My new piece on C.B Macpherson and liberal socialism for Liberal Currents

"When Israel invokes international law to frame everything above ground in Gaza as a potential human shield, it operationalizes the law itself as a tool of genocide" Nicola Perugini Neve Gordon on Israel's unprecedented expansion of the "human shield" charge jewishcurrents.org/human-shields-…

🇳🇴 in #UNSC: ICJ is crystal clear: Israeli policies and practices are to be considered annexation of large parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. This is in violation of international law and must come to an end. Statement: norway.no/en/missions/un…

The decimation of Gaza’s academia: "Many surviving faculty members saw the deaths of academics as the deliberate targeting of prominent intellectuals in Gaza —many declined to be interviewed for this article, for fear of being assassinated themselves" 972mag.com/gaza-academia-…

A society can have a degree of success in processes of migrant integration and acceptance of diversity among a structural majority of the public while also having a substantial minority of the population that's willing to embrace racism and xenophobia. 15-25% is not a "fringe"

Scientists think we could be just years away from finally discovering the opposite of "anti-fascist".

Useful on a likely contributory cause of the racist rioting in the uk

A reminder to all colleagues to make sure that your documents are all backed up on your own private device(s) or on a cloud storage service separate from your uni. That book proposal draft? That grant bid? Your teaching materials? All of that could disappear in a day.

New version of the Linda problem?

For 10 months Israel has killed scores of Palestinian academics, writers, artists and intellectuals in their homes. Their families have been killed with them. Their murder is met with almost complete silence in the West

Yesterday it was confirmed an Israeli F-35 fighter jet – made in part in Britain – was instrumental in a recent attack on a "safe zone" in Gaza, killing 90 people. Hours later the UK government refused to suspend licences pertaining to F-35s. ALL arms sales to Israel must end.

“Ask any Arab what the most painful realization of the last year has been and it is this: that we have discovered the extent of our dehumanization to such a degree that it’s impossible to function in the world in the same way” ⁦⁦⁦by ⁦Lina Mounzer themarkaz.org/a-year-of-war-…

Why is there not more outrage over these successive strikes on schools? The Israelis have now bombed 546 of them

I’m mainly on Bluesky these days. I encourage anyone hanging on here to consider whether you’re happy producing content that Musk can profit from by selling ads. Here’s one way he apparently spends money: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-mu…