Excited to join Joel Beinin on Feb 20 to talk Najati Sidqi and the sad parallels between 2023-24 and 1929-30. (Including: both split the Left.) Jewish Currents has unpaywalled the excerpt; UTexas Press has a 30% discount on the book for attendees. Details below. jewishcurrents.org/event/member...

Unpaywalled! Read an excerpt here: jewishcurrents.org/memoirs-of-a...

Great piece

Excellent, clear thread. Grim but worth a read

2/2 This quote indicates why. Other parties’ scandals happen when members fall short of the party’s values. Reform’s happen when they enact its core values. Racism is the party’s very essence. Scapegoating & punishing certain segments of the population is the totality of its programme.

The powerful front page of the reformist newspaper Sazandegi features the names of 3,000 individuals who, according to government reports, were killed during the protests in Iran. #Iran #IranProtests2026

London in the good old days - before everyone's feet pointed forwards.

Mi-neged demo this Tuesday at UK FCDO at 4.30pm to draw international attention to state-backed settlers aiming to forcibly evict 87 Palestinian families (700 people) from their homes and threatening demolitions of a further 116 homes (affecting 1500 people) in the Palestinian neighbourhood Silwan

From El Lissitzky’s חד גדיא (1919)

British military equipment exported to the UAE is being used by the Rapid Support Forces to commit atrocities in Sudan. ✍️ Take action now to email your MP calling for an arms embargo on the UAE!

Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office. www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.

Oksana Vasyakina in Equator www.equator.org/articles/whe...

Following the documented rape of a Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teyman, the military prosecutor ordered the arrest of the soldiers involved. There was govt-supported riots trying to prevent their arrest. In response, she leaked the video evidence. Now she has been removed by the Israeli govt. 1/

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New post - a mammoth, though partial, review of Marlene Laruelle's new book on Putinism as ideology. I find a lot to like in her 400 page meticulous treatment, but also a bit of a gap between her final thesis and her evidence. Link in the next post.

This hateful antisemitic vandalism in Minneapolis is alarming and unacceptable. Targeting synagogues with anti-Zionist/anti-Israel slogans isn’t political activism — it’s harassing and threatening Jewish communities.

Excluding Marwan Barghouti from the list of prisoners for release means none of the parties are serious about the second stage of the agreement (replacing Hamas with an alternative administration) let along any "peace" prospects

Robert Malley on LRB pod podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

@danaelkurd.bsky.social writes the peace deal is "asymmetric, providing the Israeli government many of its political objectives while imposing multiple layers of international control on and vague assurances to the Palestinian people – and only if they comply." theconversation.com/gaza-peace-p...

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

Make no mistake. Those who spearheaded the Gaza genocide will try to relaunch it in a more ruthless manner, at the earliest opportunity. They will fail only if there will be an alternative vision, one of recognition, life and equality for everyone.

18,457 names of children murdered by Israel in two years. Those are just the names we have so far. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

After the anticipated and hoped for prisoners/hostage exchange, there will remain in Israeli prisons thousands more Palestinians than there had been there on 6th October 2023.

Jerusalem tonight. "We must resist against genocide"

Two people in balaclavas torched a mosque in Peacehaven, East Sussex. This is not far from where I live. Fascists are in an open war with Muslims and people of colour in the UK. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel killed 66 Palestinians in Gaza TODAY.

Here’s a comprehensive list of appropriate responses upon hearing that a man murdered worshippers at a synagogue: 1- this is fucked up, fuck that guy, fuck antisemitism, solidarity with the victims 2- see above

And here is the full audio. www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-battle...

This is a perfectly appropriate message in response to a horrific event, and the responses to this post are filling me with sorrow.

Will try to have something more constructive to say eventually but this is unbelievably spiteful and stupid. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This was a fascinating convo and I reckon diaspora folks - and not just members of the Palestinian diaspora - will learn a great deal

First images of Tony Blair entering Gaza as head of the new temporary international administration

In Brighton on Monday 29 Sept? Join us for this. actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve... @ayoub.bsky.social @naamoduk.bsky.social

Re-upping this thread today

Elizabeth Tsurkov, for me, is an example of a rare Jewish Israeli who decided to embrace the Middle East as her home, immersed itself in Arabic language and culture, struggled and put herself at risk for justice and liberty for people in Palestine, Syria and Iraq. She's a model of how things can be.

‎שיחה חשובה על הדרישות הקפדניות שממשלת ישראל משיתה על אירגוני סיוע בין לאומיים הפועלים בעזה ובגדה והשלכותיהן youtu.be/c-L-PLbRbdg?...

Regardless of whether Reform's deportation plan "works", if they get a chance to try it - like the Tories' Rwanda policy, or Trump's deportations - it will ostentatiously torment thousands of people and further engrain racism in British politics. It must be opposed on that basis.

At least 15 people killed, including 4 children, in the latest Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, says Ukraine Interior Ministry. And EU mission and British Council buildings were damaged. Biggest attack since Trump met Putin, and one of the deadliest attacks this year.

1/ Why are Trump and Putin talking ceasefire without Europeans? Some facts in thread: Despite the shifting frontlines, prolonging the war at terrible human cost, there has been little territorial gain by either side and fundamental realities have not budged. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur...

This is a good companion piece to the Foreign Affairs article I shared yesterday, as it tries to provide a materialist analysis as to why the anti-Netanyahu alliance failed to become an anti-war one, and extended support for genocide. jacobin.com/2025/08/war-...

This piece, by @dahliasc.bsky.social, gives a very good and accurate overview of how right wing Israeli public opinion has become over the past decade, and why Netanyahu is not an outlier. These are my takeaways - and differences. 1/ www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe...

Dozens of journalists gathered in Damascus to protest Israel’s war and the killing of five Al Jazeera staff members in Gaza, on Monday August 11, 2025. 📸 Andalou Agency

David Chichkan, 39, artist, anarchist, anti-authoritarian activist, gravely wounded defending Ukraine on August 8, died on August 9, 2025. Pictures below from moving tributes to him on Instagram, where you can also see footage of him appearing in Oleksiy Radynski’s 2016 documentary film ‘Landslide’

I wrote this to explain how we reached this point, in the hope it would be a resource for people arguing with friends and family, people with questions, perhaps even people thinking of joining a protest. Do share with anyone who might find it useful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...