Pratibha Parmar

Let UNRWA Aid Trucks Into Gaza The region’s most experienced aid agency could feed all of Gaza’s population for three months—if Israel would just let them do their job.

At this very moment, UNRWA alone has 6,000 trucks waiting just beyond the border with enough food to feed the entire population of Gaza for 3 mos

Why is Israel restricting UNRWA, and the UN, from doing the work they know best?

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WedAug6th @ICALondon is screening my film, Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth. Looking forward 2being in conversation with @nydiaswaby season curator my films as part of Connecting Thin Black Lines exhibition by artist Lubaina Himid.This clip-Alice Walker in Gaza in 2009 and on the Freedom Flotilla2011

I love this title so much. I have a litany of No’s from me and to me .. No as resistance but/and No as the sound of doors shutting.

Roles reversed: A veteran Gaza aid worker pleads for survival An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.

An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.

Must see exhibition @whitechapelgallery.bsky.social Spent a precious few hours with curator Dominic Johnson of Hamid Butt’s retrospective exhibition. Scandalous that his incredible work has not had the exposure it deserves. He was one of the most innovative artists of his generation #HamadButt

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports of detailing killing of children and elderly, forced displacement and starvation likely to add to pressure for action

Israeli NGOs B'Tselem and PHRI also describe the "development of a genocidal regime" in Israel. Incredibly strong stuff
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No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

Think of all those pro-Israel pundits you saw on your television screens this past year trying to sociopathically justify the mass starvation of Gaza by robotically claiming Hamas steals the aid. They were all lying. Shamelessly. Even the Israeli military confirms it now.

SHOCK: Israel Has Killed 20.7% of Gaza's Population. That's 434,000 People. The corporate media ignores the scale of the horror. It's the rough equivalent of 70 million people in the USA. Official data grossly underestimates the death toll.

As true as anything else you'll read today.

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‘It was a nightmare’: Venezuelans deported from US describe conditions in Salvadoran prison | CNN For months, they say, they were beaten by prison guards, shot with pellets, deprived of adequate medical care and denied any due process inside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement.

“It was a nightmare.”

“(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically.”

“We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.”

Words from Venezuelan migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador.

Unimaginable cruelty. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...

Missing this green horizon.. these green hills. @cameowood.com

Mehdi Hasan, Jubilee, and Why Debating Fascists Is Not Journalism Debating fascists does not dismantle their power; it gives them a platform.

Mehdi Hasan, Jubilee, and Why Debating Fascists Is Not Journalism
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More than 100 NGOs warn Israel’s forced ‘mass starvation’ stalks all Gaza Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says 111 people have now died from famine and malnutrition in recent weeks.

No words left for this engineered horror.

"More than 100 aid groups have called on governments to take urgent action as Israel's forced 'mass starvation' of Palestinians engulfs Gaza. The groups warned that deepening starvation of the population was spreading across the besieged enclave."

Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood. In a way, he thought, they were right. The more coloredpeople spent

strength trying to convince them how gentle they were, how clever and loving, how human, the more they used themselves up to persuade whites of something Negroes believed could not be questioned, the deeper and more tangled the jungle grew inside. But it wasn't the jungle blacks brought with them to this place from the other (livable) place. It was the jungle whitefolks planted in them. And it grew. It spread. In, through and after life, it spread, until it invaded the whites who had made it. Touched them every one. Changed and altered them. Made them bloody, silly, worse than even they wanted to be, so scared were they of the jungle they had made. The screaming baboon lived under their own white skin; the red gums were their own.

All of these white people smiling and joking as they enact their barbarities are the white people in the lynching photos.

Brutal. Barbarous.

From Beloved.

“The screaming baboon lived under their own white skin; the red gums were their own.”

The Graun have run three different first-person pieces in three days with roughly the same headline: "My depression stopped in an instant!" I'm really happy for these ppl who did yoga or drove a car but take heed, this is part of a concerted push against meds & mental health care inc leave.

ICA | Our Eyes as Commonly Tender: Visual Justice in the Filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

Two more dates left/season of my films #ICALondon “Presented in conjunction with Connecting Thin Black Line,this film season celebrates the groundbreaking work of Pratibha Parmar, whose films have shaped the politics of feminist, queer, and diasporic visual cultures” www.ica.art/our-eyes-as-...

How fascism works in India India’s fascist turn under Modi’s Hindu nationalism mirrors Nazi tactics, targets Muslims and threatens democracy

The tactics we saw in India are being followed by the Trump administration. Anyone familiar with 2019 in India, with what they did to Jawaharlal Nehru University, will see the parallels in Trump's assault on US universities. Jason Stanley writes:

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Some trauma is irreparable.

Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts Britain has a duty to act morally, and stop supporting this genocide, says Médecins Sans Frontières UK executive director Dr Natalie Roberts

Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts

Let baby milk into Gaza! Newborns in Gaza are dying before they’ve even had a chance to live. With mothers too weak from hunger to breastfeed, these babies need life-saving formula, fast. Sign the urgent call to let baby milk...

Pls sign this petition...Let baby milk into Gaza.

Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.

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A reminder that when you make a new armed force like this, it doesn’t ever get shut down, job done. It continues to be given new reasons to exist, with new enemies invented to justify its existence due to ever increasing vested interests.

Chila Kumari Burman A Moment to Herself 2002 Inkjet on acetate Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London This hypersaturated, colourful work depicts things in Burman's flat including flowers, jewellery, lingerie, trinkets, found objects and Indian paraphernalia. Highly cropped and laid out in a grid formation, these dazzling images conjure up a kaleidoscopic view of the artist's world. She describes her practice as being devoted to 'challenging stereotypical assumptions of Asian women' and her work is informed by popular culture and by her gender, class, and ethnicity.

Head to the ICA, London art peeps! Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985-2025 curated by Lubaina Himid, until 7 Sept. Event programme includes a bunch of @pratibha.bsky.social screenings too!!!

🖼️ Chila Kumari Burman, A Moment to Herself (detail)

I often sit on this bench near where he lived. Loved him.

Churchill was one of the most virulent racists of the 20th century and Chamberlain one of the most feckless, I don't see the issue here

Israeli arms firm lobbied Home Office on Palestine Action court case Exclusive: Elbit Systems pushed for retrial after charges against Palestine Action co-founders were dismissed, new documents show.

👉 NEW -- Israeli arms firm lobbied Home Office on Palestine Action court case

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Exclusive: Elbit Systems pushed for retrial after charges against Palestine Action co-founders were dismissed, new documents show.

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Bravo to this woman for standing up to bounty hunters/ICE

New Yorkers ! You know what to do.. #voteforzohran #zohranfornyc

Shipping giant Maersk divests from companies linked to Israeli settlements Move follows campaign accusing Maersk of links to Israel’s military and occupation of Palestinian lands.

Move follows campaign accusing Maersk of links to Israel’s military and occupation of Palestinian lands.