Secondary effects. Asia's investors reconsidering investments in the UAE. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Daytime in Tehran. Thick black smoke and no daylight because the US and Israel bombed the oil refineries. Acid rain is now falling on a city of 14 million. As ever I have no words for this depravity that goes by the name of Western civilisation.

Domestic abusers, rapists and other violent misogynists famously never have female partners and daughters.

Interested in following reliable news and credible analyses on the Iran war, but don't know where to start? Here's "The US and Israeli War on the Middle East" from our friends @jdryan08.bsky.social and @merip.bsky.social: www.merip.org/2026/03/the-...

There are a minority of good people in War Studies at Kings, but jfc we really need to talk about that place as a manufacturer of consent for imperial violence.

"Sinwarification"

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

It's really hard to celebrate Jewish festivals when this is what genocidal war-mongering Zionists do with them. Happy Purim 🤮

Check out this amazing new MA Race and Empire programme at SOAS in London! www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-c... £10,000 fee waivers available for international students! Programme launches in September 2026.

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All this bs about freedom and democracy. Let's not forget that last time they bombed the trans wing of a prison.

‘Woman, Life, Freedom,’ they said.

it's very French how the entire UK political spectrum has basically adopted islamo-gauchisme as their understanding of the Green Party of England and Wales

I was privileged to be able to attend the launch of the European Legal Support Centre's Index of Repression today. It holds 964 cases of repression of pro-Palestine speech/action since 2019, just the tip of the iceberg. The index is very user friendly - www.index-of-repression.org/uk/platform

Labour now reduced to the TERF vote

Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Man i love liberalism. So utterly incoherent

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Ha'aretz reports that the Israeli State now accepts the Gaza Ministry of Health mortality figures (an undercount) that their own spokespeople have been uniformly denying and slandering for over two years.

This is a plan to attract a rump population desperate enough to submit to 24/7 biometric surveillance, while everyone else will be left to flee or die in the hellscape that will continue to be the rest of Gaza. It suits Israel perfectly. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"I’ll add right up front that nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training." Excellent piece

A brilliant analysis of how sanctions have transformed the Iranian government into a Chicago School regime of austerity that benefits those attached to the regime, creates precarious labour, and rolls back all the redistributive and social measures of the past: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Jonathan Freedland as exhibit a) of liberal brainrot. He diagnoses the Palestine movement without a shred of evidence. We marched for Palestine because of the complicity of our governments in the genocide, and because Israel launders itself via centres of Western financial and cultural power.

“Two Jewish mums came to see me at my advice surgery, to tell me that there had been a cultural day at their children’s school where they were given biscuits in the shape of Israel and then iced them with the flag of Palestine.” 1. It's the shape of Palestine. 2. Biscuits are khamas.

Having had anti-genocide posters ripped from my office door under the instruction of the University Principal, I'm glad to see this important letter from @brismes.bsky.social to @qmul.bsky.social outlining the potential illegality of these actions 👇 www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academi...

Walzer can go and do one

Abd el-Fattah's historic tweets are leading to calls for his UK citizenship to be revoked, and a UK Government review of his case, while Nigel Farage's history of racism and Nazi goose-stepping has led to a few Guardian front pages.

Abd el-Fattah's historic tweets are leading to calls for his UK citizenship to be revoked, and a UK Government review of his case, while Nigel Farage's history of racism and Nazi goose-stepping has led to a few Guardian front pages.

When Zionists engage in whataboutery about double standards and other violent genocides, you can just gently remind them that actually eradicating the Israeli settler colonial project will go some way to addressing other genocides too.

The Voice of Hind Rajab is a film using the actual audio of the little girl’s desperate call for help before Israel murdered her and the paramedics who tried to save her: youtu.be/JkeKrG0YONQ?...

The main victims of ISIS and ISIS-affiliated violence have been Muslim, and there is no planet on which Palestinians (including Hamas) and ISIS would have common cause. The conflation of the Bondi shooters with Palestine is thus at best a moral panic, although more evidently a cynical smear attack.

The main victims of ISIS and ISIS-affiliated violence have been Muslim, and there is no planet on which Palestinians (including Hamas) and ISIS would have common cause. The conflation of the Bondi shooters with Palestine is thus at best a moral panic, although more evidently a cynical smear attack.

Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two. Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire

UK govt joins a list of authoritarian regimes that have sought to divest desperate people of their personal belongings before kicking them out of their countries, most notably the Nazis. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK govt joins a list of authoritarian regimes that have sought to divest desperate people of their personal belongings before kicking them out of their countries, most notably the Nazis. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In today's news from the upside down, students who protest against genocide get doxxed, harassed, kicked out of programmes, dorms and universities, while the people who carried out the genocide get given platforms to talk about their so-called harrowing experiences and some "light refreshments".

Anyone else getting followed by these weird bot (I think?) accounts that are all posting the same Barack Obama skeet?

Sir Walter Layton, Economist editor in the 1930s, was respondent to JM Keynes's 1937 Galton Lecture, where in response to Keynes's reflections on "population stability" Layton argued “Scientific questions will have to be considered, such as preventing the propagation of the unfit.” Plus ca change.

Just another day when another cancelled person gets a six-part BBC podcast to talk about how they were cancelled.

On December 1st 6-8pm the research centre I co-direct will be hosting @rafeefz.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh and Robert Knox for the launch of their brilliant new book, Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-....

And now, a physical metaphor for "LLMs can be just as good as human writers and artists!" (And I know, I shared it twice. But it's just that nice!)

Watch his victory speech for how it gives zero time to the nonsense binary of "idpol" vs "class politics". The stars of that speech are the *multi-ethnic* working class. It's a speech grounded in the rich complexity of material reality, not two dimensional caricatures and facile abstractions.

And note that he never rejected what some sneeringly refer to as "idpol". Never came close to throwing minorities under the bus. On the contrary. The affordability agenda came hand in hand with him actively standing up for those principles. He could never have mobilised his base like this otherwise.

I was today years old when I found out this was a real sentence in a real book: "I felt the need to explain the lightness of my skin tone, as it often acts as a barrier to people understanding that, despite my appearance, I am indigenous to the Land of Israel"

Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue

"The New York Times is an accomplice to the genocide in Gaza... Times editors have told reporters to avoid 'inflammatory terms' like 'genocide,' 'ethnic cleansing,' and 'occupied territory' — and even to avoid saying 'Palestine.'" Read the @wawog.bsky.social dossier here newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier

Goodwin finally delivering some good news.

And as anyone with any sense would know, Maccabi fans were banned because numbers of them are violent islamophobic thugs, not because they're Jews.

The contradictions and knot-tying would be funny if it wasn't all in defence of genocidal maniacs. Maccabi Tel Aviv laughably proclaim their "multi-faith" fanbase/team, while Lisa Nandy says that the decision to bar their fans “chooses exclusion” of Jewish people www.theguardian.com/football/202...