A wonderful historical resource on the Palestinian national liberation movement, seen through a UK-based magazine that appeared 1968-1984:

“Free Palestine: British-based Solidarities with the Palestinian Revolution”, revolutionarypapers.org/teaching-too...

The war took my home, my classroom, and my childhood. But it didn’t take my hope. I’m Hamza from Gaza, dreaming to become a pediatric doctor. Please donate, even small help brings me closer to protecting my parents. 💔🙏
gogetfunding.com/Helphamza/

"Far from being “anti Israel”, the BBC’s Gaza coverage has failed to hold Israel to account."
www.thenational.scot/news/world/2...

If Edinburgh Uni, with no operational deficit, gets to sack 1800 people, imagine what this will signal to more fiscally challenged Scottish universities?

MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.

‘We’ll appease the far right by taking inspo from the actual Nazis’ is an odd way to try and justify a policy but what do I know I’m not an overpaid consultant

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New in ‘Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies’, a special issue on Revolutionary Cinemas, guest edited by ODID’s Dan Hodgkinson with @jennblaylock.bsky.social and Anita Afonu. journals.openedition.org/sources/3100

"There were spaces to meet (and argue), spaces to organize and plan – and spaces to socialize too... Having different groups sharing the same space provided opportunities for people to learn how to organize together." "Yet now, the left is looking at a very different and less vibrant landscape."...

24 hours after the Israeli army announced it would reopen the Zikim crossing, it remains closed, with no trucks entering Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.

The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies...

Image: Anera

What an incredible online exhibition of Arabic book art spearheaded by Zeina Maasri. "It reveals how the aesthetic concerns & political commitments of a generation of Arab artists & graphic designers transformed the Arabic book in its content, form, & very conception." www.decolonizingthepage.com/en

Solidarity!

One of the most important articles you will read this year. Esmat Elhalaby, "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza," Journal of Palestine Studies. @esmat.bsky.social 🗃️

Thanks so much @takeoneaction.bsky.social for the wonderful screening of Red Skirts on Clydeside followed by an invigorating workshop with Living Rent Dundee

The UK’s first trans judge has launched a case against the UK Government in the European Court of Human Rights over the Supreme Court's gender ruling

Please sign the open letter asking the Edinburgh International Festival to end its relatonship with Baillie Gilford docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Arts Workers for Palestine Scotland explains how EIF engages in artwashing and supports genocide: "Programming Palestinian artists while taking money from companies profiting from the deaths of other Palestinians puts those artists in an impossible and deeply cruel position."

Staff and students at St Andrews - sign the open letter calling on the university to end links with Hebrew University www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-wi...

SCMSSP is now asking for ppl to pledge to boycott the conference by filling out this form:

docs.google.com/forms/d/1Jb6...

Renowned Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim dies at 88
www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...