Rafeef Ziadah
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poetry & politics. Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy @KingsIntDev . views my own. Youtube: Spotify iTunes
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Palestinians are not begging anyone to acknowledge our humanity. It is the world's we are questioning.
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Just like South Africa's apartheid regime, Israel's will have supporters to the bitter end rambling about both sides and self defense. History will not remember them kindly when Palestine is free.
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Finally!!!! Yes... more of this. Transport unions please take a stand now.
Belgian transport unions refuse to load and unload weapons going to Israel (both via ports and airports) and call for an immediate ceasefire.
#LETGAZALIVE
#CeaseFireInGaza
#SolidarityWithPalestine
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If you are a non-Palestinian academic, supposedly in solidarity w/ Palestinians, asked to write essays & pontificate about morality & the left ... here's a suggestion: ask the papers to give that space to Palestinians in Gaza instead. They have much more important things to say.
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There is no calm in a settler colonial situation. Gaza and Jerusalem may drop off your TV screens, but Israel's brutality continues and our struggle for freedom continues.
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Time to translate all those trade union motions to action: don't handle Israeli goods, don't unload the ships. hashtags, motions, and statements not enough.
#GazaUnderAttack
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Tomorrow, May 18th: call for general strike across historic Palestine, call for international action. Like all colonised and oppressed people Palestinians will liberate themselves. You can speak up for justice or watch from the sidelines pontificating about who to condemn.
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Media contacting Palestinians in 48 asking them to talk write on co-existance being ruptured. They are all offended when the response is "it has always been settler colonialism". They can't deal with this narrative and want us to write theirs. No we won't!
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I'm diverting all media requests to youth on the front lines in Jerusalem, Gaza, Haifa, Lydd. That's who should be speaking and heard now.
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So this has happened: The University of Barcelona breaks all academic ties with Israel & calls on the EU to put into effect an academic boycott of Israeli institutions, among other measures.
✌️La UB trenca relacions acadèmiques amb Israel!
Una abraçada a tothom que ho ha fet possible!
🔴 Aturem el genocidi, acabem amb l'apartheid. Boicot, desinversions i sancions a Israel.
#BDS
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it's starting to happen...Barcelona dockworkers.
Per la convivència entre els pobles i en favor de la pau a Palestina, els estibadors de Barcelona mostrem el nostre rebuig a la violència
@SoyCoordinadora
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Let's organise in every single branch...
Israel has systematically destroyed the Palestinian education system in its war on Gaza, bombing every university in the strip.
It’s our duty as educators to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Listen to the inspiring words of our member
@RafeefZiadah
:
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International trade unions, this is your chance to join the call to action from Palestine. Stop handling Israeli goods, don't touch those ships. If not now, when??? Dockers we calling on you.
#GazaUnderAttack
#SaveSheikhJarrah
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SOAS issues a statement on Dr. Refaat Alareer & against destruction of Palestinian educational sector. Will
@UCL
, where Refaat completed his master's, demonstrate similar concern for Palestinian students, academics, and alumni? ... the silence speaks volumes.
We are devastated to hear that former SOAS student Dr Refaat Alareer has been killed in an air strike in the Gaza Strip.
Our statement on Refaat's death and the destruction of the higher education sector in Gaza.
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Today. Let it be a tale.
Look for the white kites at the end of the march. Let that be your guide.
Refaat Alareer.....presente
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My grandfather was a refugee from Haifa. He was killed in a refugee camp never seeing home again. His spirit is with those Palestinians in Haifa today, standing their ground and protecting their homes from lynch mobs
#OngoingNakba
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Another
@KingsCollegeLon
alum killed by Israel. Adnan Al Bursh abducted, tortured. Maisara Alrayes killed in an airstrike, trapped under rubble for 30 hours. Yet,
@KingsCollegeLon
still silent, not even simple ceasefire call. This isn't neutrality, this silence is complicity.
Renowned surgeon Dr Adnan Al Bursh was abducted from a Gaza hospital in Dec 23. A former student of
@KingsCollegeLon
, he was imprisoned in Israel for 4 months. A fellow detainee testified to
@HCWWatch
that he was being tortured. Today 2 prisoner orgs announced he has been killed.
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read this. sit with it.
rest in power Refaat.
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Trade unions, this is the time to show solidarity through action, not just motions on paper. Stop handling goods imported from or exported to Israel.
