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Writer, photographer. Essays on food, media and politics at my website, Eating an Island. Montreal/Cairo.

Montréal, Québec
Joined January 2024
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My writing on Palestine, a 🧵 I’ve been writing on this since the fall – in fact, it’s been hard to focus on anything else. “What We Talk about When We Talk about Food Security” – on Gaza, poverty and neoliberal "moves to innocence". eatinganisland.com/p/what-we… – at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
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3 Black men were murdered by state sanctioned racist sociopaths in the 4 last days in France. 3 I am so livid.
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TEMU Honest Reporting line-up
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"That's not fascism, that's my emotional support settler colonialism." 🪨🪨🪨
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french paper of record Le Monde finds entities in the israeli private sector have been working for three years to spread racist and islamophobic discourse in france in an attempt to influence french elections. (and france already didn’t need any help in that department)
🇫🇷 🇮🇱 🤖 “Une gigantesque campagne d’influence, particulièrement bien financée, court depuis trois ans et diffuse, en toute illégalité, des discours racistes et islamophobes. Plusieurs indices situent de manière convaincante son origine dans le secteur privé israélien.” lemonde.fr/pixels/article/20… “De par son ampleur et sa durée, cette opération constitue « l’une des plus grandes campagnes d’influence et de désinformation jamais documentée.” (…) L’Hexagone est, ces derniers mois, le pays le plus visé : on y recense 120 millions de vues en trois ans. Pourquoi ? Une analyse historique des publicités poussées par les commanditaires suggère qu’à plusieurs reprises ils ont souhaité s’aligner sur le calendrier électoral. En 2024, « les publicités visant la France se sont concentrées sur les mois précédant les élections européennes », notent les chercheurs. En Allemagne, en 2026, ces mêmes achats publicitaires se sont subitement arrêtés juste avant l’élection régionale en Saxe-Anhalt, qui a vu la victoire du parti d’extrême droite Alternative für Deutschland. « Cette campagne est toujours active dans des pays à l’approche d’élections importantes en 2027, dont la France et l’Italie, écrivent les chercheurs. Sa promotion constante de messages antimusulmans et anti-immigration suggère qu’elle peut avoir pour but d’influencer le climat politique en amont. » (…) Une adresse IP localisée en Israël Qui a réellement payé pour ces milliers de publicités, qui ont coûté des millions d’euros ? (…) L’analyse sur le long terme des campagnes montre que plusieurs semblent conçues pour bénéficier à Israël.” (…) Le calendrier d’autres campagnes suggère un intérêt pour le gouvernement de Benyamin Nétanyahou. En novembre 2024, une série de publicités faisant la promotion du premier ministre hongrois d’alors, Viktor Orban, ont été mises en ligne le jour où la Cour pénale internationale a émis un mandat contre M. Nétanyahou, juste avant que M. Orban ne l’invite à se rendre en Hongrie. Plusieurs indices pointent de manière convaincante en direction du secteur privé de l’Etat hébreu comme principal suspect derrière cette opération. Cette dernière avait aussi un volet ciblant Wikipédia, et avait recours à des faux nez qui masquaient leur véritable adresse IP pour modifier l’encyclopédie en ligne. Or, à la suite d’un problème technique, la véritable adresse IP d’un de ces éditeurs est brièvement apparue, et indiquait une localisation en Israël.” (..) Ces métadonnées indiquent que les monteurs des vidéos travaillaient sur le fuseau horaire israélien, et comportaient même les pseudonymes de plusieurs créateurs, dont un certain « ShukiD ». Le pseudonyme est bien connu dans les milieux politiques israéliens : il s’agit d’un créateur de vidéos qui a collaboré à de multiples campagnes, par exemple pour Moshe Kahlon, l’ancien ministre des finances de M. Nétanyahou.”
