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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Four PalFest events are landing in London over the next few weeks, from Randa Abdel-Fattah to Ta-Nehisi Coates to Noura Erakat. See the full schedule and grab tickets now! palfest.org/full-schedule
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PalFest Event Schedule — The Palestine Festival of Literature
The public events program of the Palestine Festival of Literature
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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Follow along for a week in the life of Mahmoud Seydam, a university lecturer in Gaza, in a new interactive article from The Guardian. “I saw with my own eyes the [Israeli] military strikes against the university buildings and facilities.”
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‘First there’s the gruelling task of trying to charge my laptop’: a day in the life of a university lecturer in Gaza
As the war in Gaza approaches its fourth year, the Guardian follows five ordinary Palestinians as they go about their lives. Each tells the story of their day, revealing the terrible toll of the confl...
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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoje seria o aniversário de 47 anos de Refaat Alareer, se Israel não o tivesse matado, junto com 7 membros de sua família, 3 destes crianças. Aqui, Brian Cox lê o poema que Refaat escreveu sobre a sua própria morte.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My latest episode on what's happening in the West Bank pca.st/episode/f310...
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West Bank Takeover
In this episode Dana El Kurd talks about how the settlers and the Israeli state are working hand in hand to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the West Bank, and how we should understand the…
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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Check out and follow @gazagenocidecenter.bsky.social
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran is now Kraft Single
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ed sheeran is finding out a fundamental truth about the world right now: palestine is the cause of our time for millions and millions of people and they will not be pushed around about it
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🧵Sulafa Hijjawi, Palestinian poet, scholar, and militant activist, passed away five years ago today. Born in Nablus in 1934, she became known for her literary translations of Palestinian resistance poetry, bringing Palestinian voices to English-speaking audiences: www.palquest.org/en/biography...
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Sulafa Hijjawi - Revolutionaries and Activists (1934 - 2021)
Biography - Sulafa Hijjawi, daughter of Hassan Hijjawi, was born in Nablus. It is said that the poet Ibrahim Tuqan was the one who named her. She married the...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Palestinian folk songs do more than entertain, they document occupation in real time. Serena Rasoul launches the Palestinian Folk Music Archive: a free digital collection of 800+ songs gathered from Palestinian families everywhere. Yezen Saadah reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Palestinians call on Ed Sheeran to cancel his tour after Macklemore dropped from the line-up due to his support for Palestine. Will he listen? His opening acts sure are. "Ed Sheeran’s tour in trouble after opening acts drop out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore." apnews.com/article/ed-s...
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This past month, after months of campaigning, Luxembourg announced that as of August 31 it would no longer support the sales of European Israel Bonds.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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‘I’ve lost everything – my child, my house, my money’: how Israel’s war on Gaza has changed men
The impact of the conflict on Palestinian men is a largely undiscussed topic. Four civilians talk about their lives and relationships
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On the demonization of Palestinian kites: “Hope is rebellion in its youngest form; it is the guileless expectation of a tomorrow the colonizer has already claimed for itself.” buff.ly/1K8oJFi
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On the Existential Threat of Palestinian Kites to Colonial Power
There is an old colonizer adage that “the old will die and the young will forget.” In fact, Israel built its future wagering that the Palestinians violently displaced and expelled in the Nakb…
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New Al Mezan report on Israel's destruction of more than 70% of Gaza’s total documented cultural heritage sites. The report concludes that this destruction "can only be the result of a systemic and deliberate policy." mezan.org/en/post/46891
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Cultural Genocide
Devastation of Cultural Heritage in Gaza
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Yesterday the UK government announced sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank—here is what you need to know... Our senior editor Alona Ferber explains what the sanctions are, and the context behind them
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NYC! There's still time to get tickets to join members of El-Funoun TONIGHT for an energizing evening of Palestinian dabke and storytelling, followed by (optional, as seen here) audience participation www.eventbrite.com/e/tawasol-el...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 05/09/2026
16 hours and we're into our stretch goal 🚨 Spark is a community center in Gaza City. The volunteers donate the rest of the funds needed to keep it open. Isn't that atrocious? Let’s do something about that!! 343/400: chuffed.org/project/spar...
An artistic banner with an illustration of pink thistles on a pale yellow background. Title: Sparks for Spark Space. Text: Spark Space is a youth-led humanitarian project serving the community with internet, electricity, and resilience. Pledge a 5 to keep it open. linktr.ee/sparkworkspace
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
El-Funoun's tour kicks off tonight in NJ – next stop: NYC! NJ 9/4 tix paccusa.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne... NYC 9/6 tix www.eventbrite.com/e/tawasol-el... Full tour schedule el-funoun.my.canva.site/2026-sept-wo...