#GazaUnderAttack
#SaveSheikhJarrah
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wow... and here's the weather? seriously?
🚨BREAKING - BBC admits it misled public about protests in solidarity with Palestine over the weekend.
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Haven't been tweeting cause university sector strike, but here to say: NO ONE can cancel
@Lowkey0nline
. His work is brilliant, honest, powerful. This move to silence him only shows the incredible power of his words
#LongLivePalestine
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I wish I didn't have to go back to these words over and over and over ... but they are all I have for the moment...
#PalestineUnderAttack
#GazaUnderAttack
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"Israel has been described as an ‘apartheid regime’ – this will not come as news to ordinary Palestinians".
My opinion piece in
@Independent
today.
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Heartbroken beyond words. Now, Israel has killed Refaat Al-Areer's eldest daughter, Al-Shaimaa, her husband, and newborn. No words can convey this endless loss and pain. For days now I stood on stages saying "they are killing our poets, but they can't kill their words"
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Palestinian academics in the UK urgently call for solidarity in defence of Gaza universities. UK universities & international organisations must support rebuilding
#GazaUniversities
.
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Academics debating Fanon... seriously stop and do something useful to end your govr'ts & institutions complicity ... you can go back to your analytical debates & papers when the bombing stops.
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A settler-colony that doesn't even tolerate grief.
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If you are seriously using this moment to tell Palestinians what terminology to use to describe our situation, just go sort your self out away from us.
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Ultimately the protests across historic Palestine and by refugees outside show that despite 73 years of trying to erase and fragment the Palestinian people - we exist, resist and will return.
#GazaUnderAttack
#OngoingNakba
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So there are plenty of books, reports, Palestinian voices and bodies that can tell you a lot about Israel's role exporting its surveillance, military and policing technologies globally. read a book or listen maybe.
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The aim is to break us. We will mourn and we will grief...for now we organise to make this stop. Join demos, organise, speak up now! Silence is complicity.
#gaza
#Gaza_Genocide
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Even progressive media still refer to Palestinians in 48 as Arab-Israeli (the Israeli term used to deny their identity). I've seen people correct this on air several times saying 'we are Palestinian'. How many more times does this correction have to happen before it sinks in?
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"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." Gramsci
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"You have something in this world, so stand for it."
Rest in power Ghassan Kanafani
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It is scary and dangerous how quickly Palestine is dropped from news headlines and timelines - the siege and occupation are still there by the way...
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It's starting... South Africa comrades, trade unions - Palestinians waiting for you - don't handle Israeli goods, don't offload the ships
#GazaUnderAttack
#OngoingNakba
Dockers in Livorno refusing to load cargo onto a ship taking weapons to Israel. Solidarity!
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thank you
For
#PalestineDay
, I’d like to share a part of
@RafeefZiadah
’s poem, 'We teach life, sir’ - a powerful statement of what a large part of the struggle of Palestinians is: to be heard at all.
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we are so desperate to get the Palestinian story out, to explain the scale of the constant violence, that sometimes we accept any crumbs from international media. And when we appear they ask us to condemn both sides. Not two equal sides.
#GazaUnderAttack
#SaveSheikhJarrah
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I'm not holding my breath for Western governments or media ... but trade unions? rank and file members ? ... we call on you to act now!
#StopArmingIsrael
Palestinian trade unions issue a global call to action! Stop the complicity with Israel's crimes! The time is NOW to halt the arms trade, funding, and military research. Palestinian lives depend on it. Share this message far and wide!
#PalestineSolidarity
#StoArmingIsrael
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Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world:
"We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities."
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“The question of Palestine is a question of the future of the planet. This is not just a slogan.” Adam Hanieh
Tune in to
@break_downradio
's two-part series on oil, imperialism, climate crisis, and Palestine.
#Palestine
#Gaza
#ClimateCrisis
#Imperialism
“The question of Palestine is a question of the future of the planet. This is not just a slogan.”
This week, we have a Special Episode w/author & academic Adam Hanieh on how oil & American imperialism have shaped the history and present of Palestine.
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This is finally starting to happen!!! WE need much more of this... organise, mobilise. Join the global days of action on Nov 9 and 10!
BREAKING: Dockworkers in Barcelona refuse to load or unload ships carrying war materials for Israel. They join the global demand for ceasefire now.
