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“Only Israeli forces are allowed in and out of Jenin Camp, and day by day, they demolish residents’ homes and host military exercises.” Theia Chatelle reports on Israel displacing 40,000 Palestinians — the largest displacement in the West Bank in decades. Read: zeteo.com/p/nakba-agai...
"There were 274 monitors from the IAEA in Iran up until Trump struck Iran. [Today, there’s] zero… Trump's made the world less safe." Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debunk Michael Gove's claims about Iranian nuclear weapons.
Last week, Trump: - hinted that his administration will change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. - continued to try to normalize the idea of a dictatorship in the US. - floated the idea of sending military troops to Baltimore. Read the list: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
“If Democrats had a trace of killer instinct, Alexandrovich would be a household name… Instead, they are sleepwalking through the scandal of the summer.” Peter Rothpletz writes how Democrats are silent as Trump frees an alleged Israeli pedophile. Read more: zeteo.com/p/why-arent-...
"Trump, Israel, pedophilia, corruption. If you were to lab-engineer a scandal to hurt the president and the GOP, this is exactly what you would concoct." Why Aren't Democrats Capitalizing on the Scandal of the Summer? Read: zeteo.com/p/why-arent-...
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That film has just won the 2025 Online Journalism Award for Digital Video Storytelling. We urge you to watch this and share it widely. It has now been 19 months since Israel killed Hind. No one has been held accountable.
For a full year, @premthakker.bsky.social pressed the US to investigate the killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab. We document his yearlong reporting and investigation in our film “One Year Since Israel Killed Hind Rajab. Why Has the US Ignored the Murder of a 6-Year-Old Child?” youtu.be/roVy5IeuHpM
“They were punishing us for being on a hunger strike by weaponizing food, by setting food in front of us.” Activist Chris Smalls on the racism and mistreatment he endured in Israeli detention after being arrested for trying to deliver aid to Gaza. zeteo.com/p/chris-smal...
“Are they all Hamas sympathizers? That's your argument, really?” Mehdi confronts Israeli diplomat Danny Ayalon about Israeli soldiers' targeted attacks of Palestinian children, citing Dr. Nick Maynard’s eyewitness account of treating children shot in the testicles. Watch: zeteo.com/p/danny-ayal...
"I had never seen anyone virtue-signal so gracefully." In the newest satirical video from Zeteo's Frank Cappello, Cory Booker’s fake political consultant explains how the high-profile Democrat's "performances" are actually his entire strategy. Subscribe at zeteo.com to support our work.
We just won our first ‘Online Journalism Award.’ Prem Thakker spent over a year pressing the US State Department on its disregard for Palestinian life, including six-year-old Hind Rajab, as it continues to send weapons to Israel. Watch our award-winning coverage here: zeteo.com/p/hind-killi...
“The vaccine policies [Trump] has placed in the hands of RFK Jr. have graver consequences… In fact, people are going to die.” @johnjharwood.bsky.social explains how RFK Jr.’s leadership at the CDC is putting vulnerable American’s health at risk. Read: zeteo.com/p/dangerous-...
Read the full piece: zeteo.com/p/egypt-isnt...
“The fresh narrative from Israeli propagandists builds on a myth they have repeatedly promoted for decades to deflect blame for Israel’s draconian siege on Gaza.” Muhammad Shehada explains how Israel’s propagandists blame Egypt for not opening the crossing that Israel controls.
Mehdi: You dropped 2,000 pound bombs on cities and towns, refugee camps, schools, churches, hospitals, mosques, cemeteries Israeli politician: This is where Hamas is. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social clashes with Danny Ayalon on Israel's hypocrisy. Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/danny-ayal...
Egypt Isn’t Starving Gaza – Israel Is Debunking the latest lie from pro-Israel propagandists: Egypt could open its border crossing with Gaza anytime and end the Israeli-created famine in the Strip. Here's the truth. Read @muhammadshehada.bsky.social's latest: zeteo.com/p/egypt-isnt...
“This is not the first time the Israeli government has committed a live-streamed war crime and then told all of you that it was just a mistake.” @premthakker.bsky.social lists 10 times that Israel has attacked civilians, journalists and health workers and brushed it aside with an apology.
Read the full piece: zeteo.com/p/is-trump-e...
“The left needs to stop attacking the right as though they’re free market fundamentalists and recognize that they are charlatans who will sacrifice any ideological commitment to maintain their own wealth and power.” @graceblakeley.substack.com on why the right never really cared about free markets.
