In or near #Hackney Central on Saturday? Pop by our stall and learn about the #divestment campaign and how you can support. We will be in the Narroway, near Mare St from 12 noon to 1.30pm. Come and say 👋

Pausing to vaccinate children against polio so they can survive long enough to be bombed into pieces the next day. That’s not humanitarianism, that’s sadism.

Scenes of displacement are repeatedly committed in #WestBank &#Gaza,The residents of the eastern neighborhood of #Jenin are being displaced from their homes under bombing & after being sieged by Israeli bulldozers preventing ambulance to reach them

🚨BREAKING: Last night, 179 health workers gathered outside St Thomas’ Hospital to demand the release of the 179 Palestinian health workers held in secret detention by Israeli forces. We stand in solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues.

Living in the UK is so cool because we're obsessed with social class but our society hasn't made any effort at all to consider what class is since, generously, the 1970s so every time we discuss it we choose some more or less unhinged proxy. This week it's Oasis.

thinking about Judith Butler on grievability. Palestinians cannot be mourned in death because they have never counted as lives to begin with. We know this, we see it elsewhere too, but sometimes the hierarchy of human life is so clear it takes your breath away.

11 months later, after 40,000+ slaughtered Palestinians, after Gaza became the area with the largest population of child amputees, after countless Palestinians decapitated and burnt alive, David Lammy has decided to suspend 30 out of 350 arms licenses to Israel. Pathetic.

Shameless

It’s 2:37 a.m. local and the Israeli military is invading Birzeit University, just outside Ramallah city. Israeli soldiers are on foot and joined with several armored jeeps and military personnel carriers went inside campus. Israeli military operations are expanding in the

Extraordinary, yet expected, bigoted pearl clutching taking place this morning across the UK media class in the wake of the government’s decision to suspend some arms to Israel: - Labour is appeasing Muslims - 40,000 dead is contested - No proven war crimes yet Contemptible.

Here he is fanning the flames of Islamophobia. He is also the same guy they had on BBC Newsnight , where he was doing the most trying to distance himself away from the rioters attacking mosques not long ago. You do the maths.

BREAKING: David Cameron, the former foreign secretary, sat on advice from Foreign Office officials in Israel and London that there was CLEAR evidence of breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza. 👇🏽 theguardian.com/politics/artic…

The statement from David Lammy that there is clear risk certain military exports to Israel might be used in violations of International Humanitarian Law comes as no surprise - from our Palestinian partners to International Courts, this has been obvious for months (1/3)

The girl in the pink roller skates. The boy and his parakeet. The autistic boy who cried out, confused and scared. The mother crying over her son only to see her other’s son’s lifeless body arrive. The boy carrying around his sibling’s remains in plastic bags. A million stories.

Has the Foreign Secretary met any Palestinians who have escaped annihilation in Gaza yet? Seems like hearing their concerns should be paramount.

🧵1/ Echoing colleagues Chiara Capraro 🍉 , Heather Barr we must acknowledge that women's rights are under severe attack. Recent reports highlight a troubling stall—or even regression—in gender equality for over 1 billion women and girls. See this article 👇🏽theguardian.com/global-develop…

See here thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/202… where Will Worley covered the DEC meeting in August. Appeals can go ahead without broadcasters, as it did in 2009. But it begs the question how did the 15 INGOs vote?! x.com/rohantalbot/st…

A 13-year-old little girl, Bana Amjad Bakr, was killed by live Israeli fire in her chest on Friday evening during a settler attack on the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. The attack occurred under the protection of Israeli forces. More details: