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In a tent in central Gaza, a women’s film festival is born Held over six days last week, the inaugural International Festival for Women's Cinema was ‘an affirmation that Gaza loves life despite the genocide.’ Ibtisam Mahdi reports. www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...

This affects my parents.

An extraordinarily beautiful weekend to include a New Orleans Study day, wonderful friendships continued with friends from Ireland and the best Groningen has to offer.

How depressing. Education also needs to be about the joy of learning and questioning, not just about how to be a good consumer drone, or how to protect yourself from tech bros with bad intentions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From our friends over at @404media.co, a look at the closure of Baker & Taylor and the ripple effect it’s been having on libraries:

I was on a really great TV show called Ireland AM (wearing a Palestinian resilience necklace and a Palestine pin) and the hosts wanted to talk so much about Palestine we almost forgot to talk about my movie...all things that are unimaginable in the U.S. I love living here 💚

Last year, I covered Read Palestine Week and stories of Gazan writers resisting Israel's genocide. Something to read from the archives. 🇵🇸

Amid all the horror of the attack on Saturday we see the very, very best of human beings. The passengers who helped each other, the heroic train worker who put himself in harms way and undoubtedly saved lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

A day of joy reconnecting with a ‘lost’ friend in Zimbabwe after 30 years by phone.

Petition for edtech people to talk to actual lecturers when designing their software

Looking forward to Day 2 of this in @unileiden.bsky.social tomorrow. What a stunning city.

The "Ceasefire" was just a PR move to stave off increasing international criticism and isolation and it worked. The killing has continued, but there's no talk of boycotts or suspending Israel from uefa etc. Shameful shit.

@seanmacr.bsky.social @maynoothlaw.bsky.social hosts todays #MUresearchweek event on Scholasticide in Palestine and the Responsibilities of Western Universities opened by @mu-ssi.bsky.social director @lindaconnolly.bsky.social today

A day full of messages and calls of love and good wishes. ❤️

Hits the spot and says everything I tried to but have failed to communicate.

👏 Yes!!! apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Prominent Jewish Figures Call On World Leaders to 'Refuse' Complicity in Israeli Crimes in Gaza, West Bank www.commondreams.org/news/jewish-...

"At night, I dream my brother Nour is looking for me. ‘I’m in Ireland, Habibi’ I say to him. ‘Everything is green and lovely'." MU Gaza Scholarship Initiative student @abunour.bsky.social wrote a piece on leaving Gaza for Ireland in the Weekend Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Honoured to have my article published in @irishtimes.com today. A piece of me and Gaza and Nour — on paper. ❤️ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Wonderful Film. A difficult watch. Thank you @iAfrica Film Festival Groningen

every single bit of news that comes out of Palestine makes my heart hurt and makes me boggle at the gleeful cruelty of the occupying colonisers. every permutation of misery is inflicted on these poor people

I can vouch for a former colleague: certainly does 100%, is a wonderful researcher and an all round lovely human.

Inhumane and brutal regime. @israeldefenseforce.bsky.social

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Explore our #BlackHistory collection, featuring powerful stories about the fight for freedom by Black women, the realities of racial inequality, and the challenges faced by Black politicians. Discover the collection 🔗 https://cup.org/46YKxHY #BlackHistoryMonth

Spot the difference. Israel is violent and racist and it tortures Paestinians. substack.com/@emangaza/no...

Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.

Israel is reportedly forcing 154 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons as part of the ceasefire deal into exile and deporting them to an unknown country. Experts say the move is a violation of international law.

If you're happy the 20 Israeli hostages are home (as I am) but silent on the 10,000 Palestinian hostages still languishing in Israeli prisons without charge or due process of law—then you'll have to stop pretending its hostage taking you were ever upset about. 1/2

Israel is holding 3700+ hostages Palestine is holding 39 hostages Israel is holding 1900+ prisoners of war Palestine is holding 9 prisoners of war Do the exchange! Exchange and end the occupation NOW!

We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social

My thoughts exactly. So many waiting families.

Please help if you can and get in touch with Faversham police.

Please if in Faversham on Oct 4 you can help with this. It affects a friend and their family. www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/la...

Out today - The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, a devastating critique of the conceptual foundations of the Israeli state, now published with a new preface

Thousands gather in London in march for ‘lasting peace’ in Gaza

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m). 90% profits go to the private sector. This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

This 👇

Hooray Jools is back but Sunday night is not the best…

‘No one’s been willing to take a risk’: are Palestinian films still struggling to get seen?

What a wonderful resource.

To mark the centenary of the 1925 Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, a wrote a blog for @britishlibrary.bsky.social Untold Lives: blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/... find out more on the digital resource South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories @remakingbritain.bsky.social

Very interesting data.

Please check this website to see if your book(s) were used to train AI. You may be entitled to compensation from the Anthropic settlement. I filed a claim because all of my books were used. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Free Palestine reading list

‘Life-saving’ Gaza student evacuations need ‘collective effort’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/life-sa...