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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · 5h

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As the first steps appear to be underway to end the war in Gaza, those in Dunedin supporting a just peace are clear what needs to happen. Tom...

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 21d

UN Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

We welcome this report and call for an immediate escalation in pressure on states to impose sanctions on Israel now. Join our #DisruptComplicity Global Weekend of Action, 18 - 21 September.

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Global Society @globalsociety.bsky.social · 21d

The introduction for this special issue was written by @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social, Griffin Leonard, Aidan Gnoth, Joseph Llewellyn, and Tonga Karena!

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · 22d

It's a genocide and we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to stop it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · 23d

This. www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/the-...

The dam of Gaza genocide denial has broken

A hard-hitting analysis by genocide scholar Martin Shaw of how politicians and the media long denied there was a genocide…

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Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social · Aug 21

An Otago Student General Meeting just passed a BDS motion 200 Ayes to a single Nay! This after executive council voted to disregard a BDS referendum. The hero of the day Politics Rep Jett Groshinski who called the meeting in defiance of exec. Hats off to Otago Students for Justice in Palestine.

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · Jul 28

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · Jul 22

"We rarely leave the house anymore, afraid our legs might give out. It already happened to my sister: while searching on the streets for something, anything, to feed her children, she suddenly collapsed to the ground."

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is a really difficult read by Ruwaida Amer in Gaza. I just can't anymore with the barbaric Israeli state.

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We are starving

My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · Jun 19

This is a brilliant analysis of what's going on in the Middle East right now and how to understand it in historical context. www.securityincontext.org/posts/wester...

Western governments are lying to their people about Israel’s attack on Iran. This is a war to ‘remake’ the Middle East

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · May 29

Excited to see a major article from my doctoral research, Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand, out at Social Movement Studies (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand

The Extinction Rebellion (XR) model, including three demands and a disruptive theory of change, were transferred from the imperial center of the United Kingdom to Aotearoa. Initially activists assu...

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · May 27

One day, let's hope they face prosecution in court for providing material support for genocide.

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · May 22

If you ever wondered what you would do during a genocide, you're doing it now.

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · May 22

It's a genocide. www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

Even Once Reluctant Scholars Now Agree on Israel's Gaza Assault: It's a Genocide | Common Dreams

Is Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza? Leading international experts say yes, with the majority of their peers in academia concurring. The debate is shifting as the death toll ris...

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · May 12

The Otago Declaration on Palestine. asiapacificreport.nz/2025/05/12/o...

Otago academics plan declaration on Palestine to ‘face daily horrors’ | Asia Pacific Report

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Rania @umyaznemo.bsky.social · May 11

Being pro humanity is being pro Palestine!

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Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social · May 5

Otago alumni may want to sign this Declaration on the Situation in Palestine: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

THE OTAGO DECLARATION ON THE SITUATION IN PALESTINE

THE OTAGO DECLARATION ON THE SITUATION IN PALESTINE We, the staff, students and graduates, being members of the University of Otago, make the following declaration. We fully and completely recogniz...

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · Apr 9

Words from @theimeu:

Today marks 77 years since the massacre of Deir Yassin, an atrocity that came to define the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 to establish the state of Israel on stolen Palestinian land.

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · Apr 9

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Richard Jackson @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social · Mar 26

One of the hardest things about watching the Palestinian genocide is the certain knowledge that one day, when the weight of evidence silences all denial, and when it's no longer risky to say it aloud, everyone will exclaim how terrible it was and how they were always against it.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Mar 19

In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players.

Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue.

Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians.

New column 👇

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