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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 7h

Israel's genocidal war on Gaza - two years of hell on earth for Palestinians - could have ended at any time with pressure from the US president. There is no safe and peaceful future without justice, without accountability, without freedom for Palestinians

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 4h

Once the Israeli hostages are out, Netanyahu and his far right coalition will absolutely want to resume their assault on Gaza. Will Israel’s Western backers and facilitators stop him? Will Israelis mount mass protests? Because that’s what it will take

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 6h

Make no mistake. Those who spearheaded the Gaza genocide will try to relaunch it in a more ruthless manner, at the earliest opportunity.
They will fail only if there will be an alternative vision, one of recognition, life and equality for everyone.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11h

I hope/pray this very flawed ‘deal’ from Trump that Hamas & Israel agreed to ends the genocide & famine & leads to a real ceasefire.

But my biggest fear is there is nothing and no one to stop Netanyahu from resuming the genocide once they get all the hostages back and Trump has his Nobel Prize.

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Tony Evans @tonyevans92a.bsky.social · 22h

A column about football. Defending Gary Neville for the second time, Gerrard and the golden generation and playing league games abroad tonyevans92a.substack.com/p/neville-da...

Neville Dares To Speak The Truth About Flags That Politicians Would Rather Avoid

A column about football: Plus, Gerrard and the golden generation and the financial inequality that will lead to more domestic league games being played abroad

tonyevans92a.substack.com

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brian-hanley.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social · 23h

jacobin.com/2025/10/pale...

Ultraleftism Can’t Free Palestine

Two years into Israel’s genocide, the US movement in solidarity with Palestinians is far weaker than it should be. To cut off American arms to Israel, we need to build a powerful movement oriented to ...

jacobin.com

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brian-hanley.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Chipmunk Whisperer 🌴🥥🏝️ @chipmunkwhisperer.bsky.social · 2d

Pastor David Black, First Presbyterian Church, being pepper-sprayed outside ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d

Famine’s Long Shadow

Even if food is surged into Gaza today, the history of weaponized mass starvation shows that the social aftershocks will reverberate for generations.

Alex de Waal

jewishcurrents.org/famines-long...

Famine's Long Shadow

Even if food is surged into Gaza today, the history of weaponized mass starvation shows that the social aftershocks will reverberate for generations.

jewishcurrents.org

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

This was twenty-three months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 16,365 kids since.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jul 7

November 7, 2023 — Kids in Gaza host a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life.

“We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”

At the time, Israel forces had killed over 4,200 kids like these.

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brian-hanley.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Gary Neville says he took down union flag being ‘used in a negative fashion’

Footballer turned developer questions spate of flag raisings and says ‘we’re all being turned on each other’

www.theguardian.com

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 2d

Quote of the day

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 2d

1. 🧵Eminent historian Rashid Khalidi joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.social on the @newlinesmag.bsky.social podcast to discuss the two years since Oct. 7, and a century of war on Palestine.

linktr.ee/theledepodcast

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Taqwa khaled @taqwasuh.bsky.social · 3d

Update:
I’m Taqwa

the mother who survived under the rubble,who lost all six of her kids and her entire family💔

I lost everything in one moment

me and my baby Suhaib
We have recently been displaced with nothing at all

Please,we beg you help us get medicine,water,milk,and food🙏🏻
gofund.me/b4901a75

Donate to Please help me and my unborn child to survive this genocide, organized by Taqwa Alqoqa

Hello, I am Taqwa Khaled Al-Qouqa (Abu Said), the pregnant an… Taqwa Alqoqa needs your support for Please help me and my unborn child to survive this genocide

gofund.me

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 5d

Today is the 89th anniversary of the #BattleofCableStreet. Find out more about the Battle and East End radical politics, poetry and song in Episode 2
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social
@misssarahwise.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/5Xib...

2. Forverts! Politics and protest

open.spotify.com

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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 3d

"Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew" by Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations theconversation.com/synagogue-at...

Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew

Manchester Jewry has maintained an extraordinarily strong local identity, but is notable in its diversity.

theconversation.com

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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not generally a fan of if-the-boot-was-on-the-other-foot counterfactuals, but can you imagine what the UK media would be doing if one of Corbyn’s closest politician allies was found to be a Russian agent? Why is Farage not being held over the coals for this?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 3d

"We're fighting fires everywhere, and that's exactly how the right wants us... We have a responsibility to stand up and say that we are here because we value all human life."

More footage from Na'amodnik Em Hilton's conversation with @novaramedia.com.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 3d

Hamas believed that taking a large number of hostages would protect them from disproportionate Israeli response, and would help to bring the Israeli onslaught to an end.

This proved horribly wrong.

In fact, releasing the hostages takes away one of Israel's key reasons to continue the onslaught.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 3d

Every day is a good day to protest the ongoing Gaza genocide, and I don't think every protest needs to mention Hamas's massacre.

However, holding a special mass protest on the 7th Oct anniversary without acknowledgment of Hamas's massacres on that day, is a very different thing.

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 3d

Btw this whole Jim Gavin thing is going to be considerably less funny when it results in Jim O'Callaghan as Taoiseach tbh, but for now, lol lmao

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine looking at the telly for the next 7 years and every time the President is on you shout out that cunt owes me 3 grand

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brian-hanley.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social · 4d

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Liberalism has betrayed the working class, but illiberali...

If we fail to uphold equality and democracy, where will our society be?

observer.co.uk

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 4d

I hope that we've seen the worst of this genocide, even if what lies ahead is bound to be gruelling for the population of Gaza who endured and survived the last two years.

But hope is not enough; it would take sustained international pressure on Israel not to relaunch its genocidal war.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 4d

Jerusalem tonight.
"We must resist against genocide"

Demonstrators against the Gaza Genocide in Jerusalem tonight. Still from a video posted by @RSolidarityNet on X

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