MareileP

writer and translator. books: #WorkWantWork (Zed Books) with J. A. Smith; on the way: Travel Humanism in C17 Literature (MUP)

[Michail aka Opium Hum / Hyper Real Radio @opiumhum]

Germany's culture commissioner Wolfram Weimer killed funding for a project translating 20th-century Palestinian authors into German, branding it "one-sided." It's the first time a minister has directly overridden Berlin's independent culture fund. A historic abuse of office.

[Tariq Ali @TariqAli_News]

Correct. I think a weekly burst of laughter at these people is more appropriate than taking them too seriously. Where there is outright slander then go to court. The Telegraph has now been bought of the very right-wing Springer Group in Germany. They're masters of prejudice and slander. During the Sixties they ran a vicious campaign against my friend Rudi Dutschke that led one reader to attempt to kill Dutschke. He survived and came to Britain for treatment. I'm prepared to bet that the Daily Telegraph attacked the Labour Hoime Secretary, Roy Jenkins, for letting him in. A few years later Dutschke died relatively young from the after-effects. He always blamed Springer, not his would-be-assassin.

[MareileP @MareileP]

This is just out - in English for the first time since it came out 1956 - book launch tmrw with translator Chris Mueller at QMUL

https://t.co/1KGtzbUfDO

[MareileP @MareileP]

This is just out - in English for the first time since it came out 1956 - book launch tmrw with translator Chris Mueller at QMUL

https://t.co/1KGtzbUfDO

[Pieter Bruegel @artistbruegel]

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus #artbots #bruegel

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

Dearest, now that I have better writing paper, let us also start a better life.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

It's a grim kind of entertainment watching our media class finally being unable to deny what this grotesque nobody they worked so hard to put in place actually is.

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

This hugely evocative picture of food being sent to striking miners and their families in the Midlands and Yorkshire coalfields by SOGAT82 and the London print unions has a very real resonance today.

[New Left Review @NewLeftReview]

'The Israeli garrison state has made clear that it is not satisfied with overwhelming regional military superiority; it also seeks the permanent incapacity of its neighbours.'

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi on Israel's regime-change agenda:

https://t.co/7VsRq0AqkH

[New Left Review @NewLeftReview]

'This is not merely a war on the Islamic Republic but on Iran itself: an attempt to turn it into a patchwork of ethnic enclaves, internally divided and too weak to enjoy sovereign development, let alone pose a regional challenge.'

https://t.co/7VsRq0AqkH

[Tom Mills @ta_mills]

Notice how BBC reporting on Israel/Palestine is shifting in line with the Foreign Office.

Obviously more balanced position is welcome. But it's the same structural drivers that led to the woeful failures in the earlier phase.

[Allan BARTE @AllanBARTE]

Bravo aux dockers de Marseille ! ✊🔥

Livraison d’arme à Israël : les dockers de Marseille bloquent dans le port 14 tonnes de pièces pour fusils-mitrailleurs (Révélations https://t.co/JdKc2h5omq )

Précommande de mon nouveau livre, c'est EN CE MOMENT ! https://t.co/wpfIlidPIX

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

We get hundreds of requests daily for food assistance by individuals in Gaza or from others asking us to help specific families. Support us here: https://t.co/nUdOgK33pZ . Our strategy is to serve the collective, large camps or areas in need that do not receive aid, rather than create disparity by helping one family and leaving their neighbors empty handed. Because the reality is every single person is in need.

The UN notes 100% of Gaza’s population faces high levels of acute food insecurity or above. This is crisis level, and it also includes over 1 million people facing emergency levels of food insecurity and nearly half a million facing catastrophic levels.

Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project brings food to areas and camps that would otherwise have no access to any nutrition. We cannot help everyone. We wish we could. But we do try to assist in the most equitable and fair way we have come up with. Yesterday we provided 170 hot meals of rice to various displacement camps in the North and to Al-Shafi’i School.

Thank you for supporting us so that we can help those facing these disastrous levels of food scarcity. Donate to the North campaign: https://t.co/nUdOgK33pZ

Other ways to donate include:
https://t.co/OmIU4SifDD (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "North aid")
https://t.co/WNZu0ERJci (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "North aid")

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

If you think Starmer, Macron and Carney are serious about taking 'further concrete actions' to halt Israel's genocide in Gaza, think again.

They haven't even the courage to take the easiest step of all: banning Israel from the Eurovision Song Contest.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

It’s official. I will be introducing a Bill for an independent public inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s assault on Gaza.

The government must decide: will it support this inquiry, or will it block our efforts to establish the truth?

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

After 19 months of being presented with dissembling accounts of Gaza from their governments, western publics are now being served up a different – but equally deceitful – narrative.

With the finishing line in sight for Israel’s programme of genocidal ethnic cleansing, the West’s Gaza script is being hastily rewritten. But make no mistake: it is the same web of self-serving lies.

As if under the direction of a hidden conductor, Britain, France and Canada – key US allies – erupted this week into a chorus of condemnation of Israel.

They called Israel’s plans to level the last fragments of Gaza still standing “disproportionate”, while Israel’s intensification of its months-long starvation of more than two million Palestinian civilians was “intolerable”.

The change of tone was preceded, as I noted in these pages last week, by new, harsher language against Israel from the western press corps.

The establishment media’s narrative had to shift first, so that the sudden outpouring of moral and political concern at Gaza’s suffering from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney – after more than a year and a half of indifference – did not appear too abrupt, or too strange.

They are acting as if some corner has been turned in Israel’s genocide. But genocides don’t have corners. They just progress relentlessly until stopped.

The media and politicians are carefully managing any cognitive dissonance for their publics.

But the deeper reality is that western capitals are still coordinating with Israel and the US on their “criticisms” of Israel���s genocide in Gaza – just as they earlier coordinated their support for it.

As much was conceded by a senior Israeli official to Israel's Haaretz newspaper. Referring to the sudden change of tone, he said: "The past 24 hours were all part of a planned ambush we knew about. This was a coordinated sequence of moves ahead of the EU meeting in Brussels, and thanks to joint efforts by our ambassadors and the foreign minister, we managed to moderate the outcome.”

The handwringing is just another bit of stagecraft, little different from the earlier mix of silence and talk about Israel’s “right to defend itself”. And it is to the same purpose: to buy Israel time to “finish the job” – that is, to complete its genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

The West is still promoting phoney “debates”, entirely confected by Israel, about whether Hamas is stealing aid, what constitutes sufficient aid, and how that aid should be delivered.

It is all meant as noise, to distract us from the only pertinent issue: that Israel is committing genocide by slaughtering and starving Gaza’s population, as the West has aided and abetted that genocide.

This is an extract from my latest article Ignore Starmer's theatrics. Gaza's trail of blood leads straight to his door. Read more here: https://t.co/Ma8XGZPjm3

[Olly @reality_manager]

Some Qs it would be useful for lobby journos to ask govt about their 🇮🇱🇵🇸 policy. They ignore the rest of us and it's harder to do that in person:

What is the contents of the “Research Report: Long-Range Shootings or Shootings of Minors.” and why wasn't it disclosed in court?

[Olly @reality_manager]

Are 🇵🇸males considered to all be defacto combatants by the government? Their lawyers claim
"No evidence has been seen that Israel is deliberately targeting civilian women or children" a contested claim, but it also implies the govt believes there are no male civilians in Gaza.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

If we had a functioning media, this would have been the front-page of every newspaper in Britain today