'I'd rather be a racist than a bore' โ 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
@LSEnews
While Morris was invited to lecture us, scholars like Amena El Ashkar (with a full scholarship to do a PhD at LSE) are denied visas by the racist Home Office - please sign letter of support for Amena here
@irving_books
That's your perspective, sure, but I think historians should be allowed to ask questions as to whether he's dead โ only free and open inquiry can settle this matter
LSE is one of the worst offenders when it comes to casualisation in the UK HE sector โ with 59% of its academic staff on fixed-term contracts. Jaw-dropping report from
@Marion_Lieutaud
&
@lslothuus
There's a crisis of academic casualisation and precarity at the LSE. Insecure and short-term contracts are rife. We're social scientists, so we decided to research how serious the problem is. Here's a thread with our key findings, 28-page report + code repository.
@ucu
#ucuRISING
#LSEReels
, a film collective based
@LSEsociology
, are screening Machuca, a beautiful coming-of-age tale set during the 1973 coup against Allende in Chile. Next Wednesday 1 March at 5pm on campus โ free tickets still available!
The British government finances Israelโs genocide in Gaza. As 130 MPs finally announce that the case for halting arms sales to Israel is โoverwhelmingโ, the Department of Business and Trade has been occupied to demand we
#StopArmingIsrael
๐จ HAPPENING NOWย ๐จ
We've occupied the Department of Business and Trade to call on the UK government to STOP ARMING ISRAEL.ย
The UK government is in breach of international law and its own weapons export licensing criteria. It is complicit in the genocide in Gaza.
@Matzan481_
@MouinRabbani
the destruction in Gaza (88,868 buildings in less than 6 months) far exceeds that of even Aleppo (33,500 buildings destroyed over 4 years) and Mariupol (less than 2,500)
the
@guardian
, uninterested in why a banner was dropped at the north London derby, incurious as to why
@Barclays
finances an ongoing genocide, smears the activists who could answer those questions. top journalism
Last night,
@Guardian
published this article about a protest we organised at Arsenal v Tottenhamโs North London Derby.
We have made a formal complaint for breach of editorial code (incl. no right of reply) but weโll save those details for another day. ๐
'But what if infrastructure is designed, financed and adopted into the habits of everyday lives of its users in such a way that it is not a harbinger of apocalypse?'
great Saturday reading from
@LalehKhalili
@_jrrdy
Dani Wadada Nabudere! Marxist scholar-revolutionary who disagreed with Walter Rodney on racism and slavery's role in global capitalist production, but understood before most the role of finance in imperialism โฆ
When do Israeli soldiers go on murderous rampages? Repeatedly: look up Kafr Qasem - 29 October 1956, where 49 Palestinians, including children, elderly residents, and a pregnant woman, were murdered by the IDF as they returned home from work
Remember those times when Israeli soldiers went on the rampage, executing old ladies at point blank range, brutalising, raping and murdering teenage girls and parading their bodies on the backs of vans, kidnapping children, beheading young men in the street? No, because it hasโฆ
Awful news that a wonderful and generous colleague, Ian Black, has died from his neurological condition. He had an incisive mind but was more importantly a generous, thoroughly good person. Rest in power
Bushnell was an extremist anarchist who frequently would wait until military KIA reports dropped so he could post them on the "ACAB" subreddit and laugh about them.
Really love this
@BCssaame
interview with Fadi Bardawil on the 'dual legacies' of Arab Marxism: revolutionary exhilaration, experienced at the beginning of Arab revolutions a decade ago, and the legacy of disenchantment. Can't wait to read his book!
@lauferlaw
@MarkRuffalo
Israel could simply agree to a hostage swap and end this - it seems clear they are not interested in the lives of the Israeli hostages (& they have now murdered over 50)
Speaking about mobilisation factors in the early
#Syrian
revolution at
@uabpols
'Rethinking MENA and the Muslim World' symposium alongside some wonderful looking presentations!
Free registration, starts at 15:00 BST:
would be great for this role to go to a nice person as I'll be working with them! workplace is great, handy if you're looking a way into the academic world (as a staff member I can do my PhD part-time there for much reduced fees), and the pay is pretty good at ยฃ31,029 to ยฃ35,635
๐ข Deadline TOMORROW for applications to be our new Communications Coordinator! If you have design skills & an interest in using social media to promote world-leading research on the Middle East, apply now. Salary ยฃ31,029โยฃ35,635 pa inclusive
#LSEjobs
Published this paper from
@osirri
and it's really worth a read! Spatial changes in Baghdad & how people respond to violent transformations in the urban landscape
@Macurian1
@danpjsheehan
I was on the Syria and Sudan marches in the images, and there were plenty of demonstrations against the Saudi bombing of Yemen. This is all in London, maybe your city is different?
LSE currently invests over ยฃ4.5 million in companies directly implicated in supporting Israeli apartheid. LSE staff/students: sign this letter and let's demand the university end its complicity in Israeli crimes
#SaveSheikhJarrah
The LSE community stands with Palestine against settler colonialism and apartheid. We call on our colleagues and university to take meaningful action to stand with the Palestinian struggle.
