Brannavan Gnanalingam

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

The Polari Prize for LGBTQ+ Literature Faces Pushback Over Nomination of Self-Described TERF LGBTQ+ writers are, shockingly, not happy at the inclusion of a proud transphobe and supporter of J.K. Rowling.

"Describing Boyne’s proud bigotry and support for a hate campaign as just a ‘radically different position on substantive issues’ is insulting and greatly downplays the situation."

Withdrawn: @vavapoetry.bsky.social, @jaseokundaye.bsky.social, and @aetwigg.bsky.social

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'Pele of Palestine' killed by Israeli fire in Gaza aid queue | The National Suleiman Al Obaid played for local football clubs as well as Palestinian national team

The IDF shot and killed "The Pele of Palestine", Sulaiman al Obaid, while he waited on line for food. No comment from FIFA. So we've made calls to FIFA. Whatever good that will do, at minimum aren't going to afford them the privilege of looking away. www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

[bunch of guys who haven't read a piece of fiction in 20 years] my feeling is the kids don't read anymore

Government policy of giving the “Peaked at School” something to brag about into their old age

Is it possible to be brown and just, you know, get a job and people are normal about it.

So far, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty has largely been limited to countries in Africa, South America and Asia that have historically been critical of Israel.

This is an amazing way of writing “most of the world”

The wake up at 5am-ers will be feeling smug about the alert

That one is a @murdochstephens.bsky.social question but not usually. That said, auto-fiction is absolutely our jam, and we *did* publish Roy Orbison in Cling Film, which is a genuinely deranged short story collection cum masterpiece

Turn it into a novel and we’re listening…

Cybonn Ang reviews 'The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat' by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence & Gibson, 2024): www.takahe.org.nz/the-life-and...

Christopher Nolan criticised for shooting The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara Campaigners and filmmakers are angry over the Oscar-winning director's new film using territory occupied by Morocco since 1975

Welp. Guess I'm not seeing The Odyssey.

We have to believe the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity will be brought to justice. We cannot be defeatist about it.

The Dam of Gaza Genocide Denial Has Broken Several prominent media outlets are coming off the fence over Israel’s actions, but a conspiracy of helplessness still prevails

This from @martinshaw.bsky.social pinpointed something that has been troubling me: driving the shift from denial to recognition is a strategy of containment: it tries to convince the public that "yes, we must bear witness to suffering, but unfortunately nothing is to be done."

Why did NZ First become the terf party? For about 200,000 reasons.

The details in here are grotesque

This is sad news, Chris Faiumu’s music really did define an era of this city

COSIGNED pls see:

A sequel, I guess

Look, the only person who can win from this train crash of a mayoral campaign is a novelist who has written a book about stupid Asian loser politicians, set in Wellington

Israeli missile hits Gaza children collecting water, IDF blames malfunction The Israeli military said it intended to hit an Islamic Jihad militant in the area, but that a malfunction had caused the missile to fall "dozens of metres from the target."

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It's so important to point out that the systematic harassment (by not only other politicians, but the gallopingly obvious disproportionate media witchhunts) of brown women politicians but lack of consequences for it - is killing our democracy.

In honour of Norman Tebbit, going to support the Sri Lankan cricket team in their ODI today

'Now I understand why Israel is denying journalists access to the appalling scene in Gaza' ***

Historian Jean-Pierre Filiu, following a month-long stay in Gaza, says Israel’s restrictions on journalists conceal devastation so severe it has profoundly fractured Gazan society and could impact the world

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Perfect. They really are Grant and Malcolm.

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it

Why not (though ask me tomorrow and I’ll have a different list)

“Dr Marwan al-Sultan, a renowned and highly experienced cardiologist and director of the Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip, is the 70th healthcare worker to be killed by Israeli attacks in the last 50 days, according to Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW), a Palestinian medical organisation.”

The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.

“Florida reporter Jason Delgado captured videos showing a layer of rainwater blowing across the floor of the cells [of “Alligator Alcatraz”], while the soft roof of one tent rippled in the wind. Water pooled at the base of the American and Florida state flags and around extension cords for lights.”

On Monday of this week, Hamas' Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip published an updated list of those killed in the war, a 1,227-page chart, arranged from youngest to oldest. The Arabic-language document includes the deceased person's full name, the names of the father and grandfather, date of birth and ID number. Unlike previous lists, this compilation notes the precise age of children who were under the age of one year when they were killed. Mahmoud al-Maranakh and seven more children died on the same day they were born. Four more children were killed on the day after they entered the world, five others lived to the age of two days. Not until page 11, following 486 names, does the name appear of the first child who was more than six months old when he was killed.

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000

The list is 1,227 pages long.

The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.

The first 381 pages are all children.

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