#OtD 5 Jan 1948 the Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem was blown up by the Haganah Zionist militia to push Palestinian Arabs to leave the neighbourhood. Around 26 were killed and 60 injured, mostly Arab Palestinians, like Lutfi and Eleanora Aboussouans stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1141...

#OtD 4 Jan 1901 CLR James, anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado, was born in Trinidad. We have made available a number of his lesser-known works here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

What a cowardly, lily-livered, weak, puppet, white supremacist terrorist regime supporting piece of shit

Etel

“Something has to be done about the way in which this world is set up.” June Jordan

Etel

BDS success ‼️ Islington council have dropped Barclays bank!

Her name is Malak Rami Ghoneim.

It continues - to describe those who continue to defend actions like this as “apologists” doesn’t seem to be enough.

A new year and time again to read Robin Kelley on anticipatory optimism www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending": 1. Action Against Hunger 2. ActionAid 3. Alianza por la Solidaridad 4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine 5. CARE 6. DanChurchAid 7. Danish Refugee Council 8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion (cont)

Yay!

Okay everybody! Please help me with this! Universities everywhere are increasingly awful, so let's put together some New Year's Resolutions to help them get better! I'll start! 1) Stand up for the importance of good education for good lives for people, society, and planet.

We all saw this coming. Watch the the collaboraters in the press and parliament act surprised and shocked. "I can't believe it, we thought the flags were about pride🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾 blah blah blah" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Honestly this book by @xenoglossic.bsky.social is really exhilarating

2025 in the UK in a nutshell, folks: some of the country's most odious racists, who also never shut up about free speech & the right to offend, calling for a man from a racialised minority to have his citizenship cancelled over alleged racist speech, while the media dutifully jots it all down

I think sometimes our far right newspapers just do stuff to show people they can get away with whatever they want without consequences

Harvard has forced the resignation of the distinguished public health scholar Dr Mary T Bassett as director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights due to her research and advocacy on the health and human rights of Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lexi Alexander, a Palestinian activist, has been suspended from Bluesky, again This is not the first case where Pro-Palestinian voices are suspended from the platform with no reason at all! I have emailed @support.bsky.team 👇 Stop the censorship! ‼️

Say her name, Heba Al‑Abadla. I remember when she was killed, her whole family slaughtered, to stop her work as a journalist: she was a host of the local Al-Azhar radio station, owned by Al-Azhar University in Gaza, and the co-founder of the Social Media Club-Palestine. It took 2 years to bury her.

Happy holidays

Belgium has formally joined South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ, adding to growing international legal pressure as Israel rejects the charges and continues its genocide in Gaza.

Last post of 2025. In this Fanonian centenary moment, we’re reminded of our inability to wrench humanity out of occupation & oppression. As we hear of Thunberg’s arrest & the criminalisation of support to Palestine, the realisation that decolonisation is an ongoing process should inform our actions.

The Wireless Telegraph Services go crazy — Suzanne Césaire

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

An infant froze to death in Gaza last night, starved and cold.

This book is brilliant

Searching for Solidarity by Noor Ghazal Aswad ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

The police arrested Dr Ayo for trying to help Qesser who's at risk of death from being on hunger strike after being held without trial for over a year for peacefully protesting a genocide. The British state is violence www.thenational.scot/news/2570603...

UCL BDS group in solidarity with the hunger strikers

Ahmad al-Ahmad donning the Syrian flag

UCL BDS group in solidarity with the hunger strikers

book of the day 🌲🌲🌲

In 1957 Greek political prisoners and the Algerian liberation movement placed their struggles into relation, with and alongside others at the Anticolonial Conference of the Mediterranean held in Athens that November undercartographies.city/2025/11/29/t...

GAZA IS DROWNING IN RAIN WATER AND THEY ARE ALL IN TENTS AND ISRAEL IS STILL FIRING ON PEOPLE AND THIS ISN'T A MAJOR NEWS STORY BECAUSE OF RACISM

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Yes please

the state of british media my god

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

He could state that it was Islam that moved him to protect human life and it would still not make any difference to the dominant political discourse

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

a reminder I guess

Mai Taha and Sara Salem's amazing @antipodeonline.bsky.social keynote on radio and anticolonialism is online! youtu.be/dDyUa1ppWaE?...

One in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far in 2025 across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was a child, according to the UN ⬇️

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

Toolkit for supporting the hunger strikers (for those based in the Uk and the US) docs.google.com/document/d/e...

This book on Sound and Detention is coming out digitally this week – with a short radio interlude from me on geopoetics, static, longing, and resistance www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and...