Potato News Today is literally doing a better job warning the public about coming food shortages than our leading media. (Lukie Pieterse) Why? Piers Morgan Susanna Reid Neil Thompson Victoria Derbyshire justin webb Martha Kearney tom bradby Mary Nightingale Kay Burley @bbcnews…

'We annihilated a huge part of Gaza. We can do the same to the Palestinians in the West Bank...'

Sporting a Star of David F-16 shirt, an Israeli proudly blocking desperately needed humanitarian aid at the Gaza border explained to me that Israel will erase Palestinians 'in one…

For those of us who are writers and readers, I noticed that a lot of folks aren't familiar with the rich canon of Palestinian literature and don't know where to begin reading. In response to this, down below is a thread of novels, non-fiction, and poetry about Palestine (🧵):

Mass Flooding in Kazakhstan and Russia Displaces Over 110,000 People democracynow.org/2024/4/11/head…

Kicking off our World Literature Festival on April 15, join poets Camonghne Felix, Dorothea Lasky, Emanuel Xavier, and moderator Helena de Groot for readings and lively discussion about poetry, language, and labor.

Register now to join in person or online: on.nypl.org/4alX1d8

Y'all, there is a surge of authors withdrawing their books from considerations from PEN related awards due to their dangerous rhetoric on Palestine, if you come across anyone who has done this, try and support them by purchasing their books or spreading word of their needed work.

Applying pressure.

lithub.com/withdrawals-an…

PEN America needs to change its leadership, reevaluate its priorities, and start a new dialogue with the writers and literary professionals it claims to represent. These problems have been festering for years.

The biggest problem is not Western journalists being unable to enter, but the fact that Western media doesn't respect and value Palestinian journalists. My colleagues and I risk our lives every day to report on this genocide . No one knows Gaza like we do, and no one understands…

🎥FILM PREMIERE🎥

The UK is not innocent: the story of INQUEST by Rainbow Collective 💚 exposes forty years of state violence and resistance in England and Wales.

📅 24 April at 6.30pm
📌 Castle Cinema, Hackney

✨Book your tickets now bit.ly/3xFhpr7

The UN’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said one of its vehicles has come under fire by live ammunition in the north of Gaza.

palestinechronicle.com/continuing-ris…

Nearly at 88k signatures. It shouldn’t be this hard, but there are probably a few contacts that you can still push this out through

Who assaults a guest in their home, even if that guest is 'impolite' enough to speak out against Israel's ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people?

(The power imbalance, wealthy law prof Catherine Fisk vs student Malak Afaneh, is extreme)

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‘It is not YOUR house! It is MY house!’

Not a good look for Berkeley Law and Prof Catherine Fisk
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amazing photo, composed like a Renaissance painting

She was invited, and it’s only an insult to speak about Palestinian rights if you’re insulted by the idea of Palestinian rights. Which these university professors and dean are, and what they’ve fought against on campus. Hence the protest.

CLARE SAMBROOK Oh the irony.