Hannah Arendt in Syria, by the great Yassin al-Haj Saleh, has been published in German. It would be amazing if there was an English edition. www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/produkt/hann...

This is indeed harrowing: brave testimony. (Content warning: traumatic violence.)

Join us in London in July! CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE #BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2025/11/03/c...

New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d

Translation of a very valuable German text on the twin dangers of trivialisation and generalisation surrounding anti-Muslim racism and Islamist antisemitism in Germany:

Been in Ottawa this week for an amazing workshop on disinformation, conspiracism, antisemitism and gender panics. Learnt a lot from this public lecture by @milleridriss.bsky.social. Will post more later about this!

Solidarity to family and friends in Exeter counterprotesting the far right today.

Where our team members are today. (Full points to anyone who can name all the locations.)

Antisemitism & Islamophobia get seen as opposites, but on the far right they often go together. Clews, anti-Muslim influencer once in Robinson’s crew, is no anti-Zionist; he’s just antisemitic: hence his appeal to Miller, who once wrote on Islamophobia but now promotes it if he can also target Jews.

New article for @prospectmagazine.co.uk with my colleagues David Feldman (@dmf101.bsky.social) and Ben Gidley (@bengidley.bsky.social) in which we critically examine mainstream political responses to the attack on the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester earlier this month.

New article with @bisa-bkk.bsky.social colleagues @dmf101.bsky.social and @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social:

Fantastic long read by @yvonnesingh.bsky.social on Claude McKay in London www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

We are starting our second team meeting this morning. Expect more pictures.

Our next event: Events Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network: Global Teach-Ins/Outs, 11 November 1-5 pm Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square ssahe.net/2025/10/13/m...

un grand merci aux camarades du Réseau Bastille pour cette traduction : Le renouveau de la gauche à l’ère de l’attente, par Ben Gidley et Daniel Mang www.reseau-bastille.org/2025/10/08/l... @danielmang.bsky.social

"Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew" by Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations theconversation.com/synagogue-at...

Today is the 89th anniversary of the #BattleofCableStreet. Find out more about the Battle and East End radical politics, poetry and song in Episode 2 @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @thegentleauthor.bsky.social @misssarahwise.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5Xib...

Powerful speech by Jasr Kawkby, a doctor and activist from Gaza, at @ukfost.bsky.social rally in support of @standing-together.bsky.social in London yesterday. ukfost.co.uk/a-joint-isra...

So @danielmang.bsky.social and I wrote something about the left in our current moment. It took us ages and ended up being rather longer than intended. Let us know what you think.

Statement by University and College Union @ucu.org.uk on yesterday’s attack in Manchester www.ucu.org.uk/article/1421...

Statement from Syrian NGOs on yesterday’s attack, including Manchester-based Rethink Rebuild Society. www.rrsoc.org/node/1746 syrianbritish.org/statement-fr... Cc @sundersays.bsky.social @syrianotes.bsky.social

Listening to voices from Manchester on #r4today, it seems clear to me (as local resident Josh Aronson said on #R4today) that, going forward, more dialogue not more security is the solution to rising antisemitic incidents. Jewish communal spaces really couldn’t be more securitised.

The @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @runnymedetrust.bsky.social report on antisemitism quoted in the NYT. @dmf101.bsky.social @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social @shabna.bsky.social archive.is/tnICz

Our hearts are with the victims and their families at this terrible time.

Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester

Written ten years ago by @keithkahnharris.bsky.social, and is now sadly useful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We don’t normally post on high holy days but want to express our shock and grief in the face of today’s attack, and to send our support to colleagues in Manchester. We have already been experiencing difficult times, and our communities will need strength and care to get through the coming days.

We send our deepest condolences and love to Jewish communities across the country in the wake of this morning’s horrifying attack.

I never post on Yom Kippur but: When British Jews tell you antisemitism is getting worse BELIEVE US. It shouldn’t take us getting stabbed by terrorists on the holiest day in our calendar for you to believe us.

Labour’s plan to make migrants earn permanent residency by doubling the wait to 10 years & adding new tests turns belonging into an endless exam. 🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan... #ShabanaMahmood #LabourConference

Enjoyed first seminar of @ihr.bsky.social Migration + Mobility seminar series led by the fantastic @kabcommons.bsky.social, starring legend @profpanayi.bsky.social and great presentations by @endeeekay.bsky.social (see pic for book out soon w/ @punctumbooks.bsky.social) & @marcloureiro.bsky.social

“When peace dies, embrace it. It will live again” Palestinian artist Malak Mattar, seen in a bar in Deptford over the weekend.

reminder we’re kicking off tomorrow 5:30- 7:30pm Hybrid/IHR @profpanayi.bsky.social & @kabcommons.bsky.social will open, then I’ll will speak on history & social studies; @marcloureiro.bsky.social on history & law; and Natalya Din-Kariuki on history & literature. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

This is a brilliant easy on empire loyalism, multicultural drift and dispossessed whiteness in outer south London. Cc @academicdiary.bsky.social @transpontine.bsky.social @ashdisorient.bsky.social @liamliburd.bsky.social

UK academic hivemind: if your uni has a workload points allocation system that distinguishes “research” from other activities, does it have a formula for accounting for UKRI-type %FTE project funding? Eg if funded 0.5 on a project, would you expect to see exactly 50% of yr “points” under “research”?

Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions

Sad news. Jonathan Lear did some fine events for Birkbeck Psychosocial. Radical Hope is indeed a remarkable book, reflecting on the survival of the Crow people through cultural genocide.

Looking forward to this afternoon conference organised by the amazing Psychosocial postgraduate students at Birkbeck

If you’re following the insane medical claims made last night by Trump, RFK and Dr Oz, and are curious about how alternative health faddism got entangled with far right ideology, you may want to read my recent essay on diagonalism: leftrenewal.org/webinars/gid...

A gut yor, and Mabon blessings. 5785 (and 5784) were grim. May 5786 bring the world a little closer to something better. A time to renew our commitment to making it so.

Response by @ukfost.bsky.social to boycott calls against @standing-together.bsky.social ukfost.co.uk/solidarity-w... (Most recently there have been calls to deplatform Palestinian anti-occupation activist Sally Abed from the Green party conference.)

Every year, attempts to erase Bedouin presence in the Negev/Naqab in southern Israel through home demolitions and confiscation of land continue. More demolitions, more families displaced, more pressure to leave. (1/2)

so apparently i'm nominated for an award for "Best Work Of Music Journalism Text (English)" at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, which is going on this weekend?! www.reeperbahnfestival.com/en/imja

Must read analysis by @andreaferrario.bsky.social: pogroms in Angola, massive ecological crisis in Zambia, land grabs in Uzbekistan — all totally ignored by western media

Powerful statement from BLM UK on the rise of Britain’s far right and Saturday’s march, including notice of an important public meeting on 28 October ukblm.org/news/defeat-...

On this day in 1890, the great Claude McKay was born. (My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.

From August, nice piece in @chartist48.bsky.social by my comrade Don Flynn on @maxfarrar.bsky.social and Kevin McDonnell’s book on the important 1970s libertarian socialist group Big Flame: www.chartist.org.uk/remembrance-...

Very good article by @bratskoff.bsky.social on how Holocaust exceptionalism is gaining an upper hand over Holocaust universalism within mainstream Jewish context, a topic I’m writing about with Nira Yuval-Davis, building on the piece by Amos Goldberg quoted here. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Greetings from the Moses Mendelssohn Centre in Potsdam, where I am part of a team reaching a summer school.

Greetings from the Moses Mendelssohn Centre in Potsdam, where I am part of a team reaching a summer school.