Leading global experts just confirmed what we’ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And it’s likely to spread. The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.

I am updating my list of Palestine fundraisers, with direct links in case bluesky vindictively deletes their accounts. Feel free to reply with accounts you know of that I should add. Just quoting this to pin it because I forgot to put the explanation in the first post of the thread.

Thinking about how the people who call Israel “the last vestige of European colonialism” need to take a look at some of the many other vestiges of European colonialism. 🤷🏼‍♀️

So Israel lied. Again. For like the billionth time. That’s all they do. Lie. That’s the extent of their statecraft. Just lying. Lying and murdering people either by dropping bombs on them, starving them, or shooting them when they try to get food.

This is getting close to 150K signatures now. It might not do anything, but it will serve as evidence for the future that the UK government were aware of the opposition of its own people to its complicity in the Israeli genocide on Gaza & the fact that it did nothing to stop it.

‘Do the pilots who bomb children have children’

Our OpEd denouncing the current push for military research in our universities in the Standaard today University research in the service of the war economy: academics are gradually becoming intellectual mercenaries www.standaard.be/opinies/univ...

Caster Semenya calls for athletes’ rights to be put first as court rules in her favour

"The signatories also include 111 BBC journalists...The statement alleges Gibb has a “conflict of interest” which “highlights a double standard for BBC content makers who have themselves experienced censorship in the name of ‘impartiality’.” this seems important www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Join us UAnterwpen and TUFS colleagues tomorrow for insights on Israel's Settler Colonial project in Palestine and Iran. Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

« On ne libérera pas les femmes iraniennes en bombardant leur pays » Alors que les États-Unis de Donald Trump pourraient bombarder l’Iran en soutien à Israël, trois femmes iraniennes, dont la réalisatrice Sepideh Farsi, sont sur le plateau d’« À l’air libre ». @mediapart.fr

worth reading this in full. while it does offer examples of individuals excluding/being excluded from shelters which are horrific on their own, it also looks at the structural differences in access to shelter between the jewish and palestinian citizens of israel.

Belgian Court case finally starting tomorrow for the murder of Patrice Lumumba! Prosecuting office is charging the Davignon for war crimes www.rtbf.be/article/affa...

Self-Portrait on the Border Line between Mexico and the United States, 1932, Frida Kahlo #womensart

On brand graffiti - we need to be quiet when children are sleeping, not when they are dying! #FreeGaza

The activists aboard the Madleen aid ship couldn’t break the siege of Gaza. But Greta Thunberg and her colleagues have powerfully drawn attention to Israel’s blockade — and the West’s refusal to do anything about it.

#FreeRima #FreeGreeta #FreeGaza #BelgiumComplicit #EUComplicit Brussels is standing with Gaza tonight, and until independence!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸✊️✊️

Aren’t you meant to be “journalists”, not mouthpieces for a genocidal state?

Why is there always money for war, but never for the poor? I know which side I’m on.

Really looking forward to hosting you all in Antwerp for critically needed exchanges on colonial peace & connected activist responses later this week! Registration deadline is today. Participation is extended to remote online participation now! Updated programme & all info: tinyurl.com/dp8x4ssh

Some more urgently needed discussions on the violence and coloniality of ‘peace’, also very relevant to what some of us have conceptualized and critiqued as oppressive pacifism, beyond the common empire appeasement. And it’s still possible to register to attend the hybrid discussions

Tomorrow the Council will discuss the EU-Israel Association Agreement. The Agreement MUST be cancelled. No Association With Genocide! Suspend EU-Israel Association Agreement, main treaty regulation relations between the EU and Israel. Join the demonstration tomorrow at 10 am in Brussels at Schumann!

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X was born #OnThisDay in 1925.

This looks brilliant! 👇

Share, register and join us for a research activist workshop @ UAntwerpen! Full programme here! tinyurl.com/3xbmhpy3 #ColonialityofPeace #DecolonialPeace #ActivistResearch

Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

From barrister @crash-w.bsky.social. Powerful critique of the Supreme Court's work... ‘The Court’s comments about single-sex spaces appear to place trans people in a worse position than they were even prior to the passage of the Gender Recognition Act 2004’. www.translegalproject.org/post/for-wom...

