Coman Hamilton

As Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu takes the stage at #UNGA80, Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that CPJ has ever documented. CPJ calls on the international community to hold Israel to account.

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RSF and Avaaz launch international media operation: “At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed” Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, ...

Protect Journalists in Gaza.

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Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

It's worth reading this study, which estimates millions of deaths thanks to Musk and Trump's USAID cuts over the next 5 years.

#Israeli strikes have bombed the Iranian state #TV and radio building in #Tehran as it was broadcasting #live on air.

‘I have no plans to go home’: the Irish citizens fighting deportation from Germany In the News podcast

"I refuse to believe a judge will allow this fascist political repression to go any further." –Bert Murray, one of two Irish citizens fighting deportation from Berlin *without convictions* in relation to anti-Gaza war protests.
via @irishtimes.com @sorchapollak.bsky.social @unamullally.bsky.social

Germany is trying to deport four people - two Irish, one Polish (EU citizens) and a US citizen - over their involvement in anti-Gaza war protests. It appears to be the first time that German deportation orders cite its pledge to defend Israel ("Staatsräson") as justification. 👇

A third of Germany's Bundestag politicians now have Bluesky accounts 👇

Just weeks after Germany's Die Welt lost its opinions editor when it gave Elon Musk's politics a platform, something similar appears to be under way at the Washington Post

Condemning Palestinians "is so pleasing and comfortable" for Germans, an anti-Semitism researcher told me in Berlin. "It rids us of our conscience, of our feelings of shame and guilt."

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Such a powerful story - thanks for sharing Christoph!

Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan dies aged 65 The death has been announced of Pogues frontman and songwriter Shane MacGowan. He was 65 and had been ill for some time.

Sad day for music. I once saw him getting into a taxi in Dublin with a pint in one hand and cigarette in the other. The taxi driver, first seeing the pint, looked ready to tell him to get lost, and then saw who it was and said "Oh, Mr MacGowan!" and opened the door for him.

Irish band Lankum's German gig cancelled because of "political stance" | JOE.ie Irish folk band Lankum have had a gig in Germany cancelled because of the group's "political stance" in regard to their support of Palestine.

Germany's TransCentury Festival cancelled a performance of Irish band Lankum due to their “political stance" following a band statement which said they were "heartbroken and shocked to see the indiscriminate murder of children and civilians."

www.joe.ie/music/lankum...

Why Is Showing Solidarity With Palestine Getting People Cancelled in Germany? | Novara Media From Jeremy Corbyn to the musician Nicolás Jaar, a ban on pro-Palestine protests has given way to a spate of cancellations in Germany. This is part of a wider rightward shift, writes Hanno Hauenstein...

"The Israel-Palestine conflict is increasingly becoming a yardstick for measuring how much Germany’s commitment to an inclusive society has waned."

Excellent explainer on Germany’s “reason of state”: novaramedia.com/2023/11/20/w...