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

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

<article data-history-node-id="422083" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-far-right-minister-urges-bombing-gazas-food-and-power-supplies" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-far-right-minister-urges-bombing-gazas-food-and-power-supplies" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli far-right minister urges bombing Gaza’s food and power supplies</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="89" data-start="0">Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for the bombing of Gaza’s food and electricity supplies, as the security cabinet prepares to debate the next stage of the war.</p> <p data-end="645" data-start="423">Speaking to Israeli Army Radio, Ben-Gvir said: “We need to increase the intensity and continue until we achieve total victory. We must win a total victory.” He demanded&nbsp;that Israel bomb “the food and electricity supplies” in Gaza.</p> <p data-end="912" data-start="647">His comments come as Gaza, home to 2.3 million people, faces what humanitarian agencies describe as an unprecedented crisis. Israel cut off all goods entering the strip in early March, triggering widespread hunger and pushing the territory to the brink of collapse.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Israel" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="a3b2d264-68c0-4fe6-a113-ab22985cafec" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/ben-gvir-western-wall-jerusalem-march-2022-afp.jpg" width="885" height="498" alt="Israel" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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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

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#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!

Cover of To Lay Sun Into A Forest- Poems About Grief by Sídhe Press. On the left there is a quote : The wide-ranging community of poets chart grief across a galaxyof stars, lands, and the oceans, through the shivering leaves oftrees, to the heartbeats of loved ones, their losses are encapsulatedin words that stay with us, long after we close the book.
Teresa Pilgrim,
academic, creative practitioner, activist, survivor
On the right, there is a swirl of a painting, red, yellow, orange, you can see the brushstrokes. On it is the title in a handwriting font.