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glad to talk to @keeanga.bsky.social @itsmccarthy.bsky.social, @danieldenvir.bsky.social, about our increasingly weird political situation and the role that identity politics plays in it. even if this episode isn't for you, @thedigradio.bsky.social is a gold mine thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...

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Jairus Banaji's recent talk at UCL is now published. A great introduction to the origins of capitalism debate and his own contributions to it. www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/reto...

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I am a signatory of this letter, but I am also a keen observer of my field since the genocide started in 2023. The gap opening between parts of my field is massive and does not follow prior methodological divides. International law is a discipline in crisis. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...

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"Israeli fighter jets bombed a district south of Syria’s capital as well as the southern province of Daraa, local broadcaster Syria TV reports." aje.io/pb2qdi?updat...

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Notably, the Trump Organization is a family business devoted to personal branding, not a publicly-traded company accountable to a board of directors and to shareholders who can review its finances. And while Tesla is publicly traded, Xitter is Musk's personal property.

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Join us on Friday! SOAS KLT, 4PM onwards

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The comeback of the Left in Germany is sensational. Almost written off ahead of elections, they won 6 districts and almost 9% of votes + are biggest party in Berlin and among young voters. Also only party to not campaign on anti-immigration but to focus on affordable rent and cost of living

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'In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.' is such a beautiful indictment of bourgeois culture.

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Once upon a time, the social democrats were the workers’ party in Germany. In the election today the extreme right AfD gained 3x more support from workers than the SPD.

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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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‘The Dutch managed to make money out of their surrender, forcing Jakarta to repay the debts it had supposedly accrued in the 1940s; in effect, Indonesia had to pay for its own invasion.’ @vincentbevins.bsky.social on the Indonesian revolution: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Palestinians and their allies have protested relentlessly and, at times, heroically, not only to stop a genocide but to salvage and preserve core humanitarian principles governing life within the United States. Their target all along has been fascism, including but not limited to Trump.

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In this piece, I contextualize the outlandish plan to deport Palestinians from Gaza in the long history of imperial statecraft & nation-state foundation/consolidation. Unlike a recent WSJ article on the subject, I don't think this is a good idea #Gaza #EthnicCleansingOfPalestine jacobin.com

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Legendary historian of Russia and the Caucasus, Ron Suny, explores what the Armenian Genocide tells us about the concept of genocide and how and why they occur. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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🗓️On March 5, 15:30 - 17:00, I will be at the event 'Feminist Perspectives on Carceral Systems' organised by the Feminist Jurisprudence discussion group at the Faculty of Law, Oxford. You can join online here! www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

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

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During my tenure, I witnessed senior officials under intense pressure from ministers to skew the legal assessment. Reports were returned with instructions to “rebalance” the findings – to downplay evidence of civilian harm and emphasise diplomatic efforts www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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So yes, we all know that EDI (DEI) is hollow liberal trash. Indeed it's specifically a set of liberal measures designed to contain more radical demands, and rearticulate them as demands totally compatible with the status quo. It's why these measures naturalise and de-materialise racism.

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#USA President widely sanctions International Criminal Court, #ICC, over alleged “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting #America and our close ally #Israel” — including issuing “baseless arrest warrants” for Benjamin #Netanyahu and Yoav #Gallant www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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After the success of our inaugural conference last year, we're delighted to launch the CfP for round 2 of the Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference, this July.

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hill i been dying on is that externalization/outscourcing of migration detention is template for global policing, new bilateral trade agreements, and pillar of global & regional imperialism of this era. what was normalized for migrants is boomeranging for "citizens" already also disenfranchised.

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As Palestinians return home to Gaza after months of war, @bellingcat.com investigation confirms that in large parts of N Gaza, there are no homes left to return to. @godin.bsky.social #Israel #Gaza #ceasefire www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...

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‘In the months after 7 October, the government settled implicitly on a new red line: Palestinians might die in all kinds of ways, but not of famine, at least not according to the arcane formulas of the IPC.’ Alex de Waal on Gaza and definitions of famine: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Agree with @economist.com about dangers of further eroding the prohibition against territorial conquest. Curious there’s no mention of Israel’s land grabs, including of the Golan Heights which Trump recognized in his first term and Biden refused to rescind. foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/06/b...

