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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 13h

UK universities 'said they would monitor student social media accounts for arms firms' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-universities-said-they-would-monitor-student-social-media-accounts

UK universities 'said they would monitor student social media accounts for arms firms'

<article data-history-node-id="429827" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-universities-said-they-would-monitor-student-social-media-accounts" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-universities-said-they-would-monitor-student-social-media-accounts" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UK universities 'said they would monitor student social media accounts for arms firms'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Universities in the UK told arms companies that they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about protests on campus, according to a report in the Guardian citing internal emails.</p> <p>One university stated that it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any plans to protest against Rolls-Royce at a careers event.</p> <p>Another university appeared to agree to a request from Raytheon UK to “monitor university chat groups” before a campus visit.</p> <p>The emails were obtained after a freedom of information request by the Guardian and Liberty Investigates. </p> </div> </div> </article>

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13h

Palestinian Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaiseer from MSF lived and worked in Gaza throughout the last 2 years. Last month he was evacuated for medical reasons, and Israel only allowed him to take his phone & the clothes on his back.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13h

James Elder from UNICEF is asked, what do children in Gaza need most & need now?

As well as talking about nutrition & healthcare, Elder points out that education in Gaza has been under attack & he asks, why has Israel been denying education as part of a humanitarian response?

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13h

Pulled from the rubble in Gaza and southern Lebanon, two boys are rebuilding their lives together.

Orphaned by Israel, two child amputees find each other in Lebanon

Pulled from the rubble in Gaza and southern Lebanon, two boys are rebuilding their lives together.

bit.ly

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 13h

Counterpoint destroying Britain in its current state is good actually

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Sara Baker @sarabaker.bsky.social · 13h

This is a deeply upsetting story. As if the Rohingya people have not suffered enough due to an attempted genocide that killed tens of thousands, sent 700,000 fleeing, and imprisoned 145,000 in camps, the withdrawal of US aid is now starving the survivors and children are dying.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 13h

Police raided the wrong home, killed an innocent woman, then planted marijuana in her basement to cover up their mistake.

Episode One: Dirty Business

The Atlanta narcotics unit’s deadly raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13h

🔴 Gaza’s Government Media Office said Israel has ignored Trump’s ceasefire call, launching 230+ air and artillery strikes from Oct. 4–7 that killed 118 civilians, including women and children.

Most of the strikes hit crowded neighborhoods and displacement camps; 72 were killed in Gaza City alone...

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 3d

"Indefinite Leave to Remain has become a fast track to British citizenship" i love how bafflingly dense badenoch is. outside of anything else, it's literally the *only* track to citizenship. outside a few routes, 5 years is the default. 3 applications in 5 years (costing £1000s) is not a fast track!

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Gadi or Gad 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈 @gadi2346.bsky.social · 3d

Not banned.

Not outlawed.

Not needing repressive legislation.

Take note Starmer!

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3d

Organization reports 250,000 participants in Red Line protest in Amsterdam

Jaap @jaaphermans.bsky.social · 3d

Organisatie meldt 250.000 deelnemers aan Rode Lijn-protest in Amsterdam www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

Video shows Israeli settlers attacking a Palestinian Bedouin family on their land in Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank area of South Hebron Hills.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3d

Brazilian Lawmaker Luizianne Lins is under DETENTION in Israeli Prison

#FREE_LINS

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

I just left. I’ll post a story soon. It was disturbing to say the least

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

I just got to Peacehaven mosque. It’s a small place. Forensics are here, half a dozen police cars, a few ppl left bouquets of flowers

There were two ppl inside the mosque when the attackers tried to get in. They got out in time thankfully and no one was injured

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

Two people in balaclavas torched a mosque in Peacehaven, East Sussex. This is not far from where I live.

Fascists are in an open war with Muslims and people of colour in the UK.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.com

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Mathilde Montpetit @mathildegm.bsky.social · 3d

This morning, The Berliner began – against the will of its staff – posting a series of advertisements for the Nova Festival Exhibition. Our concerns having been dismissed and stonewalled, we have had no choice but to strike.

The decision of The Berliner magazine to run an ad campaign for the Nova Festival Exhibition was taken against the explicit objections of its editorial staff and regular freelance contributors.

As we expressed in a letter to management, we freelancers consider these ads clear evidence of ownership taking a political stance on Gaza, having for months pressured the magazine to suppress editorial coverage of Palestine.

As such, we have no other choice but to protest the campaign by withdrawing our collective labour for the magazine's next issue.
We demand that The Berliner withdraw the ads. If the ads continue, our protest will continue.

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Scunnert🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scunnert.bsky.social · 3d

Ben Gvir, the convicted terrorist who is the minister in charge of police & prisons including their military prison for children, a man who wasn’t allowed to do his compulsory stint in the IOF because even they considered him too extreme
#IsraelTerroristState

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3d

Minutes after the Israeli Foreign Ministry denied allegations that Greta Thunberg was mistreated, Israel’s National Security Minister Ben Gvir said:

“I am proud that the flotilla activists are being treated as terrorists. This is my policy.”

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3d

Israel Foreign Ministry:

"The claims regarding the mistreatment of Greta Thunberg and other detainees from the Hamas–Sumud flotilla are brazen lies."

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Sara Alsherif @sarahalsherif.bsky.social · 3d

And then resuming the bombing afterwards!

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

BREAKING: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Israel needs to stop bombing Gaza for an eventual captive release by Hamas to take place.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tdrme7

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 3d

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 4d

Reminder that if people resist expulsion on human rights grounds it’s almost invariably because a) they’d be subjected to torture or similar b) they’re extremely ill & wouldn’t get treatment or c) their children would suffer serious long term harm. The Tories think all these things are fine

UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says

The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3d

Sumud Flotilla Participants are being physically ABUSED by Israel

Surya Mcewen, abducted flotilla member was beat causing his shoulder to dislocate, and had his passport ripped up by Israel

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 4d

Zack Polanski has done the impossible…

Made me feel hope in politics again.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

#bbclaurak: "How are you planning to curb these protests?"

Shabana Mahmood: "I'm specifically going to amend parts of the Public Order Act that will enable the police to place greater restrictions & conditions on protests"

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d

These cases of extreme, far-right racist violence targeting Muslims and people seeking asylum are being blithely ignored by most media and politicians because they see no political capital in addressing them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man arrested after fire at London asylum seekers' hotel

The blaze is being treated as a hate crime by officers investigating.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

Penny Mordaunt says that people protesting yesterday took police resources away from protecting Jewish people & those resources are finite.

So why wasn't the premier league asked to cancel football matches yesterday?

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