Aleks Palanac 🍉
@alekspalanac.bsky.social
#FreePalestine / Head of Sanctuary at Uni of Leicester UK / EAP & ESOL / WP / trauma-informed ELT pedagogy for refugees / RefugEAP Network Convenor
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Pleased to share our first RefugEAP Programme impact report, detailing the impact that this free online trauma-informed academic English and skills programme for refugee-backround students across the UK has had over the past three years. Download here: le.ac.uk/-/media/uol/... @eap4sj.bsky.social
More Palestinians killed as they try to collect food. Israels aid distribution system isn't about helping Palestinians survive. Its about keeping them on the brink of starvation, controlling them, moving them & killing them
"Al Mawasi is supposed to be a safe zone, but Israeli air strikes hit a camp where families were sleeping... anyone trapped inside burned alive. They had to pick limbs & pieces of flesh out of the ashes" Alistair Bunkall reporting yesterday
They’re trying to tell you that genocide is normal. THEY’RE TRYING TO TELL YOU THAT GENOCIDE IS NORMAL. Reject the mainstream western worldview. Everything you’ve been taught about the world is a lie.
Israeli far-right minister urges bombing Gaza’s food and power supplies - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-far-right-minister-urges-bombing-gazas-food-and-power-supplies
Israeli far-right minister urges bombing Gaza’s food and power supplies
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The BBC has indefinitely delayed what I am reliably informed is a searingly powerful film about the destruction of Gaza's health system because bosses are "terrified" in the wake of the furore over "How To Survive A Warzone". x.com/pularjs/stat...
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No food has entered the Gaza strip for over 60 days now. Hind Khoudary reporting a few minutes ago.
Israel is perpetrating a “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza, committing illegal acts with the “specific intent” of wiping out Palestinians, says Amnesty International in its annual report aje.io/q7had4
At least 10 people have been killed in an Israeli attack that sparked a fire at a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, including one child who was burned to death in the blaze. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...
Child among at least 10 killed in Israeli attack on school shelter in Gaza
A child burns to death following the attack on school-turned-shelter in Gaza City.
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"One of the biggest [overnight attacks] was on a school in Gaza city... which was housing displaced families. It set the building on fire and at least 10 people, including a child, burnt to death"
An important anthology developed in the hardest of times, on one of the most important themes of our time. Congratulations to our amazing publisher and her team on such wonderful work. Read the work and sit with its words
#PublicationDay! #ToLaySunIntoAForest is out today. Please find out how to order this book here: sidhe-press.eu/books/to-lay... #Poems #Grief #CNF #Loss All proceeds go to The Sameer Project, please share!
Dr Majdi Salem: "Israel has deliberately targeted libraries across Gaza. What they are doing is well calculated" A report by Hani Mahmoud on how Israel has destroyed libraries in Gaza.
We're still plugging away at this Couch to 5K for Gaza's universities, who are facing a campaign of scholasticide as part of the ongoing genocide. We've finally made it to Week 5 after a few health related pauses. You can support us here: www.gofundme.com/f/solidarity... #FreePalestine #SaveGaza
BALEAP 2025 kicks off in Plymouth with a student-teacher panel on core themes of the conference: Collaboration, Co-creation & Community 🙌 What support structures work for international students? Buddy systems, social events, writing cafés, digital support, mentoring ❔ @plymuni.bsky.social
📢 From activism to actionable: Paul and Wil leading a well-attended world café on social justice at BALEAP 2025 conference today ⚖️ @wilhardman.bsky.social @paulbreenauthor.bsky.social
🗣️ Voices from the Other Side of Hope: Writing as Activism Podcast ✊ m.soundcloud.com/artshumlaw/v... Hear from 4 refugee/migrant-background authors, including Palestinian-British academic & poet Dr Khawla Badwan’s (8:47-20:30) ❤️🍉 @uolappliedling.bsky.social @khawlabadwan.bsky.social
Voices from The Other Side of Hope Writing as Activism
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Kindness in EAP with Jenna Mettlemeier at BALEAP 2025. Some provocative questions:
An overview of the brilliant Feminism X EAP slow conference from last year with Sanchia Rodrigues and our own Iwona Winiarska-Pringle at BALEAP 2025
📰 Launch of new BALEAP journal whose first issue features papers from last conference at Warwick University 🏫