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...

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Incredibly, Keir Starmer is even going after the West Midlands police for their decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans after last year's violence The distances this Labour government is willing to go to shield Israelis from any consequences is astonishing www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

This is why the "Jews aren't white" discourse is so batshit. Whiteness is possibly the most socially constructed of the racial categories, given how many groups move in and out of it over time. It doesn't matter what Jews look like, if Jews are group-racialised based on their ascribed Jewishness.🧵

This is why the "Jews aren't white" discourse is so batshit. Whiteness is possibly the most socially constructed of the racial categories, given how many groups move in and out of it over time. It doesn't matter what Jews look like, if Jews are group-racialised based on their ascribed Jewishness.🧵

"Siege starvation is a military tactic that selectively targets civilians, beginning with the frail, sick, and poor...scholars of mass starvation have long found that wherever famine unfolds, it threatens not just individual lives but also a society’s way of life" jewishcurrents.org/famines-long...

The selective and racialised empathy which sees stories like this prompt zero national outrage, compared to the events in Manchester last week. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A force once infamous for collaborating with loyalist terrorists in the north of Ireland, today out on the streets of London arresting sign holders for "terrorism"

Read the interview in this piece with Hamas’s head of international and legal relations Mousa Abu Marzouq, and tell me again that Hamas is an irrational, nihilistic terror organisation with which no negotiation is possible.

The people heckling David Lammy in Manchester today to "go back to Palestine" are not some kind of 'gotcha'. Lammy wouldn't have been able to speak without the community's consent. It's also highly likely that the event was crashed by EDL-adjacent Zionists.

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

One of the two Jewish victims who died yesterday was killed by police fire.

We've been watching the live-streamed destruction of whole families for 2 years. Palestinians have all lost people/know people who have lost people. Disgraceful but predictable of the British State to use one outrage to suppress dissent against another. The hierarchy of human life on full show.

The UK has trained 28 Israeli military personnel at the Royal College of Defence Studies since 2000, the government admits. #DCUKparliament

As Yom Kippur ends, two Jews in Manchester join 12 Palestinians murdered at a food distribution centre in Gaza as victims of this genocide. May all their memories be a blessing.

It's incredible how far gone these loons are. No appreciation for the antisemitic traditions they are reproducing.

Zohran Mamdani showing again that it is possible to be ahead in the polls and talk like a human being at the same time.

Colonial Governor Blair at your service www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Both Italy and Spain are sending ships on support & rescue missions for the Sumud Flotilla. Ambiguity about what will happen if the flotilla is attacked. Will the Sp&It ships sit back and only intervene if necessary to carry out a rescue? Or will they neutralise threats? BIIIIIG difference.

Ofc it's not just Netanyahu. No one demands the demilitarisation of the IDF. No one suggests fulfilling the ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu & Gallant, or expelling fascists from the Knesset. The list could go on. Only Palestinians must pay a price for peace, not Israelis, as it has ever been.

Ofc it's not just Netanyahu. No one demands the demilitarisation of the IDF. No one suggests fulfilling the ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu & Gallant, or expelling fascists from the Knesset. The list could go on. Only Palestinians must pay a price for peace, not Israelis, as it has ever been.

I find it interesting that all the 'peace' plans being touted involve demilitarising & disbanding Hamas. And yet even when world leaders explicitly cite Netanyahu as a violent obstacle to peace, not one of them suggests the necessity of his political exile. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Palestinians in Israel have every right to be wary of the UN, but overall it would be great if people stopped claiming that the problem in Israel is one of 'leadership'. /1

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Repost with the politically most awful thing you've ever been asked to review: Mine was a journal submission in which the author argued that because he used to employ a gardener from Gaza this made him a good Zionist and Dubois would have been a Zionist actually.

A rare beam of good news #FreeAlaa www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Rather than leading with something like "Farage plans to deport your friends, neighbours, parents and partners" this is what we get. The media as handmaidens for national socialism.

Universities took the mask off when they decided to award degrees based on unmarked work and/or no externally quality-checking during the 2023 marking boycott. /1

Being the best reactionary you can be won't protect you in the end

A journalist asked what keeps me up at night. Here was my answer, at a press conference yesterday on parliament hill with a Canadian Medical Coalition Against Genocide demanding that Canada end its complicity and active involvement in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

"Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is our only remedy" by Orly Noy www.972mag.com/israel-holoc...

“Israeli forces fired upon a clearly identified MSF water truck while it was distributing drinking water in Gaza City. The vehicle’s route and schedule had been communicated in advance to the Israeli authorities.  This attack was a deliberate attempt to sabotage water distribution to civilians.”

As Wes Streeting chooses this moment to make his leadership credentials public on the backs of people he's only been too happy to otherwise throw under the bus, I'm recalling with particular ferocity what Dawn Foster thought he was... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ex Israeli army commander admits over 200,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ex-israeli-army-commander-admits-over-200000-palestinians-killed-gaza

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.