DrLecturerMish PhD 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸💙🌺 She/Her/Hers This is outrageous!
A student should be allowed to be political!

#IStandWithSangita

Sangita Myska is an exemplary journalist - defending rigorous and informed debate and deftly bringing in her very valuable life experience. She deserves better. And British broadcasting deserves more transparency from its gatekeepers. Do please read and sign.

I am one of the signatories to this letter for Sangita Myska and glad to see so many journalists I respect here.

However the lack of prominent, loud, and White voices is (again) very noticeable, esp those who have made entire careers/reputations playing 'liberals'

BREAKING: This is a HISTORIC moment for Palestine

Th UN has voted by a MAJORITY to grant Palestine more UN rights (short of membership).

By a significant majority, the UN General Assembly recommended the Security Council reconsider the Palestinian bid for full membership.

Someone stop this lunacy

Meanwhile novel visa schemes were (rightfully) very quickly developed for Ukrainian refugees. Yet another example 👇 of how borders are weaponized against PoC.

BREAKING: Belgian TV channel interrupts Eurovision to address Israel’s genocide:

“This is a union action. We condemn the human rights violations committed by Israel. Additionally, Israel is destroying press freedom. That is why we are pausing the broadcast for a moment.”

🇵🇸🔥

I’m an academic nobody, but this year giving talks on the East coast has been one of the only ways I have been able to afford seeing my parents and they were proud that I cancelled this talk in solidarity with Palestine + NYU students demanding their university divest 4rm Israel.

Over 390 bodies reportedly showing 'signs of torture & summary executions, & potential instances of people buried alive', including those of women and children have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals in Gaza. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

An aspiring doctor who was 'pushed' into a Louisiana lake by friends who claimed they didn't know he couldn’t swim has made a miraculous recovery after doctors first described him as 'practically brain dead.'nypost.com/2024/05/06/us-…

Stories from Black, Asian and Arab communities you shouldn’t have missed this week 🧵

HAPPENING NOW:

This is unprecedented and HUGE.

The UN General Assembly (not the Security Council, so no veto possible) are voting on a resolution that would grant Palestine new rights and revive its UN membership bid.

This is designed to bypass the US veto on the Security

NEW on Wonkhe: The rules aren't political - except when they are wonkhe.com/blogs/the-rule…

Solidarity

HAPPENING NOW: 3000 activists have had enough and have taken over the United Nations HQ in Nairobi to call for an end to the genocide on Gaza. #RiseForRafah #CeasefireNOW #2024UNCSC

This is happening right now in Nairobi

The United Nations General Assembly has just voted overwhelmingly in favour of granting full membership to Palestine, granting the state new rights and privileges.

IN FAVOUR: 143
AGAINST: 9
ABSTAIN: 25

Palestine has been a UN non-member observer state since 2012.

Well done🇵🇸

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Students here at University of Denver set up a solidarity encampment and university admin created an interim protest policy within mere HOURS. Why can't yall divest with that level of swiftness?