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Ayça Çubukçu

2 years

The paperback edition of my book is finally out from the University of Pennsylvania Press! Hopefully, more affordable now… @PennPress @LSEsociology @LSEHumanRights

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İn London, the march for Palestine is so huge that we’ve been barely able to move down the street for an hour! “İn our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians”

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NOW At Tate Modern in London, Arts Workers for Palestine demonstration

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Why is it so difficult for some left internationalists to think of Russia, Turkey, Iran, and China as imperial powers?

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NOW at London School of Economics Students demanding divestment from companies arming İsraeli occupation

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2 years

We need an internationalism that does not reflexively resort to waving the flag of a nation-state--even when under attack--as the primary form of expressing solidarity. We need to think beyond the nation-state form in situating "our" side in war and peace alike.

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Thousands out for Palestine on Christmas Day in New York City

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NOW Massive student walk out in solidarity with Palestine to demand #CeasefireNOW at London School of Economics

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7 months

Calling on all scholars of human rights and international law: Despite the intimidation many of us are facing, we must raise our voices against Israel's current and impending massacre of Palestinians in Gaza. We must mobilize now or live with the shame of complicity forever.

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This is horrific. This is a war crime. We cannot stay silent. The Israeli government must be held responsible.

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7 months

I was harassed by a woman on a London bus today for speaking in Turkish on the telephone. She told me to fuck off to another seat (which I refused). It occurred to me to ask if it was the sound of Turkish that bothered her. That was indeed the case; she proudly confirmed.

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I was going to teach at University of Vienna @univienna as Guest Professor in 2024. Given the university’s censure of Palestine-focused events, in protest, I am cancelling my course on Internationalism this spring. Please sign this statement in support.

Letter in Protest of University of Vienna's Cancellation of Events on Palestine and Further...

Rectorate of the University of Vienna Universitätsring 1 1010 Vienna T: +43-1-4277-10001 [email protected] Dear Rector Sebastian Schütze, We are writing as concerned students, professors,...

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Beginning to gather in London demonstration for Palestine. Electric.

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Neither ICJ ruling, nor UN Security Council resolution. No international institution proves capable of stopping the genocide unfolding in front of our eyes in Palestine. This is a damning indictment of the totality of international law and the international order it maintains.

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Today was the last official day of the @UCU strike across the UK academy. Our demands have not been met. There is tremendous anger among university staff and students, and not only at the LSE. This leaves us no choice but to ESCALATE.

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I studied and worked at @Columbia for many years during my PhD and after. Not since the anti-war movement against the occupation of Iraq have I seen such striking political clarity and moving moral courage on campus. All power to Columbia students! #FreePalestine

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The @BritishCouncil simply dis-invited me from an event after I inquired whether they were going to compensate me for my contribution to their panel. Tired of dealing with rich institutions demanding free #academiclabour .

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4 months

Germany has misunderstood the implications of its own genocidal history, particularizing rather than universalizing the meaning of "Never Again." Once again, it defends the indefensible, justifying proudly racialized mass murder.

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Yesterday, LSE and KCL students walked out of classes in solidarity with Palestine and marched through central London to meet with protesting students from SOAS and UCL. Nov 24, 2023

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7 months

Please apply! New scholarship established by Talal Asad in honor of his late wife, Tanya Baker-Asad. The Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences anywhere in the world @4noura @shereneseikaly

Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship - Palestinian American Research Center

2024-2025 Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian Women Pursuing PhDs The Palestinian American Research Center announces the inauguration of The Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian...

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2 years

Still speechless. The one and only Ruthie Wilson Gilmore electrified us all at the LSE last night. May we all mobilize our courage, our “rage and curiosity” to change—nothing short of everything. #LSEGilmore

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"Thank you for uninviting me. I would not want to be part of another institution which not only cancels artists because of their activism, but seems to think silence and censorship is the right answer to genocide." Lana Bastašić sets yet another example

Read novelist Lana Bastašić’s blazing response to yet another act of literary censorship.

