Semafor admits that a “source” “flagged” issues with NYT’s Nick Kristof past work after his column on the rape of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. The source clearly wants to discredit him for daring to write that. Semafor went with the story anyway. semafor.com/article/06/14/20…

Looks great youtu.be/76PdG9hRvHw @rami_koujah is sharp

"Within a year or two, our whole visual system will be utterly useless." nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai…

HORRIFIC: Israeli settler terrorists are burning down the Al-Maswadeh area in the village of Burqa in the West Bank, setting houses on fire in an attempt to burn families alive.

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are burning down the villages of Deir Dibwan and Burqa in the West Bank. They set a mosque on fire, torched several vehicles, and poured gasoline on an elderly man in an attempt to burn him alive.

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Only Muslims truly appreciate Larry David! youtu.be/IV2Z--YYlwU?si=e6nN…

My favorite is when stories note he’s “in the seventeenth year of a five-year term” etc.

Tawhid before the Creeds: The pagan poets as witness to the Quranic message "What we read now as settled belief was at one time a discourse between the Prophet and his people. The reason prophets and messengers were sent was to dispel the false beliefs of their people..."

Netanyahu has decided to accept the Iranian deal. Security officials are despondent and see it as a disaster. Ynet brings some high level quotes from them: 1) A senior Israeli official said "Nobody is happy with this. We understand it is not good for us, and that it harms Israeli interests. What is troubling is that Israel cannot influence it. Its voice is not being heard." 2) The anger at Trump is palpable.: "Trump screwed us, we took the hit. We're no longer in the loop and can't really influence anything." 3) Israelis fear Iran will be economically revived: "They've blown money on the Iranians, who are getting everything they want. They'll build a missile corps, and we'll have to pour money into interceptors." Israel sees oil revenue flowing back into the exact capabilities the war was meant to degrade. 4) They don't believe a deal will adequately deal with the nuclear issue: "The real test of the deal is removing the uranium and destroying it. If that doesn't happen, the sense of a bad deal will turn into something more concrete." 5) They fear this will embolden Iran: "Iran has smelled that it can achieve things by force, and it will use that against its neighbors and against us." 6) The deepest worry is not military. It is perception. After months of direct fire, Iran is seen across the region as the side that took the pressure and did not fold: "the regional working assumption will be that it was signed under Iranian pressure and American capitulation, rather than the reverse." Israel is concerned that Iran will be stronger, the US will be weaker and that the future for it will be bleak in the region. This war has been a disaster for Israel.

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Must read from Abdullah Al-Arian on how Trump's World Cup is not sportswashing, it's an extension of Trump's war on humanity... middleeasteye.net/opinion/wo…

"[Marshall] Hodgson devoted his professional life to correcting the errors of the Orientalists. He was interested in Islam as a global creative force that propelled numerous achievements in science, art and politics. He was influenced by Marx; he believed in the realities of material conditions, of objective social relations in determining historical outcomes." @Shanfaraa @MouinRabbani @EbrahimMoosa @jricole