Students at Dresden University of Technology are protesting against a research project between the institution and Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems. A university ethics panel voted against the cooperation, but the rectorate approved it anyway.

Really wish inclusivity was a strongly held key aim of HE. It’s personal for me as a first generation student and grant recipient (showing my age). Widening participation is something I hold dear and want to expand rather than contract.

The marketisation of higher education (HE) has never been about making HE more inclusive: "Vice-chancellors have said they may need to cut hardship support for impoverished students and reduce outreach activities aimed at disadvantaged groups if the dire funding struggles at universities continue."

Departments and degree programmes are being shut down and thousands of academics are at risk of losing their jobs. What's happening in UK HE is the direct result of years of marketisation of the sector and poor management, but it's faculty and students who will pay the price. For how long?

To be honest, this brings back a lot of memories. It is another attack on scholarship questioning the orthodoxy within business schools, this time on scholars who, for example, initiated the Centre for Commons Organising, Values Equalities and Resilience. Please consider sharing and signing.

The President of the US has directly compared the actions of the US Navy in the Strait of Hormuz to piracy: "We took over the ship… the cargo… the oil. It's a very profitable business… We're sort of like pirates, but we're not playing games." Even at this point, it seems absolutely unbelievable.

The term ‘ancient Palestine’, as many ancient historians…have agreed, conveys the true multiculturalism of ancient Palestine. It is the best way to reject the weaponizing of ancient heritage for ethnonationalist and genocidal purposes’ 👏🏼 @luxmea.bsky.social www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-isr...

#AcademicFreedom | We have written to The @openuniversity.bsky.social to express our profound concern about the university’s response to a letter from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) regarding the use of the term ‘#ancientPalestine’. Read our letter: bit.ly/4r0j68L 1/3

Deep shame on every single media outlet, politician, and individual who cast doubt on the number of victims reported by the Gaza Health Ministry. They, too, have Palestinian blood on their hands.

Looking forward to hearing you in Porto on Tuesday.

"10 months now after my detention, the U.S. government has not brought a shred of evidence that I broke any laws."

Israel entzieht 37 deutschen & internationalen Hilfsorganisationen die Registrierung, darunter auch medico international. Unsere Pressemitteilung:

Some Western states have recognised the State of Palestine. What is the point of doing so if they then accept everything Israel does in Palestine and in relation to it and, apart from some performative statements of condemnation, largely conduct their relations with Israel as "business as usual"?

Watching the last sunset of 2025 in peace, while so many people, namely those in Gaza, are simply trying to survive, is a privilege. It doesn't change anything, but I haven't forgotten about them. I wrote something similar last year, but unfortunately, the world hasn't changed for the better.

It seems absolutely insane to me to read so much news about the ceasefire while Gaza is still being bombed and Palestinians there are being killed. Also, I don't believe in conversations that do not include accountability for a genocide. All of this feels absolutely dystopian.

Porto now. Free Palestine.

Following Israel's interception of the humanitarian flotilla en route to Gaza, Colombia has expelled Israeli diplomats from the country.

I have no words left to describe Trump’s plan for Gaza, immediately endorsed by the European Union and many of its member states, which offers no accountability for the ongoing genocide carried out by Israel and is couched in pure colonial language. Just shame.

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The ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza will go down in history as the greatest shame of our time.

ICE killed a father of three in Franklin Park a few days ago. They are snatching people at gas stations, at bus stops, and from their homes and cars, leaving screaming, panicked children in their wake. It is a nightmare, and when ICE has amassed 10,000 new agents, it could be the new normal.

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

'the codification of students as consumers has been marginalising alternative forms of occupying a position in the field of HE, leading to an oversimplification of English undergraduates' discourses and practices' (Azevedo, 2025) #HigherEd #UKHE onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Each day, we learn of new horrors about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Yet nothing seems sufficient to compel Western governments to take meaningful action to end it. They are dragging us, alongside Israel, to a point of no return.

