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Martin Shaw
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One of the first genocide scholars to recognise Israel’s genocide. Author of ‘What is Genocide?’ and ‘The New Age of Genocide’, just published by Agenda. Sociology/IR professor, IBEI Barcelona/University of Sussex. martinshaw.org, martinshawx.substack.com .. more

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Martin Shaw is a British sociologist and academic. He is a research professor of international relations at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, and emeritus professor of international relations and politics at Sussex University. He is best known for his sociological work on war, genocide and global politics. .. more

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 5d
France shows the UK as its future, as the so-called mainstream right prepares to put the far right in power. The previous ‘republican front’ with its taboo on collaborating with Le Pen has collapsed. (In the UK, the Tories never had a taboo on Farage anyway.)

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French conservatives are inching towards a pact with Le Pen that could enable a far-right takeover of the country | Paul Taylor
In trying to woo Le Pen’s voters, Les Républicains risk destroying France’s Gaullist legacy and putting Paris on a collision course with the EU, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 8d
Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 8d
‘No safe place to go’: people sent back to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal tell of desperation

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 8d
A devastating take-down of the Shabana Farage asylum plans by Zoe Gardner.
zoejardiniere.bsky.social Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 8d
Most asylum seekers arrive with their valuables long lost in bombed or abandoned homes, stolen, or sold to afford the dangerous clandestine passage to safety

The real thing of value to be snatched from refugees under these proposals is far more painful: their families & futures

Me, for @zeteo.com

Reposted by Martin Shaw

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 8d
Most asylum seekers arrive with their valuables long lost in bombed or abandoned homes, stolen, or sold to afford the dangerous clandestine passage to safety

The real thing of value to be snatched from refugees under these proposals is far more painful: their families & futures

Me, for @zeteo.com

Reposted by Martin Shaw

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d
"Outside of the most exceptional circumstances family reunion, will not be possible [for refugees]" Shabana Mahmood tells MPs

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 8d
‘It is Labour's argument that Theresa May, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and their colleagues were too hesitant about child deportations + that need to be tougher.’
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d
The excessive "hesitancy" around deporting children + families obviously refers to the 2010-24 governments.

It is Labour's argument that Theresa May, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and their colleagues were too hesitant about child deportations + that need to be tougher

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 8d
Labour’s attempt to triangulate the politics of immigration is failing in all directions.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d
Labour is seen as pro-immigration by 47%
(including 6/10 people who are sceptical of immigration,
falling to just 1/3 who are pro-immigration themselves)

Labour is seen as anti-immigration by 28%
(this includes half of those who are pro-immigration,
falls to 1/4 of those sceptical of immigration)
yougov.co.uk YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 8d
Those who hold more restrictive views on refugees are more likely to see Labour as pro-immigration, while those who hold more liberal views tend to see Labour as anti-immigration

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 8d
⭕️ Gaza officials warn of a full shelter collapse as winter hits displaced families

Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel’s blockade of tents, tarps, plastic sheeting, heaters, flooring, and mobile sanitation has triggered a catastrophic breakdown in shelter conditions as the first winter...
⭕️ Gaza officials warn of a full shelter collapse as winter hits displaced families Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel’s blockade of tents, tarps, plastic sheeting, heaters, flooring, and mobile sanitation has triggered a catastrophic breakdown in shelter conditions as the first winter storm flooded tens of thousands of tents across the Strip. More than 288,000 families are living without the minimum requirements for survival. Officials say Gaza needs 300,000 tents and mobile homes, yet Israel continues to block all major crossings, delay the ceasefire terms, and refuse to implement the humanitarian protocol it signed. ▪️ Shelter supplies still banned: tents, tarps, waterproof sheeting, heating devices, thermal insulation, flooring, blankets, sanitation units, and basic power sources. ▪️ What is causing: Entire encampments turned into mud, children and elderly exposed to cold, and no safe shelter anywhere. Gaza authorities say this is a deliberate deepening of the humanitarian disaster — “new forms of genocide” through deprivation and exposure. They call on President Trump and all mediators to force Israel to comply with the ceasefire and open the crossings for shelter materials immediately. International agencies are preparing to distribute the small amount of shelter aid Israel recently allowed in, but officials say it is nowhere near enough to meet even the most basic needs. 🎥 Video from Palestinian photojournalist Saed Hasballah via @MiddleEastEye

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d
Labour is seen as pro-immigration by 47%
(including 6/10 people who are sceptical of immigration,
falling to just 1/3 who are pro-immigration themselves)

Labour is seen as anti-immigration by 28%
(this includes half of those who are pro-immigration,
falls to 1/4 of those sceptical of immigration)
yougov.co.uk YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 8d
Those who hold more restrictive views on refugees are more likely to see Labour as pro-immigration, while those who hold more liberal views tend to see Labour as anti-immigration

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

Reposted by Martin Shaw

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d
The excessive "hesitancy" around deporting children + families obviously refers to the 2010-24 governments.

