Quite incredible to read that nobody from authorities or Government was ever in touch with Josip Strok’s father to extend condolences. Contrast that with the national conversation on law & order that followed the assault on Stephen Termini.

'The Defence Secretary, Grant Shapps'
Just think about that.

'We cannot, in good faith, align with an organization that has shown such blatant disregard of our collective values.' 29 writers and translators have withdrawn themselves from consideration for The PEN America Literary Awards.
lithub.com/the-pen-awards…

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1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is still too silent about the war in Gaza. Following my viral tweet last month, this is the updated & expanded version of how I see things based on >1000 articles and 1000s of videos/images of the war. 🧵of summary conclusions:

Every liberal thinks they will be put in camps under fascism but all evidence suggests they’d be the ones running the camps

This begins with an absolute humdinger: Oscar Wilde's declaration that Jeff Davis was the man he most wanted to meet in the US, and his subsequent stay with the former president of the Confederacy. I can see the day's work deferred....

AND we're back.

ahahahaha

I'm recruiting academic tutors in Berlin for a Popular Music MA course. Get in touch if interested (or share with anyone who might be!)

Some dry academic humor. 💀

Play in Israel, just don't pretend you didn't know:
Nick Cave, Radiohead and others not heeding the BDS call can no longer hide behind their empty rhetoric on Israel #BrianEno aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/…

I don't suppose I know anyone out here who can score music for a brass band... do I?

Nancy Fraser’s letter of un-invitation from a guest professorship in Cologne because of her support for the statement “Philosophy for Palestine”

No comment.

⚠️ READ THIS:

“Most of the dead and wounded children they treated were hit by shrapnel or burned during Israel’s extensive bombardment of residential neighbourhoods… But doctors also reported treating a steady stream of children…with single bullet wounds to the head or chest.”