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basista.bsky.social
@basista.bsky.social
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Career spanning design, Fairtrade, social enterprise, chocolate, heritage, school food & now at Zaytoun supporting Palestinian producers through fair trade
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‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village
Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja is a small community of about 135 families – and the only one remaining in this part of the Jordan valley
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January 14, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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Eyes on #WestBank #Palestine

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Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank
Exclusive: Tender posted for construction of 3,401 homes in settlement designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’
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January 8, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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“What they felt is a condensation of what we are feeling – so many of us around the world – about what is happening in Gaza. This sense of helplessness. Nobody can reach her to help.”

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‘It felt like she was asking me to save her’: the film based on a five-year-old Palestinian girl’s dying pleas
The Voice of Hind Rajab has stunned audiences with its use of the real-life audio of a girl’s call for help after her family’s car was attacked by an Israeli tank in Gaza. Its director explains why sh...
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January 8, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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Digest this 😳
#worldhealth #ultraprocessedfood

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Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser
The long read: Twenty-five years after I revealed the practices of the industrial food giants, the profits – and dangers – of mass producing meat and milk have only grown
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January 6, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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Congratulations to the amazing Malak Tantesh - winning both New Journalist of the Year & The Marie Colvin Prize last night at #BJA2025
December 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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No ceasefire in #Gaza #Palestine

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‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on
The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’
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December 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Very proud to know this amazing young woman and her sister. They are both extraordinary.

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Guardian’s former Gaza correspondent named young journalist of the year in UK awards
Malak A Tantesh, 20, ‘showed immense talent and bravery’, said judges at Media Freedom awards in London
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November 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors
Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza
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October 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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The very act of oppressing others has changed us as a people”
#Palestine

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When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz
Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice
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October 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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The horror of Gaza in poetry
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‘My poems are part of my flesh’: Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen on life in Gaza
At just 20, the poet is one of the most vivid witnesses to the conflict. She talks about dreams of Oxford, the deaths of friends and how tragedy has shaped the person she has become
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October 6, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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“As far as the British government is concerned, belatedness and timidity have been defining features of its response to the situation in Gaza over the past two years” #Palestine @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

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Starmer finally said it: ‘We recognise Palestine.’ But Gaza desperately needs action – where is that? | Nesrine Malik
The British PM and others offered fine words, but after all the horror, many will say too little, too late. Palestinians need unfettered support – and now, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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September 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Lovely that @zaytouncic.bsky.social won this - & proud to be part of it

#palestine #buypalestinian #fairtradefortnight
zaytouncic.bsky.social Zaytoun UK @zaytouncic.bsky.social · Sep 19
We are extremely thrilled to say we won Small Supplier of the Year at the Coop Pioneer Awards last night in Manchester.
Thank you to @coopukreal.bsky.social for all their support - a lovely boost for us and a spotlight on Palestinian producers 🙏🙏 #palestine
September 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Israel is forcing us to leave Gaza City. We know they may never let us return
The Guardian’s reporter in Gaza describes the dilemma facing her family and others, many hungry, penniless and without transport
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September 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Every small act of solidarity keeps hope alive #Palestine

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Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi
As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add up, writes Arwa Mahdawi
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September 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters
Elderly woman with Alzheimer’s, medical workers and children among 6,000 Palestinians held
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September 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Israeli continues West Bank raids, razes hundreds of trees
The Israeli forces are continuing their large-scale raid in the Al-Mughayyir village in the occupied West Bank, levelling land and uprooting olive trees.
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August 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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UN-backed experts declare famine in and around Gaza City
IPC says famine is ‘entirely man-made’ and immediate response is needed or avoidable deaths will soar
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August 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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‘I must document everything’: the film about the #Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in #Gaza
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‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in Gaza
Fatma Hassouna used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about...
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August 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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‘Our food, our heritage, our culture’: the chef highlighting Palestinian cuisine
For Sami Tamimi, preparing the food of his homeland is an act of resilience and keeping his culture alive
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July 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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“Enough impunity. Enough empty rhetoric. Enough exceptionalism.” @franceskalbs.bsky.social

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July 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Artist or activist? For Juliet Stevenson and her husband, Gaza leaves them with no choice

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Artist or activist? For Juliet Stevenson and her husband, Gaza leaves them with no choice
Film-maker Hugh Brody hopes to honour his mother, a Holocaust survivor, with a show of solidarity for Palestine
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July 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Nearly 60 Labour MPs call for UK to immediately recognise Palestinian state

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Nearly 60 Labour MPs call for UK to immediately recognise Palestinian state
Exclusive: MPs say in letter Gaza is being ethnically cleansed as Israeli defence minister plans ‘forcible transfer’
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July 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Are we all terrorists now?

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Five words about Palestine Action could get me arrested
Support for the protest group was legal last week—but now it is ‘terrorism’. This is an assault on our liberty
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July 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica @julianborger.bsky.social
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‘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
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July 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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If there’s a glimmer of hope in all this rage-inducing misery, it can be found in the growing number of people around the world who refuse to be intimidated into silence

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The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
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July 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM