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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · 2d

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As the first steps appear to be underway to end the war in Gaza, those in Dunedin supporting a just peace are clear what needs to happen. Tom...

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 24d

UN Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

We welcome this report and call for an immediate escalation in pressure on states to impose sanctions on Israel now. Join our #DisruptComplicity Global Weekend of Action, 18 - 21 September.

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Global Society @globalsociety.bsky.social · 24d

The introduction for this special issue was written by @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social, Griffin Leonard, Aidan Gnoth, Joseph Llewellyn, and Tonga Karena!

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · 25d

It's a genocide and we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to stop it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · 25d

This. www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/the-...

The dam of Gaza genocide denial has broken

A hard-hitting analysis by genocide scholar Martin Shaw of how politicians and the media long denied there was a genocide…

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Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social · Aug 21

An Otago Student General Meeting just passed a BDS motion 200 Ayes to a single Nay! This after executive council voted to disregard a BDS referendum. The hero of the day Politics Rep Jett Groshinski who called the meeting in defiance of exec. Hats off to Otago Students for Justice in Palestine.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is a really difficult read by Ruwaida Amer in Gaza. I just can't anymore with the barbaric Israeli state.

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We are starving

My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · Jun 19

This is a brilliant analysis of what's going on in the Middle East right now and how to understand it in historical context. www.securityincontext.org/posts/wester...

Western governments are lying to their people about Israel’s attack on Iran. This is a war to ‘remake’ the Middle East

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · May 29

Excited to see a major article from my doctoral research, Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand, out at Social Movement Studies (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand

The Extinction Rebellion (XR) model, including three demands and a disruptive theory of change, were transferred from the imperial center of the United Kingdom to Aotearoa. Initially activists assu...

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · May 27

One day, let's hope they face prosecution in court for providing material support for genocide.

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · May 22

If you ever wondered what you would do during a genocide, you're doing it now.

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · May 22

It's a genocide. www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

Even Once Reluctant Scholars Now Agree on Israel's Gaza Assault: It's a Genocide | Common Dreams

Is Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza? Leading international experts say yes, with the majority of their peers in academia concurring. The debate is shifting as the death toll ris...

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · May 12

The Otago Declaration on Palestine. asiapacificreport.nz/2025/05/12/o...

Otago academics plan declaration on Palestine to ‘face daily horrors’ | Asia Pacific Report

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Rania @umyaznemo.bsky.social · May 11

Being pro humanity is being pro Palestine!

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · May 5

Otago alumni may want to sign this Declaration on the Situation in Palestine: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

THE OTAGO DECLARATION ON THE SITUATION IN PALESTINE

THE OTAGO DECLARATION ON THE SITUATION IN PALESTINE We, the staff, students and graduates, being members of the University of Otago, make the following declaration. We fully and completely recogniz...

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · Apr 9

Words from @theimeu:

Today marks 77 years since the massacre of Deir Yassin, an atrocity that came to define the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 to establish the state of Israel on stolen Palestinian land.

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · Mar 26

One of the hardest things about watching the Palestinian genocide is the certain knowledge that one day, when the weight of evidence silences all denial, and when it's no longer risky to say it aloud, everyone will exclaim how terrible it was and how they were always against it.

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Mar 19

In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players.

Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue.

Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians.

New column 👇

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Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up | Owen Jones

No crime in history has been so well documented by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship reign, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · Jan 26

Yet another detailed report documenting Israel's genocide in Gaza. One day justice will come. www.alhaq.org/publications...

Al-Haq Publishes New Report: “The Systematic Destruction of Gaza’s Healthcare System: A Pattern of Genocide”

After 15 months of continuing genocide against the Palestinian people, Al-Haq releases a new report: &ldquo;The Systematic Destruction of Gaza&rsquo;s Healthcare System: A Pattern of Genocide&...

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · Jan 2

This is why 'institutional neutrality' is wrong.

