I don't agree with every slogan of the protests on campus + elsewhere. Some I really dislike. But when people look back they will see this as the moment when a real debate began about university + govt complicity in the oppression of Palestinians. And the protests made it happen.

Anyone can be a refugee
Anyone can be born into poverty
Anyone can fall ill

No matter how far we advance In technology, in health , in industry , sometime our circumstances are beyond our control

We should act as if it could be any of us ….

Natasha Walter For the avoidance of doubt - this is NOT the will of the people ✊

Here outside Downing Street to say Refugees Welcome.
Anyone can be a refugee.
Here in memory of my grandparents who came to this country to seek safety in 1939.

The main danger to our community tonight was the huge armed police presence requested on campus by admin - not protesters. A wholly disproportionate response that provoked disruption, fear & frustration across the whole wider community, not just Columbia.
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Paul Auster as a student participating in the 1968 occupation of Columbia University, as seen in Peter Whitehead's The Fall (1969).

safe travels

These are people who have sought asylum, who have crossed borders for safety, handcuffed and led to caged vans for detention and deportation.
In 1939 my grandfather came to Britain on a boat, fleeing the Nazis. In his memory I will always protest such cruelty.

Her case follows a slew of similar cases in which Saudi women have been sentenced for using social media to express themselves. They include Salma sentenced to 27 years, Fatima al-Shawarbi 30 years, Sukaynah al-Aithan 40 years, & Nourah al-Qahtani,45 years theguardian.com/world/2024/may…

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See below - already, this cruel law is preventing some of the most vulnerable among us from reaching the help they desperately need.

Essential reading on sexual violence in Israel & Palestine by Azadeh Moaveni. No doubt it will be criticised by both sides. But this is vital: 'Sexual violence should never be used as a tool to legitimise further violence.' lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

The context to my question to Simon Schama seems to have disappeared. For reference, it was this:

A family story of resistance from the acclaimed writer and thinker Natasha Walter, a moving memoir about the loss of a mother and honouring the legacy of a family.

💛'A fascinating story' Sarah Waters

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Tomorrow May 1 Islington Climate Centre Gideon Mendel will be talking to Zed Nelson about Fire and Flood we are showing Portraits in Ashes too youtu.be/fcVk9JXwGLw Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 Media Tell The Truth XR Real Media Byline Times John Harris

Ruth and Nicholas Walter were also supremely convicted, believing like Ruth’s parents that truth has to be told often in action. Natasha Walter in Before the Light Fades implicitly inspires that there is a need to act accordingly today re climate change and migration especially.

Natasha Walter Bravery/foolhardiness is our most suppressed trait: modesty is most unbecoming. Sing your ‘naughty deeds’ as a badge of honour.

My dad was jailed and blacklisted in the UK for 25 years for the audacity of being a conshie when turning 16 in 1943, but would never talk about it

My parents were brave, or foolish, and very lucky - they broke into government secret bunkers & got away with it. This is me talking to Michael Portillo about the Spies for Peace a few years back - you can read the whole story in Before the Light Fades 📖

A 'clarion call' for #MeToo

Thanks to everyone who spoke to me for my piece on what the overturning of Weinstein's conviction means for women's rights Natasha Walter The RAP Project Affordable Justice

✍️You can read it here & in this week's ES Magazine standard.co.uk/lifestyle/harv…

on this day, meet the sanest university president, Michael S Roth - Wesleyan University is lucky to have him