Yanis Varoufakis

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Economics professor, quietly writing obscure economic texts for years, until thrust onto the public scene by Europe's inane handling of an inevitable crisis

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1May 28, '24Nikki Hailey in Israel scribbling "FINISH THEM"on the shells that the IDF is about to fire into Rafah in defiance of the International Court of Justice. Biden provided the shells, 127×21.1M75k27k5.4k
2Jan 18, '24The French government has joined the German government in stating that international law on genocide does not apply to Israel - that, because Jews have been subjected to genocide, 66.4×11M35k12k3.8k
3Nov 19, '23A rare opportunity to listen to the voice of Palestine, unfiltered - as it was heard in the UN. Every one of its eleven minutes is worth it.21.5×3.6M38k18k5.2k
4Sep 24, '24Genocide tourism is now a thing in Israel20.9×3.5M79k24k3.2k
5Oct 13, '24Israel has just won the war crime of the century prize: The IDF used chemical weapons on UN peacekeepers!20.8×3.4M83k23k3.9k
6Oct 9, '23No electricity, no food, no fuel for 1 million children. Straight from the horse's mouth. That can't be the civilised world's answer, whatever differences we may have on who did wh19.3×3.2M34k8.6k512
7Oct 11, '23Compare & contrast! Attacking "civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter c18.9×3.1M38k13k1.3k
8Oct 7, '23The path to ending the tragic loss of innocent lives – both Palestinian and Israeli – begins with one crucial first step: the end of the Israeli occupation and apartheid.18.3×3M40k9.5k621
9May 14, '24"I am Jewish. I am Israeli. My parents were in Auschwitz. I am not going to support genocide, am I? I am here with Palestine."16.6×2.7M106k30k4.4k
10Dec 6, '23Message I just received from an Israeli friend in Israel: "We need your urgent help. If there is no international intervention, we're gone. The entire Palestinian people are under 16.4×2.7M27k12k1.5k
11Oct 13, '23Good & bad news for those who want to cancel me for my opposition to Israel's Apartheid/Occupation: The good news is that I was cancelled in Vienna where, on Monday, I was to deliv15.7×2.6M29k6k701
12Apr 13, '24Germany's Interior Ministry has issued a “Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not just a ban on visiting Germany but also from participation via Zoom. H15.3×2.5M16k6.8k1.6k
13Oct 18, '24A child mowed down by an Israeli snipper, then passers by who tried to help bombed. That's what a war crime looks like. No one can now claim they did not know when the reckoning co14.3×2.4M42k17k3.1k
14Oct 15, '23WHY DON'T PALESTINIANS PURSUE THEIR OBJECTIVES BY PEACEFUL MEANS? They did. The PLO recognised Israel and renounced armed struggle. And what did they get for it? Absolute humiliati13.5×2.2M26k8.4k1.8k
15Dec 7, '23"I begged him to leave, move to the south. But he replied he could not leave his disabled daughter and old mother.” Rami Abdu, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, speaking abo13.3×2.2M29k15k911
16Oct 15, '23I was challenged, by a defender of Israel's army, to present a list of Israeli war crimes, since the 7th of October, quoting 'chapter and verse'. Well, here it is:13×2.2M21k8.9k3.8k
17Nov 25, '23There’s no Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There’s only a brutal Israeli occupation.” -The editor in chief of Israel’s largest English language newspaper.12.6×2.1M23k8.5k1.3k
18Nov 16, '23Just for one second dare to imagine the West's reaction if Putin's soldiers had invaded a packed Ukrainian hospital, to "denazify" it, prevented staff from treating thousands of in12.6×2.1M19k6.9k421
19Oct 18, '23First, they boasted that they took out a Hamas cell by bombing the hospital in which they hid. Then, when they realised the soul-crushing human toll, they deleted the tweet and des11.6×1.9M25k10k997
20Oct 17, '23This is an open admission of a war crime. Not a matter of interpretation anymore. Israel is openly boasting of its war crimes. Time for the international community to respond. If t11.5×1.9M24k11k615
21Jan 30, '24Want to talk about terrorism? Fine. Here is the latest incident/example: Israeli undercover soldiers/agents entered Jenin Hospital this morning and shot dead 3 injured Palestinians11.4×1.9M27k9.2k890
22Oct 12, '23I condemn every killing with equal passion. What I refuse to do is to join the ritualistic condemnation of one side whose very purpose is to take the side of a state cynically, int10.9×1.8M16k3.4k679
23Sep 30, '23Having just visited Julian Assange at Belmarsh, a quick message (on our way out) from Roger Waters, Julian Assange and me. Free Julian!10.7×1.8M22k6.9k431
