Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Find me at @ http://annastavrianakis.bsky.social Arms trade researcher at U. Sussex and Shadow World Investigations
Dozens of Greek activists successfully blocked hundreds of Israelis from disembarking a Mano Maritime cruise ship at the port of Syros, Greece. The protesters unfurled a massive Palestinian flag while chanting "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." The locals of the…
Huge crowds in port island of Syros defy police attempts to allow Israeli ship to dock in Greece.
Hundreds of Israelis on aboard Israel flagged ship at the port of island of #Syros #Greece Pro-Palestine protesters blocked their arrival defying police attempts to ban #Palestine solidarity protests. #ısraelTerroristState #antireport
Follow @declassifiedUK for coverage of the legal action against the proscription of Palestine Action
🚨Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori will ask for permission to challenge the group's proscription at the High Court today. Declassified is monitoring the hearing, and we'll be posting live updates here👇
NOW: The High Court is hearing a case to challenge the government's decision to ban Palestine Action under anti-terror laws. 🧵Thread of updates from inside court:
🔴 BREAKTHROUGH: Two Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes in #Gaza were Arrested and interrogated at #Tomorrowland after a joint complaint by the #HindRajabFoundation & @GLAN_LAW. This is historical! More info ⬇️ hindrajabfoundation.org/perpetrators/b… #JusticeForGaza #NoSafeHaven…
Hear hear! The most comprehensive account I've seen of where F-35 parts are made is from @WorkersinPales1 - workersinpalestine.org/who-arms-israe…. Still very little sense of who these workers actually are - all power to the trade unions working to organise in the arms industry
As a now retired ex-employee on the programme, I have become more than a little obsessed with the question of who the 20,000 UK workers are on the F-35 programme since a conversation with a former colleague now a Unite shop steward. More power to @Gabriel64869839 for questioning.
You know those videos of "kids say the funniest things" that we watch for a break? Imagine being a kid in Gaza.
Questions from Gaza's Children as compiled by staff from the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza:
The relentless genocide: 58,380 victims now listed by name. A month ago #Gaza’s Ministry of Health released a list of 55,202 named and identified victims killed by Israel since 7 October 2023. Today, just 4 weeks later, its latest list covering up to 14 July contains 3,178 more…
Go Belgium! Well, Flanders at least! politico.eu/article/brusse…
Amazing video about out of our Sussex students on the experience of working with the radical periodical Tricontinental: openpress.sussex.ac.uk/teachingwithtr…
BOGOTÁ 🇨🇴🇵🇸 — 30 nations gather for historic conference to halt the Gaza genocide. “For too long, international law has been treated as optional – applied selectively to those perceived as weak, ignored by those acting as the powerful. That era must end,” says @FranceskAlbs.
🚨NEW: 22 trade union general secretaries have issued a statement defending the right to peaceful protest🚨 They're calling for charges against Alex Kenny, Sophie Bolt, Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal to be dropped – all of whom were arrested at a protest for Palestine on 18 January
My last report is downloadable on Rainews' platform: quite a development. Thank to the conscientious journalists who have worked hard, from within the system, to have my findings and analyses land on mainstream platforms during this genocide. rainews.it/dl/doc/1752426…
This should be a much bigger story: in the days surrounding the U.S. announcing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, all three members of the UN commission investigating Israel quietly resigned.
Here are a few reading recommendations from Palestinian authors and organisations: 🧵
Do you have any recommendations from Palestinian experts?
Great resource!
“Sudan’s complex histories of revolution, resistance, and repression have long been marginalized in global discourse, often overshadowed by reductive narratives or geopolitical disinterest” A curated reading list on #Sudan available to dl on pdf. arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/readin…
TODAY: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) Ireland’s sovereign wealth fund, announced its divestment from all Israeli govt bonds. This follows a 2024 complaint by GLAN @SadakaIreland @alhaq_org that ISIF was handling proceeds of Israeli war crimes glanlaw.org/proceeds-israe… 1/2
This moment belongs to the movement that made it possible — in Colombia and around the world.