Daniel Voskoboynik

British Jews are tired. Quite literally tired after 25 hours of fasting and intensive prayers. So please don’t expect quick and thoughtful takes on the Manchester synagogue attack from us. Give us a few days.

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla 24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

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Elia is an indispensable thinker for these times. If your institution needs research-analysis-pedagogy which is critical, transdisciplinary and path-opening, look no other way.

Suggested Tzedakah ותשובה ותפילה וצדקה מעבירין את רוע הגזרה "But repentance, prayer, and charity avert the evil decree." We encourage you to donate to the initiatives in both Gaza and the West Bank below: Gaza Soup Kitchen: https://bit.ly/gaza-sk "The initiative began by feeding 150 families a day in April 2024 and quickly grew to serving 3,000 people daily. Operating amidst unimaginable scarcity and risk, our team works tirelessly to prepare and serve hot, nourishing meals. We are not an outside aid group; we are the people of Gaza, serving our own community. Currently, across 10 active kitchen sites, the team prepares simple vegetarian meals-like rice, pasta, and khubeza (a wild foraged green) — often with severely limited supplies." Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://bit.ly/pcrf-gaza "Gaza is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis — families are struggling to survive amid destruction, severe shortages of medical care, food, and clean water, and a collapsed healthcare system. PCRF is on the ground, providing urgent medical aid, food, and life-saving treatment to those in desperate need, including orphans and amputees. We are also deploying international medical teams, evacuating injured children for specialized care, and rebuilding healthcare facilities to restore critical services. "Your support brings hope, healing, and a path to recovery for Gaza’s most vulnerable." Umm Al Kheir: https://bit.ly/umm-al-kheir "This fundraiser is to support the community of Umm Al Khair, those most impacted by the devastating loss and brutal murder of community and human rights activist Awdah Hathaleen, and to continue projects and dreams that he had for his community. Awdah was dear friend of so many all over the world, a loving husband and father of three children...Please join us in supporting the community and his family... All funds raised will be distributed in the community in coordination with his family and the village council."

Ahead of Yom Kippur, we're sharing our Suggested Tzedakah page from our Yamim Noraim reader. We encourage you to donate to any of the following initiatives:

Gaza Soup Kitchen: bit.ly/gaza-sk
Umm Al-Kheir: bit.ly/umm-al-kheir
Palestine Children's Relief Fund: bit.ly/pcrf-gaza

I’m actually reeling. They are literally walling people inside Elfashir, so they can exterminate them.

And we’re all just watching it happen.

The helplessness is soul crushing 😭😭😭

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Australian doctor in Gaza: “We’re here in Gaza at the moment…we weren’t allowed to bring in any baby formula or any cash…it’s mass casualty event after mass casualty event, it’s a nightmare…”

Today's quick update [Sep 19]:

- Early morning RSF drone strike on a mosque in Elfashir.

- The strike coincided with Fajr prayers; at least 43 people reported killed "on the spot", as well as a number of injured.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

YouTube video by Politically Depressed Getting People to Care About Sudan

Just released a new episode with the brilliant @bsonblast.bsky.social about Sudan, the perils of online activism, and ultimately about the struggle between empathy and apathy for African lives, and so much more.
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⚖️ The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel has found that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Read the full report here: ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Ruins of Warsaw, Ruins of Gaza

Our latest for @thefirethesetimes.com:

Daniel joins me from what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto to talk about Israel’s annihilation of the Gaza Ghetto, how memory is weaponised, and how we see things. @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social

On all podcast apps and Patreon

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Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners since 7 Oct is comparable to the worst dictatorships on earth.

- the number keeps growing, and is now around 11k
- close to 90% are held without trial
- starvation as policy
- rampant torture
- dozens died in prison, no accountability

David Chichkan, 39, artist, anarchist, anti-authoritarian activist, gravely wounded defending Ukraine on August 8, died on August 9, 2025.

Pictures below from moving tributes to him on Instagram, where you can also see footage of him appearing in Oleksiy Radynski’s 2016 documentary film ‘Landslide’

a young man holds a young boy and girl in front of rubble

a man holds a microphone with an al jazeera logo while wearing a vest with the word press on it

a young man in glasses wearing a protective vest with the word press on it leans against a car

a collage shows three young men smiling

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right):
-Anas al-Sharif (correspondent)
-Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator)
-Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist)
-Mohammed Noufal (camera operator)
-Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

Kyiv bids farewell to journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was tortured to death by russians while in captivity. On the square, people knelt in her honor.

This is my ministry

Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope Some thoughts

My latest

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A prayer drifts to a nest moments from a summer of storms

"There are griefs, perhaps all griefs, so copious, so impossibly stubborn, so unbearably alive, that only the earth, or the sea, or the night sky feel capable of even approaching the act of holding."

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You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.

As rabbis led Jews of conscience in reciting the Mourner’s Kaddish for the Palestinians killed in recent weeks, NYPD officers hauled off two buses full them to jail.

Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @vernerviisas.bsky.social #CBarchive

Read here ➡️ bit.ly/3TecPJx

Genocide in Syria, Gaza, and Beyond | Antidote Zine Using the term “war” in the Syrian context is as innocent, biased, and lazy as using the term “war” to name the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Instead of coming ...

"Other than undoing democracy, genocracy paves the way for genocides and genocidal massacres. It is organically built around making one genos superior and another inferior...Genocracies normalize genocide as a possible political strategy." - Yassin al-haj Saleh

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This cannot be the new normal

The Gaza famine and genocide cannot become the new normal. The latest episode of The Fire These Times is now available everywhere.

With @ayoub.bsky.social @leilashami.bsky.social @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social @essssraaa.bsky.social & @karena1.bsky.social

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Gazans Are Starving to Death. Here’s How to Help. At least 93 people have died of malnutrition since July 20 due to Israel’s monthslong blockade.

It is hard to know how to help. This is a good list. #gaza

Judaism: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary.” To claim condemning wrongdoing is “anti-Semitic” is to claim Judaism would remain mute at & allow for horrific violence against others. I cannot imagine a more anti-Semitic idea than that.

The images and messages coming out of Gaza are so distressing. People are being deliberately starved to death by Israel and then shot at when they try to get food to survive.
It's an abomination that the world's governments are allowing this to happen.
Open the borders!

Arwa, do any memories stand out from your times in Gaza?

Arwa Damon: "A mother said I don't know what to do about my son. He's 5 & every night he screams.. & he rocks back & forth pulling his hair out & he's been doing this ever since he saw his baby sisters head blown off"

Utter depravity. We will need Nuremberg-type trials to ever come back from this.

⚠️ Hay 20.000 trabajadores y trabajadoras migrantes trabajando en la agricultura de la Comarca del Campo de Cartagena, dentro de la cual se encuentra el municipio de Torre Pacheco. Vamos a intentar explicar un poco el contexto social y laboral existente.

Sigue el hilo 🧵

5 Translated by Grok Show original Michael Hoffman, an IDF soldier, wrote today: "We are losing. And day by day, we are writing ourselves on the dark and terrible side of history. What we are doing in Gaza is concentration camps. What our government wants is to turn them into extermination camps."

And they haven't even started the bigger concentration camps