I’m a Palestinian citizen of Israel. Right now, that’s as complex as you could possibly imagine | Maria Rashed theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

20 years from now when it is far too late for journalism to make any difference someone will win a Pulitzer for telling the truth about this moment. They’ll be celebrated for unequivocally using the words that people are currently losing jobs for saying... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Shakespeare is brilliant. He doesn’t need you to call him “the greatest writer who ever lived”. Or to claim the Folio “remains the greatest literary work ever created”. BBC Arts why the supremacist language? Get a grip. Where are the voices in the room?

This is beyond everything. Horror of all horrors. I'm being eaten from within. These are people. 5,000 children! Five thousand children. Slaughtered. I feel myself dying. Slowly. I want to take their place. Cover them with cool, clean sheets. Let them drink cold, pure

Isn’t there a balcony for Braverman to appear on and take the applause and make her next inflammatory speech?

I have been appalled by the language of many sectors of the Western media too in their reporting of the Israel Gaza war. More like propaganda than the true values of news reporting under which I trained 25 years ago. Shameful. english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/…

PRESS RELEASE : Palestinian Mission to the UK calls on MPs to vote for an immediate ceasefire. palmissionuk.org/press-release-…

First Minister Humza Yousaf has written to the Prime Minister and UK Leader of the Opposition calling for: 🔵An immediate ceasefire in Gaza 🔵Int'l Criminal Court to investigate whether war crimes are being committed 🔵Recognition of a Palestinian state ➡️gov.scot/news/first-min…

The BBC maintains, in this and other divisive stories, that since both sides criticize their coverage they must be doing something right. That might persuade some—including those inside the BBC. But it’s a hollow argument. bit.ly/3uMpOYF

We need models for leadership in the arts and culture sectors, people willing to show what it means to defend not just the right but the urgent *need* for artists to speak freely in this historic moment. @louiseadler is a leader like that. Listen closely.

Please read this and the replies. So many people translating Refaat Alareer’s ‘If I must die’ into different languages. L

Theatre-goers who want to show solidarity to Gazans under horrifying attack - book online for 'Messages from Gaza' Arcola Theatre on 19 December, dedicated to the late poet Refaat Alareer. Testimonies, readings, music & poetry. Zainab Hasan arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/stand…

Somehow I missed this terrific programme from Falling Tree Radio about Virginia Woolf and music with fascinating contributions from Uzma Hameed about Woolf Works and the composer Jeremy Thurlow about his Woolf music bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The failure of the world to stop the killing in Gaza has triggered an escalation in the region that did not need to happen. Our misplaced and misjudged support for an Israeli government made up of corrupt , self confessed facists, convicted terrorists and now before the ICJ on

NEW: Ben & Jerry's has just joined the call for a #CeasefireNOW.

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Brilliant piece, please read 👇🙏

They still debate if it is a genocide or not! The images and videos of the massacre in Khan Yunis today are too brutal and gruesome to share. It is hell in Gaza. No one can endure this. It must stop. Lord have mercy

Settler colonialism, the genocide and Gaza. "A land without people" is when this genocide started