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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · Sep 2

My friend Deena Prischep did a story for NPR on the Yiddish album “Lider mit Palestine” (“Songs with Palestine”) that came out last month. The story ran in “All Things Considered” yesterday. www.npr.org/2025/09/01/n...

This album of songs for Gaza is in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated by genocide

People are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs for Gaza was released in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated through genocide.

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Aug 12

After the IOF's horrific targeted murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and four Al Jazeera colleagues yesterday, this run down by Muhammad Shehada of the lies told by Israel about its genocidal killings in Gaza is vitally important (from 12’50”). youtu.be/XJYtrXNbmA0?...

Five Al Jazeera Journalists Killed By Israel In Gaza | 11 August 2025

YouTube video by Novara Media

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Jul 2

Revealed: UK's Labour Government Is Secretly Allowing Israeli Military Planes Involved in Bombing Gaza to Land in Britain
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Revealed: UK's Labour Government Is Secretly Allowing Israeli Military Planes Involved in Bombing Gaza to Land in Britain

Britain’s Labour government has secretly allowed at least three Israeli Air Force (IAF) planes involved in the bombing of Gaza to land in the UK since it took office, according to flight data reviewed...

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thank you Charlotte!

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · May 29

Don't let the UK govt's confected outrage distract you from the key thing it could do to stop the carnage in Palestine: halt all military collaboration with and arms sales to/from Israel - thanks to @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social for hosting my piece - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-r...

Why the UK refuses to do the one thing that could stop Israel's 'intolerable' war on Gaza

Despite harsh words from Lammy, the government has taken the narrowest possible approach to arms restrictions

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · May 13

‘Why don’t you read my stories?’ Powerful interview with Pullitzer Prize-winning Gazan Abu Mosab Toha youtu.be/gu2-ZgBxng0?...

Pulitzer prize-winning Palestinian poet on the war in Gaza: 'Why is our suffering not acknowledged?'

YouTube video by MSNBC

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · May 13

It's out! It's here! My first ever journal article 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' is out today with @tibg.bsky.social 🤩
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by L...

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · May 11

Is The Encampments available to stream?

Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · May 11

Powerful words from Mahmoud Khalil to his newborn son… and to us all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil

Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · May 6

In reach of East London on Thursday evening? Don’t miss this chance to see and hear the amazing Prof Alana Lentin as she launches her latest book, The New Racial Regime, with an excellent panel of commentators. Register here pelicanhouse.org/event/the-ne...

The New Racial Regime – A Book Launch and Talk with Alana Lentin – Pelican House

We are incredibly excited to be hosting the London launch of Alana Lentin’s fantastic new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy…

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Apr 30

Mohsen Mahdawi released! youtu.be/QOu_r219UxU?...

Columbia University's Mohsen Mahdawi released from ICE detention

YouTube video by CBS News

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Apr 27

The pro-Israel campaign in the US often targets Jews www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why? | Josh Schreier

The pro-Israel campaign to ‘protect’ Jews by punishing anti-Zionist speech often targets Jews. That is no surprise

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Apr 24

Feel like hearing a voice of hope? Try listening to this interview with New York’s exciting, progressive mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
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Zohran Mamdani’s Moral Stand

On the Nose · Episode

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Apr 14

This is so sad. The genocide must end. NOW.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · Apr 14

Israel carried out multiple strikes across the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least 30 Palestinians since dawn. One of the deadliest attacks targeted a vehicle west of Deir el-Balah, killing seven people—including six brothers.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · Apr 14

Israel carried out multiple strikes across the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least 30 Palestinians since dawn. One of the deadliest attacks targeted a vehicle west of Deir el-Balah, killing seven people—including six brothers.

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Apr 4

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But why did they bury the ambulances?

By Tom Zandman • Translated by Sol Salbe

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Mar 24

Perpetrators of horrific five-hour mob attack on pro-Palestine protestors at UCLA last year now challenged by 96-page lawsuit theintercept.com/2025/03/20/u...

Victims of UCLA Mob Attack Sue to “Hold the Aggressors Accountable”

Pro-Palestine protesters at UCLA who were attacked by a mob allege that the school did little to stop nearly five hours of violence.

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Mar 21

The horrific reality of ethnic cleansing and seizure of more Palestinian land by Israel in close alliance with the US. Don’t turn away. We must all stand resolutely against this. vashtimedia.com/israel-pales...

Israel’s return to war is a prelude to mass expulsion

This was the point all along.

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Mar 19

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My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner

A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.

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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · Mar 11

Excited to launch our new project via this event for Law & Resistance Research Group Sussex Law… join me, my fabulous partner + chair Darcy Leigh and this brilliant panel NEXT WEEK to learn more about Rights & Resistance ‘After Liberalism’
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Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights & Resistance 'After Liberalism'

You are warmly invited to join us for an interdisciplinary roundtable, ‘Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights ‘After Liberalism’, featuring

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Mar 6

The real reason why the BBC documentary 'Gaza: how to survive a war zone' was taken off i-player. @josephfinlay.bsky.social nails it again.

Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · Mar 6

I wrote a piece on recent controversies over the films Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone and No Other Land, and the wider tendency in pro-Israel discourse of erasing Gaza, and Palestine in general. josephfinlay.com/erasing-gaza/

Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · Mar 6

I wrote a piece on recent controversies over the films Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone and No Other Land, and the wider tendency in pro-Israel discourse of erasing Gaza, and Palestine in general. josephfinlay.com/erasing-gaza/

Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Feb 5

On Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse Gaza: ‘This is what you get when you treat a state as a god’ Peter Beinart open.substack.com/pub/peterbei...

From Greenland to Gaza

The New American Imperialism

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Jan 30

I recommend reading this excellent and timely piece by @annsplaining.bsky.social vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...

The geometry of remembering

An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead.

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Jan 27

'As Jewish institutions respond to an unfolding genocide by trying to bind Jewish identity even more tightly with Zionism, drawing us further from the horizon indicated by anti-colonial education, the march toward fascism continues apace...' jewishcurrents.org/more-truth

More Truth

To truly oppose the right’s attacks on education, Jewish communities must face Palestinian history.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · Dec 28

The survivors of Israel’s ongoing assault in the north have seen their lives indelibly shaped by fresh traumas compounding a full year of horrors.

Trauma and Terror in the North of Gaza

Whether they fled or stayed behind, the survivors of Israel’s scorched-earth campaign in northern Gaza experienced untold horrors.

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Best Foot Music @bestfootmusic.bsky.social · Dec 19

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We stand up to the racists who tried to stop this play. I for one am incredibly proud to have been a part of it. It Launches this Friday, tickets are nearly sold out.

Let it Be a Tale / Theatre / What's On - Brighton Dome

Award-winning company ThirdSpace Theatre presents strange and vibrant stories through comedy, movement, and live music from Best Foot Music.

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · Nov 21

At long last. The beginning of some justice...

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Nov 21

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu

https://www.ft.com/content/0b62f17a-97db-4817-90f8-f98adead79f0

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu

Warrant also issued for former defence minister Yoav Gallant over allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Nov 21

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu

https://www.ft.com/content/0b62f17a-97db-4817-90f8-f98adead79f0

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu

Warrant also issued for former defence minister Yoav Gallant over allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity

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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · Nov 20

I wrote a long and slightly edgy piece about how Holocaust trauma leads many Israelis and Jews to misinterpret Palestinian violence, and why this makes everything worse toratalbion.substack.com/p/seeing-thi...

Seeing Things Clearly

How projecting past persecution onto Palestinians only perpetuates the war

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