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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · 22d

Hard not to feel you’re going insane watching confirmation after confirmation of an ongoing genocide

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · 24d

Shameful!

Complaint letter emerges after Melbourne hospital’s decision to cancel ‘children and war’ panel angers staff

Exclusive: Letter to CEO argued event would pose a risk of ‘moral injury, vicarious trauma and harmful workplace behaviours’ to staff and patients

www.theguardian.com

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Imogen Richards @imogenrichards.bsky.social · 28d

Excited to share that a new book I was fortunate to edit is now online! 📚 shorturl.at/LaKw7

'The Far Right and the Media' examines cases of reporting on the FR across Spain, Portugal, the US, UK, Aotearoa NZ, Israel & Australia.

A preprint of the introduction is available here: shorturl.at/Rui7S

(PDF) Introduction: Media, democracy, and the global rise of the far right

PDF | This introductory chapter establishes a theoretical and conceptual foundation for analysing far-right media representations across the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Resea...

shorturl.at

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is why we march

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

'Starvation is everywhere': Virtual tours of Gaza clinics expose the scale of the horror

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www.haaretz.com

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Aug 20

Unimelb to Latrobe: hold my beer!

www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

‘Operating like Big Brother’: Melbourne University breached privacy in surveilling student protesters

A top Australian university violated students’ privacy when it used its internet network to identify students participating in a Gaza protest in May 2024.

www.theage.com.au

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Aug 7

Solidarity with @Dave_Brophy. All universities should oppose genocide!

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Aug 6

Sydney Uni has a ‘thirteen page flag policy’, which they used to stop @Dave_Brophy from protesting against genocide.

t.co/24ONohK0Ds

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/07/university-of-sydney-removes-palestinian-flag-from-academic-david-brophy-office-window-ntwnfb

t.co

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Aug 3

More concerned with ‘social cohesion’ than stopping a live-streamed genocide. The most extraordinary moral failure in a generation.

Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Aug 3

The anti-genocide movement has been driven by below: activists rather than bureaucrats, people rather than NGOs, students rather than professors, etc. Almost without exception, the top echelons of society have tried to stop the protests, not the genocide.

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Aug 3

The anti-genocide movement has been driven by below: activists rather than bureaucrats, people rather than NGOs, students rather than professors, etc. Almost without exception, the top echelons of society have tried to stop the protests, not the genocide.

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Jul 30

Here is the current list of places sanctioned by Australian universities using DFAT’s list of countries designated for human rights abuses etc. It is disgraceful that none of the unis have the moral fortitude to add Israel to that list in the context of an ongoing genocide.

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Jul 28

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem publishes a new report ‘Our genocide’

www.btselem.org/publications...

www.btselem.org

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Jul 27

It was just as possible then as it is now.

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Jul 24

actualtasks.net/2025/07/23/t...

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Jul 22

Why yes, Zotero — why not erase 900 footnotes just for the lols!

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is Amnesty International, the most reputable human rights group in the world. No one can say they didn’t know.

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Jul 2

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Now that a court has made this entirely obvious point perhaps even the universities can understand it.

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Jun 19

The wretched failures of liberalism are allowing the worst grifters to come to the fore.

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Jun 18

All the mayhem in the world makes books feel like indulgences. Nevertheless, I’m chuffed to be doing Somewhere Here the Future’s Hid: The Life of Lesbia Harford with @monashuniversity.bsky.social some time next year.

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cam smith @sexenheimer.bsky.social · Jun 10

Have a full podcast of @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social in conversation with @leninology.bsky.social a few weeks ago, not sure if this is relevant to anything going on? www.3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasar...

Richard Seymour in conversation with Jeff Sparrow

Hello there! A special little podcast treat for you today - a recording of Jeff Sparrow in coversation with Richard Seymour about Disaster Nationalism, from an event co-hosted by Critical Research Ass...

www.3cr.org.au

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · Jun 4

I wrote something for @overlandjournal.bsky.social on climate and Gaza overland.org.au/2025/06/clim...

Climate politics in a time of monsters - Overland literary journal

What has been demonstrated in Gaza that certain populations — in this case, Palestinians — possess no rights and have no value in the eyes of the powerful. That lesson has obvious implications in an e...

overland.org.au

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · May 23

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cam smith @sexenheimer.bsky.social · May 22

4.30pm on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social with me & @slackbastard.bsky.social! @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social - YNP's very first guest all the way back in January 2020 - returns for Episode 250. Has anything happened in the interim? Listen to find out! 855 AM / 3CR.org.au / CommunityRadio+ app / PODCAST soon

a little piccy of Jeff Sparrow thinking up some classic Jeff Sparrow thoughts. Text: Yeah Nah Pasaran! Jeff Sparrow on the Fascists Still Among Us

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · May 20

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · May 20

Australian cultural institutions continue to shame themselves

www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/calls...

www.theaustralian.com.au

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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · May 20

Deliberate genocide, openly stated. And the Very Serious People in politics, media and academia continue to say nothing.

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