There is a growing movement of solidarity with Palestine with millions taking action against genocide.
#FreePalestine
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Proud to stand with over 200 scholars at
@KingsCollegeLon
as we pledge to boycott & divest from Israeli complicit institutions, support rebuilding Palestinian higher education, and resist all attempts to silence Palestinian solidarity on our campus
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLendComplicity
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Arab and Palestinian scholars in UK urge fellow academics to join forces and support colleagues under attack in Palestine. Full statement available at:
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It has always been this. A project to erase and dispossess.
The Israeli occupation destroys the central archive of
#Gaza
municipality, executing thousands of historical documents, and deliberately razing all life forms; erasing the city and its
#history
. It is worth noting that the archive holds
#documents
more than a hundred years old.
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General strike across historic Palestine! They said give them a few generations and they will forget - we haven't forgotten. We exist despite Israel's war machine.
#GazaUnderAttack
#SaveSheikhJarrah
#PalestineGeneralStrike
#ReturningToHaifa
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New must-read article "Framing Palestine" on understanding Palestine through a regional lens, settler colonialism and its central role in our fossil fuel-centered world (by Adam Hanieh)
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People will ask what you did when when
#Gaza_Genocide
was televised and your governments cheered & supported it...at least say you joined others and marched. Silence is complicity.
#FreePalestine
Time to join the demos.
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always the passive voice when it comes to Palestinians. we wake up to this news and we live this news.
Rest in Power Shireen Abu Akleh.
BREAKING: Shireen Abu Akleh, a journalist for the Al Jazeera network, was killed by gunfire in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry says. The shooting happened during an Israeli army raid in Jenin.
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We've been working sooo hard to get unions to take action ... it's heartening to see labour activists shutting down weapons factories & refusing to handle Israeli weapons!!! But conditions in Gaza are urgent and horrific, so we can't be waiting too looooong on motions. Pls move!!
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Today along with 172 social science & humanities colleagues
@KingsCollegeLon
we send letter to the Principal asking university to call publicly for ceasefire & end institutional complicity with Israel's crimes. Student petitions have gone unanswered. we keep trying.
Today 172 soc science & humanities scholars sent a letter to the Principal
@KingsCollegeLon
demanding that we call for a
#ceasefire
& end collaborations with & investments in those complicit with Israel’s violence.
We also sent a white kite
#FreePalesitne
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Calling on all academics to stand in solidarity with colleagues facing attacks in Palestine. Read the full statement: & follow
@ScholarsForPal
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Since this KCL boycott pledge was announced yesterday evening, 50 more academics have contacted us to add their names, and other universities/academics are initiating similar pledges.
#BoycottPledge
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLendComplicity
Proud to stand with over 200 scholars at
@KingsCollegeLon
as we pledge to boycott & divest from Israeli complicit institutions, support rebuilding Palestinian higher education, and resist all attempts to silence Palestinian solidarity on our campus
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLendComplicity
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Good news (amidst all other devastating news): Barcelona suspended ties with Israel's institutions and twinning program with Tel Aviv! This happened because many incredible people have worked patiently, tirelessly to educate and mobilise - mabrouk and big hugs to them tonight!!
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Keep sharing, keep organising.
🔥 Global Days of Action: Nov 9-10 🔥
Time to take a stand for justice!
Join us in demanding STOP arming Israel's war machine.
#CeasefireNOW
.
Let's unite to block arms factories, urge unions to halt weapon production, and expose complicit universities.
#StopArmingIsral
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Our resistance is beautiful, chants, music, spaces for children and story telling. We fight for freedom.
#PalestineGeneralStrike
. Every refugee from Haifa is with you, reclaiming those streets today.
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It's a critical moment for solidarity with Palestine. Palestinian Trade Unions are urging trade unions worldwide to take a stand. Refuse to build or transport weapons for Israel & pressure your governments to
#StopArmingIsrael
.
Palestinian trade unions issue a global call to action! Stop the complicity with Israel's crimes! The time is NOW to halt the arms trade, funding, and military research. Palestinian lives depend on it. Share this message far and wide!
#PalestineSolidarity
#StoArmingIsrael
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UK MPs who voted against ceasefire - you got your pause. and the killing continues. what will it take for you to vote for a ceasefire? asking for millions out here who are sick of your complicity
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the Labour Party talking point "we know people feel strongly about Gaza" is doing my head in this morning.... it's a genocide.
