British Jews are tired. Quite literally tired after 25 hours of fasting and intensive prayers. So please don’t expect quick and thoughtful takes on the Manchester synagogue attack from us. Give us a few days.

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

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Elia is an indispensable thinker for these times. If your institution needs research-analysis-pedagogy which is critical, transdisciplinary and path-opening, look no other way.

Ahead of Yom Kippur, we're sharing our Suggested Tzedakah page from our Yamim Noraim reader. We encourage you to donate to any of the following initiatives:

Gaza Soup Kitchen: bit.ly/gaza-sk
Umm Al-Kheir: bit.ly/umm-al-kheir
Palestine Children's Relief Fund: bit.ly/pcrf-gaza

I’m actually reeling. They are literally walling people inside Elfashir, so they can exterminate them.

And we’re all just watching it happen.

The helplessness is soul crushing 😭😭😭

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Australian doctor in Gaza: “We’re here in Gaza at the moment…we weren’t allowed to bring in any baby formula or any cash…it’s mass casualty event after mass casualty event, it’s a nightmare…”

Today's quick update [Sep 19]:

- Early morning RSF drone strike on a mosque in Elfashir.

- The strike coincided with Fajr prayers; at least 43 people reported killed "on the spot", as well as a number of injured.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Just released a new episode with the brilliant @bsonblast.bsky.social about Sudan, the perils of online activism, and ultimately about the struggle between empathy and apathy for African lives, and so much more.
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⚖️ The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel has found that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Read the full report here: ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Some key takeaways in the 🧵 (1)

Our latest for @thefirethesetimes.com:

Daniel joins me from what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto to talk about Israel’s annihilation of the Gaza Ghetto, how memory is weaponised, and how we see things. @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social

On all podcast apps and Patreon

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Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners since 7 Oct is comparable to the worst dictatorships on earth.

- the number keeps growing, and is now around 11k
- close to 90% are held without trial
- starvation as policy
- rampant torture
- dozens died in prison, no accountability

David Chichkan, 39, artist, anarchist, anti-authoritarian activist, gravely wounded defending Ukraine on August 8, died on August 9, 2025.

Pictures below from moving tributes to him on Instagram, where you can also see footage of him appearing in Oleksiy Radynski’s 2016 documentary film ‘Landslide’

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right):
-Anas al-Sharif (correspondent)
-Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator)
-Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist)
-Mohammed Noufal (camera operator)
-Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

Kyiv bids farewell to journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was tortured to death by russians while in captivity. On the square, people knelt in her honor.

This is my ministry

My latest

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"There are griefs, perhaps all griefs, so copious, so impossibly stubborn, so unbearably alive, that only the earth, or the sea, or the night sky feel capable of even approaching the act of holding."

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You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.

As rabbis led Jews of conscience in reciting the Mourner’s Kaddish for the Palestinians killed in recent weeks, NYPD officers hauled off two buses full them to jail.

Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @vernerviisas.bsky.social #CBarchive

Read here ➡️ bit.ly/3TecPJx

"Other than undoing democracy, genocracy paves the way for genocides and genocidal massacres. It is organically built around making one genos superior and another inferior...Genocracies normalize genocide as a possible political strategy." - Yassin al-haj Saleh

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The Gaza famine and genocide cannot become the new normal. The latest episode of The Fire These Times is now available everywhere.

With @ayoub.bsky.social @leilashami.bsky.social @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social @essssraaa.bsky.social & @karena1.bsky.social

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It is hard to know how to help. This is a good list. #gaza

Judaism: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary.” To claim condemning wrongdoing is “anti-Semitic” is to claim Judaism would remain mute at & allow for horrific violence against others. I cannot imagine a more anti-Semitic idea than that.