It is my political and human opinion that children should not be slaughtered and that German cultural institutions should know better when it comes to genocide. –Lana Basta��ić Last month, th…

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6 months

İn London, the demonstration for Palestine and ceasefire in Gaza is already so massive that we can barely walk—and we just began marching!

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1 year

More than 20,000 people dead (so far) across #TurkeySyriaEarthquake region, affecting many in our community, and not a single word from @LSEnews to its staff or students. As if nothing at all has happened.

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I resigned as External Examiner of @UCL 's excellent Social Research Institute Board in solidarity with the @UCU struggle against pension cuts and to support #FourFights across the UK academy. This is a response to the failure of @UniversitiesUK to negotiate meaningfully w/ @UCU .

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South Africa's legal team already achieved something remarkable. It managed to express beautifully the global cry for justice for Palestinians. It was an act of international solidarity that restored faith, regardless of the legal outcome, in the "basic precepts of humanity."

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NOW Student Die in at LSE in solidarity with Palestine

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Feminist Night March in İstanbul last night, before the police attack

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İ still cannot get over the fact that LSE Law School invited this person to speak on campus, who says, when confronted by our students, that he “rather be a racist than a bore.” Shame.

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'I'd rather be a racist than a bore' – Israeli historian Benny Morris at @LSEnews , when some of his quotes on Palestinians as a 'time bomb', a 'fifth column', and 'wild animals' were put to him by students

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LSE campus changed over the strike days. Students and staff have remade social relations, subverting usual academic hierarchies in beautiful moments of solidarity and action. We've come closer to each other, knowing better now that another university is possible. #UCUstrikesback

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6 months

Here is our statement, signed by 1,200 feminist scholars: Feminists For a Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. End the Occupation. --> via @jadaliyya

Feminists For a Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. End the Occupation.

As scholars in feminist, queer, and trans studies who are rooted in social justice praxis, we refuse to stay silent while a genocide is ongoing in Gaza and a brutal war is unleashed to ethnically...

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NOW At LSE, students stage a die in and demonstrate in solidarity with Palestine

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Sit-in in London today in solidarity with Palestine, right before the massive demonstration demanding #CeasefireNOW at Trafalgar Square

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1 year

I am sharing again this appeal to help survivors of the #earthquake that razed to ground regions around my hometown in Turkey. More than 100,000 people are estimated to be under the rubble. Our loss is indescribable. Please contribute whatever you can.

TURKEY EARTHQUAKE FUND, organized by Research Institute On Turkey Inc (Research Institute On Turkey)

Update 2/15/2023 Thank you all for your generous support. We… Research Institute On Turkey Inc (Research Institute On Turkey) needs your support for TURKEY EARTHQUAKE FUND

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London demonstration for Palestine today impossible to capture in its vastness and energy. #FreePalestine #CeasefireNOW

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We are inviting submissions that address the unfolding catastrophe we are witnessing in Gaza. Submissions can take different forms: 2000-3000 word essays, longer articles, poetry or experimental genres which speak to our devastating present. @HumanityJ

Call for Papers, Fall 2024 Issue

Humanity Journal is inviting submissions that address the unfolding catastrophe we are witnessing in Gaza. Submissions can take different forms: 2000-3000 word essays, longer articles, poetry or...

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8 months

Wishing for a year of writing? Apply to this post at Fung Global Fellows program, @princeton . Annual theme is “Colonial Residues.” Applicants may address any region of the world, past and present, and may be from any disciplinary background.

Call for Applications (**Revised 9.14.23**)

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UN human rights expert warns of new instance of mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, calls for immediate ceasefire: "There is a grave danger that what we are witnessing may be a repeat of the 1948 Nakba, and the 1967 Naksa, yet on a larger scale."

UN expert warns of new instance of mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, calls for immediate...

GENEVA (14 October 2023) – A UN human rights expert warned today that Palestinians are in grave danger of mass ethnic cleansing and called on the international community to urgently mediate a...

