Excited to be heading to the East Coast this week for this lecture at @sasn.rutgers.edu November 7, 12:30, at the Art Library, Rutgers University. If you're around, do come along:

Really lovely to read this. You never know how a book will land and @dannymcnally.bsky.social makes some vital observations here that go well beyond my book, touching on questions of method and ethics that I've been grappling with as well.

Friend: Remind me, are you going to Detroit next week for the big American geographers conference? Me: Have you lost your mind?! I'm a German passport holder with a digital record of working in Palestine. That's a one-way ticket to El Salvador these days. It made him laugh. I wasn't joking.

"... we are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name – and cynical claims of antisemitism – to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." Strong letter from US Jewish academics. docs.google.com/document/u/1...

sad and true.

Hey colleagues heading to spring conferences in the US:

Spot on. “What’s left of the state of Israel besides bombings, destruction, abandonment and murder? Nothing. Nada.”

This is an eye-opening conversation between David Remnik and Atul Gawande, but not only for addressing the destruction of ASIAD and the catastrophe that it is causing. It reveals in a blunt way how the Trump regime embraces abandonment as a system of rule. 🧵

Living in the northeast of England, you don’t need a report to know this. You see it in the derelict streets, in cities and towns suffering from endemic underinvestment. Regional discrepancy is critical here- we are simply not living in the same socioeconomic universe as London and the southeast.

Rule No. 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." For the Trumpists, the cruelty is the point. They enjoy it. What is "the point" for the anti-Trump coalition broadly imagined? What kind of tactic would manifest an enjoyable expression of that point?

The Tesla protests work because they are a physical and geographical embodiment of Saul Alinsky's Rule No. 13: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." What are other ways to do so? (The far right has coopted Alinsky for a decade now. It's time to reclaim him.)

Noam Leshom, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, January 2025 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Roberto Mazza newbooksnetwork.com/edges-of-care

Just heading back from “The Game” project workshop in Bologna- superb work on the refugee route in the Balkans site.unibo.it/thegame/en If you’re organising a workshop, having 17th century frescoes is a great start! #unibo

I had such a great conversation with @pollypw.bsky.social on the Voices podcast of the @europeanisa.bsky.social, which is just out. We covered a lot, but it's a really fun exchange!

For our latest Voices @europeanisa.bsky.social podcast I talked with @noamleshem.bsky.social about his amazing new book Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/v...

This. 👇🏼 Yes, yes, yes.

OUT NOW: The first major update to our Primer on Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar, in over a decade is now live! Read, teach, share!

Hey political theory and first century peeps! Susan Buck-Morss is here!! bsky.app/profile/buck...

We’re running an advanced workshop for political geography students on the geographies of settler colonialism and this is definitely top of the list to screen.

The Palestinian-Israeli film "No Other Land" has won the Oscar for best documentary feature at this year's Academy Awards. Watch our interviews with two of the co-directors. Basel Adra: www.democracynow.org/2025/2/18/ba... Yuval Abraham: www.democracynow.org/2024/4/5/no_...

First podcast on my book now out with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. A great conversation with @robbyref.bsky.social about #Palestine, #Jerusalem, the Black Panthers and even my own childhood!

My latest podcast for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social is now out. I had the pleasure to interview @noamleshem.bsky.social discussing his book Edges of Care newbooksnetwork.com/edges-of-care

Sigh. I've seen a few of these recently...

Had a wonderful couple of days at @aberuni.bsky.social in Wales, talking to colleagues and students about the new book. Great discussion and getting to hang out with the brilliant Dr Mitch Rose was an extra treat. Somehow, it's always sunny in Aberystwyth when I visit...

Canada in fact HAS agreed with the US, to rename the Gulf of Mexico!!!

Really tired of the “Moscow talking points” framing. No, this is what they choose to say, what they believe. This is our illiberal culture talking.

Great to back at Queens University Belfast to speak about my book. Great discussion about political indifference, abandonment and the rather bleak political moment we live in. The clear skies this evening were an extra treat!

Belfast friends- I’ll be speaking at Queen’s University about my new book, about disposable lives, state abandonment & the uncaring sovereign. This Thursday, 20 Feb, 2pm. More details in the poster 👇🏼

America, Trump doesn’t care about your children.

The only problem with being a bridge is that everyone walks all over you.

Bingo.

This is an important post, and depressing conversations that follow. A glimpse into the despair and spite that so many in the liberal left feel after the election. I understand the sentiments, yet they are utterly self defeating.

Hindu nationalists have used the same playbook as Zionist orgs. @jewishcurrents.bsky.social did some superb reporting on this: jewishcurrents.org/the-hindu-na...

Perhaps the coolest conference idea: It’s about train culture, and it takes place… you guessed it- on a train! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Nothing like archaeology to normalise the erasure of Palestine. This week, the first ‘Archaeology and Site Conservation of Judea and Samaria’ is taking place in occupied East Jerusalem. Not a single Palestinian speaker, but many from the military archaeological branch. This is complicity 🧵/1

Pet store guy: “Yes, this toy is absolutely robust and long lasting.” Fonzy:

Canadian friends. Follow this link to Elections Canada and ask: "Please investigate Elon Musk and 'X' for their potential foreign interference in our Canadian elections." We won't become Musk and co's 51st state. This is one way we stop it. csep-pesc.elections.ca/en-CA/intake...

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the UK train-travelling population that the “quieter” car would in fact be quiet

👇🏼This. “Even if Israeli ‘Liberal’ politicians, Israeli media and the US president say otherwise, ethnic cleansing is not a solution but a war crime”. I don’t post in Hebrew, but is now the time to start?

I wish I read this is a beautifully written post sooner. I wish i'll adhere to its wise advice.

“Following all this chaos is stressful and exhausting and feels largely pointless given that if I had fallen into a blissful slumber nine days ago and been oblivious to the threats against Colombia, Mexico and Canada, I’d be no less informed and a lot less anxious.”

Looking for more human geographers? Here's a good start!

I made a starter pack of Human Geography Journals, for those of you (like me) for whom BSKY is a nice help in keeping up with the literature. Feel free to tip for me any journals I may have missed. go.bsky.app/Hw9i9br

With endless news of vanishing research funding, the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL @cbrl.bsky.social) is offering several grants to UK-based researchers. Check out the thread👇 and spread the word!

There are many reasons to doubt Trump’s statements about the relocation of Palestinians from Gaza. It’s not policy or plan but vacuous rhetoric. But it legitimizes ethnic cleansing, “transfer”, as it’s euphemistically called in Israel. That’s the danger: making the unthinkable just another option.

This conversation is really worth reading. I’m still left with the strong sense that until we have a more imaginative Liberal alternative to to the nihilism of the contemporary right, there’s no way to break this decline

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

Sometimes poetry captures the horror

A judicious, historically-informed exploration by Alex de Waal, on the classification of catastrophe in Gaza: How to Measure Famine www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...