Not for the first time Nigel Farage has played the media like a fiddle. It is the one thing he is very good at. But now that he has played his latest tune, they - and especially in this case the broadcast media - need to think long and hard about the role they have played in all

In #Sudan , extreme hunger is unfolding.

Millions of people are at imminent risk of famine, displaced, cut off from support.

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) is calling for unimpeded humanitarian access to the people of Sudan 👇
interagencystandingcommittee.org/inter-agency-s…

Dozens of Palestinians have been killed overnight in ongoing Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling of the central Gaza Strip.

In Rafah, the bombardments continue, while Israeli drones are opening fire towards individuals in the north of Rafah.

Millions of people could die of hunger because of #Sudan ’s devastating war. So what’s it like struggling to find food every day, as prices rise? Some cannot eat every day. Listen to a new audio diary from Ahmed here (after 32’45) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1… #KeepEyesOnSudan

Join us for the 155th Commencement Exercises at the American University of Beirut! 🎓

Awarding of Honorary Doctorates and Graduate Degrees:
Friday, June 7, 2024, at 7:30 PM on the Green Field

Awarding of Undergraduate Degrees:
Saturday, June 8, 2024, at 7:30 PM on the Green

For the names
The ones chosen with care
Bestowed through generations
Lasting through the disasters
Living until now
Remembered on timelines
That are overflowing with blood
and the pieces of the tiny ones
who once bore these names

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They are how families in Gaza identified the decomposed bodies and torn remains of their loved ones.

“Where is Palestine’s Gandhi?”

*upends the very foundations of academic scholarship, values and rigor to stop any peaceful and intellectual inquiry into Israeli injustice*

“Why are they so violent? Why don’t they use peaceful means to educate and inform as a path to real

In November, human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah was set to be the first Palestinian published in the Harvard Law Review. Then his essay was killed.
Today, he became the first in the Columbia Law Review.
Then the Board of Directors took the whole site down.theintercept.com/2024/06/03/col…

For those who fled Netanyahu's 'limited operation' in Rafah -- now one million people -- 'even finding a place to pitch a tent is hard.' 'Some are moving into the ruins of the homes they once lived in, or sleeping on the beach.' nytimes.com/live/2024/06/0…

After 2 yrs, the New Lines Institute is proud to publish the most definitive, exhaustive and groundbreaking report on the 'Genocide in Tigray' with contributions from over dozen top legal experts. #TigrayReport #GenocideConventionis

newlinesinstitute.org/rules-based-in…

Incredibly important letter from our colleagues in Gaza

“We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again” ✊🇵🇸

“We’ve been sold this lie, that Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom are at odds with each other.”

After resigning from the Biden administration, Lily Greenberg Call speaks of a “shifting” narrative within Jewish communities in the US.

Full interview➡️​ youtu.be/y-Vwkpl6lvM

A cap on family immigration is a really, really bad idea. British citizens would have to wait years to live with their spouses and children and the waiting list would grow longer every year unless the cap was higher than applications.

Now free to read, and very much worth a moment of your time.

Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ on UK university support structures, and why they are inadequate for academics working with Gaza.

In full: researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…

Palestine is officially intervening in the South Africa vs. Israel Genocide case. It’s doing so as a State party to the Genocide Convention and as a party with direct interest in the matter.

As I was reporting in Al Aqsa Hospital, I suddenly found my aunt.
She was on the floor because there are no beds - there were no doctors to follow up with her.

The hospital is overwhelmed with patients and injuries.

All we need is our basic right of receiving health

UN independent human rights experts urge all countries to recognize the State of Palestine, and use all political and diplomatic resources at their disposal to bring about an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Read more ⤵️
news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

'Ukraine recognizes two states, both Israel and Palestine, and will do everything it can to convince Israel to stop, to end this conflict and prevent the suffering of civilians.'

Did not see that coming, honestly.

Good for Zelensky.

New Knesset bill proposing to fire academics critical of Israel while imposing sanctions on institutions which don’t apply the punitive measure. The bill would translate into law the trend of firings/suspensions Israeli universities have already intensified on their own since Oct