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NEW: I take a look at some of the items on the agenda for the upcoming UCP AGM in Calgary, from subtle efforts to purge the party of separatists to right-to-work union busting, segregating trans women and surrendering to the Yankee menace. Link below 👇👇👇
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Is @JeffreyASachs going to call everyone who learns about this 3 year investigation into racist influence-peddling "lunatics"
As Netanyahu blames Qatar for the success of Arab parties, you should read about how one of the largest and most racist influence ops ever documented blames Qatar for the Islamisation of Europe. And guess what, Israel is most probably behind it.
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We're proud to have you working with the Jewish Joseph Goebbels, @harrisonlowman BTW by "frontier" he means the frontier LLM model he's going to use to make up the daily/weekly slop teapawt.org/edwardrow/status/21091…
Proud to be part of the new team at @CANADALAND as we take on the next frontier.
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This article from @readthemaple details Alti Rodal's investigation which reveals that the "CIA was actively involved in resettling alleged Nazis in Canada after the Second World War": readthemaple.com/declassifie…
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A deep dive into a multinational campaign to drive anti-migrant sentiment, Islamophobia, racism – which country is one of the parties behind it? You guessed it
Huge news! For 3 years @SohanDsouza & I have investigated a covert paid ad campaign pushing anti-Muslim, anti-migrant & anti-Qatar hate speech across Europe, Lebanon & the US. Today we publish Manufacturing the “Great Replacement”: 533M recorded exposures in 30 countries. 1/25
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👇👇👇 It's not your grandpa's Toronto Star, turnips. Jordan Bitove got an online casino license from Ford and, in return, turned the Star into the National Post.
Replying to @MarkBourrie
correct! and it's not exactly a secret that bitove is the reason the star ed board opted for the cowardly no endorsement stance
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Pentagon Mercedes is now at the Mop and Pail. 🤣 Her husband, Dan Mader, is a lobbyist who raises money in Canada for Israel.
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The Times has published 0 stories about an Oxford lecturer who was recently charged with child porn offences. Coincidentally she is also a right wing journalist and Michael Gove's girlfriend.
Replying to @jgro_the
Recognition from fellow journalists is much appreciated as this is undoubtedly a difficult and polarising story, with a tragic outcome. Many people still do not accept its legitimacy but it was an important public interest story which sparked public debate about key issues of our age timeshighereducation.com/opi…
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hi all tysm for the support. i’m still getting over hospitalization and covid. help me reach the survival fund goal that is now 493 before november. also waiting on jobs apps responses. please, anything helps, truly anything paypal.me/DahliaAttoui
my survival fund still hasn’t reached the goal and november is around the corner. i need $600 to be able to cover the rest of rent bills food and meds. can 60 ppl send 10? more? i need support until i find something stable. please help however you can paypal.me/DahliaAttoui
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Muting accounts with analysis that go like "Satanyahu pushed US to go to war", or "US went to war for Israel". So done with slop. Decades of warmongering & bullying of nations isn't enough for people to stop treating US like a victim or a hostage.
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For all fellow Palestinian brothers and sisters interested in writing, check out this opportunity: palestinianwritersfund.com/. I have not read it yet; sorry in advance if it is not worth it.
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Lina Attalah has been released from custody several hours after she was convicted of operating an unlicensed website & forced to pay a EGP 3 million fine. The court also ordered the closure of Mada Masr. A pillar of independent journalism in the Arab world is in danger of closing
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If baseball teams cooperated instead of competing, they could work together to score a virtually unlimited number of runs. And isn't that the point? To score runs?
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We really need to talk about how we are being exploited when it comes to transfer fees. We are being charged up to 30% in some instances. It has been like this for years with no solution.
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A massacre happened near me just hours ago with 40 people killed and injured This is a fake ceasefire
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Please help my friend Jumaa and his family. He is verified by Lifeline4Gaza, One Palestine, and multiple other verified accounts. 🙏
3 replies and a donation to my family helps me 💔 3 replies and a donation to my family helps me 💔 3 replies and a donation to my family helps me 💔 3 replies and a donation to my family helps me 💔 😥🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁👇👇 chuffed.org/project/172307
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