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Professor of Urban Studies, University of Sheffield

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Ryan Powell @urbanstigma.bsky.social · Sep 3

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outright Zionist genocide and still govts refuse to call it what it is???

Israeli Finance Minister outlines plan to annex West Bank territory

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says maps are being drawn up to annex “maximum territory” in the West Bank.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jul 21

Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history.

This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.

“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.

#Gaza

The city of Beit Hanoun in the north east edge of Gaza is seen from above. It is completely destroyed, not a single building is standing. It is all rubble, as though the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. The city had a population of 52,000

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · Jul 21

Eighty students from Gaza, who have overcome unbelievable obstacles to get a place at UK universities, unable to take them up due to the UK Home Office disgracefully putting even more obstacles in their place.

www.thetimes.com/article/2a7d...

Living in Gaza, accepted to Cambridge — blocked by Home Office

Young Palestinians overcome unimaginable challenges just to apply to university, only for the British government to make unfeasible visa demands

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Jun 30

On boycotting the ISA in Rabat:

a) ISS needs to be expelled, not suspended; b) Z!on!st abstracts need to be removed from the program; c) Affiliations to universities complicit with the g¤n¤c!d3 must be removed

In full www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/06... @pacbi.bsky.social @gs4p.bsky.social

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