Bethany Rielly pays tribute to the Palestinian journalist Wafa Aludaini who was killed by an Israeli airstrike on 30 September. Bethany Rielly / New Internationalist* In May 2021, I sent Wafa a message checking in on her and her family. Gaza had just endured 11 days of relentless Israeli […]
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Students arrested after pro-Palestine occupation at Attenborough Tower
The occupation followed a similar protest at the university’s engineering building the week before. Rhys Everquill / Leicester Gazette* Eleven people, including students, were arrested during a pro-Palestine protest occupation at Attenborough Tower on Friday, 15 November. According to Leicestershire Police, “the people reportedly refused to leave” before […]
“Western journalists are cowards”: The Western abandonment of Palestine
Give Over hosted a panel discussion in London about Palestinian journalists left to die in the dark. Maryam Jameela /Now Then* This panel was organised to discuss the conditional solidarity which has meant that Western journalists have been a complicit audience watching Israel target and kill Palestinian journalists […]
Industrial workers of the world are the trade union we all need
The IWW is one of the oldest unions in the world – and it’s urging collectivity and solidarity in this moment of crisis. #Justice4Workers. Maryam Jameela / Now Then The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is one of the oldest trade unions in the world, founded in 1905 in […]