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Israel’s war on Palestine: Special Edition
In times of war and genocide, post-truth is imposed. Politicians, governments and mass media make it their main weapon. But the independent media goes against the tide, shows the facts and questions them. In this Special Edition on Palestine, The Prisma publishes the work of a number of independent media, mostly members of the Independent Media Association (IMA) who have covered the issue. We must not stop talking about Palestine.
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I don’t enjoy being here… trust me
A social stigma persists which views people in a situation of homelessness as social parasites or hopeless victims of addiction. Recognizing the human potential of marginalized people instead of seeing them as a criminal problem has been shown to be effective. But European decision-makers refuse to implement it.
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I am here… Do you see me?
A unique experiment during the Covid crisis challenged the uncaring view of people in a situation of homelessness as scroungers and showed what can be done when people come together in a situation of trust, where their individual stories are respected. Wealthy countries have the means to solve social problems but are reluctant to fund projects that work.
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Under a blue sun: How images can hide ethnic cleansing
Lawfare and alternative facts are used to change the landscape. A Palestinian special effects man worked on his own family’s land, expropriated by the Israeli military and then rented to Hollywood film producers. Boycotts of Israeli companies need to make careful choices to avoid furthering the aims of their opponents.
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Right-wing Soldier Monika and the trans dream maiden
Many young people find right-wing politics ‘cool’ today and marginal people caught between different digital bubbles find a new obstacle to being themselves. Making a film was a way to look into the personal and political story of someone changing their gender identity. It was a ‘cinema therapy’ for Monika and had a deep impact on everyone involved.
United Kingdom & Current affairs
- 3 weeks agoWhere names become numbers, homes turn to rubble, and hopes are stolen away by the echo of F35 fighter jets.
- 3 weeks agoSabrina Galella, an Italian migrant living in Scotland and human rights practitioner, explains why the war in
- 3 weeks agoRelentless Israeli bombardments have devastated Lebanon for over a year, killing more than 4,000 people.
- 3 weeks agoBethany Rielly pays tribute to the Palestinian journalist Wafa Aludaini who was killed by an Israeli
- 3 weeks agoThis is the first part of a project naming and locating arms companies or industry organisations in the UK
Multiculture
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This is who we are: Welcome to Palestine
23/12/2024Where names become numbers, homes turn to rubble, and hopes are stolen away by the echo of F35 fighter jets. The founder of Palestine [...] -
There is no liberation of women without the liberation of Palestine
23/12/2024Sabrina Galella, an Italian migrant living in Scotland and human rights practitioner, explains why the war in Palestine is a feminist [...] -
Israeli bombings destroy lives… and nature
23/12/2024Relentless Israeli bombardments have devastated Lebanon for over a year, killing more than 4,000 people. These attacks also inflict [...]
- “The record-breaking killings of journalists in Gaza exceeds any imagination”
- Who’s arming Israel? Mapping UK sites linked to Israeli state terror
- Israel: Apartheid State, State apart
World
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Why LGBTQIA+ people should support Queer Palestinians
23/12/2024I am a Queer Muslim, and it’s now been a year since I was attacked by a group of far-right thugs on Armistice Day 2023. [...] -
Parallels between the imprisonment of Gazans and Guantánamo
23/12/2024The Chiminea-named after those French vertical ceramic barbecues like the one adorning my former landladys’ garden meeting [...] -
If Palestine had been occupied by Russia
23/12/2024It is unusual to wish a foreign occupation of your homeland, but I wonder if that’s what Palestinians find themselves thinking [...]
- From revolution to reconstruction: What lies ahead for Syria?
- Fear, hope and caution among the people of Syria
- Aleppo in terrorists’ grip
Culture
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Seven reparations, one reckoning: Farah Saleh’s embodied call for justice in Palestine
23/12/2024Balfour Reparations 2024-2044, a performance lecture by Farah Saleh, uses a mix of movement, spoken word, and participatory [...] -
Naila and the uprising
23/12/2024“Naila and the uprising” was a DocHouse screening. It’s rare that a film makes me so angry that I can’t seem to [...] -
Unholy hell
23/12/2024This piece was written by Emily Fraser, a 40-year-old writer, singer, musician and volunteer member of Clydesider Magazine, [...]
