THREAD: The ceasefire isn’t stopping Israel from committing genocide in Gaza. Here’s how Israel is still killing Palestinians.

"As Israelis go to vote, they are not thinking about what they did to Palestinians in the past but rather what they will do in the future. The solutions for them are laid out: ethnically cleanse or ignore that Palestinians exist and hope they go away." The IMEU's @dianabuttu on what Israeli elections mean for Palestinians for @zeteo_news. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/…

Daniel Levy | Former Israeli Peace Negotiator | US/Middle East Project (@USMEP): Netanyahu did not alone commit genocide for 3 years. He did not alone maintain decades of illegal occupation. It was system-wide. Eisenkot was part of it & served in the military. He sat in the emergency unity security cabinet after Oct. 7 - during the genocide. Israeli generals, soldiers & judges - all part of a system-wide mobilization. Dissenting voices existed but remained marginal.

“I was released today after about four and a half months of detention.” Dr. Mazen al-Rantisi, a 71-year-old physician from Ramallah known across the West Bank as “the doctor of the poor,” speaks with a fresh wound on his face, inflicted half an hour before his release on October 25, 2026. He says a jailer dragged him to the release room handcuffed behind his back, shackled at the legs and blindfolded, then shoved and kicked him to the ground. Israeli occupation forces seized al-Rantisi from his home in the al-Tireh neighbourhood of Ramallah in June without announcing any reason, and his daughter says he lost around 25 kilograms in their prisons. He describes Nafha prison as overrun with scabies, affecting nearly 80 percent of the Palestinian hostages held there, with almost no medicine given. When prisoners beg the passing nurse for treatment, he says, they are cursed at, mocked and ridiculed, and he was taunted for taking the chronic medication a court had ordered he receive. He calls on international human rights organisations to intervene, saying Palestinian hostages are beaten and punished at the whim of their jailers with no oversight or accountability. @Aljazeeraquds

You can tell a lot about a people by the way their leaders appeal to them to win their votes. They’re calling it the “most racist election in Israeli history” for a reason:

Macklemore hits the stage with “Thrift Shop” at his sold out Free Palestine Tour stop in Dublin! Thank you to @macklemore for continuing to speak up for Palestine, despite censorship attempts.

Rock band Turnstile played to around 60,000 people in Washington DC in a show that doubled as a fundraiser for relief work in Palestine, Sudan and Lebanon. Lead singer Brendan Yates asked the crowd to get the noise as far as the White House, chanting, 'Free, free Palestine'.

What nerve Jon Finer has to write this after being in the Biden admin, expediting billions in weapons for genocide, vetoing ceasefire resolutions & lying to Congress about Israel's starvation of Palestinians. No candidate who wants to win in 2028 should be taking advice from him.

The endless weapons giveaways to Israel will be a liability this November - and in 2028. Politicians who prioritize winning over catering to the fringe demands from AIPAC should take note. Not only has ending weapons to Israel has become the near-consensus view of Democratic voters, but we’re now seeing that voters across the spectrum, including most Independents and a substantial number of Republicans, are tired of seeing their government use our tax dollars to supply Israel with bombs when millions struggle to afford the basics here at home.

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Benjamin Moser says Israel is "actively fomenting" antisemitism by claiming to act in the name of all Jews: "It's asking a lot of people to say that there's this Jewish army of this Jewish state with this Jewish star on their flag, and they are mercilessly slaughtering tens of thousands of children, but don't confuse them with Jews," Moser said. He argues that the reported rise in antisemitism is simply a rise in anti-Zionism, "people reacting to Israel and the evil, wicked things that Israel has been doing in our names."

“It was like this biblical battle where the Palestinian men … went in front of me to protect me.” It’s young Palestinian men who put their lives on the line every day to defend their families, homes, and even foreign journalists from violent Israeli settlers and soldiers.

"The documentary NAZA silences us not because of the monstrosity of what Israel did but because it serves as irrefutable proof of our own monstrosity. Our societies watched it all and did nothing. We are all guilty" ✍️ Opinion by Jonathan Cook mee.s.gy/6eWxnv

Today, Brad Lander, rabbis, and other New Yorkers accompanied Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest. For that, they were detained by the Israeli government.  Harvesting olives is not illegal. The occupation is. I am thankful that Brad has been released. But other New Yorkers remain detained, and they must be released immediately. The same Israeli government detaining them has committed a horrific genocide against Palestinians, killing more than 74,000 people over the last few years alone.  The detention of these New Yorkers must end. The occupation must end. The genocide must end.

Ending US complicity in Israel's brutality, aggression, and genocide isn't a "blue state" or "red state" issue - and the Israeli government knows it. Our polling out today conducted by YouGov found that 59% of all Iowa voters - including 73% of Democrats and 46% of Republicans - support cutting $3.3 billion in annual taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel.

NEW POLLS: A majority of likely voters in six states expected to decide control of the US Senate - Georgia, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas - support Senate measures to block the transfer of bombs to Israel. Our new polling, conducted by @YouGov, was first announced on today's episode of Pod Save The World with @TVietor08 and @brhodes and sampled over 3,200 voters from September 25 to October 14. State-by-state results below 🔽

Last year, President Trump chose to cut ACA subsidies and let healthcare costs more than double for 20 million Americans. Meanwhile, Israeli leaders like Smotrich brag openly about how Trump is sending them tens of billions of dollars of bombs at the US taxpayer’s expense.