Is Trump Embracing Socialism With His Intel Deal? The question is not now 'big government or free markets?' The question we should be asking is 'who controls the economy – the elites or the people?' Read @graceblakeley.substack.com's full piece: zeteo.com/p/is-trump-e...
New Quinnipiac Poll: 50% of voters say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Which politicians, experts, and rights groups are catching up to public opinion and finally using the G-word? @premthakker.bsky.social reports. READ IT HERE: zeteo.com/p/who-says-i...
"Hendrick’s potential influence on Trump’s clemency decisions raises questions about the latest contract award." @jasonpaladino.bsky.social investigates an ICE deal that was awarded without competition to a Republican donor. Read the full piece: zeteo.com/p/ice-no-bid...
Watch the full video here: zeteo.com/p/danny-ayal...
“A hundred aid groups are all wrong, Danny. Do you realize how silly you sound?” Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social press former Israeli ambassador to the US Danny Ayalon for denying the famine in Gaza — refusing to acknowledge starvation and dismissing the fact that aid trucks are being blocked.
Watch the full interview here: zeteo.com/p/i-can-send...
DHS argued “that because [Ward] flew over international waters to get to the Virgin Islands, she left the US.” Maria Kari, attorney for Ward Sakeik — a stateless Palestinian detained by ICE — tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social how DHS illegally held her client for 140 days after flying domestically.
“An apology is not enough when you do a war crime like that.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social clashes with Former Israeli Ambassador Danny Ayalon over Israel’s bombing of Nasser Hospital in Gaza, calling him out on his lie that the attack was not deliberate. zeteo.com/p/danny-ayal...
Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/danny-ayal...
“Danny, Oct. 7 doesn't justify killing paramedics and then mass-grave burying them with their ambulances.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debates former Israeli Ambassador to the US Danny Ayalon in a fiery interview on the genocide in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel’s nuclear weapons program.
“Bestowing a medal on the very American general who has been so intimately involved in Israel’s holocaust of Gaza is beyond macabre.” Fatima Bhutto writes about the absurdity of Pakistan bestowing the national medal of excellence on General Michael Kurilla. zeteo.com/p/why-did-pa...
Donald Trump’s second term in office has been textbook authoritarianism. See what Trump has borrowed from Benjamin Netanyahu’s autocratic overhaul of the Israeli government in Zeteo’s new breakdown. Watch the full video here: zeteo.com/p/the-global...
"Growing up, these formative memories were civil rights, politics, Palestine." From the new 'We're Not Kidding', Palestinian-Lebanese-American musician Anees explains to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social where the politics in his music comes from. Watch the full conversation here: zeteo.com/p/i-dont-giv...
“The live-streamed exodus of roughly 740,000 Rohingya eight years ago did not mark the end of Myanmar’s genocidal persecution and destruction, just as the Nakba…did not mark the end of the catastrophe for Palestinians.” Read: zeteo.com/p/the-rohing...
“They blindfolded him… cuffed him up and walked him right out the door, and that was it.” Zaher Ibrahim explains to @premthakker.bsky.social how the Israeli military arrested his son, Muhammad Ibrahim, who has been in Israeli detention for six months without trial. zeteo.com/p/a-us-teena...
Read the full piece: zeteo.com/p/the-rule-o...
“Trump is doing exactly what he proposed in June of last year, the same month that the Supreme Court handed Trump immunity. Trump told the TV psychologist Dr. Phil that ‘sometimes revenge can be justified.’” @kimwehle.bsky.social explains how Trump undermining the rule of law.
Israel bombed the Nasser hospital in Gaza twice, killing 20 people including rescuers and five journalists. Watch our documentary of Israel’s targeting of Gaza doctors that the BBC refused to run to learn more about the struggle of health workers: zeteo.com/p/breaking-5...
A wave of authoritarianism is reshaping the world. Donald Trump isn’t leading it—he’s learning from it. See how he’s borrowing from his peers in Zeteo’s new breakdown. Watch the full video here: zeteo.com/p/the-global...
Are orphans in Gaza on their own? From on the ground in Gaza, American Doctors Muhammad Adeel Khaleel and Umar Burney tell @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about how the community comes together to support orphaned children and the elderly. Watch the full, powerful interview: zeteo.com/p/bombs-go-o...
The Rule of Law in the US Just Took Its Last Breath With the raid on John Bolton's home, we should be prepared for a new two-tiered system of laws. Rules for everyone else - but not for Donald Trump, @kimwehle.bsky.social writes. Read: zeteo.com/p/the-rule-o...
“Muhammad remains in detention, though not being found guilty of anything yet, the Israeli court system has introduced delays in the process.” @premthakker.bsky.social writes how Israel has detained Palestinian-American Muhammad Ibrahim for six months without trial. Read: zeteo.com/p/a-us-teena...