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I hope people come to understand what we’re dealing with isn’t due to a lack of nuanced understanding of different approaches to addressing racism. They’re not looking for your reasonable middle ground or more compelling argument. They don’t care if you prefer a different intellectual framework.

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The fixation on "il/legality" is tripping people up, I think.

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I was honoured to write the foreword to this open access volume, ed by Pilisano Masake & Florian Jessberger #coloniallegacies edoc.hu-berlin.de/items/eee434...

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ICJ President Sebutinde has been credibly accused of plagiarism, and the source is stunning: Douglas Feith was US Under Secretary of Defense and key architect of the illegal 2003 Iraq War. His career is defined by opposition to international law & it is unbefitting that any ICJ judge would cite him

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cool how Judith Butler said the gender critical movement is ideologically incapable of offering resistance to the coming fascism and got pilloried for using big words, and now official GC organisations are releasing statements of support for Trump's first acts as returning president

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Great reporting. The Israeli army said that most people killed in bombing a Beirut apartment block were Hezbollah. The BBC found that nearly all were in fact civilians, and a third were children. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“The purpose of the British Empire, like all empires, is material. It was about resource extraction & transfer … that has a lot of relevance for how we deal with climate” NEW: @kojokoram.bsky.social on how the legacies of empire shape the climate crisis 🔗 ⬇️ youtu.be/35bb57jEpPE?...

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Boy, it’s a good thing science isn’t political

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We need so much more Lenin, now more than ever. There is, I think, the caricature of Lenin of just abstract commitment the rrr-evolution! but there's a more specific, arguably more political Lenin who speaks to so much:

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Occasional reminder that after October 7th, an Israeli defense official announced that Gaza would be reduced to a “city of tents.” The Biden administration willingly facilitated that objective. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

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Gift link to Kyle MacLachlan's essay on #DavidLynch in the NYT. "It’s why he never wanted to explain his work. He wasn’t trying to be surly or obtuse....It’s just that explaining his art after the fact seemed antithetical to the very point of making it."

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😻 DEAR ACADEMIC ACTIVISTS/COMRADES 😻 The second edition of our Law & Marxism Spring School will be held at SOAS from 8 to 10 May 2025! Deadline 10/2! We look forward to receiving your applications and cannot wait for the best days in May! ✊Help us to spread the word to reach all the comrades we can✊

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After 15 months of genocide.

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So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’. Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e

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Mexico has sent a position paper to the UNSC on the right to self-defense under the UN Charter. It insists that one State may not use force against a non-State actor on the territory of another State without the latter's consent, and rejects the "unwilling or unable" doctrine.

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Big @thedigradio.bsky.social ep: intro to Stuart Hall's Marxism w/out guarantees w/ Michael Denning. Marxism as method to analyze historically specific complex contradictory capitalist social formations and what it means for making working-class socialist politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...

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“Over the last year I have had several people posing as students come to my office to seek my advice about student protests while they were secretly videotaping me and then edited versions of those recordings were published on right-wing social media sites.”

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"I have come to the view that the Columbia University administration has created such a toxic and hostile environment for legitimate debate around the war in Israel and Palestine that I can no longer teach or conduct research at Columbia." Full statement here: drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

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A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Recalling the IDF justifying (without providing evidence) strikes on ambulances in Gaza by claiming the vehicles were being used by militants.

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“It cannot be that IDF soldiers — both regular service and reservists — are afraid to go on a trip abroad for fear of being arrested,” Lapid said. Oh yes it can be.

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Biden just had to give Israel $8B worth of weapons on the way out the door. With no conditions. A perfect distillation of his legacy. www.axios.com/2025/01/04/b...

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wow, this looks fascinating - it came out recently. www.pennpress.org/978151282634...

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Nothing “new” or celebratory about another day in another year of this ongoing extermination. It’s hard to feel anything but the constant pit in my stomach & sickness in my heart.

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I want Palestinians to have “the dignity of ordinary days.” I cannot comprehend that we are witnessing the extermination of a people and we are unable to stop it.

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