An independent historian focusing on Medieval #Iberia; al-Andalus; #Mozarabe...
At the moment researching on Roman/Latin/Christian past reflected in al-Andalus.
Orosius #IsidorusHispalensis #alAndalus
中世イベリア半島史・アンダルス・モサラベ。博士（学術）。所属なし。
🤔 Infos about Israel's participation in several European (political, cultural and sport) organizations, with some explanations...
https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/why-is-israel-included-in-europe/
https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/09/israel-european-championships-7819417/
Be myself I'm not yet totally convinced. Keep asking.
Youth Demand Disrupt London Marathon (2025-04-27)
Youth Demand Disrupt London Marathon (2025-04-27)
Youth Demand supporters have disrupted the London Marathon. Youth Demand is a youth-led civil resistance group calling for the [UK] government to impose a full trade embargo on Israel, and make the fossil fuel elite pay damages to communities and countries most harmed by fossil fuel burning.
At approximately 10:35am, two Youth Demand supporters jumped over the barriers and threw red powder paint in front of the men’s elite race at the London marathon as it crossed Tower Bridge. ... City of London police quickly moved to arrest the pair.
[a spokesperson from Youth Demand:] “This is a race against time: Gaza is running out of food. Millions of starving Palestinians are be
🇨🇭Swiss team turns back on Israeli gold medallists at fencing championship - The Jewish Chronicle (2025-04-27)
🇨🇭Swiss team turns back on Israeli gold medallists at fencing championship - The Jewish Chronicle (2025-04-27)
https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/swiss-team-turns-back-on-israeli-gold-medallists-at-fencing-championship-y45wh43e
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( I understand -and appreciate- the action as against the State of Isr, not against the athletes.)
“The Swiss fencing team turned its back on the winning Israeli team during the medal ceremony at the under-23 European Fencing Championship in Tallinn, Estonia, on Saturday night.”
“During the podium ceremony, as Israel’s national anthem, Hatikvah, played, the Swiss fencers kept their backs turned to the Israeli team in alleged protest, rather than turn to the right, as was expected.”
Japanese Hotel Asks Israeli Settler Tourist to Sign Anti-War Crimes Declaration - Quds News Network (2025-04-26)
Japanese Hotel [rec. Guesthouse] Asks Israeli Settler Tourist to Sign Anti-War Crimes Declaration - Quds News Network (2025-04-26)
https://qudsnen.co/japanese-hotel-asks-israeli-settler-tourist-to-sign-anti-war-crimes-declaration/
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The tourist, a former combat medic in Israel’s navy reserves, said staff at the Wind Villa Hotel gave him the form after he presented his Israeli passport. The document demanded he confirm that he had never attacked civilians, killed prisoners, tortured detainees, committed sexual violence, or participated in forced displacement or looting.
The hotel reportedly requires all Israeli and Russian guests to sign the same pledge.
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported the incident on Saturday. The Israeli tourist called the request “ridiculous and absurd,” but he eventually signed to avoid being denied a room.
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So far no
WANN essay collection now on shelves and available for purchase - We Are Not Numbers
https://wearenotnumbers.org/wann-essay-collection-now-on-shelves-and-available-for-purchase/
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April 24 is the launch date for the European edition. The London launch celebration—a ticketed event open to the public—is May 6.
"WE ARE NOT NUMBERS: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth” gathers a decade of writing—2014 to 2024—from young Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank, and Diaspora. Through essays and poems, these writers take us beyond the news cycle and into the heart of what it means to live, lose, and keep telling your story under siege and occupation, and in exile...
WeAreNotNumbers
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Ahmed Alnaouq & Pam Bailey (eds.), We Are Not Numbers. The Voices of Gaza’s Youth, Hutchinson Heinemann, 2025 (ISBN: 9781529155174)
Ahmed Alnaouq & Pam Bailey (eds.), We Are Not Numbers. The Voices of Gaza’s Youth, Hutchinson Heinemann, 2025 (ISBN: 9781529155174)
These are the stories of young people from Gaza, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses, who keep fighting to be recognised not as numbers, but as human beings with hopes, dreams and lives worth living.
We Are Not Numbers was founded in 2014 to give voice to the youth of Gaza. In this collection, vital, urgent and full of heart, spanning over ten years to the present moment, we gain an unparalleled insight into the past, as well as the current and next generation of Palestinian leaders, artists, scientists and scholars and imagine where we might go from
Mark Carney condemns Israeli blockade on food to Gaza | CBC News (2025-04-25)
Mark Carney condemns Israeli blockade on food to Gaza [on X] | CBC News (2025-04-25)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-gaza-blockade-1.7519408
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"The UN World Food Programme just announced that its food stocks in Gaza have run out because of the Israeli Government's blockade — food cannot be used as a political tool," Carney said on X.
