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Pressing ahead with Israel’s new INGO registration policy ‘will have far-reaching consequences on the future of the OPT, in addition to threatening a fragile ceasefire and putting Palestinian lives at imminent risk, particularly during winter’ -UN agencies and NGOs www.ochaopt.org/content/un-a...

Reasons for Israel disqualifying the operation of international NGOs that provide essential humanitarian aid in the OPT- affecting MSF and many other orgs - include expressions of support for any of the international court cases against Israeli soldiers or leaders apnews.com/article/gaza...

The Israeli parliament has given final approval to legislation requiring the cutting of electricity and water supplies to the offices of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Jerusalem, with the law taking effect immediately www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

Russian troops invading Ukraine are "main obstacle" to peace in Ukraine, says mostly everyone else

The people of the DRC must be punished until their government becomes sufficiently enthusiastic about the UK‘s obsession with expelling people

This Christmas season, Christian Palestinians in and around Bethlehem are publicly celebrating again for the first time in two years. But for Palestinians of all religions and none, the daily realities of occupation and apartheid are still not subsiding.

Israel's security cabinet has approved the recognition of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank - a decision that far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Google did not show me this report (unnamed in the Guardian's article!), but it did show me this, which some might say is better: freemovement.org.uk/briefing-is-...

Hey, it's Michael, Toby, Dora, David, and Josh. For the past week, we've been documenting our protective presence work in the West Bank on TikTok @naamod1 and on Instagram @naamoduk .

Presumably the notion that there’s an epidemic of violent misogyny in our society, and that what the perpetrators overwhelmingly have in common is being men, would interfere with the narrative that it’s an imported problem caused by foreigners

Including Hungary suing the EU court because it objects to a judgment imposing a €200 million fine (plus €1 million/day since) for non-compliance with previous asylum law judgments (Nb there are no "similar cases", at least in the sense that this was the first judgment applying fines re asylum)

Good to see this in the govt's violence against women and girls strategy (p55): introduction of a requirement for police to seek a domestic abuse victim's consent before sharing their info with Immigration Enforcement, recognising that migrant and asylum seeking women are often fearful of reporting

Great piece, noting that ‘the political logic of “weakening the Convention system to save the system” is unconvincing and concedes a swathe of territory to radical right parties’ and the strangeness of ‘the living instrument doctrine being invoked…to call for regression in human rights protection’

As we look fwd to Christmas dinner, remember the migrant workforce who make it all possible on our farms, picking & processing our food🎄 These workers should be protected from exploitation but restrictive visa conditions make them vulnerable- @focusonlabour.bsky.social looks at solutions:

A quick explanation of how this borrowing to assist Ukraine will work. "Enhanced cooperation" means EU law is being used, but some Member States opt out. The process has been applied a few times before, but never before re the EU budget. 1/

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Something for my Jan to-do list - and I hope many other people's - is responding to the govt's awful proposals on migrants' routes to settlement. Helpful resources from @freemovement.bsky.social freemovement.org.uk/briefing-the... and @workrights.bsky.social www.workrightscentre.org/our-campaign...

Brave that Kemi Badenach decides to dismiss the lived experiences of thousands of girls and young women to attract the support of racists and misogynists www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Sudan’s paramilitary (United Arab Emirates backed) Rapid Support Forces has likely disposed of tens and thousands of bodies in an effort to cover up mass killings, according to researchers at Yale University" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good news, even in its watered down state. Having spent some months working with other organisations on getting the particular challenges faced by migrant workers recognised in it, and watched this government make those challenges worse, I won't get too excited though. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huge well done to Jed and team, outrageous that this application was ever refused on good character grounds because of illegal entry. Many will be in the same or similar situation and unable to bring such a challenge. The guidance needs to change.

I'm on my way to a Chanukah event. It should be a celebration but instead our community is once again mourning. I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss. We stand with you.

We mourn the victims of the mass shooting on Bondi Beach at a celebration on the first night of Chanukah, bringing darkness into a festival of lights. Our hearts go out to those attacked and their families and friends, as well as the entire Australian Jewish community.

