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Ben Rogaly
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No one is free until all are free, from every river to every sea (Joe Dobkin). Never again for anyone. Opinions my own not my uni's. https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p28173-ben-rogaly

Political science 32%
Sociology 27%
My friend Deena Prischep did a story for NPR on the Yiddish album “Lider mit Palestine” (“Songs with Palestine”) that came out last month. The story ran in “All Things Considered” yesterday. www.npr.org/2025/09/01/n...
This album of songs for Gaza is in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated by genocide
People are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs for Gaza was released in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated through genocide.
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After the IOF's horrific targeted murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and four Al Jazeera colleagues yesterday, this run down by Muhammad Shehada of the lies told by Israel about its genocidal killings in Gaza is vitally important (from 12’50”). youtu.be/XJYtrXNbmA0?...
Five Al Jazeera Journalists Killed By Israel In Gaza | 11 August 2025
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Revealed: UK's Labour Government Is Secretly Allowing Israeli Military Planes Involved in Bombing Gaza to Land in Britain
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Revealed: UK's Labour Government Is Secretly Allowing Israeli Military Planes Involved in Bombing Gaza to Land in Britain
Britain’s Labour government has secretly allowed at least three Israeli Air Force (IAF) planes involved in the bombing of Gaza to land in the UK since it took office, according to flight data reviewed...
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Thank you Charlotte!
Don't let the UK govt's confected outrage distract you from the key thing it could do to stop the carnage in Palestine: halt all military collaboration with and arms sales to/from Israel - thanks to @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social for hosting my piece - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-r...
Why the UK refuses to do the one thing that could stop Israel's 'intolerable' war on Gaza
Despite harsh words from Lammy, the government has taken the narrowest possible approach to arms restrictions
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‘Why don’t you read my stories?’ Powerful interview with Pullitzer Prize-winning Gazan Abu Mosab Toha youtu.be/gu2-ZgBxng0?...
Pulitzer prize-winning Palestinian poet on the war in Gaza: 'Why is our suffering not acknowledged?'
YouTube video by MSNBC
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It's out! It's here! My first ever journal article 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' is out today with @tibg.bsky.social 🤩
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by L...
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Is The Encampments available to stream?

Powerful words from Mahmoud Khalil to his newborn son… and to us all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
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In reach of East London on Thursday evening? Don’t miss this chance to see and hear the amazing Prof Alana Lentin as she launches her latest book, The New Racial Regime, with an excellent panel of commentators. Register here pelicanhouse.org/event/the-ne...
The New Racial Regime – A Book Launch and Talk with Alana Lentin – Pelican House
We are incredibly excited to be hosting the London launch of Alana Lentin’s fantastic new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy…
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Mohsen Mahdawi released! youtu.be/QOu_r219UxU?...
Columbia University's Mohsen Mahdawi released from ICE detention
YouTube video by CBS News
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Feel like hearing a voice of hope? Try listening to this interview with New York’s exciting, progressive mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
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Zohran Mamdani’s Moral Stand
On the Nose · Episode
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This is so sad. The genocide must end. NOW.
Israel carried out multiple strikes across the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least 30 Palestinians since dawn. One of the deadliest attacks targeted a vehicle west of Deir el-Balah, killing seven people—including six brothers.

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Israel carried out multiple strikes across the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least 30 Palestinians since dawn. One of the deadliest attacks targeted a vehicle west of Deir el-Balah, killing seven people—including six brothers.

Perpetrators of horrific five-hour mob attack on pro-Palestine protestors at UCLA last year now challenged by 96-page lawsuit theintercept.com/2025/03/20/u...
Victims of UCLA Mob Attack Sue to “Hold the Aggressors Accountable”
Pro-Palestine protesters at UCLA who were attacked by a mob allege that the school did little to stop nearly five hours of violence.
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The horrific reality of ethnic cleansing and seizure of more Palestinian land by Israel in close alliance with the US. Don’t turn away. We must all stand resolutely against this. vashtimedia.com/israel-pales...
Israel’s return to war is a prelude to mass expulsion
This was the point all along.
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Excited to launch our new project via this event for Law & Resistance Research Group Sussex Law… join me, my fabulous partner + chair Darcy Leigh and this brilliant panel NEXT WEEK to learn more about Rights & Resistance ‘After Liberalism’
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Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights & Resistance 'After Liberalism'
You are warmly invited to join us for an interdisciplinary roundtable, ‘Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights ‘After Liberalism’, featuring
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The real reason why the BBC documentary 'Gaza: how to survive a war zone' was taken off i-player. @josephfinlay.bsky.social nails it again.
I wrote a piece on recent controversies over the films Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone and No Other Land, and the wider tendency in pro-Israel discourse of erasing Gaza, and Palestine in general. josephfinlay.com/erasing-gaza/

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I wrote a piece on recent controversies over the films Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone and No Other Land, and the wider tendency in pro-Israel discourse of erasing Gaza, and Palestine in general. josephfinlay.com/erasing-gaza/

On Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse Gaza: ‘This is what you get when you treat a state as a god’ Peter Beinart open.substack.com/pub/peterbei...
From Greenland to Gaza
The New American Imperialism
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I recommend reading this excellent and timely piece by @annsplaining.bsky.social vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...
The geometry of remembering
An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead.
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'As Jewish institutions respond to an unfolding genocide by trying to bind Jewish identity even more tightly with Zionism, drawing us further from the horizon indicated by anti-colonial education, the march toward fascism continues apace...' jewishcurrents.org/more-truth
More Truth
To truly oppose the right’s attacks on education, Jewish communities must face Palestinian history.
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The survivors of Israel’s ongoing assault in the north have seen their lives indelibly shaped by fresh traumas compounding a full year of horrors.
Trauma and Terror in the North of Gaza
Whether they fled or stayed behind, the survivors of Israel’s scorched-earth campaign in northern Gaza experienced untold horrors.
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We stand up to the racists who tried to stop this play. I for one am incredibly proud to have been a part of it. It Launches this Friday, tickets are nearly sold out.
Let it Be a Tale / Theatre / What's On - Brighton Dome
Award-winning company ThirdSpace Theatre presents strange and vibrant stories through comedy, movement, and live music from Best Foot Music.
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At long last. The beginning of some justice...

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I wrote a long and slightly edgy piece about how Holocaust trauma leads many Israelis and Jews to misinterpret Palestinian violence, and why this makes everything worse toratalbion.substack.com/p/seeing-thi...
Seeing Things Clearly
How projecting past persecution onto Palestinians only perpetuates the war
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