24Oct 12, '23Israel killed all 1500 Hamas fighters that killed Israelis. More Palestinian civilians have already died than Israelis. Is this not the time to stop the bombings? No, says the 'civ10.1×1.7M26k5.3k436
25Nov 3, '23Future generations will censure us for letting this happen. The death count has surpassed 10 thousand, mostly children and women. There is not even enough water to wash the wounds 9.3×1.5M37k15k474
26Feb 11, '24To Israelis still able to feel. Stop your government. Take to the streets to demand an immediate ceasefire. Enough is enough.9.0×1.5M14k4.6k212
27Oct 19, '23The bombs are raining down on Gazan Palestinians, the water remains off, the hospitals not yet bombed have no meds left, the bodybags ran out, hunger is in the air, the air stinks 8.2×1.4M25k11k368
28Nov 24, '23Well done Ada!8.0×1.3M27k6.8k353
29Dec 2, '24Israel bans the importation into Gaza of anaesthetics. Hence, the scores of children who are amputated daily, following Israel's bombings, are put to the knife without anaesthesia 7.8×1.3M17k9.8k1k
30Jan 27, '25DeepSeek has had to suspend new registrations due to cyber attacks on its site, the price of shaving off $1 trillion off the New York stock exchange? |Everything under heaven is in7.8×1.3M21k3.2k1.7k
31Oct 11, '25IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was 7.7×1.3M16k8.3k380
32Nov 13, '23Dr Hamam Allouh, a specialist in Nephrology, was killed along with his family by an Israeli airstrike on their home. When last asked why he doesn’t evacuate he replied: "Who will t7.7×1.3M24k11k460
33Jan 3, '24Palestinians: We can’t continue to live under Apartheid US: Equal civil rights is an antisemite’s agenda Israel: We have a God-given right to all the land, on which Palestinians wi7.5×1.2M22k8.5k1.1k
34Nov 8, '24I call upon the Western media to confirm or deny that the Maccabi football supporters, well before any skirmishes, were marching on the streets on Amsterdam chanting: "There are no7.4×1.2M23k6.9k1.3k
35Apr 12, '24The speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style). Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germ7.1×1.2M17k7.7k2.4k
36Oct 18, '24They did recognise Israel 30 years ago. They laid down their weapons. And all they got for it was more land grabs, humiliation, genocide.7.1×1.2M31k6.5k1.1k
37Jan 30, '24I see. You can kill anyone you like on a land that you are illegally occupying, brand him/her terrorist, and then vilify as antisemites the ancestors of everyone who questions your7.0×1.2M25k6.9k823
38Nov 11, '23Hear the screams in the background but, above all, LISTEN to Dr Mads Gilbert, Norwegian surgeon, sending a heart-wrenching message, from Al Shifa Hospital, to Biden, Blinken and Eu6.6×1.1M16k9k891
39Sep 20, '25Israel’s smear campaign against the flotilla is escalating. First, they called it the Hamas Flotilla, deploying the usual tactic of slapping the Hamas logo on anyone whom they are 6.6×1.1M23k9.8k1.2k
40Sep 23, '24Here is a question to Israel's supporters: If the rage over the 7 Oct slaughter of 1.2k Israelis justifies the slaughter of >40k Palestinians, what do you expect the rage over t6.4×1.1M23k5.3k1.1k
41Feb 18, '25UPDATE: It's happening now. German police entered the new venue to intimidate our people who remain intent to meeting with Francesca Albanese and Amnesty International. The police 6.2×1M14k4.8k677
42Nov 5, '25The genocide has just gone quieter, slower, more insidious. It has not stopped. Nor should we stop opposing it!6.0×994k53k21k1.5k
43Sep 30, '25The masks are off. The Italian frigate was not summoned to offer protection for the Global Sumud Flotila but, rather, to sabotage it on behalf of the genocidal Netanyahu gvt. Shame5.8×959k33k7.5k1k
44Oct 26, '23We opposed the Iraq war & were portrayed as Saddam’s minions. We opposed the Afghanistan invasion & were portrayed as Taliban supporters. We opposed Israel’s Apartheid &amp5.7×949k24k6.4k472
45Jan 31, '25This is unbearable5.5×916k33k8.1k1.3k
46Oct 31, '25He is not a random madman. He is the Minister of National Security of a UN member-state. And yet the West continues to insist that said state is democratic and an ally. Which, of c5.4×888k34k13k1.6k
47Nov 17, '23‘All ICU patients’ dead in al-Shifa amid Israel raid, according to the Hospital's director. No further comment needed. Just a question to Europe's leaders: Are you sleeping OK at n4.9×812k16k9.1k317
48Dec 17, '24I hear that Netanyahu is about to land in Crete. If the Greek authorities do not arrest him, Greece will be in breach of its commitments to international law (Rome Charter of the I4.9×809k25k5.6k526
