@michaelbarenboim.bsky.social
Violinist, Prof at Barenboim-Said Akademie, and concertmaster of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Has come into the spotlight mainly for speaking out about Gaza since early 2024. Involved in artistic and academic projects amplifying Palestinian voices.
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Opinion piece in @szde.bsky.social on why the 20-point-plan, like earlier initiatives, denies Palestinians basic human rights, including self determination, and how States like Germany are, and have been, untrustworthy actors in the question of Palestine.
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
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🚨 Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta describes evidence of systematic organ theft from Palestinian bodies recently returned from Israeli custody, saying hearts, lungs, kidneys, and corneas were surgically removed from those killed in Gaza. He noted surgical cuts and stitching from the chest to the abdomen...
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🚨 Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta describes evidence of systematic organ theft from Palestinian bodies recently returned from Israeli custody, saying hearts, lungs, kidneys, and corneas were surgically removed from those killed in Gaza. He noted surgical cuts and stitching from the chest to the abdomen...
"They're killing everyone that moves"
“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"They're killing everyone that moves"
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My conversation with @omerbartov.bsky.social is out now - watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My conversation with @omerbartov.bsky.social is out now - watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Eyewitnesses report that "RSF forces selected women and girls at gunpoint when entering shelters for internally displaced persons (IDPs) near El Fasher University; gang-raped at least 25 of them and then forced at least 100 displaced families to flee amid gunfire"
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Sudan: UN experts appalled by reports of mass atrocities, unlawful killings and sexual violence in El Fasher
GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed alarm over reports of widespread atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, North Darfur, including killings of civilians and the use of ...
www.ohchr.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Eyewitnesses report that "RSF forces selected women and girls at gunpoint when entering shelters for internally displaced persons (IDPs) near El Fasher University; gang-raped at least 25 of them and then forced at least 100 displaced families to flee amid gunfire"
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
@tagesspiegel.de seems to be the only mainstream media outlet in Germany that is reporting on this story
www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...
www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...
Sie dokumentieren Tod und Folter: YouTube löscht offenbar Videos palästinensischer Menschenrechtsgruppen nach US-Sanktionen
Nach US-Sanktionen hat YouTube offenbar über 700 Videos dreier palästinensischer Menschenrechtsorganisationen gelöscht. Experten kritisieren die Entscheidung scharf.
www.tagesspiegel.de
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
@tagesspiegel.de seems to be the only mainstream media outlet in Germany that is reporting on this story
www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...
www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...
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Michael Barenboim’s (@michaelbarenboim.bsky.social) piece puts it clearly: the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination is not negotiable and not conditional on the will of the occupier. A call to confront the hypocrisy enabling apartheid and genocide.
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
Palästinenser: Menschen ohne Rechte in Gaza und Westbank
Der 20-Punkte-Plan zementiert die Besatzung und verletzt grundlegende Menschenrechte der Palästinenser
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Michael Barenboim’s (@michaelbarenboim.bsky.social) piece puts it clearly: the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination is not negotiable and not conditional on the will of the occupier. A call to confront the hypocrisy enabling apartheid and genocide.
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
Opinion piece in @szde.bsky.social on why the 20-point-plan, like earlier initiatives, denies Palestinians basic human rights, including self determination, and how States like Germany are, and have been, untrustworthy actors in the question of Palestine.
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Opinion piece in @szde.bsky.social on why the 20-point-plan, like earlier initiatives, denies Palestinians basic human rights, including self determination, and how States like Germany are, and have been, untrustworthy actors in the question of Palestine.
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/pala...
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The World Health Organisation cites alarming rises in diseases linked to malnutrition, contaminated water, and lack of medicines ⬇️
Despite ceasefire, Gaza struggles with Israel’s ’slow genocide’
The World Health Organisation cites alarming rises in diseases linked to malnutrition, contaminated water, and lack of medicines.
www.newarab.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The World Health Organisation cites alarming rises in diseases linked to malnutrition, contaminated water, and lack of medicines ⬇️
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Even in times of uncertainty, Gazan children are eager to get back to learning.
Children have not been able to sit in classrooms for a 3rd year. Now, desks have been set up in a tent at an UNRWA shelter as a temporary place to learn.
Education is a dream and hope for a better future.
#UNRWAworks
Children have not been able to sit in classrooms for a 3rd year. Now, desks have been set up in a tent at an UNRWA shelter as a temporary place to learn.
Education is a dream and hope for a better future.
#UNRWAworks
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Even in times of uncertainty, Gazan children are eager to get back to learning.
Children have not been able to sit in classrooms for a 3rd year. Now, desks have been set up in a tent at an UNRWA shelter as a temporary place to learn.
Education is a dream and hope for a better future.
#UNRWAworks
Children have not been able to sit in classrooms for a 3rd year. Now, desks have been set up in a tent at an UNRWA shelter as a temporary place to learn.