When people tell you that Israel is a democracy, they are also telling you that they don't view Israel's treatment of the Palestinians as disqualifying it from that classification. In other words, they are effectively telling you that they view Palestinians as sub-human.

Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners since 7 Oct is comparable to the worst dictatorships on earth. - the number keeps growing, and is now around 11k - close to 90% are held without trial - starvation as policy - rampant torture - dozens died in prison, no accountability

My new paper is out: "Students as (More Than) Consumers? An Exploration of Undergraduates' Discourses and Practices in Marketised Higher Education." The full article can be found here: dx.doi.org/10.1111/hequ... 1/2

All Palestinians in Gaza are at imminent risk of starving to death — unless Israel bombs or shoots them first. Horrifying? Yes. That’s the reality in Gaza. And while this unfolds, so-called world leaders do nothing meaningful to stop the genocide.

Portugal, my home country, opposed the inclusion of a reference to the Palestinians’ right to food in a joint declaration by the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP). At this point, this equates to supporting the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Fifteen Palestinians died of suffocation after toxic gas was released into a crowd at a food distribution site in southern Gaza. Does the use of gas to kill people remind you of anything? The absolute monstrosity of this is beyond words.

Even former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is now saying that Israel is, in fact, creating a concentration camp in Gaza. Why do political leaders around the world remain silent?

As I'm waiting to board the plane to go back to the UK, I've written a few impressions on the last weeks in Serbia. janabacevic.net/2025/07/03/r...

Students and citizens in #Serbia are being arrested, beaten, and declared enemies of the state for opposing Vučić's authoritarian regime. Academic colleagues anywhere in the world, please sign this petition in solidarity with them & spread the message.

Yesterday, the world marked the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. The only thing that occurred to me was that we haven't learned anything from it.

At least 15 Palestinians, including 10 children, were killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point in central Gaza yesterday. We are witnessing an unbearable level of depravity.

The United States, which imposed sanctions on four judges of the International Criminal Court, is now announcing sanctions on Francesca Albanese for, among other things, allegedly trying to pressure the Court. If the matter weren't so serious, it would almost seem like a joke 1/2

Israel is now building concentration camps in Gaza—I'll repeat: concentration camps—and no one is putting an end to it.

To oppose the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinian children, women, and men is simply a matter of *moral clarity*. When we have moral clarity, we don’t care about baseless accusations because we know we are on the right side of history. 1/2

By an Iranian academic based in Europe. Respect.

How does it feel to be made redundant? How does it feel when your colleagues go through this process? This major new report, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, centres the experiences of people on the frontline of UK university job cuts – and exposes employers' behaviour. Out next week.

This image is taken from a short video I watched today. In it, thousands of starving Palestinians fight for food being thrown to them. These Palestinians are human beings fighting to survive. Those responsible for this no longer deserve to be called human.

Above all, let's not forget why the twelve people aboard the Madleen were heading to Gaza: to break a siege imposed by Israel as it commits genocide through bombing, shooting, and the forced starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

Reem Zeidan, a Palestinian mother in Gaza, walked for hours with her son and daughter to an Israeli-backed distribution point, only to be killed by a single bullet to the forehead. Her children spent nearly three hours beside her body, pinned down by gunfire. 1/3

Germany’s foreign minister said today in Berlin, with Israel’s foreign minister by his side, that recognising the Palestinian state would send the wrong signal. Germany is heading towards the abyss for the second time in less than 100 years. There can be no forgiveness.

According to UNICEF, Israel has killed or injured over 50,000 children in Gaza. Those attempting to justify this have lost their humanity.

Lisbon today.

A Palestinian mother holds her child today in Khan Yunis, Gaza, after an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced families. At least 18 Palestinians were killed, including several children. Photograph: Dawoud Abu Alkas / Reuters

Yesterday, Israeli forces again have again opened fire on Palestinians at food distribution points. At least 27 were killed and 90 injured. So this is why they insisted on controlling the distribution of food.