Direct Public Access Immigration Barrister. Specialist in asylum, immigration & human rights law; social minorities & discrimination. Member of @GoldsmithIMM_PL
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A conscience of the world today @FranceskAlbs
Inspiring millions, reminding us international law & #HumanRights is either *equally* applied or it means nothing. We The People really *are* the difference, as history has shown throughout.
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Today we issued an emergency appeal to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, asking him to secure the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a prominent Palestinian pediatrician who is facing an imminent threat to his life while in Israeli detention. bit.ly/4wz8XTH
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"Genocide isn't just about Israelis and Palestinians. It's about the whole world – about humanity, and how we’re erasing humanity."
The victims of the genocide in Gaza are Palestinians, and the perpetrators are Israelis. But genocide is a universal human phenomenon. As such, the responsibility to recognize, understand and oppose it lies with all of us. At the same time, while genocide shares common core aspects, every instance has unique characteristics.
B'Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak talked with the "Eyes on Gaza" project to explain why the mass killing and destruction in Gaza did not emerge in a vacuum. They are the direct result of nearly 80 years of separation, militarization of Israeli society, and dehumanization of Palestinians, all of which paved the way for the catastrophe unfolding today.
Watch the full conversation (in Hebrew) >> youtu.be/mGZz7HRlK_s?si=NhN0…
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🇦🇺Honoured to present my book to Australian readers with two people I most admire. I was in 🇦🇺25days into the genocide, with 🇮🇱killing about 150 Palestinians a day. There I learned how much patience one needs when confronting uninformed media and aggressive proApartheid lobbists.
Francesca Albanese has refused to be silent.
Join us live online for When the World Sleeps, a vital conversation on Palestine, genocide, international law and the attempts to sanction and silence those who speak the truth.
With Francesca Albanese, Antony Loewenstein and Chris Sidoti.
30 July | 7pm AEST | Zoom
Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Channel 4 @Channel4News doing what no other news outlets have done, says @implausibleblog: reporting on Dr Hussam Abu Safiya
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I join UN experts in urging Israel to immediately release Palestinian Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and all other health & care workers who are arbitrarily detained
#Israel must immediately release Palestinian Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and all the health & care workers arbitrarily detained: UN experts. The practice of medicine is not a crime.
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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"I suppose that Dr Abu Safiya has come to represent the plight of the health service in Gaza."
Derek Summerfield, a psychiatrist specialising in war and torture victims, tells @SkyYaldaHakim.
Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya has been detained in Israeli captivity without charge for more than a year, where he reportedly faces torture.
trib.al/NEodSap
#Gaza #HussamAbuSafiya
theguardian.com/world/2026/j…
@CommonsSpeaker
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya's life is at grave risk He'll die unless *immediately* 1)released from arbitrary detention 2)receives medical treatment Govt needs to act to immediately to safeguard his #humanrights
@10DowningStreet @LindsayHoyle_MP
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The man who accused me of ''witchcraft'' - after every other attack had failed - continues to champion institutional narcissism.
Yet the message for him is clear: Enough with the bullying. Not every UN senior official accepts to be intimidated into silence.
BREAKING: Israeli ambassador Danny Danon lost it on camera at the UN after Israel was added to a blacklist of parties suspected of conflict-related sexual violence.
At a meeting Friday, Danon erupted at UN officials, demanded the resignation of Pramila Patten, the UN’s special representative on sexual violence in conflict, and tried to shout down Vanessa Frazier after she objected that the findings were based on verified evidence.
“You will be quiet now,” Danon snapped.
I interviewed Danny Danon 15 years ago on HuffPost Live. When I held him to account, he walked out of the interview. Sadly, the footage has been lost.
But the pattern was not lost.
This is what Israeli officials so often do when confronted with evidence they cannot bomb, bury, spin, or intimidate into silence: they attack the messenger. They accuse the institution. They demand resignations. They perform outrage as a substitute for accountability.
The issue is not whether Danny Danon is offended.
