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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 14d

🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉

'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎

Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 22d

With thanks to/via @kkvignarca.bsky.social !

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 22d

And for our Italian-speaking friends! www.vignarca.net/2025/09/lett...

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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 22d

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This letter, out today, has been endorsed by a number of experts listed by the Forum on the Arms Trade. The Forum itself does not take positions. Partial list of endorsers includes:

Statement in Support of Francesca Albanese - Shadow World Investigations

16 September 2025. Over twenty of the world’s leading arms trade experts have issued a statement in support of UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, and specifically her recent report to the Unit...

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 29d

Hundreds and hundreds of protesters at the DSEI arms fair today, of all ages, races, genders and faiths, making their presence felt as the suited and booted, mostly male, mostly white delegates went for their big jolly - www.middleeasteye.net/news/protest...

Thousands protest against presence of Israeli companies at London arms fair

Several activists, calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza, received medical treatment amid police clashes at the DSEI event

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Netpol @netpol.org · Sep 1

Police have charged a further 46 more people with supporting the banned campaign group Palestine Action, bringing the total facing prosecution related to protests in London to 114.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Sep 1

Centrism isn't an obstacle to fascism or a bulwark against it. It's a welcome mat.

There's no point telling people "It's Starmer or Farage" when the dynamic at work here is plainly Starmer *and* Farage.

"Labour or Reform" makes as much sense at this point as "Vichy or the Third Reich".

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Sep 1

“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · Sep 1

Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities

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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEW: The world’s largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide just voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

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Leading genocide scholars organization says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide says that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · Sep 1

This made my day today.

Police pulled over a dalek outside DSEI, London's arms fair, scanned the QR code on its lanyard and were taken to my fake Royal Navy recruitment website - royalnavy.org.uk

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · Aug 30

Excellent short read - especially pertinent as flags are going up in Brighton and, crucially, being taken down again by anti-fascists

Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · Aug 30

While there can be no complacency in countering fascists on the streets, concerns about the far right must also be concerns about the role of mainstream politicians and media in shaping the reactionary agenda

aurelmondon.medium.com/the-people-l...

‘The people’, ‘legitimate concerns’ and the far-right ‘protests’

Our understanding of the world, beyond the most direct elements in our personal life, is always mediated. In today’s information landscape…

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · Aug 30

Saturday afternoon be like 💪

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Netpol @netpol.org · Aug 29

Huge victory for public pressure on the British government as genocidal rogue state Israel pulls out in a huff from the DSEI arms fair. Campaigners that Netpol is speaking to say the next step is to close the entire event down with a blockade on 9 September www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Israel says it won’t participate in upcoming UK weapons show after Defense Ministry officials barred from taking part

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www.timesofisrael.com

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · Aug 29

Classic UK govt move: there is a useful fiction of the separation between arms companies and governments. So the UK gets to look like it did something good while materially enabling the bad stuff to happen and letting the Israeli govt cry wolf about how badly it’s treated.

Lordy @lordey.bsky.social · Aug 29

Starmer's government bans Israeli officials but not Israeli arms companies. Says it all about Starmer.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 29

UK government says Israel’s decision to escalate war on Gaza ‘wrong’ as Israel decries ‘discrimination’.

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Lordy @lordey.bsky.social · Aug 29

Starmer's government bans Israeli officials but not Israeli arms companies. Says it all about Starmer.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 29

UK government says Israel’s decision to escalate war on Gaza ‘wrong’ as Israel decries ‘discrimination’.

UK bans Israeli officials from major arms exhibition

UK government says Israel’s decision to escalate war on Gaza ‘wrong’ as Israel decries ‘discrimination’.

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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · Aug 28

3/ Poland notification is labeled as F-35. And the UK Globemaster notification comes after the courts there ruled to allow it to continue to provide parts into the F-35 pool (see @annastavrianakis.bsky.social for some background
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) Might there be a connection?

When ‘Peace and Security’ Means Arming Genocide

On 30 June 2025, the High Court refused a judicial review of UK arms export policy towards Israel. This article examines the government's claims in the case and the judges’ ruling, arguing that the l...

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Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social · Aug 23

This is the even darker dimension to Russia's pro-natalism push, including paying schoolgirls to have babies. Putin's Russia is obsessed with demographics and the composition of Russia's population. This demonstrates an intense focus on preventing Ukrainian society from growing.

Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ask yourself: What kind of state bombs maternity wards 81 times?

Answer honestly and you’ll understand what russia is.

Visualization by @thestudyofwar.bsky.social

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · Aug 21

I wrote a short, open-access account of how the High Court ended up accepting the UK govt's argument that protecting "international peace and security" means arming genocide in Palestine: please read and share - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When ‘Peace and Security’ Means Arming Genocide

On 30 June 2025, the High Court refused a judicial review of UK arms export policy towards Israel. This article examines the government's claims in the case and the judges’ ruling, arguing that the l...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excellent taster of their new book - thank you Rafeef, Adam and Robert! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Resisting Erasure w/ Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah and Robert Knox

Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 20/08/2025 · 1h 19m

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Aug 18

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

Headline: BBC under pressure to pull Sally Rooney dramas over vow to fund Palestine Action

Headline: Tory minister Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief at far right protest.

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · Aug 15

The three best ideas I’ve had for how to organise my book have come when I’m 1) not sitting at the computer and 2) physically moving. Apparently the body isn’t just a receptacle for the brain.

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Revoltinghippie @revoltinghippie.bsky.social · Jul 22

Greek people blocking Israelis from leaving a cruise ship in Syros, Greece.
People support Palestine governments support genocide

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Netpol @netpol.org · Jul 5

We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".

And so it begins.

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · Jun 30

OK @pcsunion.bsky.social members in the Home Office, let's go! "Are they really going to prosecute as terrorists everyone who expresses support for Palestine Action’s work to disrupt the flow of arms to Israel as it commits war crimes?" Time to get organised! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Home Office staff concerned about ‘absurd’ Palestine Action ban, says senior civil servant

Anonymous source describes ‘tense atmosphere’ after Yvette Cooper announced plans to proscribe protest group

www.theguardian.com

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · Jun 30

not so fast, Yvette - palestineaction.org/urgent-heari...

High Court grants urgent hearing for Palestine Action legal challenge to threatened proscription

The High Court has granted an urgent hearing for Palestine Action’s legal challenge to threatened proscription. In a hearing which has just concluded at the Royal Courts of Justice, Mr […]

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · Jun 30

My students would get a “see me - your concepts are muddled, your evidence doesn’t stand up and your reasoning is faulty”

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