Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism on March 4 @ 6pm ET, register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Is anyone getting results??

@blatmannaama.bsky.social and @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social on the dangerous new antisemitism definition adopted by universities. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/jewish...

Melbourne Jewish community members explain why they support the Jewish Council of Australia. Videography by Simon Aubor. youtube.com/shorts/CNiT8... #melbournejewishcommunity #australianjewishcommunity #jewishdiversity #diversityinjudaism #jewish #jewishaustralia #jewishmelbourne

Urban k9 living de life 🙌🏽

Join us in writing to Education Minister @jasonclaremp.bsky.social about the targeting of academics Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and Prof Chelsea Watego. And while you're at it, why not write to the Vice-Chancellors of Macquarie University and QUT too. Read our full open letter at jewishcouncil.com.au

Trump’s recent comments were enthusiastically received in Israel, which has been working to override Palestinians’ right to remain for decades. #RightToRemain New piece out with @gordonneve.bsky.social in @aljazeera.com. aje.io/htu3do

New Editorial piece from the team at @societyandspace.bsky.social. Pls read and share - it’s all about where the journal is heading next and how you can be a part of it.

Why does the world’s richest man, a man no one voted for, have access to my Social Security number?

Our EO, @sarahschwartz.bsky.social spoke to ABC News Breakfast about another terrifying antisemitic incident. Everyone deserves the right to freely practice their religion and culture. Politicians need to stop politicising antisemitism to spread division and hate www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO44...

Sarah Schwartz must be punished: The instrumentalisation of a dissenting Jew After calling out Peter Dutton's use of Australian Jews for his own political purposes, Sarah Schwartz has faced a campaign of demonisation. via @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/29/s...

This one from @naomiaklein.bsky.social sums it up really well for me today.

A must read from our EO, @sarahschwartz.bsky.social Murdoch, we won’t let you silence our anti-racism work!

A searing piece from the indomitable @sarahschwartz.bsky.social, who is facing a campaign of silencing & intimidation by the Murdoch Press || When Peter Dutton and the Coalition use the Jewish community as political footballs it makes all of us less safe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Read our piece and talk to us about it! Co-authored with the wonderful @emmakrussell.bsky.social @drnatosborne.bsky.social @francismarkham.work and Andrew Burridge.

Emma is an excellent interviewee - you should have a coffee and listen to this one! 👇🏼

"Rent spiked by 20 percent in Los Angeles County after wildfires ravaged the area, according to a Washington Post analysis of listings data from RentCast, a property analytics service, raising alarms of price gouging in the midst of a housing crisis." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Can’t say I’m shocked cause it’s The Australian (🙄) but definitely alarmed at the ease with which people publish outright lies and hit pieces like these. Solidarity with @sarahschwartz.bsky.social ✊🏾

Our letter to QUT VC in support of Sarah Schwartz. @sarahschwartz.bsky.social is under massive attack by Zionist orgs and the right-wing media. We urge QUT admin to take a clear stand against these defamatory actions!

Letter from our Executive and Advisory Committee members to QUT Vice Chancellor urging her to defend Sarah Schwartz against malicious and defamatory attacks

Reposting, for those working in carceral/ abolition geography space and are curious about what’s happening in Australia.

Our new piece out this morning, with new data about Australia’s prison boom and why it’s a waste of money!

Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t help reduce crime.

New piece out, co-authored with @emmakrussell.bsky.social @drnatosborne.bsky.social Francis Markham, Andrew Burridge. On Australia’s prison boom and why it must stop. Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them? theconversation.com/prisons-dont...

Conditions on Congressional aid to your fellow Americans but not on Congressional aid to foreign Israelis. Gotcha.

Thrilled to share that I joined the editorial team at @societyandspace.bsky.social. What an honour to be a part of this brilliant journal and stellar team. Can’t wait to see what comes through my inbox this year!

My Co-founder Josh Weinsch took this photo of his little daughter’s bike, which was in their driveway when they evacuated. Their neighborhood was vaporized.

A new study published in The Lancet, a prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal, estimates that 64,260 people were killed in Gaza between October 7, 2023, and June 30, 2024—41% higher than official reports. Nearly 60% of the dead were women, children, and the elderly.

Popping this back at the top of the feed for other academics who started back at work today - using @brkeogh.bsky.social's tracker has made it so much easier for me to understand where my time's going, and has offered me more confidence in using the "flexibility" our jobs purportedly offer

I’ve tried to share a post abt each journalist killed since Oct 2023. At first these posts got shared thousands of times. Then hundreds. Then tens. Now they get shared in single digits. Bc each one is just one of hundreds of journalists killed, an almost daily occurrence.

The official death toll in Gaza is over 45,000, but the true figure "is closer to 300,000," says Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a British Palestinian surgeon. "This is literally and mathematically a genocidal project." https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/gaza_hospitals

What hope looks and sounds like in this continent. Thank you @nasser mashni www.instagram.com/reel/DDT3lQr...

The World Central Kitchen pauses operations in Gaza after Israel kills more of its aid workers. The aim is starvation, the genocide has not taken a pause www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

Two permanent human geography posts at Durham University ( a focus on nature, climate change and just futures) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

By lumping all Jews in with a genocidal zealot who has called Palestinian children “little snakes”, this article increases antisemitism. www.theage.com.au/national/fed...

The external review into @Sydney_Uni claims to respect free speech, but really gives a green light to the stifling of debate. Adopting its recommendations will send the message that contesting the status quo is dangerous, harmful and undesirable. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Excellent #DP26 outcomes for geography and urban studies. FINALLY 👊🏽 Wonderful to see excellent and deserving scholars getting these grants, no doubt they’ll do amazing work!

It’s difficult to overstate what a huge deal this is. Perhaps, dare we hope, justice is finally coming for the people of Gaza. A first, historic step.

Finally some good news! #ICCarrestwarrants

First Bluesky post and so glad it’s Mona Fawaz and the Beirut Urban Lab. important piece. beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/2...

“Not in our name: Jewish Australians speak up” is a survey of Jewish people in Australia who who are against Israeli policies and practices in the West Bank and Gaza. If this is you, please take 5 minutes to fill this survey out. Shares appreciated. griffithuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens. Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors. #menasky, #geosky palestine.araburbanism.com

Hi Blue Skyers! We're a group of Jewish academics, lawyers, teachers and writers who do antiracism work and support Palestinian freedom and human rights. You can read our core principles, which almost 900 Jews in Australia have signed, below. To find out more visit www.jewishcouncil.com.au

NEW at @dropsitenews.com: As Infested Flour Becomes a Staple, State Dept. “Still Assessing” Israel’s Aid Restrictions to Gaza Read Abubaker Abed dispatch on the crushing hunger gripping Gaza amid Israel’s blockade. “I dream of food everyday,” he writes. www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-hunge...

My colleague @premthakker.bsky.social on how the Biden administration set a deadline/warning for Netanyahu - 30 days to increase aid into Gaza, or else! - and how Netanyahu just blew right through it. Again. zeteo.com/p/dramatical...