Hello guys, this is our last try as well as our last hope to save our lives. After donations restricted from our first campaign due to bank policies “it’s been more than two months now” , day by day the situation getting worse.

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60 years ago during the Rivonia Trial in South Africa, Nelson Mandela delivered one of the most famous speeches of the 20th century.

He expected to be sentenced to death but instead lived to see his dream ‘of a democratic and free society’ realised.

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Devastating piece in The New York Review of Books by Omar al-Najjar, a young doctor in Gaza. Omar and I have been in touch over the months, and I remain incapable of understanding the weight he bears. nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

Tough-minded editorial in ⁦Columbia Daily Spectator⁩ — very critical of administration— represents the views of the majority of the student newspaper’s staff and is worth your read columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

Reuters' Mohammed Salem has won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award for this image of a Palestinian woman, Inas Abu Maamar, cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in Gaza.

Twitter friends, any recommendations if things to do or friendly faces and fellow journalists to meet in KL, Malaysia and elsewhere in the country?

The police referred to the murder as ‘just an Asian died’. The Monday after the murder Detective Chief Superintendent Jim Sewell was quoted in the Evening Standard that interpretations of the attack as having ‘racial undertones’ was ‘a load of nonsense talk’.

The murder of Gurdeep Singh Chaggar - Friday 4 June 1976 – a 🧵

Racists get hold of 18-year-old Gurdeep, scarred him up with ‘NF’ using a Stanley blade and stabbed him outside Century Cinema in Southall. He died outside the Victory Pub, his body thrown on a fence #Defiance

I think if you’re from a generation that made a million selling the house you bought for 50 quid and a pack of sausages, you should probably sit this one out.

Islamophobia dressed as antisemitism... what is happening to Britain? Why are Muslims and Jews being so erroneously pitted against each other? It's ludicrous

#Defiance , tracing the British Asian race history that so many of us lived through, in on right now Channel 4 & is unflinching, necessary television. So many dismaying echoes to mainstream anti-immigrant rhetoric today

So sad to see the brave family of Gurdip Singh Chaggar speaking for the first time in a documentary about his tragic murder, what a heartbreaking story #Defiance @channel4

I”ll be watching with my 91 year old father on Friday. He was part of the pioneer generation. He endured the horrors of partition, came to England in 1963 where he faced more struggle: “you have to stand your ground and resist hate,” he said, when I mentioned #Defiance #Respect

Whale giving birth in False Bay attracted sharks. Dolphins appeared out of nowhere and swam in circles around her keeping sharks away. They stayed with her until she & her baby were safe then escorted her to safety.

Video credit David Hersch

Foreign Press Association presses again for immediate access to Gaza raising “questions about what Israel does not want international journalists to see”. The US administration has also pressed Netanyahu directly on the issue, still no change.

Grateful to remember Anja in an exhibition and book hosted and produced by the Bronx Documentary Center.
It was characterised by the love we shared for Anja.
Love you schatz
“She really saw into the hearts of people’: The legacy of Anja Niedringhaus cnn.com/interactive/20…

If there is something to read this weekend, it is this, by the brilliant Victoria Uwonkunda
BBC News - Rwanda: My return home 30 years after genocide
bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

Gaza aid: Collective moral compass is 'broken', says children charity founder

channel4.com/news/gaza-aid-…

I'm in Gaza with my charity INARA. As we were leaving one cluster of tents a woman came up and said “My son keeps screaming and shaking uncontrollably. It started when he saw his sister’s head blown off”.