Dr Maria A. Deiana

Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act.
Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.

Finally, a huge thank you to Oisin Ralph (@oisinralph) for creating our incredible poster!
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Home - Trans* Research Association of Ireland (TRAI) The Trans* Research Association of Ireland (TRAI) is a new research network supported by the UCD College of Arts and Humanities and School of English, Drama and Film and is open to all trans* research...

Submission deadline is 31st August 2025. Notifications regarding acceptances will be sent out by early September. All information is available via texerenetwork.com/trai/ or in the link in the TRAI Instagram bio.
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We are delighted to announce that the Trans* Research Association of Ireland (TRAI)’s 2nd Annual Symposium will take place on the 21st and 22nd of November 2025 in Queen’s University Belfast in collaboration with Outburst Queer Arts Festival and the Centre for Gender in Politics at Queen’s.
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A photo of labor activist Chris Smalls, talking into a mic

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me:

“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

#BISA2025 keynote recording: Professor Roland Bleiker - Seeing and sensing world politics Watch the #BISA2025 50th anniversary keynote from Roland Bleiker on seeing and sensing world politics.

Our #BISA2025 keynote speech by @bleiker.bsky.social is now published! 🎉

Entitled: 'Seeing and sensing world politics' - co-authored with Dr Emma Hutchinson - this year's keynote was recorded as a lasting memento from #BISA2025 🌟

Watch now 👉 buff.ly/IXfXfpA

@visualpolitics.bsky.social

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

This is the Washington Post (yes, that one): names in Arabic and English, and ages, of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, plus portraits and stories where available: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip.

It is not a threat.

It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.

Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.

“Let us remember Vanessa not just by the way she died, but by the life she lived, her smile, her strength, her incredible powerful love for her children. "
“We remember James and Sara, not just as victims of violence, but as children who played and who laughed”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dr HA Hellyer: "The airdrops.. letting in some aid, even if that aid is less than 1% of what's needed, provides Netanyahus govt the ability to say they've done something in response to international demands.. but its not doing what's necessary on the ground"

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

"Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it."

#SocialJustice

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"The purpose is to quieten the public, or distract it by the lowest-cost calls for recognising a Palestinian state. These are phantom wins, a grotesque exercise in reputation laundering and public opinion management. Innocents are now starving to death. All that is not action is noise"

“Food airdropping game.. Most aid airdropped today landed in no-go military areas through Gaza!”

- Moatasem Daloul, Gazan Journalist

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

Domestic violence is a major threat to women around the world but it is also a warning sign for political violence. And yet, it rarely gets the political attention it deserves and requires.

Gaza Crisis Appeal Families in Gaza are attempting to rebuild their lives. With your donations, Concern, through its trusted partner, can provide vital emergency supplies.

180y ago, the Great Hunger killed over a million people in Ireland as the Great Powers stood by & ignored the horrific suffering of children.

Famine stalks Gaza, babies are arriving at the makeshift triage & dying. The death toll from genocide will grow as famine & disease murder more. Donate:

This morning alone, at least three children died from hunger and malnutrition.

Don’t look away.
Don’t normalize genocide.

Urgent support needed 👇👇

Boycott ZARA: Dressing Up Apartheid and Genocide The BDS movement officially endorses the grassroots, organic campaign to boycott ZARA. We call on people of conscience around the world to boycott ZARA, the flagship brand of the Spanish multinational...

#BoycottZARA

ZARA has chosen to fashion-wash genocide and apartheid.

#BoycottZara until it ends its criminal complicity.

bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...

"We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families."

The Lemkin Institute, named after the very man who coined the term and fought for its codification under international humanitarian law, issues a warning and demands that Gaza's borders be opened up.

No aid supplies left, staff starves in Gaza, Norwegian Refugee Council says The Norwegian Refugee Council, one of the largest independent aid organisations in Gaza, told Reuters on Tuesday its supplies were exhausted and some of its staff starving, and the group accused Israel of paralysing its work.

No aid supplies left, staff starves in Gaza

"Our last tent, our last food parcel, our last relief items have been distributed. There is nothing left," Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the council, told Reuters
@sg-nrc.bsky.social

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

A foreigner living abroad & unfamiliar with British politics could be forgiven for reading this & thinking Starmer is a Tory or Reform MP.
Hard to believe we thought he was left leaning & would be radical & compassionate once in office.

STOP STARVING GAZA NOW: The people of Gaza have called on us to act. We are joining the call to people of conscience to stand against the U.S.-backed Israeli-manufactured famine in Gaza. People of all age groups are being gruesomely starved, with deaths due to malnutrition on the rise every day.

US contractor recounts gruesome details of Gaza aid delivery Man who claims to have worked for US Mercenary firm UG Solutions says he has never seen such violence inflicted on unarmed civilians

even the american mercenaries--excuse me, "contractors"--who are showing up in gaza are like "ok wow no"

www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-cont...

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years.

“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

When Israel launched its assault against Palestinians in Gaza, violence in the occupied West Bank skyrocketed, another front in its war of annihilation.

YouTube video by dprkspacemarine Christy Moore - Dunnes Stores

A song written to commemorate the strikers...

youtu.be/TER_M3KNVCE

#OtD 19 Jul 1984 the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began in Dublin, Ireland when Mary Manning was suspended for refusing to check out South African fruit. She and 11 others went on strike for three years until the govt banned SA goods stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9108...

No Pride In Genocide banner on the steps of Belfast Custom House.

No Borders banner.

No Pride In Genocide march moving towards Belfast City Hall.

Queerde Palestine banner at the No Pride In Genocide march on the steps of Belfast Custom House.

Today’s No Pride In Genocide march in Belfast 🍉🍉🍉