In this week’s Pickle, editor kendall 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 reflects on what the end of term at the University of Oxford means for the university’s Palestine solidarity encampment. vashtimedia.com/campus-dispatc…

Wrote this piece for Dazed about the crackdown on student protest rights across uni campuses. UK universities are deliberately shifting the focus away from Palestine in an attempt to silence our global opposition, and we will not be silenced. dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

Wrote about Oxford Action for Palestine and the UK student protest movement for Dazed dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

British universities are rolling back protest rights – we can’t let them: A new wave of draconian policies will severely curb the right to free speech on campus, but they are a desperate attempt to curb an unstoppable movement dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

For those who didn’t see the memorial garden before Oxford tore it out of the ground:

The demand is not to choose to accept or not a Zionist book prize, it’s to write toward a freedom so wild they would only condemn you.

63 days that are impossible to describe. every minute of every day was shaped by an all-encompassing grief. we never stopped believing in the possibility of change - we still haven’t. it’s not a matter of IF oxford will divest but WHEN. and we won’t stop until it does.

So many thinkers, writers, scholars desire to stand the test of time, yet with the current state of worldly affairs & how they continue on in the world—such morally indifferent & silent witnesses—they won't even stand the test of the moment, what a sorrowful condition.

How do you sleep after witnessing and hearing all of this? How do you keep going as if nothing is happening? As if people aren't burning alive, as if tents aren't being bombed, as if your elected leaders aren't annihilating an entire nation with your tax money? How do you do it?

Oxford Vice-Chancellor Irene Tracey spoke of the need for truth in her matriculation speech. However, the university refuses to label israel’s actions as genocide. We persist in holding Oxford accountable for its ongoing complicity in israel’s genocide of Palestinian people.

Very excited to facilitate this conversation & hear insights from Rebecca and Rabbi Alissa - two critical leaders in the world of Anti-Zionist Jewish organizing. Register now!

It's been a rare source of hope to watch Jewish anti-Zionist activism grow around the world in the last year, so I can't wait to talk to these authors about what we can learn from it and how to take it forward. Co-hosted by me and my Vashti colleague Kendall Gardner. Come!

reminder that we’re hosting this event tomorrow! it’s not too late to sign up - super stoked to speak about this excellent book and learn together!

On November 28, the Workplace Day of Action for Palestine, Oxford UCU & the Oxford BDS Coalition are hosting a discussion with two prominent Palestinian scholar-activists. See 👇 for venue & time Please SHARE among your networks & REGISTER here: bit.ly/action-rsvp UCU 1/4

We're supporting the week of action United Against Scholasticide 🇵🇸 Get involved: ✊ Educate and raise awareness ✊Join the workplace day of action 28 November ✊Send a message of solidarity Find out more 👇 #Workplaces4Palestine ucu.org.uk/CeasefireNow

me, for vashti this week:

wrote a few words about relief and pain and knowing that the struggle continues until Palestine is free

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.” Jeanne Morefield on Trump’s invasion narrative, the opioid epidemic, U.S. exceptionalism from health care to geopolitics, and the real story of pain in America: bostonreview.net/articles/blood…

calling all oxford-based folks to attend this amazing talk we’re convening next week at the Oxford Critical Theory Seminar!

*Sign the Oxford Staff BDS Pledge for Palestine* Join the 100 and counting Oxford University staff pledging to refuse collaboration with Israel’s regime of occupation, apartheid, settler colonialism, and genocide in Gaza. (1/3)