The UN agency said no humanitarian or commercial supplies had entered Gaza for more than seven weeks because all main border crossing points were closed, the longest closure the Gaza Strip had ever faced.
"Palestinian civilians must not bear the consequences of Hamas' terrorist crimes," Carney wrote in the social media post. "The World Food Programme must be allowed to resume its lifesaving work."
Link to the original X post ⬇️
https://x.com/MarkJCarney/status/1915892388721295618
[Canada]
Teaching Israel/Palestine at Harvard: Course probes the modern history of the Holy Land. (Harvard Magazine, 2025-03-27)
Teaching Israel/Palestine at Harvard: Course probes the modern history of the Holy Land. (Harvard Magazine, 2025-03-27)
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/03/teaching-israel-palestine-at-harvard
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An example of alleged “anti-semitism” in Harvard?😏
Sarcasm aside, worth a peek.
Frost professor of Jewish history Derek Penslar has taught university courses about Israel for the past 35 years. But his current class in the history department, “One Land, Two Peoples: The Modern History of Israel/Palestine,” comes at an especially fraught time for the Middle East—and for Harvard.
[prof. Penslar:] “It is possible to have a very deep attachment to Israel and acknowledge Palestinian national rights and claims. How you reconcile them is another story.”
Killing of Gaza Aid Workers: IDF Troops Fired Indiscriminately for Over Three Minutes, Some at Point-blank Range - Haaretz (2025-04-23)
Killing of Gaza Aid Workers: IDF Troops Fired Indiscriminately for Over Three Minutes, Some at Point-blank Range - Haaretz (2025-04-23)
"The de
[cont.] Training for NYPD Officers Categorized the Keffiyeh and Watermelon as Antisemitic Symbols
https://jewishcurrents.org/training-nypd-keffiyeh-watermelon-antisemitism-israel-palestine
Experts on antisemitism and civil liberties say the training reinforces a police culture that treats Palestinians (and Arabs and Muslims more broadly) with suspicion, while doing little to curb antisemitism. “They are actively conflating any care for Palestinian humanity or rights—and in some cases, Palestinian existence itself—with antisemitism,” said Dove Kent, the US senior director for Diaspora Alliance, a group that fights antisemitism and its weaponization. “None of this does anything to increase Jewish safety.”
... #CAM was founded in 2019 ... One of [its] main goals is lobbying elected officials around the country to adopt the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (#IHRA) definition of antisemitism—which classifies some anti-Zionist speech as antisemitic—into state law.
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FakeAntisemitism
Training for #NYPD Officers Categorized the Keffiyeh and Watermelon as Antisemitic Symbols (Jewish Currents, 2025-04-24)
Training for #NYPD Officers Categorized the Keffiyeh and Watermelon as Antisemitic Symbols (Jewish Currents, 2025-04-24)
https://jewishcurrents.org/training-nypd-keffiyeh-watermelon-antisemitism-israel-palestine
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a training on combating antisemitism [led by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) with George Washington University’s Program on Extremism (POE)] ... [alleged] to teach the police “how to recognize and address antisemitism in its many contemporary forms”... ” But the presentation itself, ... was in large part concerned with pro-Palestine activism, casting the Palestine solidarity movement as a significant threat to Jewish safety ... The training, which focused heavily on student protesters, repeatedly conflated antisemitism with anti-Zionism. It categorized campus demonstrators as extremists tied to Hamas, and branded as antisemit
Pro-Palestinian protesters confront Israeli National Security Minister as he leaves event near Yale | CNN (2025-04-23)
Pro-Palestinian protesters confront Israeli National Security Minister [Ben Gvir] as he leaves event near Yale | CNN (2025-04-23)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/us/yale-university-protest-israel-gaza/index.html
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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was confronted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators in New Haven, Connecticut, Wednesday night ...
“Water bottles were thrown” at Ben Gvir, his office said, when the far-right minister exited a building in front of protesters following a speech he gave at Shabtai, a private Jewish society at Yale, not officially affiliated with the university.
Earlier Wednesday evening as the event began, protesters crowded the sidewalk outside the gated building...
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators also gathered at Yale University Tuesday night to protest Ben Gvir’s visit.
