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LEX Network @lexnetwork.bsky.social · 5d

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Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸 @tanyaserisier.bsky.social · 12d

Full solidarity to @leicesterucu.bsky.social fighting horrendous cuts and a vicious punitive management.

Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 13d

Day 2 - more sunshine and happy faces on the pickets!

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Arvindjadwa @arvindjadwa.bsky.social · Sep 3

From Spain to Palestine

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · Aug 16

This is a very useful read BUT I am still stunned that the press feels no need to ask Palestinian legal scholars this question

Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · Aug 16

"As of February 2025, the only reasonable inference from the cumulative evidence is that Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide." - @itamann.bsky.social

Eleven international law experts were asked: is there genocide in Gaza. Nine said yes. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...

International Law Experts: Genocide in Gaza?

Does Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitute genocide? LTO asked eleven international law experts. After 22 months of war, a clear tendency is emerging.

www.lto.de

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · Aug 8

Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections

Flora Renz · Law’s searching for biological truth: For Women Scotland and the UK Supreme Court (2025)

www.radicalphilosophy.com

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Aug 6

BREAKING

Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors.

This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent.

www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!

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Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸 @tanyaserisier.bsky.social · Aug 6

Very happy to be a signatory to this important open letter. There is a sign up link at the end of the article.

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

‘We support Palestine Action in Their Campaign Against Proscription’

As scholars dedicated to questions of justice and ethics, we are astonished and dismayed by the current priorities of Keir Starmer and his ministers. On the one hand they continue to offer material, m...

www.versobooks.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Jul 26

Former senior UN relief official Jan Eliasson has dismissed these air drops as an "ineffective sideshow". But of course, they're not aimed at stopping the genocide. Nothing Starmer does is aimed at stopping the genocide. Its aimed at managing the domestic politics of his complicity in the genocide.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 26

Starmer says plan to airdrop Gaza aid and evacuate ill children will go ahead

Leaders of UK, France and Germany call for lifting of aid restrictions and immediate ceasefire after holding talks * Israel-Gaza war live – latest updates Keir Starmer has confirmed the government will be “taking forward” plans to airdrop aid into Gaza and evacuate children who need medical assistance in an effort to relieve what Downing Street called an appalling situation. Speaking to the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Saturday morning, the prime minister outlined the UK’s intentions to work with Jordan to carry out the plans. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · Jul 21

a rough translation of the final sentence: “Since AFP was founded in August 1944 we’ve lost journalists in conflicts, and have had wounded and imprisoned co-workers, but none of us have any memory of having to watch a colleague die of hunger.”

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
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L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Jul 16

Ultimately, what is really being policed here is opposition to British foreign policy. This is political policing which will function to intimidate into silence people whose opposition to government policy is expressed in the same terms as are used by leading, mainstream civil society organisations.

madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Jul 15

Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · Jul 15

I honestly do not understand how you are able to ban the spreading of gender stereotypes if you are also to ban any encouragement for children to question gender.

None of this shit has been thought through coherently beyond a desperate desire to harm trans kids and people who support them.

Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · Jul 15

Clause 72 in particular is functionally identical to Clause 28 of the Local Government Act in 1988:

"[S]chools... should avoid materials that... could be interpreted as being aimed at younger children, or that... encourage pupils to question their gender."

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Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸 @tanyaserisier.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our union on the authoritarian attacks on Palestine solidarity action.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1410...

UCU statement: Stop authoritarian attacks on the Palestine movement

www.ucu.org.uk

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jul 10

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 5

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

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Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸 @tanyaserisier.bsky.social · Jul 1

This Friday morning at Birkbeck, a public lecture by transformative education organisation Makan on pinkwashing, gender and sexuality in Palestine. Come along!

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Public Lecture: Pinkwashing, Gender and Sexuality

A public lecture contextualising 'pinkwashing' as a conflation of queerness and nationalist ideology.

www.bbk.ac.uk

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Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸 @tanyaserisier.bsky.social · Jun 25

*Urgent action for academics and trade unionists - sign this letter opposing the ban on Palestine Action* The government's plan to extend terrorism laws by banning Palestine Action is a grave threat to civil liberties and freedom of expression. tinyurl.com/PalActionlet...

Defend the right to protest: no ban on Palestine Action - open letter

FAO: The Secretary of State for the Home Department, The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP Re: Planned UK Government proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 We the undersigned, including e...

tinyurl.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jun 24

On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.

Well said.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jun 23

Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵

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Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸 @tanyaserisier.bsky.social · Jun 19

'To labour in the university today is to work in the midst of violence – not only the overt violences of war, genocide, and occupation, but also the slow, cumulative violences of exploitation, extraction, and institutional capture.' Reflections on fugitive labour in @flsjournal.bsky.social

Reflections on Fugitive Practices in the University: Labouring in the Wake of Violence - Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Legal Studies -

link.springer.com

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jun 11

We feed you.
They hunt us.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksay2.substack.com · Jun 9

No state has the right to block, attack, or harm passengers aboard an aid ship carrying vital humanitarian supplies—baby formula, rice, diapers, water kits, medical equipment, prosthetics. Doing so would constitute a war crime, one of many already committed by the state in question.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · Jun 9

I'm just a simple country conflict tracker but someone once told me attacking a neutral flagged civilian vessel in international waters was a grave crime against the international community that only Iran-backed Houthi terrorists would stoop to

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Jun 2

Matthew Miller was an active part of the genocide in Gaza. This is not an exaggeration.

He stood there day in and day out telling journalists citing journalists and human rights reports about Israeli war crimes and he denied them time after time after time.

news.sky.com/story/former...

Former Biden official Matthew Miller Israel has 'without doubt' committed war crimes in Gaza

In a wide-ranging interview for Sky News' Trump 100 podcast, Matthew Miller also said if he was "outside of government" he would have preferred a "better candidate" for the 2024 presidential election ...

news.sky.com

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