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A black and white illustration shows several teenage boys being escorted through the court gates by police, all are wearing masks and the boys are handcuffed.

Where we make our monsters

Part of my job is to try to inform the CPT community about the context in which we work. I’m often the bearer of bad

What’s behind a mask?

Last week, masked agents snatched Rumeysa Ozturk from the street outside her Massachusetts home and disappeared her into one of the US South’s notorious immigration

Generating empathy

On Monday, Hamdan Ballal – co-director of Oscar-winning No Other Land – was attacked by settlers in the West Bank, beaten, his home besieged, his

Palestinians inspect the ruins of Aklouk Tower destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 8, 2023.

New frontlines

The “ceasefire” in Gaza is over. At 2am on Tuesday, Israel resumed its bombardment, killing over 400. They say it’s just the beginning. Israel’s Defence

Business as usual

In early March, President Trump unambiguously threatened US universities. Aiming to uproot campus solidarity for Palestine, he wrote “Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to

People at a protest holding banners

Another kind of loyalty

In “The criminalisation of Palestine Solidarity in Toronto”, CPT highlights the work of the Legal Support Committee, which accompanies 105 people arrested in Toronto for

black and white portrait

Klemperer’s Diary

From 1933 to 1946, the German philologist Victor Klemperer kept a diary tracking the changing nature of the German language as it deformed. Although a

migrants wearing orange life jackets disembark off a boat in the aegean sea

Farewell Lesvos

This week’s Friday Bulletin falls on Valentine’s Day, and in the spirit of our 2025 guiding theme, Strength in Solidarity, we would like to invite

A group gathered at a memorial for migrant victims and deaths

Why do we commemorate?

This week in Lesvos, Greece, a group of us are holding a commemoration in our city’s public square for those who have lost their lives

a protest procession carrying a banner in Leeds, UK 1981

When States set our terms

There’s a story that Britain likes to tell itself. It used to have a problem with racism. After the 1993 racist murder of Stephen Lawrence,

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