Jack Shenker

Journalist and other things, based in London and Cairo

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Al Jazeera has published the names of every journalist killed since Oct 7th.

231 Palestinian journalists have been slaughtered in Gaza. A whole generation of reporters wiped out while many of their colleagues in the West simply shrugged.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

In the absence of any spine in taking on Israeli Gaza atrocities in most of our media, it is left to @PrivateEyeNews to reveal this sort of information that would once have received in depth coverage @BBCPanorama & Sunday Times Insight. Even now when the true scale of the Gaza Genocide is becoming widely recognised, @BBCNews and most newspapers shamefully recycle IDF propaganda without fact checking or critical investigation.

[Jack Shenker @hackneylad]

@NickBano @LRB Lovely to see this shout-out by @ACORNunion who feature heavily in the LRB piece

Acorn is one of the most interesting, inspiring and dynamic grassroots political movements in the UK today - exposing power imbalances in our communities, and fighting back https://t.co/w9xNSm4KYh

[Jack Shenker @hackneylad]

There are almost three million landlords in the UK - more than all of the NHS staff, care workers, and teachers combined. Landlordism is our national industry, and it is long overdue a reckoning.

My review of @NickBano's 'Against Landlords', for the @LRB https://t.co/FSlBz1D6NL

[Jacobin @jacobin]

To kick off International Workers' Day, here's a thread of #MayDay posters from around the world.

Let's start with a 1973 May Day poster from Czech artist František Kopenec.

[pokey pup @Whatapityonyou]

Italy isn’t messing around

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

In 2020, there was one person worth over $100 billion. Today at the end of Biden's term there are 16 of them.

[Na'amod @NaamodUK]

We are deeply relieved to hear the news that a ceasefire and hostage deal has been reached.

We have watched with horror on our phones and our televisions as the destruction in Gaza unfolded for 16 months.

[Jack Shenker @hackneylad]

Today is Laila Soueif's 100th day on hunger strike. We have no idea how much longer she can survive

Her son Alaa remains behind bars in Egypt, having already served out his unjust sentence, despite @DavidLammy's promise to do everything he can to bring him home @FreedomForAlaa

[Free Alaa @FreedomForAlaa]

The great Brian Cox has a Christmas message to @Keir_Starmer about "the brilliant, courageous and inspiring writer," Alaa Abd el-Fattah.

'It’s time to make the call, Prime Minister. Pick up the phone and bring Alaa home for Christmas."

#FreeAlaa

[Jack Shenker @hackneylad]

Naming Israel’s genocide goes beyond the fight to save Palestinian lives

It’s about the shape of the moral universe we inhabit, and whether rights are bestowed by humanity or by those who have taken it upon themselves to decide who is human -@NesrineMalik https://t.co/j7Qc1OLo2v

[Free Alaa @FreedomForAlaa]

A beautiful vigil tonight for Alaa outside 10 Downing Street. Thank you to all the people that came out to support Alaa’s mother Laila on her 81st day of hunger strike and to call on @Keir_Starmer to Bring Alaa Home

#FreeAlaa

[Free Alaa @FreedomForAlaa]

Laila just popped by @DavidLammy’s Christmas drinks this evening to pass on the message that all we want for Christmas is a #FreeAlaa

Having lost over 22kg, Laila’s body is now entering a dangerous new stage. Her life and Alaa's future are in David Lammy's hands.

[NUJ @NUJofficial]

Guardian & Observer journalists are striking today to help #SaveTheObserver. Please repost to show solidarity. More info here: https://t.co/NsB6m4UBnk https://t.co/6wuI6CPFqN

[Jack Shenker @hackneylad]

@DavidLammy @FCDOGovUK Every day that Alaa continues to rot behind bars - and that his mother continues her desperate hunger strike - is another day that @DavidLammy will be held accountable for. Read @asoueif's moving account of what those days look like: https://t.co/Qm4j4nZBOW

[Jack Shenker @hackneylad]

The ongoing plight of Alaa Abd el-Fattah - a British-Egyptian father, human rights activist, and political prisoner in Sisi's jails - is now not just a diplomatic embarrassment for the UK, but a matter of self-respect and personal integrity for @DavidLammy https://t.co/UVqK8hoI46

[Jack Shenker @hackneylad]

Trite repetitions of promises to 'raise this issue with the Egyptian authorities' won't cut it any more. @DavidLammy prominently campaigned for Alaa's freedom while in opposition and accused @FCDOGovUK of not using its leverage to make that happen. Now he runs the Foreign Office.

[Campaign Against Arms Trade @CAATuk]

We call on the UK government to halt the issuing of arms licences to Egypt until British national, pro-democracy activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah is released by the Egyptian authorities. @fairsqprojects https://t.co/MCr0YhkDt8

[Jack Shenker @hackneylad]

Private developers can build as many blocks of unaffordable flats as they like - it won't solve the housing crisis, whatever this government claims

Now renters across the UK are fighting back and demanding real housing justice - find out more @LDNRentersUnion #RentControlsNow