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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · Aug 17

one of the most depressing things of the last decade or so is realizing how many friends/ colleagues/ leaders are (a) actually sympathetic to bad faith fascistic attacks (on public goods, education, vulnerable peoples, etc.), or (b) just simply not up to the moment we find ourselves in

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jul 29

This has been going for a couple of months now and the choice of images has always been suspect to say the least. From your typical orientalist tropes to efforts as bad as this 👇

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jun 9

Extraordinary levels of cowardice on display from Stuff here. Just look at the dissonance between the selected image and the solemn commitment in the text below it.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · Jul 29

It seems the pro-Israel consensus among Democrats is well and truly dead at this point. Dem primary voters prefer candidates who refuse to travel to Israel (by net +45%) and back a bill to end military aid to Israel (by net +61%). www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...

Screenshot from DFP crosstabs:

The candidate pledges to support the Block the Bombs Act, a new bill in Congress which would withhold U.S. weapons to Israel and address concerns about Israel's violations of U.S. and international law.

More likely (total): 72%
Less likely (total): 11%
More likely (net): +61%

Screenshot from DFP crosstabs:

The candidate declines to take an international trip to Israel, saying they want to focus on addressing New Yorkers' issues and needs.

More likely (total): 60%
Less likely (total): 15%
More likely (net): +45%

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Jul 21

I published two stories today. It was a great honor to work with Afeef Nessouli on the one documenting the genocide and famine in Gaza. Afeef spent 9-weeks there, and we tracked how the U.S. dismantling USAID & UNRWA has made getting food deadly for kids, men, women, queer & trans Palestinians

The Intercept @theintercept.com · Jul 21

The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Our Reporter Got Into Gaza. He Witnessed a Famine of Israel’s Making.

The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jul 3

Happy to share the story with you if you're interested.

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jul 3

A 'human rights law' academic, believe it or not.

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jul 3

The organizers know. The guy's employer's know too. More to follow.

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jul 2

We shouldn't have to think about who is monitoring and reporting on us to state actors when we are doing academic work, but this is the unacceptable reality. This behaviour needs to be called out whenever and wherever it's observed. 7/7

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jul 2

In the next session I presented a paper with 'Israel's weapons of genocide' in the title, so I had to then think about what might happen if this guy came to it and decided he needed to report me or yell at me or whatever. 6/7

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jul 2

I have no idea what the person was planning to do if ChatGPT told him that any of the speakers were 'anti-Israel' but this also points to the dangers of self-reinforcing AI tools when used as a means to label and harass people. 5/7

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jul 2

As someone who has been subject to harassment by Israeli propagandists, I find this behaviour to be offensive, inappropriate, and dangerous. It's also extremely clumsy to do this 'investigation' of colleagues in such a visible way. 4/7

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jul 2

Worst of all, the person seemed most obsessed with colleagues with Muslim names, going through the programme and entering them one by one. 3/7

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jul 2

The request was always 'who is x and are they anti-Israel?'. This was a panel on international criminal law in which there were some mentions of Gaza but it certainly wasn't central to the discussion. 2/7

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jul 2

I'm at an international law conference in Canberra at the moment and during one of the sessions I was sitting behind someone who spent most of the time putting names of presenters into an 'Anti-Israel Academics' folder (?) on ChatGPT. 1/7

A laptop screen showing ChatGPT with the title 'Anti-Israel Academics' at the top.

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jun 27

The brain sickness of the Australian commentariat is beyond words.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 27

So Ergas would like us to spend as much on defence as a nation carrying out a literal genocide.

op-ed by an absolute prick, "Bang for the buck? Israel A+, Australia C-"

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · Jun 24

New essay from me: The End of Reality, published by @theshot.net.au thanks to @davemilbo.bsky.social 🙏🏽💜 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Two years into the US-Israeli genocide of Palestine, which includes invasions into Lebanon and Syria, the bombing of Yemen, and most recently Iran, it's difficult to summon any kind of language to describe the age of barbarity and horror we've entered. I just watched another video of a screaming Palestinian man holding a headless baby. Earlier, before putting my toddler to sleep for his day nap, I kept seeing the blood-drenched face of a martyred little girl flash over his. Whenever I prepare food, I see again the images of American and Israeli soldiers firing into crowds of starving Palestinians, which are not only images, but recurring daily violences. The killing fields of genocide are brought to us live hourly, and each new atrocity appears worse than the last. What could be worse than firing indiscriminately into a crowd of people you have starved near to death? I ask myself, only to read about tanks firing into the crowds. And then jets. What could be worse than starving babies into the earliest grave? I ask myself, then read about the orphaned toddlers eating sand. Then watching another flaming torso in the rubble, another person made into an inferno, this endless holocaust. With answers like these, I now fear asking the question.

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · Jun 15

If you've been horrified by the failure of NZ media to effectively, or even *objectively*, cover Israel's attacks on Iran then hopefully we've put together an episode that can alleviate that disgust at least a little

Really thankful to @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social for joining us at such short notice

1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social · Jun 15

1/200 S2E142 - Western Aggression Against Iran

We host @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social to talk about events following Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran, the complicity of Western powers & the historical imperialism that led here

w/ @kyledchurch.bsky.social @mythros.bsky.social & Dr Josephine Varghese

1/200 S2E142 - Western Aggression Against Iran — 1/200

We host Jeremy Moses to talk about the events following Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran, the complicity of Western powers and the historical imperialism that led us here.

www.1of200.nz

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jun 14

The other key thing that seems to have gone missing in much of the commentary is that Iran's attempt to get a nuclear weapon was not so that it could fire it at Israel or the US, but to deter attacks by those states. Israel claiming 'pre-emption' makes zero rational sense here.

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jun 14

The fact that Iran is striking back without hesitation at an Israel that is governed by bloodthirsty psychopaths AND HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS suggests that nuclear deterrence may not be all that it's cracked up to be.

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jun 14

Taiwanese drama/comedy on Netflix:

Born for the Spotlight
Wave Makers
I Am Married But...

They are making some cracking stuff over there at the moment.

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jun 13

The ways in which 'Western' politicians and diplomats have been willing to systematically dismantle their own credibility to protect a fascist, genocidal regime in Israel has just been mind-bending to observe. Totally incomprehensible.

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jun 13

The vilest and yet most honest articulation of US Empire possible. We are governed by insane people.

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Jeremy Moses @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social · Jun 13

Full masks off for US Empire, huh? There it all is, laid out in plain text for all the dummies out there. Unbelievable.

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Kevin Jon Heller @kevinjonheller.bsky.social · Jun 13

Let's be clear: Israel's attack on Iran is not simply a violation of the UN Charter. It is a manifest violation of it. Few acts are more unequivocally illegal than preventive (non-imminent) self-defence. So Israel's attack is both unlawful and criminal -- the crime of aggression.

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · Jun 13

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