Miriam Margolyes stands up for Harry Potter co-star Emma Watson for her show of solidarity with Palestine.

Watson joins a growing list of actors from the movie series who have shown support for the Palestinian cause, including Alan Rickman (Professor Snape), Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney), Jarvis Cocker (Myron Wagtail), Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) and Roger Lloyd-Pack (Barty Crouch).

“As in all anti-colonial struggles there is an agonising high price to pay. The death toll and injury rises in Gaza, afflicts Palestinians everywhere from Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Palestinians living within apartheid Israel. The Biden government and Western powers mock Palestinian suffering. The huge people’s protests in the streets of their capitals has been uplifting for the beleaguered Palestinians. They see they are not alone in their struggle for survival.”

– Ronnie Kasrils

Tarneem Hammad, 26, from Gaza writes: “I believe I owe my people a story. I want everyone to know what it’s like for a Palestinian from Gaza to travel through Rafah crossing into Egypt in a bid for freedom.”

— Tarneem Hammad

“Both my parents are really very very proud, everybody even my extended family is very proud, I don’t know if you have seen any of the pictures of people celebrating, in Gaza, I think there was more celebration of the perseverance than there was in the United States, everybody is kind of excited.”

— Loay Elbasyouni

“One reason why I resigned was to practise what I preach, it was to show and maybe to trigger change, to say that you can leave office, that you can make room for others, and that you can support and encourage young people to be part of decision making, it is their time for heaven sake.”

— Dr. Hanan Ashrawi

Ok, I’ll start again. Your sister is walking to school dressed in her school uniform when she is shot by a soldier at close range from an army observation post. The soldier’s superior officer, Captain R. (name protected), goes over to “confirm the kill”. He’s not quite sure she’s dead, so, he puts two rounds through her skull and empties the rest of his magazine into her dead body.

— Roger Waters

As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations’ lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them.

— Jonathan Cook