ICE Detention Facilities have “become even more deplorable and even more deadly” under Trump. Ward Sakeik’s lawyer, Maria Kari, explains to Mehdi the inhumane treatment her client had to endure during her 140 days in detention, despite having committed no crime. Watch: zeteo.com/p/i-can-send...
“He's a U.S. citizen and he doesn't deserve to be in jail at all.” @premthakker.bsky.social asks Zaher Ibrahim, father of detained Palestinian-American Muhammad Ibrahim, what his message is to the US after Israel imprisoned his son for six months without trial. Watch: zeteo.com/p/a-us-teena...
Last week, Trump: - said his next crime crackdown will be in Chicago. - threatened to cut federal funding from any California school district that “doesn’t adhere to our Transgender policies.” - raised the idea of canceling the 2028 elections if the US were at war. Read: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
“Muhammad is a U.S. citizen, you know, and the only thing we're getting from U.S. embassy is, ‘we're working on it.’” @premthakker.bsky.social interviews Zaher Ibrahim, father of Muhammad Ibrahim — the Palestinian-American 16-year-old locked in Israeli prison. Watch: zeteo.com/p/a-us-teena...
“It is a famine that asks ‘but what did you do?’ A famine that will and must haunt us all,” said UN aid chief Tom Fletcher. Read @premthakker.bsky.social's latest on the UN-backed report declaring famine in Gaza as Israel's genocidal campaign continues: zeteo.com/p/famine-gaz...
“First it’s DC, next it might be Baltimore, next it might be New York.” Prem Thakker reports live from DC as protesters rail against Trump's deployment of hundreds of federal agents to the city. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more.
“It’s not clear what law Bolton has broken, other than criticizing the president.” Donald Trump’s FBI raided the home of hawkish John Bolton, his former adviser. Which Trump critic could be the next victim of MAGA’s political retribution? @franifio.bsky.social breaks it down. zeteo.com/subscribe
Trump “exhausts people, and that’s what narcissists do.” Lincoln Project co-founder @gtconway.bsky.social talks to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about Trump’s tactic of conditioning people to accept his unconstitutional propositions. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/the-medias...
UN-backed experts declared famine in Gaza for the first time. “The Gaza famine is the world’s famine,” UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said. “For humanity’s sake, let us in.” Watch Fletcher’s unfiltered interview with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, from earlier this summer: zeteo.com/p/un-humanit...
“I can send you to China, I can send you to Somalia, I can send you to Congo.” Ward Sakeik, a stateless Palestinian barred from returning to her homeland, tells Mehdi how ICE attempted to deport her to other countries during her 140 days in detention. Full conversation: zeteo.com/p/i-can-send...
“In every realm that allows him to harm our country’s interests, values, and norms, he somehow inflicts more damage than even pessimists anticipated.” @johnjharwood.bsky.social writes how Trump continues to harm America’s interests. Read more: zeteo.com/p/trump-is-i...
"Trump Is Inflicting More Damage Than Even the Pessimists Anticipated" In every realm that allows him to harm our country’s interests, values, and norms, the president continues to outdo himself in all the worst ways, writes @johnjharwood.bsky.social. Read the article: zeteo.com/p/trump-is-i...
Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/chris-smal...
“I've never in my 37 years experienced the amount of hatred, racism, and bigotry than my few days in captivity over there in Israel.” Activist and labor union organizer Chris Smalls talk to @premthakker.bsky.social about the racism he experienced after getting arrested by the Israeli military.
To debunk lies from pro-Israel propagandists, all you have to do is quote top Israeli military commanders. Read @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's list of 7 revealing quotes from top generals that totally undermine pro-Israel arguments on everything from apartheid to genocide: zeteo.com/p/how-we-can...
“Trump has opted for a far faster route to turn this country into an authoritarian hellscape: flash-freezing it into fascism.” Freelance columnist Peter Rothpletz writes about Trump’s ‘fascist accelerationism’ in his latest for zeteo.com. Read the full piece here: zeteo.com/p/trumps-ame...
How We Can Use Israeli Generals to Win the Argument on Gaza @mehdirhasan.bsky.social shares seven quotes from top military commanders that totally undermine and debunk pro-Israel propaganda on everything from apartheid to genocide. Read: zeteo.com/p/how-we-can...
The US president's authoritarian power grabs are coming so fast and furious the country is being flash frozen into fascism. Read: Trump's America Is No Boiling Frog zeteo.com/p/trumps-ame...