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · Dec 29

There's no point to the war, just mass killing of Palestinians. Israeli society is morally bankrupt. www.democracynow.org/2024/12/27/l...

Gideon Levy on Israel’s “Moral Blindness”: Gaza Babies Freeze; Strikes Kill Medical Workers, Reporters

In northern Gaza, the director of the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital says five medical workers were among 50 people killed in Israeli strikes near the hospital. Israeli forces then stormed the hospital...

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · Dec 16

The impossibility of establishing a settler colonial state today. aje.io/scob5c

Genocide Israel is living in the past

A state founded on apartheid and settler colonialism is no longer viable.

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · Dec 14

Merry Christmas from Gaza.

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · Dec 12

Great to see this. BDS is working. We need to keep going. It may be the only thing that will stop the genocide, end the ethnic cleansing, stop the land grab and end the apartheid in Israel.

Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · Dec 11

From the BDS National Committee (@bdsmovement.bsky.social), a look back at some of the achievements of worldwide organizing for boycott, divestment & sanctions in the second half of 2024

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A collage of headlines and graphics (clockwise from L to R):
BDS is working! McDonald's reports a global drop in sales for the first time in over three years! McDonald's Israel provided free meals for Israel's forces during #GazaGenocide. New victory: Carrefour closes all branches in Jordan due to BDS pressure. Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Arundhati Roy call for boycott of Israeli cultural institutions – 5,000 more writers have joined the boycott of complicit Israeli cultural institutions. BDS Block the Boat: End maritime arms transfer to Israel [image of a woman in a keffiyyeh holding a Palestinian flag with her foot raised on a tanker, stoping it in its path]. Chevron halts major expansion of Israeli-claimed gas field amid Israel's ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and its brutal bombinbs in Lebanon, Syria and beyond. Puma no longer sponsors the Israel Football Association. BDS works! UK's biggest private pension fund dumps $100 million of Israeli assets, including Israel Bonds. United Chruch of Canada adopts BDS strategies, recognizes and rejects Israeli apartheid. At center an image of a red arrow charting a downward trend, with quotation from Calcalist: "BDS and boycotts have changed Israel's global trade landscape"

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · Dec 11

From the BDS National Committee (@bdsmovement.bsky.social), a look back at some of the achievements of worldwide organizing for boycott, divestment & sanctions in the second half of 2024

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · Dec 10

Today, I am ashamed of the University of Otago. At the university council meeting they refused to adopt a motion to disclose and divest from Israel and its genocide. More than a year of genocide and they haven't said anything or done anything. So much for its values. Shame.

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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · Dec 9

The special issue's final piece, by @michaellister.bsky.social & me, asks what happens to critical security thinking when its ideas and arguments achieve (or appear to achieve) wider currency: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread, 11/12)

Critical security research and the war on terror: From the margins to the mainstream? | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core

Critical security research and the war on terror: From the margins to the mainstream?

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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · Dec 9

This article by @andrewfutter.bsky.social & Benjamin Zala focuses on the return of nuclear great power politics including in the Euro-Atlantic, Western Pacific, & Global South: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread, 10/12)

The return of nuclear great power politics (or why we stopped worrying about terrorists and the bomb) | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core

The return of nuclear great power politics (or why we stopped worrying about terrorists and the bomb)

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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · Dec 9

Our next article by @mattuq.bsky.social contrasts the treatment of terrorism and climate change by Western states. In it, he highlights the vast disconnect between the harm each issue causes, & their prominence within contemporary security imaginaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread 9/12)

Emergency measures? Terrorism and climate change on the security agenda | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core

Emergency measures? Terrorism and climate change on the security agenda

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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · Dec 9

Priya Dixit's article then draws on anarchist and abolitionist thinking to explore the war on terror's potential futures through examples from the United States and Nepal: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread 8/12)

Towards anarchist abolitionist futures for violence prevention: Beyond ‘counterterrorism’ | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core

Towards anarchist abolitionist futures for violence prevention: Beyond ‘counterterrorism’

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