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 […]
Politics
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 […]
“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 […]
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.
















