Letter to VC from 3 university unions regarding safety of students in the encampment, now shared on our website and below.

Solidarity with the students and our colleagues working in security LeedsUniUnison University of Leeds Unite

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Why is divestment considered 'political' but investment isn't?

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Israeli soldiers set fire Aqsa University [AqsaUniversity]’s library in Gaza City and took pictures of themselves in front of the flames.

Please pray for my sister Hind tonight who is trapped in Jabalia Camp as the Israelis have advanced deeper near her block. She can't leave with her 5 young kids including a 3 week old baby

So looks like on July 4th the country has the choice between the genocide supporting blue team and the genocide supporting red team. Democracy is great.

BREAKING🚨 Netanyahu has started a massive offensive in Jenin in the occupied West Bank…

Netanyahu has sent in more than 1500 IDF soldiers with tanks and heavy machinery…

Settlers have been burning Palestinian homes, some with children still inside…🇵🇸💔

The experiences of FE students are not always centred enough in debates about #earningwhilstlearning . This article suggests that mental health issues are a growing reason for absence, as is paid work. feweek.co.uk/poor-mental-he… 1/2

This morning Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were going to school and work & eyewitnesses report that Israeli forces started shooting at them indiscriminately. A teacher, a surgeon & 2 children were all killed.

Nida' Ibrahim reporting

BREAKING: Israeli occupation soldiers kill a school boy in Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank.

Less than 24 hours since the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, he has sent in bulldozers to destroy the roads in Jenin in the occupied West Bank…🇵🇸💔

This is not a detainment camp in World War II, nor a prison in the Holocaust, this is Gaza in 2024. A chilling reminder that history repeats.

A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent.

Jabalia Refugee Camp is burning! For 8 days now, Israel has been raining unprecedented terror nonstop, massacring innocent refugees, setting homes and building on fire and flattening every means of survival! It's not a war. It's a genocide. They want the land without its people!

Lots of people asking why I have not been readmitted to the Labour Party, especially after Natalie Elphicke has been admitted.
Truth is, despite all the claims made about process, these are decisions made by Keir Starmer.

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My statement on the Hay-on-Wye literary festival👇🏾

little known fact that there are actually 72 gender identities. in this thread, I will list them all 🧵:

Belgium's Ghent University decides to cut ties with 3 Israeli research centers that cooperate with the Israeli military in the production of weapons.

The decision comes following 10 days of protests by students.

BREAKING: UAW workers at UC campuses have voted yes to authorize a strike. They said they are standing with the students and workers that were recently attacked at the Gaza solidarity encampments.

It’s been 76 years.

It started on May the 15, 1948.
NOT October 7th.

“With their refusal to acknowledge and stand up against a settler-colonialist state engaging in an apartheid system and ethnic cleansing, white mainstream feminists in the West have failed the very definition of feminism” by ⁦Yousra Samir Imran⁩ newarab.com/features/deafe…

Why are so many feminist scholars silent about what is happening in Gaza?