‘My life has become a rollercoaster’: Francesca Albanese on death threats, danger and dread after accusing Israel of genocide When the UN special rapporteur published her report Anatomy of a Genocide in March 2024, she was lionised by some and demonised by the Trump government. She describes what happened next

Interview with @franceskalbs.bsky.social as she brings out new book ‘When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words and Wounds of Palestine’. @julianborger.bsky.social
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Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes Legal experts say attacking Iran’s infrastructure would constitute a war crime – but would military officers be held responsible?

Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes.
But there are now few left in the military prepared to stand their ground. Hope those who’ve been sacked speak up…
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A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank The Taybeh community has survived crusaders and the Ottoman and British empires, but the latest attacks leave its future in question

Land grabs & intimidation in the West Bank @julianborger.bsky.social @theguardian.com
#Palestine #WestBank

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War in Iran, chaos in the Gulf, repression in the west: and the thread that binds them all is Palestine | Nesrine Malik In the Middle East, the occupation is the original sin. And those who banked on this US-backed ‘stability’ now find it giving way beneath them, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

“The absence of peace and self-determination for the Palestinian people is the original sin; all flows from there. Netanyahu prefers to be in a costly state of wars with seemingly no end rather than see a free Palestine”@nesrinemalik.bsky.social

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Brother of No Other Land co-director injured as Israeli settlers again attack family home Hamdan Ballal says violence on West Bank as bad as ever, nearly a year after his Oscar-winning film shocked the world

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This week Israel has passed sweeping new measures to further annex the occupied West Bank. The UK govt has responded: "Any attempt to alter the geographic or demographic make up of Palestine is wholly unacceptable"

Israel is doing it & the UK govt refuses to take any action.

Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it reshaping economists’ education

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‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja is a small community of about 135 families – and the only one remaining in this part of the Jordan valley

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Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank Exclusive: Tender posted for construction of 3,401 homes in settlement designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’

Eyes on #WestBank #Palestine

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‘It felt like she was asking me to save her’: the film based on a five-year-old Palestinian girl’s dying pleas The Voice of Hind Rajab has stunned audiences with its use of the real-life audio of a girl’s call for help after her family’s car was attacked by an Israeli tank in Gaza. Its director explains why sh...

“What they felt is a condensation of what we are feeling – so many of us around the world – about what is happening in Gaza. This sense of helplessness. Nobody can reach her to help.”

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Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser The long read: Twenty-five years after I revealed the practices of the industrial food giants, the profits – and dangers – of mass producing meat and milk have only grown

Digest this 😳
#worldhealth #ultraprocessedfood

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Congratulations to the amazing Malak Tantesh - winning both New Journalist of the Year & The Marie Colvin Prize last night at #BJA2025

‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’

No ceasefire in #Gaza #Palestine

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Guardian’s former Gaza correspondent named young journalist of the year in UK awards Malak A Tantesh, 20, ‘showed immense talent and bravery’, said judges at Media Freedom awards in London

Very proud to know this amazing young woman and her sister. They are both extraordinary.

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Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza

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When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

The very act of oppressing others has changed us as a people”
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‘My poems are part of my flesh’: Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen on life in Gaza At just 20, the poet is one of the most vivid witnesses to the conflict. She talks about dreams of Oxford, the deaths of friends and how tragedy has shaped the person she has become

The horror of Gaza in poetry
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Starmer finally said it: ‘We recognise Palestine.’ But Gaza desperately needs action – where is that? | Nesrine Malik The British PM and others offered fine words, but after all the horror, many will say too little, too late. Palestinians need unfettered support – and now, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

“As far as the British government is concerned, belatedness and timidity have been defining features of its response to the situation in Gaza over the past two years” #Palestine @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

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Lovely that @zaytouncic.bsky.social won this - & proud to be part of it

#palestine #buypalestinian #fairtradefortnight

Israel is forcing us to leave Gaza City. We know they may never let us return The Guardian’s reporter in Gaza describes the dilemma facing her family and others, many hungry, penniless and without transport

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Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add up, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Every small act of solidarity keeps hope alive #Palestine

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Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters Elderly woman with Alzheimer’s, medical workers and children among 6,000 Palestinians held

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Israeli continues West Bank raids, razes hundreds of trees The Israeli forces are continuing their large-scale raid in the Al-Mughayyir village in the occupied West Bank, levelling land and uprooting olive trees.

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UN-backed experts declare famine in and around Gaza City IPC says famine is ‘entirely man-made’ and immediate response is needed or avoidable deaths will soar

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‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in Gaza Fatma Hassouna used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about...

‘I must document everything’: the film about the #Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in #Gaza
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‘Our food, our heritage, our culture’: the chef highlighting Palestinian cuisine For Sami Tamimi, preparing the food of his homeland is an act of resilience and keeping his culture alive

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“Enough impunity. Enough empty rhetoric. Enough exceptionalism.” @franceskalbs.bsky.social

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Artist or activist? For Juliet Stevenson and her husband, Gaza leaves them with no choice Film-maker Hugh Brody hopes to honour his mother, a Holocaust survivor, with a show of solidarity for Palestine

Artist or activist? For Juliet Stevenson and her husband, Gaza leaves them with no choice

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Nearly 60 Labour MPs call for UK to immediately recognise Palestinian state Exclusive: MPs say in letter Gaza is being ethnically cleansed as Israeli defence minister plans ‘forcible transfer’

Nearly 60 Labour MPs call for UK to immediately recognise Palestinian state

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Five words about Palestine Action could get me arrested Support for the protest group was legal last week—but now it is ‘terrorism’. This is an assault on our liberty

Are we all terrorists now?

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