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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli forces open fire during raid in occupied West Bank, one injured - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-open-fire-during-raid-occupied-west-bank-one-injured

Israeli forces open fire during raid in occupied West Bank, one injured

<article data-history-node-id="430016" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-open-fire-during-raid-occupied-west-bank-one-injured" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-open-fire-during-raid-occupied-west-bank-one-injured" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces open fire during raid in occupied West Bank, one injured</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli forces on Saturday opened fire during a raid in the city of Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. </p> <p>At least one person has been wounded, the report said, quoting local Palestinian sources. </p> <p>Israeli forces also stormed the home of prisoner Arafat Al-Zeir in the village of Raboud in Hebron, the sources added.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 2d

A ceasefire doesn’t end genocide. Israel keeps killing Palestinians at the “acceptable” level — the one that never sparked outrage — while occupation and apartheid grind on without international media coverage.

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 3d

The future belongs to the Palestinian people. 🇵🇸❤️

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Samara @samaaraa.bsky.social · 10d

You NEED to watch this! DANKE @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @jukhatib.bsky.social und alle Anderen!

youtu.be/5udxn1GApGU

DAS LAUTE SCHWEIGEN (Trailer 2025)

YouTube video by LOUD SILENCE

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 11d

Trump's proposal represents cruel colonial rule, which fails to address Israel's illegal occupation and apartheid, fails to recognise Palestinians' right to self-determination, and fails to put Palestinians into the driver's seat. Proposals like this are bound to fail.

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 15d

Landmark study of humanitarian doctors & nurses documents 23,726 traumatic injuries in Gaza over a 6 month period

➡️ 67% explosive injuries, 30% firearm injuries
➡️ Burns: 18% of all trauma
➡️ Head, chest, and limb trauma widespread and unusually severe
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Gaza: documenting the trauma of war

Collated descriptions of injuries illustrate the daunting challenges ahead Little is known about patterns of injury in civilians subjected to high intensity bombardments, such as those that occurred ...

www.bmj.com

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 18d

What do these recognitions of Palestine as a state even mean when those recognising it continue to support Israel's genocide against Palestinians and don't specify what borders they are talking about. The 1967 proposal is an insult to many.

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 20d

@kingscsmh.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @helenbamber.bsky.social @refugeeaction.bsky.social @refugeestogether.bsky.social @unhcr.org @refugeestudies.bsky.social

Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 20d

🌎🧡Join us online for the Refugee Mental Health and Place Series: Supporting the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Forcibly Displaced Populations, with Prof. Ross White (Queen's University Belfast).
📅Date: 22 Oct 2025, 16:00–17:30 BST.
➡️Free registration: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/suppo...

Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced populations | King's College London

A free online event focusing on the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced people.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 23d

Sign the European Declaration of Conscientious Objection - No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in #Palestine. No collaboration with Israeli institutions and companies complicit in violations of international law. #BDS
✒️ uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

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ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health @kingscsmh.bsky.social · 26d

Are out of work benefits at a record high? Prof. Ben Geiger (@benbgeiger.bsky.social) from the ESRC Centre for Society & Mental Health explains that the official statistics are wildly misleading on BBC radio 4’s More or Less this morning. Have a listen! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

More or Less - Is it true that out-of-work benefits have almost doubled? - BBC Sounds

Out-of-work benefits, French pensioners, surprising salmon and the truth about senses.

www.bbc.co.uk

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ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health @kingscsmh.bsky.social · 27d

📆 Upcoming event: Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced populations

The Refugee Mental Health in Place Network at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social are hosting a seminar with Dr Ross White to discuss his research on 22 October at 4pm.

Find out more here: bit.ly/3K4fm6m

Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced populations | King's College London

A free online event focusing on the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced people.

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 29d

Palestine solidarity at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (@fau.de). Good to see.

