Vania Martins

Feminist

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

Mobilise to defend immigration lawyers, refugee charities and asylum support centres around Britain. The far right have published a list of targets for Wednesday night. Protests are being called to defend them #RefugeesWelcome

Watch this thread for local details 🧵

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#WhyWeRise
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[Red Flare @redflareinfo]

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[Vania Martins @Vaniaemmarcha]

@jk_rowling @SwipeWright Is not an exaggeration to say you also are a click hater... Sorry baiter...

[Vania Martins @Vaniaemmarcha]

@JoeyMannarinoUS @IanDunt Yes this all a big ploy to bring us down🥱 new conspiracy theories pls

[Million Women Rise @MillionWomen]

Join @MillionWomen
from 9am @ Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court (nearest tube Highbury Islington) This Thursday 11 April at 51 Holloway Rd, London N7 8JA in solidarity with our sista @SELMATAHA8 & @SBSisters
#NoJusticeNoPeace
#EndRacistAbuse
#AllForOneOneForAll

[Vania Martins @Vaniaemmarcha]

18th of February
#FreeSahara #saharalibre

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

UNRWA is separate from the UN’s main refugee agency, the UNHCR, and deals only with Palestinian refugees.

Although Israel does not want you to know it, the reason for there being two UN refugee agencies is because Israel and its western backers insisted on the division back in 1948.

Why? Because Israel was afraid of the Palestinians falling under the responsibility of the UNHCR’s forerunner, the International Refugee Organisation. The IRO was established in the immediate wake of the Second World War in large part to cope with the millions of European Jews fleeing Nazi atrocities.

Israel did not want the two cases treated as comparable, because it was pushing hard for Jewish refugees to be settled on lands from which it had just expelled Palestinians. Part of the IRO’s mission was to seek the repatriation of European Jews. Israel was worried that very principle might be used both to deny it the Jews it wanted to colonise Palestinian land and to force it to allow the Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes.

So in a real sense, UNRWA is Israel’s creature: it was set up to keep the Palestinians a case apart, an anomaly...

Israel’s efforts to get rid of UNRWA are not new. They date back many years. For a number of reasons, the UN refugee agency is a thorn in Israel’s side – and all the more so in Gaza.

Not least, it has provided a lifeline to Palestinians there, keeping them fed and cared for, and providing jobs to many thousands of local people in a place where unemployment rates are among the highest in the world.

It has invested in infrastructure like hospitals and schools that make life in Gaza more bearable, when Israel’s goal has long been to make the enclave uninhabitable.

UNRWA’s well-run schools, staffed by local Palestinians, teach the children their own history, about where their grandparents once lived, and of Israel’s campaign of dispossession and ethnic cleansing against them. That runs directly counter to the infamous Zionist slogan about the Palestinians’ identity-less future: “The old will die and the young forget.”

But UNRWA’s role is bigger than that. Uniquely, it is the sole agency unifying Palestinians wherever they live, even when they are separated by national borders and Israel’s fragmentation of the territory it controls.

UNRWA brings Palestinians together even when their own political leaders have been manipulated into endless factionalism by Israel’s divide and rule policies: Hamas is nominally in charge in Gaza, while Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah pretends to run the West Bank.

In addition, UNRWA keeps alive the moral case for a Palestinian right of return – a principle recognised in international law but long ago abandoned by western states.

Even before October 7, UNRWA had become an obstable that needed removing if Israel was ever to ethnically cleanse Gaza. That is why Israel has repeatedly lobbied to stop the biggest donors, especially the US, funding UNRWA.

Back in 2018, for example, the refugee agency was plunged into an existential crisis when President Donald Trump acquiesced to Israeli pressure and cut all its funding. Even after the decision was reversed, the agency has been limping along financially.

You can read more from my latest article In waging war on the UN refugee agency, the West is openly siding with Israeli genocide here:
https://t.co/31iUb2ZLUd

[Qays Sediqi @QaysSediqi]

South Africa is the gift that keeps on giving 🫡

[IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳 @UNmigration]

More women and girls are migrating along the perilous Eastern Route, looking for opportunities in the Middle East.

Irregular migration exposes them to increased risks of gender-based violence.

In these #16Days, we call to #Invest2Prevent.

➡️https://t.co/Sd6nHPvWcu

[Stop the War Coalition @STWuk]

Absolutely huge protest outside the Houses of Parliament saying loud and clear: #CeasefireNowInGaza!

The politicians should listen now because we're not going away until we have a #FreePalestine!

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

❓In parliamentary debate on Israel and Gaza will any MPs raise the elephant in the room — the Israel lobby in the UK and the inordinate influence of Conservative Friends of Israel and Labour Friends of Israel

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Fixed this headline for you, @NYTimes.

[Vania Martins @Vaniaemmarcha]

And today is a good day!
And free Palestine 🇯🇴

[Vania Martins @Vaniaemmarcha]

@ChrisMasonBBC I would say it's a good day but recent times have shown that what comes next will be worst and even may end up with her as PM.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Dictatorship:

Rail operators forced to run 40% of service on strike days.

Despite legal ballots workers can't go on strike.

Union members forced to cross picket lines. Those refusing sacked. Unions fined.

No remedy for poverty wages.

Human rights gone
https://t.co/C3TOKbxrb1

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Media outlets and politicians are trying to demonise Palestinian solidarity by focusing on misconstrued chants or unrepresentative extremists, while ignoring genocidal rhetoric from Israeli ministers and officials on a daily basis as Gaza is carpet bombed into oblivion

[Liberty @libertyhq]

If you're protesting this weekend, it's vital you know your rights

Save these bust cards, share with others, write phone numbers on your arm, look for legal observers if you need assistance and remember to say "no comment" without a lawyer

Keep yourselves and each other safe

[Million Women Rise @MillionWomen]

Together, we are strong! Stop Global Fascism... Genocide...Male violence in all its forms!... #WhyWeRise