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Enduring A Permanent October: New Documentaries from Palestine, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iran New SWANA films respond to genocide and starvation while urging viewers to act beyond passive consumption of the big screen.

Looking back at the work of #WatermelonPictures' The Encampment (2025), Sudan, Remember Us (2024) and a range of SWANA documentaries that showcased at this year's #Sheffield DocFest in @markaz-review.bsky.social

How are films responding to this moment (and can they)?

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📣 NEW ISSUE: TMR 53 #OutofOurMinds is live today!

Join us in embracing vulnerability and collective care in these uncertain times.

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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Hillsborough Law will include duty of candour on public officials The proposed law would force public bodies to co-operate with investigations into major disasters.

Today’s announcement is monumental. The Hillsborough Law is long overdue, won only through decades of relentless struggle by grieving families.

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What more needs to be said before the time arrives to act? #StopKillingJournalists

The blood of our martyred journalists in Gaza has not yet dried before the Israeli occupation forces committed another crime against Al Jazeera cameraman Mohammed Salama, together with three other photojournalists.

Four journalists among 15 killed in Israeli strike on hospital in Gaza, say health officials Deaths take to at least 192 the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the conflict since 7 October 2023 Four journalists were among at least 15 people killed by Israeli strikes on al-Nasser hospital in southern Gaza, Palestinian health officials said. The strikes on Monday killed Hussam al-Masri, who worked for Reuters, Mariam Abu Dagga, who worked for the Associated Press, the Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Salam, and Moaz Abu Taha from NBC. Another Reuters journalist, Hatem Khaled, was also wounded in the attack. Continue reading...

Four journalists among 15 killed in Israeli strike on hospital in Gaza, say health officials

‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza

‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza

A heartfelt thank you to @nujlfb.bsky.social for organising today's moving vigil in London in protest at Israel's assassination of journalists, on a day of solidarity with colleagues around the world

🚨 ISRAEL, STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS
NUJ London Freelance Branch Vigil
Wednesday 13 August, 5.30pm
Opposite Downing Street

Please join us!
#JournalismIsNotACrime #StopKillingJournalists #PressFreedom

NUJ members hold vigils and protests for colleagues killed in Gaza Following the killing of five Al Jazeera staff and a freelance photojournalist by Israeli forces on Sunday, NUJ members across the UK and Ireland are holding emergency vigils and protests in solidarit...

Following the killing of five Al Jazeera staff and a freelance photojournalist by Israeli forces on Sunday, NUJ members across the UK and Ireland are holding emergency vigils and protests in solidarity with colleagues in Gaza.

#StopKillingJournalists

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On #NagasakiDay, 80 years since "Never Again" to war crimes and inhumanity, just where exactly are we heading?

UK: Open letter condemning the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza / IFJ The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland and the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) are among the signatories of an open l...

🔴 The targeting of journalists in #Gaza is an assault on truth itself.

📢 Sign this open letter calling for the UK government to exert pressure on the Israeli government to stop targeting journalists and to lift the embargo on foreign media. We must act NOW! @nujofficial.bsky.social

an aerial view of Gaza City, showing widespread destruction and a landscape of severely damaged and destroyed buildings.

We should never forget the suffering that resulted from the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago. Oh wait, I’m told this is Gaza today.

In all but name: is Gaza Britain’s undeclared war? Britain isn’t just watching Gaza burn – it’s helping fuel the fire, with weapons, intelligence, and silence

✍️ In all but name: is Gaza Britain’s undeclared war?

Britain isn’t just watching Gaza burn – it’s helping fuel the fire, with weapons, intelligence, and silence

By David Goff

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Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

In the words of the brilliant Omar el Akkad: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling it what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.’

We are at a breaking point. If you have any proximity to power or influence or information — anywhere — and have anything you’d like to share regarding the war on Gaza, please reach out

Signal: premthakker.35
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Israeli strike kills at least 15 people queueing outside medical point in Gaza Ten children among the dead in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’ At least 15 people, including 10 children, have been killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point in central Gaza, amid intensifying Israeli attacks that left 82 people dead across the strip. The uptick in Israeli bombing comes as negotiators have said a Gaza ceasefire deal is in sight, but not yet achieved. Continue reading...

Israeli strike kills at least 15 people queueing outside medical point in Gaza

Extreme heat is our future – European cities must adapt | Alexander Hurst Greenery, shade and swimming spots won’t solve the climate crisis, but they’re becoming ever more critical, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

Extreme heat is our future – European cities must adapt | Alexander Hurst

‘We live on bread and tea. I’ve wished for death’: Yemen’s forgotten refugees War has intensified poverty and hunger as aid is cut, with many families living in makeshift camps barely surviving

‘We live on bread and tea. I’ve wished for death’: Yemen’s forgotten refugees

‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica Three decades on, as leaders deny what happened, remains of the thousands killed continue to be identified and buried

‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica

🚨BREAKING: Wael Al-Dahdouh has just delivered a speech to journalists in the UK demanding our government stops arming Israel.

And telling UK journalists they must use their platforms to speak out against Israel's genocide or risk complicity.

#AmnestyMediaAwards

Local, but systematic: Sheffield's HE crisis How is this academic year shaping up in the long drawn-out crisis engulfing the UK's higher education sector?

How is this academic year shaping up in the long drawn-out crisis engulfing the UK's higher education sector?

This story looks at the #strikes in #Sheffield

Thanks to @sheffielducu.bsky.social, @ucuhallam.bsky.social and others for their voices

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At least 159 Palestinian journalists have been killed since the start of war. The NUJ strongly condemns Israel's targeting of journalists, including Yahya Subaih and Nour El-Din Abdo killed on 7 May.

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Fantastic to have student support on the picket lines! Our fight is their fight #ProtectEducationNow

Standing strong at The Wave and Elmfield today. We're on strike for the most fundamental reason - to protect colleagues jobs from management vandalism #UCUstrikes @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta Freedom Flotilla Coalition claims Israel to blame for attack on unarmed civilian vessel in international waters A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists for Gaza has been bombed by drones and disabled while in international waters off Malta as it headed towards the Palestinian territory, its have organisers said. “At 00:23 Maltese time, the Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship came under direct attack in international waters,” the group said in a statement. Continue reading...

Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta

The back of a large rally with people holding placards. Underneath a concrete underpass with blue lighting.

Huge rally of staff and students today rejecting cuts at Sheffield 💥