Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) 's Twitter Profile
Sarah Leah Whitson

@sarahleah1

Executive Director of DAWN @dawnmenaorg Formerly ED of MENA Division at Human Rights Watch

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mahmoud Khalil should be home with his wife and newborn son, not languishing in a Louisiana detention facility for exercising his First Amendment rights.

BBC News Press Team (@bbcnewspr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Statement on BBC correspondent Feras Kilani and colleagues being detained at gunpoint by Israel Defense Forces - On Friday 9 May whilst filming in Southern Syria, BBC News Arabic correspondent Feras Kilani, along with two other BBC staff members and four freelance colleagues,

Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧵1/4 Israel is providing weapons to a Jihadist group in Gaza affiliated with ISIS, says right-wing opposition lawmaker and former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Kelley B. Vlahos (@kelleybvlahos) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Panic as pro-Israel Iran hawks are purged from Trump foreign policy/national security teams in favor of realist 'America First' pivot. This is a bit wild. (below)

Panic as pro-Israel Iran hawks are purged from Trump foreign policy/national security teams in favor of realist 'America First' pivot. This is a bit wild.

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After the Washington Post apologized for not giving proper weight to the IDF denial of its role in the massacre Sunday, CNN published an investigation citing *17 eyewitnesses* saying the shots came from the Israelis. Awaiting the new correction and apology....

Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The entire Israeli argument after Oct 7th was that Hamas was ISIS - a ludicrous claim - but now we discover that Israel is backing ISIS-related gangs in Gaza. Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession.

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Not sure what’s worse: that the other *Democratic* candidates got mad because Zohran Kwame Mamdani said he supports a state with equal rights for all OR that the moderators felt the need to ask city mayoral candidates about whether they support a particular foreign state. Ridiculous.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@repjayapal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For over a year and a half, the Israeli government has repeatedly used weapons supplied by America to break U.S. and international humanitarian law. 54,000 Gazans are dead. Half a million are on the brink of famine. We must pass the Block the Bombs Act and save lives.

Furkan Gözükara (@gozukarafurkan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wow this is huge : Japanese oppositon leader Taro Yamamoto on Gaza: "Japan should play a leading role in stopping the genocide and ethnic cleansing by imposing sanctions on Israel."

Linda Mamoun (@mamoun_linda) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Here’s The New York Times trying to normalize bombing a densely populated part of a country’s capital. They even put Israel’s justification directly into the headline. Just a reminder: bombing another country is a WAR CRIME.

Here’s The New York Times trying to normalize bombing a densely populated part of a country’s capital. They even put Israel’s justification directly into the headline.

Just a reminder: bombing another country is a WAR CRIME.
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An Italian parliamentary committee has confirmed that the government used the Israeli-made spyware Graphite to hack the smartphones of several activists working with migrants haaretz.com/israel-news/se…

Stanis Elsborg (@staniselsborg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🇸🇦PIF, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, has just been announced as an official partner of FIFA Club World Cup 2025❗️ For more on PIF, which is headed by Mohammed bin Salman, see our research from December 2024👉 playthegame.org/projects/saudi… 👉inside.fifa.com/tournament-org…

🇸🇦PIF, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, has just been announced as an official partner of FIFA Club World Cup 2025❗️

For more on PIF, which is headed by Mohammed bin Salman, see our research from December 2024👉 playthegame.org/projects/saudi…

👉inside.fifa.com/tournament-org…
Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It was always clear from the get go that the number one government use of surveillance software wasn’t about “stopping crime” but spying in civil society to squash domestic dissent.