It is Labour's argument that Theresa May, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and their colleagues were too hesitant about child deportations + that need to be tougher

Reposted by Martin Shaw, Alison Phipps

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 8d
This is the bit on seizing jewellery. Perhaps shave their heads as well, could get good money for all that hair? But again, this is likely to create lots of bureaucracy yet have little real-world effect because it is so hard to do in practice.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 9d
The new stage of genocide denial: the genocide that never was is now over, according to the German government. ‘Germany will lift its partial embargo on weapons exports to Israel as of November 24 in a move dependent on the cease-fire, a government spokesman said.’ - Haaretz.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 10d
Full details of the detention of international law professor (and former UN special rapporteur) Richard Falk and his wife Hilal Elver in Canada, on their way to contribute to the tribunal on Canada’s complicity in Israel’s genocide.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk interrogated for hours in Canada
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com

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Kingswinford & South Staffs Labour @kss-labour.bsky.social · 11d
On Monday, Shabana Mahmood will announce an overhaul of the asylum system, here’s why ⬇️

Reposted by Anne Norton

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 11d
Professor Richard Falk, the veteran human rights scholar and former UN rapporteur, was detained for four hours in Canada, on his 95th birthday, where he had gone to speak at the Gaza Tribunal. The repression of pro-Palestinian voices is worldwide.

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 13d
Thank you for delivering such a brilliant talk at yesterday's symposium entitled "Freedom of Expression in the New Age of Genocide" @martinshaw.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...
Freedom of Expression in the New Age of Genocide
My talk (given by video-link) at the symposium, "Freedom of Expression in a Time of Genocide", at Stavanger, Norway, 12 November. (Pictured with Maha Abdallah, University of Antwerp.)
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 13d
My talk on freedom of expression in the new age of genocide. From my Substack.

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Freedom of Expression in the New Age of Genocide
My talk (given by video-link) at the symposium, "Freedom of Expression in a Time of Genocide", at Stavanger, Norway, 12 November. (Pictured with Maha Abdallah, University of Antwerp.)
open.substack.com

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 14d
“Gaza’s destruction compares only to the most severely impacted cities in Ukraine. …The extent of damage is greater than… in any single German city during [the Second World War] and, on a percentage basis, there is more damage across Gaza than there was as a result of the US firebombing of Dresden.”
aloner.bsky.social Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 14d
'The directive was 'nothing left''

For the latest issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk (out today) I looked into the scale of the Israeli army's destruction of buildings in Gaza, which has been widespread, at high scale, and it seems systemic >>>>

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 14d
Can there be a Trumpian middle ground between Israeli genocide and some semblance of Palestinian autonomy in Gaza? US planners themselves aren’t so sure.
dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14d
📌 Trump’s Gaza “Peace Plan” Faces Internal Alarm, POLITICO Reports

Private documents obtained by Politico show Trump administration officials deeply uncertain about how to implement the Gaza peace deal between Israel and Hamas — and fearful it could unravel before taking hold.

Here are some key...
Here are some key details: 1. The 67-slide presentation, shown last month at a two-day symposium in southern Israel led by Lt. Gen. Michael Fenzel, the U.S. Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority, reveals disarray over how to move from ceasefire to reconstruction. 2. The slides warn that the proposed International Stabilization Force, meant to secure Gaza, may never deploy: it lacks a legal mandate, clear rules of engagement, and troop commitments from partner nations. Without it, officials say, a “security vacuum” will persist — one Hamas is already filling. 3. Representatives from U.S. Central Command, the State and Defense Departments, NGOs, and firms like RAND attended the briefing. Politico confirmed the slides’ authenticity with a symposium participant, a foreign ally, and a U.S. defense official. 4. The documents show deep uncertainty over who will govern Gaza and how reconstruction will be managed. The State Department “is yet to play a significant role,” one official said, adding, “Everyone is floating at 40,000 feet — nobody is talking operations or tactics.”

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 14d
Ben Ansell demolishes Morgan McSweeney’s version of the ecological fallacy, and with it the basis of the whole far-right-oriented political strategy which has played a huge part in dooming the Starmer government.
josiahmortimer.bsky.social Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14d
"What I think Blue Labour believe is that Labour voters in the marginal Red Wall district have fundamentally different views on social (and maybe economic) issues than Labour voters in safe London seats. They don’t."
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Labour at the Margin...
...of survival
open.substack.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14d
🔴 Israeli Lawyer Says Palestinian Prisoners Are Being Raped and Tortured