Education is a dream and hope for a better future.
#UNRWAworks
"images [of el-Fasher] appear to show mass graves (...), one at a mosque just north of the Saudi hospital where some 460 people reportedly had been killed and another by a former children’s hospital that the RSF had been using as a prison"
apnews.com/article/suda...
apnews.com/article/suda...
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"images [of el-Fasher] appear to show mass graves (...), one at a mosque just north of the Saudi hospital where some 460 people reportedly had been killed and another by a former children’s hospital that the RSF had been using as a prison"
apnews.com/article/suda...
apnews.com/article/suda...
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🚨 HRF has filed a criminal complaint in Germany against former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert for war crimes committed by Israel during the 2008–2009 Israeli military offensive on Gaza, known as "Operation Cast Lead.” Olmert is scheduled to appear in public in Berlin on 6 Nov. 2025 → https://bit.ly/4qIWR8j
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
🚨 HRF has filed a criminal complaint in Germany against former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert for war crimes committed by Israel during the 2008–2009 Israeli military offensive on Gaza, known as "Operation Cast Lead.” Olmert is scheduled to appear in public in Berlin on 6 Nov. 2025 → https://bit.ly/4qIWR8j
YouTube removes the accounts of Palestinian human rights groups @alhaq.bsky.social , @almezan.bsky.social , and Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, deleting over 700 videos documenting Israel's crimes against Palestinians.
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
YouTube removes the accounts of Palestinian human rights groups @alhaq.bsky.social , @almezan.bsky.social , and Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, deleting over 700 videos documenting Israel's crimes against Palestinians.
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...
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Israel tightens siege on Tulkarem as West Bank raids continue - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-tightens-siege-tulkarem-west-bank-raids-continue
Israel tightens siege on Tulkarem as West Bank raids continue
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="205" data-start="0">Israeli forces have ramped up their assault on the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, tearing up roads and tightening their siege on the refugee camp that has now endured 283 days of blockade.</p>
<p data-end="496" data-start="207">According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli bulldozers ripped apart the main road at the camp’s northern entrance, worsening damage from previous raids. Troops have sealed off all entry points with concrete blocks and gates, while turning several Palestinian homes into military outposts.</p>
<p data-end="706" data-start="498">Wafa also reported that the nearby Nur Shams camp remains encircled for the 270th consecutive day. When residents attempted to protest their forced displacement, Israeli soldiers dispersed them at gunpoint.</p>
<p data-end="955" data-start="708">Since the start of the Israeli offensive, more than 25,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the two camps. Thousands of homes have been reduced to rubble, and at least 14 people, including a child and two women, have been killed.</p>
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www.middleeasteye.net
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Israel tightens siege on Tulkarem as West Bank raids continue - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-tightens-siege-tulkarem-west-bank-raids-continue
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In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian
According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes @minnahfarshad.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/israel-pal...
According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes @minnahfarshad.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/israel-pal...
In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian
According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape.
zeteo.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian
According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes @minnahfarshad.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/israel-pal...
According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes @minnahfarshad.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/israel-pal...
"In 2025, you can no longer champion this national ideology without being a fascist or a militarist. It is now the essence of Zionism. Maybe it was that way from its start, and honesty requires that we admit that."
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
We Israelis are all Itamar Ben-Gvir | Opinion
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www.haaretz.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"In 2025, you can no longer champion this national ideology without being a fascist or a militarist. It is now the essence of Zionism. Maybe it was that way from its start, and honesty requires that we admit that."
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
@eldiario.es article titled "The genocide is the intent to destroy the past, the present and the future of Palestinians"
To remain silent in the face of a genocide carried out in our name is, at least,a tacit acceptance of it.We must oppose it,visibly and forcefully.
www.eldiario.es/cultura/musi...
To remain silent in the face of a genocide carried out in our name is, at least,a tacit acceptance of it.We must oppose it,visibly and forcefully.
www.eldiario.es/cultura/musi...
Michael Barenboim, violinista: “El genocidio es un intento de borrar el pasado, el presente y el futuro de los palestinos”
El músico, que actúa el miércoles en Madrid junto a la Orquesta Sinfónica de la RAI con Andrés Orozco-Estrada, reivindica la importancia de utilizar el arte para pronunciarse políticamente
www.eldiario.es
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
@eldiario.es article titled "The genocide is the intent to destroy the past, the present and the future of Palestinians"
To remain silent in the face of a genocide carried out in our name is, at least,a tacit acceptance of it.We must oppose it,visibly and forcefully.
www.eldiario.es/cultura/musi...
To remain silent in the face of a genocide carried out in our name is, at least,a tacit acceptance of it.We must oppose it,visibly and forcefully.
www.eldiario.es/cultura/musi...
