Middle East Eye

"While the Turkish government focuses on disarming the PKK, a successful outcome could pave the way for broader democratisation and a renewed political agenda" ✍️ Opinion by Esra Elmas

Two students on Friday were expelled from Barnard College, which is part of Columbia University, for disrupting a class as an act of political protest.

"A Palestinian teacher's arduous journey through broken streets and checkpoints in Gaza reveals widespread destruction and hardship, yet a steadfast hope it will soon rise again" ✍️ Opinion by Ruwaida Amer

On 23 January, faculty and staff from the City University of New York’s Professional Staff Congress (PSC) union voted 73-70 in favour of a resolution to divest from Israeli companies and government bonds and recommended the teacher’s pension divest $100m from Israeli companies and bonds.

Relatives of Shiri Bibas and her children who died in captivity in Gaza have demanded Benjamin Netanyahu and his government stop using their deaths for political gain

Actors and TV personalities are among those signing a petition calling for the BBC to restore a documentary on Gaza that has been pulled after complaints from pro-Israel activists

Downing Street is consulting Boris Johnson's former policy chief, who described institutional racism as a myth and defended the former prime minister likening Muslim women who wear veils to "letterboxes", on multiculturalism

"She’s refusing glucose treatment … If that continues she will die" Laila Soueif, mother of imprisoned activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, is at high risk of sudden death due to her hunger strike. Soueif was hospitalised on February 24 due to dangerously low blood pressure and sodium levels after launching a hunger strike to demand the UK government do more to release her son.

“Israel’s own hostages have been a low priority for Netanyahu from the outset. If Israel really cared so much about them, it would not have carpet-bombed Gaza for 15 months” ✍️ Opinion by Jonathan Cook

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has distanced itself from the British Muslim Network (BMN) after Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a former government minister, suggested that the new organisation had the MCB's support at a launch event on Tuesday