Crony capitalism & plutocracy again calling the shots, incl. on free speech & academic freedom, leading to militarised outcomes. Pro- #Israel billionaires urged New York crackdown on #Gaza protests: Report | | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/16…

Where to get mustard seed oil (sharisha tel) that is food grade in Sweden/EU ideally online? The only ones I can find that seem south Asian are for external use only.

Let’s not forget rapid deforestation when talking about increased intensity of heatwaves

BREAKING: Presidential appointee Lily Greenberg Call, who is Jewish, has resigned in protest of the Biden Administration’s refusal to help stop Israel’s assault on Gaza.

“What is the point of having power,' she says, 'if you will not use it to stop crimes against humanity?”

Today, I became the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden-Harris administration over its policies in Gaza. Here is my resignation letter:

#Gaza #Nakba To mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, Al Jazeera have produced an excellent illustrated guide to what daily life under occupation is like for Palestinians.

interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2024/israe…

Reflections on Nakba Day:

Some years ago, I gave a lift to an Israeli author, an anti-zionist whose grandfather’s signature is affixed to Israel’s declaration of independence. In the trunk of my car, where he had just put his suitcase, there was a box sealed well before my years

Honored to join 500 of my colleagues across CUNY that criminal charges against our students be dropped. Calling the police on our students who were peacefully engaging in protest is reprehensible. We are educators. We teach NOT incarcerate our students. PSC_CUNY

I checked out the pro-Palestine demonstration at Stockholm University today together with SUITS visiting doctoral student Samuele Carlo Ayrton Abrami . It felt a bit like an idyllic picnic in the grass, but with placards and slogans.

“Drawing on songs, films, and stories about bats, pigeons, tigers, and elephants, the panel explores how “folktales”, old and new, animate questions of ethnonationalism, militarization, hospitality, and kinship.” Feat. Dolly Kikon, Mythri Jegathesan, & Muhammad Kavesh. Thanks, Amrita!

Sharing Danielle Falzon and my new paper, a call for a sociology of adaptation. In it we set out to bring core concerns of sociology (structure, agency, power, inequality, justice) into the conversation of how society will respond to climate change.

doi.org/10.1111/socf.1…

fellow anthropologists - would you say the student encampment protests would be an example of Turner's liminality and communitas?

Now Duke students are being labeled anti-semitic because they quietly and peacefully walked away from his commencement speech.
Where will these accusations end? Are people now anti-semitic if they don't watch Seinfeld reruns on Netflix?

It is difficult to describe what is happening in Sudan as anything other than ethnic cleansing, with Sudanese civilians collateral in what is being exploited as a proxy war.

As many as 150,000 people are estimated to have been murdered. More focus internationally is urgently

There is nobody and I genuinely mean this that has ever been as deserving of this award as Bisan is. She is the most remarkable human being, her strength & resilience are a guiding light for us all. She dedicated her award to the protesters around the world. What a beautiful soul

Never forget, never forgive those who supported this genocide

CNN has recreated the detention facility based on the testimony of Israeli whistleblowers which show the inhumane and cruel treatment of Palestinian detainees in Israeli facilities. Stuff of horrors. War crime after war crime.