Palestine flag-bearers at the Paris 2024 Olympics 🇵🇸
24-year-old swimmer Valerie Tarazi, whose family is originally from Gaza. Top medalist at the 2023 Arab Games.
20-year-old Waseem Abu Sal from Ramallah, the first Palestinian boxer to ever compete at the Olympics.
"The play is yours. From now on, everything is up to you, the audience and Uncle Will"
Wishing the best of luck to our #TheMotiveAndTheCue company on their Opening Night tonight.
We're honoured to have made the shortlist for Best New Play, Best Direction, and Best Casting Direction at the #WOSAwards.
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Inside the rehearsal room of #TheMotiveandtheCue.
Don't miss this award-winning play in the West End - performances begin 9 December at the Noël Coward Theatre.
https://t.co/mqX39mqMbz
📸: Mark Douet
Geert Wilders is not merely "anti-Islam" as described by the BBC, Reuters, LBC & The Telegraph
This implies he's just a critic of the teachings of Islam
Actually he's a hateful far-right Islamophobe who targets ordinary Muslims
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We are so excited to announce that our brilliant Shaun Yusuf McKee @symckee has been cast in the National Theatre’s Motive and the Cue!!
We can’t wait for you to see him do his thing 😍
'I was saying Israel had the right to self-defence... I was not saying Israel had the right to cut off water, food, fuel or medicines'
@Keir_Starmer speaks after sparking fury among Muslim Labour members in an interview about the Gaza crisis with @LBC https://t.co/o0yilBAOqq
One of the fundamentals of international law – at the heart of the Geneva Conventions – is a prohibition on collective punishment: that is, retaliating against the enemy’s civilian population, making them pay the price for the acts of their leaders and armies.
Very obviously, Gaza is about as flagrant a violation of this prohibition as can be found. Even in 'quiet' times, its inhabitants – one million of them children – are denied the most basic freedoms, such as the right to movement; access to proper health care because medicines and equipment cannot be brought in; access to drinkable water; and the use of electricity for much of the day because Israel keeps bombing Gaza’s power station.
Israel has never made any bones of the fact that it is punishing the people of Gaza for being ruled by Hamas, which rejects Israel’s right to have dispossessed the Palestinians of their homeland in 1948 and imprisoned them in overcrowded ghettos like Gaza.
What Israel is doing to Gaza is the very definition of collective punishment. It is a war crime: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks of every year, for 16 years.
And yet no one in the so-called international community seems to have noticed.
From my latest:
https://t.co/HK8TsA1ku8
The Israeli military told Palestinians in Gaza must flee the north towards the south then they bombed them as they fled. Most international correspondents are in the safety of Tel Aviv and haven’t reported on this. Livid isn’t enough of a word