In what is their second occupation of a University building in the last month, Pro-Palestine groups have occupied the Roscoe Building to protest alleged University connections to Israel and its complicity in the conflict in Gaza

Manchester Leftist Action have occupied the Simon Building to protest alleged University connections with Israel, along with students from UoM Rent Strike and Youth Front for Palestine

Protests converge at the University Green, where Students Against Tyranny met with counter-protests from groups including Manchester Leftist Action and the Socialist Worker Student Society

Afzal Khan sits down with the Manchester Media Group following his resignation from Labour’s Shadow Cabinet over the ceasefire vote in Parliament

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Demonstrators interrupt the Senate meeting with concerns around University research and current uses of graphene warfare

Protesters call for weekly protest over University graphene research

Pro-Palestine protesters in Manchester gathered in their thousands to march from Fallowfield to the city centre of Manchester

As much as Mother’s day can be a day of celebration for some, for others it can be one of the hardest days of the year – with that in mind here are some books to explore the harder side of Mother’s day.

Farha portrays the impact of genocidal trauma on a fourteen-year-old Palestinian girl

This afternoon a student protest disrupted a pro-Israel stall ran by the Union of Jewish Students and Israel education organisation Stand With Us.

Bana Kaswani considers Angela Davis’s Freedom is a Constant Struggle in light of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Urussa Malik reviews a new short story collection which explores what it means to be a woman in Palestine today.

Nimo Omer writes about the recent media coverage of the BDS movement’s week of action on Israel-Palestine conflict

Politics once again enters sport as Malaysia stands in solidarity with their fellow Palestinian Muslims over their ongoing conflict with Israel

Abid’s comments come around Holocaust Memorial Day, following her participation in the Lessons From Auschwitz programme

‘Breaking the Occupation of the Mind’, overshadowed its rough edges with thought-provoking contributions

A BDS protest against the unethical investment of the University of Manchester in defence of Palestinian rights was cut short by six police officers

Israel’s shift to the right and far-right come with alarming consequences for the Palestinian-Israeli peace process

‘Oriented’ is a documentary following three Palestinian Gay friends, living in Israel who are raising awareness of LGBTQ rights in Israel