Diana B. Greenwald

Daniel Maté has posted a really extremely powerful (if long-winded) critique of @bradlander.bsky.social’s recent X post that got a lot of attention, in which he grieves the lives of Israeli soldiers killed at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. /1

I have seen, it is expressed in good faith and with careful and precise moral clarity. I say this as someone who has believed, and continues to believe, that Brad represents a very important voice in the pro-Palestine movement in NY and in the US as a whole. /3

Daniel Maté has posted a really extremely powerful (if long-winded) critique of @bradlander.bsky.social’s recent X post that got a lot of attention, in which he grieves the lives of Israeli soldiers killed at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. /1

Winter is coming up in Gaza where, as OCHA oPT reported in the middle of this month, an estimated 1.9 m Palestinians are in need of shelter/NFI assistance, ~1.2 m of whom are face critical or catastrophic level shelter needs, and 65% of all households are living in tents or makeshift shelters.

Mariam Ghanem is my daughter’s age (2.5). I am not OK and none of us should be.

Over 71,846 children in Gaza have lost one or both of their parents since October 7, 2023, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Social Development. www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-records... (In November 2025, UNICEF estimated this applied to ”more than 58,000“ children: www.unicef.org/sop/reports/...)

To clarify, the Gaza Ministry’s estimate comes from its report last week. I realize the link above to the news story in English may not be working, but I attach the graphic shared by the Ministry here. The UNICEF estimate is from almost a year ago. All of these are, of course, estimates.

Over 71,846 children in Gaza have lost one or both of their parents since October 7, 2023, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Social Development. www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-records... (In November 2025, UNICEF estimated this applied to ”more than 58,000“ children: www.unicef.org/sop/reports/...)

Not enough people understand the importance of what he is doing. The people who do understand also understand the intellectual and moral loneliness of such a position — why everyone seems angry at him right now and why those who don’t are mostly quiet, too scared to come to his defense.

But that's harder.

... I do think it is pointless to argue with people about the implications of a term when you are defining the term differently from the start. All the logic underpinning statements like "A implies B" falls apart if we can't definitionally agree on what A is.

But that's harder.

On home demolitions and forced displacement in the West Bank, from the OCHA OPT update covering September 15-21. www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...

“Overall, the 87 structures included 30 homes, 49 agricultural and WASH structures, and eight other structures. The demolitions displaced 147 Palestinians, including 73 children…more than three times the 2026 weekly average of 43 people displaced on these grounds.”

Just sharing here in case anyone, or anyone you know, needed to hear it.

Oddly, he seems to have Israeli citizenship. (Whether he is mainstream Satmar or Neturei Karta he is probably not safe there?) Bottom line: Trump's DHS views itself as the ultimate authority on antisemitism, and in this role it will hide behind obfuscatory logic to deport the "wrong" kinds of Jews.

I just screen recorded a tour through Google satellite imagery of Gaza, some of which was just updated with 2026 images. This is just over 10 minutes long and goes basically north to south through Gaza. It only captures a very small fraction of the destruction. youtu.be/mpTgjAhJ78U?...