“We love life if we find a way to it”, this over-quoted poem of Mahmoud Darwich remains oh so relevant

Breaking: Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed the village of Duma, east of the city of Nablus, and attacked the properties of Palestinian farmers.

Dehumanization of the Other - in all its manifestations - is what makes the crime of genocide possible. Yesterday, and today.

Happy Birthday to Ethel Kennedy. Ethel is a long time supporter of the Farm Workers Movement, from visiting Cesar Chavez in the Salinas jail in 1970 to helping him end his fast over pesticides in Delano in 1988.

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🚨 BU ResLife workers are ON STRIKE! Lillian and Jasmine are kicking us off at today’s rally. ResLife workers united for a strong contract!

Thank you Juan for this video of the Oxnard area radish harvest. Radishes take 3-4 weeks from seed to harvest, longer in cooler temperatures. Hand harvested radishes are a labor intensive crop. #WeFeedYou

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Orientalism still shapes how the Middle East is seen in the West, I “correct” headlines to challenge those narratives. You can’t blame people for not knowing the truth when the institutions responsible for telling it, mislead them.

Thanks to Noureldein Ghanem
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Since 7 October 2023, the #Jordanian authorities have arrested at least 1,500 people, including about 500 detained since March following huge protests outside the #Israeli Embassy in #Amman . amn.st/6017wYhqN

Das ECCHR hat mit Unterstützung von Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - PCHR, Al-Mezan الميزان und Al-Haq الحق Klage gegen die deutschen Waffenexporte nach Israel eingereicht. Deutschland verletzt mit den erteilten Exportgenehmigungen Völkerrecht und muss diese zurücknehmen. 👉 ecchr.eu/pressemitteilu…

“All five of my children were killed when Israel fired on the refugee camp where we were staying after fleeing from the north,” one of the plaintiffs said. “Germany must stop sending weapons that fuel this war.”

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An oral hearing for dismissal reversal regarding the case between Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)/Al-Haq الحق v UK Govt (Secretary of State for Business and Trade) in respect of the government’s decision to grant arms exporting licenses to Israel will take place Tuesday 23rd April at the High Court.

‘Tomorrow is a Palestinian Day’:

Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah’s Rectorial Address given at @uoglasgow yesterday.

Today the violence of the German state prevented him from entering Germany to speak at #PalaestinaKongress progressive.international/wire/2024-04-1…

🚨 Threatening people sleeping rough with fines & prison will marginalise people facing homelessness.

That’s why, along with 36 other organisations, we've written to @jamescleverly urging him to reconsider unjust proposals in the #CriminalJusticeBill

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More than 250 humanitarian and human rights organisations call to stop arms transfers to Israel and Palestinian armed groups.
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We're marking Arab American Heritage Month with a special gift to those who support exiled Gazan poet Yahya Ashour | يحيى عاشور in evacuating his family from Gaza. When you buy his e-book, 'A Gaza of Siege & Genocide,' you get a free one-year subscription to Mizna.

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Pls support these writers, who are giving up a chance to win a significant prize in order to support the 🇵🇸 people.

I am deeply moved & inspired by their solidarity.

Buy their 📚, follow them, share their posts, tell your libraries to buy their 📚.

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I don't think people in the West understand how enraged and devastated the Global South is over Palestine. This is personal. On every level.

“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.”
Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a British-Palestinian doctor known for working as a war surgeon in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, South Lebanon, and during the five wars in the Gaza Strip, has become the rector at the University of Glasgow.