Our life in HE “two years into an ambitious five-year transformation programme that required the closure of a whole academic department to pay for a management consultancy to print out a pdf with a road map to success“ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

Interesting look at how current geopolitical reconfigurations can lead to the re-emergence of pre-colonial/pre-modern trade and societal linkages, as much as of pre-2016 ones. Globalization didn't begin in the 2000s, and in many ways its previous logics remain geographically viable.

Today the ICJ will start a 5 day case on whether Israel is meeting its humanitarian obligations in the occupied Palestinian territory as the occupying power. Israel will of course ignore its ruling. Rory Challands reporting

Is Starmer’s Labour far right? This question sounds absurd, but today, it is not only necessary but urgent to ask for anyone who still cares about democracy My thoughts on @reacpolrn.bsky.social reacpol.net/starmer-far-...

'Let me start with a statement that should be obvious: deliberately starving 2 million people – half of whom are children – is indefensible. It is not complicated, it is not a nuanced situation that requires a PhD to parse.'

“The idea that there are two sexes, that we can always tell them apart, is the patriarchal hammer… this kind of feminism, which makes what patriarchy effects into its cause is appealing to conservatives and fascists world over” 👏 @saranahmed.bsky.social feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...

As news getting bad to worse, striving to stay afloat, walking through clouds of all shades, reading feminist powerful lines, getting strength and inspiration from small waves, strong winds and sunshines to keep standing in solidarity, resisting, and writing on the violence of peace...

In the current geopolitical and higher ed context, the publication of this special forum on "technologies of armed violence" is very dear to my heart: academic.oup.com/isagsq/issue... /1

According to The Lancet, life expectancy in Gaza has dropped by 35 years since October 2023.

A comic by #Calais -based artist Loup Blaster about solidarity houses where residents welcome exiled people with dignity in defiance of deadly and racist politics of #migration. Part of a project on the criminalisation of #solidarity in France & Morocco : sebastienbachelet.com/crimes-of-so...

En mai.

Ok white citizens, fascism is scary and it’s a new experience for you to feel threatened by the state. I get it. But please let’s not do All Lives Matter 2.0. We have to focus on the most vulnerable & use every shred of privilege if we’re going to survive this.

Trans women are women and no court judgement can change that. Without wanting to diminish the negative effect that legal oppression has on trans lives, there is no reason why lawyers and judges are qualified to make this argument over actual experts in the field.

Newly installed c-wire on 2nd border barrier in San Diego, in the area Border Patrol would hold asylum-seeking migrants, in some cases for days without food, water or hygienic facilities, in an open air detention site. Metal rods are on primary wall where new c-wire will be installed in coming days.

Only 15 U.S. Senators voted to disapprove pending arms sales to Israel, while Trump and Netanyahu openly plan to ethnically cleanse and annex Gaza. Inexplicable 'nay' votes by Ossoff and Warnock, who voted in favor of a similar resolution in November.

📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @judithverweijen.bsky.social, @kvlassen.bsky.social & Godefroid Muzalia ““We Are Caught Between Violence and Famine” – Analysis of the Deepening Crisis Affecting Eastern DR Congo” #DRC 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 bit.ly/3FLayRl

People in Bukavu keep telling me about daily targeted arrests, about gunshots and killings every night. They are living in a ‘psychose totale’. Unlivable.

I’ve written a piece for @africasacountry.bsky.social about the liberal humanitarian sector’s response to the recent USAID cuts and reformist efforts to defend - what has always been - an unequal system ⬇️

The circus of academic complicity www.tni.org/en/article/t... Highly recommended long read by my inspiring comrade/colleague Gert Van Hecken exposing with brilliant satire the deep hypocrisy we keep facing within our universities! #FreePalestine #StopGenocide #FreeGaza

Insightful podcast exploring the lived experiences of migrant student workers from the Global South in the Global North ! Navigating tension "between aspiration and survival, juggling their studies while working precarious jobs in Europe" open.spotify.com/episode/5gxh...

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.