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Hi - we’re Na’amodniks Dora, Toby, David, and Josh. We just arrived in East Jerusalem en route to Masafer Yatta, a group of villages in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank.

Today we protested in the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s constituency with the Migrant Workers’ Rights Coalition. We demand dignity and justice for all migrants and a dismantling of colonial border regimes. #HereToStay #HereToFight

Russia sending Ukrainian children to 'harmful and abusive' camp in North Korea, says human rights group news.sky.com/story/russia...

Sophistry. The Home Secretary was untruthful.

For the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to claim that only one kind of Jew with one position on Israel can work for an organisation set up to commemorate over 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust is utterly disgraceful. www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...

apparently there's 'falling growth' in the 'scientific research' sector, and yes, that is what will happen if you slash jobs in universities

Latest monthly visa application figures are out. Skilled workers? Still dropping. Health & care workers? Still dropping. Slow clap.

I’m so ambivalent about cases being withdrawn before appeal hearings. On the one hand, it’s good for the Home Office to recognise its mistakes and rectify them without going to a hearing. On the other, decisions are often withdrawn sometimes as little as a week before the hearing. By that point… 🧵

An evaluation of the World Bank's Business Ready (B-READY) Labor Topic, with Sangheon Lee @ilo.org. Expanded, accepted version, forthcoming in the Modern Law Review. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @ssrn.bsky.social

We haven't heard the last of John Redwood... www.gov.uk/government/n...

“For every inch yielded, there’s going to be another inch demanded. Where does it stop?”

Yesterday the Junta in Myanmar bombed Mrauk-U Hospital in Rakhine state, killing 33 & injuring close to 100 people. And they want people to think their sham election is a path to peace? Nah they need to be removed from power entirely & held to account for their crimes #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

“Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system, making up more than one-third of all prisoners, despite being less than four per cent of the country's population” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mi-neged demo this Tuesday at UK FCDO at 4.30pm to draw international attention to state-backed settlers aiming to forcibly evict 87 Palestinian families (700 people) from their homes and threatening demolitions of a further 116 homes (affecting 1500 people) in the Palestinian neighbourhood Silwan

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

The damage the govt is willing to inflict on the economy (not to mention care provision) in pursuit of anti-migration dogma:

10 days to submit abstracts to the @slsauk.bsky.social 2026 Conference #Labour_Law_&_Society stream! We particularly encourage submissions on topics neglected in mainstream labour law research. More info: www.sussex.ac.uk/collaborate/... @arwenjoyce.bsky.social @ingathiemann.bsky.social

If you need deep pockets to be considered a “global talent,” are we really attracting "the brightest and the best"minds, or just the richest ones? Read more 👇 nandosigona.info/2025/12/08/w... #visa #immigration #globaltalent

New #CallforPapers! This issue will aim to highlight cases of intersectional, intermovement alliance and solidarity building between different marginalised and oppressed groups. See call 👉🏼 www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at... Guest editors @drellac.bsky.social & @joelquirk.bsky.social

Great essay from @martinsandbu.ft.com highlighting the stumbles Europe is making - born of the usual conservatism on risk sharing - on Russian assets. Citing our @peacerep.bsky.social report on the Russian economy he points out, Europe has leverage but lacks the will. www.ft.com/content/fb01...

The proposals to limit Article 3 are absolutely terrifying. I struggle to think of something that has come out of any UK government which has concerned me more. This must be resisted absolutely.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

If you’ve fled by the skin of your teeth and rebuilt your life in exile, you might one day want to go back, whether temporarily or permanently. Or you might not. Or you might just want to wait and see how things pan out. The choice should be yours and not the government’s

New report on immigration sets out a fairer, cheaper and potentially popular approach A new report from prominent migration expert Zoe Gardner has won the endorsement of several Labour backbenchers. The report, Time for change: The evidence-based policies that can actually fix the immigration…