Sharae Deckard
@sharaerua.bsky.social
UCD English. Marxist lit crit, postcolonial & world lit, env hums, world-ecology, sf/f, gothic, weird. Singer, gamer, addicted to open world RPGs, feminist, CC and still masking, immunosuppressed w/RA, cat-guardian. Saoirse Palestine!
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Sharae Deckard
@sharaerua.bsky.social
· Sep 18
EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – Uppsala Declaration
uppsaladeclaration.se
Please sign! "No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Faculty and staff in European higher education and research call on our academic leaders to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions"
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Today at 1 PM outside Tierney by the lake! UCD Standout for Palestine!
TOMORROW: UCD Stand Out for Palestine as part of ICTU's National Day of Workplace Actions in solidarity with Palestine! UCD Justice for Palestine and student organisers from BDS, SNF and SU ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM, Fri 28 Nov.
November 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Today at 1 PM outside Tierney by the lake! UCD Standout for Palestine!
TOMORROW: UCD Stand Out for Palestine as part of ICTU's National Day of Workplace Actions in solidarity with Palestine! UCD Justice for Palestine and student organisers from BDS, SNF and SU ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM, Fri 28 Nov.
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
TOMORROW: UCD Stand Out for Palestine as part of ICTU's National Day of Workplace Actions in solidarity with Palestine! UCD Justice for Palestine and student organisers from BDS, SNF and SU ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM, Fri 28 Nov.
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Congratulations to Dr. Clare Kelly @clarenicheall.bsky.social l who passed her viva yesterday, defending her thesis on "Orality and Authorship: African Storyteller-Authors in the Literary Marketplace" with poise and articulacy. It was a pleasure to read and examine her work alongside Madhu Krishnan!
October 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Congratulations to Dr. Clare Kelly @clarenicheall.bsky.social l who passed her viva yesterday, defending her thesis on "Orality and Authorship: African Storyteller-Authors in the Literary Marketplace" with poise and articulacy. It was a pleasure to read and examine her work alongside Madhu Krishnan!
TOMORROW: UCD Walk Out for Gaza, Thurs 16 Oct! UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM and help gear up for a renewed campaign for full boycott of Israeli universities and research partnerships #standoutforgaza1610
October 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
TOMORROW: UCD Walk Out for Gaza, Thurs 16 Oct! UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM and help gear up for a renewed campaign for full boycott of Israeli universities and research partnerships #standoutforgaza1610
Congratulations Dr. Deborah Schrijvers who passed her viva with flying colours on Monday with her thesis on "Against Imperial Extinction Narratives", and many thanks to her examiners Robert McKay and Patrick Brodie, and chair Niamh Pattwell! w/ @marthashearer.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Congratulations Dr. Deborah Schrijvers who passed her viva with flying colours on Monday with her thesis on "Against Imperial Extinction Narratives", and many thanks to her examiners Robert McKay and Patrick Brodie, and chair Niamh Pattwell! w/ @marthashearer.bsky.social
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If you can, please read Naoise Dolan writing about her treatment after being illegally abducted by Israel from the Thousand Madleens flotilla. It's pretty chilling, and it's a drop in the ocean compared to what they subject Palestinians to.
#spéirgorm
#spéirgorm
What happened, in brief
That time Israel kidnapped me
naoise.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If you can, please read Naoise Dolan writing about her treatment after being illegally abducted by Israel from the Thousand Madleens flotilla. It's pretty chilling, and it's a drop in the ocean compared to what they subject Palestinians to.
#spéirgorm
#spéirgorm
UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the national Workplace Standout for Gaza on 16th Oct at 1 PM. Walk outside your workplace with a sign or flag, and if you can, join the rally organised by UCD students in front of Newman Arts at 1 PM.
October 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the national Workplace Standout for Gaza on 16th Oct at 1 PM. Walk outside your workplace with a sign or flag, and if you can, join the rally organised by UCD students in front of Newman Arts at 1 PM.
If any folks from UCD would like to march together at this Saturday's big national demonstration, please join UCD Justice for Palestine (I'll be holding a sign) at 12:15 outside of the Hugh Lane Gallery. It would be great to meet other folks and share in solidarity!