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Dr. Noura Chalati @nourachalati.bsky.social · Sep 11

What an honor!
I’ve been awarded the DAVO 2025 Best Dissertation Award for my thesis “Spying (on) Comrades: The Relations of the East German Stasi and the Syrian Mukhabarat.” 🥳

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · Sep 12

Support was received from: @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Public Engagement Fund, @kingscsmh.bsky.social, King’s Culture, King’s Sanctuary Programme, the GHSM Mental Health & Society Research Group, Kairos, @helenbamber.bsky.social, @migrantsorganise.bsky.social

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · Sep 12

The Belongings Workshop demonstrates how research, creative practice & lived experience can intersect to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous & socially transformative.
🔗 Read the full reflections: www.kcl.ac.uk/belongings-w...

BELONGINGS workshop: Challenging anti-immigration narratives and…

How can public services and community action challenge anti-immigration narratives, create pathways for belonging, and improve quality of life and mental health with refugees and people seeking…

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · Sep 12

Participants used storytelling, dialogue, and drawing to:
✔️ Surface dominant anti-immigration narratives
✔️ Explore their impact on everyday life and mental health
✔️ Co-create alternative narratives of belonging grounded in lived experience to improve mental health

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · Sep 12

The workshop brought together:
🔹 People with lived experience of seeking asylum
🔹 Community partners
🔹 Artists and cultural practitioners
🔹 Researchers at King’s
Through collaboration, they developed practices that questioned exclusionary discourses & reimagined belonging.

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · Sep 12

🧵 New blog: Belongings Workshop organised by the Refugee Mental Health & Place Network at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. The project explored how creative methods can challenge anti-immigration narratives & foster pathways of belonging and improved mental health.
🔗 kcl.ac.uk/belongings-w...

BELONGINGS workshop: Challenging anti-immigration narratives and…

How can public services and community action challenge anti-immigration narratives, create pathways for belonging, and improve quality of life and mental health with refugees and people seeking…

kcl.ac.uk

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · Sep 12

‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms over 200,000 killed in Gaza. Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000

Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Ilyas Saliba @isaliba.bsky.social · Sep 10

I Just received the DAVO dissertation award for the best dissertation in Middle Eastern Studies from a German university in 2024.

🙏🏾 to my supervisors: Wolfgang Merkel @humboldtuni.bsky.social & Donatella Della Porta @sns.it and the many colleagues that have supported my research along the way.

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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · Sep 11

Congratulations again! Fantastic achievement 👏

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ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health @kingscsmh.bsky.social · Sep 11

🧵New blog: BELONGINGS Workshop organised by the Refugee Mental Health & Place Network

The CSMH-supported project explored how creative methods can challenge anti-immigration narratives & foster pathways of belonging & improved mental health with people seeking asylum & refugees.

🔗 bit.ly/3Ijbo9k

BELONGINGS workshop: Challenging anti-immigration narratives and…

How can public services and community action challenge anti-immigration narratives, create pathways for belonging, and improve quality of life and mental health with refugees and people seeking…

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · Sep 10

Roughly a year ago I left the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) over its undemocratic structures. I wrote about it here: share.google/pu7uCF9IkJlU...

Today, DAVO voted for a new board of amazing colleagues whom I trust to steer this ship into a new direction! I may have to reenter now..

Qantara Startseite Deutsch - Dialog mit der islamischen Welt

Das Online-Portal Qantara.de möchte den Dialog mit der islamischen Welt fördern. Es wird vom deutschen Auslandssender Deutsche Welle betrieben.

Qantara.de

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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · Sep 9

Here we go again. Including the obligatory statement by the mayor of Berlin saying that an appearance by Francesca Albanese ist "out of the question" and that he expects (!) the FU to "take a stand against antisemitism" (ie cancel the appearance). Mafia tactics

www.morgenpost.de/berlin/artic...

Genozid-Workshop an FU geplant: Proteste gegen Teilnahme Albaneses

UN-Sonderberichterstatterin Francesca Albanese will diese Woche erneut einen Vortrag an der FU halten. Dagegen regt sich Widerstand, auch aus der Politik.

www.morgenpost.de

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