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Arifa

@Arifa_Akbar

Chief theatre critic at The Guardian / Author of 'Consumed' (Sceptre)

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linkhttps://www.theguardian.com/profile/arifa-akbar calendar_today19-05-2009 13:41:32

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Omar Baddar عمر بدّار(@OmarBaddar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's strange to be Israel: You violate a mountain of UN resolutions, condemn the UN at every turn, bomb UN schools & shelters, murder UN employees, & then you demand a UN meeting over another country responding to your bombing of their consulate 🤯

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Arifa(@Arifa_Akbar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Muslims shouldn't actually need to be flagging up the fact they are not all terrorists, in fact, that they are the victims of terror too... But here it is for those bigots who insist otherwise

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Natasha Walter(@Natasha_Walter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I wrote for The Observer on how the government is brutally repressing protest.
But if they don’t engage with the causes, protest will not disappear. We can still watch the news, see the floods, the melting glaciers...
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Priyamvada Gopal ©(@PriyamvadaGopal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While we're looking at Gaza--or at least some of us are--Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Is this also 'Israel's right to defend itself?'

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Charlie Herbert(@Charlie533080) 's Twitter Profile Photo

No one in their right mind thinks 7 October was anything but abhorrent.

But the IDF’s response over the past six months has been the most inappropriate and strategically flawed use of military force since we invaded Iraq in 2003.

And that is some bar to reach.

No one in their right mind thinks 7 October was anything but abhorrent. But the IDF’s response over the past six months has been the most inappropriate and strategically flawed use of military force since we invaded Iraq in 2003. And that is some bar to reach.
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Shakespeare’s Globe(@The_Globe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'There is not one Juliet. There never has been'

Dr Sophie Duncan (Dr Sophie Duncan) author of Searching For Juliet, gives us the history of Juliet.

THREAD 🧵

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Arifa(@Arifa_Akbar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I read an early draft of Ellie Keel's debut novel a while ago and loved it. Now they're calling it 'The Secret History for millennials!' Congratulations Ellie on a brilliant book launch, complete with fabulous stationery! Highly recommended reading

I read an early draft of @elliekeel1's debut novel a while ago and loved it. Now they're calling it 'The Secret History for millennials!' Congratulations Ellie on a brilliant book launch, complete with fabulous stationery! Highly recommended reading #thefour #stationeryaddict
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William Dalrymple(@DalrympleWill) 's Twitter Profile Photo

‘A new abyss’ the brilliant Rashid Khalidi on
Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine

While much has changed since 7 October, the horrific events of the past six months are not unique, and do not stand outside history

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

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PSC(@PSCupdates) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 HELP STEWARD OUR LONDON MARCH THIS SATURDAY 🇵🇸

We need volunteers to help steward our London march for Palestine on Saturday 13 April.

FILL OUT THE FORM TO SIGN UP: palestinecampaign.org/stewarding-sig…

🚨 HELP STEWARD OUR LONDON MARCH THIS SATURDAY 🇵🇸 We need volunteers to help steward our London march for Palestine on Saturday 13 April. FILL OUT THE FORM TO SIGN UP: palestinecampaign.org/stewarding-sig…
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Charlie Herbert(@Charlie533080) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'I think it's inconceivable that the IDF wasn't aware that the three vehicles were being driven by the WCK aid workers,' said Charlie Herbert, a former major general in the British Army who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Moment of clarity by The Telegraph

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

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Arifa(@Arifa_Akbar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Opening Night was always a risk and, while the production may not have had the life we had hoped for, we feel immensely proud of the risk we took' says Wessex Grove. They should, and I do hope producers will keep taking risks at the West End!
theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar…

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Natasha Walter(@Natasha_Walter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Glad to be among those signing this letter in support of Jonathan Glazer. To honour the past we must resist dehumanisation in the present.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt(@FranceskAlbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Honored to be speaking at the European Parliament today, and present my 'Anatomy of a Genocide' report. Grateful to both hosts and guests.

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Arifa(@Arifa_Akbar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

, tracing the British Asian race history that so many of us lived through, in on right now Channel 4 & is unflinching, necessary television. So many dismaying echoes to mainstream anti-immigrant rhetoric today

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Islamophobia dressed as antisemitism... what is happening to Britain? Why are Muslims and Jews being so erroneously pitted against each other? It's ludicrous

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