Islington Council in London has announced its commitment to divest from companies involved in illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank following months of local campaigning. The council pledged last week to divest £2.6 million ($3.35 million) from its pension fund,

THREAD: I’ve been making the argument that the ongoing negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire are a diversionary US-Israeli charade and shouldn’t be taken particularly seriously. Initially, their primary purpose was to serve as a fig leaf for Israel to continue with its genocidal

On this day in 1982, anti-apartheid leader Ruth First was killed when a parcel bomb sent by South African police exploded in her office. Her comrade Ronnie Kasrils remembers her revolutionary life. tribunemag.co.uk/2020/09/rememb…

Gaza is covered in 42 million tonnes of rubble. The enduring human, environmental, and economic consequences of the immense toxic detritus of genocide—towering piles of debris that also bury an estimated 10,000 dead—are just staggering bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

WE DIDI IT! In a major BDS win for human rights activists against financial institutions complicit in Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler colonialism, apartheid and now genocide, French multinational insurer AXA was forced to sell its investments in all major Israeli banks.

🚨 NEW: UK Ministers and civil servants could be held liable for Israeli war crimes 🚨 Leading barrister Sam Fowles - commissioned by us - reveals UK officials may face legal consequences for their ongoing support of Israel. He found…(🧵) inews.co.uk/news/world/uk-…

What would you call it if a mob of violent racists attempted to burn down 2 hotels for asylum-seekers...and then a week later you, the government, make a policy announcement that basically says "You are so right! Get rid of these asylum-seekers"? Would you call that incitement?

X removed the video of a lifeless boy with a hollowed-out skull.

URGENT! 🚨 FIFA council could vote in the next 48h whether to ban Israel from international football over its crimes in Palestine and violations of FIFA rules. It seems like FIFA is aiming for the this meeting to go unnoticed. Here’s what we can do to keep pushing them👇🏼🧵

URGENT CALL TO ACTION - FIFA vote expected in the next 48 hours 🚨 Use this template to tell FIFA Council to sanction Israel now! actionnetwork.org/letters/red-ca… #redcardisrael

Our message to the British Government and a crowd of 25,000 at Reading Festival just now. 🇵🇸

Moroccan-Dutch footballer tweeted "From the river to the Sea, Palestine will be free" in the early stages of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. His club fired him for the tweet. He sued for wrongful termination and won. Now he donates a large sum from the settlement for Gaza. 👇👇

Macklemore has released his statement! Thank you Macklemore

1.8 million Palestinians are now confined to an area that is just 11% of the Gaza Strip. This has effectively become a death camp.

THREAD: JamieSW has dug up this excerpt from the memoirs of Lt Gen E.L.M. Burns. Burns (1897-1985) was a Canadian military officer who served in both world wars, and was in 1954 appointed Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), the UN

Like clockwork, western media outlets try to legitimise & whitewash Israel’s aggression on Lebanon. “to prevent” “pre-emptive” “self defence” all are manipulation & narrative control terms

Take Two: I revisted the Palestine Poster Project Archives. Put together by Dan Walsh while undertaking a Masters degree, the archive continues to grow.

7/ Things to remember: 1. This is still all about us. The shared illusion is that we are within our rights to continue the slaughter in Gaza and in the West Bank. 2. Regardless, many of us previously full of righteous indignation are now full of fear. --->

I don't know if I will ever be able to properly articulate what it feels like to read the names of your family's martyrs off of an itemized excel sheet.

Correspondent from the Economist really making explicit the classed and racialized hierarchy of human disposability here. Can we really mourn dead children if they allowed themselves to be so proximate to such antiquated technology?