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2 years

Another university is possible.

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3 months

Cultural institutions in "the West" which keep canceling authors, artists and academics for speaking up on Palestine reveal the racially policed limits of "liberal" free speech. Still, we'll find the words, and as necessary, amplify or whisper them, too.

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11 months

I had shared this picture from Gezi Park ten years ago today. In the decade since, Turkey has become more authoritarian, more neoliberal, more nationalist, more oppressive for too many to ignore, but too few to change it all.

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6 months

As @LSEHumanRights and @LSELaw , we are hosting a public event at @LSEnews soon: "Except Palestine: Law, Humanity and Politics" 7 November 2023 6.30pm to 8.00pm. Please register, limited tickets. @BashirAbuManneh @conorgearty @nevegordon @mahvishahmad

Except Palestine: law, humanity and politics

A panel of experts will explore how and why international law and ideas of humanity attend to and exceptionalise the case of Palestine and Palestinians

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1 year

Digging through my undergraduate archives, found Benedict Anderson’s comments on my essay addressing Partha Chatterjee’s critique of İmagined Communities. (With Anderson's recommendation, I was later admitted to @Columbia , and studied with Chatterjee as doctoral supervisor).…

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2 years

LSE's response to the anti-apartheid student protest on campus this week is utterly unacceptable. Calling for a *police investigation* amounts to criminalizing dissent on our campus. @LSEforPalestine

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Judith Butler was planning to speak at a Palestine solidarity event in Paris until the city's mayor unilaterally cancelled it. In our #PalestineUncensored series, Butler describes the chain of events leading up to the cancellation. @VersoBooks

Naïve and instrumentalized? Judith Butler on the Mayor of Paris's Canc

This statement was originally published in French by Médiapart on January 19, 2024. I have been asked by several people to clarify what precisely happened when I was contacted by the Mayor’s Office...

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4 years

2020, USA #georgefloyd

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New academic term about to begin at UK universities. What will colleagues teach, what will we say and do about the #genocide in Gaza unfolding in front of our eyes? Silence is not an option; clarity and courage are required.

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It is the duty of every scholar of human rights and international law, every UN worker and every journalist, every parliamentarian and every human being to do all we can to stop this catastrophe. #CeasefireNOW

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UN human rights expert warns of new instance of mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, calls for immediate ceasefire: "There is a grave danger that what we are witnessing may be a repeat of the 1948 Nakba, and the 1967 Naksa, yet on a larger scale."

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2 years

Delighted to announce this public lecture by Ruthie Wilson Gilmore before our strike begins in the UK academy. Honored to host Professor Gilmore IN PERSON and ONLINE at LSE. Please save the date: March 14, 2022 at 6:30 pm. @LSEHumanRights @LSEsociology

Policing the Crisis, Revisited

Ruth Gilmore | Registration Required | Free hybrid public event at LSE | 6:30pm 14 March 2022

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3 years

Thrilled to announce that our Human Rights Day Lecture at the LSE this year will be delivered by Noura Erakat! Dismantling the Apartheid of Our Time: The Palestinian Liberation Movement as an Anti-Racist Struggle @LSEHumanRights @LSEsociology @4noura

Dismantling the Apartheid of Our Time: the Palestinian Liberation Movement as an anti-racist...

6pm Mon 13 Dec | Noura Erakat | Registration Required | Free online public event at LSE

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6 months

Thanks to everyone who made our public event, “Except Palestine: Law, Humanity, and Politics” possible at @LSEnews tonight: speakers, organizers, volunteers, staff, audience members, and supporters of our freedom to discuss everything—including Palestine. @LSEHumanRights

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1 year

The strike march in London towards @BBCNews is electric. Power to the teachers, lecturers, all workers demanding fair pay and bearable working conditions! @ucu @LSE_UCU #GeneralStrikeNow

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6 months

We have released the video recording of "Except Palestine: Law, Humanity, and Politics," a public event held at @LSEnews on November 7, 2023 and co-organized by @LSEHumanRights and @LSELaw . @BashirAbuManneh @nevegordon @mahvishahmad @conorgearty

Except Palestine: law, humanity and politics

We explore how and why international law and ideas of humanity attend to, and exceptionalise, the case of Palestine and Palestinians. İt brings together scho...

