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According to the Department of Education account on X this week, Paul Givan toured a number of schools in Israel to “ learn more about Israel’s innovative approaches to gifted education and inclusive learning.” The visit in itself, funded by and in support of a Zionist regime which is actively committing genocide against children and which has repeatedly bombed schools in Gaza, is appalling. But to talk about inclusive education and Israel in the same sentence is jaw-dropping. The … [Read more...] about The grim reality for Palestinian school children in the West Bank

The sun has just set as we arrive at Shireen’s home and she greets us from the sheep pen, where she is in the midst of milking, and tells us to take a seat on the sheltered porch. It’s a landscape familiar to me in the daylight, but as night falls and lights begin to come on, illuminating the illegal Israeli settlements and outposts in this part of the Jordan valley, the recognisable landmarks of Palestinian homesteads, greenhouses and sheep pens disappear into the blackness, as if they … [Read more...] about When you are given 15 minutes to remove your belongings before your home is destroyed

As the ink dries on the Gaza peace deal, there is no sign of Israel’s annexation of the West Bank coming to an end. We are sitting in the shade of a huge Syrian ash tree in the centre of the community of Ras ‘Ein Al ‘Auja in the Jordan Valley and Ahmed, a local famer, is telling me about a recent settler attack on his local community and their ongoing struggle to simply stay in their homes. In March, in attack by dozens of Israeli settlers supported by the Israeli army and police, … [Read more...] about They are trying to starve us out of our homes to take our land