The issue is whether victims of alleged sexual violence, Palestinian detainees, and children in Israeli custody will be heard over the shouting of a state that has grown accustomed to impunity.
Israel was recently added to a UN blacklist for conflict-related sexual violence. Danon revealed the strategy: when the evidence speaks, tell the room to be quiet.
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Israel has once again cut off all aid to Gaza and closed all crossings into the strip, intensifying its genocidal blockade as the population faces widespread disease and malnutrition.
The move, announced by the Israeli military’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat), comes after Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in retaliation for its strikes against Lebanon.
Israel has repeatedly violated its ceasefire agreements with Hamas and Hezbollah, killing hundreds in both Gaza and Lebanon in recent months as it seizes control of more land.
The apartheid state last cut off all entry to Gaza in late February following the outbreak of the US and Israel’s illegal war on Iran.
Hamas and Hezbollah form part of the ‘axis of resistance’, an informal Iran-backed coalition of groups fighting Israel. Israel frequently targets the civilian populations in areas where axis members operate.
Cogat said in a post on X on Monday that crossings into Gaza would be closed “until further notice”. It falsely claimed the move “will not affect the humanitarian situation” in Gaza.
It added: “The substantial quantities of food that have entered the strip since the beginning of the ceasefire significantly exceed the nutritional needs of the population.”
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With Germanys failure to get elected to the United Nations Security Council, this brilliant address by Slovenia, Spain, and Belgiums action in Europe and the weakening of the US/Israeli military by their defeat in Iran, there is real hope that US/Israeli global terrorism may finally be addressed.
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Alongside @weizman_eyal, I won't participate in the #HayFestival because of @Airbnb being their main sponsor. Profiting from illegal settlements, advertising properties built on stolen land makes Airbnb not ''just a sponsor''.
We must stop normalising Apartheid with a click!
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This is fantastic news
Congrats to irrepressible @MrTopple and rest of Canary team
Game changer
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood's immigration changes, allies say
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Presidente Meloni,
bene condannare Ben Gvir per l’umiliazione dei membri della Flotilla (un trattamento di lusso rispetto a quanto inferto ai palestinesi nelle carceri israeliane).
Ma le parole non bastano: l’Italia smetta di opporsi alla sospensione dell’Accordo UE-Israele.
Le immagini del ministro israeliano Ben Gvir sono inaccettabili. È inammissibile che questi manifestanti, fra cui molti cittadini italiani, vengano sottoposti a questo trattamento lesivo della dignità della persona.
Il Governo italiano sta immediatamente compiendo, ai più alti livelli istituzionali, tutti i passi necessari per ottenere la liberazione immediata dei cittadini italiani coinvolti.
L’Italia pretende inoltre le scuse per il trattamento riservato a questi manifestanti e per il totale disprezzo dimostrato nei confronti delle esplicite richieste del Governo italiano.
Per questi motivi, il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale convocherà immediatamente l’ambasciatore israeliano per chiedere chiarimenti formali su quanto accaduto.
This appears to fall directly within mandate of UNSR on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment @DrAliceJEdwards
It's actually paraded/broadcast, so public comment/action required
@FranceskAlbs @omctorg @amnesty @hrw @antonioguterres @thenerve_news
Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir released a video showing detained participants of the intercepted Gaza-bound flotilla being bound and dragged in Israel's Ashdod Port, writing, "That's how we welcome the terror supporters. Welcome to Israel."
Read more here: haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…
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Huge Jewish Bloc for Palestine at #Nakbah London – at London, England
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US requesting Israel to divert Palestinian tax money into the 'Gaza plan' is triply unlawful:
-withholding is illegal
-the diversion would amount to unlawful appropriation
-the Gaza plan is the burial of Palestinian self-determination.
This must stop
Palestine is not for pillage
The U.S. is considering asking Israel to give some tax money it is withholding from the Palestinian Authority to U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace to fund his post-war plan for Gaza. ebx.sh/GNwuqX
