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International Law & the Question of Palestine: A Reading List A great resource covering 23 topics on IL and Palestine, historical and contemporary👇 twailr.com/internationa...

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Today at @soasuni.bsky.social "The Genocide in Gaza: A Legal Analysis". Featuring @msjamshidi.bsky.social and @alonso-gd.bsky.social, chaired by @pmpoc.bsky.social Register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

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Every day I am reminded that Palestine is indeed the litmus test for politics, ethics, morality. You fail on Palestine, you fail on everything else.

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“Up to 113 students and staff in the UK have faced disciplinary investigations linked to pro-Palestine protest activity across at least 28 universities since the 7 October attacks”

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In his new book, poet and journalist Mohammed El-Kurd rejects the notion that Palestinians must prove themselves worthy of dignity and freedom.

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‘Connoisseurship, conviviality, exotic locations: left-wing politics as presented here is often far from the grind of cold picket lines or meetings in draughty halls.’ Andy Beckett on Tariq Ali’s memoir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Hi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social just wondering whether the March deadline is for abstracts or the full text?

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Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

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Our paper, A Conversation on Why Palestine Is a Feminist Issue with Nicola Pratt, Afaf Jabir, Sarah Ababneh, Ashjan Ajour, and Hala Shoman, addresses the silence and complicity of feminists in the face of the genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza. t.co/sEoXm0WG7h

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The government was right to welcome Ukrainian refugees fleeing war. There is only one reason that people in Gaza, displaced by a genocide that our government abetted, are treated differently. That reason is anti-Palestinian racism.

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Perfect Victims explores ongoing Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation and human rights abuses and the “impossible demand made of the Palestinians” to be sympathetic in the eyes of international observers, “curating yourself in a way that is not offensive to the Western gaze.”

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Pankaj Mishra on nationalism, modernity and how the horrors in Gaza were shaped by other atrocities of the 20th century.

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Israeli police raided two locations of the Palestinian-owned Educational Bookshop and arrested Mahmoud Muna and Ahmed Muna, two of the owners.

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Just published 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2025.2455477

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“They want to make us afraid. Not just us, they want to send a message to all Palestinian people,” Morad Muna said. “We are now going to reopen both branches of the bookshop. I think this is the best reaction that we can do to such a situation.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Have you seen The Azhar Writing Prize for Arabs Living Anywhere? Submissions of 1,000 words or less, not including the title, must be in English, and the prize welcomes submissions in translation. Find out more here: www.instagram.com/p/DF0OE-ryTtD/

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The dehumanisation of Palestinian released prisoners in full view in every western media outlet. So repulsive to see.

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Seven Palestinians freed by Israel as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal have been admitted to hospitals upon arriving in Ramallah "as a result of the brutality they were subjected to" by Israeli authorities, says the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.

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‘Declaring a famine, as the IPC has been on the brink of doing in Gaza on several occasions, has moral force rather than legal consequence.’ Alex de Waal on Gaza, Israel and the vexed definitions of famine: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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"As the slow and expensive work of rebuilding Gaza begins – the UN estimates that it will take $50 billion and at least a decade – education should be among the priorities." 'Education is Resistance' by @mshwaikh.bsky.social in @londonreview.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

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Next Wed, 4-5pm at KCL. All welcome, registration link below: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/gaza-...

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‘Women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less serious, less “universal”, than men who write about men drinking and writing and sleeping around.’ @torilmoi.bsky.social on Vigdis Hjorth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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It has been 1000 days since Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on May 11, 2022. Despite efforts for justice, no one has been held accountable aje.io/56v4aj

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trying to piece myself together after almost a year and a half of witnessing genocide but the pieces won’t come together- they can’t I don’t think.

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The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement expressed support for the establishment of the Hague Group, a group of nine countries seeking to impose legal, economic, and political costs on Israel for crimes against Palestinians. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

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A coalition of close to 600 publishers across 50 countries is calling for an industry-wide boycott of the world’s largest publishing event.

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"A Ceasefire is Not Enough" by @tksshawa.bsky.social There's no such thing as the "day after" in Gaza. This is a slowing-down of a genocidal campaign. Hunger and disease caused by Israel's destruction of civilian infrastructure will continue to kill thousands. thebaffler.com/latest/a-cea...

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Groups like Al Qaeda used to be the antithesis of older terrorisms like the IRA. Now they're often seen as equivalent. What's going on with our temporal imaginaries of terrorism? And why does it matter? New E-IR piece w/ Andrew Whiting & @michaellister.bsky.social: www.e-ir.info/2025/01/29/r...

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‘By the start of the Gaza war, the IDF had a host of AI-assisted targeting systems to guide its bombing spree, and was developing even more.’ Sophia Goodfriend on militarised AI, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

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My younger brother returned to Gaza City yesterday with my mother from their place of displacement. This is what he found—this is what the Israeli genocidal army did to our family’s home. There is no place left to live.

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“Marxism is an ideology for economists, but anarchism is for poets—a rhetoric that’s thundering and denunciatory, excoriating and profane.” Ed Simon considers the life Alexander Berkman, anarchist, would-be assassin, and 19th-century Luigi Mangione.

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77 years since the Nakba began, Palestinians continue to resist erasure & displacement. Today, after 15 months of genocide, a million returned to northern Gaza, defying those who tried to erase them. Their unbreakable spirit proves no force can extinguish the right of return. 🇵🇸

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“The majority have had no funerals, no prayers, no moments of silence, no celebration of their lives, their spirit, their personalities, each unique.… we owe it to them to pause and open ourselves up to the fullness of the little lives that were snatched away.” @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

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Its not the laziness that i take issue with, its the way that it encourages -in higher ed- the continued deskilling of the teaching/research profession, in line with managerial vision, at the same time that it encourages students’ worst tendencies. There is an overlap there.

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AI this AI that- honestly seeking AI littered everywhere in academia rn, from courses, to funding grants, to publications is very depressing

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Betty Shamieh considers her novel, Too Soon, alongside Etaf Rum, Hala Alyan, and the next generation of Palestinian fiction.

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Sharing again the gofundme link of my friend Sara who lost so much during the genocide in Gaza. Make the ceasefire tomorrow really meaningful to her by please donating and sharing: www.gofundme.com/f/help-sara-...

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Starmer's Southport speech is puzzling. There are already an array of different precursor offences in existence that tackle things like preparing for terrorist attacks; offences that don't require connection to a proscribed organisation or any other group. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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The Palestinian released were also hostages. They have names.

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With the start of the ceasefire in Gaza, I spoke with @scotnational.bsky.social about Keir Starmer’s ‘devaluing’ of Palestinian lives, and the cosy relationship the UK Government has with the arms trade. www.thenational.scot/news/2486529...

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Cannot bare to stay on X/Twitter so account is permanently deleted. But I have to confess, it was v good on pro Palestine organising - the silence on Palestine here is a bit deafening

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Sharing again the gofundme link of my friend Sara who lost so much during the genocide in Gaza. Make the ceasefire tomorrow really meaningful to her by please donating and sharing: www.gofundme.com/f/help-sara-...

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www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan...

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This is a must-read post for academic folks. Including this thing to watch for: “You heard it here first, folks: expect that we’ll now see arguments that clinics should stop any kind of public interest work that might make a ‘statement.’”

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