We need a Budget and Programme for Govt to set out what Assembly and Executive will fund and deliver. Lots of debates in recent weeks about important issues with high levels of support. But need to get to agreed set of commitments & focus on delivering them. Budget due by end Apr

Relentless framing in these reports of a ‘humanitarian situation’, a weasel phrase that shapes perception the problem in #Gaza is not directly caused by the government of Israel. It is not a ‘humanitarian situation’, it is a deliberate bombardment and starvation of Palestinians.

It's new programme time at HomePlace!

Today we learned that an Israeli military court has placed Palestinian Christian young woman Layan Nasir, who was arrested last week, in administrative detention for four months (renewable). No charges have been presented. Layan is just one of thousands of Palestinians who are in…

Academic colleagues some data from Birzeit University on the destruction of the HE sector in Gaza.
We should all be outraged at this epistemicide, the destruction of the knowledge structures.

This Wednesday, our newest visiting authors' Q&A is with two very talented authors, Sheila Armstrong, and Olivia Fitzsimmons! ✨✏️

All Write Club members are welcome to join! To find out more about Write Club and how to join visit our website at fightingwords.co.uk/write-club

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Prof Richard English's new book has been published by Oxford University Press. Responses to non-state terrorism have changed politics and history more than terrorist violence itself. To date, debates on counter-terrorism have been less systematic, sustained and persuasive than necessary.

The denial of Palestinian suffering and Palestinians’ death is an industry which makes me feel sick.

It's cool you don't have to worry about Good/Bad designation in this conflict. Generally speaking it is illegal to bomb Embassies and this is absolutely an act of aggression.

Biden Admin focusing on de-escalation is critical rather than entertaining Israeli 'revenge' fantasy

'The great act of resistance is to continue living'
Primo Levi

“He was the greatest trade union leader of his generation, a great Foreign Secretary and a man of outstanding character and ability. To me also he was a most dear friend and loyal comrade.”

Clement Attlee on Ernest Bevin, who died #OnThisDay 1951.

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism,” --

Hannah Arendt

I’m fuming. Settlers went to my grandparents house in Betein, near Ramallah Palestine, and told my grandma and the rest of my family to get out. Trying to take the house. When they refused, they shot at my 15 year old cousin. THIS IS IN THE WEST BANK.

When they ask, but how did you not know?

Alan Bates is considering Privately Prosecuting the Bosses of the Post Office for Corporate Manslaughter.

RT If you support him, it is the only way there will be justice.

Police are currently at the scene of a shooting incident in the Rathfriland Road area of Banbridge.

A number of roads have been closed; there are no further details Belfast Telegraph

Fantastic night in Seamus Heaney Home listening to the brilliant Irvine Welsh - what a class act & what a short story(!) 😂 huge thanks to the wonderful Cathy Brown and bravely chaired by Hugh Odling-Smee 👏👏👏 all round

Haaretz journalist Chaim Levinson says the unsayable on #IsraelGazaWar .

“The war’s aims won’t be achieved, the hostages won’t be returned through military pressure, security won’t be restored and Israel’s international ostracism won’t end.”

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