- “Different futures teeter on the brink of collapse and consolidation”
- Music to celebrate winter in the UK
- Photographing the past in the present
Strugles
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Students arrested after pro-Palestine occupation at Attenborough Tower
23/12/2024The occupation followed a similar protest at the university’s engineering building the week before. Rhys Everquill / [...] -
In search of people and place
23/12/2024“I just want the Palestinian and Israeli people to live in peace.” Simon Collings from Renton grew up in the Vale, however [...] -
“Western journalists are cowards”: The Western abandonment of Palestine
23/12/2024Give Over hosted a panel discussion in London about Palestinian journalists left to die in the dark. Maryam Jameela /Now [...]
- No to the economic war against Cuba
- Family court collusion with violent fathers
- Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
Latin America
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Fear, hope and caution among the people of Syria
16/12/2024President Bashar Al-Assad overthrown, Syria now faces the challenge of forming a government of national unity to heal the wounds [...] -
A most controversial first year for Milei
16/12/2024Hate speech, symbolic violence, an anti-gender policy agenda, shock measures, defunding of education and health, thousands of [...] -
The UK and Colombia: dignity and the principle of reciprocity
09/12/2024Beyond the reasons given by the United Kingdom’s diplomatic corps to justify the willingness to once again demand visas for [...]
- Protests because Bukele asked to restart mining
- In Colombia: the “false positive” deniers
- Coffee producer and women’s rights campaigner
Workers
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Immigrants at sea (2): Developing internationalist trade unionism
29/01/2024It is about organising wherever there are migrant, precarious, low-paid or marginalised workers willing to unite. It is about [...] -
A decade for immigrant and vulnerable workers
22/01/2024Grassroots, independent, bilingual and defending the rights of workers in precarious employment, especially migrants and those [...] -
Immigrants at sea in a precarious labour market (1)
22/01/2024In London there are workers of more than 100 nationalities, including native Britons, in precarious conditions. Migrants are [...]
- When big trade unions abandon their precarious workers
- Immigrant workers: racism and work harassment
- Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
United Kingdom
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This is who we are: Welcome to Palestine
23/12/2024Where names become numbers, homes turn to rubble, and hopes are stolen away by the echo of F35 fighter jets. The founder of [...] -
There is no liberation of women without the liberation of Palestine
23/12/2024Sabrina Galella, an Italian migrant living in Scotland and human rights practitioner, explains why the war in Palestine is a [...] -
Israeli bombings destroy lives… and nature
23/12/2024Relentless Israeli bombardments have devastated Lebanon for over a year, killing more than 4,000 people. These attacks also [...]
- “The record-breaking killings of journalists in Gaza exceeds any imagination”
- Who’s arming Israel? Mapping UK sites linked to Israeli state terror
- The power of journalism to support immigrant communities
Lifestyle
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Networks of love and hate, especially hate!
26/06/2023Violence motivated by hate speech towards vulnerable groups is rampant on social media, despite the rejection of many people. A [...] -
Re-founding Honduras to re-found education
05/09/2022A United Nations study on education in Honduras, published last June, reveals that since March 2020, some 310,000 students have [...] -
Home learning: classroom revolution
09/11/2020Home learning emerged in the midst of the fight against COVID-19 to ensure that teaching could continue in the Dominican [...]
- The virus cannot kill education
- Children and the internet: what Coronavirus changed
- Latin-American youth: a life marked by violence
Sports
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This is who we are: Welcome to Palestine
23/12/2024Where names become numbers, homes turn to rubble, and hopes are stolen away by the echo of F35 fighter jets. The founder of [...] -
There is no liberation of women without the liberation of Palestine
23/12/2024Sabrina Galella, an Italian migrant living in Scotland and human rights practitioner, explains why the war in Palestine is a [...] -
Israeli bombings destroy lives… and nature
23/12/2024Relentless Israeli bombardments have devastated Lebanon for over a year, killing more than 4,000 people. These attacks also [...]
- “The record-breaking killings of journalists in Gaza exceeds any imagination”
- Who’s arming Israel? Mapping UK sites linked to Israeli state terror
- Israel: Apartheid State, State apart