"Race Reports: How universities 'reckon' with their imperial past, and how their investment portfolios say otherwise." www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... Excellent - by @rahulraothariel.bsky.social

‘This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much killing?’ @josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds" The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Predicating Israeli compliance with basic humanitarian law upon a denial of Palestinian rights would be immoral and idiotic in any context; but even more so when announced by a former human rights lawyer.

We geolocated the view out of the window as Jeremy Bowen's team filmed packages falling from a plane over Gaza yesterday. They were dropped into a "dangerous combat zone", which Palestinians are warned not to enter because it would put their lives at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Publishing this month: OCCUPIER AND OCCUPIED by Chloe Skinner - www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

👇 This looks excellent -Congratulations to all involved

The hallmarks of settler colonial genocides: offering relief as an opportunity to kill; complete dehumanisation (“zombie hordes”) and an exultation at the infliction of pain & suffering. Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gaza and the Sociology of War, open access, with @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social in Journal of Genocide Research www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What are Trump's ICE raids really about? To mark World Refugee Day, stephrschwartz.bsky.social reflects on Trump’s immigration crackdown and the extreme measures sparking nationwide protest. Is this restoring order or eroding democracy? #USImmigration #WorldRefugeeDay #LSE youtu.be/xQyUSGN4YY4?...

Did you miss this year’s Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture? Featuring Prof @georgelawson.bsky.social, Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, and Prof Toby Dodge, the event explored the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics. 🎥 Watch the full recording here: bit.ly/3ZybKP3

Friends in Oxford - I'll be speaking this afternoon about islamicate theories of autonomy and refusal - pls feel free to join, 4pm @ DPIR: www.politics.ox.ac.uk/event/sovere...

more power to brilliant @mauraf.bsky.social and Free Palestine always! | A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford. One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

Pleased to share my new article! I reflect on what our responsibility is, as legal academics, to students experiencing racism and how we can surface the ways racism plays out "politely" such that the law school feels like a space to which they cannot fully belong. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza will be greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of 100 individual countries, new research reveals.

BBC reports that "UK suspends Israel trade talks and summons ambassador over 'intolerable' Gaza offensive" - I look forward to a forthcoming announcement of an immediate suspension of all arms export licences, which would materially halt Israel's offensive

This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I can't express how bleak and horrifying it is that the prospect of starving 2 million people, half of whom are children, is only undesired because of the "practical" implications

Stop bombing people in tents and depriving them of food. London demonstration for Palestine tomorrow 12 noon, Embankment ❤️🇵🇸 palestinecampaign.org/events/natio...

Join us for the Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture 2024/25, where Prof @georgelawson.bsky.social, Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, and Prof Toby Dodge will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics. 🎫 Find out more & register to attend online: bit.ly/4kh5uTy

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

Posting this on the anniversary of the racist murder of Altab Ali: Read “Forty Years On: How the Murder of Altab Ali Mobilized Bangladeshis in London’s East End“ by Naaz Rashid on Medium: medium.com/bangladeshii...

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

Our May issue is OUT NOW! ➡️ Special section on boundary work & the (un)making of global cooperation 🏳️‍🌈 7 articles on LGBTQ+ rights, the conversative global order and more 📊 3 policy papers on peace in Yemen, the WTO in crisis and more 📚25 book reviews Read now: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3

Congratulations to Stella Maris, Rector of St Andrews, who has won her appeal against dismissal from the governing body: a vindication of her, and anyone's, right to condemn genocide and apartheid. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

📣 Palestine: A Sociological Issue 8 May, 18:30 Rafeef Ziadah, Ashjan Ajour, Cairsti Russell & Yasmin Gunaratnam on #GazaGenocide, resistance & reclaiming campuses. Hosted by @TheSocReview + SISP Register: thesociologicalreview.org/announcement... #FreePalestine #Sociology #AcademicSolidarity

An essential read - Hafsa Kanjwal’s “Colonizing Kashmir.”

Honoured to be giving the keynote speech tomorrow (25 Apr) at the inaugural Decolonial Methodologies conference at St Andrews. I'll be speaking about our intellectual and ethical responsibilities as scholars under the shadow of fascism and genocide @standrewsir.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social

NEW on how Mohsen Mahdawi was detained in a "trap." At a citizenship interview, he signed his pledge to “defend the Constitution." The official left to go “check” something. Said he'd be back. Then masked & armed agents came in, shackled Mahdawi, and tried to fly him 1000 miles away to Louisiana.

The doctor who carried out the postmortems of the 15 paramedics and rescue workers who were killed by Israeli troops in Gaza in March has said they were mostly killed by gunshots to the head and torso, as well as injuries caused by explosives. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Israel has begun operational deployment of a military-grade artificial intelligence chatbot named Genie, a system now used by commanders to make battlefield decisions in Gaza - such as deciding who lives and who dies in the ongoing genocide ⬇

Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

This is wickedness. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

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When in the 1930s, the British empire shipped Palestinian prisoners to the Seychelles and Palestinians would lodge habeas corpus claims, Britain would also declare that Seychelles was a sovereign nation with its own laws and Britain had nothing to do with theprisoners.

Thanks to everyone who joined our event on 'Trump's Second Term and the Middle East' with @meznaqato.bsky.social, Gilbert Achcar, Tom Bateman, Sharri Plonski & chair @jasminekgani.bsky.social. 🎧 If you missed it, you can listen to the recording on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas...

International Law & the Question of Palestine: A Reading List A great resource covering 23 topics on IL and Palestine, historical and contemporary👇 twailr.com/internationa...

This is a really important book about the dehumanization of the disabled, both historically and today.

The consistent function of militarism as a conduit for exclusionary, and ultimately dehumanising, politics:

International Law & the Question of Palestine: A Reading List A great resource covering 23 topics on IL and Palestine, historical and contemporary👇 twailr.com/internationa...

everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

“As of 20 February 2025, UNHCR estimates that some 292,150 Syrians have returned to Syria via neighbouring countries since early December 2024.” reliefweb.int/report/syria...

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International Studies people, please sign & share this open letter in support of our colleague: docs.google.com/forms/d/1P3U...

In the 4th session of our Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian series, we’ll discuss: “The Grammar of Rights in Colonial Contexts: The Case of Palestinian Women in Israel”. Read with us! 🗓️March 13, 18:30 CET, zoom www.southsouthmovement.org/reading-seri...

New paper! Identity-protective reasoning—defending beliefs tied to cherished social identities—is often seen as a cognitive vice driving polarization and democratic dysfunction. But what if it’s not all bad? 🧵

Always good to see methodologically and theoretically expansive work such as this in IR. "‘I will resurrect’: Reading and writing grief as political action" by @qmanivannan.bsky.social 👇

Great article, worthy winner of the Cynthia Enloe prize 👏