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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Two days left for our upcoming webinar: Framing Palestine: Israel, the Gulf states, and American power in the Middle East! This is a joint webinar by Makan and TNI, features as a part of TNI's Palestine Liberation Series. You can learn more and register here: www.makan.org.uk/event/makan-...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Join our upcoming online webinar, in partnership with TNI, that provides an overview of Adam Hanieh’s article, “Framing Palestine: Israel, the Gulf states, and American power in the Middle East”, featured as a part of TNI’s Palestine Liberation Series. www.makan.org.uk/event/makan-...
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Makan x TNI - ‘Framing Palestine: Israel, the Gulf states, and American power in the Middle East’ - Online Lecture - Makan
This joint online webinar by Makan & TNI provides an overview of Adam Hanieh’s article, “Framing Palestine: Israel, the Gulf states, and…
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Join Dorset PSC & Makan for a FREE 2-part workshop: Deepen your understanding of Palestine & gain skills to speak confidently about it. Perfect for all levels ready to challenge mainstream narratives. Reserve your spot now! www.makan.org.uk/event/how-to...
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How to Talk About Palestine Workshop - Makan
Organised by Dorset PSC and Makan, this two-part workshop offers both a deep foundation in understanding Palestine and practical tools…
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Reserve your free spot for our How to Talk About Palestine Workshop. This workshop is suitable for participants with foundational or advanced understanding of Palestine who want to deepen their knowledge and strengthen their analysis. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-tal...
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How to Talk About Palestine Workshop
Two-part workshop exploring Palestine’s history, key concepts, and skills to confidently engage and respond to challenging conversations.
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Join our upcoming event in collaboration with Dorset PSC: How to Talk About Palestine Workshop. This two-part workshop offers both a deep foundation in understanding Palestine and practical tools for speaking about it with clarity and confidence. Learn more: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-tal...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Watch Israel and Torture with Lisa Hajjar and Miriam Azem. This episode of Connections will examine the recent report on Israel by the United Nations Committee Against Torture (UN CAT), its first since 2016, and the issues raised by its findings and recommendations. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4708...
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Connections Episode 109: Israel and Torture with Lisa Hajjar and Miriam Azem
Join us on Tuesday, 30 December for a conversation with Lisa Hajjar and Miriam Azem about the centrality of torture to Israel’s regime of repression. This episode of Connections will examine the recen...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Read 'The World Radicalized by the Gaza Genocide', by Tareq Baconi. al-shabaka.org/commentaries...
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The World Radicalized by the Gaza Genocide | Al-Shabaka
Tareq Baconi argues in this commentary how the Israeli genocidal campaign in Gaza has radicalized the world.
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
@palestinedeepdive.bsky.social - Floods Drown Tents of Gaza’s Displaced as Genocide and Siege Continues By Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, a 19-year-old Palestinian writer, poet, and editor from Gaza. www.palestinedeepdive.com/p/floods-dro...
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Floods Drown Tents of Gaza’s Displaced as Genocide and Siege Continues
Despite the misery of those flooded in their tents, others have no shelter at all — no tent, no tarp, no place to escape the storm.
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Last week, Israeli forces stormed Jerusalem’s El-Hakawati children’s theatre, shutting down a performance, another attempt to silence Palestinian cultural life. Read and share our Instagram post to learn more about the history of Palestinian theatre. www.instagram.com/p/DRzjks2jEk...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In this episode of The Amargi Mosaic, host Elif Sarican speaks with Yara Hawari about the various forms of storytelling that influence Palestinian political and social narratives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJZ8...
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Palestinian Women's Resistance and Visions for Liberation with Yara Hawari
YouTube video by The Amargi
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The targeting of Palestinian civil defense workers in Gaza reflects a deliberate policy within Israel's military actions aimed at undermining human survival and recovery in the region. Read and share our full post on Instagram to learn more, here: www.instagram.com/p/DRPEPZJjDf...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Join us for the second session of our Palestine 101 series: Israeli Apartheid – How to talk about Israeli Apartheid. This session will focus on effectively communicating the reality of Israeli apartheid. November 25 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm www.makan.org.uk/event/palest...
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Palestine 101 series: Israeli Apartheid – Session 2: How to talk about Israeli Apartheid - Makan
This workshop builds on the previous session, focusing on how the reality of Israeli apartheid can be effectively communicated. Through…
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This quote by Mona Hajjar Halaby from her book, In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home, beautifully captures the profound experience of displacement. It emphasizes the resilience and forced adaptation of refugees who, like seeds, are carried far from their roots.
