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Israel intercepts Gaza Sumud flotilla vessels: What we know so far Global Sumud Flotilla had been pressing forward with its mission to break Israel's siege of Gaza.

Global Sumud Flotilla had been pressing forward with its mission to break Israel's siege of Gaza.

The Ulster Unionist Party is a Policyless Party - On This Day in 1925 Thousands of men and women in city, town and country had to leave their homes, offices, warehouses and farms to devote part of their day to “making a few marks on a paper”

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Mum of trans daughter who took own life calls on people to 'speak out' on issue On Transgender Day of Visibility, Caroline Litman, who lost her trans daughter to suicide, is urging cisgender allies to 'speak out' to defend trans people when they can

On Transgender Day of Visibility, @alicemydaughter.bsky.social, who lost her daughter to suicide, is urging cisgender allies to 'speak out' to defend trans people when they can

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Grown men harassing and abusing children because poular media convinced them that boys and men are somehow invading women's sport.

Why is it so easy to radicalise people to "protect women and girls" from a fictitious threat, while they repeatedly overlook and excuse real harm done to us?

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I will keep repeating myself until it becomes accepted fact in The Discourse: Elon Musk is a eugenicist and has repeatedly demonstrated this with what he has said and what he has done

Richard Gere helping Asylum Seekers.

RT if he is a billion times the man Nigel Farage is.

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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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Female #bees perform ‘learning flights’ where they memorise features of an important site.
They look back to ‘fixate’ the site as they leave.
Learning flights occur on first departing their nest and newly found #flowers.

White House Correspondents’ Association cancels comedian headliner for annual dinner The group's board unanimously decided it would no longer feature a comedic performance, WHCA President Eugene Daniels wrote in an email Saturday.

Every White House correspondents dinner that I attended had a comedian mocking the President of the Day. Not this year …. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵

Invitees shun antisemitism conference in Israel after European far right attends <article data-history-node-id="420471" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/invitees-shun-antisemitism-conference-israel-after-european-far-right" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/invitees-shun-antisemitism-conference-israel-after-european-far-right" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Invitees shun antisemitism conference in Israel after European far right attends</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Prominent advocates against antisemitism from around the world have pulled out of a conference in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>&nbsp;tackling precisely that issue, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.</p> <p>The conference, which was organised by the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and described as "a shared dialogue on addressing contemporary antisemitism", has been itself termed "antisemitic" by some who were invited to attend.</p> <p>Haaretz&nbsp;<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-03-23/ty-article/.premium/stab-in-the-back-european-jewish-leader-blasts-netanyahu-govt-for-embracing-far-right/00000195-c378-db1a-af95-eff9ec000000" target="_blank">reported</a>&nbsp;that the first reform rabbi to serve in the Israeli Knesset slammed the event, saying it "should not provide a kashrut certification to politicians from either the far right or the far left who represent parties that adopt antisemitic positions, whether publicly or privately, or anti-democratic positions, even if they express support for the policies of the Israeli government and the State of Israel".</p> <p>The withdrawal of invited guests, such as&nbsp;French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, senior representatives from the&nbsp;International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and even the chief rabbi of the UK, followed the inclusion of far-right European lawmakers and speakers, many of whom are linked to white supremacy and Nazism, and are vocally anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim, The National newspaper reported.&nbsp;</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a aria-label="Invitees shun antisemitism conference in Israel after European far right attends" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/invitees-shun-antisemitism-conference-israel-after-european-far-right-attends">Invitees shun antisemitism conference in Israel after European far right attends</a></h3> <div alt="gaza" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="db760506-ac79-474b-8702-a164fc21d5c5" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/2025-03-26T142559Z_360464282_RC22LDAEVOLC_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-FRANCE-VISIT.JPG" width="5082" height="3388" alt="gaza" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>

Invitees shun antisemitism conference in Israel after European far right attends - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/invitees-shun-antisemitism-conference-israel-after-european-far-right

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Like others, I pulled out of a scheduled talk at Columbia earlier this academic year. Colleagues and students at Vichy-on-Hudson have asked us to renew our boycott commitments.

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Israel’s genocide continues, and Palestinians remain ‘numbers’ The world’s indifference to Palestinian suffering allows Israel to destroy us and our homeland with impunity.

"Silence is not just complicity; it is consent. And so, the bombs keep falling, and the Palestinians remain what the world has allowed them to become: numbers."

— #AJOpinion by Hassan Abo Qamar ⤵️

The “Tragic Maps” of the Plantation of Ulster - On This Day in 1925 Ireland never drank the dregs so deeply again as she had drunk them in the years before the Plantations

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Sussex university fined £585,000 in transgender free speech row The university is fined by the higher education regulator for failing to uphold freedom of speech.

This is of very great concern. Labour has effectively declared war on trans academics and students. By defining transphobia as a “free speech” issue it is going to protect transphobes in higher education while preventing trans-inclusion. This is the opposite of “free speech”.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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"Bridget Phillipson has suggested cutting school spending by £500m and ending universal free school meals for infants."

Trump’s assault on the USA: seeking an explanation Please excuse this much longer-than-usual post. I am seeking to explain something that has appeared almost inexplicable - which is Trump's assault on the USA. I should not have begun thinking about th...

Trump’s assault on the USA: seeking an explanation www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03... This is a longer-than-normal post - but in it, I try to offer a comprehensive and cohesive explanation of what Trump is all about. Have I succeeded? That is for you to decide.

As children, we dreamed of our futures. Then an Israeli bullet took Malak’s My best friend blushed easily, loved our Gaza neighbourhood, and hoped to become a nurse to look after sick children.

"Who fired that lethal bullet at Malak? Why did they kill her? Was she a threat to the soldiers while she slept? Did they fear her dreams of returning to Ramla?"

As children, we dreamed of our futures. Then an Israeli bullet took Malak’s ⤵️

All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow to his living standards pledge in advance of the spring statement

All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Thousands of Britons to have welfare income cut by more than 60% FT calculations point to dramatic impact of government reforms to benefits system

"Tens of thousands of Britons are set to lose almost two-thirds of their income as a result of welfare cuts announced by Sir Keir Starmer’s government." on.ft.com/4iwx5zM

The rise of authoritarianism is not primarily driven by ideology, but by the craving for power of its leaders and the relentless opportunism of their followers.

This isn't about "academia has declined". These people are the academics selected for promotion by the establishment in order to rationalise the institutional needs of the elite. They tell us what the ruling class want us to believe and be able to justify (even though there's no justification).

Haaretz headline: There is no justification at all for Israel to resume the war in Gaza

RTE’s Fran McNulty says that there are 2 sides and asks UN’s Francesca Albanese about the role of Hamas.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz: There’s no justification for Israel to resume the war!

RTE: We’re happy to justify and both-sides the Israeli resumption of their war in Gaza.

Our national broadcaster is a disgrace and a moral black hole.

U.S. must immediately release Palestinian rights-activist Mahmoud Khalil and stop threats of deportation against foreign residents, say UN experts GENEVA – The U.S. Government must immediately release Mahmoud Khalil, a U.S. resident, student and Palestinian rights activist detained by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents, and stop threat...

The U.S. Government must immediately release Mahmoud Khalil, a U.S. resident, student and Palestinian rights activist detained by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents
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