Today in Ottawa, we announced the filing of a lawsuit against the government of Canada for violating its duty to prevent genocide.
Our clients, two Palestinian Canadians whose families in Gaza have been devastated by Israel's genocidal rampage, allege that Canada has violated their constitutional rights.
It is time for @JustinTrudeau and @MelanieJoly to answer for their support for Israel's genocidal regime.
#Gaza #genocide #cdnpoli #Palestine
Israel has blocked aid from entering northern Gaza and has said clearly that Palestinians will not be allowed to return home.
This is genocide.
This is ethnic cleansing.
Defiant, full voiced beauty - to support @UNRWA do purchase the new single by @ReemKelani - her compelling rendition of If I Must Die by poet & educator #refaatalareer / @itranslate123 killed by an Israeli airstrike in Dec 23🪁🍉💔@BrightonPSC
SINGLE OUT: TODAY 19 July
VIDEO OUT: MONDAY 22 July
Our charity single for #Gaza, raising funds for #UNRWA's essential work
"If I Must Die"
Poem by: #RefaatAlreer
Music & vocals: @ReemKelani
Featuring @bruno_heinen on piano
Available on @Bandcamp
(Link below) 👇
#IfIMustDie
@naomifoyle’s wonderfully generous review of Queerfella — joint-winner of @RialtoPoetry Pamphlet Competition 2020 — signed copies available from link in my bio.
To Brighton & Hove folk.
If you're going to vote ❌ today
And 🇵🇸 is a defining issue ~
Then we would recommend voting 🟩 @sianberry in Pavilion, and 🟩 @Elaine4Kemptown in Kemptown and Peacehaven.
If you are in Hove and Portslade, we recommend ❌ for @tanushkamarah :
It is depressing that this stellar achievement occurs in the wake of the shocking decision by @chiuni to eliminate @hakimadi1's post and cut his MRes, leaving many other PhD and MRes students stranded without a supervisor. Such is the state of British academia & British history!
Radical anti-racist publisher & activist, Jessica Huntley is a significant but overlooked figure in British history. As a thesis examiner, I was privileged to read drafts of her forthcoming biography. Congrats @Claudia_writes_ on the magnificent cover reveal! 👏@hakimadi1👏
💥💥💥 BREAKING!!
Brighton Council planning committee have just voted unanimously to REFUSE the L3Harris arms factory extension!
A massive victory for community resistance & organising.
#StopArmingIsrael 🇵🇸
A Jewish student at Cambridge University gives MEE a tour of the Cambridge Encampment for Gaza.
“There's many of us here in Cambridge. Jews who believe that it is our duty, to speak out against the genocide that is being, carried out in our name, by the Israeli state”
As Israel assaults Rafah, and photos of yet more headless Gazan children flood the internet, here’s a trenchant voice from the student protests refusing to accept the mass slaughter of innocents. I hope this clip goes viral! #CEASEFIRE_NOW#BringThemAllHome
@ProfSunnySingh@QueerManxPoet@leoneross@Soc_of_Authors@AnnaGunin It’s a sickening and racist result, for sure. SoA acts like English PEN when it comes to Ukraine, but fights to remain silent on the Gaza genocide! I will join whatever collective protest mounts, and if it’s not effective I will leave, as other members are doing already.
Some of my views on the failure of @Soc_of_Authors to endorse a resolution to make a statement on Gaza. I focus on process here, but also feel a keen sense of shame over this terrible refusal of solidarity. Thx @QueerManxPoet@AnnaGunin@ProfSunnySingh for all your work on this.
@Soc_of_Authors Unbelievable. You told us last night, @Soc_of_Authors, that expressing global solidarity was outside your remit. Obviously what you meant was Palestinian Lives Don't Matter.
📣VICTORY FOR PALESTINE AT GOLDSMITHS📣
Goldsmiths management has conceded to Goldsmiths for Palestine demands‼️
We have won the first undergraduate Palestinian scholarships at a British university and huge wins on all of our other demands.
We send our solidarity to the many thousands of university students and staff across the world who are taking a stand against their institutions' complicity in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.
Full statement 👇
@leoneross@QueerManxPoet@Soc_of_Authors@AnnaGunin@ProfSunnySingh I only assumed that some of them might, or mention of the hostages at least. The large number of abstentions, suggested to me some people had reservations. And one speaker against called the current wording 'partisan'. A longer debate + clearer process could have addressed this.