A #Yale
Why Israel Fears the Faces of Dead Palestinian Children on Its Streets (David Issacharoff | Haaretz, 2025-04-21)
Why Israel Fears the Faces of Dead Palestinian Children on Its Streets (David Issacharoff | Haaretz, 2025-04-21)
“Ahead of an anti-war
Pope Francis' Special Connection and Calls to a Gaza Parish | TIME (2025-04-21)
Pope Francis' Special Connection and [daily] Calls to a Gaza Parish | TIME (2025-04-21)
https://time.com/7279098/pope-francis-catholic-parish-in-gaza-enduring-connection-phone-calls/
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As Pope Francis is remembered for his outreach ... his relationship with the Holy Family parish in Gaza stands out. The Pope made daily calls to the tiny parish ..., starting the practice shortly after the onset of the Israel-Hamas War on Oct. 7, 2023.
In a May 2024 interview with 60 Minutes, Pope Francis talked about how his calls to the parish in Gaza, occurring every evening at 7 p.m., were part of his daily routine. “They tell me about what happens there. It is very tough, ... I listen… and they tell me things. There is a lot of suffering.”
... While he then missed some days when he was first announced as critically ill, as soon as he resumed certain work duties from his hospit
Letter from Gaza by Clayton Dalton | Hospitals in Ruins (The New Yorker, 2025-04-18)
Letter from Gaza by Clayton Dalton | Hospitals in Ruins (The New Yorker, 2025-04-18)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/28/hospitals-in-ruins
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Behold, from The New Yorker.
“On January 29th, two weeks after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire, I crossed into Gaza as part of a twelve-person medical mission.”
“… when I arrived, Israeli forces had withdrawn from parts of Gaza, air strikes had largely stopped, and displaced families were returning to places they had fled. This meant that our view was not limited to the inside of one building. I would get an unusually complete picture of the state of Gaza’s medical infrastructure.”
cf. https://jasette.facil.services/@PariaSansPortefeuille/114369591315496861
@[email protected] @[email protected] [@israel](htt
Anger and anguish in the Holy Land: an interview with Munther Isaac (Church Times, 2025-04-17)
Anger and anguish in the Holy Land: an interview with Munther Isaac (Church Times, 2025-04-17)
Munther Isaac, a Palestinian pastor from Bethlehem, challenges Western churches’ response to the war in Gaza.
Unlike West Bank churches, the global Church has failed to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza, he argues. It has stood by, wringing its hands and making tepid calls for peace, as Israel perpetrates genocide against the Palestinians.
Dr Isaac said that Palestinians could not help but wonder how different things might have been if the international Church had spoken with one voice: “This is wrong.” “If faith leaders are not willing to speak up and present accountability, then who
Support Masafer Yatta
Support Masafer Yatta
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“For the next three weeks [from?], we are making the film [No Other Land] available online in North America as part of an effort to raise support for Masafer Yatta because our community is still being destroyed and we urgently need your help.
“All profits from renting the movie will go directly to support Masafer Yatta communities!
“If you already watched our film, you can donate any amount you like to the villages ...”
) Rent privately online for $13.99
WestBank #NoOtherLand #MasaferYatta
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Solidarity Fundraiser for Masafer Yatta (Center for Jewish Nonviolence, #CJNV)
Solidarity Fundraiser for Masafer Yatta (Center for Jewish Nonviolence, #CJNV)
https://secure.everyaction.com/QKISsdRhjEe4wEGzz/_HvwA2
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“For the last 10 years CJNV has been partnering with Palestinian communities in Masafer Yatta, supporting their sumud (steadfastness) and building networks of solidarity and coresistance. Now, together with community leaders, we are launching a general fund for Masafer Yatta to support the many emergency needs that are wrought on these communities by Israel's settler-state apartheid system…”
CenterForJewishNonviolence #WestBank #MasaferYatta
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[Irish] Government to shelve Occupied Territories Bill as it's labelled 'economic terrorism' (Business Plus, 2025-04-02)
https://businessplus.ie/economy-2/occupied-territories-bill-economic-terrerism/
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As the Government braces for the impact of Mr Trump's tariffs … senior Government sources said … that introducing the controversial Bill now would be akin to “economic terrorism”.
Asked what next steps could be expected, a source replied “scrapping the Occupied Territories Bill”.
A spokesman for Taoiseach Micheál Martin said while there is “no timeline” for the introduction of the legislation he didn't believe it was linked to the US tariffs ...
There has been substantial pressure from the US for the Government to drop the Bill, which would ban the trade of goods and services between #Ireland and illegal Israeli settlements.
