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Farrah Koutteineh

Farrah Koutteineh

Farrah Koutteineh is founder of KEY48 - a voluntary collective calling for the immediate right of return of over 7.4 million Palestinian refugees. Koutteineh is also a political activist focusing on intersectional activism including, the Decolonise Palestine movement, indigenous people's rights, anti-establishment movement, women's rights and climate justice.

After being terminated from Sinn Féin without explanation, Farrah Koutteineh explores the Irish party's evolution from a revolutionary one that stood with Palestine to one that prioritises election results over Palestinian voices.

16 May, 2023

Amid a cost of living crisis that's left millions struggling to afford food and shelter, the King's £250 million coronation epitomises what the Royal Family represents: unearned privilege, corruption, and wealth inequality, writes Farrah Koutteineh.

05 May, 2023

Britain will likely mark a decade since Margaret Thatcher’s death with celebrations of her time as the first female prime minister. But we would do well to remember her debilitating austerity measures that continue today, writes Farrah Koutteineh.

06 April, 2023

The London Met police has a long history of institutional failures, from officers’ complicity in rape, to systematic racism and corruption, explains Farrah Koutteineh. They exist to serve and protect the interests of the elite.

23 March, 2023

Palestinian women have served a vital role in the resistance, from fighting the British mandate to Israel’s colonialism, occupation and apartheid. Farrah Koutteineh looks back at their radical history during the First Intifada.

08 March, 2023

Two decades ago today, the people of the world said no to the Iraq invasion. But not even the largest protest in history could stop imperialist powers. We must reflect on this failure and how to build collective power, writes Farrah Koutteineh.

15 February, 2023

Half a decade since British occupying soldiers murdered innocent protesters in Derry, those responsible have evaded accountability in a harrowing reminder of the ongoing violence of British colonisation, writes Farrah Koutteineh.

30 January, 2023

The longstanding solidarity between the Irish and Palestinian people is linked to Britain’s imperialist role in both territories, explains Farrah Koutteineh, who reflects on the many similarities between their experiences of violence and resistance.

06 January, 2023

As pro-Israel stances become tougher to sell, those hoping to silence Palestine solidarity have resorted to enforcing a false 'neutrality' on British schoolchildren, writes Farrah Koutteineh.

30 November, 2022

Farrah Koutteineh explains that Britain has been complicit in the oppression of Palestinians for over a century; from facilitating Israeli colonisation and ethnic cleansing, to arming the state, and even repressing Palestine solidarity in the UK.

31 October, 2022