What a surreal and strange day to wake up to hateful messages and @‘s from far-right Hindu supporters, and from a minuscule few journalists and male acquaintances sidling up to me because of going ‘viral.’ What a hateful, performative, inauthentic space the internet feels like.
It was a tense day of reporting from Leicester for me today. I interviewed a Hindu man wearing a motorbike helmet, holding an Indian flag on Belgrave road, the site of some of the unrest yesterday between a group of Muslim and Hindu men. Here’s what happened. 👇🏼
Tottenham Hotspur have become the first team in world football to be top of the league and then overtaken by the team the bottom of the league within three games.
Some folk on here are accusing me of being a Marxist. A ridiculous accusation, I’ve never marked someone in my life. Didn’t even come back for corners if I could avoid it.
I am a runner.
I run marathons around whole world. Never have I been attacked violently by police forces as I was today, during the Jerusalem run from #SaveSheikhJarrah to #SaveSilwan.
I was beaten six times, attacked by Israeli forces, for running in my ancestral town & city.
Israel killed the head of Gaza’s coronavirus response Dr. Ayman Abu Al-Ouf, along with his family in a missile strike, then bombed the roads leading to the hospital.
Today, Gaza’s only coronavirus testing lab was damaged after building opposite was bombed.
During a pandemic...
Letter to Hamza Choudhury and Wesley Fofana, Leicester Football Club, who used the occasion of the FA cup triumph to show solidarity with the Palestinian people 🇵🇸🙏🏽✌🏽✊
@Wesley_Fofanaa
@HamzaChoudhury1@LCFC#SavePalestine#Jerusalem#GazaUnderAttack