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The intent to commit genocide is clear. But even that word feels insufficient. Israelis can't say they were under a dictatorship or that their government tried to hide its crimes. It did it all in plain view with the willing complicity of other so-called democracies, defying all laws and conventions

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Pathetic vile little man.

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‘Gaza is veranderd in een massagraf'

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Gaza’s Health Ministry urges the UN to declare a famine, saying 92% of children and pregnant women now suffer from severe malnutrition. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/jj8tvo

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“Schöningen shows our Middle Paleolithic ancestors already had great knowledge of their environments, used the immediate topography to their advantage and had a sophisticated understanding of animal behavior, making them successful communal hunters over and over again,” 🧪🐴🏺

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“It’s all lies,” one veteran activist told me. “Human rights, international law, justice, all of it.” Devastating look at violent and nonviolent resistance from the West Bank.

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Fatima Hassouna, photojournaliste et chroniqueuse du quotidien à #Gaza, tuée dans une frappe avec dix de ses proches. La jeune femme était au cœur d’un film documentaire sélectionné pour le Festival de Cannes. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

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Irrigation canals across the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia. Eridu is traditionally considered the earliest city in southern Mesopotamia and discovery of thousands of irrigation canals provides a rare direct example of intense agricultural management in the region 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Avril 14th on prepared piano

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Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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An inscription mentioning 'ama-gi₄' from the reign of Entemena (ca 2400 BC) reads: ama-gi₄ lagašᵏⁱ e-ŋar ama dumu i₃-ni-gi₄ dumu ama i₃-ni-gi₄ [Entemena brought] freedom to Lagash he placed child back with mother and mother back with child

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The murder of these brave medics was not an isolated incident. The surviving medic saw women carrying dead and injured children, and men forced into a ditch. The medics were found in a mass grave. There may be more. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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I had to google who the 'artist' was, and their 'portfolio' is chokeful of AI-generated images. The 'reconstruction' in this article is almost certainly AI-generated nonsense too.

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Digital cuneiforms: Updated tool expands access to ancient Hittite texts. phys.org/news/2025-03...

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The Labour government is intentionally, by it's own calculation, going to force a further quarter of a million people in this country into poverty. Alongside the hundreds of thousands of kids it chose to keep in poverty with the two-child cap. And snatching benefits from 1.2 million disabled people.

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A table of reciprocals, the values in the second column are correct, but where the scribe copied 14 (𒌋𒐼) 28 (𒌋𒌋𒑄) 35 (𒌍𒐊) they should've instead written 15 (𒌋𒐊) 27 (𒌋𒌋𒑂) 32 (𒌍𒈫)

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Labour have looked at politics in France and the US - where the meaningful electoral choice is between the unpopular, lacklustre establishment centre-right and deranged fascists - and decided “we want some of that”

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For Palestinians being killed and the future of human rights, we must keep calling out our Government’s complicity in this genocide. The UK has now issued more new arms licences than it pitifully suspended last year. Israel's violation of international law is our violation of international law.

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The cowards attacked families in Gaza at 2AM while everyone was asleep. Their only aim is to kill as many people as possible. Bloodthirsty state.

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49-page UN report documenting Israel's "genocidal acts" in Gaza and its systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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“This land used to give us the best crops of cucumbers and tomatoes. Today, even the weeds do not grow as they used to.” Farmers often have profound concerns over soil pollution from munitions, more testing could help. electronicintifada.net/content/gaza... #Gaza

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It's free speech in the free world until you say: Free Palestine

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“What’s happening in Gaza is the shame of the century.” “This genocide would not have been possible without the shocking cover-up by the media.” “The role of Western media in defending the acts of a genocidal state is unprecedented.” —Francesca Albanese

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„We Must Not Look Away“: Francesca Albanese and Gabor Maté on „Confronting the Atrocities Against Palestinian Lives“

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Al Jazeera has been reporting on the release of 46 Palestinian women and minors by Israeli authorities on Thursday. We spoke with members of the group, some of whom were taken from Gaza months ago. 🟥 Read report: aje.io/ibqqdf

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Ramadan is approaching! This fragment is from an Abbasid Qur’an manuscript (MS Add.1111), likely written in the 9th or 10th century CE. ⬇️ #Ramadan #Quran #IslamicManuscripts #CambridgeUniversityLibrary

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In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Codex Sangallensis 878, a collection of texts on grammar and language copied by Walafrid Strabo in the 9th c. His handbook included four abecedaria—Hebrew, Greek, Futhorc and Younger Futhark. Sadly the Hebrew and Futhark sections were damaged by Ildefons von Arx, attempting to make them more legible

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🚨A new study in the Lancet has found that life expectancy in Gaza dropped by almost half, from 75.5 years to 40.6 years, between October 2023 and September 2024. The UK government facilitated this devastation through military and intelligence support. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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10-year-old Saddam Rajab was shot by IDF while on the phone with his mom in the West Bank. Soldiers blocked the ambulance. He died. Israel keeps committing crime after crime. When will the world stop looking away!

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#ManuscriptMonday nazi hunting edition. First 2 folios of The Conquest of Germany: a modern narrative in which the mythic Tibetan warrior hero Gesar of Ling travels to Germany (phyi gling 'jar) to fight Hitler's reich. It was written by the Eighth Khamtrul Rinpoche (1931-1980). 1/

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Alfredo Jaar, Lament of the Images, 2002 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137272

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Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman now available online, w/renewed thanks to everyone who made this possible: vimeo.com/1058614428

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In a crushing blow to free speech, the University of Cambridge is asking a High Court for an injunction through February 2030 to arrest anyone who protests on certain properties "in connection with Cambridge for Palestine or otherwise for a purpose connected with the Palestine-Israel Conflict."

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“[The Israelis] blew up my house, levelled my land, and... enjoyed cutting down the trees.” In Lebanon's Naqoura, returning townspeople are saddened and perplexed by the ferocity of Israel's pointless destruction aje.io/9nd1pm

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We are one of the more than 232 organisations calling on the UK to halt supplying F35s to Israel. Strikes from F35s have contributed to the staggering damage to #Gaza's environment, and with it serious and lasting threats to people and ecosystems www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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The UK government is among those complicit in war crimes by continuing to arm Israel. The fact that it continues to refuse to come to a judgment on allegations that Israel has used “disproportionate force”, after tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths, simply beggars belief

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