How disappointing. And disheartening. The Society of Authors members vote against a resolution to make a statement re the killing of fellow writers, the destruction of Palestinian cultural institutions in Gaza. And to call for peace. 786 members for: 883 against. How very sad.

Just to add a recent example of an Israeli minister making a genocidal comment - I give you the Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich - 'There are no half measures. [The Gazan cities of] Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat – total annihilation. 'You will blot out the remembrance of…

Judith Butler: “If calling for an end of genocide is understood as making a Jewish student feel unsafe, then the safety of the situation has been oddly co-opted by that particular Jewish student. Palestinians are the one in need of safety [from genocide]” theintercept.com/2024/05/01/jud…

Today’s list of universities

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White woman, world renowned academic, brutalised by cops in full view of video cameras and arrested. They still lied on court records about the event. Now think how often cops lie about those without similar privilege

These professors are doing their jobs. Our job is to protect are students and help them gain the capacities to participate in and build better futures. Absolute solidarity with all students and professors in the US facing the full might of a violent police state. Free Palestine.

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Today Italy celebrates the Resistance, the partisans that contributed to the liberation of Italy from Fascism in April 1945.

As Italian-Palestinian I love this version of Bella Ciao (partisan song) played by Palestinians in Gaza. I celebrate them. 🇮🇹🇵🇸 youtu.be/yaorvjmgWKg?fe…

Make time to listen to this super articulate young Palestinian, Mohammad El-Kurd, expressing the subjugation of the Palestinian people with rare clarity and passion

More people are starting to see the gravity of this historic moment.

It’s not only that the US government is funding & arming crimes against humanity in Gaza—which is itself a profound moral failure—it’s also the willingness to destroy our own institutions to let Israel do it.

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For a full year, the bodies have piled up in Sudan – and still the world looks away | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

We are appalled to see that German police have stormed into a conference (Palästina Kongress) in Berlin organised in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

There are reports of 2,000 police being mobilised to surround and attack the conference. They have attempted to stop the…

Succinctly summarizes why I am disgusted with so much of the media and our politicians right now.

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Euro-Med Monitor to UNHRC: Address Israel’s violations of ICJ provisional measures
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A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. “We were surprised by how brazenly the male researchers described their priorities, for example that they actively didn’t respond to emails”

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