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi discusses his memoir, *Fire in Every Direction*, which chronicles his political and queer coming of age between Amman and Beirut as the grandson of Jerusalem and Haifa refugees. www.democracynow.org/2025/11/6/ta...
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“Fire in Every Direction”: Palestinian Author Tareq Baconi on Gaza, Zionism & Embracing Queerness
Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi joins us to discuss his new memoir, Fire in Every Direction, a chronicle of his political and queer coming of age growing up between Amman and Beirut as the grandson of...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The PCHR has documented severe violations of human dignity in Israeli prisons. Recent testimonies from released Palestinian detainees reveal systematic practices of sexual torture, including rape, forced stripping, & sexual assault with objects & animals. pchrgaza.org/pchr-documen...
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PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documents one of the most heinous crimes that can be committed against human beings and their dignity in the modern era. In recent weeks, PCHR staff coll...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Listen to Spain and the Gaza Genocide with Alys Estape: Alys Samson Estape, spokesperson for the Solidarity Network Against the Occupation of Palestine in Spain (RESCOP), analyzes the Spanish government’s stance on the Gaza genocide amid grassroots mobilization. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Spain and the Gaza Genocide with Alys Estape
Podcast Episode · Rethinking Palestine · 10/27/2025 · 24m
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
How Philanthropy Can Divest from Genocide in Palestine and Beyond: This toolkit is grounded in the call from Palestine to divest from genocide and occupation, and in the broader demand for philanthropy to be accountable to movements for justice and liberation. www.divestgenocide.org
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Divest Genocide for Palestine
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
7amleh exposes biased content moderation practices on LinkedIn during the genocide in Gaza. Its report reveals serious gaps in LinkedIn’s moderation policies and an internal work environment marked by institutional bias in favor of Israel and anti-Palestinian racism. 7amleh.org/post/digital...
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Hamleh - New Report by 7amleh Exposes Biased Content Moderation Practices on LinkedIn During the Genocide in Gaza
New Report by 7amleh Exposes Biased Content Moderation Practices on LinkedIn During the Genocide in Gaza
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Join us on Saturday, October 25th, for our How to Talk About Palestine workshop as part of The Peterborough programme. This workshop will help you communicate confidently about Palestine. www.makan.org.uk/event/how-to...
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How to Talk About Palestine (In person) - Platforma Festival - Makan
Join us on Saturday 25th October as we deliver our How to Talk About Palestine workshop as part of The…
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Join White Kite Collective in its upcoming event, Stand with Palestinians: Messages from Gaza. The event features testimony, monologues, speeches, poetry, comedy and music; followed by an engagement segment to stand with Palestinians. Link: www.stratfordeast.com/whats-on/all...
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Stand with Palestinians: Messages from Gaza
Monologues, poetry, stand-up and other performances, in support of and raising funds for Palestinian causes.
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The occupation of Palestine and the establishment of Israel are part of a project known as Zionism. Read Makan's latest explainer to understand what Zionism is, how it began, and more. Learn more here: online.flippingbook.com/view/8961229...
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What is Zionism?
Getting to grips with Zionism and the Zionist project is central to understanding what informed the establishment of the state of Israel and the political project that has sought the destruction of P...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Join Leila Farsakh and Abdaljawad Omar, hosted by Tariq Kenney-Shawa. This session explores the historical context leading to October 7, analyze Gaza as a site of extermination and a catalyst for global disruption, and discuss the future for Palestinians. www.crowdcast.io/c/gaza-world...
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Two Years of Genocide: Gaza and the Unraveling World Order
Register now for Two Years of Genocide: Gaza and the Unraveling World Order on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on October 8, 2025, 04:00 PM GMT+2.
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
We at Makan are thrilled with Denise Gough's endorsement of our recent workshops. She also encourages others by saying, "Contact Makan to do one of their workshops, and maybe consider a donation." Thank you, Denise! To learn more about our events, visit: www.makan.org.uk/events/
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Read China and the Gaza Genocide: A Strategic Distance, by Razan Shawamreh for Al-Shabaka. al-shabaka.org/policy-memos...
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China and the Gaza Genocide: A Strategic Distance | Al-Shabaka
This analysis shows how China’s “biased impartiality” drives its strategic distancing from the Gaza Genocide
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Read now: UN - ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA drive.google.com/file/d/1NCFC...
