage!
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🚨 Must-read analysis from @mattduss.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com on Trump's Gaza takeover proposal
February 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🚨 Must-read analysis from @mattduss.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com on Trump's Gaza takeover proposal
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It is 100 percent their fault. They intentionally shut out AOC in favor of an old white guy with cancer. They turned Harris's "fuck those people are so weird" campaign vibe into standard James Carville pablum. It is their fault. And we are all paying the price.
Something that I think we can all agree on is that the current generation of Democratic leadership is simply not optimized for the Attention Age. Not really their fault! And honestly, they may be better people for it, but it's a pretty pressing political problem.
January 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It is 100 percent their fault. They intentionally shut out AOC in favor of an old white guy with cancer. They turned Harris's "fuck those people are so weird" campaign vibe into standard James Carville pablum. It is their fault. And we are all paying the price.