Adam Shatz | Submission There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

Submission www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

British company's bulldozers destroy Palestinian, Kashmiri and Indian Muslim homes A new report focuses on JCB, a construction company chaired by billionaire Conservative donor Anthony Bamford

British company's bulldozers destroy Palestinian, Kashmiri and Indian Muslim homes - www.middleeasteye.net/news/british-companys-bu...

India's outcast toilet cleaners keeping Hindu festival going Millions of pilgrims hoping to cleanse their sins by ritual baths at India's Kumbh Mela festival rely on key lavatory workers to clear up behind them -- those born on the lowest rung of the Hindu cast...

Do read Arunabh Saikia's superb report on what really ails India www.yahoo.com/news/indias-...

#WestBank: heavy Israeli military operation were launched in Jenin city and its refugee camp on Jan 21.

According to the MoH, Israeli forces killed ten Palestinians and injured 35 others, including six health workers.

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Gaza’s traumatised children will need more than aid brought in on trucks, says Rosalia Bollen, the spokesperson with the UN’s agency for children.

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Earlier in January, the police checked documents of nearly 500 families living in Jahangirpuri's Bangali Basti.

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"If the police find any Bangladeshis here, they are free to take them away. But why should I prove that I am Indian?" a resident said.

Abhik Deb reports

“Why do Indians cry passionately on Insta?”: Grief performativity and ecologies of commerce of crying videos The article attempts to explore the specific performative and digital practice of users sharing digital self-images and videos on social media platforms in which they cry, with or without a ‘tear f...

Link to my (open access) article - “Why do Indians cry passionately on Insta?”: Grief performativity and ecologies of commerce of crying videos - in South Asian Popular Culture: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'Sadbait': Why algorithms, audiences and creators love to cry online People say they don't want to be sad, but their online habits disagree. Content that channels sorrow for views has become a ubiquitous part of online culture. Why does it work?

Excited to share that my 2023 research on why people cry passionately on Insta/TikTok was featured in this BBC article.
Huge thanks to @aidanwalker.bsky.social for reaching out & articulating my insights so thoughtfully in this fascinating piece on 'sadbaiting': www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says nearly all of Gaza’s 1.1 million children need mental health and psychosocial support amid the ongoing Israeli bombardment, displacement and dire living conditions.

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Satellite images, obtained by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, show that the Israeli military has stepped up the destruction of homes and agricultural lands in southern Gaza.

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Gaza chief doctor's life 'in danger' after Israeli abduction, monitor groups warn Rights groups demand international intervention to force the release of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya after he was abducted by Israel

Gaza chief doctor's life 'in danger' after Israeli abduction, monitor groups warn - www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-hospital-chief...

Israel kills five journalists in clearly marked press vehicle in Gaza Staff at Al-Quds Today broadcaster targeted outside hospital, as number of media workers killed by Israeli forces exceeds 200

Israel kills five journalists in clearly marked press vehicle in Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-kills-five-j...

Israel is killing Palestinians any which way...

What a surreal justice system... a man in jail without trial for almost 4 and a half years, for crimes he did not commit. Effectively denied bail, as bail hearings are postponed time after time. But he is freed for a few days to attend a family wedding.

Book censorship is rife on Amazon.com, according to a report from The Citizen Lab The research laboratory has identified that books with LGBTQ+ and religious themes are being restricted for sale online in the Middle East

Book censorship on Amazon: "Rather than taking responsibility or openly acknowledging its role in restricting certain content, Amazon masks these decisions as stock or availability issues.”
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"The reason Shakti is a milestone, and of personal importance to me, comes from the fact that it opened the doors to the concept of world music," #ZakirHussain on Shakti.

Revisit the tabla maestro's conversation with Nasreen Munni Kabir here: scroll.in/article/1076...

"Everyone who encountered him, for five minutes or for 50 years must come to terms with his absence. But Zakir-bhai’s passing simply emphasises his permanence in our lives."

Read Gregory D Booth's tribute to tabla legend #ZakirHussain: scroll.in/article/1076...

Edward Said & The Question Of Palestine At The Southbank Centre To mark the re-publication of Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine, this landmark event held at the Royal Festival Hall on 20 November gathers eight key authors to reflect on the enduring legacy of

From @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social, a recording of ‘Edward Said and The Question of Palestine’ at the Southbank Centre in which writers reflect on the enduring legacy of Said’s work and its role in the ongoing Palestinian struggle for self-determination.

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A deadly olive harvest season ends in the West Bank Restrictions and attacks by the Israeli military, together with rampant settler violence, left many Palestinians unable to harvest this year's crop.

Palestinians in the West Bank have to get permission from the Israeli military to harvest their olives... Israeli soldiers then kill them while they are harvesting the olives .... www.972mag.com/olive-harves...

The road projects largely cater to car owners and users, even though they form only 15% of daily commuters, whereas, 51% of #Mumbai’s commuters walk to their destinations.

Faiz Ullah decodes issues with the city's public transportation and infrastructure.

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Dense. Florence c. 1495. Francesco Rosselli. At the RA. @royalacademyarts.bsky.social

"The message to Israel is that this needs to stop, What we are seeing in the Golan is a violation of the 1974 agreement. This is a very serious issue."

The UN's Syria Special Envoy Geir Pedersen tells me that Israel's unlawful actions in Syria need to stop.
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Photos: Israel kills dozens of civilians across Gaza Israeli forces target several residential buildings in Gaza City, Rafah and central areas of the Gaza Strip.

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a plain cake

"Calling the genocide of Palestinians a holocaust will allow the “never again” imperative attached to the holocaust to be applied to this holocaust. Genocides continue to be perpetrated and tolerated because they are never recognised as holocausts."

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-Giti Chandra

I am starving in Gaza and I don’t believe the world can’t do anything Israel tried to starve Gaza before and the international community reacted. Why isn’t it doing anything now?

"Starvation is destroying our bodies and our minds, incapacitating us. And this is the goal... and while Israel may hope that we starve in silence, we will not. The world can and must stop the starvation of Gaza."

— #AJOpinion by Nour Elassy ⤵️

Get well soon.

This is the key sentence (although many others are laugh out loud good) "Other than a handful of moderate Republican senators, who may or may not have the guts to reject some of his nominees, there is little standing in his way"

Israel has a long history of smearing journalists Israel tries to discredit Palestinian journalists with unsubstantiated ‘terrorist’ labels. Jodie Ginsberg says Israel must end attacks on the media.

Important piece from jodieginsberg.bsky.social.

"It is vital that [journalists] be allowed to perform that act of witnessing and that we, as outside witnesses ourselves to these systematic attacks, play our part by speaking out loudly and clearly in their defence."