So will RCMP officers be wearing these while they attack, arrest and use violence on Indigenous people defending their lands against resource extraction industry? Or perhaps when they tell families of MMIW “she ran away?” Or will they just be reserved for performative gestures?

Indeed.

To celebrate the historic wins across Belgian universities and to discuss how we continue to organize for full academic boycott, please join us for this great panel in Brussels this evening!

'We can no longer, if we ever could, retreat to a dispassionate objectivity within the walls of academia. Now is the time to also stand up for the moral principles that brought so many of us to Sociology.'

Michael Burawoy, a guiding light over so many generations!

Great episode on LGBTQ+ Refugees ⁦LawPod - We tell stories about the law.⁩ with ⁦Rainbow Refugees NI⁩ ! A powerful call for action for ⁦Queen's Students' Union to set up groups - call for ⁦Queen's University Belfast 🎓⁩ -to cease travel contract with CTM - ⁦QUB School of Law⁩ for more lawyers lawpod.org

I do not know how people sleep at night knowing they are justifying the massacre of literal babies. What if this was your child? What if it was your children being bombed and massacred all because of their identity? How depraved of a human being can you be to justify this…

Palestinian children arbitrarily arrested & detained by the Israeli army are often coerced into becoming collaborators/informants, as I outlined in my second report on 'deprivation of liberty.'

To understand the treatment of Palestinian children under Israeli occupation even

Apply for the Gaza-Palestine Postgraduate Taught Scholarship by 28 May 1pm (UK time). The 2024 scholarship covers the cost of tuition, accommodation in a single occupant en-suite room in University halls of residence & a maintenance award of £5,000.

sheffield.ac.uk/international/…

When people use the disingenuous point that omits the two previous Nakba and begins with Oct 7th/return of hostages, but they heard Hind, they saw Sidra, they know 40,000 people are dead & they saw the genocidal army playing with toys and women's lingerie. They just don't care.

White supremacists must have seen the same videos of broken people amidst rubble, and IDF soldiers playing with children's abandoned toys and posing with women's abandoned lingerie. Yet it is the Brown folks facing genocide who are accused of being potential rapists

LSE staff, see you at 10:30 am this morning to hand-deliver the divestment petition to School management.

For messages from the student solidarity encampment for Palestine at LSE, please follow them on insta: @lse_encampment

I was raised by Black social workers in the foster system. Had no early exposure to Palestinians. It’s Black folk who taught me about my Palestinian people, my homeland, and our struggles. When you see these photos, know that Black solidarity didn’t start in 2024, but ages ago ✊🏽

Next week:

Have events of late made you rethink your position on BDS? Feeling frustrated & depressed by the news? Have a listen here & find out from experts the potential of BDS to help stop the genocidal war machine from continuing, and to demand a ceasefire now!!! qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI/m…

Giving this very accessible encampment-friendly resource a boost

Protesting at university: What are my rights? libertyhumanrights.org.uk/advice_informa…

How is everyone not only talking about this? Read the news and you wouldn't even know it's happening. I feel like I'm going mad.

If you're a sociologist wanting to teach on Palestine Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians have put together some teaching resources. It's still in development, so we'd welcome any suggestions
socispal.wordpress.com/teaching-resou…

I think often of Razack’s article ‘Stealing the pain of others’ but more so after reading this statement against boycott.

MEANWHILE GENOCIDE.

Exciting news, everyone! The programme for our event is OUT!

Join us in Geneva on 29 May for an unforgettable celebration of feminist resistance and collective liberation!

See you there: shorturl.at/cpCLN
#Geneva #Feminism #Solidarity #CollectiveLiberation

Israel has killed another of our academic colleagues through a direct missile strike. We mourn the death of Dr Azmi Abu Daqa, Director of Center for Environmental and Rural Studies at the Islamic University

The ongoing scholasticide is intolerable