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Difficult to move around London for a week without encountering a demonstration in solidarity with Palestine. This is a powerful international movement, the strongest one I have seen in two decades, worldwide. #FreePalestine .

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3 years

In a new @LSEAnthropology seminar series, two anthropologists will lead a critical discussion on one of David Graeber’s key gifts of writing. I'll be discussing Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Chaired by @alpashah001 . -->

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This is a historic document--to be read, referenced, and most importantly, implemented. "A call from Palestinian Higher Education institutions: Do not be Silent during Israel’s Unfolding Genocide" -->

A Unified Call for Justice and Freedom in Palestine

We, the undersigned Palestinian higher education institutions from occupied Palestine unite in a call for justice, humanity, and an end to 75 years of Israel’s regime of settler-colonial oppression

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RIP, Immanuel Wallerstein. Not only a sharp theorist, but also a passionate participant in many social and political movements, including the World Tribunal on Iraq. You will be missed.

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MIT joins list of universities banning pro-Palestinian student groups for acting without "permission to use" university space. But universities ARE a ground for debate and demonstration, protest and contestation. Why should students need "permission"?

MIT joins list of universities banning pro-Palestinian student groups for breaking rules

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2 years

Colleagues around the world: academic workers in the UK are on a three-day strike with our union @UCU . International solidarity now, as ever, would be much appreciated! Please find out about the strike and our demands. Another university is possible. #UCUstrikesback @LSE_UCU

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1 year

Gathering at LSE for the national #ucuRISING strike. Solidarity with all workers on strike today across the UK! ⁦ @LSE_UCU ⁩ ⁦ @UCU

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3 years

Today at dawn, the Turkish police detained many students of Bogazici University in Istanbul in house raids. Yesterday, students had held a massive demonstration against the top-down appointment of a pro-government man, Melih Bulu, as the new rector of the university.

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1 year

Finally in my hands. Thrilled to be discussing @davidgraeber 's posthumously published book, Pirate Enlightenment, at the @LRBbookshop with @OwenJones84 & @piercepenniless . Feb 15, 7 pm. @AllenLaneBooks @PenguinUKBooks @LSEsociology @LSEHumanRights @novaramedia @LSEAnthropology

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This was very difficult to write, and read, too. You are with us dear David.--> Remembering the many lives of our friend David Graeber: via @ROAR_Magazine

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Gaza has become expression of a legitimacy crisis for an Anglo-American political classwho preside over already fragile systems that deliver less & less to their populations & whose main offering is that the alternative is worse.⁦⁦ @NesrineMalik ⁩

Israel’s assault on Gaza is exposing the holes in everything liberal politicians claim to believe |...

Starmer and Biden see themselves as custodians of stability. But their support for this bloody conflict shows nothing but weakness, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Right-wing commentators attempting to frame some half-a-million Londoners who marched yesterday in solidarity with Palestine as "supporters of terrorism." Nonsense. We are what London looks like, we are what London feels like, we are what London thinks like. Get used to it.

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Beginning to gather in London demonstration for Palestine. Electric.

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Rethinking Internationalism in an Age of War and Transition Prof. Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu, LSE Wednesday 7 June 2023, 6.00pm - 8.00pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE Online registration via Zoom here: ...

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Today’s silent protest by Boğaziçi University faculty. It was so empowering to witness them in action. #A şağıBakmayacağız

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Solidarity with @LSEforPalestine students now. Beyond the prospects of democratic protest on LSE's campus, this is an affair that concerns the future of Palestine solidarity activism in the UK, even beyond. Time to speak up. #DecoloniseLSE

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As Gaza crumbles, those speaking up for innocent Palestinians are being silenced and sacked | Owen Jones @OwenJones84 -->

As Gaza crumbles, those speaking up for innocent Palestinians are being silenced and sacked | Owen...

