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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 14h

Very good to see this careful statement signed by our Principal, Prof Andy Schofield, and other VCs including Oxford and UCL, warning of the consequences of the failures to evacuate our students and strange refusal of UNICEF’s support and other support, highlighted in the piece

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 15h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Universities warn Starmer: Evacuate Gaza scholarship students or they will miss out

Exclusive: Senior leaders at several top UK universities have written to the PM to warn that a failure to evacuate students by Sunday will see them miss out

www.independent.co.uk

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 12h

The International Court of Justice just dealt genocidal Israel another major legal blow.

Four highlights from its ruling today ⬇️

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The Hind Rajab Foundation @hindrajabfoundation.be · 8h

Following 10 months of forensic and legal work, HRF’s ICC complaint on the killings of Hind Rajab, her family, and two PRCS paramedics now stands before prosecutors

Justice is not achieved through commentary on public platforms, but where evidence — not opinion — determines accountability.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 8h

In the United States the President is deliberately dismantling the White House, while in the United Kingdom we are doing nothing to stop the Palace of Westminster from falling apart.

Much the same can be said of our respective constitutions.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15h

🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 5 killed (4 of whom were recovered from the rubble) and 4 injured arriving at hospitals.

This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 68,234 and 170,373 injuries (likely 3-5x higher)

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 7h

>>The report says this took place through western media and political discourse, which “parroted Israeli narratives” and failed to distinguish between Hamas and Palestinian civilians, and drew on colonial tropes of Israel’s right to defend itself as a "civilised" nation against "savages".<<

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 7h

The report shows that without the support of mostly European countries, Israel would not have been able to sustain its full-pronged assault on Gaza. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

Israel's genocide in Gaza impossible without global complicity, UN report says

Report shows how 63 states, largely European, sustained the genocide against Palestinians while Arab states failed to take ‘decisive action’

www.middleeasteye.net

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 20h

So much for Trump ending the war with Ukraine - Putin’s puppet ??

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

💥New from Drop Site: “We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed”

Gaza journalist Mohamed Suleiman reports farmers are missing their third olive harvest as Israel’s war devastates the industry.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-olive...

“We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed”

Gaza’s olive groves have been bulldozed by the Israeli military, dried up from lack of water, or remain inaccessible, leaving Palestinian farmers with little to harvest.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d

Peace Illusions

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d

“Dehumanization runs in two directions: Not only does it inflate the victim into a monstrous threat, it also does the opposite — reducing them to dust, shrinking them until they disappear.” Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com/israelis-log...

The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide

By attaching a military goal to each act of killing, Israelis of all stripes could partake in the slaughter without questioning the morality of their actions.

www.972mag.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to raise Capital Gains Tax to the same level as Income Tax, and explains that right now a cleaner can be paying a higher rate of tax than the person who owns the building they clean.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

So when Farage rails against the latest migration figures, he's railing against a monster of his own making. The EU didn't impose uncontrolled immigration on us; it offered a framework that reflected geography, economics and reality”

ie - control.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...

People are just realising that we had a better grip on immigration within the EU

They gave us bar staff and builders - we gave them sunburnt pensioners and seaside property booms. It was win-win.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Tomorrow Chinook Justice will be handing a petition to Downing Street. They are now so close to 50,000 signatures. Please sign this important petition and help the families who have fought so hard for justice get to 50K🙏

www.change.org/p/justice-fo...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

You know it’s bad when the Dept of Labor says immigration raids are “threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”

@opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d

Chancellor says Brexit deal caused long-term damage to economy

She quoted the Office for Budget Responsibility's calculation of a 4% long-term hit relative to remaining in the EU

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rachel Reeves says Brexit deal caused long-term damage to economy

Rachel Reeves made the comments about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Craig Bennett @craigbennett3.bsky.social · 3d

Make no mistake, this is a centralising Govt taking power&decision making away from people

And these shambolic amendments to #PlanningBill, tabled last minute, build on months of lies from #RachelReeves pathetically scapegoating nature for a struggling economy..

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nature groups rebuke Reeves for ‘cynical’ 11th-hour planning bill changes

Chancellor accused of removing environmental protections to win short-term growth and save her budget

www.theguardian.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Over 500,000 views before the Community Note fact check.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

The revelations in the memoir of Epstein whistleblower Virginia Giuffre, published tomorrow, show that every time ‘Prince’ is used in connection with ‘Andrew’ it is a monument to how the powerful can abuse those without power. The title needs to go. But that’s only part of it. 🧵

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 2d

'It’s almost poetic that the loudest voices now decrying Britain’s immigration numbers are the same ones who fought hardest for Brexit.'

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d

There is no such thing as cultural coherence. It’s an invented phrase with no intellectual legs to stand on. It presumes ‘cultures’ are discrete with firm boundaries and they simply are not. Porosity is what makes cultures cultures. Openness to difference is what makes for coherence.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

It’s long past time for Speaker Johnson to do his job and swear in Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva. She won on September 23rd that’s 26 days ago.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has blown up a seventh small boat filled with civilians, this time linked to Colombia.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California.

Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.

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