Ali Harb
@Harbpeace
Journalist at @AJEnglish covering US foreign policy, elections & Arab American communities. DC-based, from Beirut via Detroit. Opinions mine. Signal: harb.12
'Palestinian American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has called on her colleagues to listen to their constituents and end unconditional aid to Israel', reports Al Jazeera's @Harbpeace, from Washington, DC. 🟥 Read report: aje.io/e0dlf2
AFP Journalists’ Association on reporters in Gaza: ‘Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can remember seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die’
Death and taxes and a certain journalist's leaks about US presidents being mad at Bibi while continuing to fund the genocide in Gaza

I couldn’t hold back my emotions… People were collapsing from hunger in Al-Shifa Hospital’s courtyard, as the bodies of dozens killed by Israeli forces arrived—targeted while trying to get a bag of flour.
In the wake of Sayfollah Musallet’s killing, Al Jazeera details the US citizens killed by Israel since 2022 — and Washington’s response aje.io/3whbwk
Nine Americans have been killed by Israel since 2022. Here are their stories aje.io/9sossd via @AJEnglish
This quote is especially relevant in the context of the events in Syria.
"Anyone harbouring the illusion that Israel will provide them with help and security will one day wake up to the ugly reality that they have been ruthlessly erected as Israel’s first line of defence, without any reciprocity." - Mohammad Javad Zarif aje.io/xa6sxc
Two days before the primary, HarrisX released a poll predicting Cuomo would beat Mamdani 52-28. HarrisX was off by 39 percentage points. If the trend keeps up, Mamdani would beat Cuomo by 24 points.
Cuomo leads Mamdani by 15 points in a head-to-head race (HarrisX).
In 1967, during and immediately after the June War, Israel expelled well over ninety per cent of the Syrian residents of the Golan Heights. Those ethnically cleansed were overwhelmingly Druze. In the intervening six decades, not one of them has been permitted to return to their…
"Anyone harbouring the illusion that Israel will provide them with help and security will one day wake up to the ugly reality that they have been ruthlessly erected as Israel’s first line of defence, without any reciprocity." - Mohammad Javad Zarif aje.io/xa6sxc
Elissa Slotkin voted to sanction ICC officials for investigating Israel and to ban government agencies from citing the death toll in Gaza. Now in the opposition, she is blaming the weekend for killing Palestinians.
Another violent week in the Middle East: in Gaza, this weekend brought the death of another 60 Palestinians who were simply seeking food and water for their families. Israel has the responsibility to allow humanitarian aid in — just as the US had the responsibility to allow aid…
Florida's Rick Scott has not condemned the killing of his constituent by Israeli settlers, but he has shared several social media posts in support of Israel since Friday. "America first" aje.io/c2fbb3 via @AJEnglish
Crickets from the Trump administration as the UK condemns the killing of US citizen Sayfollah Musallet by Israeli settlers
We condemn the killing of two Palestinians, Seif Mossallat and Mohammed Shalahi, by extremist settlers in Sinjil. This tragedy comes after the attack on Kafr Malik. Extremist settlers face no consequences for their actions. There must be accountability.
"witch hunt." The Trump administration has acknowledged its use of Canary Mission — a shadowy pro-Israel website — to identify pro-Palestine students for deportation, sparking anger and concern among US rights advocates aje.io/xiu6s3
The family of 20-year-old American citizen, who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, is calling on Washington to launch its own probe into the incident aje.io/qnswj4
Hamas affiliates often honor and eulogize Palestinians killed while confronting settler attacks. Eitan here is defending the lynching of an American citizen by a KKK-like mob. Nothing is indefensible for supporters of Israel. The moral depravity is bottomless.
The Hamas graphic honoring Palestinian-American Sayfollah Musallet has been posted on various Telegram channels