Simply opposing violence against civilians is to risk career and reputation. Where are the defenders of ‘free speech’ now, asks Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Calling on all @Columbia alumni to put pressure on our alma mater to STOP CENSURING Palestine-focused events. This is utterly unacceptable.

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@Columbia cancelled another #Palestine -focused event, this time one organized by Columbia Global Centers in Amman, Jordan. It was scheduled for this Thursday on "Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine”. 🧵1/3

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Bravo, South Africa.

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⭕️ LIVE: South Africa begins its genocide case against Israel at the ICJ in The Hague.

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This is a massive anti-war movement. We are many and beautiful. 800,000 in London, marching for Palestine and #CeasefireForGazaNOW 11/11/2023

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Views from Vauxhall ✊🇵🇸

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“The dream of a free Palestine will survive your bombs.” 11.11.2023 London demonstration for #Ceasefire İnGazaNow

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6 years

it is here / geldi

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“The matter of how we should live will never be finished.” Lola Olufemi @lolaolufemi_ reads from her new book, “Experiments in Imagining Otherwise,” at our @LSE_UCU picket early this morning. w/ @saramsalem

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Here is our letter signed by over 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, human rights, genocide studies and more, warning about impending GENOCIDE in GAZA. All governments, universities, parliamentarians and journalists enabling Israel's violence are implicated.

TWAIL Review

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📢Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza

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Registration is now open for our Annual Human Rights Day Lecture to be delivered by Dr. Noura Erakat @4Noura on 13 December. I am thrilled and honored to be chairing this event. @LSEHumanRights @LSEsociology @LSEpublicevents

Dismantling the Apartheid of Our Time: the Palestinian Liberation Movement as an anti-racist...

6pm Mon 13 Dec | Noura Erakat | Registration Required | Free online public event at LSE

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The news has just reached London that antiwar protestors in San Francisco have shut down the Golden Gate Bridge to all traffic this morning. It is April 15, 2024. “STOP THE WORLD FOR GAZA,” their enormous banner reads in white capital letters against a long black background.

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1. Invade a country. Say you will create 'enduring freedom' by defeating a rogue regime. 2. Kill, maim, and torture hundreds of thousands of residents. 3. Create a catastrophe. 4. Decide to withdraw your troops. 5. Watch as 'responsible' people beg you to stay. 6. Repeat.

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1 year

I wish @davidgraeber could be with us to celebrate the publication of his book, which undertakes the task of decolonizing the Enlightenment. @LSEAnthropology @LSEsociology

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1 year

Owen Jones, James Butler and Ayça Çubukçu discussing David Graeber, his work, legacy and his last, posthumously published book PIRATE ENLIGHTENMENT at our sold out event at the shop tonight

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The strategy of the opposition in Turkey, catering to "ultra-nationalists" in the name of ousting Erdogan makes me think of Walter Benjamin's warning: "One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm."

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Tens of thousands assembling in London for the Global Day of Action for Palestine #PermanentCeasefireNOW

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This summer, I wrote an essay on @davidgraeber 's anthropology of human possibilities. Sharing it on the second anniversary of his death with love and admiration. I miss you my friend.

Ayça Çubukçu (2024), "David Graeber's Anthropology of Human Possibilities," forthcoming in boundary...

Forthcoming (2024)

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More than 1000 scholars declare their support for South Africa's submission to the International Court of Justice regarding the #genocide of Palestinian people by Israel. @TWAILReview

Public Statement: Scholars support South Africa’s submission to the International Court of Justice...

Text and signature link for this public statement.

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YES Suella Braverman sacked as home secretary – UK politics live

David Cameron denies lobbying row should rule out return; Esther McVey made minister without...

Former PM takes seat in Lords after return as foreign secretary; James Cleverly replaces Suella Braverman; Esther McVey to reportedly tackle ‘wokery’

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I was so inspired by Empire and Multitude in my early twenties that I overcame the fear of writing and published this review in the @ASJournal in 2005. RIP Toni Negri--militant, teacher, revolutionary intellectual.

