The The Tor Project just published an insightful report on how Israel's defense and surveillance industry, which is marketed as 'field-proven' on Palestinians, exports to the rest of the world and threatens privacy and human rights everywhere.

Here are some examples 🧵⬇️

Germany bans a former minister of a European state essentially for his stance on Israel/Palestine. I continue to believe that the Question of Palestine is a test for western liberal values. Et voilà.

If the powers that may be did not stop this, it is hard to say they didn’t want this.
#NoWar

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SedaG On tech industrial policy <> natsec state in the US, Linda Weiss, America Inc. is a great primer cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978080147…
& Susannah Glickman is our go-to. Her chapter here gets into this a bit (ainowinstitute.org/publication/ai…)
Also Islam's chap on the UAE (ainowinstitute.org/publication/be…)

I have the impression Thorpe's book would be very valuable for those developing campaigns to stop arms exports from the US to Israel...

are fellow precariously employed / soon to be unemployed postdocs & ECRs finding the will to keep applying for academic jobs? much of my phd was about the racism of universities and still, I think I was asleep at the wheel thinking it made sense to keep trying to work at one

2500 Polizisten gegen den Palästina-Kongress in Berlin. Checkt hier irgendjemand noch die Verhältnismäßigkeit? Stört diese Form der autoritär-staatlichen Bearbeitung politischer Konflikte niemanden? Es ist echt ein Wahnsinn.

sueddeutsche.de/politik/extrem…

This is a very nice move from NIAS, please spread the word and/or help other institutions follow in their steps!

Safe Haven Fellowship for scholars affected by the war on Gaza, at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Amsterdam. Deadline for application 21 May.

Please circulate widely:
nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/sa…

'Only 'Hindu workers' should apply' because the 'Israeli government fears the potential for pro-Palestine solidarity among Muslim Indian workers.' A remarkable Boston Review essay on Indian migrants replacing Palestinians in Israel, a modern-day indenture bostonreview.net/articles/labor…

Our sixth #openaccess essay in a series on Palestine — 'It's been 164 Days and a Long Century: Notes on Genocide, Solidarity, and Liberation' by Omar Jabary Salamanca, Punam Khosla and Natasha Aruri antipodeonline.org/2024/04/11/not…

The Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers was vandalized this morning, the day of Eid Al-Fitr—windows smashed, equipment destroyed, artwork smashed, Quran desecrated, & a Palestinian flag stolen.

We will hold press conference tomorrow, Th 4/11 at 11am ET.

abc7ny.com/center-for-isl…

“In one of the most controversial measures [member-states] will also be allowed to pay €20,000 a head into a fund for those people they do not accept under the solidarity measure.”
EU is and works as a market, also when it comes to refugees and migrants. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

🚨EU Migration Pact passed ❌

The Pact will bring a deadly new era of digital surveillance of migrants & more tech will be used to criminalise people entering Europe.

👉🏾Read our #ProtectNotSurveil statement 'A dangerous regime of migrant surveillance'
equinox-eu.com/wp-content/upl…

Eid Mubarak Saeed! #FreePalestine