Music & culture journalist – Baghdad-born, London-based. Present: @BBC_Culture @FT @newscientist @Telegraph. Past: @TimeOutLondon @TheTimes @MetroUK Music Ed...
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A brilliant new space where kids can build, play and share - and a vital learning curve for museums: I joined my kid to preview the eagerly-awaited @young_vam for this @FT feature -
ft.com/content/4dce1b31-8504…
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This is your legacy on the occupied Palestinian territory, Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. History will remember your complicity.
Despite a partial arms suspension in 2024, Keir Starmer's government has continued to enable Israel's atrocities against Palestinians, their families and children through the supply of F-35 fighter jet parts.
Nothing can change the horrors Palestinians have faced. But the next Prime Minister has an opportunity to put an end to the UK Government's role as an ally to atrocities.
The UK Government must:
🔴 Suspend all arms sales to Israel
🔴 Suspend the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement
🔴 Ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements
To the next Prime Minister: what will your plaque say?
ALT A blue plaque mounted on a stone wall reads: "HISTORY WILL NOT FORGET COMPLICITY. KEIR STARMER witnessed 73,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, including 21,000 children, and kept supplying arms to Israel."
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Black babies are still more than twice as likely to be stillborn.
Black women are almost three times more likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth.
It isn't enough to have another report.
What Black women want is equity of treatment to change this.
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🚨Gazze'de açıklama yapan Avustralyalı kadın doktorlar:
▪️Bu videoyu çekiyoruz çünkü her an ölebiliriz.
▪️Hastalarımızın %70-80'i çocuk ve hamile kadınlar.
▪️9 aylık hamile, başı kesilmiş bir kadını doğurttum.
▪️Lütfen bu terör ve dehşeti durdurun.
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Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s message to the court today as relayed by his attorney:
“I am a pediatrician. I provide medical care to patients, the injured, and vulnerable people in the Gaza Strip. I have carried out my work in accordance with international law and humanitarian standards. My detention is unjust and arbitrary.”
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🚨1. More professional news: I’m thrilled to be joining forces with @mehdirhasan and other colleagues to launch Zeteo UK. It’s a brilliant opportunity, alongside my other work, to help shape the fast growing independent media landscape with fresh perspectives and strong voices - rooted in solid journalism. @zeteo_news
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“On 30 March 2026, I published a post on my X account addressed to Zarah Sultana in which I stated that she encourages and incites violence and is friends with terrorists.
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It is my very great pleasure to do this, and I reiterate my sincere and repeated offer to meet with Miss Zara Sultana in person to resolve our differences.
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On behalf of their client, Zara Sultana, Bindmans Media and Information Law Practise Group requires that I publish the following statement on X, and that such statement must be clearly visible and pinned to my
profile for a continuous period of no less than 24 hours:
“On 30 March 2026, I published a post on my X account addressed to Zarah Sultana in which I stated that she encourages and incites violence and is friends with terrorists.
Those statements are false. I was wrong and offer my sincere apologies to Ms Sultana for the harm and distress caused to her.”
It is my very great pleasure to do this, and I reiterate my sincere and repeated offer to meet with Miss Zara Sultana in person to resolve our differences.
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Domani il dottor Hussam Abu Safiya tornerà in tribunale. Continuiamo a chiedere la sua immediata scarcerazione! bit.ly/3DXpWsM
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This is a disgrace.
Ahmed is a friend and former colleague, and one of the most professional, righteous, and rigorous journalists I know. We need to make noise for him.
🚨 Prominent Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Has Been in Jail for Six Weeks in Kuwait, Faces Trial in Special Tribunal
dropsitenews.com/p/kuwait-ah…
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A physician colleague from Canada tried to enter Palestine today to go into Gaza and volunteer as a medic. He was denied entry by an Israeli soldier, and was told by them that he could not be carrying in with him medications. The exact quote is “no life saving medications”.
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How can your heart not break watching this?
And how can you not be enraged?
This is what drives the surge in antisemitism.
Israel represents racist Zionists, not Jews.
Netanyahu: Stop using people like me as cover for your vile, murderous actions.
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I have no words anymore.
States. Must. Intervene.
This isn’t genius, it’s leadership.
1. Impose an arms embargo and cut trade.
2. Break the blockade with your humanitarian navies.
3. Send a protective presence to Palestine to ensure Israel dismantles its occupation NOW.
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“I don’t want to see anyone here in 5 minutes.”
Israeli intelligence forces stormed the Hakawati Theatre in occupied Jerusalem and shut down a performance for Palestinian children.
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Our teams in Gaza continue to treat people who were critically wounded by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on 19 November.
We continue to call for the protection of all civilians, healthcare staff and facilities.
msf.org/msf-denounces-more-b…
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The western media has no interest in these hostage stories because it doesn’t see Palestinians as human beings. This will forever be a stain on humanity.
❤️🩹“I made this for my daughter, whose birthday was supposed to be in five days,” said a freed Palestinian hostage, clutching a small bracelet he made for her. He had just learned that the Israeli occupation had killed all his children Baraa, 8 years old; Iman, 5; and his 2-year-old daughter. “My loved ones are dead… my children are dead,” he cried, collapsing under the weight of loss.
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These two women have been friends for 40 years yet the white lady didn't realise just how uncomfortable the flags being hoisted up were making her black friend feel....
A must-watch video
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i mean sky news deleted a tweet where they put dies in quotations when talking about a child who starved to death, wtf is wrong with people man
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Waiting for all the women columnists across UK papers who stand for women’s rights, the safety of women and protection of women against abuse to condemn Israel’s kidnapping and beating of Greta Thunberg…
A Turkish activist described shocking abuse against climate campaigner Greta Thunberg during Israel’s raid on the Global Sumud Flotilla. “They dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” Ersin Celik, a flotilla participant, told Anadolu Agency.
A plane carrying 137 activists from the flotilla, including 36 Turkish citizens, landed in Istanbul today. The group was welcomed by families, journalists, and supporters after their ordeal at sea. The activists had joined the mission to break the blockade on Gaza and deliver aid, before Israeli forces intercepted their ships.
