Alec Karakatsanis
@equalityAlec
founder, @CivRightsCorps civil rights lawyer author of usual cruelty (2019) and copaganda (2025) views here are my own, not civil rights corps
Watch this video featuring our work @CivRightsCorps to learn about how our case will free almost 20,000 people from jail every year in Houston, Texas.
A judge doubled this woman’s bail because she said ‘yeah’ instead of ‘yes’
Every. Single. Time. The Israeli military does a war crime once. Calls it “blood libel” when you point it out. And then does it en masse after facing no consequences. Just like with destroying hospitals. Bombing churches and mosques. Targeting ambulances. Sniping kids.
🚨 Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, head of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, has lost a third of his body weight in Israeli detention — surviving on just two spoonfuls of rice a day, according to his lawyer. She was recently granted access to see him at Ofer prison and reports: ▪️…
The phrase "Genocide in Palestine. Time to take action" has resulted in four arrests under the Terrorism Act.
BREAKING: Another two men have been arrested in Scotland under terror legislation for 'showing support for Palestine Action' at a march in Edinburgh, police have said One of the men wore a T-shirt reading: "Genocide in Palestine, time to take action"
Best book I’ve read this year.
It's been 3 months, and the reception has been so amazing that publisher had to do a 2nd printing! (All royalties donated to charity.) There's one reaction I get over and over in emails/letters/events: "I thought I knew what was in this book, but it's so much more." Get a copy!
Extraordinary. AFP says its journalists are in imminent risk of being starved to death by Israel. This has never happened since the agency was founded. Never has any of its journalists been starved to death
It's been 3 months, and the reception has been so amazing that publisher had to do a 2nd printing! (All royalties donated to charity.) There's one reaction I get over and over in emails/letters/events: "I thought I knew what was in this book, but it's so much more." Get a copy!
I just received the first copy of Copaganda! It will be sold anywhere books are sold. I try to explain the role of the media, the police, and academia in how we got to this authoritarian moment.
If you're in New Jersey or the New York City area, I'll be doing an amazing community event about propaganda and authoritarianism on Wednesday in Orange, NJ. Very easy to get to! And you can get signed copies of Copaganda.
Very much looking forward to this conversation on Wednesday with @equalityAlec in Orange, NJ. Join on Zoom or join in person at the HUUB but don’t miss out. Follow the QR code to register!
Very much looking forward to this conversation on Wednesday with @equalityAlec in Orange, NJ. Join on Zoom or join in person at the HUUB but don’t miss out. Follow the QR code to register!
There are a lot of prominent Democrats, journalists, and online posters who don't know how our society's police, prosecutors, and prisons work. I urge you to share my article The Punishment Bureaucracy with them. It's vital to understand authoritarianism: yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-puni…
The reports from Gaza indicate that the final point of no return has been crossed. A broad consensus of scholars predicted that mass hunger will began to exact its deathly toll just about now. It is. All was known. Nothing surprised anyone. There is no need to refer to the Gaza…
AOC’s recent post about why she’s voting to give money to Israel’s military even though she agrees with consensus of genocide scholars that Israel is perpetrating genocide is exactly what I’m talking about in this video. This thinking is a profound threat to future of humanity.
THREAD. I was asked to give a TED-style talk about civil rights work. It was a good opportunity for me to address how the acceptance, normalization, and even celebration of certain lies by elite liberal institutions lays the groundwork for authoritarianism:
The leaders of our ostensibly leftwing party are either cheerleading or completely silent on the livestreamed starvation, bombing and destruction of an entire people. When pundits wonder why voters are cynical, checked out or conspiratorial I suspect this is a fairly large reason
89% of building in Rafah and 84% of buildings in northern Gaza have been destroyed. When the U.S. nuked Hiroshima it destroyed 67% of the buildings and 40% in Nagasaki. The destruction in Gaza is likely the most severe of any residential area in warfare history.
New satellite data shows: Gaza devastation scale greater than estimated | @nirhasson haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
This is a stain on collective humanity for failing to prevent and stop this famine caused by forced, deliberate, and systematic starvation of the Palestinian people by Israel and supported by the West.
85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.
British surgeon Nick Maynard: “These children are being targeted almost as if it’s a game… One day they’re all shot in the head, the next day in the neck, and another day in the testicles… There is a clear and deliberate pattern to the injuries.”
🚨 SHOCKING REPORT: Israeli soldiers in Gaza are reportedly turning the targeting of Palestinian children into a horrifying and systematic “human-hunting game,” according to British surgeon Dr. Nick Maynard. He testified: “These children are being targeted almost as if it’s a…
In the past month, NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani/"globalize the intifada", 13 on Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign & 2 that mention Gaza child amputees. I argue this is objectively insane columnblog.com/p/child-ampute…
Civil rights work is about ensuring that, no matter what grotesque stuff becomes normalized in a society that cages Black people 6 times the rate of South Africa at the height of Apartheid and all people 5-10 times other countries, there are always people who say “2+2=4.”
Do not be surprised when we journalists stop covering news here. I swear by God that today I could not get up from the hunger. There is no food. Even if someone has money, there is nothing in the market to even purchase. We are all starving. We are all dying.