US Ambassador to Ireland Clare Cronin warned Mr Martin last year there would be “consequences” if the legislation was passed…
OccupiedTerritoriesBill #USPol
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What you need to know about the Occupied Territories Bill - Trócaire (2025-02-12)
What you need to know about the Occupied Territories Bill [#Ireland]- Trócaire (2025-02-12)
https://www.trocaire.org/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-occupied-territories-bill/
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“… This bill would end Ireland’s trade with illegal Israeli settlements, and would be a historic step towards justice if passed. However, despite pledges of support from all major Irish political parties, the Occupied Territories Bill is now in danger of being delayed, watered down or even scrapped.”
OccupiedTerritoriesBill #EndOccupation
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Fed Up With Israeli Displacement Orders, Palestinians in Gaza City Refuse to Leave (Drop Site News, 2025-04-15)
Fed Up With Israeli Displacement Orders, Palestinians in Gaza City Refuse to Leave (Drop Site News, 2025-04-15)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-israeli-displacement-orders-kill-zone
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"Since March 18, Israel has issued at least twenty-four displacement orders in cities and towns across Gaza, ... Over 400,000 Palestinians have been newly displaced in less than a month.
"As it stands, over two thirds of Gaza is either under active displacement orders or within a no-go zone—sometimes referred to as a kill zone. Yet, in some neighborhoods under displacement orders, some residents are refusing to leave, opting to remain in their homes and face the assault instead of being displaced again to areas that lack shelter and which nonetheless continue to be targeted by the Israeli military."
StopGenocide [#EndOccupation](https://hcommons.social/tags/
【Interview 】“They Were Shot in the Head”: What Feroze Sidhwa Saw in Gaza (The Third Draft - Hanno Hauenstein, 2025-04-16)
【Interview 】“They Were Shot in the Head”: What Feroze Sidhwa Saw in Gaza (The Third Draft - Hanno Hauenstein, 2025-04-16)
https://open.substack.com/pub/hannohauenstein/p/they-were-shot-in-the-head-what-feroze
In this interview, U.S. surgeon Feroze Sidhwa describes the collapse of Gaza’s health system as well as the toll on healthcare workers on the ground.
Educators, reservists, ex-diplomats are latest to urge hostage deal, even by ending war | The Times of Israel (2025-04-15)
Educators, reservists, ex-diplomats are latest to urge hostage deal, even by ending war | The Times of Israel (2025-04-15)
"A wave of public petitions calling for the return of hostages from Gaza even if it means an immediate end to the war continued on Monday, representing several more sectors of Israeli society, with thousands signing on to back the call originally made by Israeli Air Force reservists last week.
"Separate letters were published Monday in the name of some 3,500 higher education academics, 3,000 education officials, 1,500 armored corps soldiers, 1,000 parents, dozens of former Foreign Ministry officials, and IDF Spokesperson’s Unit reservists."
"'The war serves mainly personal political interests,' the petition [signed by ac
Nach Kritik aus Deutschland - Israel rechtfertigt Attacke auf Krankenhausgebäude in Gaza (Deutschlandfunk, 2025-04-14)
Nach Kritik aus Deutschland - Israel rechtfertigt Attacke auf Krankenhausgebäude in Gaza (Deutschlandfunk, 2025-04-14)
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/israel-rechtfertigt-attacke-auf-krankenhausgebaeude-in-gaza-102.html
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“Nach Kritik auch aus Deutschland hat sich Israels Regierung für den Angriff auf das Al-Ahli-Krankenhaus im Gazastreifen erneut gerechtfertigt… Es reagierte damit auf einen englischsprachigen Beitrag des deutschen Außenministeriums.”
“Kritisch äußerte sich auch die geschäftsführende Bundesaußenministerin Baerbock im Onlinedienst Bluesky.”
“Nach Angaben des Chefs der Weltgesundheitsorganisation, Tedros, wurde bei dem Angriff unter anderem die Notaufnahme zerstört. 40 Schwerkranke hätten nicht mehr in Sicherheit gebracht werden können. Ein Kind sei gestorben, weil man es nicht mehr habe versorgen können.”
[AlAhliArabHospital](https://hcommons.social/tags
cont. “Resisting Submission” by Jan Komárek
“[Anna] Dumont’s essay is entitled ‘What Autocrats Want from Academics: Servility’. And that is exactly what I refuse to give them, even in my small, insignificant way.”
“Let me say this publicly:
“Donald Trump and his minions are destroying democracy, fundamental freedoms, and the Constitution on which these values are based.
“By supporting Israel’s disproportionate response to the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 2023, the United States is complicit in the crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza, which should be properly investigated by the International Criminal Court.
