Bisan Owda has just won one of broadcast journalism’s highest honors – the Peabody Award – for her work with AJ+.

Bisan is currently facing intense Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip. This is her message to the world:

Author @nathanthrall has just won a Pulitzer Prize for his book on the Israeli occupation, but he has repeatedly had events canceled in the U.S. and Germany. He says it's rooted in a fear of being labeled antisemitic for 'entirely legitimate criticism of Israel.'

Trinity College Dublin agrees to divest from Israeli firms after student protest

Five-day encampment in university grounds that caused the college major loss of income ended in victory for campaigners

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If We Say Yes lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/… thank you Amia Srinivasan London Review of Books - this is particularly welcome after the temerity and obfuscation in the The New Yorker earlier this week.

‘Ghassan Abu Sittah was due to speak to the French Senate but was denied entry to France. He is a British citizen. He was told that the German government had prohibited him from entering any Schengen country for a year.’

Selma Dabbagh on the blog: lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

On the Refusal to Call a Spade a Spade opiniojuris.org/2024/05/07/on-… via Opinio Juris
Bravo Nimer Sultany

A statement from Book Workers for a Free Palestine on Zadie Smith’s recent essay in the The New Yorker, Shibboleth #zadiesmith

Vigil in memory of Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, Head of Orthopaedics at al-Shifa Hosp. killed in an Israeli prison. Completed a fellowship at the Department of Orthopaedics & Trauma at King’s College Hospital.
Wednesday, 8th May 2024 5.30pm
Outside King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill

“The only reason the Germans would want a European-wide ban is to stop me from getting to The Hague,” said Abu-Sitta.

“It communicates to me the complete complicity of the German government in the genocidal war.” theguardian.com/world/article/…

Silencing the witnesses. My latest piece in the LRB: lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…
Ghassan Abu Sitta Andrew Feinstein !! Sarah Leah Whitson Charlie Shackleton, if that makes sense Elhum Shakerifar asifkapadia BristolPalestine Lowkey

'We are now living through what we feared for so long.'

UNRWA's Sam Rose says the refugee agency would not be evacuating from Rafah and will continue to provide aid.

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.Camden Friends of Palestine people arrested under the Terrorism Act for artwork of a peace dove. The extent to which the UK government & law enforcement (much like in the US, Germany & France) are willing to corrode democracy in order to prevent criticism of Israel’s genocide is terrifying

In an act of utter vindictiveness the french authorities are denying me access to an earlier flight and insisting on sending me on the last flight back late night to London.

📣VICTORY FOR PALESTINE AT GOLDSMITHS📣

Goldsmiths management has conceded to Goldsmiths for Palestine demands‼️

We have won the first undergraduate Palestinian scholarships at a British university and huge wins on all of our other demands.

Fortress Europe silencing the witnesses to the genocide while Israel kills them in prison.

🚨 Ghassan a witness on record to war crimes has had his phone taken by French airport authorities while I was speaking to him and is now unable to speak to his lawyers.
We are trying to get access. This is outrageous.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office French Government Int'l Criminal Court Metropolitan Police

The Germans have reportedly enacted a Schengen-wide ban on Dr Abu Sitta’s entry to Europe.

This is unacceptable harassment, designed to silence a witness to the genocide in Gaza. They are depriving the French Senate of this testimony.

For shame, GermanForeignOffice Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat

I am at Charles De Gaule airport. They are preventing me from entering France. I am supposed to speak at the French Senate today. They say the Germans put a 1 year ban on my entry to Europe.

Mabruk and a salute to the Palestinian journalists in Gaza who have been awarded the 2024 UNESCO Press Freedom Prize, as a message of solidarity and recognition of their courage and commitment. #WorldPressFreedomDay
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