Lina Mounzer

“It is incumbent upon us not… to get into debates about who is the tail and who the dog, when both are simply different heads of the same ravening beast.” I wrote a letter from Beirut for The Markaz Review themarkaz.org/we-live-in-a...

the aerial view of destruction, seeing places that i've spent so much precious time in being literally erased by Israeli bombs while i'm far away, feels like a physical assault on memory itself.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

I’d like to hear from experts how someone so depraved as to excuse the wholesale razing of an entire town with such flimsy justification is able to function despite the deep self-loathing and pitiful lack of self-regard that poisons their insides

Browsing any of the Israel-related subreddits is a fascinating and horrifying glimpse into the Israeli psyche. Truly Cirque-du-Soleil worthy mental gymnastics in order to avoid accountability and willfully misunderstand why the world might rightfully hate them

Medical students in Gaza restore one of the oldest libraries after it was bombed by the Israeli occupation.

And: what Lebanon will be left in the wake of a civil war, which is where this inevitably leads?

Just when the world is finally, rightfully beginning to turn against Israel, the Lebanese government decides to legitimize them through direct talks. They claim this is to uphold Lebanese sovereignty. Tell me, what sovereignty can be upheld before an entity openly looking to colonize your land?

April 13 is the anniversary of the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil war, which began in 1975. For The Public Source, I wrote about the twisted nostalgia many of us feel for those dark days: thepublicsource.org/civil-war-le...

Never has there been a criminal gang so boastful and proud of its crimes.

That’s not what AlJazeera said though. And: Vance said it was a “misunderstanding” that Lebanon was part of the ceasefire (when it was clearly stated from the outset). US and Israel are always working in tandem, full partners in crime, but Israel allows the U.S. to pretends it’s not the evil empire

Nothing the Israelis hate more than a ceasefire. Which is why they never, in fact, cease fire

Such massacres, going on 80 yrs, are the price of Israel’s “right to exist as a Jewish state.” So when you say “I believe in Israel’s right to exist” you’re saying you’re ok with the mass death required to secure that existence. Learn how to say, loud & unashamed: No, Israel has no right to exist

At some point Israel abandoned all pretenses and decided to lean hard into the cartoonish evil it has always embodied

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

Every Middle Easterner who knows anything is going to be warning the world that you cannot trust Israel while we get ignored while Israel triggers another war and fucks it all up again. Understand this if nothing else: Israeli politics needs war. That’s how they resolve tensions between them.

Is anyone surprised? Military belligerence is to Israel what swimming is to a shark

2am in Beirut. The Israeli drone overhead is so loud I can hear it indoors, with all the windows shut, and noise canceling earbuds in. It’s been like this all evening. Seven hours without letup. Enough to drive you batshit. Demonic entity

Demonic entity populated by death-guzzling demons

The full Israelification of politics

Israel bombed a synagogue in Tehran today. Just as they did in Beirut in 1982. Israel hates pluralism, loathes the richness of multiculturalism (why the right wing love it so much). That caption on the cover of this Torah—“Hebrew text and Persian translation”—is everything Israel tries to snuff out

Agree on “local voices”. But the BBC went on to change this quote entirely without correction. Indicating it was invented wholesale. Also, that they would fabricate a quote this deranged & self-hating is indicative that they see Iranians as less than human, less even than animal

The USA is the most malignant empire in human history.

“Come closer” graffiti on a wall in Beirut

For this month’s column, I received 2 letters from 2 readers in the diaspora watching a war being waged on their homes and families & unable to process the cognitive dissonance. I hope the advice proves useful to others in a similar situation 🙏🏽 ❤️ themarkaz.org/dear-souseh-...

I know we all want the West to cut Israel off but that would be like a person cutting off their own foot. Besides the fact that all the western countries have spent significant political & financial capital defending its terror. So expect the worst in terms of escalation. Classic sunk cost fallacy

How disgusting that we all have to pay the price for the US citizenry’s complacency and total political incompetence

The only responsibility I feel right now, along with many others in Germany, is to keep bookmarking moments like this, so that people here don't turn around and tell the rest of the world "we had no idea what was happening". They know. Everyone knows. At best - at best - they don't want to see it.

I’m sorry but I wish the US “left” had more juice than some shouting in public about how much they hate Trump before going back home to hang up their quirky hats. YOU ARE THE EVIL EMPIRE AT WHOSE HANDS MUCH OF THE WORLD IS DYING FFS. This is life & death, not electoral politicking. DO FUCKING BETTER

Everything happening now in Lebanon & Iran—the killing of schoolchildren, the targeting of hospitals & healthcare workers, the murder of journalists & its open justification, the bombing of universities—every single war crime that has been normalized was forced upon our consciousness first in Gaza

Listen to @warghetti.bsky.social and @justinsalhani.bsky.social discuss Israel's war on Lebanon. thefirethesetimes.com/2026/03/27/v...

You can now listen to @warghetti.bsky.social, @justinsalhani.bsky.social and I talk about the Israeli war on Lebanon on @thefirethesetimes.com — wherever you get your podcasts thefirethesetimes.com/2026/03/27/v...

A very succinct explanation for the coming ugliness. And it WILL be ugly. And still Israel won’t be stopped; it will be the non-Israeli Jews who will suffer the consequences. And there will be no more language left to talk about it in bc they’ve emptied the accusation of antisemitism of all meaning

There’s no way real negotiations are happening any time soon. USrael have repeatedly proven they use negotiations as a tactic to lull their enemies to better carry out surprise attacks & also to deliberately draw out the negotiator & kill him. Just Red Weddings all day every day & no word from MSM

An incredible — and incredibly familiar — war diary from Tehran, capturing the anxiety, absurdity, paralysis, and confusion of daily life under bombardment, but above all, the savage and thoroughly-singular sorrow of experiencing a collective catastrophe www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Made a video for AJE on Palestinian refugees displaced by Israel www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

I wonder if @nytimespr.bsky.social, which has gotten all feisty of late, has anything to say about this headline, which deliberately sanitizes Israel’s INVASION of Lebanon & the ethnic cleansing of 1 MILLION ppl from their homes & land. What a sad job to have to do PR for a propaganda rag

"In the south the air strikes are intensifying.. especially south of the Litani river there is a systematic way that the Israelis are targeting infrastructure.. people are saying this is a depopulation effort.." Lina Sinjab reporting from Beirut

The Zionists are ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon using genocidal tactics deployed in Gaza. Israeli journalists report this openly, and yet there is silence from Western media.

As far as I can tell, the "special relationship" between the US and UK boils down to the UK being willing to do genocide and war crimes alongside the US, no questions asked. It is a pact among brutes, for naked imperialist violence, and it should be destroyed forever.

These [worst expletive you’ve ever heard]s have always wanted this land. Yes it’s about Greater Israel but it’s also about water. Resources. Agricultural land (which they have laced with poison & pesticides). This is what their “right to exist means.” The denial of everyone else’s right to life