Hard not to feel you’re going insane watching confirmation after confirmation of an ongoing genocide

Shameful!

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This is why we march www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Unimelb to Latrobe: hold my beer! www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Solidarity with @Dave_Brophy. All universities should oppose genocide!

Sydney Uni has a ‘thirteen page flag policy’, which they used to stop @Dave_Brophy from protesting against genocide. t.co/24ONohK0Ds

More concerned with ‘social cohesion’ than stopping a live-streamed genocide. The most extraordinary moral failure in a generation.

The anti-genocide movement has been driven by below: activists rather than bureaucrats, people rather than NGOs, students rather than professors, etc. Almost without exception, the top echelons of society have tried to stop the protests, not the genocide.

Here is the current list of places sanctioned by Australian universities using DFAT’s list of countries designated for human rights abuses etc. It is disgraceful that none of the unis have the moral fortitude to add Israel to that list in the context of an ongoing genocide.

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem publishes a new report ‘Our genocide’ www.btselem.org/publications...

It was just as possible then as it is now.

Why yes, Zotero — why not erase 900 footnotes just for the lols!

This is Amnesty International, the most reputable human rights group in the world. No one can say they didn’t know.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07... Now that a court has made this entirely obvious point perhaps even the universities can understand it.

The wretched failures of liberalism are allowing the worst grifters to come to the fore.

All the mayhem in the world makes books feel like indulgences. Nevertheless, I’m chuffed to be doing Somewhere Here the Future’s Hid: The Life of Lesbia Harford with @monashuniversity.bsky.social some time next year.

Have a full podcast of @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social in conversation with @leninology.bsky.social a few weeks ago, not sure if this is relevant to anything going on? www.3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasar...

I wrote something for @overlandjournal.bsky.social on climate and Gaza overland.org.au/2025/06/clim...

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Australian cultural institutions continue to shame themselves www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/calls...

Deliberate genocide, openly stated. And the Very Serious People in politics, media and academia continue to say nothing.

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People will write PhD theses on the moral bankruptcy of Western universities.

Human Rights Watch warns about a looming ‘extermination’ and calls for urgent sanctions on Israel.

Looking good for Greens in Wills

Curious as to whether this panel of Very Important political experts will consider genocide important enough to mention at any stage.

Libs already sounding very defensive

James Paterson looks like he’s just come from The Great Muppet Caper

We've booked a larger room for next week's event on Disaster Nationalism due to demand for tickets. Join @leninology.bsky.social @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social @cramcramcram.bsky.social and NIBS in Lecture Theatre 1 (Old Geology) on the 27th! Rego has reopened: events.humanitix.com/disaster-nat...

It’s very wrong to sanction Israel for genocide but it’s fine to sanction the Human Rights Council for objecting to genocide

Genocidal acts of gender-based violence. How can any institution that claims to value gender equality continue to collaborate with the Israeli state?

I’ve been looking at some of the accounts Musk follows and perhaps because of that the hellsite serves me up ads like this (‘JQ’ = ‘Jewish question’). While the governments and unis concentrate on stamping out Palestine solidarity, the US right is increasingly accepting of genuine Nazism

Really interesting interview in which Corey Robin points out that Mcarthyism relied not so much on imprisonment but on threats to people’s jobs. That’s why what’s happening around Palestine advocacy is so chilling www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Join us at UniMelb on the 27th to hear @leninology.bsky.social and @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social in conversation on Richard's excellent new book, Disaster Nationalism. Thanks to @cramcramcram.bsky.social and New International Bookshop for hosting. Register here: events.humanitix.com/disaster-nat...

‘And how did capitalism respond to the climate crisis?’

Also why is Sewell trying to look like the guy from Nosferatu?

Bit of a ‘mask off’ moment here

‘Proper thickos’ (via @meadwaj.bsky.social )

Australian nationalism is so spectacularly lame that the local Nazis march singing ‘waltzing Matilda’.

I’ve heard suggestions that they’re implying it’s Iran as well as suggestions that they’re implicating Israel. The whole thing is bizarre

‘The AFP says it is investigating whether local criminals might be being paid from overseas to commit antisemitic acts.’ What is the implication here? Are they insinuating Putin is behind anti-Semitic graffiti?

The experts in Nazi salutes are pretty clear about what Musk was doing.

The Biden legacy

This is Twitter now: straight up Nazi tweets prioritised by the algorithm and reaching huge audiences

After the hottest year ever, with temperatures past 1.5 degrees, what did we expect it was going to look like?