Felt like I should do something useful other than doomscroll so I've made another Palestinian solidarity poster, this time for this Saturday's Palestine Solidarity Campaign & Stop the War march. Please feel free to share it if you like and an a4 copy can be downloaded here: dropbox.com/scl/fi/5uyzgrs…

Macklemore easily outflanking countless progressive politicians is crazy

An incredible resource exploring Black lives, activism and resistance in Manchester from the 1700s to the present day. Many of these marginalised histories can also be found in our library and archive collections- see below for more information.

Today the London Review of Books is publishing my piece about the history of the Israeli settlements around the Gaza Strip. It is an effort to think through the historical context of current events. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

Westminster Bridge. In our millions

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Although this story is worrying, please do not allow it to put you off discussing Palestine in schools with students. *Our young people need to know more, and need to know we care*. The NEU guidance on this can be helpful for colleagues. actionnetwork.org/user_files/use…

Received the Corridor8 substack in my inbox the other day and was glad to be signposted to this piece by Lawrence Dunn on the Mcr show 'Free Your Mind': corridor8.co.uk/article/free-y… For the latest updates on art up North sign up to their substack here! corridor8.substack.com 🫶

"PEN International condemns the arrest of writer & prominent Palestinian activist #AhedTamimi [... &] urges the Israeli authorities to disclose Tamimi's whereabouts, to release her immediately & unconditionally, & end their use of arbitrary detention of Palestinians."

Reminder that your boycotting and calling out politicians is working because just days ago, the same Macron was trying to ban pro-Palestine protests across the country

Thread 🧵 Congo 🇨🇩: What are the causes of the ongoing conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo today, and how did it begin? Where has it reached, and how far has its impact been in fueling a regional conflict in the Great Lakes region of Africa? What role do

Literary Palestine: Mohamed-Salah Omri, Professor of modern Arabic literature at the University of Oxford, will lead and coordinate a series of participative seminars to read and discuss Palestine through its literatures mohamedsalahomri.com/literary-pales…

If you do one thing today make it this: email your MP and let them know that you will NOT be voting for them ever again if they do not vote for the ceasefire motion tomorrow. palestinecampaign.eaction.online/ceasefire

This winter, I'm offering a 6-week online evening course in Writing Creatively About Art. You'll get to use art as inspiration for life writing, translate art into creative writing, write creative art criticism, & more, alongside manageable set weekly reading. [Plum Cloutman]

After Literary Hub 's beautiful list of books here's a list of Palestinian films to watch: afikra.com/blog/palestini…

Comma editor Basma Ghalayini joins Novara Media's Eleanor Penny to discuss '#Palestine + 100' - 12 short SF stories set a century after the #Nakba Available wherever you get your #podcasts🔗👇

+100,000 e-SIMS from #ConnectingGaza

MONTH TODAY! We’ll be at the Fly on the Wall Press Northern Publishers’ Fair at Manchester Libraries Central Library on Saturday 27 April 11am to 3.30pm. Come and say hello!