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for starters - it's not a "peace plan" - please stop calling it that. It's a gift from one settler-colonial regime to another.
#ApartheidDeal
#DealOfTheCentury
#FreePalestine
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Over 200 academic staff
@KingsCollegeLon
pledge to boycott Israeli universities & corporations complicit in Israel's genocide.
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLendComplicity
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Share share share.
🔥 Global Days of Action: Nov 9-10 🔥
Time to take a stand for justice!
Join us in demanding STOP arming Israel's war machine.
#CeasefireNOW
.
Let's unite to block arms factories, urge unions to halt weapon production, and expose complicit universities.
#StopArmingIsral
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On International Day of Education, join
@ScholarsForPal
inaugural event where we highlight Israel’s assault on higher education in Palestine and what scholars in the UK and beyond can do to support. Join, share, register, etc.
Online event:
Join us on the International Day of Education, where will highlight Israel’s assault on higher education in Palestine as one dimension of the genocidal campaign, and what scholars in the UK and beyond can do to help.
Register here:
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you gave the green light, you shook hands, you smirked for cameras & applauded - knowing full well what was coming ... it's on you too! Air bridge yourself away from us please...
Palestinians in Gaza are in need of humanitarian aid.
They cannot pay the price of Hamas’ barbarism.
On top of tripling humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza, we are organising an EU Humanitarian Air Bridge to Gaza through Egypt.
With the first two flights this week.
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“The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.” Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
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Please circulate this call from Palestinian trade unions, BUT more importantly start organising in your branch! We need action now to impact the arms trade and end the blatant complicity.
Palestinian trade unions issue a global call to action! Stop the complicity with Israel's crimes! The time is NOW to halt the arms trade, funding, and military research. Palestinian lives depend on it. Share this message far and wide!
#PalestineSolidarity
#StoArmingIsrael
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Rank and file organising delivers!!! My union branch
@KCL_UCU
passed a motion - overwhelming majority - to tangibly work to end institutional complicity with Israel. Now the real work begins...
An overwhelmingly majority of our AGM also passed a motion on
#Palestine
solidarity redoubling our efforts to achieve a ceasefire, divestment & defend academic freedom. We expressed our strong commitments of solidarity with Palestine & of care for all our colleagues and students.
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YES!!
Health care workers, striking doctors and supporters are shutting down Palantir’s London HQ.
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The next 'Except Palestine' event makes it's way to
@KingsIntDev
finally! Join on 31 January for Except Palestine: Conflict, Development and De-Development speakers include
@LalehKhalili
@NeveGordon
@YasminGun
@DaanishMustafa
To register:
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For months, academics, students & staff have tirelessly urged
@KingsCollegeLon
to ethically divest instead we got a policy of ‘neutrality’! Now more than 200 of us make this pledge to boycott & divest. It's time for action!
#DivestFromApartheid
#EndComplicity
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Remember speaking at the first Israeli Apartheid Week in Toronto & aaaaaalllll the campus security forms we had to fill over the years.... soooo many forms to just be able to hold a panel. Don't let then tell you organising doesn't work.
Shout out to the thousands of young people who organized Israeli Apartheid Weeks all over the world over the last 17 years. You were railroaded, arrested, expelled, stigmatized, cancelled, and blacklisted. You are the bravest Report. Cheers to you.
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An urgent call from Palestinian trade unions. Pls share and get your branch moving! Model motions, translations, images included. We've seen some inspiring int'l actions so far, but need many many more.
#SaveSheikhJarrah
#Gaza
Palestinian Trade Unions call for immediate and urgent action from international Trade Unions. For translations and model motion see here
#SaveSheikhJarrah
#Gaza
#Solidarity
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They're trying to silence us while they applaud & support a televised massacre in
#Gaza
. But we refuse to be silenced. Join the demonstration today!
#SpeakUp
#GazaUnderAttack
#FreePalestine
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If you think it was great Biden said inshallah, you got issues.
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Starting my 'Let it be a tale' Irish tour, honouring Palestinian poets in Gaza. Join us at
@HawksWellSligo
today,
@LimeTreeTheatre
Wed, and Pavilion Cork Thur. Tickets:
They may kill our poets, but their words live on...
