Illiberalism
Gilead
Donald Trump
Finances
Fig. 1. Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas, undated image credited to https://www.flickr.com/photos/glynlowe/ [bad link], via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
This just ain’t going well for Donald Trump. Which shouldn’t be a surprise.
David Badash, “’Every time you talk it’s a campaign speech’: Judge blasts Trump’s lawyer,” Alternet, November 27, 2023, https://www.alternet.org/campaign-speech-judge-blasts-lawyer/
Imperialism
Israel
Palestine
Fig. 1. The ruins of a terminal at the Gaza airport. Image by Said Khatib (Agence France-Presse) on September 9, 2018, via the Times of Israel,[1] fair use.
A few weeks ago, the Washington Post reported on a surge in settler violence in the West Bank.[2] Today, the Telegraph has an example of helicopter journalism—in which, historically, and all too often, a star journalist “helicopters” in and takes the credit for a local stringer’s work—from the scene near Bazelel Smotrich’s house on illegally occupied land.[3] It’s a good piece of reporting, even if I’m suspicious that Henry Bodkin didn’t do most of the work.
Yana T. R. Golding, “Tracking lost pro-Palestinian posts,” Columbia Journalism Review, November 27, 2023, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/excessive-moderation-meta-palestinian-7amleh-nashif.php
Summer Said and Dov Lieber, “Israel, Hamas Agree to Extend Truce by Two Days,” Wall Street Journal, November 27, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/talks-to-extend-israel-hamas-truce-go-down-to-the-wire-8f1cbba9
Ishaan Tharoor, “How Israel keeps hundreds of Palestinians in detention without charge,” Washington Post, November 27, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/27/israel-palestine-detention-adminstrative-prisoners-jail/
Washington Post to 5-Minute Fix list, “The 5-Minute Fix: What’s behind Biden’s steadfast support for Israel?” November 27, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/the-fix/
Henry Bodkin, “Inside the Israeli settlement being turned into a battleground by the hard-Right finance minister,” Telegraph, November 28, 2023, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/28/settlement-israels-finance-minister-has-made-a-battleground/
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Annexations
Fig. 1. Photograph by author, November 25, 2020.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Struggling river towns will have to merge. Here’s how it will happen,” November 28, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2023/11/28/mon-valley-turtle-creek-yough-rivers-city-mergers/stories/202311280026
Housekeeping
I am changing Mastodon instances. I am now at @benfell@infosec.exchange.
- [1]Agence France-Presse and Times of Israel, “20 years after its opening, destroyed Gaza airport embodies grounded peace hopes,” Times of Israel, September 12, 2018, https://www.timesofisrael.com/20-years-after-its-opening-destroyed-gaza-airport-embodies-grounded-peace-hopes/↩
- [2]Louisa Loveluck, “Settler violence is erasing Palestinian communities in the West Bank,” Washington Post, November 9, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/09/west-bank-israel-settlers-violence/↩
- [3]Henry Bodkin, “Inside the Israeli settlement being turned into a battleground by the hard-Right finance minister,” Telegraph, November 28, 2023, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/28/settlement-israels-finance-minister-has-made-a-battleground/↩