Showings in the UK and Ireland. Get your tickets, now. Annemarie Jacir’s emotionally stirring drama follows a year of brutal conflict in the Middle East with a huge cast of characters caught up in the turmoil www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Watched this today Amazing, emotional - important film … Philistine Films, Annemarie Jacir, cast & everyone who contributed to making of this film… thank you A must watch #Palestine m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWtw...

Honestly, if you’re not listening to this podcast… you must give it a go - been a fan since it started in 2022 with its first episode on the East India Company @empirepoduk.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social & @anitaanand.bsky.social are amazing hosts

Today we launch at new @EmpirePodUK series- WRITERS ON EMPIRE We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell linktr.ee/empirepoduk

we are nearing the point where our robots can take your dog for a nice little hike while listening to your favorite playlist, giving you more time on the weekends for the important things like making sales calls

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Madeline Horwath on St George returning to England www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Re: Keir Starmer: “but you can't admin your way out of unpopularity”, @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Sept 2025 Love that - so on the nose👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I really hope the Starmer speech on patriotic renewal is better than this summary of it, which basically argues that New Labour and the Tories let in too many immigrsnts but this one is going to give you a youth club instead so please don’t vote Reform www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f9444c6...

‘What would Orwell think’, Musk had on his T-shirt. My guess is he’d think Musk is a master of Doublespeak. A man who bought his own Ministry of Truth and embodies some of the nightmarish developments he anticipated.

When I finish a book, I sometimes take a deep breath & hold it close to me… hugging it, knowing it will stay with me. I feel I know the characters & their lives, & in the days to come I’ll catch myself wondering how they’re doing. This is one of those books. 🙏🏽 Christy Lefteri #BookSky 📚

Eyal Weizman from Forensic Architecture: "Genocide denial is what enables genocide"

Day 2 #GazaTribunal Worth your while www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezu5...

Day 1 of Gaza Tribunal was excellent Day 2 tomorrow worth following thegazatribunal.uk

Thugs and bullies roar to make you forget your own strength. But the moment you remember, their noise dies. Because you are the power. You are the voice that drowns them out. You are the defender you’ve been waiting for.

Protests outside the public broadcaster in Berlin over its Gaza reporting German mainstream media is vociferously anti Palestinian & German police have been violently repressing pro Palestinian voices & protests. After the US Germany is the largest supplier of arms to Israel

Shihab Rattansi: "Several hundred demonstrators gathered outside the HQ of various media organisations in this building, NBC, Fox News, ITN, Guardian. They say that their coverage of the Gaza genocide has given Israel the room to kill so many, and notably so many journalists"

"You tweeted earlier this year this is what we fight against, rogue landlords and a broken system. This is the minister that's at the heart of fixing this broken system.. being part of it" Miatta Fahnbulleh: "Rushanara's been really clear she's broken no laws & shes broken no rules"

When you put it like that....🤦🏽‍♂️ #IzrahellIsATerr0r1stState

As the Gaza famine death toll rises, UK imports of Israeli fruit and veg have soared - £51.3m in just three months, up from £29.1m. While Palestinians starve, Israel’s agricultural exports to Britain are booming. Full story by ‘Slicker’ in the latest issue.

This is a great @caabu.bsky.social webinar @rachelshabi.bsky.social in conversation with Emily Hilton from Diaspora Alliance and @naamoduk.bsky.social - talking about her book "Off White: The Truth About Anti-Semitism" Really worth listening to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni59...

Thank you to 200 signatories at Royal Ballet & Opera via: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"And each night I pray for Palestine" Thank you to everyone who made this Thank you @mothersagainstg.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a5Q...

Keep the two distinct in your head.

Breaking now: hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers stage a sit in at the Manhattan office building where Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have offices. They’re calling for an arms embargo and for food relief in Gaza. Jewish Voice for Peace organized the protest. “Liberation, not starvation!”

