“As global #education funding faces steep cuts, an estimated 6 million additional children could be out of school by the end of 2026, around one-third of them in humanitarian settings… #ODA for education is projected to fall by US$3.2 billion” www.unicef.org/press-releas...

Kids in Lebanese public schools will have for the third consecutive year a four-day school week as the government can’t afford a five-day week. #RightToEducation today.lorientlejour.com/article/1474...

"Those in the world trying to recognize a Palestinian state will get an answer from us on the ground” #Israel to okay plan splitting West Bank in two to 'bury the idea of a Palestinian state' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Haku opiskelijakurssille "Matkalla globaaliksi toimijaksi: kurkistus Arabiemiraatteihin" on avattu! Dubaissa ja Sharjah’ssa 25.10.–31.10.2025 järjestettävällä opiskelijakurssilla tutustutaan laajasti Arabiemiraattien yhteiskuntaan. Lue lisää ja ilmoittaudu kurssille FIMEn nettisivuilta!

Survivors of the pager attack are easily identifiable, with missing eyes, faces laced with scars, hands with missing fingers. The AP interviewed six of them — offering a rare glimpse into the human cost of the attack Powerful work by @bmroue.bsky.social @seldeeb.bsky.social @hassanammar.bsky.social

The deadly port explosion of August 4, 2020, destroyed lives across Beirut. Five years later and the state has yet to hold anyone accountable.

”U.S. states and cities that boycott Israeli companies will be denied federal aid for natural disaster preparedness, the Trump administration has announced” www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

”Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an anti-university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

President of #Finland came out in support of Finland recognising the state of #Palestine but the PM’s not having it. Prefers to wait for the ever elusive moment when it would have an ”real impact”. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

British doctor comes back from Gaza and confirms two things we knew: 1- the Israelis *specifically* confiscate formula feed to starve children 2- there is a clear pattern in gun shot wounds pointing to the fact that IDF soldiers are playing games hunting humans. www.instagram.com/reel/DMm03Kp...

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.

’Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”’ on.ft.com/44De8pm Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG

”U.S. contractors…said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous and irresponsible practices…security staff hired were often unqualified, unvetted, heavily armed and seemed to have an open license to do whatever they wished’ apnews.com/article/pale...

”IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

”At least eight people were killed and hundreds were injured in #Kenya on Wednesday, rights groups said, as thousands faced off with the police amid nationwide protests that laid bare the anger at President William Ruto’s government.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/w...

”In the document, the Hamas leaders apologized profusely to Nasrallah for not informing him in advance and begged him to join the war effort.” www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

Täällä Keniassa nk. Gen Z-protestien vuosipäivä. Stubbin Kenian vierailun yhteydessä presidentti Ruto vakuutti, että virkavallan vuoden takaiset väärinkäytökset eivät tule toistumaan. Tänään CNN raportoi, että poliisi on tehnyt kaupungin keskustasta jälleen ”sotatantereen”.

Meseret Hailu's case "is the first in Lebanese legal history to invoke charges of slavery, slave trading, torture, and racial and gender discrimination under the country’s widely criticized Kafala sponsorship system." soas.lau.edu.lb/news/2025/06...

Lebanese army announces military intelligence detains Lebanese citizen commander of IS in Lebanon, confiscates assorted materiel: www.lebarmy.gov.lb/ar/content/%...

”The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months” edition.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...

Middle East analysis à la the Belgian PM: ““Without Iran, there wouldn’t have been a Hamas. Without a Hamas, not a 7th of October. Without the 7th of October, not a war in Gaza…So it’s a hard regime to feel sorry for.” www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

President of the United States of America: ”The two countries “don’t know what the fuck they’re doing”, he said, adding: “I’m going to see if I can stop it.”” www.ft.com/content/f440...

Professional stuff aside...man, what a time to be alive.

”Donald Trump has thanked Iran for giving the US advance notice of a barrage of missiles against the biggest American air base in the Middle East and said he would encourage Israel to make peace.” www.ft.com/content/6720...

Neljän vuoden kokemuksella näistä hommista voin lämpimästi suositella hakemista. Mielenkiintoista työtä mukavassa porukassa.

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

”Witnesses interviewed by Reuters said Israeli tanks had launched at least two shells at a crowd of thousands who had gathered on the main eastern road through Khan Younis in the hope of obtaining food from aid trucks that use the route.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

US intelligence assessments: ”not only was Iran not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon, it was also up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one to a target of its choosing” www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/p...

Master’s student, apply now for a course on Palestine! "Global Palestine: tracing the shifting horizons of violence and power" online course explores Palestine as a decisively global space that plays a central role in the global circuits of violence, economy, and geopolitics.

“Just as, under the din of war in Gaza, ethnic cleansing has been perpetrated in large swaths of the West Bank, there is now a great risk that the government will fully press the criminal pedal in Gaza.” www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Latest stats I got on ceasefire violations from UNIFIL, since the ceasefire came into force between Hezbollah & Israel last November: Air violations by Israel: 3400+ Trajectories from Lebanon: 19 Trajectories from Israel: 800+ Air attacks by Israel: 80+

Tune in today at 12pm Helsinki time for Antti Tarvainen’s defence of what should be a great doctoral dissertation with Timothy Mitchell acting as the opponent: video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live...

“As #Lebanon veered toward shipwreck, the captains of the economy, the political-banking elite, were quietly moving their own wealth out of the country while simultaneously assuring everyday depositors that all was well” thebadil.com/analysis/sin...

UNHCR "decision, which includes cutting support for various primary healthcare centers, was the result of a drying up of funding from donor countries." today.lorientlejour.com/article/1462...

Over 1100 Israeli academics urge the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to "mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in #Gaza", acknowledging "a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing."

”Harvard is being held accountable for collaboration with the CCP, fostering violence, antisemitism, and pro-terrorist conduct from students on its campus…Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status” www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...

”The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the college to fall in line with the president’s agenda.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

"We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions." Cool. One way to go about with these could be to sanction the UK firms which have exported munitions etc. to Israel despite the UK government suspending export licenses last September. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Tutkija allekirjoita vetoomus Suomen ulkopoliittiselle johdolle ja eduskunnalle kansanmurhan lopettamiseksi Gazassa ja Palestiinan tunnustamiseksi docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"They didn't send the IDF into just another war ... but rather a barbaric assault on waves of rubble and on two million destitute displaced people, the shocked, exhausted, disabled and sick who have no shelter or refuge." www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

”Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law.” uppsaladeclaration.se

”UNIFIL is concerned by the recent aggressive posture of the #Israel Defense Forces (IDF) involving UNIFIL personnel and assets near the Blue Line, including yesterday’s incident in which a direct fire hit the perimeter of a #UNIFIL position” unifil.unmissions.org/unifil-state...

Back to original programming My new piece with Pablo Abufom on shenanigans at the PLO www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is what passes as a ‘ceasefire’ in sth #Lebanon, where there are near daily Israeli attacks without a word from US & French ceasefire monitors. UN peacekeepers have clocked more than 2,600 Israeli airspace violations, 1,400 military activities & more than 60 airstrikes during the ‘ceasefire'

'UNRWA's director in the West Bank, Roland Friedrich, told AFP that "heavily armed" forces surrounded three UNRWA schools in east Jerusalem's Shuafat camp at 9:00 am on Thursday...550 pupils aged six to 15 were present when the closure was enforced' www.france24.com/en/live-news...

’“It’s a small step that’s indicative of increasingly alarming trends in U.S. policy toward Palestinians, including the possibility of supporting Israeli annexation of the West Bank,” said Ibrahim Dalalsha, a former high-level staff member at the consulate’ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...