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Zak Essa 🇵🇸

@zak-e.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate at London School of Economics | Interested in climate adaptation, social protection, and the just energy transition

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Israel kills at least 31 Palestinians, including several children, in relentless Gaza bombardment, one of the highest one-day tolls since the start of 'ceasefire' aje.news/8xzvds
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Israel kills 31, including several children, in relentless Gaza bombardment
Israel carries out deadly attacks on Gaza a day before the Rafah crossing is due to reopen.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Some hope to start 2026
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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending": 1. Action Against Hunger 2. ActionAid 3. Alianza por la Solidaridad 4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine 5. CARE 6. DanChurchAid 7. Danish Refugee Council 8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion (cont)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Just 0.001% of humanity hold three times the wealth of poorest half, report finds - that's fewer than 60,000 people vs 4bn - World #Inequality Report says such extreme divides are no longer sustainable for societies or ecosystems 1/2 www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"A 2,000-household survey in Gaza... suggested that the official figures were likely to be undercounting the number of people killed in the war by roughly 39 percent... The majority of those killed — some 56 percent — were women, children and the elderly." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
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Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Every Thursday we try again 🇵🇸
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
it is as if we are back in the days of the East India Company - impossible to tell state and business apart, and they’re consistently collaborating to plunder and oppress
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I’ve Had It Podcast @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
There’s room for joy in our politics @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🚨 BREAKING - FIVE Lift The Ban key spokespeople arrested in dawn raids. Arrested for addressing Open Calls during which legal information on the risks of opposing Labour’s absurd ban on Palestine Action have been shared. Video: Paddy Friend, a law student, arrested at home.
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"It also intends to incinerate nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives, despite offers from the United Nations to buy the items, and has wasted hundreds of thousands of mpox-vaccine doses that are now so near expiration that they can’t be shipped to the African countries experiencing an outbreak"
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Diana Fisher @dianafisher1080.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
'we were trying to bomb a camera'
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Sally Rooney: “I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper–but that would now be illegal. The present UK Gov has willingly stripped its own citizens of basic rights & freedoms, including the right to express & read dissenting opinions, in order to protect its relationship with Israel.”
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza
Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
My goodness this is so disturbing, a regime with a mania for violence - a people that have chosen to destroy their own humanity through the dehumanisation of others
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The most evil crime of our lives, the most barbaric
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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I was lucky enough to hang out with the Climb Malawi team, a group of enthusiastic young climbers who want to see the sport grow in the country. "I like the community feeling...You’re like one of the gears trying to move something and then, if you’re not part of it, it’s not going to move."
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‘It’s all about trusting yourself, pushing your limits’: Malawi’s first climbers take their sport to new heights
From a wall in a back garden to their first international contest, a dedicated community of young climbers is attracting new recruits in the south African country
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip. It is not a threat. It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people. Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/07/2025
I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard
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I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard
A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
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@LemkinInstitute
 is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. 

No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. 

GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. 

IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Racist, colonial barbarity
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/07/2025
BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Watch as an activist is arrested in Glasgow for displaying a sign reading 'genocide in Palestine, time to take action' 'We're not terrorists', he said as he was taken away by police
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Earlier this month, the government blocked an inquiry into its complicity in the Gaza genocide. We don’t need their permission to uncover the truth. That’s why, today, we are announcing The Gaza Tribunal. Sign up at thegazatribunal.uk.
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UNICEF @unicef.org · 12/07/2025
“I rushed there to get a food basket. My father was killed, and I have no one to help my family.” Fadi, 13. Children and families in Gaza are risking everything for their survival.
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Risking everything for survival in the Gaza Strip
With aid being prevented from entering Gaza at scale, even accessing the meagerest supplies is fraught with danger
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UNICEF @unicef.org · 10/07/2025
“This is the cruel reality confronting many in Gaza today after months of insufficient aid being allowed into the territory, and parties to the conflict failing to uphold basic responsibilities to protect civilians.” - UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell Full statement: unicef.link/40Kib1K
We are appalled by the reported killing of 15 Palestinians, including 
nine children and four women, who were waiting in line for nutritional supplies for children in Deir al Balah, the Gaza Strip, this morning. An additional 30 people were reportedly injured, including 19 children. - Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Israeli strike kills at least 10 children queueing for medical treatment in Gaza
Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’
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Caroline Brouillette @carobrouillette.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Lots to unpack about the Rio #BRICS Summit, but noteworthy how much more this Leaders' Declaration had to say regarding the importance of combating climate change and upholding multilateralism to do so than the #g7 (which literally didn't even utter the word climate) brics.br/en/documents...
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
These are the #BDS consumer boycott targets named in the ground breaking report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Read more: bdsmovement.net/news/naming-...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/07/2025
At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn, including 33 aid seekers, according to medical sources.
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‘Horrific scenes’ in Gaza as Israel kills dozens of aid seekers
At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn, including 33 aid seekers, according to medical sources.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🧵Solidarity with Francesca Albanese. She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her. Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide. Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
China is pulling away in the race to power the future.
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There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away. (Gift Article)
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“I can only say that I admire and support Palestine Action wholeheartedly - and I will continue to, whether that becomes a terrorist offence or not.”
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Mozambique: These are the children the United States left to die groundup.org.za/article/moza...
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Mozambique: These are the children the United States left to die
Part one: How the Trump Administration abandoned orphans with HIV
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Watch this - the barbarity being perpetrated daily by Israel on Palestinians.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/06/2025
Officials say death toll expected to rise as authorities launch search operation in the country’s Eastern Cape province.
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At least 49 dead in South Africa flooding, students washed away in bus
Officials say death toll expected to rise as authorities launch search operation in the country’s Eastern Cape province.
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“This genocide will haunt us. It will echo down history with the force of a tsunami. It will divide us forever. There is no going back.” chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-last-d...
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The Last Days of Gaza
The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will not only have decimated the Palestinians, but will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization.
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The graveyard for our shared humanity
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
No money for people with disabilities. No money for the elderly. No money for children in poverty. Always money for war.
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Zak Essa 🇵🇸 @zak-e.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
@jacobbolton.bsky.social
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...
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Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 15/05/2025
On the 77th anniversary of the #Nakba, Gaza is facing famine and mass displacement. IDS researchers warn of a deliberate humanitarian collapse and call for urgent global action. 👇 ac.pulse.ly/iyefxkvygt
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IDS researchers denounce Gaza catastrophe and urge urgent global response - Institute of Development Studies
As Palestinians today mark the 77th anniversary of the Nakba – the expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from their homeland in 1948
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This week’s column is on what increasingly defines western democracy, being held hostage by centrist governments with threats of a worse alternative www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Welcome to the era of ‘hostage politics’, where Labour is apparently your only hope | Nesrine Malik
First it was the Conservatives and now Reform. The only thing the government has to offer is that it’s the least worst option, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Anda David @andadavid.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What do we know on inequality in African countries? Check out our op-ed based on our book :) theconversation.com/what-causes-...
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What causes inequality in African countries? New book traces a vicious cycle
The richest 1% of Africans received 27% of the total revenue from growth on the continent. This is one of the inequalities that needs to change.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Arming Israel. Bombing Yemen. Cutting aid. This government’s obsession with militarism is out of control — and it is the poorest people in the world paying the price. We are all human beings on one planet. Surely that is a good enough reason to try and build a world of peace.
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