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Alison Phipps አሊሰን

Alison Phipps አሊሰን

@alisonphipps.bsky.social

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UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow

Alison Phipps OBE FRSE FRSA FAcSS a University of Glasgow professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and holds the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. She has been awarded the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. .. more

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3h

Hamdi's lawyers say he was detained for his pro-Palestinian views, and no reason was given for his visa being revoked.

British journalist Sami Hamdi to be freed from ICE detention, lawyers say

Hamdi's lawyers say he was detained for his pro-Palestinian views, and no reason was given for his visa being revoked.

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 3h

Anti Palestinian Peace

Anti Palestinian Peace

The NotPeace
Is an anti Palestinian Peace
Made of propaganda
Made of accusation
Made of a tissue of lies
Made of fear
Made for confusion
Made for an ego
Made to save one man’s skin
Made to contain more killing
Made for more land grabs
Made for yellow lines
And Milka Bar profits.
Made for anything
but justice.

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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 3h

Joint statement condemning atrocities and violations of international humanitarian law in Sudan (10 November 2025) #Refugees

Joint statement condemning atrocities and violations of international humanitarian law in Sudan (10 November 2025)

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7h

This is a genuinely intolerable reality…

Instead of some proportion from much of the British media class, we are treated to the tragicomic absurdity of a former British prime minister willing to admonish the national broadcaster and demand the resignation of its Director General, all in the name of defending Donald Trump's reputation for truth-telling. But it's worse than that- it is a textbook example of how populists win. We have the ridiculous carnival of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, of all people, admonishing the BBC for its lack of integrity. And they can get away with it, because no-one expects anything from them and yet we expect everything from the people and places who actually give a damn.

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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 22h

Greece: Coast guard head faces charges for migrant shipwreck #Refugees

Greece: Coast guard head faces charges for migrant shipwreck

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d

A must read for the Home Secretary:

Guess what: safe, legal routes save lives but U.K. has barely any and keeps closing them because it now favours necropolitics on steroids

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Technical Brief 1: The Prevention of Migrant Deaths and Disappearances - Insights from the Missing Migrants Project in the MENA Region - World

Analysis in English on World about Protection and Human Rights; published on 7 Nov 2025 by IOM

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief

Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief

Brazil’s André Corrêa do Lago says countries should follow China’s lead on clean energy as conference begins * Cop30: what are the main issues? * Net zero to NDCs: your Cop30 jargon buster Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for combating the climate crisis while China is surging ahead in producing and using clean energy equipment, the president of the UN climate talks has said. More countries should follow China’s lead instead of complaining about being outcompeted, said André Corrêa do Lago, the Brazilian diplomat in charge of the Cop30 conference, which begins on Monday. Continue reading...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Crisis charity to become a landlord in attempt to rectify ‘catastrophic’ housing in UK

Crisis charity to become a landlord in attempt to rectify ‘catastrophic’ housing in UK

Exclusive: Homelessness charity planning to buy properties as it can no longer rely on access to social housing ‘Similar pressure to London’: the housing crisis reaches Newcastle The homelessness charity Crisis is going to become a landlord for the first time in its 60-year history, saying the housing crisis in the UK has reached a “catastrophic scenario”. Matt Downie, the charity’s chief executive, said it was preparing to launch a fundraising appeal to buy its own housing stock as it can longer get access to social housing to help homeless people. Continue reading...

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d

Exhausted Peace

Exhausted Peace

The Wicked exhausted peace
Treated it with disrespect
Worked it to the bone
Starved it of oxygen
Dressed it up as war
Called it many names
Lied about its existence
And are hell bent
on its eradication
as anything but arms sales.

But the people know now
And cannot unknow peace

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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 1d

Nigeria Food Security Outlook: Escalating conflict, below-average harvests sustaining Crisis (IPC 3) in the north, October 2025 - May 2026 #Refugees

Nigeria Food Security Outlook: Escalating conflict, below-average harvests sustaining Crisis (IPC 3) in the north, October 2025 - May 2026

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

➤ Influencer outreach and Project Esther:

Other contracts, including a $1 million deal with Bridges Partners, enlist right-wing social-media influencers to post pro-Israel content 25–30 times per month. A related “Project Esther” draws on the U.S. conservative think-tank network that backed...