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NYC! Their afternoon event in the Rockaways is sold out, but there's still time to get tickets to El-Funoun's evening program on Sunday, Sept 6 in the East Village. www.eventbrite.com/e/tawasol-el...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🧵Thirty-nine years ago today, on 29 August 1987, Naji al-Ali passed away after spending more than a month in a coma following an assassination attempt in London: www.palquest.org/en/biography...
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Naji al-Ali - Artists (1936 - 1987)
Biography - Naji al-Ali was born in the village of al-Shajara, in the district of Tiberias. His father was Salim Hussein. His wife, Wadad Salih Nasr, was from...
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Join us next Sunday for an evening of dabke with El-Funoun in NYC! (And tickets for their NJ performance on 9/4 are now available, too!) www.amplifypalestine.org/el-funoun-2026
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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
On Tuesday night, Israel bombed a warehouse storing nutritional supplies meant for children, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers in Gaza. Israel is still carrying out its genocide in Gaza, in complete violation of the ceasefire.
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Seven killed in Gaza as Israeli strike ‘destroys’ aid supply warehouse
Health Ministry warns of 'complete collapse of the basic necessities of life' in Gaza as Israel's attacks continue.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 25/08/2026
Sliman Mansour, a renowned Palestinian painter who chronicled over six decades of his country’s fight for liberation, died in Jerusalem at age 79.
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Sliman Mansour, Painter of Palestinian Hope and Humanity, Dies at 79
"Our fight now is to tell the world that we are full human beings," Mansour told Hyperallergic in 2023. "We are not less than any other people in the world.”
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
El-Funoun returns! This September, join members of Palestine's renowned dance troupe for dabke and cultural resistance. www.amplifypalestine.org/el-funoun-2026
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El-Funoun in NYC 2026 — Amplify Palestine
Learn about dabke and cultural resistance from members of Palestine's premiere dabke troupe, El-Funoun.
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"Before he became a statistic, before he became another casualty of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, and before the discourse rendered him yet another invisible Palestinian man, he was a father, a husband, and a pillar of our community."
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Artists are refusing to be complicit with US empire and Israeli genocide, and it's redrawing the cultural geography of New York City. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/92ny-israe...
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“We should be having memorials to our own lack of conscience.” New York’s 92NY Loses Ginsberg Centennial After Authors Withdraw.
Artists are refusing to be complicit with US empire and Israeli genocide, and it's redrawing the city's cultural geography.
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Today! And if you can't make it out today, you can still support El-Funoun's US dabke tour this September with a donation: www.amplifypalestine.org/el-funoun-2026
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
NYC this Saturday! Dance classes + dance performance raising funds for El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
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ResistDance: LiberationLab
I'm attending an event called ResistDance:LiberationLab with Dancers for Palestine, August 11-16! While the complicit company Gaga Movement Ltd* hosts their “GagaLab” workshop at Mark Morris in downt...
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"92NY’s Center for Culture and Arts calendar has featured an extraordinary number of war criminals, genocide apologists, corrupt billionaires, police commissioners, and right-wing pundits promoting US aggression abroad." Artists launch a new campaign to say NO to 92NY 92no.org
92NO – the no handwritten, across a background with a splash of florescent yellow-green
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
On the 50th anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians remain unbroken in our struggle for liberation. This must not be a moment of resignation - it must be one of escalation. Channel your rage, frustration, and grief into effective, strategic BDS action and pressure. loom.ly/K1gdgOc
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Palestinian Land Day at 50: Unite. Rise. Resist
On the 50th anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians remain unbroken in our struggle for liberation.
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The newest @palfest.bsky.social pod features Alaa Abd el-Fattah, in his first extended conversation since being released from prison in Egypt, with Palestinian poet and performer Farah Barqawi thepalfestpodcast.podbean.com/e/alaa-abd-e...
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Alaa Abd el-Fattah in conversation with Farah Barqawi | The PalFest Podcast
In this episode of the PalFest Podcast we have the writer and political theorist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, in his first extended conversation since being released from prison in Egypt, with the poet and pe...
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Sally Shalabi on genres of storytelling in Palestine that open up imaginaries of “what liberation from a settler colonial reality might look like, which is the first step towards building alternative futures.” tarwida.simplecast.com/episodes/zag...
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Zaghareed, Hakawati and Palestinian Storytelling | Sally Shalabi | Tarwida
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Javier Bardem at the Oscars: “No to war and free Palestine.” variety.com/2026/awards/...
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Javier Bardem Declares ‘No to War and Free Palestine’ at the Oscars, Earns Huge Round of Applause
Javier Bardem used his time introducing the best international film prize to make a statement about war and Palestine.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Get Summer Farah’s new book here, all proceeds to Sameer Project! open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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[B4G] Farah, Summer: The Hungering Years
Host Publications, paperback Publication Date: February 24, 2026 Publisher Marketing: Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing...
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Palestine at the Movies: A Triptych On a big year for Palestinian cinema and the importance of culture work in the war over historical narrative. By Bhakti Shringarpure www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/palestine-...
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Let's help Sameer Project feed 2,500 families this Ramadan. Can you donate and repost? chuffed.org/project/1666... For $32 they can provide 1 family with: 1kg orzo 1pack pasta 1kg sugar 1kg dates 2kg rice 1can ghee 1 l oil 450g tahini 3packs cheese 2cans tomato sauce 1pack spaghetti 2cans beans
repost from Sameer project IG: Help us provide 2,500 families with groceries this Ramadan. for every $32/23.50 raised we can provide one family with these items: For $32 they can provide one family with:
1kg orzo
1 pack pasta
1kg sugar
1kg dates
2kg rice
1 can ghee
1 l oil
450g tahini
3 packs cheese
2 cans tomato sauce
1 pack spaghetti
2 cans beans
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
NYC 3/3 @ Giorno Poetry Systems: Playwright Ismail Khalidi and writer Isabella Hammad in conversation, with a reading from Khalidi's works by Hind Shoufani & John Early withfriends.events/event/oZP0FI...
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Tue, Mar 3 - ISABELLA HAMMAD GIVES THE STAGE TO ISMAIL KHALIDI by Giorno Poetry Systems
Learn more, get tickets, and follow this event
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems! Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Scotiabank’s 1832 Asset Management sells last shares in Israeli military supplier Elbit
Bank faced criticism for investment, including high-profile protests at the Giller Prize
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton & other Berlinale alumni: “Many int'l film festivals have endorsed the cultural boycott of apartheid Israel … We call on the Berlinale to fulfil its moral duty and clearly state its opposition to Israel’s genocide." variety.com/2026/film/gl...
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Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton and Adam McKay Among 81 Names to Sign Open Letter Criticizing Berlin Film Festival for ‘Silence’ on Gaza: ‘We Are Dismayed’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton and Adam McKay are among the names to sign the letter criticizing the Berlin Film Festival's 'silence' on Gaza
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
UPDATE ON THE BOYCOTT OF PEN AMERICA: The Writers Won. The boycott is lifted. Fuck yeah.
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"Among the items Israel restricts are drainage equipment, heaters and solar equipment, and reconstruction items such as cement and timber, many of which are classified as “dual-use” items." www.dropsitenews.com/p/winter-col...
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Winter Cold and Collapsing Buildings Kill Palestinians in Gaza as Israel Blocks Shelter Supplies
A family of three was killed while they slept by a collapsing wall. A one-year-old baby died from the cold. Over 30 Palestinians in Gaza have died from a lack of shelter this winter.
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
NYC 1/22: Opening reception for Eyes in Gaza II, a collection of first-hand accounts from Palestinian photojournalists on the ground in Gaza. The collection will be on view through 2/12 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (St. James Chapel) www.eventbrite.com/e/eyes-in-ga...
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Icymi, when writers organize, they win. As Writers Against the War on Gaza lifts its PEN America boycott, it looks back at the power of collective pressure, and looks ahead toward the work to come. lithub.com/the-boycott-... writersagainstthewarongaza.com/statements/p...
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The boycott of PEN America led by Writers Against the War on Gaza was a success.
On December 31st, 2025, Writers Against the War on Gaza ended their boycott of PEN America, declaring a win in the collective effort of pressure and condemnation that they helped to organize: …as P…
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Join the boycott of Australia's Adelaide Festival! Already 50 writers have withdrawn after the festival's egregiously racist cancelation of Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah's appearance. bdsmovement.net/boycott-adel...
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PACBI joins calls for the boycott of anti-Palestinian racist Adelaide Festival
The Adelaide Festival Board cancelled Palestinian author, lawyer and sociologist Randa Abdel-Fattah’s appearance at the Adelaide Writers’ Week on explicitly racist grounds
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
From Palestine to Venezuela: We call for unity in the struggle for self-determination and for collective solidarity against the genocidal US-Israel axis. Read our full statement: loom.ly/0PcQonE
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From Palestine to Venezuela
We call for unity in the struggle for self-determination and for collective solidarity against the genocidal US-Israel axis.
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Artists On The Frontline @artfrontline.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
“All we hear are warplanes in the sky, and there is a constant threat of a military operation in Jenin” Update from Rawand Arqawi TAKE ACTION https:// theculturalintifada.com MAYDAY >>> #Jenin #JeninUnderAttack #Palestine #Theatre #جنين #Mayday http:// artistsonthefrontline.com/mayday
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