October 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
If any folks from UCD would like to march together at this Saturday's big national demonstration, please join UCD Justice for Palestine (I'll be holding a sign) at 12:15 outside of the Hugh Lane Gallery. It would be great to meet other folks and share in solidarity!
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Eyes on Gaza where apartheid Israel is carpet bombing and now threatening with mass murder the people in Gaza City. This must end. #GazaGenocide
Israeli Defense Minister: Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...
Israeli Defense Minister: Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...
Israeli Defense Minister says half a million Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate
With at least half a million people still left in Gaza City, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a “final warning” for residents to evacuate, saying those who remain will be regarded as “terro...
mondoweiss.net
October 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Eyes on Gaza where apartheid Israel is carpet bombing and now threatening with mass murder the people in Gaza City. This must end. #GazaGenocide
Israeli Defense Minister: Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...
Israeli Defense Minister: Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...
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There are emergency protests in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla called around the country tomorrow, keep an eye on social media. This is at the Dáil, 12.30pm. #LiftTheSiege #GazaGenocide
October 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
There are emergency protests in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla called around the country tomorrow, keep an eye on social media. This is at the Dáil, 12.30pm. #LiftTheSiege #GazaGenocide
Ships in the Global Sumud flotilla are being intercepted, including the Spectre. Irish-resident friends, please call and email Simon Harris now to condemn Israel's illegal abduction of peaceful citizens and demand safety for all aboard the flotilla:
Phone: 016194000
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 016194000
Email: [email protected]
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Ships in the Global Sumud flotilla are being intercepted, including the Spectre. Irish-resident friends, please call and email Simon Harris now to condemn Israel's illegal abduction of peaceful citizens and demand safety for all aboard the flotilla:
Phone: 016194000
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 016194000
Email: [email protected]
Automated template to email Irish government TDs calling on them to condemn the bombing of the Global Sumud Flotilla and ensure its safe passage to bring aid to Gaza: action.uplift.ie/campaigns/fl...
Flotilla under attack
The Global Sumud Flotilla has been bombed with Irish citizens on board. I have just emailed my TDs calling on them to condemn the bombing of the Global Sumud Flotilla and to ensure the blockade of Gaz...
action.uplift.ie
September 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Automated template to email Irish government TDs calling on them to condemn the bombing of the Global Sumud Flotilla and ensure its safe passage to bring aid to Gaza: action.uplift.ie/campaigns/fl...
The Gaza Aid flotilla organisers say they have "credible intelligence that Israel is likely to escalate violent attacks on the flotilla within the next 48 hours". All eyes on flotilla, all eyes on Gaza!
www.thejournal.ie/gaza-aid-flo...
www.thejournal.ie/gaza-aid-flo...
Gaza flotilla organisers say thay have 'credible intelligence' pointing to more Israeli attacks
The flotilla organisers are set to hold a press conference later today.
www.thejournal.ie
September 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The Gaza Aid flotilla organisers say they have "credible intelligence that Israel is likely to escalate violent attacks on the flotilla within the next 48 hours". All eyes on flotilla, all eyes on Gaza!
www.thejournal.ie/gaza-aid-flo...
www.thejournal.ie/gaza-aid-flo...
"We repeat our demands that UCD end its current partnerships with Israeli universities, commit to refusing any future such partnerships, and to join efforts that seek to exclude Israeli universities from European funding initiatives."
academicsforpalestine.org/2025/09/19/u...
academicsforpalestine.org/2025/09/19/u...
UCD Partnership with Israeli Universities
With the recent UN report on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the expanded invasion of Gaza City, and the renewal of campus activism at UCD, we are publishing a letter written to UCD President Orla…
academicsforpalestine.org
September 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"We repeat our demands that UCD end its current partnerships with Israeli universities, commit to refusing any future such partnerships, and to join efforts that seek to exclude Israeli universities from European funding initiatives."
academicsforpalestine.org/2025/09/19/u...
academicsforpalestine.org/2025/09/19/u...
