📢New commentary from Fatima Busra Alsancak: 'The FATF Gains Momentum in Breaking Africa's Cycle of Grey Listing'.

🌍The latest RUSI commentary explores why a risk-based approach to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)'s evaluations and listings is needed.

1/ Current sentiment in Israel and among supporters of Israel is that campus protests in the US and across the world reveal a profound truth- Antisemitism never died out and it is a viable threat to all Jews today. I'd like to suggest a different truth: things change. --->

It’s being gutted. One wonders if any union leaders might actually show their teeth over this, having been sold the “New Deal” in exchange for quiescence over the last few years.

Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri has just returned from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where Palestinians are still uncovering more bodies, many with evidence of torture or summary execution. 'The three different mass graves are containing around 700 bodies,' he says.

Palestine was (and to a large extent still is) the human rights issue of our time. It is now the free speech issue of our time. It will probably also will be the international law issue of our time.

Columbia’s own website has a page about how the last time they called for a mass arrest of student protesters, they were in the wrong and fucked up their reputation for decades

no American university president has deplored the Israeli destruction of all the universities in Gaza

actually i do think the issue of safety on college campuses is important

Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Bottom line: rich countries pretend to be in favour of fair & open markets, devlopment for all etc. but in practice the way financial markets are organized & regulated leads to an enormous income transfer from global South to global North, year after year & growing over time

Human rights violated by inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case theguardian.com/environment/20…

The birth of Rock against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League – a 🧵
 
Eric Clapton performs drunk at the Birmingham Odeon - 5 August 1976
 
He singled out ‘fucking wogs’ and ‘fucking pakis ‘ - “I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country,” Clapton declared.
#Defiance

Maureen Lipman suggests Israel has a right to colonise Palestine because British colonisers ('us') did it in southern Africa ('Rhodesia' she calls it) -- it's worth reading Naomi Klein on this in her latest book, Doppelganger

Israeli historian Dr Ilan Pappé reminds us why Gaza is Gaza in terms of geography.