"This is not a story. This is history. We can't afford to look away."
Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania tells me why it's essential people watch her heart-shattering film, 'The Voice of Hind Rajab', featuring the real voice of five-year-old Hind, who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
"Bear witness, and if it's really hard, do something about it."
Today also marks the Red Ribbon Campaign for the release of over 10,000 Palestinian hostages who are are being systematically subjected to starvation, torture, rape, medical neglect and murder.
Please talk about them.
Demand their freedom.
#FreePalHostages
@IDS_Falkirk2@TheGreenParty@ZackPolanski No it doesn't. We are a market of 70 million people - the billions individuals/corportions make from UK sales/investments should be taxed fairly not squirreled into off-shore tax havens because they deploy tax evading or avoiding strategies.
Secret British document from 1953—five years after Israel was created—lays out clearly how the European settler colony was set up as the strategic outpost of the Anglo-American empire in Middle East.
🚨 "The defence of the Middle East will require facilities in Israel in peace and war."
🚨 "We hope Israel's armed forces could be developed and used in such a way as to meet the needs of Allied strategy for the whole Middle East area."
🚨 "The Israel Government are in no position to insist on their own point of view where that differs from the plans and wishes of the Western Powers, upon whom Israel is dependent financially and economically."
🚨 "Israel must give the Allies the facilities they require for the defence of the Middle East."
🚨 "Israel must make available [military] formations for employment outside Israel according to plans for the defence of the Middle East."
🚨 "In return, Western Powers will examine sympathetically Israel's requests for the arms and equipment necessary to enable her to play her correct role."
🚨 "Western help should be concentrated mainly on the building up of Israel's airforce."
Please watch and share this inspiring beautiful short video highlighting the courage, resilience, determination and creativity of Gazan students and academics.
@BalfourProject @PSCupdates@UUKIntl#highereducation#Gaza#Palestine
📚Despite the devastation, students & academics in Gaza are finding ways to keep education alive. Watch their powerful accounts of resilience and hope on this #InternationalEducationDay.
🎥Watch the full film: https://t.co/CQdWenwlZ5
📚 Join us for a screening and a panel at Survival through Education: Stories of Resilience from Palestinian Universities, a webinar in our EOL series, in collaboration with @ucu
📅Tuesday, 28 January
⏲️17:00 to 18:00 GMT
📍Online
Register now: https://t.co/NhsfTzuqpG
Thousands have overwhelmed the streets in Istanbul, Turkiye, on the first day of the new year 2025 in solidarity with the Palestinian people amidst the ongoing Israeli genocide.
When I look back on 2024, everything is subsumed by the shame and grief over being part of a society that facilitated Israel’s mass murder and ceaseless terror of Palestinians. There are many horrors around the world, but the Gaza genocide could have been prevented with a single phone call from Biden to Netanyahu.
Instead the Biden admin, with the support of the political and media establishment in the “rules-based” Western order, facilitated and whitewashed Israel’s barbarism.
The normalized genocide of innocents trapped in a besieged death camp for every day of 2024 is one of the worst crimes in human history.
BREAKING: 25 patients and 60 staff remains in the burning hospital. The IOF say ‘the hospital will be empty by the end of the day’ - planning to force all to the non-operative Indonesian Hospital. STOP IT!
Dr. Mads
Where is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya? Where is his staff? What have we done with this paragon of humanity? Keep asking. Keep his name trending. Sometimes a horror can be distilled into one face, one name. Write Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's name. Demand his life and the life of his staff.