49Jul 9, '25Mr Rubio, with this post you have sealed your legacy as an enemy of international law and basic human decency. History will judge you harshly. In the meantime-, the rest of us are 4.8×795k33k9.2k664
50May 16, '24Thank you Clare. It was a good way to combine commemorating Nakbah and launching our European election campaign in Athens4.7×786k13k2.2k182
51Nov 12, '23Stop this. Now. In the name of what is left of our humanity.4.7×777k22k7.2k181
52Oct 13, '23When Palestinian fighters commit war crimes, the West/Press loses no time to speak of “acts of pure evil”. When the Israeli military commit war crimes, the West/Press describes the4.6×757k17k4.3k252
53Mar 1, '25Kaja Kallas just pronounced that the EU opts for continued war in Ukraine, until the aggressor (Russia) is... defeated. Ms Kallas is the EU's phoney foreign minister (for we do not4.5×753k17k3.7k523
54Sep 12, '25While the genocide accelerates in Gaza, in the West Bank Israel is committing fresh war crimes as part of its never-ending ethnic cleansing. When will we act to stop this?4.5×747k17k7.9k483
55Dec 6, '23I am obsessed with the 7100 children that Israel has killed over the last few weeks and the ones that it is killing as I am typing these words. How dare you not be obsessed by this4.5×746k18k5.1k174
56Apr 4, '20View post on X4.5×063k20k391
57Dec 19, '24They decorate their bulldozers with teddy bears and toys looted from the homes of dead and injured children they demolished. And they balk when the world calls it a genocide...4.3×713k28k10k1k
58Feb 25, '25Israel's hostage taking has reached new levels of inhumanity. And its Western backers (US. UK, Germany, France etc.) are increasingly complicit in this crime against humanity. Time4.3×708k19k9.6k943
59Jun 7, '25Incontrovertible evidence is now in. Israel instructs Palestinian civilians to go to particular spots where it then bombs them. Israel has chosen war criminality and it pursues it 4.3×704k19k8.4k1.7k
60Nov 22, '23Susan cares not one iota. Her talent and humanity is beyond dispute. Good on you Susan. Deeply and unapologetically proud of you!4.2×692k18k3.4k96
61Jan 10, '25International Law is officially dead, by the West's own hand: The Polish PM declared he will ensure the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Netanyahu's arrest will be4.1×683k22k6.8k870
62Sep 25, '25War criminals are proposing a war criminal as head of.... Gaza. It would be precious comedy if it were not so tragic4.1×682k17k6.4k534
63Feb 26, '24A 25-yr old sets himself on fire in protest of the massacres in Gaza and to support Palestinians at a time of genocide and the Press presents it as a mere suicide, forgetting to me4.1×681k13k5.4k489
64Sep 29, '25Classic Blair. He is now proposing himself as the Empire's Regent of Gaza. A war criminal himself, he demands a five year appointment to run the site of Israel's genocide on behalf4.0×668k22k8.8k857
65Nov 12, '23Good on you Mary Lou!4.0×668k15k3.9k159
66Sep 25, '24As long as there are Israelis like Gaia, there is hope.4.0×665k15k4.8k1.3k
67Jan 27, '25"Those who suffered the Holocaust do not want to be involved in anyone else's genocide". A Jewish Holocaust survivor making the Jewish people proud again in the face of Israel's ge4.0×654k31k9.2k1.9k
68Mar 18, '25No, the ceasefire did not collapse. Israel collapsed it, as they always planned. After two weeks of no supplies to 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, once hunger had returned, Israel 3.9×643k25k12k694
69Jun 18, '25Germany is now officially violating International Law3.9×639k25k6.2k635
70Dec 31, '24This New Year's Eve, as children are dying of cold, hunger and bombs, do not let them get away with the Big Lie that it all started on 7th October.3.8×635k21k11k2k
71Nov 6, '24The ethnic cleansing of Gaza is now official policy: No Palestinians will be allowed to live in N. Gaza3.6×603k17k9.4k1.1k
72Sep 8, '24When a religious leader listened to and revered by the country's Prime Minister condones gang-raping of a prisoner you know that this is a rogue state that must be treated like a r3.6×596k19k7.2k1.1k
73Jul 3, '25I can't see how the BBC will ever recover from its headlong leap into this ethical void, all in the name of not upsetting the perpetrators of the most horrific genocide since the e3.5×582k18k5.9k728
74Jun 3, '24Congratulations to friend and fellow traveller Claudia Sheinbaum. Winning the Presidency of Mexico is not just a confirmation of Andres Manuel's policies in favour of the poor but 3.5×577k13k2.7k385
75Dec 21, '23That's exactly Israel's plan: Not to allow them to return to their homes. It is not called ethnic cleansing and/or genocide for no reason.3.5×573k15k7.2k317