Article in @elperiodico.com with quotes discussing the Gaza genocide, silence in the arts and academia, my activities around Palestine including Make Freedom Ring and Nasmé Ensemble - and why I actually like playing Mozart concerto Nr 4:)
www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cu...
www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cu...
Michael Barenboim, música y compromiso con la paz entre árabes e israelís
Michael Barenboim, violinista descendiente de una gran familia de intérpretes implicado en la paz en Oriente Medio, inaugura la temporada BCN Clàssics con la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de la RAI diri...
www.elperiodico.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Article in @elperiodico.com with quotes discussing the Gaza genocide, silence in the arts and academia, my activities around Palestine including Make Freedom Ring and Nasmé Ensemble - and why I actually like playing Mozart concerto Nr 4:)
www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cu...
www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cu...
“Atrocities are committed with unashamed expectation of impunity…the world has failed an entire generation."
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
‘Blood on the sand. Blood on the hands’: UN decries world’s failure as Sudan’s El Fasher falls
El Fasher has “descended into an even darker hell,” senior UN officials warned on Thursday, as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia seized control of the North Darfur capital after a 500-day siege, ...
news.un.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“Atrocities are committed with unashamed expectation of impunity…the world has failed an entire generation."
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Documents reveal Germany coordinated with Israel on what to disclose to the ICJ about arms exports. Records show some export details were withheld, with testimony about “medical supplies and helmets” made “in agreement” with Israel under a confidentiality deal.
www.stern.de/politik/deut...
www.stern.de/politik/deut...
Waffen für Israel: Hat die Bundesregierung nur die halbe Wahrheit gesagt?
Interne Dokumente nähren den Verdacht, die Bundesregierung könnte eine Aussage vor dem Internationalen Gerichtshof mit Israel abgesprochen haben.
www.stern.de
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Documents reveal Germany coordinated with Israel on what to disclose to the ICJ about arms exports. Records show some export details were withheld, with testimony about “medical supplies and helmets” made “in agreement” with Israel under a confidentiality deal.
www.stern.de/politik/deut...
www.stern.de/politik/deut...
Open letter by @hannakienzler.bsky.social @christinebinzel.bsky.social and myself addressed to @zdfde.bsky.social with regards to their appalling and dehumanising statement from 27.10.2025 (presseportal.zdf.de/pressemittei...)
drive.google.com/file/d/10KK_...
drive.google.com/file/d/10KK_...
October 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Open letter by @hannakienzler.bsky.social @christinebinzel.bsky.social and myself addressed to @zdfde.bsky.social with regards to their appalling and dehumanising statement from 27.10.2025 (presseportal.zdf.de/pressemittei...)
drive.google.com/file/d/10KK_...
drive.google.com/file/d/10KK_...
Anyone who has seen the images knows exactly what @unicef.org is talking about
An estimated 130,000 children in Al Fasher, Sudan, are at a high risk of grave rights violations, with reports of abduction, killing and maiming, and sexual violence.
UNICEF calls for an immediate ceasefire, safe, unimpeded humanitarian access, and the protection of civilians, especially children.
UNICEF calls for an immediate ceasefire, safe, unimpeded humanitarian access, and the protection of civilians, especially children.
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Anyone who has seen the images knows exactly what @unicef.org is talking about
Israel kills at least 104 Palestinians, including over 40 children, in one go, and then claims the ceasefire is back on.
That only makes sense if Palestinians are seen and treated as subhumans
www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/i...
That only makes sense if Palestinians are seen and treated as subhumans
www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/i...
Israel says ceasefire back on after strikes kill more than 100 in Gaza
President Donald Trump voiced support for Israel's actions after the U.S. ally carried out strikes across the enclave and traded accusations of truce violations with Hamas.
www.nbcnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Israel kills at least 104 Palestinians, including over 40 children, in one go, and then claims the ceasefire is back on.
That only makes sense if Palestinians are seen and treated as subhumans
www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/i...
That only makes sense if Palestinians are seen and treated as subhumans
www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/i...
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BREAKING: At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and about 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes across Gaza, medical sources on the ground told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/11lhsx
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/11lhsx
October 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
BREAKING: At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and about 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes across Gaza, medical sources on the ground told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/11lhsx
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/11lhsx
@zdfde.bsky.social justifies the Israeli military's killing of a colleague and a child in Gaza after it provides a document claiming to prove he was a member of Hamas.
This colleague was still a civilian, no matter what he was a member of.
It's appalling that ZDF legitimizes such brutality!
This colleague was still a civilian, no matter what he was a member of.
It's appalling that ZDF legitimizes such brutality!
October 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
@zdfde.bsky.social justifies the Israeli military's killing of a colleague and a child in Gaza after it provides a document claiming to prove he was a member of Hamas.
This colleague was still a civilian, no matter what he was a member of.
It's appalling that ZDF legitimizes such brutality!
This colleague was still a civilian, no matter what he was a member of.
It's appalling that ZDF legitimizes such brutality!