Danielle Binks
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Author • Literary Agent • Creative Writing Teacher • https://linktr.ee/DanielleBinks
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Soooooo ... I've started a Substack (y'know, in case the social media oligarchs and fascists get so bad that I have to delete some places)

I'll be discussing Books/Publishing/Culture/Me.

Hey - it could be worse; I could be starting a podcast! 😅 substack.com/@daniellebinks
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Author • Agent • Creative-Writing Teacher • https://linktr.ee/DanielleBinks
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marisakabas.bsky.social
"a test"? you mean...a violation?
AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire
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Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
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NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
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jessielilley.bsky.social
Must read: an eyewitness account of the genocide in Gaza by Dr Ezzideen Shehab, an incredible young writer and GP.

Published by Readers & Writers Against the Genocide. Out Nov 10. Pre-order from indie bookstores now! All $ go to support Ezzideen. More deets:
linktr.ee/readerswritersagainstgenocide
Red book cover with photo of Ezideen Shehab.

DIARY OF A YOUNG DOCTOR
Notes from the genocide in Gaza

Ezideen Shehab

Pull quite:

‘I am no longer a doctor. I am a witness. To the slow murder of dignity.To a land where medicine is a cruel joke and survival is a sin.' Pull quote:

‘How did we come to this?
How did we become a people the world no longer believes are fully human?
Is it because our blood is too cheap? Or is it because the world has learned to look, and then to look away? If so, then it is not we who have lost our humanity. It is you.’

From Diary of a Young Doctor by Ezzideen Shehab 'Written under siege and in the shadow of unrelenting violence, Dr Ezzideen Shehab's words carry both the clinical precision of a doctor and the searing intimacy of a witness.
These are writings of unbearable clarity, carved out of catastrophe, that will not allow the world to look away?’
Sara M Saleh 'What a privilege to read these words from a brave and compassionate witness to Israel's genocide in Gaza.
When language is often insufficient to describe the daily horrors, Dr Shehab conjures a world of grief, resistance and unimaginable resilience. Read this book.’
Antony Lowenstein
daniellebinks.bsky.social
Conflating criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews ‘quite audacious’, lawyer for Sydney academics tells court

University of Sydney and two academics facing racial discrimination case after colleagues accuse them of racist hate speech #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Conflating criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews ‘quite audacious’, lawyer for Sydney academics tells court
University of Sydney and two academics facing racial discrimination case after colleagues accuse them of racist hate speech
www.theguardian.com
daniellebinks.bsky.social
‘Diary of a Young Doctor: Notes from the Genocide in Gaza’ by Ezzideen Shehab

• Out 10 November 2025 • links for preorder ➡️ linktr.ee/readerswrite...

A powerful eyewitness account of the genocide in #Gaza by an extraordinary young writer and general physician. #FreePalestine
How did we come to this? How did we become a people the world no longer believes are fully human? Is it because our blood is too cheap? Or is it because the world has learned to look, and then to look away? If so, then it is not we who have lost our humanity. It is you.
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oliviamesser.bsky.social
In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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wajali.bsky.social
Now that Trump has helped release the Israeli hostages, he can release the Epstein Files!
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isibb.bsky.social
Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss
daniellebinks.bsky.social
‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead

Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead
Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains
www.theguardian.com
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.
daniellebinks.bsky.social
‘The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance’

Support for the authoritarian Israeli regime leads to authoritarian action overseas, in countries where the people protested against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance
Across the west, solidarity marches are testing governments’ tolerance for dissent. From arrests to bans, free-speech boundaries are shifting
www.theguardian.com
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amunicipalfox.bsky.social
This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM
Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents
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sababausa.bsky.social
The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…
daniellebinks.bsky.social
Alfred Nobel invented/patented dynamite. Whilst still very much alive, he read an accidental premature obituary of himself that described him as “merchant of death“ and it has long been assumed that he created the Peace Prize as a way to change his narrative.

www.history.com/articles/did...
Did a Premature Obituary Inspire the Nobel Prize? | HISTORY
Dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel never explained why he created the Nobel Prizes in his 1895 will, but he may have been...
www.history.com
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.
daniellebinks.bsky.social
NSW police wrongly categorise ‘significant’ number of incidents as antisemitic

Anti-Palestinian graffiti and verbal abuse of pro-Palestine protestors incorrectly recorded as antisemitism in figures government cited to defend restrictions on protests #nswpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW police wrongly categorise ‘significant’ number of incidents as antisemitic
Anti-Palestinian graffiti and verbal abuse of pro-Palestine protestors incorrectly recorded as antisemitism in figures government cited to defend restrictions on protests
www.theguardian.com
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rachelwithers.bsky.social
Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
daniellebinks.bsky.social
Polls and politics point to a sea change in US views on Israel. Will it matter?

Fueled by dissent over the war in Gaza, the US public’s views are changing – and support for the Palestinians is rising

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Polls and politics point to a sea change in US views on Israel. Will it matter?
Fueled by dissent over the war in Gaza, the US public’s views are changing – and support for the Palestinians is rising
www.theguardian.com