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Alona Ferber

@aloner.bsky.social

Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |

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Only in Gaza, when you try to get water, you have to struggle just to find water that doesn’t even meet health standards β€” and even that is scarce, expensive, and requires you to compete just to secure less than your daily need.#please donat
#SaveGaza #GazaUnderAttack #StopTheWar

03.08.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Help us set up food kitchens to feed people.
They used to exist, but due to high prices, they no longer do.
Through them, we can provide food for my family and neighbors β€” this helps a lot.
Donate, share, and help save Gaza.

03.08.2025 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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Mohammad needs surgery, but there’s no hospital left.
He’s five β€” he should be playing, not suffering.
Please donate now.
Help us give him a second chance.
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Likud lawmaker Amit Halevi also visited the Temple Mount and was filmed alongside several other Jewish Israelis singing the β€œHatikvah” national anthem while holding Israeli flags in front of the steps leading up to the Dome of the Rock.

www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-ben...

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I can't live with my wife because of visa rules - I feel like I'm being punished Chris Livings and his wife Marilena have been unable to build a life together in the UK due to visa restrictions

UK citizen, Chris, and Italian language teacher who speaks fluent English have been together for 7 years, married in 2023, but cannot live together due to the visa income restrictions.

Even if they get a visa the costs are large. Likely Β£6k for the first 2.5 years

inews.co.uk/news/i-cant-...

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These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.

Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

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Samaa is a mother of five in Gaza, desperate for help. She is new on here and trying to get some support. If you can help, support or reshare, please consider it. www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-...

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It’s funny cause all we do is talk about men’s sexuality? There’s no national rhetoric about women’s needs. This has been true for generations.

Women want to get laid too, they’re just not forcing a political uproar about it.

We actually DON’T need to keep endlessly talking about men wanting sex.

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Women’s status is very rapidly erodingβ€”in their civil rights protections, healthcare, access to the public sphere, and the cultural support for their independence and dignity. But there is no feminism: our public gender discourse is divided between transphobia and handwringing about man’s feelings.

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If the BBC was doing its job, it would note in its coverage of Reform that 92% of the party's donations come from the fossil fuel industry.

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And me!

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Donate to Help a Family Survive War, Displacement, and Daily Hardship, organized by sama sabra I’m a mother of five children, currently trapped in … sama sabra needs your support for Help a Family Survive War, Displacement, and Daily Hardship

www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-...

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A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up

On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

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Fean also addresses the doubts over whether Palestine meets the criteria for statehood under the 1933 Montevideo Convention www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...

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Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll

Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other β€œfruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.

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The UK must recognise Palestine, but without conditions Recognition neither punishes Israel nor rewards Hamas. Keir Starmer has linked two things that do not belong together

The ex-British Consul General to Jerusalem, Vincent Fean, writes for @prospectmagazine.co.uk about the problems with Starmer's conditions for Palestine recognition, and why, though recognition won't end the atrocities in Gaza, it is the right thing to do

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...

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@mommunism.bsky.social @fairshare.help

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Samaa is a mother of five in Gaza who needs help. Reupping her Go Fund Me >> www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-...

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Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here.

Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?

Trump: I think so. He stole her.

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Donate to Help a Family Survive War, Displacement, and Daily Hardship, organized by sama sabra I’m a mother of five children, currently trapped in … sama sabra needs your support for Help a Family Survive War, Displacement, and Daily Hardship

Reupping this from @samaasabra.bsky.social, a mother of five in Gaza, who is struggling and needs support >>> www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-...

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How privatisation led to the sewage scandal Leaky pipes, sewage spills and filthy riversβ€”Oliver Bullough explains how we got here

🎧: @oliverbullough.bsky.social joins @aloner.bsky.social and @ellenhalliday.bsky.social on the Prospect Podcast to discuss why Britain’s water turned to shit: privatisation.
www.prospectmagazine...

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UN two-state conference closes with call to end Hamas rule in Gaza A UN conference aimed at reviving efforts toward a two-state solution in the Middle East drew to a close in New York on Tuesday with a call from 17 countries for an end to Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip...

Meanwhile, the two-state solution conference in New York this week "condemned the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered the conflict in Gaza, and said the Palestinian militant group must hand over its weapons to the West Bank-based PA" /4

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Palestine Action have won their bid for a full legal challenge against the British government's decision to ban it as a terrorist group

The High Court ruled that an internal Home Office process was "not suitable", partly because "many people now subject to criminal proceedings" linked to the ban

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