Ahead of June’s European elections, the French left is divided over Gaza. Rima Hassan, a Franco-Palestinian jurist and activist standing for France Insoumise, tells Jacobin why it's shameful for left-wingers to fail to defend Palestinians' rights.

"I | want to be a defender of human rights that takes the letter of international law seriously.” Rima Hassan is clear about how she’ll differ from most members of the European Parliament. A Franco-Palestinian jurist and activist, she is running on the left-wing France Insoumise list for June’s EU elections.

Born stateless in the al-Nayrab camp for Palestinian refugees in Syria, Hassan moved to France in the early 2000s before acquiring French nationality in 2010 at the age of eighteen. Her master’s thesis at the Sorbonne was a comparative study on how international law has treated apartheid South Africa and Israel. She founded the Observatory of Refugee Camps in 2019 and then the Action Palestine collective in the wake of the October 7 attacks and Israel’s ensuing invasion of Gaza.

Hassan sat down with Jacobin’s Harrison Stetler for an extended conversation on the European elections, the current war, and how Israel can be held to account.

read more: https://jacobin.com/2024/04/france-left-palestine-rima-hassan/

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GYROVISION 2024

Corner Späti is back again with our fully alternate €urovision event, join us for music, yelling, drinks and voting. All money from ticket sales, bar and any voluntary donations will be going to Medical Aid Palestine ( https://www.map.org.uk/ )

Tickets are limited to only 40 places but we will be allowing some people in at the door for the same price. This is due to limited seating in the venue. If you can't make it, don't worry we will also be streaming it on twitch.tv/cornerspaeti

The money made at the bar, donation jar and money made via the stream will also be donated to Medical Aid Palestine.

DO NOT WATCH THE ACTUAL €UROVISION

In keeping with calls to boycott the ESC, we will not be airing the actual event (pending any relevant news) so we encourage you to come or watch our alternate show online.

read more: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gyrovision-2024-tickets-840280269907?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Speaking at an event for the UK Women in Economics Network, Breeden said that indicators of annual pay growth remained in the 6-7% range, significantly higher than recorded in recent years.

“[This is] still elevated and, given the current weakness in productivity growth, several percentage points higher than what is consistent with the inflation target, were they to persist,” she said.

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