“Punishing people for saying these two things violates the U.S. Constitution and the value of which Americans have always prided themselves: the freedom of speech.
“We, in the free world, will keep reminding of these truths, that ‘we hold to be self-evident’”
Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step | Hanno Hauenstein (Guardian, 2025-04-03)
“The country’s so-called political centre has licensed a new era of authoritarianism – to the AfD’s delight”
(The author “placed these deportations in the broader context of #Germany ’s discourse around Israel and Palestine – a repressive climate that has, … targeted high-profile figures…”)
HannoHauenstein
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cont. “Germany’s Deportation Crackdown”
Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/citing-post-holocaust-doctrine-germany-seeks-to-deport-pro-palestinian-protesters/
London Review of Books https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/april/high-bars
Jacobin https://jacobin.com/2025/04/germany-palestine-protest-deportations-antisemitism
(in German)
Legal Tribune Online https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/abschiebung-ausweisung-palaestina-aktivisten-rechtswidrig-eugh-freizuegigkeit-berlin
) the organisations:
Breaking the Silence https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
B’Tselem https://www.btselem.org/
Zazim https://www.zazim.org.il/en/about
Combatants for Peace https://www.cfpeace.org/
Machsom Watch https://www.machsomwatch.org/en/node/51914
Torat Tzedek https://www.torat-tzedek.org/about
BIMKOM – Planners for Planning Rights https://bimkom.org/eng/
Parents Against Child Detention https://pacd.org.il/en/
BreakingTheSilence #BTselem #Zazim #CombatantsForPeace #MachsomWatch #ToratTzedek #Bimkom #PACD #ParentsAgainstChildDetention
Two Irish citizens ordered to leave Germany over pro-Palestinian protests despite no convictions – The Irish Times (2025-04-01)
… from an Irish perspective.
Unrechtsstaat #UnlawfulGermany
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About #KeremNavot
https://www.keremnavot.org/english-about
Kerem Navot is a new Israeli civil society organization (2012) that proposes a new angle on the ongoing dispossession of land in the West Bank, especially in area C which comprises 61% of the #WestBank.
We are obligated to empower and professionally strengthen other parties that are active in the anti-occupation movement. Therefore, Kerem Navot's research conclusions and database are generously shared with other leading Palestinian and Israeli NGOs as well as with international organs.
Mohammed Mansour contributed also to a Japanese newspaper "Asahi Shimbun" covering the ongoing Gaza #Genocide .
protectTheJournalists
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(CW: with photos from morgues) Israel Resumes Indiscriminate Attacks Against Gaza, Killing Over 400 People (Drop Site News, 2025-03-18)
Not the one you meant?
(if it’s not, I could generate a gift link myself, so tell me.)
According to German mediae, the Berlin State Police investigates the “incident” for a politically motivated crime.
e.g. (in German)
https://www.rbb24.de/kultur/berlinale/beitraege/2025/staatsschutz-ermittelt-voelkermord-vorwurf-berlinale-regisseur-jun-li.html
Am I supposed to laugh, or cry?
JunLi #Berlinale2025
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Video of the scene with reactions from the audience (sorry it’s X, the best I could find so far)
https://x.com/sully/_011/status/1891258595443921157
JunLi #Queerpanorama #ErfanShekarriz #Berlinale2025
Police pressure forces venue change for Francesca Albanese Berlin event: URGENT CALL to defend free speech - DiEM25 (2025-02-18)
https://diem25.org/police-pressure-forces-venue-change-for-francesca-albanese-berlin-event/
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“In a deeply concerning escalation, the organisers of ‘Reclaiming the Discourse: Palestine, Justice, and Truth’ … are facing ruthless attacks on their fundamental rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and expression.
“The venue, Kühlhaus Berlin, faced immense pressure from German politicians and the Berlin police to cancel the event.“
“German authorities, already responsible for canceling two events featuring #FrancescaAlbanese, are now escalating their efforts to silence her voice even further. Now, Berlin authorities are ratcheting up their efforts to quash this crucial conversation, putting the organisers and panelists under extreme pressure and threatening disruption through overwhelming riot police presence ...”
Also from Melanie Schweizer on X
https://x.com/Melaniebelizi/status/1891805714185662960
“Democracy under attack in Germany 🔥🔥‼️‼️due to extreme political pressure the initial venue cancelled our event. But we resist! New location: at News Outlet [Junge Welt] …”
Incredible. 😰
Livestream on Youtube
Announcement from Melanie Schweizer
https://x.com/Melaniebelizi/status/1891784857946059036
"Berlin riot police will be present today at the event with UN Special Rapporteur of the occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese..."