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⭕ Two years of genocide:

The Government Media Office says Israel has dropped over 200,000 tons of explosives on Gaza in 730 days — roughly 13 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb...The office released new statistics; here are some of the main points:

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

Red banner between two flowers reading "Communism, Abolition, and the Future of the Left" With David Camfield and brian bean Haymarketbooks and Fernwood Publishing

Communism, Abolition, and the Future of the Left

Join authors David Camfield and brian bean as they discuss a historical approach to how our side can build a genuinely liberatory alternative to capitalism. W/ @fernpub.bsky.social

Monday, Oct 13 at 5PM ET

RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Stacks of the book “I’ll Get Right On It!” set up on a bookstore table.

A copy of the book “I’ll Get Right On It! Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis” held up in front of a McNally Robinson bookseller banner.

Event posters at the McNally Robinson bookstore in Winnipeg including one for the “I’ll Get Right On It!” book launch.

She's launched!! What an amazing night at @mcnallyrobinson.com to celebrate I'll Get Right On It!

Winnipeg has given me a warm welcome, and it was amazing to meet some of the contributors as well as see two of my co-editors. Big thank you to @fernpub.bsky.social and Winnipeg Thin Air!

We will continue to learn about Palestine from Palestinians. We will make sure that Palestinian students, like all students in our classrooms and under our supervision, are treated with sincerity and respect. We will continue to advocate—as professors, workers, scholars, and community members—for the rights of Palestinians and for a free Palestine. We will refuse the Palestine Exception. WE WILL NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.

If you are a Canadian educator, please strongly consider signing your name to this pledge to continue talking about Palestine.

Note that the link to sign is just above the list of signatories.

faculty4palestine.ca/wp-content/u...

The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya He tried to keep Kamal Adwan hospital open as Israel invaded. He has been imprisoned ever since.

New from Drop Site: The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

He tried to keep Kamal Adwan hospital open as Israel invaded. He has been imprisoned ever since.

By Amel Guettatfi

🔗 Read: dropsitenews.com/p/the-disapp...

Watch the AJ Fault Lines documentary at the link below.

BREAKING: Justice Amy Francis has granted an injunction against Elder Bill Jones and others manning a blockade to protect Old Growth forests in the upper Walbran.

RCMP are expected to conduct a raid soon, and journalist Brandi Morin is headed to the camp to report for Ricochet. Follow for updates!

Multiple A-list filmmakers, including actors, are pictured, alongside headline text that says: “BREAKING: In a historic declaration, 1,200+ film workers launch pledge to not work with Israeli film institutions implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”

Film Worker Pledge to End Complicity: “As filmmakers, actors, film industry workers, and institutions, we recognize the power of cinema to shape perceptions. In this urgent moment of crisis, where many of our governments are enabling the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything we can to address complicity in that unrelenting horror. The world's highest court, the International Court of Justice, has ruled that there is a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza, and that Israel's occupation and apartheid against Palestinians are unlawful. Standing for equality, justice, and freedom for all people is a profound moral duty that none of us can ignore. So too, we must speak out now against the harm done to the Palestinian people.”

“We answer the call of Palestinian filmmakers, who have urged the international film industry to refuse silence, racism, and dehumanization, as well as to "do everything humanly possible" to end complicity in their oppression. Inspired by Filmmakers United Against Apartheid who refused to screen their films in apartheid South Africa, we pledge not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions-including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies-that are implicated* in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people. *Examples of complicity include whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and/or partnering with the government committing them.”

Signed, Adam Bakri / Adam McKay / Aimee Lou Wood / Aki Kaurismäki / Alana Hadid / Alex Winter / Alia Shawkat / Alyssa Milano / Amanda Seales / Ambika Mod / Angeliki Papoulia / Annemarie Jacir / Arian Moayed / Asif Kapadia / Ava DuVernay / Ayo Edebiri / Bassem Yousef / Beatrice Dalle / Benedict Wong / Boots Riley / Brian Cox / Brian Eno / Carice Van Houten / Caveh Zahedi / Cherien Dabis / Crystal Moselle / Cynthia Nixon / Deborah Eisenberg / Debra Winger / Denise Gough / Emma Seligman / Eric Cantona / Esther Acebo / Eyal Sivan / Fernando Meirelles / Gael García Bernal / Gbenga Akinnagbe / Geeta Gandbhir / Hannah Einbinder / Hany Abu Assad / Harriet Walter / Ilana Glazer / Indira Varma / James Wilson / Janicza Bravo / Javier Bardem / Joe Alwyn / Joel Kim Booster / Josh O'Connor / Joshua Oppenheimer / Julie Christie / Juliet Stevenson / Kathleen Chalfant / Ken Loach / Khalid Abdalla / Lena Headey / Liam Cunningham / Lolly Adefope / Lukas Dhont / Mahdi Fleifel / Mai Masri / Marcia Cross / Mark Ruffalo / Maxine Peake / May Calamawy / Melissa Barrera / Mike Leigh / Miriam Margolyes / Morgan Spector / Nan Goldin / Natasha Rothwell / Olivia Colman / Olivia Williams / Paapa Essiedu / Paul Laverty / Peter Kosminsky / Peter Mullan / Poppy Liu / Rebecca Hall / Rebecca O'Brien / Richard Eyre / Riz Ahmed / Rob Delaney / Robyn Slovo / Ronan Bennett / Saleh Bakri / Samuel West / Sara Driver / Seamus McGarvey / Shirin Neshat / Susan Sarandon / Swann Arlaud / Taraneh Alidoosti / Tatiana Maslany / Terence Nance / Tilda Swinton / Tobias Menzies / Tracey Seaward / Tunde Adebimpe / Wallace Shawn / Xavier Dolan / Yorgos Lanthimos / Zawe Ashton... among many, many others. To join the pledge and see the full list of signatories, go to filmworkersforpalestine.org