Ayça Çubukçu (2005), Can the Network Speak? A review of Multitude by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.

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@ayca_cu

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@olsonkyleg Of course, too common an experience in Istanbul, too. But yes to linguistic resistance to xenophobia!

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Was delighted to see my book cover on the wall of the Hungarian Pastry Shop near Columbia today, where its very first draft was written as a dissertation.

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@ayca_cu

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US, UK, EU: Joe Biden, Rishi Sunak, Ursula von der Leyen, their party members and bureaucrats--responsible for aiding and abating #genocide in front of the world's eyes. Stop the bombing, stop the killing. #CeasefireNOW

S A R A H✌️🇵🇸

@sarabahaa94

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A video broadcasted a few moments ago by Al Jazeera shows the areas that were targeted in the airstrikes last night in #Gaza , revealing the immense destruction and the efforts to rescue citizens from under the rubble.

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Like other universities across the UK, @LSEnews has announced it will "deduct" half of our monthly salary for participating in the Marking and Assessment Boycott led by the University College Union ( @ucu ). This is an outrageous attempt to break our will in demanding survivable…

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Here is the poster of my upcoming lecture in Berlin. All invited. @TSolidarities @LSEHumanRights @LSEsociology

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Difficult to remain calm even in London, as the historic elections unfold in Turkey. İmmense gratitude to everyone guarding the ballot boxes. #TurkeyElection2023

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What is critical reading? Notes for my first year undergraduate students reading Marx and Du Bois. --> 1) Critical reading involves joining generations of interpreters and partaking in traditions of reading while developing your own interpretation of texts.

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Italian Dockers Stop Arms Shipment to Israel in Solidarity with Palestine -->

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Thanks to all who showed support and shared their own experiences of xenophobia and racism in the UK, Turkey, Germany, and elsewhere. Sad this needs saying: everyone has the right to speak in their mother tongue--Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Farsi, you name it--wherever they are.

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@ayca_cu

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I was harassed by a woman on a London bus today for speaking in Turkish on the telephone. She told me to fuck off to another seat (which I refused). It occurred to me to ask if it was the sound of Turkish that bothered her. That was indeed the case; she proudly confirmed.

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Thrilled to be teaching a new postgraduate seminar on Internationalism and Solidarity this semester at @LSEsociology . First class tomorrow--haven't taught face to face in two years!

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Thrilled to be speaking at the conference honoring Partha Chatterjee, my former PhD supervisor, at Columbia University soon. All invited. September 15-16, 2023.

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Across the world, people standing in solidarity with Palestine are being silenced and punished. At @VersoBooks , we are launching a call for stories of censorship and retribution for demanding justice for Palestinians. To submit: pdiaries @verso .co.uk

Palestine Uncensored: Diaries of Censorship

For those of us – and we are legion – committed to standing in solidarity with Palestinian resistance and struggle for liberation, the threat and weight of censorship are pervasive. Since October...

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@ayca_cu

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Thousands of women march in Istanbul yesterday against the Turkish government’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. Powerful. —>

Zeynep Kuray

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İstanbul Sözleşmesi'nin feshine karşı binlerce kadın İstiklal Caddesi'nde yürüyor

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Excellent writing on what’s been happening at Columbia University, re: the censure of speech and action on Palestine. Inspiring resistance to @Columbia administration by principled, courageous faculty acting for a #FreePalestine via @NewYorker

Columbia Suspended Pro-Palestine Student Groups. The Faculty Revolted

Like other universities, the school has cracked down on activism among students, citing fears of antisemitism. Some professors think it’s gone too far.

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New essay by TALAL ASAD—> “Reflections on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” Online first before print @HumanityJ

Reflections on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

In the remarks that follow I want to focus on a few of the ways language is used to describe the violence unleashed by Israel on the Palestinians. We are all no doubt aware that language is related...

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