340 weeks. Flowers are blooming all over the protest memorial. I like to think that Daphne would have enjoyed that - a protest in bloom. #DaphneCaruanaGalizia #occupyjustice 🍃

“I fail to imagine how you, as a representative of a German state institution, feel you are entitled to dictate to Jewish people what they are supposed to think or say about the crimes of the Israeli occupation.”
Jonas Staal
e-flux

Letter to the DAAD e-flux.com/notes/603681/l…

Mohamed El-Reefi, a Palestinian freelance photographer, died of injuries sustained on March 14 when he was hit by Israeli army gunfire while attempting to obtain flour in a humanitarian aid delivery southeast of Gaza City, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group

Great session at #ijf24 with Paul Caruana Galizia discussing his mother Dafne Caruana Galizia, her life, work and legacy.

'The government at the time was involved in an attempt to cover up her murder' - Paul Caruana Galizia speaking about his mother, journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who was assassinated in #Malta in 2017, at journalism festival #ijf24

“I began to feel that her murder had become bigger than her life”: Paul Caruana Galizia on what motivated him to start writing his superb book, ‘A Death in Malta,’ & why it includes so much rich detail about his mother as a mother, a woman, a human - not only as a journalist. #ijf24

NEW: my column this week is about the coming vibe shift, from Boomers vs Millennials to huge wealth inequality *between* Millennials.

Current discourse centres on how the average Millennial is worse-off than the average Boomer was, but the richest millennials are loaded 💸🚀

Unimaginable loss. Our world in 2023. Our world in 2024.

mohammed jad salem from @reuters photo wins World Press Photo of the Year.

It shows Inas Abu Maamar (36) cradling the body of her niece Saly (5) who was killed, along with her mother and sister, when an Israeli missile struck

“A Death in Malta examines the dark side of an island beloved by tourists, and explores how the globalisation of corruption has damaged a modern European country…It’s also a son’s tender tribute to his mother.” ⁦Lucy Popescu⁩ for the Camden New Journal camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/dead-r…

🛑 This is Ben-Gvir in his earlier days, leading mobs, instigating & attacking Arab neighbourhoods. Observe his cowardly acts closely. He is now Israel’s National Security Minister, still leading mob attacks in the West Bank & torturing Palestinian detainees in prisons. #Gaza

Good morning world,

It has been 6 years now that Saudi Arabia has imposed an arbitrary travel ban on my family. I wrote about it in the piece below 👇🏽

#LetThemFly #EndIlegalTravelBans

How is this still happening?

Huge thanks to the coalition, especially Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, for pushing the EU to adopt the anti-SLAPP Directive published today in the Official Journal of EU. It's a big step forward to have a legal tool to protect us journalists from abusive lawsuits eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…
#SLAPP

'Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality...'

― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

🇪🇺A historic moment!🎆
The #EU Anti-SLAPP Directive has been published in the Official Gazette.

Now all eyes are on Member States. which need to build on the foundation set by the Directive and draft effective and comprehensive national legislation.

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention urges western media outlets to abandon framing that actively shields Israel from responsibility for crimes against the people of #Palestine and to utilize framing that recognizes the binding nature of international law. We are concerned that the western media

This week journalism festival #ijf24 , in #Perugia 🇮🇹 & online:

Conspiracy to Commit Journalism: The Trial of #JimmyLai & Media Freedom in #HongKong

🗞️Thurs 18 April, 1400 CET
🗞️Sala dei Notari
🗞️Rebecca Vincent
🗞️Sebastien Lai
🗞️Samuel Chu 朱牧民
🗞️Matthew Caruana Galizia
🗞️Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC

339 weeks. Tomorrow it will be #78months since #DaphneCaruanaGalizia was killed. That's 6 1/2 years. And we still have no justice. Join us tomorrow in front of the protest memorial at 7.00 pm, for this month's Vigil. Raise your voice. Take a stand. #occupyjustice 🍃

Lord Ian Austen points out that Israel is capable of surgical strikes and would never indiscriminately rain down missiles or send drones against innocent civilians... apparently forgetting that Israel has done just this for six months in Gaza slaughtering 33,000 Palestinians

When I see German authorities follow the same playbook as in, say, Russia - deny entry to activists, raise frivolous concerns about fire safety to cancel events, turn off the lights, finally arrest activists etc - I feel the same as when it happened to colleagues in Russia: ⬇️