Breaking! Film workers
across the globe are answering the call of our Palestinian colleagues, who urge the film industry to "do everything humanly possible" to end our complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Film workers: Join the call, sign the pledge: filmworkersforpalestine.org
#endingcomplicity

Amid ‘unprecedented’ rise in respiratory disease in Gaza, famine is making routine infections life-threatening Local authorities in Gaza have identified a “new strain” of respiratory virus in Gaza amid worsening conditions of famine and severe malnutrition, which threaten to cause even routine infections to...

Local authorities in Gaza have identified a "new strain" of respiratory virus in Gaza amid worsening conditions of famine and severe malnutrition, which threaten to cause even routine infections to turn deadly.

mondoweiss.net/2025/09/amid...

#Palestine #Israel

First group of Gazans arrive in Ireland to study The first group of 26 young Palestinians from Gaza have arrived in Ireland to begin a new life as students in Irish universities.

This is fantastic news. 52 Palestinian students are arriving over the next couple of days to study in Ireland.
Scholars can do a lot to try & get students out of Gaza to study. Write recommendation letters, strengthen their English (or other languages). Hold online classes
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Folks, we’re still here, and so are these six families & the mutual aid team serving fifteen more.

This weekly goal is distributed equally among them for food, shelter, medicine, and more. Every week. Still.

Invest in Palestinian life—then act. 426/2300 by Friday night: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an anti-university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit. – Rashid Khalidi

Rashid Khalidi: I can’t honestly teach a course on middle eastern history under the terms of the IHRA definition of antisemitism adopted by Columbia under pressure from the Trump admin.

And so he won’t.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is what you are signing.

Slovenia bans import, export and transit of weapons to and from Israel

"In such circumstances, it is the duty of every responsible state to take action, even if it means taking a step ahead of others" 🇸🇮

Arms Embargo Now! Canada’s secret arms trade with Israel, exposed: This hard-hitting report exposes the damning data—hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets—and the Canadian government’s web of lies tha...

This campaign provides irrefutable evidence of unforgivable deception by federal leaders as well as a range of actions you can take ranging from one minute to several hours of effort.

Whatever time you've got, do something! This country is complicit.
armsembargonow.ca/report/

Israel is starving Gaza. Here’s how you can help keep people alive. “People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” These are the words of Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,…

Mutual aid organizations like The Sameer Project, a rapid-response initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora, need your help to support their work in Gaza.

Hamas is insisting in the ceasefire negotiations that the UN retake control of aid distribution.

Yesterday Israel insisted publicly that the UN must step up when it comes to aid delivery. Yet in negotiations they are now rejecting the UN role in aid distribution.

@jeremyscahill.com

Palestinians call to urgently #BlockTheBoat.

The COSCO Pisces ship, carrying military materiel to genocidal Israel, plans to dock in the port of La Spezia, Italy, on Friday July 25.

Dockworkers, mobilize!

#GenocideFleet

⭕️ IMPORTANT:

The Israeli military is once again inciting against and threatening Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif.

Anas is urging press freedom and human rights organizations to intervene and act immediately.

A book stall in central Gaza is keeping literature alive amidst genocide. Photo by Esraa Abo Qamar A small bookstall in the central Gaza Strip is keeping reading alive amidst Israel’s unrelenting chaos and violence, The Electronic Intifada reports. The stall, called Eqra…

Reblogged a profile of an inspiring and resilient book stall in Gaza, for @literaryhub.bsky.social

🔴 Mass Starvation in Gaza: Over 100 humanitarian groups, including Oxfam, warn aid workers are starving alongside those they serve. With supplies blocked and massacres near aid sites ongoing, Gaza’s collapse is accelerating.

6000 @UNRWA trucks waiting at the border to feed those hungry babies, those hungry mamas and babas, those hungry kittens on the street. 6000 trucks could feed them for three months. But your tax dollars won’t let that happen.

Israeli Military Threatens Journalist After He Reports on Starvation in Gaza The Israeli military’s spokesperson accused Anas al-Sharif of shedding “crocodile tears” over Israel’s mass starvation.

In a broadcast report on growing starvation in Gaza, al-Sharif teared up, having to gather his emotions as he witnessed a woman collapsing in the street due to hunger. Video of the report circulated on social media, with a voice in the video saying to him: “Keep going, Anas. You are our voice.”

A detailed and heartbreaking report on how Israel systematically destroyed Gaza’s bookstores, printing presses, and publishing houses. It turned centers of learning and knowledge production into ruins and ashes.

Please share widely.

Read the full report (I'm teaching it next semester): www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Sulaiman, Sonia: Thyme Travellers Fernwood Publishing Co., Ltd., paperback Publication Date: September 5, 2024 Publisher Marketing: Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora's best voices in speculative fiction. S...

The Sameer Project is running out of money. If you like fantasy and science fiction, pick up my anthology from this bookstore. All proceeds will go to them! Please, the people of Palestine are relying on you. open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sul...

The government had until 9:30am today to appeal the order to release Mahmoud Khalil and did not do so. His lawyers issued a letter urging his release (attached, linked). The government has until 1:30pm to respond.

www.aclu.org/cases/khalil...