➤ Influencer outreach and Project Esther:

Other contracts, including a $1 million deal with Bridges Partners, enlist right-wing social-media influencers to post pro-Israel content 25–30 times per month. A related “Project Esther” draws on the U.S. conservative think-tank network that backed Trump’s 2025 return to power, blurring the lines between Israeli diplomacy and Republican domestic politics.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

➤ AI manipulation and chatbot targeting:

For the first time, a state is documented trying to shape discourse through generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude. A clause in Israel’s $6 million contract with Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale’s firm, Clock Tower X, directs the creation of...

➤ AI manipulation and chatbot targeting:

For the first time, a state is documented trying to shape discourse through generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude. A clause in Israel’s $6 million contract with Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale’s firm, Clock Tower X, directs the creation of a “Search and Language Operation” to engineer outcomes in GPT-based dialogue systems — essentially teaching AI models to frame Israel-Palestine conversations more favorably.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

⭕️ Haaretz: Israel pours millions into AI-hasbara, conservative/church targeting, and U.S. influence ops

Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign...

⭕️ Haaretz: Israel pours millions into AI-hasbara, conservative/church targeting, and U.S. influence ops

Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign spanning artificial intelligence, evangelical churches, and right-wing media networks.

The investigation reveals that since mid-2025, Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Tourism Ministry, and Government Advertising Agency (LAPAM) have routed millions through the PR giant Havas Media Germany to American contractors linked to Donald Trump’s political machine and evangelical circles. The effort is designed to “reshape Israel’s perception” amid a historic collapse in U.S. public support following the Gaza war.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

A Sudanese medical group has accused the RSF of trying to hide evidence of mass killings in Darfur by burning bodies or burying them in mass graves aje.io/ha15f7

Sudan medics accuse RSF of burning, burying bodies to conceal ‘genocide’

People fleeing el-Fasher for Al Dabbah tell Al Jazeera many died on the way from wounds or lack of food.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 1d

BBC bosses Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit.

Not because they betrayed journalism, viewers and the Palestinians – by downplaying the great crime of our age, the Gaza genocide.

No, because they crossed Donald Trump.

Their successors will be even more craven to the right.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

UK: Fifth Palestine Action prisoner joins rolling hunger strike over detention conditions - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-fifth-palestine-action-prisoner-joins-rolling-hunger-strike-over

UK: Fifth Palestine Action prisoner joins rolling hunger strike over detention conditions

<article data-history-node-id="431277" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-fifth-palestine-action-prisoner-joins-rolling-hunger-strike-over" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-fifth-palestine-action-prisoner-joins-rolling-hunger-strike-over" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UK: Fifth Palestine Action prisoner joins rolling hunger strike over detention conditions</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A fifth <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestine</a> Action-affiliated prisoner has launched a hunger strike over her detention conditions and the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">UK</a> government's ban on the direct action group.</p> <p>The 29-year-old prisoner, named T Hoxha, has joined four other prisoners in a rolling hunger strike launched on 2 November over what they describe as "systematic abuse" by the prison authorities.</p> <p>Qesser Zurah and Amu Gibb, prisoners currently held at HMP Bronzefield, launched their strikes on Sunday. Heba Muraisi, who is held at HMP New Hall, joined on Monday, and Jon Cink, also held at Bronzefield, refused food on Thursday.</p> <p>Hoxha is one of the "Filton 24" - activists from the recently proscribed direct action group Palestine Action who were arrested on terrorism charges.</p> <h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/fifth-palestine-action-prisoner-joins-rolling-hunger-strike-over-detention-conditions">UK: Fifth Palestine Action prisoner joins rolling hunger strike over detention conditions</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="T Hoxha, one of the " filton has been on remand since november awaiting her trial which will start in april data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="bb60ac2a-b697-4498-a08f-05b5374dd802" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-09%20at%2023.54.14.png" width="935" height="526" alt="T Hoxha, one of the " filton has been on remand since november awaiting her trial which will start in april typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>T Hoxha, one of the "Filton 24", has been on remand since November 2024, awaiting her trial which will start in April 2026 (supplied)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url("https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png") rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Euro-Med’s Ramy Abdu reports internet is completely down in all of northern Gaza:

Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده
@RamAbdu
Breaking: Internet has just gone completely dark in Gaza and North Gaza governorates.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Internet and mobile service have been cut across Gaza City (northern Gaza) after heavy Israeli bombardment east of the Shujaiya neighborhood.

