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I tried to write something on the stuttering of anticolonial solidarity for Palestinian liberation & the traces left by colonial explosivity on critical social thought, indebted to the work of @ForensicArchi @GhassanAbuSitt1 @InhumanNigel & many others
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Kingās College London Withdraws Pro-Palestine Studentās Visa, Risking His Torture, After Pressure From Israel Lobby Group | Novara Media novaramedia.com/2025/10/22/kā¦
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my book (!) āA Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lankaā encompassing a decade of research on Tamil photographic practices set against a backdrop of ethno/nationalist conflict & the islandās turbulent post/war out Spring 26 uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295ā¦
EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
āFaculty and staff (including PhD students, non-research staff, and emeriti) formally associated with any EU/EEA, Swiss or UK institution of higher education and research are welcome to sign the Declarationā uppsaladeclaration.se/europeā¦
No better way to start the academic new year than finding youāre on another āat riskā league table
āHigher education regulators should monitor subject provision through an āat-riskā regional subject register and funding for āat riskā subjectsā thebritishacademy.ac.uk/newsā¦
ā$2.7 trillion was spent on militaries in 2024. This marks a more than 9 per cent jump from the previous yearā un.org/en/peace-and-securityā¦
Perverse thinking of the harms of BDS when Israel has decimated Gazan unis, murdered scholars & students āthere is also concern that researchers will leave Israel, potentially never to return, fuelling a ābrain drainā that is already a concern in medicineā theguardian.com/world/2025/sā¦
āThe belief in eventual moral clarity lets us believe that time itself will sort out moral failure, that history has a correcting functionā
Iāve been falsely consoling myself with the hope of a belated justice for Palestine. I was mistaken mena.rollingstone.com/politiā¦
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The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.
Rereading this article by Sarah Franklin on rural nationalism, so many trails leading up to the current frenzy of flag shagging
NOSTALGIC NATIONALISM: How a Discourse of Sacrificial Reproduction Helped Fuel Brexit Britain anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wā¦
We @MICresearch spent 18 months researching the performative politics of the Go Home vans & how they were perceived by the public. Thereās definitely a copy & paste going on in this latest campaign. Itās all about showing a tough stand on immigration & pandering to racism. Nasty
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šØThe far right are using womenās safety as a weapon to spread racist lies and division. As women, we stand with refugees and will not let the far right push a racist agenda in our name.
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āļøSign the open letter bit.ly/womenagainst
Shahram Khosravi: How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times
Date & Times: 27th November 2025, 18.O0ā20.00 UTC+1 thesociologicalreview.org/anā¦
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āļøšŖšŗ Amid a genocide, Europeans must know: Israel is the second largest per-capita recipient of EU start-up funding via @EUeic
EU institutions will have to answer for the āinnovationsā that have aided Israelās assault on Gaza. But right now, this program must be stopped.
This finding ā¦@ForensicArchiā© latest report about Israel arming gangs & militias in Rafah is esp significant. If itās not enough that access to aid is deadly
āFA satellite imagery and verified videos show that these gangs have seized aid trucksā www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproā¦
"This is a small, practical step that the Irish people can take to show solidarity and help young people in Palestine." rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/082ā¦
We Are Still Here - an anthology of short and long stories, poems, essays, and testimonies written by students from Gazaās universities DarajaPress darajapress.com/publication/ā¦
Genocide & suffering as commodities in ācannibal capitalismā middleeasteye.net/opinion/caā¦
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A few moments ago, armed soldiers taking a kid, blindfolding him, āarrestingā him after they raid his town in Nablus.
This kid will be denied a lawyer, legal representation, and likely exposed to different forms of abuse by Israelis.
This is terrorism.
Looking forward to reading ā¦@LalehKhaliliā©, Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy ā¦@VersoBooksā© versobooks.com/en-gb/productā¦