#FreePalestine
#EndTheGenocide
After sellout shows in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia, Rafeef Ziadah's 'Let it be a tale' comes to Ireland. Tues
@HawksWellSligo
Wed
@LimeTreeTheatre
Thur 7pm Pavilion Cork.
Tkts for Sligo, Limerick, Cork, Galway, Dublin, Belfast, Newbridge here:
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we keep talking about dehumanisation of Palestinians, but this level of racism is well beyond that.
Keir Starmer today declared his support for the commitment of war crimes by Israel on
@LBC
.
He suggested that Israel has the right to cut off electricity and food supplies to Gaza. This is a war crime under international law.
#FreePalestine
#GazaUnderAttack
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"Israel has faced no accountability. Countries, and academic institutions, continue to support and defend Israel. Many continue to provide it with weapons." read & share
@GhassanAbuSitt1
words.
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Don’t miss this teach in on Israel's assault on Palestinian higher education and how we organise against it - with
@ScholarsForPal
and Right to Education Campaign @ Birzeit University
@Right2Edu
. Wed Jan 24 at 5pm GMT. Register & share.
Online event:
Join us on the International Day of Education, where will highlight Israel’s assault on higher education in Palestine as one dimension of the genocidal campaign, and what scholars in the UK and beyond can do to help.
Register here:
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122 Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists and intellectuals point to problems w/ IHRA definition. Very glad to be among them!
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So this is condescending, no? Palestinians very capable of doing the "hard work" of analysing and naming lived daily oppression, and been doing it. Will provide you a reading list so YOU do the hard work of listening.
Instead, we should be thinking collectively of new vocabulary to reflect the unique historical experience of Palestinians, both within the Zionist regime in the Green Line & under occupation. Let's do that hard work for them if we want a just & peaceful solution to this conflict.
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the dust will settle, Palestine will disappear from the news and soon they will call a military occupation, siege, snipers targeting protesters a 'lull in violence' and 'relative calm' again. don't let them!
#GazaUnderAttack
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One case this article traces is my first ever poetry performance at a Toronto school being "investigated". The offending line was "like my grandfather's smile when they stole his land". Silencing campaigns are one of the key ways anti-Palestinian racism operates.
I've written about anti-Palestinian racism at
@tdsb
, and about how I was treated after being invited to speak at the board
please read this, share it, use it as a resource
Under Investigation: Anti-Palestinian racism at the Toronto District School Board
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I can't stomach those who cheered on the attacks, gave them green light, justified everything Israel would do and now insincerely call for protecting civilians and feel "saddened"! What a world...
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anti-Palestinian racism and silencing campaigns reaching new heights in this place... if you're a UK based academic, please sign against these efforts to curtail discussion of
#Gaza_Genocide
People working at UK universities will want to sign this open letter to the UKRI. The govt is trying to shut down academic freedom (on things like, you know, being able to criticise genocide...)
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In an urgent call Palestinian unions asked unions abroad to “Stop Arming Israel”. In response trade unionists around the World Block Weapons Bound for Israel | read about the actions and join in!!
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be there
🚨TOMORROW - Emergency rally for Palestine 🇵🇸
On Wednesday MPs will likely vote on whether to call for a ceasefire in Palestine!
Join us at 5PM at Parliament on Wednesday 15 November to demand MPs vote for a
#CeasefireNow
Before this, write to your MP:
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Despite Arts Council warnings against political expression, a group of playwrights from Gaza to London have crafted a powerful series of short plays. I'll be joining discussion on 18 May
@arcolatheatre
The Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art
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General strike called today. We also need protests at every Palestinian embassy/consulate/office whatever we want to call them. Those of us in exile are not spectators.
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Just out & open access 'Pandemic Effects: COVID-19 and the Crisis of Development in the Middle East' co-written with
@AdamHanieh
for
@DevandChg
@KingsIntDev
@ExeterIAIS
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Palestinian trade unions have issued an important call. Let's amplify the message and take action within our unions and workplaces. Share the call today!
#StopArmingIsrael
Palestinian trade unions issue a global call to action! Stop the complicity with Israel's crimes! The time is NOW to halt the arms trade, funding, and military research. Palestinian lives depend on it. Share this message far and wide!
#PalestineSolidarity
#StoArmingIsrael
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The cruelty of Israel's regime is unbearable and so constant, not allowing Khalida Jarrar to attend her daughter Suha's funeral or even call the family tells you all you need to know about this settler colony.
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