Nancy

London

[Alice McCool @McCoolingtons]

Hi! I'm looking for a social media manager/journalist to work with me on a regular, part-time gig. Graphic design skills + experience growing/engaging an online audience essential, bonus points if you've done to-camera work or are open to that. DM me! #journorequest #journojobs

[María E Sanchez @mariaesanchez]

This is a story about how a reported antisemitism row involving comedian @reginalddhunter unfolded. If you've only read mainstream media you'll have a partial view. The story unravelled on social media and we now have much-needed context. It began with this in The Telegraph

[Nancy @Neris_k]

@bec_bebop @aaliyahmburns @FreefromTorture I can vouch for Becky, she's a fantastic writer!

[Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot]

Months of wasting time, money, resources and column inches while people starve. Despicable.
https://t.co/QIoln7lcnL

[Nancy @Neris_k]

@mina_um_so Omg yes I was just thinking about that yesterday during the intense Tuesday downpour. What a film. Have you read the book? I did it all in one sitting.

[IWGB Charity Workers Branch @IWGBcharity]

Workers are @RASASC_London are excited to announce that they have submitted a request for voluntary recognition today!

Frontline workers are looking forward to collaborating with management and normalising industrial relations in the workplace ✊

[Nancy @Neris_k]

Do you even fucking dare click on this? Even I can barely read this. this is beyond anything comprehensible. this is hell

https://t.co/PqFfHwpAwf

[Isabelle Aron @IzzyAron]

Looking to speak to someone who takes ritalin but doesn't have ADHD, for a sensitive piece. DMs open, or email me: [email protected] #journorequest

[Nancy @Neris_k]

@FlissFreeborn i don't because im a freelancer and it's always literally fucking terrible

[Nancy @Neris_k]

fuck around and find out

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

HAHAHA
https://t.co/QlpCkCCrtL

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

UNRWA is separate from the UN’s main refugee agency, the UNHCR, and deals only with Palestinian refugees.

Although Israel does not want you to know it, the reason for there being two UN refugee agencies is because Israel and its western backers insisted on the division back in 1948.

Why? Because Israel was afraid of the Palestinians falling under the responsibility of the UNHCR’s forerunner, the International Refugee Organisation. The IRO was established in the immediate wake of the Second World War in large part to cope with the millions of European Jews fleeing Nazi atrocities.

Israel did not want the two cases treated as comparable, because it was pushing hard for Jewish refugees to be settled on lands from which it had just expelled Palestinians. Part of the IRO’s mission was to seek the repatriation of European Jews. Israel was worried that very principle might be used both to deny it the Jews it wanted to colonise Palestinian land and to force it to allow the Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes.

So in a real sense, UNRWA is Israel’s creature: it was set up to keep the Palestinians a case apart, an anomaly...

Israel’s efforts to get rid of UNRWA are not new. They date back many years. For a number of reasons, the UN refugee agency is a thorn in Israel’s side – and all the more so in Gaza.

Not least, it has provided a lifeline to Palestinians there, keeping them fed and cared for, and providing jobs to many thousands of local people in a place where unemployment rates are among the highest in the world.

It has invested in infrastructure like hospitals and schools that make life in Gaza more bearable, when Israel’s goal has long been to make the enclave uninhabitable.

UNRWA’s well-run schools, staffed by local Palestinians, teach the children their own history, about where their grandparents once lived, and of Israel’s campaign of dispossession and ethnic cleansing against them. That runs directly counter to the infamous Zionist slogan about the Palestinians’ identity-less future: “The old will die and the young forget.”

But UNRWA’s role is bigger than that. Uniquely, it is the sole agency unifying Palestinians wherever they live, even when they are separated by national borders and Israel’s fragmentation of the territory it controls.

UNRWA brings Palestinians together even when their own political leaders have been manipulated into endless factionalism by Israel’s divide and rule policies: Hamas is nominally in charge in Gaza, while Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah pretends to run the West Bank.

In addition, UNRWA keeps alive the moral case for a Palestinian right of return – a principle recognised in international law but long ago abandoned by western states.

Even before October 7, UNRWA had become an obstable that needed removing if Israel was ever to ethnically cleanse Gaza. That is why Israel has repeatedly lobbied to stop the biggest donors, especially the US, funding UNRWA.

Back in 2018, for example, the refugee agency was plunged into an existential crisis when President Donald Trump acquiesced to Israeli pressure and cut all its funding. Even after the decision was reversed, the agency has been limping along financially.

You can read more from my latest article In waging war on the UN refugee agency, the West is openly siding with Israeli genocide here:
https://t.co/31iUb2ZLUd

[Medical Aid for Palestinians @MedicalAidPal]

MAP and @RESCUEorg can confirm further details of a near-fatal airstrike by the Israeli military on a compound housing our EMT and members of MAP’s local team and their family members in Al Mawasi – the alleged ‘safe zone’ – in Gaza on 18 January. (2/5)

[Nancy @Neris_k]

Ultimate "writing a very stressful thing" background noise this https://t.co/fsKm8b5xay

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

The same George Freeman who voted against free school meals.

[Nancy @Neris_k]

What is with the trend of characters in novels I've read lately getting pregnant and then their partner IMMEDIATELY dying? The "something to remember me by" trope is getting so overused, ugh. Let women be pregnant and happy you bastards.

[Medical Aid for Palestinians @MedicalAidPal]

Israel’s attacks have left Gaza’s health system on the brink of collapse. Now, Israel has issued evacuation orders for three more hospitals.

This could be a death sentence for the patients inside.

Time is running out. We must #SaveGazaHospitals https://t.co/aP1S73WmsU

[Mina(aaaah!) @mina_um_so]

Already missing the traitors GC bantz 😢

[Nancy @Neris_k]

@mina_um_so 😂 See you all next year?! Glad to have my traitors crew x

[Nancy @Neris_k]

@JMECullum HUE i just read this and nearly had a panic attack

[Nancy @Neris_k]

@mina_um_so Surprised it's up for any kind of oscar wtf