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Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too

Gaza City officially in famine, says global hunger monitor Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave.

Leading global experts just confirmed what we’ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And it’s likely to spread.

The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.

I am updating my list of Palestine fundraisers, with direct links in case bluesky vindictively deletes their accounts. Feel free to reply with accounts you know of that I should add.

Just quoting this to pin it because I forgot to put the explanation in the first post of the thread.

Thinking about how the people who call Israel “the last vestige of European colonialism” need to take a look at some of the many other vestiges of European colonialism. 🤷🏼‍♀️

So Israel lied. Again. For like the billionth time.

That’s all they do. Lie. That’s the extent of their statecraft. Just lying.

Lying and murdering people either by dropping bombs on them, starving them, or shooting them when they try to get food.

This is getting close to 150K signatures now. It might not do anything, but it will serve as evidence for the future that the UK government were aware of the opposition of its own people to its complicity in the Israeli genocide on Gaza & the fact that it did nothing to stop it.

‘Do the pilots who bomb children have children’

"Flemish universities are forging links with the military industry. The consequences are morally painful, write eight academics, but also fundamentally undermining the social mission of higher education."

Full text in Dutch also available here:
archive.ph/2Bngj

Our OpEd denouncing the current push for military research in our universities in the Standaard today

University research in the service of the war economy: academics are gradually becoming intellectual mercenaries

www.standaard.be/opinies/univ...

Caster Semenya calls for athletes’ rights to be put first as court rules in her favour ECHR rules South African runner did not have fair trial on need to lower testosterone levels to compete in women’s sport The South African runner Caster Semenya has called for athletes’ rights to be better protected after Europe’s top human rights court ruled that she had not been given a fair trial when she contested a policy that required her to lower her testosterone levels in order to compete in women’s sport. The decision, handed down on Thursday by the European court of human rights, was the latest twist in the two-time Olympic gold medallist’s extraordinary legal battle. Continue reading...

Caster Semenya calls for athletes’ rights to be put first as court rules in her favour

More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh among signatories to letter criticising Jewish Chronicle ties

"The signatories also include 111 BBC journalists...The statement alleges Gibb has a “conflict of interest” which “highlights a double standard for BBC content makers who have themselves experienced censorship in the name of ‘impartiality’.”

this seems important

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Join us UAnterwpen and TUFS colleagues tomorrow for insights on Israel's Settler Colonial project in Palestine and Iran.

Registration link:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

« On ne libérera pas les femmes iraniennes en bombardant leur pays » Alors que les États-Unis de Donald Trump pourraient bombarder l’Iran en soutien à Israël, trois femmes iraniennes, dont la réalisatrice Sepideh Farsi, sont sur le plateau d’« À l’air libre ».

« On ne libérera pas les femmes iraniennes en bombardant leur pays »

Alors que les États-Unis de Donald Trump pourraient bombarder l’Iran en soutien à Israël, trois femmes iraniennes, dont la réalisatrice Sepideh Farsi, sont sur le plateau d’« À l’air libre ».

@mediapart.fr

‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down Shelters are a lifeline in Israel from Iranian attacks, but Palestinian citizens of the country have been locked out.

worth reading this in full. while it does offer examples of individuals excluding/being excluded from shelters which are horrific on their own, it also looks at the structural differences in access to shelter between the jewish and palestinian citizens of israel.

Assassinat de Lumumba : le parquet fédéral réclame le renvoi d’Étienne Davignon devant le tribunal correctionnel - RTBF Actus Patrice Lumumba, principale figure de l’indépendance, a été assassiné le 17 janvier 1961, avec deux de ses plus...

Belgian Court case finally starting tomorrow for the murder of Patrice Lumumba!
Prosecuting office is charging the Davignon for war crimes
www.rtbf.be/article/affa...

Surrealist type painting with a central standing female figure in a long pink dress holding a Mexican flag with buildings and machinery behind her to the right and ancient Mexican artifacts and iconography to her left

Self-Portrait on the Border Line between Mexico and the United States, 1932, Frida Kahlo #womensart

Graffiti in French - we keep quiet when children are sleeping, not when they are dying. #FreeGaza

On brand graffiti - we need to be quiet when children are sleeping, not when they are dying!
#FreeGaza

Not Even the Sea Is Free From Israel’s Brutality The activists aboard the Madleen aid ship couldn’t break the siege of Gaza. But Greta Thunberg and her colleagues have powerfully drawn attention to Israel’s blockade — and the West’s refusal to do an...

The activists aboard the Madleen aid ship couldn’t break the siege of Gaza. But Greta Thunberg and her colleagues have powerfully drawn attention to Israel’s blockade — and the West’s refusal to do anything about it.

#FreeRima #FreeGreeta #FreeGaza #BelgiumComplicit #EUComplicit
Brussels is standing with Gaza tonight, and until independence!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸✊️✊️

Aren’t you meant to be “journalists”, not mouthpieces for a genocidal state?

Why is there always money for war, but never for the poor?

I know which side I’m on.

Really looking forward to hosting you all in Antwerp for critically needed exchanges on colonial peace & connected activist responses later this week!

Registration deadline is today. Participation is extended to remote online participation now!

Updated programme & all info: tinyurl.com/dp8x4ssh

Some more urgently needed discussions on the violence and coloniality of ‘peace’, also very relevant to what some of us have conceptualized and critiqued as oppressive pacifism, beyond the common empire appeasement. And it’s still possible to register to attend the hybrid discussions

Tomorrow the Council will discuss the EU-Israel Association Agreement. The Agreement MUST be cancelled. No Association With Genocide! Suspend EU-Israel Association Agreement, main treaty regulation relations between the EU and Israel. Join the demonstration tomorrow at 10 am in Brussels at Schumann!

A photo of Malcolm X standing at a podium

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

Malcolm X was born #OnThisDay in 1925.

This looks brilliant! 👇

Share, register and join us for a research activist workshop @ UAntwerpen!

Full programme here!
tinyurl.com/3xbmhpy3

#ColonialityofPeace #DecolonialPeace #ActivistResearch

Te Pāti Māori MPs to be temporarily suspended from Parliament over haka MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke faces a seven-day suspension for her actions.

Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

From barrister @crash-w.bsky.social. Powerful critique of the Supreme Court's work...
‘The Court’s comments about single-sex spaces appear to place trans people in a worse position than they were even prior to the passage of the Gender Recognition Act 2004’.
www.translegalproject.org/post/for-wom...

Zara Dinnen | A Sector in Freefall The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a webpage...

Our life in HE “two years into an ambitious five-year transformation programme that required the closure of a whole academic department to pay for a management consultancy to print out a pdf with a road map to success“ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...