Balfour Reparations 2024-2044, a performance lecture by Farah Saleh, uses a mix of movement, spoken word, and participatory action to confront the UK’s colonial role in Palestine and our role in shaping a decolonial future. Samar Jamal | /Greater Govanhill* Photos: Lucas Chih Peng Kao What would you […]
Human Rights
Naila and the uprising
“Naila and the uprising” was a DocHouse screening. It’s rare that a film makes me so angry that I can’t seem to describe it without a rant summarising it as ‘o the injustice!’ but that really was the effect of Julia Bacha’s film. Abena Clarke/ myDylarama* Opening scene: […]
Unholy hell
This piece was written by Emily Fraser, a 40-year-old writer, singer, musician and volunteer member of Clydesider Magazine, Scotland. She wrote the poem in her car, just after hearing over the radio the horrifying and tragic story of young Alma’s loss of her whole family in the Israeli army’s genocidal bombing […]
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 […]
In search of people and place
“I just want the Palestinian and Israeli people to live in peace.” Simon Collings from Renton grew up in the Vale, however his birthplace was many thousands of miles away in Jerusalem. Charlie Sherry / Clydersider Magazin* Born in 1979, he was adopted by a couple from Renton […]
