"This is a horror." @premthakker.bsky.social spotted masked federal agents in DC. Here’s what “old white hippie” residents had to say to them. zeteo.com/p/watch-prem... youtube.com/shorts/r3lbH...
“How can a chatbot possibly be sincere?” Read independent journalist Jacob Silverman’s latest article on how Meta’s AI policy let chatbots have ‘sensual’ conversations with kids and why they need to be stopped before they wreak total havoc on us. zeteo.com/p/meta-ai-po...
Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/chris-smal...
“Even with all of what happened, I only received just a fraction of what Palestinians have to go through.” Chris Smalls tells @premthakker.bsky.social about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and how he was brutally arrested by the Israeli military while trying to deliver aid to starving Palestinians.
American doctor Mimi Syed says she was just denied entry back into Gaza for what would've been her third medical mission. She was carrying protein, baby formula, and life-saving equipment. She says another doctor denied with her had been to Gaza before too. zeteo.com/subscribe
"Zohran is about the interest of people over the interest of elites." From the new 'We're Not Kidding', singer-songwriter Anees and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social unpack Zohran Mamdani's historic victory in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. Watch here: zeteo.com/p/i-dont-giv...
Here’s what just a few minutes in Trump-occupied Washington, DC, looks like. WATCH and READ: @premthakker.bsky.social Spots FBI Agents Responding to DC Fare Evasion and a Huge Crowd Chases Federal Agents Out of Area: zeteo.com/p/watch-prem...
Watch D.C. residents chase federal agents out of the Columbia Heights neighborhood. Meanwhile, we spotted FBI and Homeland Security agents appear to respond to a *fare evader*. @premthakker.bsky.social reports. zeteo.com/p/watch-prem... youtube.com/shorts/99A29...
“I have a really, really significant anger at our government and what they have failed to do.” Dr. Nick Maynard, a British doctor who visited Gaza, explains his frustration with the UK government on their inaction for Palestine. Watch now: zeteo.com/p/doctors-ga...
“No one shall come one day and say, ‘We did not know.’ The whole world not only knew but has been watching this live-streamed.” Zeteo’s new Pulitzer-prize winning contributor @mosababutoha.bsky.social writes about the Israeli military’s targeting of children. Read now: zeteo.com/p/little-amn...
Unfiltered on Gaza, demanding corporations pay for climate change, and committed to defending working people, this oysterman is vying to unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine. Read @premthakker.bsky.social’s full article on Graham Platner: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-d...
Watch the full conversation here: zeteo.com/p/i-dont-giv...
"The measure of a person is: What do you stand for?" From the new 'We're Not Kidding', Palestinian-Lebanese-American musician Anees and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social discuss why some celebrities, including DJ Khaled, have chosen to stay silent on Gaza.
Meet the Disillusioned Veteran Who Thinks He Can Beat Susan Collins in Maine Oysterman Graham Platner says the genocide in Gaza is the “ultimate moral test of our time,” @premthakker.bsky.social reports. Read: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-d...
“Can you imagine if a Muslim judge on the Court had said Allah told him to side with Palestine?” Academic Researcher @alonso-gd.bsky.social on the Christian Zionist judge who voted against the ICJ’s finding that Israel was under obligation to cease settlement activities. zeteo.com/p/the-lord-i...
“Keep taking that generous PTO, JD. Maybe one day it’ll actually pay off.” Read about the veep who can’t stop taking vacations - 8 trips in just 7 months- and the absolute inconveniences he has caused along the way only on zeteo.com: zeteo.com/p/vice-presi...
"The Vice President Who Can’t Stop Taking Vacations" Zeteo breaks down the controversies surrounding Vance's 8 trips in 7 months – what could possibly go wrong for the tone-deaf, holidaying veep who wants to succeed Trump in 3 years?
"10% of the Gazan population has effectively been killed by this Israeli military assault." The death toll in Gaza is much higher than we think, Dr. Nick Maynard tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. Watch the full, shocking conversation here: zeteo.com/p/doctors-ga...
Will be doing a tour of DC to help show folks exactly what's going on — do you have any recs or tips? Any places we should go? Sound off in the replies, or feel free to Signal me premthakker.35 or email prem@zeteonews.com Thank you! And please, if you can, boost this so others can see it too :)
Powerful tech companies and the government could gain even more access to users’ private data, thanks to new “online safety” laws. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social breaks down how these laws lock in corporate control — and silence dissent. Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/the-latest...
The Latest Government Gift to Big Tech and Corporate Power Lawmakers claim new age verification laws are about ‘child safety’ – but, in reality, they expand surveillance and silence dissent. Read @taylorlorenz.bsky.social's full report: zeteo.com/p/the-latest...