Highlighting people who make a difference - it doesn’t have to be forever conflict & war: Dr Lina Qasem-Hassan www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

6 US citizens aboard ‘Handala’ just read a powerful open letter to Donald Trump and the US Government. They plan to deliver food, medicine, and baby formula to Gaza in a few days. If anything happens to them, the world will know who is responsible.

We left the 20th Century saying we must learn the lessons of history. And yet here we are, discarding them once again.

Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!

🚨26 former British diplomats have called on Keir Starmer to secure a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and recognise the state of Palestine unconditionally.

Happy 77th to the NHS #NHS

🧵#BookSky recommendation Just finished reading this @peterbeinart.bsky.social book I urge you to read it - a call for hope & recognition of shared humanity; a call away from those belligerent voices that know only cruelty, division & conflict as a means of sustaining their warped view of humanity

🧵There are so many sections of this bk that merit re-reading (you call tell from the many pages I've dog-eared); from p301: "The victims of the Holocaust, pogroms and centuries of persecution & racial violence are to be honoured by upholding the multilateral rules-based order...

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is very much worth your time.

#BookSky 📚 Just finished reading Mohammad Tarbush's book An amazing story - from his family's exodus from Beit Nattif in 1948, to being a refugee in Jericho, to hitch-hiking across Europe as teenager, getting an education - this will amaze you - hard work, earning & being a success... 1/

❝ Palestinians are only allowed to exist if we don’t cause discomfort for those who seek to erase us ❞ — Jennifer Zacharia

A most powerful plea by Prof Noura Erakat "If genocide is too much... "If war is too much... "If humanitarian tragedy is too much... "Do not sit in the seat of power and do nothing" Link to transcript in reply www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ol...

"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad Long Form Podcast Featuring Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist." www.youtube.com/live/stT7zBw...

1/ Just finished reading Mona Hajjar Halaby's book: I feel I've walked the streets that Mona walked in Palestine, spoke to the people she talked to & worked with her at school as she patiently tried to help children who've seen & experienced more than any child should. #BookSky

@stellacreasy.bsky.social @drrosena.bsky.social I think you’re the only Labour MPs I know on here. It’s PMQs today… please make govt do something- worthy speeches/words aren’t working. Labour govt has lost all credibility on IHL with its complicity & its non universal application of human rights.

Just saw a mouse get off the escalator at St Pancras like a boss.

BALTIC STATES EXPRESS! I’ve been asked to say a few words at the @RailBaltica Conference in Tallinn on Thursday. Say no more! Setting off on a 1,930 mile train journey from London to Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga & Tallinn (you didn’t think I’d fly, did you? 😉) #BalticStatesExpress

Today, Israeli authorities demolished a Park in the city of Beit Sahour, Bethlehem. Most people know Beit Sahour as the Shepherd’s Field.. where in the Biblical tale, the angels are said to have announced the birth of Jesus Christ Occupation is a crime.

The Palestinian Mission (de facto embassy) to the UK welcomes the significant UK decision to freeze trade talks with Israel. Full statement:

The hysterical reaction of certain commentators to today’s UK-EU agreement is something to behold. The “surrender” of using e-gates when you go on holiday. The contempt for the “will of the people” of making education abroad more accessible. Rigorous debate is good. This nonsense is a waste of time.

The “surrender” thing and the endless war metaphors were always in poor taste. But when they were first made, war had not returned to Europe and NATO was not hanging by a thread. So forgive me if I no longer have any patience whatsoever with people who pretend that UK and EU are enemies. Pathetic.

Finally, I am sick and tired of people pretending that education is a status symbol for the well-to-do, rather than a path towards a richer and more fulfilled life. I am all for addressing failures in skill training& problems with social mobility. But learning is good & should be encouraged. Always.

Spoken like a true war criminal. "We must not reach a situation of famine, both from a practical and a diplomatic standpoint," Benjamin Netanyahu stressed in a video in response to criticism of the move in Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sadly the Palestinian people are being slaughtered with weapons provided by the Labour government.