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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 4h

There's every reason in the world to be wary of what's coming next, but we can still be happy for the children of Gaza and the hostages' families.

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 5h

Ironically María Corina Machado likes Donald Trump. She said the path for Venezuela to follow has been laid out by the Trump administration and has called for Trump to intervene militarily in Venezuela

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 5h

Hoping these papers will be published somewhere so we can teach them

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Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social · 5h

Happy to be back at Warwick with wonderful people today! 🌱

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 7h

Received via WhatsApp. Remarkably accurate

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 7h

I mean remarkably shit. I listen once in a while just to know what the centrist discourse is but afterwards i feel I need an exorcism or something

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 7h

Episode also spent a lot of time bigging up Trump, speaking approvingly of the Peace Board. Not even a moment's question of why aren't the Palestinians allowed to govern themselves? But it's a good way to know centrist thinking is news agents

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 7h

Very odd analysis by @maitlis.bsky.social on news agents that Trump made Hamas capitulate and this helped Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire. Does she not remember that several months ago Hamas had agreed and Israel responded by attacking Iran?

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 8h

"It has been two years since Yehuda Cohen's youngest boy Nimrod was captured by Hamas militants. Even on the eve of a ceasefire and the return of the hostages, he writes, Israel must change and recognise a state of Palestine - and Netanyahu must be held accountable - so that we may say: never again"

The Independent @the-independent.com · 8h

VOICES | My hostage son is coming home - here’s why I want Netanyahu gone

My hostage son is coming home - here’s why I want Netanyahu gone

www.independent.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 8h

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 17h

Clapped when I got to this

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Jack McGovan @jackmcgovan.bsky.social · 1d

With Jane Goodall's death last week and the Nobel Prize announcements this week, I wrote about why it's a big problem that we lionise individuals for achievements that resulted from the work of collective groups of people.

We spend too much time lionising people like Jane Goodall

Idolising people only entrenches the idea that it is spectacular individuals, not collectives, who change the world.

www.sower.world

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

I know Jane Goodall was revered by many in the environment movement, but it is pretty clear that she also harboured many seriously problematic colonial attitudes.

The 'overpopulation' stuff in particular was pretty bad, and as a concept the conduit of plenty of serious wrongdoing over the years

Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 2d

This is from a very prominent conservationist from Kenya

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Zuri Linetsky @zurilinetsky.bsky.social · 1d

@danaelkurd.bsky.social writes the peace deal is "asymmetric, providing the Israeli government many of its political objectives while imposing multiple layers of international control on and vague assurances to the Palestinian people – and only if they comply."

theconversation.com/gaza-peace-p...

Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland

The former British leader was tapped to lead redevelopment efforts in Gaza if a deal is agreed upon.

theconversation.com

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to being part of this event at the Susanna Wesley Foundation: susannawesleyfoundation.org/challenging-...

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Joel Pierce @joelpierce.bsky.social · 1d

This is really heartbreaking. I expect better of Scotland. No one should feel unsafe or threatened in their place of worship.

'Deep hurt' as urine and faeces 'desecrate' Dundee mosque

Several windows were broken and urine and faeces were left in the building during the incident, which left the local Muslim community 'deeply…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 1d

Mhhhmmm

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 1d

My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east

theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...

Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland

The former British leader was tapped to lead redevelopment efforts in Gaza if a deal is agreed upon.

theconversation.com

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 1d

If India wants to be a developed country by 2047, it should stop investing in coal and throw the kitchen sink at renewables. Otherwise the effects of global warming will be so catastrophic that there won't be much of a country to develop

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

India wants to be a developed country by 2047, the 100th anniversary of its independence from Britain. But what does that actually mean? I have a go at crunching the numbers.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth

The prime minister wants a $10trn economy by 2047. He should be bolder

www.economist.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

The discourse in the West for the next few days will be e.g. "for all the caveats, let's just be relieved". And no, let's not. That's a feeling for Palestinians, not us.

Palestinians are human beings who deserve much better than the choice we've given them between genocide or colonial subjugation

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

We will also hear a lot about Washington's "diplomatic achievement", a travesty of a framing. The US could have pulled the plug on Israel's genocide at any point over the past two years, and chose not to. The basis of a ceasefire has long been there, but Israel and its allies weren't interested.

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Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 1d

Radio this morning was just a list of some of the worst people on earth - Erdogan, Modi - congratulating Trump for all his work

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

We will also hear a lot about Washington's "diplomatic achievement", a travesty of a framing. The US could have pulled the plug on Israel's genocide at any point over the past two years, and chose not to. The basis of a ceasefire has long been there, but Israel and its allies weren't interested.

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Dunne, Emily Grabham and I have edited a special section of feminists@law on the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland. You can find our editorial about this below. The special section has some brilliant critical and feminist takes on the decision journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...

How can critical and feminist scholars respond to the decision in 'For Women Scotland'? | feminists@law

journals.kent.ac.uk

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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight at 5pm UK time!

The launch of "Essays on Decoloniality: Volume 2" by Anthony Neal, Simon Buck, Asha Varadharajan, Erika De Vivo and more.

Free tickets: essaysondecolonialityvol2.eventbrite.co.uk (online only)

The eBook is available free here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Book Launch: "Essays on Decoloniality: Volume 2"

Join us for a celebration of our latest book, "Essays on Decoloniality: Volume 2", emerging from the Institute Project on Decoloniality.

essaysondecolonialityvol2.eventbrite.co.uk

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

This is the point. There is no horizon for the Palestinians whatsoever in the "Trump plan", and no reliable, long-term commitment from the White House to restrain the genocidal regime. The new "peace" consists of far worse conditions than those that led to the events of the last two years.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 1d

Make no mistake. Those who spearheaded the Gaza genocide will try to relaunch it in a more ruthless manner, at the earliest opportunity.
They will fail only if there will be an alternative vision, one of recognition, life and equality for everyone.

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