Journalist and other things, based in London and Cairo
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Jack Shenker retweeted
Al Jazeera has published the names of every journalist killed since Oct 7th.
231 Palestinian journalists have been slaughtered in Gaza. A whole generation of reporters wiped out while many of their colleagues in the West simply shrugged.
Jack Shenker retweeted
In the absence of any spine in taking on Israeli Gaza atrocities in most of our media, it is left to @PrivateEyeNews to reveal this sort of information that would once have received in depth coverage @BBCPanorama & Sunday Times Insight. Even now when the true scale of the Gaza Genocide is becoming widely recognised, @BBCNews and most newspapers shamefully recycle IDF propaganda without fact checking or critical investigation.
Jack Shenker retweeted
In 2020, there was one person worth over $100 billion. Today at the end of Biden's term there are 16 of them.
Jack Shenker retweeted
The great Brian Cox has a Christmas message to @Keir_Starmer about "the brilliant, courageous and inspiring writer," Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
'It’s time to make the call, Prime Minister. Pick up the phone and bring Alaa home for Christmas."
#FreeAlaa
Jack Shenker retweeted
A beautiful vigil tonight for Alaa outside 10 Downing Street. Thank you to all the people that came out to support Alaa’s mother Laila on her 81st day of hunger strike and to call on @Keir_Starmer to Bring Alaa Home
#FreeAlaa
Jack Shenker retweeted
Laila just popped by @DavidLammy’s Christmas drinks this evening to pass on the message that all we want for Christmas is a #FreeAlaa
Having lost over 22kg, Laila’s body is now entering a dangerous new stage. Her life and Alaa's future are in David Lammy's hands.
Jack Shenker retweeted
Guardian & Observer journalists are striking today to help #SaveTheObserver. Please repost to show solidarity. More info here: nuj.org.uk/resource/not-for-… theguardian.com/media/2024/d…
Jack Shenker retweeted
We call on the UK government to halt the issuing of arms licences to Egypt until British national, pro-democracy activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah is released by the Egyptian authorities. @fairsqprojects caat.org.uk/news/press-relea…
Jack Shenker retweeted
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Turning the conversation about Palestine into a question of "manners" or "tough interviews" is "bullshit" because "The topic is apartheid. Apartheid is the topic."
“People think they’re going to lose something by talking about Palestine. But they should think about what they lose by not talking about Palestine.”
From my interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates.
theguardian.com/books/ng-int…
Jack Shenker retweeted
Alaa’s mother, Laila Soueif: As of today, I consider @alaa unlawfully detained. I am going on full hunger strike until he is released to protest the crime committed against him by Egyptian and British authorities.
Read latest on the case here:
dropsitenews.com/p/egypt-ref…
#FreeAlaa
Jack Shenker retweeted
Today Alaa completes 5 years unjustly in prison. The full length of his sentence after a manifestly illegitimate trial.
Alaa should have been released today, but the Egyptian authorities claim he still has more than two years in prison!
ENOUGH!
#FreeAlaa
Jack Shenker retweeted
A few years ago I went to a pig sanctuary and most of the pigs were stoned from eating green acorns. This one, Wilbur, couldn’t stand up and was too big to lift, so the staff had to leave him in this bush and wait for him to sober up.
Jack Shenker retweeted
"An arms embargo is an act of solidarity”.
On Friday, as @DavidLammy visited Israel, we gathered at Downing Street & the Greater Manchester Combined Authority HQ calling for an end to the UK’s arming of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Actions led jointly with @FreeJerusalem1.
Jack Shenker retweeted
this pic cant do justice to sheer size of the crowd out tonight. 10,000 easy. it’s been a horrifying, exhausting, terrifying couple of weeks, but the way communities have come out tonight should fill us with some hope. the fight isn’t over, but fuck me, we will win it.
