Mette Anwar-Westander

Sibling, partner, #CognitiveNeuroscience nerd. Founder of @changedisabled. Currently working on making UK Higher Education accessible.

[Oxfam News Team @oxfamgbpress]

REACTION: Israel's ban of UNRWA

In full here: https://t.co/djG725iewX

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

“This ongoing genocide is doubtlessly the consequence of the exceptional status and protracted impunity that has been afforded to Israel.”

This is the truth that personal attacks against @franceskalbs are designed to suppress.

[Norway MFA @NorwayMFA]

Joint statement by Ireland, Norway, Slovenia and Spain condemning Knesset legislation targeting @UNRWA

➡️ https://t.co/Rpv3qOKyu8

[UN Palestine Committee @UNISPAL]

The 🇺🇳 Special Rapporteur on Right to Food @MichaelFakhri “This is an attempt to use starvation to displace, kill, annihilate people as an attempt to erase Palestinians from history & their land in order for Israel to fully annex Palestinian territory.”
https://t.co/h4IKURvHw5

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

We denounce in the strongest possible terms the killing of our colleague, Hasan Suboh, on October 24 at night during Israeli military operations in Khan Younis, South Gaza.

According to the Ministry of Health, at least 33 people, including 14 children, were killed in this attack. Hasan joined MSF in 2019 as a skilled laborer, and was married with seven children.

He was 41 years old.

Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones, and with our colleagues in Gaza. He is our eighth colleague killed in Gaza since October 2023 – and the second in two weeks. Through its war on Gaza, Israel continues to show a fundamental disregard for civilian lives.

This must stop now.

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

We repeat. Nowhere is safe in Gaza.

Children need a ceasefire NOW.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

At least four Palestinians have been killed and several were injured in an Israeli air attack on tents housing forcibly displaced people in the yard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza's Deir el-Balah.

[Sara Rey @SaraReyi]

I love this woman.
How brave she is, she doesn't fear anything or anyone.

[MSF International @MSF]

The scale and intensity of Israel's four-day incursion in Jenin is very alarming. Israeli forces keep obstructing access to health facilities blocking and even targeting ambulances, delaying people’s access to care.

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

The community in Liverpool formed a human shield to protect the Abdullah Quilliam Mosque from far right rioters, chanting:

“This is what community looks like!”

♥️♥️♥️

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Now’s the time to please check in on your Black, Brown and minority friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.

In many parts of the country, they don’t feel safe. A thread:

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Muslims and migrants have been demonised by the press and politicians for decades.

This racist, far-right violence is the culmination of that.

[Nazmul Ahasan @the_nazmul]

A day after euphoria-driven mayhem, Bangladeshi youth cleaned up around the national parliament, other major buildings and even helped manage traffic in the absence of police. Reflects the enormous confidence and hope in what they’ve just achieved.

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

Army authorities have released the young lawter Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem, also known as Armaan, after 8 years of secret detention. He was picked up by Awami League government authorities in August 2016 from his home, in front of his family and since then his whereabouts has been unknown, with the Awami League government denying any knowledge of his detention. He was one of the many disappeared.

Mir Ahmed is the son of Mir Quassem Ali, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader who was convicted and executed by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal for crimes committed during the 1971 war. For years, Awami League authorities denied that they had picked him up and denied that they had secretly detained anyone.

He was picked up within days of the detention of both Hummam Quader Chowdhury, the son of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury (also convicted and executed by the ICT) and Abdullahil Amaan Azmi (the son of Ghulam Azam, Jammat's 1971 leader, who was convicted by the ICT and died in jail). Humman was released after about 8 months in secret detention.

Although social media is reporting that Azmi has also been released, his family as yet have not heard from him at the time of writing.

Below are two picture of Mir Ahmed since being released.

[Mette Anwar-Westander @MetteWestander]

It's irresponsible for mainstream media to deny the islamophobia and racism on display. In 8 years as a white immigrant in the UK I have never faced hostility. That's because the "immigration debate" is deeply rooted in belief in supremacy of white people, religion and cultures.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The media and political class is complicit in the far right, racist and Islamophobic violence we’re seeing across our country.

This morning, I experienced the visceral denial of this reality.

[UK for UNHCR @UNRefugeesUK]

A statement from UNHCR and UK for UNHCR.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

The racist violence we are now seeing on the streets in the UK has been preceded by an intense period of scapegoating refugees and migrants by UK politicians and others – in dangerous rhetoric and policy.

This is unacceptable 👇
https://t.co/pSxPF8fuAh

[Jim Scott @jimscottjourno]

Zaf is a taxi driver. He’s born and bred Sunderland

He broke down when he described the hate he’d received

This was seconds before racial slurs were thrown, telling him to “go back to his own country”

A short clip. Hard, but important, so please watch

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

In a landmark ruling, South Korea’s Supreme Court recently affirmed that the country’s National Health Insurance Service must extend dependent benefits to same-sex partners!

Learn more about the decision ⤵️
https://t.co/fri6O7YLFL

[Féile an Phobail @FeileBelfast]

🇵🇸 “It is the greatest shame of the Labour Party in my lifetime their attitude toward what is going on in Gaza.”

Trade Union leader Mick Lynch speaking at the Féile 2024 James Connolly Lecture in West Belfast 👏🏻

#FreePalestine #Palestine #Feile2024 #Feile24