Brilliant conversation today…very impressive presentations from Bangladesh and India on #extremeheat and urban inequality.

THREAD: What is happening in UK universities is astonishing. Right now about quarter of universities are laying off staff. Almost all universities expect to make a loss this year. And the entire thing is happening in an effort to deceive the population about migration statistics.

Excellent read:
'My chest tightens each time I wish to write dhulm and instead pen down “injustice.” How flat it falls: an in-justice, no justice, a mere absence of. It falls short of dhulm’s intentional harm, a harm that occurs not because justice is passively negated...'

The Zionist one-two propaganda punch. A thread in response to Noah Feldman's essay on 'the new antisemitism'

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Zionist propaganda depends on the promulgation of two major fallacies. First, it ahistorically equates Zionism and Judaism...

Policing in Britain emerged in response to the needs of a social order required by capitalism and colonialism. In our latest article, J M Moore looks at the history of policing before 1800: abolitionistfutures.com/latest-news/a-…

'In Gaza you can witness what the end of the world will look like.'

In December, Hudia, a refugee in Rafah, kept a diary of the horrors Israel has been visiting upon Gaza since October.

This is testimonial 18 of our Palestine Uncensored series.

Concluding this collection is 'From one flooding crisis to the next: Negotiating ‘the maybe’ in unequal Karachi' by Sobia Ahmad Kaker & Prof Nausheen H Anwar.

This paper explores the exploitative logics of the politics of governance & inhabitation in Karachi.

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It’s been my favourite piece to write, mainly because of the company! A luxury to be in conversation with Prof Nausheen H Anwar, thinking together about a city we both love ❤️

Strongly condemn salman akram raja’s arrest! He has been at the forefront of the effort to expose the systematic rigging of the 2024 elections.

I have shared some thoughts on what to expect and look out for in the upcoming Pakistan election along with Sarah Khan Asfandyar Mir and Zoha Waseem for Good Authority (from the team that published TMC). Thank you for putting this together Christopher Clary

The recent attack on UNRWA was never about alleged security concerns. Israel & its allies have systematically targeted the agency for years in a bid to shrink and disappear 5.7 million Palestinian refugees demanding their right to return, rehabilitation, & compensation. #Thread

I want to testify to this at least ten times over

The way Motaz Azaiza and others have been able to evoke emotions for the Palestinian plight among millions around the world is a master class in the efficacy of new media, taking the narrative in their own hands and turning a war that would otherwise have only had western…

Anti-semitism and Islamophobia are both on the rise in the US; however, Islamophobia is institutionalized in US domestic policy in a way that anti-semitism is not, and we need to talk about it because a better framing of this phenomenon is anti-Muslim racism. A 🧵

Our aggregation of news reports since 7 Oct suggests that hospitals in Gaza are subjected to a repeated pattern of intimidation, direct targeting, siege, and occupation by the Israeli military: …a-hospitals.forensic-architecture.org

This is a war on civilians, on children, on humanitarian aid workers. It is abominable. It shatters me to know how complicit I am in it.

The theology of whiteness believes that death will make “intractable problems” go away. But we know well the convictions of after-lives so its every waking moment must be haunted from now on.

Against the deafening silence, more than a thousand interdisciplinary scholars, artists, and movement folks endorse the Palestine statement of the International Critical Geographies Group.

…riticalgeographiesgroup.wordpress.com

Stomach wrenching, docs staying with their patients, being shot at by snipers. Hospitals without water or electricity. They ask the world to help ‘there has been no response’. This is necropolitical in every sense in a health system with an existing huge shortage of docs #cease