Highly recommend this brilliant essay by Gabriel Winant (open access) gabrielwinant brill.com/view/journals/…

Different context, but the idea circulated recently by Albo of protesters being a threat to "social cohesion" gestures towards that same nationalist, Islamophobic rhetoric described here.

The National Council of Australia's NTEU has just overwhelmingly endorsed the institutional academic boycott of Israel - the culmination of months of activism, with similar motions passed at branches across the country. BDS is now union policy. Congrats to all involved.

"breakdown in intergenerational transmission of gender norms emerges as a generative global possibility, one fiercely resisted by new fascist movements." this piece connects a lot of the dots. brill.com/view/journals/…

A profile I wrote ⁦The Guardian⁩ about the historian, Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine. He is retiring though he continues to write, including a book about connections between history of #Ireland & #Palestine. theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

Breaking: Dozens have suffered from suffocation due to exposure to toxic gases released by unknown bombs fired by Israeli forces, which targeted the neighborhoods of Zaytoun, Shuja'iyya, and Tuffah.

Jabalia's Palestinians share 'final' messages of possible extermination ⁦TRT World⁩ trtworld.com/middle-east/ja…

As we speak, write, tweet, sob: Israeli forces are committing another massacre in northern Gaza. People in Jabalyia are killed - both in groups, and one by one - amid unspeakable cruelty and sadism. By Israelis who have accepted to be "willing executioners" of a genocidal plan.

Yesterday I tried to take my sign that said "There is no disability justice without a Free Palestine - this is the biggest cohort of child amputees in history" to the children's wing of the State Library Victoria, named after donors who support Netanyahu & Israel's genocide. 🧵

“In the midst of a genocide, calls for “social cohesion” are obscene. We don’t need cohesion. We need the killing to stop.” Jeff Sparrow on Labor and the criminalisation of dissent. overland.org.au/2024/10/the-po…

“Australia stands with Israel and always will” - Penny Wong

I can't even bring myself to use the term 'social cohesion'. It has a long and very white history in Australia. Howard was the first to used it in Australia in the late 1980s in his racist 'too many asians rant' and his opposition to multiculturalism. That is it is etymology in

His name was Sha'ban Al-Dalou. A 19-year-old software engineering student at Al-Azhar University of Gaza and a memoriser of Quran. He was burnt alive in a tent after Israel bombed Al-Aqsa Hospital last night. May the image of him burning haunt his killers and their supporters.

His name is Sha'ban Al-Dalou. He was 19. They burned him and his mother alive with your money. What do I do with this all-consuming rage? Unmute and listen. Be in agony. As Isabella Hammad says, agony has become the only humane place from which to speak. Remain there.

It is chilling how we went from "No one targeted or would ever target hospitals, it is prejudiced to say so" to this full-throated defense of the targeting of hospitals in less than 12 months. Makes you wonder where the debate will be at in 12 months from now.

Good on this crew for drawing attention to this. …opleagainstimperialisms.wordpress.com/2024/10/16/ope…

In a new piece, Nadia Bou Ali writes from Lebanon. “The post-modern crisis of bourgeois consciousness is precisely this: the future is no longer guaranteed.” parapraxismagazine.com/articles/livin…