Israel has assassinated almost 270 Palestinian journalists.

This is aimed at suppressing coverage of its livestreamed genocide and creating a media blackout ahead of its plan to commit further atrocities. Take action now.

Read more: loom.ly/A8L7S08

As it happens, I only get to read more expansively/deeply during the summer/buyout, so late to this excellent contribution to theorising peace by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social
& @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - timely, thinking of all possible states of "war" right now. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you so much Jana! :)

Join us this Thursday as my co-editor @ebstavrevska.bsky.social & I chat with four of our 9 contributors to the SI. Joining us this time are Mahdis Azarmandi, Garrett FitzGerrald, Yasin Sunca, & Isabela Munoz Gomez

Thank you, Vjosa! 🫰🏼

Re-reading this fantastic special issue edited by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & @ebstavrevska.bsky.social - "Peace in plural: towards decolonial and feminist approaches to peace" - packed with knowledge, courage and timely critique on peace vs. war dichotomies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

He then bragged about their “shared ideas and perspectives” on X. Both the media in Innsbruck and Tirol, as well as the University of Innsbruck are very quiet about all this

The video of 🇮🇱 envoy to 🇦🇹 during a meeting in Innsbruck was shared by media www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli.... That same individual also met with the highest representatives of the University of Innsbruck & the so called Austria-Israel Academic Network Innsbruck.

In times of siege, we have no alternative but to besiege the state of siege in the hope to open new horizons for us and others.

—Mahmoud Darwish

Submission to the colonial logic that vilifies the violence of the oppressed & turns a blind eye to the oppressor’s violence became the price of admission.

The above thought by Mohammed El-Kurd is an indictment of our (academics) refusal to confront our complicity in upholding colonial difference.

New UN report shows "Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence ... and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Nothing humbles me more than Bulgarian split squats

Full support for @filipejdus.bsky.social ! Attacks against him are part of an attempt to discredit critical voices in Serbia.
ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/02/cond...

All around us institutions built on/sustained by our own labour are hollowed out by a lethal mix of mismanagement, moral decrepitude, and political inertia. No time to sit silent—Organise and mobilise whenever/wherever you can.

International Studies people, please sign & share this open letter in support of our colleague:
docs.google.com/forms/d/1P3U...

What's happening at the International Studies Association (ISA)? A whole catalogue of censorship & punitive actions against sections & caucuses by the ISA leadership is silencing democratic discussion, especially among Global South & marginalised members.. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...

A statement of solidarity with student protests in Serbia, from all of us in the Yugoslawomen+ Collective. ✊

We have also made a list of suggestions for those in diaspora who want to support the protests.

#SerbiaProtests

tinyurl.com/4macbrsd

I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent.

-- Antonio Gramsci (born 22.01.1891)

Thousands of people gathered today in #Belgrade to demand accountability from the Vučić regime for the 15 lives lost in Novi Sad, in what appeared to be yet another corruption scandal. The protests are led by university students.

More here: apnews.com/article/serb...

Great to see this #CallforPapers on Gaza, genocide and sociology from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social go live - responding to our manifesto call to challenge injustice and envision alternative futures - with thanks to all those involved in making this happen thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Some of the ideas were first put on paper back in 2019, so it has been many years in the making. In navigating a pandemic, precarity, & life during multiple genocides, all the brilliant contributors, @sladjanalazic.bsky.social & I have brought a lot of love and hope in creating this collective space