Osama Abu Rabee أسامة أبوربيع
@dn_osama_rabee
Internet and mobile phone services have been cut off in Gaza City.

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OpheliaPG @opheliapg.bsky.social · 1d

#Sudan El-Fasher has become city of grief, civilians enduring atrocities of unimaginable scale: UN

#Sudan_genocide
#UAE-backed #RSF www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

Sudan’s El-Fasher has become city of grief, civilians enduring atrocities of unimaginable scale: UN

‘What we are witnessing is not chaos. It is a systematic assault on human life and dignity,’ says UN representative in Sudan - Anadolu Ajansı

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d

Peace Lines

Peace Lines
The penalty imposed by the Wicked for allegedly crossing The Yellow Line in a world with no Red Lines left is death.
No evidence
No investigation
No judicial process
Just 'He said'
So another Palestinian is dead.
Coming soon to a neighbourhood near you.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

🔴 In the past 72 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 1 person killed and 9 bodies recovered from the rubble. 6 others were wounded and taken to hospitals.

This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 69,169 and 170,685 injuries (likely 3-5x higher)

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

At some level you have to admire the commitment to getting their vote share into single figures

UK to announce plans to emulate stringent Danish immigration system

Shabana Mahmood’s proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs, while others want government to go further

www.theguardian.com

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d

WHO: 16,500 Palestinian patients waiting to be evacuated from Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/who-16500-palestinian-patients-waiting-be-evacuated-gaza

WHO: 16,500 Palestinian patients waiting to be evacuated from Gaza

<article data-history-node-id="431248" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/who-16500-palestinian-patients-waiting-be-evacuated-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/who-16500-palestinian-patients-waiting-be-evacuated-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">WHO: 16,500 Palestinian patients waiting to be evacuated from Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt to be reopened for urgent medical evacuations of 16,500 Palestinian patients in Gaza. </p> <p>“The Rafah crossing is a vital exit for medical evacuations and a key entry for health supplies into Gaza. Egypt remains one of the main destinations for patients needing urgent care,” WHO wrote in a post on X.</p> <p>The agency said about 4,000 Palestinian patients have left Gaza through Rafah for treatment in Egypt and elsewhere.</p> <p>Medical supplies for Gaza, meanwhile, “are on standby at the border”, it added.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Rafah crossing is a vital exit for medical evacuations and a key entry for health supplies into <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Egypt?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Egypt</a> remains one of the main destinations for patients needing urgent care.<a href="https://twitter.com/WHO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WHO</a> has transferred around 4 000 patients through Rafah for treatment in Egypt and beyond.… <a href="https://t.co/Jzp0KThnC4">pic.twitter.com/Jzp0KThnC4</a></p> — World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) <a href="https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1987157194744193083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>

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Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 2d

In case you missed it: Court highlights difference between asylum accommodation and accommodation provided under schedule 10 | Sonia Lenegan

Court highlights difference between asylum accommodation and accommodation provided under schedule 10 - Free Movement

The High Court has said that in cases where accommodation is provided under schedule 10 of the Immigration Act 2016, location can in some circumstances be

freemovement.org.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work?

Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work?

Host uses Indigenous concepts and changes agenda to help delegates agree on ways to meet existing climate goals

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu

Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli PM, ministers and army chief accused of crimes against humanity ‘perpetrated systematically’ in Gaza Turkey has issued arrest warrants for alleged genocide against the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and senior officials within his government. Among 37 suspects listed were the Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the army chief Lt Gen Eyal Zamir, said a statement from the Istanbul prosecutor’s office, which did not publish the complete list. Continue reading...

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 3d

Aid Peace

Aid Peace
Mountains of aid
Expert aid
Aid piled high
Aid on shelves reaching where the birds fly after the last sky.
Expiring Aid
Blocked Aid
Aid Israel bans.
Peace plan aid.
Broken promise aid
Is not aid.
It's a lie.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 3d

Welcome to the Oligarchy

Why Musk’s $1trillion pay deal heralds a dark and dystopian future unless we bring the super-rich to heel

If we don’t deal with the billionaires, sooner or later they’re going to deal with us

My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Welcome to the Oligarchy: Musk’s obscene $1 trillion deal heralds a dark new era

Nobody needs more personal wealth than the average nation. It’s time that we brought the super-rich to heel before it’s too late, our Writer at…

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