Statement ๐
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Could you help publish & design our paper series, build our social media presence, and coordinate our communications? Then apply to join the team! Deadline 19 June 2022 (23.55 UK time)
#PartOfLSE
It's not just the coronation & spectacular acts of legitimation that prop up the British monarchy & the state โ check out this piece where Marta shows how daily, ordinary & sometimes almost invisible royal public events 'reinforce a deeply unequal social order' ๐๐
@Brinski3
@MnSpenpal
@Linda611
@PoliticsJOE_UK
@realDonaldTrump
The worry with selling off the NHS to the Americans (i.e. opening it up to competition) is that the set prices the NHS pays for drugs (through our taxes) will go up. It'll then need more funding, leading to more privatisation if the state can't afford this
Great introduction (for me anyway) to the work of Dani Wadada Nabudere, Marxist scholar-revolutionary. Disagreed with Walter Rodney on racism and slavery's role in global capitalist production, but understood before most the role of finance in imperialism
Answering the Palestinian call for a Global Day of Action to stop the
#GazaGenocide
, activists from the Free Palestine Coalition hung two 80 foot banners from Westminster Bridge in front of parliament this morning:
Britain MUST
#StopArmingIsrael
and demand a FULL
#CeasefireNOW
That's your perspective, sure, but I think historians should be allowed to ask questions as to whether he's dead โ only free and open inquiry can settle this matter
Contrary to circulating rumours, we're relieved to share that David Irving remains with us, though, as many of you know, he is currently facing health challenges. We appreciate the concern and support during this time and will continue to provide updates as appropriate. Thank youโฆ
At
@alamedainst
launch
@shokispeare
focuses on the lessons of the non-aligned movement for radical internationalism, highlighting its major shortcomings: no mass movement to support it, no attendant class struggle at home
#joinaunion
This week marks 10 years since the war in Syria began. We wanted to cover this unhappy anniversary in a different way, in a way that would go beyond soundbites and would provide a look at Syriaโs past, its present and its future. 1/9
@Matzan481_
@MouinRabbani
the destruction in Gaza (88,868 buildings in less than 6 months) far exceeds that of even Aleppo (33,500 buildings destroyed over 4 years) and Mariupol (less than 2,500)
1838 - thatโs how many have died after contact with police in England and Wales since 1990. No more state killings! โฆFollow the
@UFFCampaign
โฉ
#NoJusticeNoPeace
"The most powerful threat ... is that the new semester will not start unless our demands are reasonably met. We would be giving our employers a problem they simply cannot solve without us." Best indefinite strike case imo, thx
@zara_dinnen
& James Eastwood
'Rendering Said exceptional ultimately communicates the sense that only certain Arab intellectuals are โpresentable,โ and that the rest peddle in petty, non-universal, and derivative ideas...'
this by
@chebhocine
on new Edward Said bio is wonderful!
@joeyayoub
@VersoBooks
i don't think you'll get far appealing to an editorial collective that includes Tariq Ali, who's long been an apologist for Syrian regime atrocities
@AliAbunimah
they are heroes, just like the white helmets. you'd have to be a zionist or an assadist to defend states that target medical personnel and justify it by calling them terrorists
Our friend who is currently detained, is being forcibly deported on flight KQ101/KQ362 at 6:25pm today. He is an asylum seeker and it is unsafe for him to return to Somalia.
@kenyaairways
the pilot is within their legal right to refuse to fly them, please STOP this deportation
@lsesu
Karan Kataria,
@LSESU
candidate for General Secretary, has links to the Indian far-right fascist organisation, the RSS - please vote for James Relf for Gen Sec before polls close today at 4pm!
Tom Morello durante su show como telonero de Muse, en el Estadio de Londres.
A minutos para que inicie el concierto.
[Vรญa IG: mauriziomeossi]
#WarnerMusicMx
#SimulationTheoryWorldTour
'I realize that the questions are connected and the solutions are one and the same. As Benjamin argued, the key is in our role over harkening timeโs arrivalโthat, even if we must wait, we should not do so idly.'
๐ on waiting & heartache by
@Amy_Fallas
@freegazaorg
What about that report has been 'disproven'? Your source, , is a conspiracy theory website. What happened to Palestinian software developer Bassel Khartabil? Why was his life worth less than the Palestinians in Israeli dungeons?
Speaking tomorrow (Tuesday) 11:15 BST at the
@movementsMcr
Alternative Futures & Popular Protest conference ๐ on Syria's revolution as a rural uprising. All panels are now online and the other papers look intimidatingly great - register here:
My piece 'Non-Hierarchical Revolution: Grassroots Politics in the First Palestinian Intifada' was just published in
@omerjournal
! First peer-reviewed work & I'm super grateful to Reviewer 1 - their comments made the piece so much better
#revolution
@contramordor
why don't you want to hear the other side of the debate? why are you trying to cover up evidence that he may be dead? we can't ask questions now?
This investigation by
@ForensicArchi
into the causes of the Beirut blast is stunning, both in its precision and the scale of the criminal negligence it reveals
@JoosyJew
I mean, as long as Palestinians are afforded the internationally recognised right to return to their homes, then yes - everyone should focus on the many other problems in the world