Watch the full episode here: zeteo.com/p/i-dont-giv...
"I don't give a sh*t what DJ Khaled thinks." On the new 'We're Not Kidding', internationally acclaimed musician Anees joins @mehdirhasan.bsky.social to talk about his family's roots in Palestine, why some celebrities stay out of politics, and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
“Everyone is looking, including Israel, at a permanent ceasefire. That would take us months to achieve.” Founder of ‘Arab Americans For Trump’ Bishara Bahbah, an unofficial mediator between Trump & Hamas, is questioned by Mehdi about the roadblocks to a ceasefire. Watch: zeteo.com/p/mehdi-bish...
“The nutrition is having an incredible impact on the healthcare... This is the worst we've seen.” Dr. Burney & Dr. Khaleel, two Dallas-based doctors who are currently volunteering in Gaza, recount tending to infected wounds w/ maggots inside & malnourished Gazans. Watch: zeteo.com/p/bombs-go-o...
Last week, Trump: - privately criticized Epstein victims. - said his administration is going to “end” the cashless bail system in Chicago. - renewed his claims that Nancy Pelosi was involved in insider trading. Read the full list of dangerous actions Trump has taken: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
“For a president who built his brand on striking deals, the sight of Trump walking offstage empty-handed was a public humiliation.” Aida Chavez writes how ‘dealmaker’ Trump left his meeting with Putin in Alaska empty-handed. Read more: zeteo.com/p/putin-got-...
Read @premthakker.bsky.social's latest on top Democrat Katherine Clark’s admission of Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza and what her admission underscores about public pressure on the Democratic Party. zeteo.com/p/second-mos...
Top House Democrat Katherine Clark’s admission of Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza underscores growing public pressure on the Democratic party to speak up. Read @premthakker.bsky.social's latest on zeteo.com: zeteo.com/p/second-mos...
Shireen Abu Akleh's producer, Ali Samoudi, has been detained without charge since April. He is to be released in Sept., but Israeli authorities threaten to leave him "behind bars for years." He's lost 30 kgs. He spoke out about her killing in our film: zeteo.com/p/who-killed...
Katherine Clark, the second-most powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives behind Hakeem Jeffries, just admitted Israel is committing "genocide" in Gaza: zeteo.com/p/second-mos...
“[Palestinian teen] kept pointing to his mouth and telling me to feed him." Dr. Umar Burney who is currently volunteering in Gaza told @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about a boy who lost both hands at a food distribution center but could only think about food zeteo.com/p/bombs-go-o...
Are Democrats feeling pressure to catch up with public opinion on Gaza? Centrist Senator Ruben Gallego is leading an effort to push the Trump administration to investigate and punish Israeli settler violence, @premthakker.bsky.social reports. Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/centrist-r...
Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir recently visited ‘Palestine’s Mandela', Marwan Barghouti, to threaten him. Why is Barghouti 'the world’s most important prisoner'? Why does Israel see him as such a threat, even behind bars? Watch Mehdi Hasan's deep dive below: zeteo.com/p/will-pales...
HAPPENING SOON! Mehdi Hasan and two doctors on the ground in Gaza will take YOUR questions. TUNE IN HERE: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
“Our government just committed another $30 million to this Gaza Humanitarian [Foundation]… That money is being donated to a failed food distribution system.” Dr. Ambereen Sleemi explains how GHF sites are killing fields and how people should continue to donate to Gaza. zeteo.com/p/doctors-ga...
EXCLUSIVE: Centrist Ruben Gallego Circulating Letter Pushing Trump to Investigate Israeli Settler Violence The effort comes after Democrats have faced criticism for their responses to Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza. Read @premthakker.bsky.social's story here: zeteo.com/p/centrist-r...
“Instead of curbing or reforming special efforts to help Black people, Trump seeks to erase those initiatives altogether.” @johnjharwood.bsky.social breaks down how Trump and his administration’s racist agenda prioritizes white Americans. Read now: zeteo.com/p/how-white-...
“I didn't think that a fringe of the [Republican] Party would take over.” George Conway tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that MAGAism — as a fringe — has always been part of the conservative coalition. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/the-medias...
TOMORROW! @mehdirhasan.bsky.social is joined by Dr. Umer Burney and Dr. Mohammed Khaleel, two doctors working on the ground in Gaza. They will answer YOUR questions and share their experience working in an ongoing genocide. Join our live Q&A at zeteo.com on Aug. 15 at 11am EDT, 8am PDT, 3pm GMT.