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“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”
In Defense Of Mass Censorship
When The Onion’s editorial board convened to discuss the tumultuous events of the previous month, one conclusion became evident: The world stands at a crossroads. Two visions of our collective future ...
theonion.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”
Please sign! "No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Faculty and staff in European higher education and research call on our academic leaders to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions"
uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – Uppsala Declaration
uppsaladeclaration.se
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Please sign! "No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Faculty and staff in European higher education and research call on our academic leaders to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions"
uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
Nuanced investigation from Bellingcat confirming that the #globalsumudflotilla was indeed struck by incendiary munitions dropped by drones. Up the flotilla, solidarity with all the courageous folks sailing to break the siege and bring aid to Gaza! #FreePalestine
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
Incendiary Munitions Strike Gaza-bound Flotilla Two Nights in a Row - bellingcat
On September 8 and 9, two vessels of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) were attacked outside the port of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia. Bellingcat analysed footage and images from both incidents. ...
www.bellingcat.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Nuanced investigation from Bellingcat confirming that the #globalsumudflotilla was indeed struck by incendiary munitions dropped by drones. Up the flotilla, solidarity with all the courageous folks sailing to break the siege and bring aid to Gaza! #FreePalestine
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
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Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI
www.irishtimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
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We take the win and we keep pushing, Occupied Territories Bill with services included is next. #StopFundingGenocide
IPSC chair Zoë Lawlor: “today is a huge victory for the people of Ireland who stand resolutely in solidarity with the people of Palestine”.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
IPSC chair Zoë Lawlor: “today is a huge victory for the people of Ireland who stand resolutely in solidarity with the people of Palestine”.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Central Bank of Ireland confirms it will no longer approve sale of Israeli ‘war bonds’
Use of Irish prospectus to market Israel bonds has been hugely controversial
www.irishtimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We take the win and we keep pushing, Occupied Territories Bill with services included is next. #StopFundingGenocide
IPSC chair Zoë Lawlor: “today is a huge victory for the people of Ireland who stand resolutely in solidarity with the people of Palestine”.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
IPSC chair Zoë Lawlor: “today is a huge victory for the people of Ireland who stand resolutely in solidarity with the people of Palestine”.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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Since the genocide began the EU has given Israeli tech start-ups run by ex-IDF soldiers nearly half a billion euros in research grants designed to support civilian projects. Some of this tech has been used in Gaza. Some of the founders have even served in Gaza www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science...
EU Science Grants Are Funding Israeli Military Technology
The EU has given Israeli technology start-ups run by ex-IDF soldiers nearly half a billion euros in research grants since the start of the Gaza genocide.
www.donotpanic.news
August 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Since the genocide began the EU has given Israeli tech start-ups run by ex-IDF soldiers nearly half a billion euros in research grants designed to support civilian projects. Some of this tech has been used in Gaza. Some of the founders have even served in Gaza www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science...
"The vast gap between the calories Gaza needs, and the food that has entered since March makes clear that Israeli officials are doing different maths today. They cannot pass responsibility for this human-made famine to anyone else, and nor can their allies" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"The vast gap between the calories Gaza needs, and the food that has entered since March makes clear that Israeli officials are doing different maths today. They cannot pass responsibility for this human-made famine to anyone else, and nor can their allies" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
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I'm seeing an uptick in journal editors inquiring about @openlibhums.bsky.social and scholar-led, non-profit diamond #OpenAccess as a direct result of the Trump administration's crackdown on EDI and academic freedom. If we want research integrity, we need an independent academic publishing sector.
July 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I'm seeing an uptick in journal editors inquiring about @openlibhums.bsky.social and scholar-led, non-profit diamond #OpenAccess as a direct result of the Trump administration's crackdown on EDI and academic freedom. If we want research integrity, we need an independent academic publishing sector.
'Earlier Jewish leftists built a Jewish left-and a critique of Zionism-out of the terrain autochthonous to the United States: one in which racial oppression, a rapacious bourgeoisie, a bloated military budget...are the norm rather than the exception' portside.org/2025-07-22/l...
The Long Anti-Zionist History of the American Jewish Left
This is an excerpt from Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left by Benjamin Balthaser, out this week with Verso Books. === As historian Karen Brodkin tel...
portside.org
July 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
'Earlier Jewish leftists built a Jewish left-and a critique of Zionism-out of the terrain autochthonous to the United States: one in which racial oppression, a rapacious bourgeoisie, a bloated military budget...are the norm rather than the exception' portside.org/2025-07-22/l...