76Jul 6, '25At this very moment, Netanyahu's plane is flying over France, with the approval of its government. A clear violation of the Rome Statute that France is a signatory to.3.4×562k24k6.1k440
77Sep 28, '24Israel's delusion that it can cover up its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians under a veil of smoke and fire descending upon the region is enabled by Europe's and America's complicit3.4×560k18k7.4k574
78May 10, '25Every week, the number of protesters in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa carrying pictures of Gaza children murdered by Israel grows. They congregated in their hundreds. Now they con3.3×553k15k4.8k509
79Jan 26, '24The West believes in democracy, but not when governments it doesn't like are elected. It respects sovereignty unless it decides to invade, as in Iraq. It supports Taiwan's self-det3.2×531k13k4.6k784
80Dec 9, '24Have you noticed that, today, no one is talking about the ongoing genocide in Gaza? This is the greatest gift to Netanyahu and his merry genocide maniacs. Keep talking Palestine pe3.1×509k26k9.3k263
81Aug 10, '24Dear International Criminal Court judges, It is now beyond dispute: Israel has set out systematically to eliminate every aspect of Palestinian life in Gaza. It is not just the 186,3.0×490k17k8.3k800
82Jun 20, '25How long are we going to tolerate this for? When will the world throw Netanyahu and his criminal gang in the dark cell in which they belong?2.9×488k18k5.5k289
83Nov 28, '24The French government just gave Putin a magnificent gift: It will ignore the ICC's arrest warrant for Netanyahu because "Israel is not a signatory to the ICC." But neither is Russi2.9×486k21k4.7k583
84Oct 27, '24It is happening in Tel Aviv now. Brave souls!2.8×469k19k4.5k461
85Jan 4, '24Kudos South Africa - for your substantive, tightly argued 80-page charge of genocidal intent against Israel, replete with references to senior UN officials & reports. Who is ne2.8×460k16k5k338
86Dec 31, '23Suspend Apartheid Israel from International Sports. Like we once suspended Apartheid South Africa. Apartheid must end. Once and for all. Sign DiEM25's petition now! #diem25 #BanIsr2.8×459k14k6.2k263
87Feb 26, '24To the staff writers at The Guardian: The US airforce serviceman who burned himself alive in front of the Israeli Embassy did not, as you wrote, die "shouting about Palestine". No,2.7×442k15k4.9k272
88Oct 15, '25RAISE YOUR SOUL! My new book telling the story of the last 100 years through the voices of 5 remarkable women. Unlike anything I have written before, it focuses on 5 women who taug2.6×429k1.6k705265
89Jul 22, '25Ever so proud of the good people of Syros2.6×429k16k3.3k294
90Oct 15, '25Fascists of the world do unite!2.5×419k15k1.8k273
91Feb 23, '25Happening now: Israeli tanks have entered the northern West Bank after 40,000 Palestinians were expelled from three refugee camps in the Jenin & Tulkarm areas. There's a real a2.3×388k15k7.3k373
92Jul 11, '25At last a European leader to save the honour of a disgraceful, complicit Europe...2.3×380k16k4.2k400
93Aug 1, '25How sick must you be to be 'triggered' by kids' drawings simply because they are being massacred by a state you support?1.9×319k15k4.6k627
94Mar 27, '25Palestinian Women 'Raped by Israeli Soldiers.' And the western media? Nothing. A deafening silence. As always.1.9×319k17k8.5k818
95Jan 16, '25Brave Israelis telling soldiers and pilots to stop murdering Palestinians. The world owes them a debt of gratitude1.9×312k14k3.9k473
96Nov 9, '24Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv incidents: The hypocrisy of European media and politicians1.7×275k13k4.4k570
97Nov 6, '24One genocidal maniac fires another genocidal maniac for not pursuing the genocide sufficiently enthusiastically1.6×271k14k4.5k338
98Oct 14, '19I have no right to comment on Catalan independence. It is for the Catalans to decide. BUT, the rest of us must rise up against politicians being sentenced to long prison stretches 1.5×016k8.3k56
99Apr 21, '2255 yrs ago, today, a CIA-engineered coup brought the tanks out onto the streets of Athens, dissolved Parliament and plunged Greece into a 7yr-long ruthless fascist dictatorship. Ju1.4×019k5.2k574
100Feb 24, '22The only issue today should be to stop the war and to secure the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. The only way that could happen is a Washington-Moscow agreement that Rus1.2×016k3.9k339
101Apr 7, '22President Zelenski just abused the Greek Parliament's invitation by sharing its platform with members of the neoNazi Azov Battalion, thus undermining the Ukrainian people's heroic 1.2×016k4.1k353

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