I'll be teaching this course in February - we'll be reading Nicole Loraux, Simone Weil, Alenka Zupancic, Aeschylus and Euripides, inter alia, and thinking about sex, gender and the political limits of tragedy. Tragedy’s Women: Feminism, Politics, and Drama | BISR Online buff.ly/8nOeLqh

1/ Thread: Why did states, like the U.S., that materially supported Israel’s genocide simultaneously impose targeted sanctions on ‘extremist settlers’ in the West Bank? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bonus - Capitalism After Neoliberalism w/ @iliasalami.bsky.social Ilias Alami is on the show to talk state capitalism in the neoliberal age. Link in the replies.

Is shame ‘a revolutionary emotion’? I reviewed Frédéric Gros’ book Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion for the Aust Book Review The review is pay-walled but you can hear me read it here: www.australianbookreview.com.au/book-reviews... @versobooks.bsky.social @austbookreview.bsky.social

Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored www.tni.org/en/publicati...

The Cabinet of the Progressive International condemns the United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing a colonial governance structure in Gaza — a calculated attempt to erase the horizon of Palestinian liberation.

As the U.S. uses sanctions and tariffs against those who seek to hold Israel accountable for genocide, @shahdhm.bsky.social and I have organised this panel on economic and physical coercion with an excellent group of speakers: twailr.com/webinar-geno...

You accept the peace plan or 'we finish the job' - why are we not talking about physical and economic coercion in the age of genocide? join the discussion this Wendesday. twailr.com/webinar-geno...

Professor Richard Falk, the veteran human rights scholar and former UN rapporteur, was detained for four hours in Canada, on his 95th birthday, where he had gone to speak at the Gaza Tribunal. The repression of pro-Palestinian voices is worldwide.

Together with @wanshucong.bsky.social we put together a symposium on the 20th anniversary of Anghie's pathbreaking Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of IL. Our introduction is here: cil.nus.edu.sg/blog/symposi.... Terrific contributions to come including a generous response by Prof. Anghie.

On 11 November, 1965, Rhodesia announced its Unilateral Declaration of Independence and its break with Britain. For the global far right in the 1960s-70s, Rhodesia became a cause celebre, seen as on the frontline (alongside apartheid South Africa) against communism and multi-racial democracy.

According to the World Food Programme (WFP), only half the required food aid is currently reaching Gaza, while a coalition of Palestinian relief agencies said total aid deliveries amounted to just one-quarter of what was agreed under the ceasefire deal. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

The U.S. is considering replacing the abomination that is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation with what one humanitarian official who has seen the plan calls "a warmed-over version of what GHF tried to do”.

Milton Friedman on the BLF and Green Bans 🤡

NSW Supreme Court tosses out anti-protest laws www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

Annalena Baerbock refused to enforce arrest warrants for Israeli officials implicated in crimes against humanity. Now she's President of the UN General Assembly. ✍️ Join the global movement to demand Baerbock’s resignation.

This is such a moment of mixed joy and anxiety for the people of Palestine, but, one clear piece of good news: the genocidal, death-trap, known as the Gaza "Humanitarian" Foundation, is being dismantled and removed from the Gaza Strip, according to @aljazeera.com. Alhamdulliah

Pentagon officials confirm “Operation Prize Patrol” is already underway.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Past/Present is an Australian Historical Association initiative, in partnership with the Guardian, looking at current events in historical context. Here's an excellent piece by Roland Burke on early international efforts to deal with misinformation/disinformation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The work is just beginning.

This sanctions webinar is on tonight (Southern hemisphere)! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

An excellent set of reflections on the obscene spectacle of providing people with the alternatives of a colonial administration run by war criminals or the ‘completion’ of a genocide. By @shahdhm.bsky.social @mohsenattar.bsky.social and Ata Hindi.

As the US government trains its sights on the ICC as a whole, a reminder of a continuing and indefensible failure to protect the institution and its agents:

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

Navi Pillay: ‘To do nothing is not neutrality. It is complicity. The prevention of genocide is not a matter of discretion of states. It is a legal and moral obligation, and it admits no delay. The law requires action. Our common humanity demands it.’ gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Again and again: free speech silenced at the behest of an organised pro-Israel lobby group by weak-kneed management. If people don’t stand up to this pressure there won’t be a single institution left in which anyone can talk about the genocide in Gaza.

Reuters misspelled ‘prosecution’.

“This attempt at silencing Palestinian voices is the latest in a relentless, decades-long campaign by Israel and its allies to erase the Palestinian people and systematically deny their collective right to self-determination and return’ Al-Haq, PCHR & Al-Mezan statement www.alhaq.org/advocacy/266...

The US is going down Israel’s wishlist and checking off one criminal request after another. In addition 2 joining in Israel’s genocide & attacking Iran, the US has sanctioned the ICC, Francesca Albanese, Samidoun Prisoners Network & Addameer. Today, it sanctioned more venerable Pal human rts orgs

The U.S. is no longer pretending that its sanctions serve to enforce international law or protect human rights. Instead it is sanctioning anyone who attempts to hold Israel accountable for its genocide—including, now, respected Palestinian human rights orgs.

"Jillian Segal has also declined to specifically address the presence of neo-Nazis at anti-immigration marches" Of course- why would we expect the Antisemitism Envoy to worry about Nazis? She's busy with her real job; silencing critics of Israel's #GazaGenocide. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘I’m not saying it’s not a tragedy’ says Jack Lew, while defending Israel’s killing of ‘children of Hamas fighters’. The language of tragedy has become the refuge of all those who want to obscure agency and responsibility, as if Palestinians are simply fated to die.

"The presence of former head of US National Socialist Movement Jeff Schoep is deeply concerning. He was one of the most high profile Nazis in America for 2 decades." Question is not just why would the Human Rights Commissioner attend this. But why would anyone? www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...

we’ve been quiet because we’ve been working on this for a minute—see you in just over a week for the first session on Kanafani’s “On Zionist Literature”!

‘Many parties bear responsibility for this crisis,’ write the shameless Biden admin figures Jacob Lew and David Satterfield. These two men enabled and shielded Israel’s weaponisation of starvation for well over a year and bear direct responsibility for it. www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...

Important investigative report - applications for apartheid arrest warrants for Ben Gvir & Smotrich were ready for submission when Karim Khan stepped aside - months later, ICC sources say his deputies have not filed the applications due to threat of US sanctions www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-arr...

As we watch the increasing weaponization of economic tools, this new collection of (often prescient) articles on "Economic Sanctions and the Law" in the Fordham International Law Journal has become only more relevant: www.fordhamilj.org/volume-48-is...

“Time is the most valuable strategic resource—the medium through which genocide is administered and normalized. It is the time of horror that Palestinians are forced to endure” Abdaljawad Omar mondoweiss.net/2025/08/the-...

Just a reminder for #historians that I am constantly updating this list of *online* and *open access* collections of radical historical documents. Nearly 1000 listed from around the world in many languages! hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

Israel’s latest plan to occupy Gaza City reveals that the assault on Gaza is more than just a war over territory. It is a war to extend, suspend, and dictate the tempo of killing and destruction - to exhaust Gaza into submission. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/the-...

Reading the intro to Les Temps modernes by Sartre: "The writer is situated in his time; every word he utters has reverberations. As does his silence. I hold Flaubert and the Goncourts responsible for the repression that followed the Commune because they didn't write a line to prevent it."

Media blackout on the eve of an invasion the whole world has condemned, by a state that’s been willing to do a genocide on livestream. What do you think comes next? Hearing reports of intensive bombardment. They’re leveling whatever is left.