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UN - ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA.pdf
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Join Settler colonialism & Imperialism – Session 1: Local & Global: Palestine as Indigenous and Anti-Imperialist Struggle on Tuesday 14 October – 6:30-8:30pm London time This workshop is part of our Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History. www.makan.org.uk/event/palest...
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Palestine 101 series: Settler colonialism & Imperialism – Session 1: Local & Global: Palestine as Indigenous and Anti-Imperialist Struggle - Makan
This workshop is part of our Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History. In this workshop, we explore the concepts of indigeneity,…
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Even during the genocide in Gaza, Palestinians are often forced to prove their humanity. At the same time, narratives portray them as either responsible for the violence they face or unworthy of support. Check our post on how these narratives affect solidarity. www.instagram.com/p/DOWHQL1jL7...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Help Makan meet the urgent demand for transformative education on Palestine. With your support, we can keep our workshops accessible and free as well as expand our programmes, and strengthen a movement rooted in justice, dignity, and liberation for Palestine. www.makan.org.uk/civicrm/cont...
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Thank you for helping us to create free, accessible workshops and resources
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Two days left to register for our upcoming event: How to Talk About Palestinian History, which takes place next week on 16th September. Deadline: Wednesday 10th September, 6pm (BST) Enroll now, link below. www.makan.org.uk/event/palest...
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Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History – Session 2: How to talk about Palestinian History - Makan
This workshop is the second session as part of our Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History. It builds on the ‘Reframing…
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
During Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, Meta’s platforms have amplified incitement, disinformation, and paid propaganda while disproportionately silencing Palestinian voices. Join 7amleh's event - Meta’s Role in Amplifying Harmful Content During Genocide us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Meta’s Role in Amplifying Harmful Content During Genocide. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Big Tech’s role in atrocity crimes is unfolding in real time. During Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, Meta’s platforms have amplified incitement, disinformation, and paid propaganda while disproport...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Join Growing the Alternatives next week for a day of community building, skill-sharing, and learning. Highlights include workshops on land justice, housing, decolonising economics and more. www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/growin...
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Growing the Alternatives - The Albany
Join Albany Associate Artist for a free community day in the Albany garden, including seed ball making workshops, talks, food and activism.
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Our event, 'Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History – Session 1: Reframing Palestine' is taking place today. Tune in and join Makan events for free here: www.makan.org.uk/events/
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Events Archive - Makan
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The suppression of solidarity with Palestine affects various sectors, including education, media, and culture. Despite this repression, many are courageously advocating for change, fueled by transformative learning. Donate to transformative education on Palestine. www.makan.org.uk/civicrm/cont...
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Thank you for helping us to create free, accessible workshops and resources
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Help us meet the urgent demand for transformative education on Palestine: Over the past few years, we have built a valuable library of workshops and resources to empower advocacy for Palestinian liberation. We need your support to continue our work. Donate here: www.makan.org.uk/civicrm/cont...
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Thank you for helping us to create free, accessible workshops and resources
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
shado x Decolonial centre presents: What is settler colonialism? This online teach in will be led by Sarona from Makan, and will guide us through what settler colonialism is, how it differs from colonialism, global examples and how communities are resisting it. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-se...
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What is settler colonialism?
shado x Decolonial centre presents: What is settler colonialism? A teach in with Makan
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Join us in Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History – Session 1: Reframing Palestine. In this workshop we delve into the key frameworks and concepts through which the Palestinian struggle can be understood. www.makan.org.uk/event/palest...
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Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History - Session 1: Reframing Palestine - Makan
This workshop is part of our Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History. In this workshop we delve into the key frameworks…
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Join us today! As part of Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art programming, Makan Rights invites members of the audience and the general public to apply to participate to their online ‘Self-Censorship: How to Talk About Palestine’ workshop. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Makan - Online Workshop Application - 'Self Censorship: How to Talk About Palestine' with 'Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art' Monday 18th August 2025 (6.00-8.30pm BST)
In order to be eligible to attend, you need to complete this application form, and be able to commit to attending the entire workshop. Please 'save the date' for the training(s) to ensure you are ab...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Join us today! As part of Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art programming, Makan Rights invites members of the audience and the general public to apply to participate to their online ‘Self-Censorship: How to Talk About Palestine’ workshop docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Makan - Online Workshop Application - 'Self Censorship: How to Talk About Palestine' with 'Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art' Monday 18th August 2025 (6.00-8.30pm BST)
In order to be eligible to attend, you need to complete this application form, and be able to commit to attending the entire workshop. Please 'save the date' for the training(s) to ensure you are ab...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Makan Blog: In light of Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, we reflect on the history and reality of journalism in Palestine and the heavy price journalists continue to pay to ensure that Palestinian voices are not silenced. www.makan.org.uk/blog/honouri...