Israeli attorney Ben Marmarelli says his Palestinian clients show “clear signs of rape and torture” — men walking with difficulty, covered in bruises and blood, their eyes swollen and blindfolded. In a Facebook post, he...
🔴 Israeli Lawyer Says Palestinian Prisoners Are Being Raped and Tortured Israeli attorney Ben Marmarelli says his Palestinian clients show “clear signs of rape and torture” — men walking with difficulty, covered in bruises and blood, their eyes swollen and blindfolded. In a Facebook post, he described detainees “forced to lie on the floor with faces to the wall, 24 hours a day without light, bedding, or toilets.” Marmarelli said one client “gets a broomstick up his ass every time he has a lawyer visit.” After he filed complaints, Israel’s Prison Service retaliated — submitting a grievance to the Israeli Bar Association accusing him of “incitement.” He says the courts refuse to investigate, while prisoners held in “torture camps” have no way to submit appeals. We’ll have more from Marmarelli’s full 9-minute video testimony shortly. Watch an excerpt below ⬇️ B.M. @ireallyhateyou "My client gets a broom stick up his ass every time he has a lawyer visit" "Israeli" lawyer Ben Marmareli met his imprisoned Palestinian client and witnessed the horrific abuse in Israel's torture camps. After he filed appeals to the courts, the IPS ("Israel Prison Service") is now going after him - they filed a complaint to the Bar Association, saying Marmareli is "inciting". This is a short clip from a 9-minute video Marmareli posted today. I will publish the full video with subtitles hopefully in the next couple of days. B.M. @ireallyhateyou Same lawyer writes yesterday: "I saw with my own eyes signs of rape and violence. I saw prisoners walking with pain in their rears, and I saw boot marks on my client’s back. I saw bruises and marks from handcuffs cutting off blood circulation in their legs and hands. I myself saw prisoners being led shackled and blindfolded. I saw it with my own eyes. The journalists aren’t interested in publishing about rape and violence by prison guards. Josh Breiner [Haaretz criminal correspondent] isn’t interested. The judge said she wouldn’t discuss it, and both of them asked why the prisoner didn’t file a complaint. Can you imagine a security prisoner filing a complaint? Do you think they have an anonymous complaint box like criminal prisoners do? They’re locked up 24 hours a day in a room without a mattress and without a yard, and when food is brought in, they have to lie on the floor with their faces down. When they’re moved from place to place, they’re blindfolded. Even if they had the option to file a complaint (and they don’t), they would immediately be beaten and raped in response."

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14d
📌 Trump’s Gaza “Peace Plan” Faces Internal Alarm, POLITICO Reports

Private documents obtained by Politico show Trump administration officials deeply uncertain about how to implement the Gaza peace deal between Israel and Hamas — and fearful it could unravel before taking hold.

Here are some key...
Here are some key details: 1. The 67-slide presentation, shown last month at a two-day symposium in southern Israel led by Lt. Gen. Michael Fenzel, the U.S. Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority, reveals disarray over how to move from ceasefire to reconstruction. 2. The slides warn that the proposed International Stabilization Force, meant to secure Gaza, may never deploy: it lacks a legal mandate, clear rules of engagement, and troop commitments from partner nations. Without it, officials say, a “security vacuum” will persist — one Hamas is already filling. 3. Representatives from U.S. Central Command, the State and Defense Departments, NGOs, and firms like RAND attended the briefing. Politico confirmed the slides’ authenticity with a symposium participant, a foreign ally, and a U.S. defense official. 4. The documents show deep uncertainty over who will govern Gaza and how reconstruction will be managed. The State Department “is yet to play a significant role,” one official said, adding, “Everyone is floating at 40,000 feet — nobody is talking operations or tactics.”

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Martin Shaw

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 14d
'The directive was 'nothing left''

For the latest issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk (out today) I looked into the scale of the Israeli army's destruction of buildings in Gaza, which has been widespread, at high scale, and it seems systemic >>>>

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings, Martin Shaw

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14d
"What I think Blue Labour believe is that Labour voters in the marginal Red Wall district have fundamentally different views on social (and maybe economic) issues than Labour voters in safe London seats. They don’t."
open.substack.com/pub/benansel...
Labour at the Margin...
...of survival
open.substack.com

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 14d
I remember from the Bosnian war/genocide that many Serbian ‘fighters’ were weekenders from Serbia proper who’d return with TVs etc. looted from Bosnian homes. I didn’t know that Italian ‘sniper tourists’ were in on the act.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege
www.theguardian.com

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 15d
Yet another official review undermines the rationale for the ban on Palestine Action.
defendourjuries.bsky.social Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 15d
UK terror law banning Palestine Action used too widely, review finds

Report says definition of terrorism is too broad and 'creates overreach in its application'

www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2025...

We’ve always been right about this: wedonotcomply.org
UK terror law banning Palestine Action used too widely, review finds | The National
Report says definition of terrorism is too broad and 'creates overreach in its application'
www.thenationalnews.com

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 15d
Legal advice for the BBC in the face of Trump (read the link).

Reposted by Martin Shaw

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 15d
UK terror law banning Palestine Action used too widely, review finds

Report says definition of terrorism is too broad and 'creates overreach in its application'

www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2025...

We’ve always been right about this: wedonotcomply.org
UK terror law banning Palestine Action used too widely, review finds | The National
Report says definition of terrorism is too broad and 'creates overreach in its application'
www.thenationalnews.com

Reposted by Martin Shaw

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 15d
“Measures used to ban groups such as Palestine Action should be restricted so that they are only used to protect the public from terrorism”

Translation: Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation.

inews.co.uk/news/law-use...

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Law used to ban Palestine Action being used too widely, report says
Major review also says use of Prevent scheme is 'not fit for purpose' with referrals increasingly involving people with complex vulnerabilities
inews.co.uk