Someone asked me some questions about the current attack on Iran. www.iheart.com/podcast/1049...

My university has inked a deal with an Israeli cyber war giant. What a Shonda www.odt.co.nz/opinion/otag...

A brilliant analysis of the University of Otago and its shameful decision to join the military-security complex. iso.org.nz/2026/03/22/t...

Israeli soldiers shot them for pleasure as Palestinians were desperately trying to secure food for their families. Harrowing newly released videos taken by Aid Worker David Macintosh.

Hey, remember the last time when military intervention led to peace, security and stability? No, me either. But I am sure it will work this time.

Just heard a colleague quip, 'Benjamin Netanyahu is the worst US president in living memory!' Brilliant!

You could make this up, but you don’t need to.

The Palestinian Genocide. It has a name. The UN Commission found Israel guilty of four out of five acts specified in Article 2 of the 1948 Genocide Convention against Palestinians

Israel's apologists spent over 2 years sowing distrust in the official Gaza death toll. Now the Israeli army quietly accepts that it is actually an underestimate. Eternal shame for the atrocity deniers. They must never be absolved of their guilt.

Israel has suddenly accepted the official Gaza death toll. That's after over two years of claiming that it's 'Hamas propaganda'. The truth? The figure is so much higher 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-sud...

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

UN Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. We welcome this report and call for an immediate escalation in pressure on states to impose sanctions on Israel now. Join our #DisruptComplicity Global Weekend of Action, 18 - 21 September. loom.ly/gnUoYQY

The introduction for this special issue was written by @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social, Griffin Leonard, Aidan Gnoth, Joseph Llewellyn, and Tonga Karena!

It's a genocide and we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to stop it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

This. www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/the-...

An Otago Student General Meeting just passed a BDS motion 200 Ayes to a single Nay! This after executive council voted to disregard a BDS referendum. The hero of the day Politics Rep Jett Groshinski who called the meeting in defiance of exec. Hats off to Otago Students for Justice in Palestine.

"We rarely leave the house anymore, afraid our legs might give out. It already happened to my sister: while searching on the streets for something, anything, to feed her children, she suddenly collapsed to the ground."

This is a brilliant analysis of what's going on in the Middle East right now and how to understand it in historical context. www.securityincontext.org/posts/wester...

Excited to see a major article from my doctoral research, Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand, out at Social Movement Studies (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you ever wondered what you would do during a genocide, you're doing it now.

It's a genocide. www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

The Otago Declaration on Palestine. asiapacificreport.nz/2025/05/12/o...

Being pro humanity is being pro Palestine!

Otago alumni may want to sign this Declaration on the Situation in Palestine: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Words from @theimeu: Today marks 77 years since the massacre of Deir Yassin, an atrocity that came to define the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 to establish the state of Israel on stolen Palestinian land.

One of the hardest things about watching the Palestinian genocide is the certain knowledge that one day, when the weight of evidence silences all denial, and when it's no longer risky to say it aloud, everyone will exclaim how terrible it was and how they were always against it.

In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players. Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue. Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yet another detailed report documenting Israel's genocide in Gaza. One day justice will come. www.alhaq.org/publications...

This is why 'institutional neutrality' is wrong.

There's no point to the war, just mass killing of Palestinians. Israeli society is morally bankrupt. www.democracynow.org/2024/12/27/l...

The impossibility of establishing a settler colonial state today. aje.io/scob5c

Merry Christmas from Gaza.

Great to see this. BDS is working. We need to keep going. It may be the only thing that will stop the genocide, end the ethnic cleansing, stop the land grab and end the apartheid in Israel.

Today, I am ashamed of the University of Otago. At the university council meeting they refused to adopt a motion to disclose and divest from Israel and its genocide. More than a year of genocide and they haven't said anything or done anything. So much for its values. Shame.

Our new special issue on 'What the War on Terror Leaves Behind' is now out! 9 amazing *open access* articles on topics including social policy, proscription, climate change, nuclear politics, monstrosity, coloniality, anarchism, securitisation, nuclear politics, & critical theory (Thread 1/12)

The special issue's final piece, by @michaellister.bsky.social & me, asks what happens to critical security thinking when its ideas and arguments achieve (or appear to achieve) wider currency: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread, 11/12)

This article by @andrewfutter.bsky.social & Benjamin Zala focuses on the return of nuclear great power politics including in the Euro-Atlantic, Western Pacific, & Global South: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread, 10/12)

Our next article by @mattuq.bsky.social contrasts the treatment of terrorism and climate change by Western states. In it, he highlights the vast disconnect between the harm each issue causes, & their prominence within contemporary security imaginaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread 9/12)

Priya Dixit's article then draws on anarchist and abolitionist thinking to explore the war on terror's potential futures through examples from the United States and Nepal: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread 8/12)

The twin dangers of generalisation and presentism are prominent too in Samuel Oando's engagement with the colonialities of counterterrorism strategies in East Africa under the war on terror: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread 7/12)

South East Asia is the focus of our next contribution by Chang and Jenne. They argue that the war on terror's impact in the region was never as profound as elsewhere, and that we should therefore beware generalising the 'return to geopolitics' thesis: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread 6/12)

In this article by @furtadoht.bsky.social & Jessica Auchter, the focus is on how war on terror tropes and metaphors have been mobilised in contemporary commentary around the Ukraine war: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread 5/12)

Our next article by Sophie Haspeslagh asks what happens to 'the terrorists' who find themselves on lists of proscribed organisations when the world's gaze shifts away from counterterrorism: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread 4/12)