It's World Press Freedom Day. And nobody deserves our respect, solidarity and admiration today more than the brave and determined journalists of Gaza. We would be blind without them and they are the best of us.

Labour’s strong performance so far checked by voters in some areas appearing to withhold support over its stance on Gaza

Curtice: ‘Labour support is down by eight points since last year in wards where more than 10% of people identify as Muslim’

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Good morning, here’s one for the long weekend: Manchester is one of the fastest-growing tech hubs in Europe, but it has a long way to go to catch up with London despite the government’s levelling up policies bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg

A precision guided missile on a group of children playing foosball.

The courage and work by student journalists at Columbia uni is recognised by the board of one of America’s top journalism awards on the eve of #WorldPressFreedomDay Courtesy Azmat Khan

At UCLA, pro-Israel counterprotesters broadcast loud sounds — an eagle screeching, a child crying — and blasted a Hebrew rendition of “Baby Shark” on repeat, late at night, so campers couldn’t sleep. They sprayed bear mace and shouted, “Second Nakba!”latimes.com/california/sto…

The crux :’It would be far more worrying if the young were indifferent to the deaths of thousands of children, some of them at the hands of US-supplied munitions’ Ta Kim Ghattas ft.com/content/198902… via @ft

So it turns out a press card is not an acceptable form of photo ID to vote in this country

'As she tried to break free, Hamilton said she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute.'

embarrassed to work in an industry where we put this much pressure on student journalists because the people leading mainstream coverage can’t distinguish between news and propaganda

you’d think the NYT’s finance columnist would know that’s already the reality for students of colour, especially Muslim and Arab students, who’ve been smeared by Canary Mission

Next week, Columbia University, which has banned reporters from its campus, is scheduled to announce this year’s winners of one of the most prestigious prizes in journalism.

you also see the police move like this in the Occupied Palestinian Territories