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Honouring Palestinian Journalists - Makan
In light of Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, we reflect on the history and reality of…
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
In light of Israel’s killing of five Al-Jazeera journalists in Gaza, we explore the story of journalism in Palestine. Since October 2023, Palestinian journalists have worked in the most courageous and perilous conditions, risking their lives to keep the world informed.
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Watch Al-Shabaka's Israel’s War on Palestinian Journalists webcast: A discussion between Mariam Barghouti, Tariq Kenney-Shawa and Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Israel’s assassination campaign against Palestinian journalists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PucQ...
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Israel’s War on Palestinian Journalists
YouTube video by Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Malak Hijazi is a Palestinian writer based in Gaza. She writes, "Lately, I've been reading Gaza Diaries by Muin Bseiso, and I truly don't understand how this book wasn't present in my life earlier. It speaks to a Gaza I've inherited but never fully seen." www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
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Gaza Diary: Reading to Resist
Palestine Square
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
BADIL Resource Center for Residency and Refugee Rights has issued its latest publication, entitled “Colonial States’ Complicity in Gaza: Arming and Shielding Genocide.” badil.org/press-releas...
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New BADIL Working Paper: “Colonial States’ Complicity in Gaza: Arming and Shielding Genocide”
BADIL Resource Center for Residency and Refugee Rights has issued its latest publication, entitled Colonial States Complicity in Gaza: Arming and Shielding Genocide. For over 20 months, rather than ab...
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
From classrooms to community spaces, educators have always been at the heart of liberation movements. Our blog piece reflects on the role of educators in movements for justice and why educating about Palestine is vital to our broader work for liberation. www.makan.org.uk/blog/transfo...
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Transformative education is for everyone: The role of educators for Palestine - Makan
Institutions across the world are deeply entangled in the machinery of Palestinian oppression. Pension funds bankroll weapons manufacturers. Universities invest…
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Join Al-Shabaka policy lab, where Yara Asi and Alex Feagans join host Tariq Kenney-Shawa to discuss how the GHF fits into Israel’s genocidal strategy—and to expose the network of individuals and companies profiting from what has been a death trap. www.crowdcast.io/c/gaza-aid-w...
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The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Aid as a Weapon
Register now for The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Aid as a Weapon on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on August 5, 2025, 04:00 PM GMT+2.
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
GoFundMe has frozen or refunded millions raised for Gaza, offering little justification beyond vague references to “terms of service.” Evidence suggests that fundraisers for Palestinians face disproportionate scrutiny and a higher risk of being deplatformed. 7amleh.org/post/gofundm...
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Hamleh - GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza
GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Check out our explainer on our website to understand how Israel engineers famine in Gaza, which is a major part of the Israeli settler colonial state’s genocidal campaign to exterminate the entire Palestinian population. www.makan.org.uk/hub/explaine...
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Engineered Famine in Gaza - Makan
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Join Facilitated Conversations on Palestine on Thursday, July 31. This is a series of facilitated conversations on Palestine for charity workers in the migration and intersecting social justice sectors. Tickets are free. www.eventbrite.com/e/facilitate...
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Facilitated Conversations on Palestine
A series of facilitated conversations on Palestine for charity workers in the migration and intersecting social justice sectors.
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Read Normalizing Israeli Impunity and Dominance: The Arab Role. Tariq Dana writes for Al-Shabaka. al-shabaka.org/commentaries...
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Normalizing Israeli Impunity and Dominance: The Arab Role | Al-Shabaka
This commentary argues that alliances transformed a potential turning point for isolating the Israeli regime into an opening for intensified colonial expansion and regional dominance.
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Makan @makanrights.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Join Mothers Against Genocide Art on Friday 01 Aug – Sun 03 Aug, produced by West Cork for Palestine. Learn more here: feilebelfast.com/events/mothe...
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MOTHER’S AGAINST GENOCIDE ART EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS - Féile an Phobail
Friday 01 Aug - Sun 03 Aug
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