The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

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The removal of references to ancient Palestine in the BM tells us more about the state of what was once a best-loved cultural institution than our past. Bending reality to please political patrons is a subjugation of culture to those in power. It's a shameful act. www.change.org/p/erasing-a-...

I just completed this consultation. I’m disgusted at the extreme and punitive changes being proposed and I am also incensed at the grossly punitive and divisive way the consultation itself is structured /-/ questions focus either on how much should we further punish migrants,

We are involved in a mighty struggle to save our university from the corruption of corporate power. Please, help us with a donation, however small. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at @sheffielducu Punishment is not negotiation. ✊

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Great to see that Mark Pendleton is running for UCU VP (Higher Education). Worked with him on the RHS LGBT+ report and he was consistently, insistently and cheerfully simply ace. Learn more from ucucommons.org/about-mark/ . And regardless, don't ignore your ballot.

📣Call for abstracts 📣 If you do Critical Security/Terrorism Studies, join our #EISAPEC26 section. We welcome papers, panels, or roundtables. Feel free to get in touch with either myself or @marinegueguin.bsky.social if you have any queries. Deadline is 19 Feb. eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...

📣Call for abstracts 📣 If you do Critical Security/Terrorism Studies, join our #EISAPEC26 section. We welcome papers, panels, or roundtables. Feel free to get in touch with either myself or @marinegueguin.bsky.social if you have any queries. Deadline is 19 Feb. eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...

Please, keep signing and sharing. We should not be forced to choose between our principles and food for our families. @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

So the Home Office commissioned a counter-extremism video game which led to Prevent referrals for school pupils, cool cool cool!

Monday and the start of a second week of being prevented from working by my employer, the University of Sheffield. Management has decided that massive damage to staff morale, student experience and the university’s reputation is worth it in a futile attempt to break the union. Shame on them.

Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social

My Sheffield colleagues are locked out for not mitigating strike action and doing the teaching they haven’t been paid for, please donate to @sheffielducu.bsky.social if you can spare a few quid: www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As things wind down for the holidays, @sheffielducu.bsky.social members are facing a threat of 100% pay deductions from January, thanks to our Scrooge-like management. We’ve now set up a fundraiser to bolster our local solidarity fund. If you can spare some change, please do! gofund.me/ac2b3adcb

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

🎉Yesterday @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social held their annual conference! 👏Many thanks to the amazing convenors; @amnakaleem.bsky.social , Alice Finden and @rmkhan.bsky.social for all of their hard work! ⭐️The #virtual conference was extremely successful in its critical engagement of terrorism studies.

We started off our annual conference this morning saying a fond farewell and thank you to our wonderful outgoing convenor @amnakaleem.bsky.social and welcoming two new convenors @marinegueguin.bsky.social and @mcneilwillson.bsky.social who will be joining Rabea and Alice @mybisa.bsky.social

Last chance to register for the annual @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social 'Contemporary Issues in Critical Terrorism Studies' 🌎 9 September on Zoom 💻 Register now 👉 buff.ly/SyRkSaU @aliceellafinden.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social

Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse

Enjoyed presenting work in progress and meeting new colleagues at #EISAPEC2025. Particular shout out to @amnakaleem.bsky.social for organizing an excellent set of sessions on critical terrorism studies

Register now for the annual @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social conference! 🎉 'Contemporary Issues in Critical Terrorism Studies' - "The world is on fire!" 🌎 Taking place 9 September on zoom 💻 Find out more here 👉 buff.ly/wRyt0Bt @aliceellafinden.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social

NO CONFERENCING AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE Please read and spread the following message as we gather in Bologna this week #EISAPEC25

We have organised this exhibition with our students to archive and celebrate the Sheffield encampment that ran for 92 days last year. If you are around Sheffield on 22-23 July, please visit us at Bloc Projects on Eyre Street #FreePalestine

📢📢Call for Papers! This year's CTS Annual Conference will take place online on 9 September. ➡️Submit an abstract by 30 July

Ultimately, what is really being policed here is opposition to British foreign policy. This is political policing which will function to intimidate into silence people whose opposition to government policy is expressed in the same terms as are used by leading, mainstream civil society organisations.

Honoured to have received this award along with my co-conspirators @amnakaleem.bsky.social and @rmkhan.bsky.social !

🚨Become a co-convenor for @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social🚨 2025's WG of the year winners is looking for a new co-convenor! Post starts September for a three-year term 🎉 Deadline to apply 20 July 2025 🌟 Apply - buff.ly/SsW597x @aliceellafinden.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social

Sheffield UCU took part in the Workers Day of Action on Trans Rights from our picket lines today! The UK Trade Union movement stands behind our trans siblings #tradeunionists4transrights

Great day of #SUCUstrike action at the University of #Sheffield. Today we started our #Palestine support roving picket, which much solidarity around the campus. Join us! ucu.group.shef.ac.uk @drvaleriehobbs.bsky.social @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Sheffield friends, please check out the Gaza Remains the Story exhibit. It’s curated by the Palestinian Museum in the West Bank and brought to Sheffield by Annapurna Menon as part of the Festival of Debate. The exhibit runs until 9 May (11am-4pm) at Soft Ground, The Moor.

We're not the organisers of this protest but we'll be there showing our support on Saturday 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Statistically in Britain if you are a cis man and you rape someone you are overwhelmingly likely to get away with it, there is a vanishingly small likelihood that you will be convicted. That is a feminist issue. Trans women wanting to use women’s toilets or play women’s football: not so much.

Speak up for Momodou Taal. Your silence will not protect you. Academics outside the US esp have a moral duty to publicly come out in support and organise. ICE will disappear Momodou Taal. Your trips to the US can wait, seriously! theintercept.com/2025/03/21/t...

If nothing else, the sentencing of climate change protestors in the UK makes it very clear who and what the state values and protects here.

You may think AI is useless but this new study just discovered that history is not just facts but also interpretation! Just think about how many more basic foundations of existing scholarship we might be able to “discover” if we let chat gpt burn through all of earths remaining fossil fuels!

Where is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya? What is Israel doing to him?

“we are funning low on funds again and have 4600+ active eSims, many of which need to be regularly topped up to ensure continuous Internet. these eSims go to hospitals, journalists, students, professors, families.” bit.ly/eSimsRUs

"Western universities are increasingly prioritizing ideas of neutrality over a principled commitment to free speech and the pursuit of truth". theconversation.com/universities... #Palestine #EndGenocide

I wrote the foreword for Runnymede's excellent report on Islamophobia, published today. www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...

I’ve created a starter pack for those working on terrorism, counterterrorism, etc. let me know if you’d like to be added ! go.bsky.app/XNdPyw

We collectively agreed to donate all royalties to Gaza. Please order Handbook for your library (publication July 2025). My chp theorising coloniality of sexuality will be of interest, but another far better chp on decolonising/ debrahminising queerness enacts epistemic transformation.

If you care about abolishing and critiquing idea of the war on terror as a political project , you should give my colleague @rmkhan.bsky.social a hearty follow. She and @sarahgharib.bsky.social just published an amazing special issue, me and several others are part of : doi.org/10.1080/1753...

Speaking at this tonight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A reading list of 15 articles, made open access by Journal of Palestine Studies. Articles provide historical context and analysis of the 17-year Israeli blockade of Gaza. #Polisky www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpa...

Since the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group has not officially migrated to BlueSky yet, I am sharing our statement on Gaza here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @aliceellafinden.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social