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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

A new piece by us up on Substack: "Against Colonial Conferencing," where we reflect on the akademic conference circuit as an integral part of the global tourism industry, as well as the destruction of Native Hawaiian and Palestinian lands and knowledge.

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Against Colonial Conferencing: A w4g screed against the phenomenon of academic conferences in general

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October 07, 2025

If you are thinking of visiting my homeland, please don’t. We don’t want or need any more tourists, and we certainly don’t like them. If you want to help our cause, pass this message on to your friends. Thank you.

“Lovely Hula Lands” by Haunani Kay-Trask

Recently, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) announced that it will be convening its 2026 annual conference in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

The call for proposals describes Hawai‘i as a “space, place, and time through which to collectively reflect on, respond to, and reckon with settler colonial and U.S. imperial desires and designs that continue to shape everyday life and futures.” So far, neither the participants nor the conveners appear to see a contradiction between the theme of the conference and its very material and environmental impact, in which hundreds of primarily North American scholars and their families will flock to a place that is actively under U.S. colonial military occupation.

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 15h

How should epistemic research bridge the 'situated' vs 'objective' knowledge dualism?

This matters because all knowledges are situated but not all advance justice, fairness, truth, emancipation.

As a critical realist, I glimpse a way to bridge this.

But am I wrong?

#CriticalRealism
#MoralRealism

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 23h

‘If the university’s continued financial viability relies on making a world that is safe for settler colonialism, then the past is not such a foreign country’.

Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · 23h

UK universities claim to be reckoning with their imperial and colonial pasts, but refuse to see their implication in the genocidal settler colonialism of the present – so how serious are these exercises? wrote about this for @versobooks.bsky.social blog

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Race Reports

In July 2025, the University of Edinburgh published a wide-ranging ‘Review of Race and History’ that attempts to confront its legacies of enslavement and colonialism. Four months earlier, the Universi...

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 1d

Trauma, mental healthy, guilt, anger, harking back to a 'Golden Age' full of check-points and illegal occupation. Those check-points are now closed.
#Gaza is #Palestine, but the media treats them as separate.
Divide and conquer is the plan.
The #WestBank is next.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Italian prime minister reveals she has been referred to ICC over Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/italian-prime-minister-reveals-she-has-been-referred-icc-over-gaza

Italian prime minister reveals she has been referred to ICC over Gaza

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 1d

“If you are an expansionist Israeli government, you don't want peace with the Palestinians… You don't want peace in the region.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social joins ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored’ to explain how Netanyahu supports the idea of a ‘Greater Israel,’ occupying more territory illegally.

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 1d

Who's researching/investigating the extent of the truth gap between what mainstream media report & what historical-political evidence demonstrate?

For example, #Israel is an illegal occupier under #InternationalLaw. That fact, in & of itself, should be the starting point of reporting. Why isn't it?

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Palestine protest shuts down Kings Cross station - video

Hundreds of anti-genocide protesters have shut down Kings Cross station in London to mark the second anniversary of 7 October 2023
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BREAKING: Palestine protest shuts down Kings Cross station - video

Hundreds of anti-genocide protesters have shut down Kings Cross station in London to mark the second anniversary of 7 October 2023

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 1d

London universities walk out to mark two years of genocide in Gaza

Universities across London are marching against British 'complicity' in Israel's genocide in Gaza, with hundreds of students participating
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London universities walk out to mark 'two years of genocide' in Gaza

Universities across London are marching against British 'complicity' in Israel's genocide in Gaza, with hundreds of students participating

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 1d

"[chiediamo] la recessione totale degli accordi con le aziende belliche e con le università israeliane [...] se l’ateneo non rompe con Israele, non è degna dei suoi studenti"

Vai #UniBo ✊
#Bologna
#Occupazione
#BDS

#FreePalestine

ilrestodelcarlino.bsky.social @ilrestodelcarlino.bsky.social · 1d

Gli universitari non cambiano rotta. “Occupiamo almeno fino a venerdì”

La denuncia dell’ateneo non spaventa gli studenti del collettivo, che continuano il presidio a Fisica. L’Alma Mater replica: “Pronti a dialogare, ma il blocco impedisce di frequentare a 1.600 iscritti al giorno”

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 2d

Not translated in English, yet (AFAIK): 'Quando il mondo dorme' di Francesca Albanese 🕊

If anyone deserves the #NobelPeacePrize it's Albanese, despite Oslo's complicity in preserving 'peace' for the colonial oppressors & in ensuring geographic fragmentation & division of rather peace for #Palestine

Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 5d

Copertina di 'Quando il mondo dorme' di Francesca Albanese (Rizzoli, 2025)

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 2d

agreed.

2 of these I know well - I thank @nsousanis.bsky.social for my comics literacy, which I pass on to my doctoral researchers & family members (esp. the young ones, children & nieces).

Comics provide interdisciplinary nuance, ways to re-present reality that linear alphabetic writing eschews.

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · Aug 28

📆 17/10/25 12:00 BST

Most Western universities make a big exception when it comes to dismantling colonial thinking: Universities should reject all settler-colonialism, including Israel's & its enablers'

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-palest...
#OpenUniversity #OpenSocietalChallenge #PalestineException

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

“I urge everyone to join the global uprising for justice, freedom, and equality. And to apply real pressure on our governments and institutions to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure human rights for everyone. We have truth, morale, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity with...

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 2d

"the U.S.-Israel “bond” is not about defending #democracy. Rather, it has always been, and still is, about American imperial interests in the region".

Reminder that the illegal occupation & ongoing #genocide of Palestinian lives, land, & culture pre-dates the now
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Biden says the U.S. would have to invent an Israel if it didn’t exist. Why?

Despite claims of defending democracy and shared values, the U.S.-Israel relationship is one of self-interest where the Palestinians pay the price.

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 2d

Essential listening.

Solidarity, resistance, trade & workers movements, #BDS essential to dismantle apartheid, prevent #ecocide, dismantle arms trade, and #FreePalestine from its western colonial racialised stranglehold.

Time to call a national strike?

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

Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah, and Robert Knox on their new co-authored book, 'Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine'. We spoke about the inadequacy of framing the question of Pal

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 2d

"The motion called for the Israeli military to be proscribed, which would make membership of the Israeli military or even glorifying it a terrorist offence under British counterterror legislation."

#FreePalestine

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d

Green Party demands ban on Israeli military as terror group and Balfour apology - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/green-party-demands-ban-israeli-military-terror-group-and-balfour

Green Party demands ban on Israeli military as terror group and Balfour apology

<article data-history-node-id="429727" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/green-party-demands-ban-israeli-military-terror-group-and-balfour" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/green-party-demands-ban-israeli-military-terror-group-and-balfour" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Green Party demands ban on Israeli military as terror group and Balfour apology</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Green Party has voted for the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> military to be banned as a terrorist organisation and for <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">Britain</a> to apologise for the Balfour Declaration.</p> <p>Members voted for the motion at the Green Party's annual conference in Bournemouth on Sunday, making it party policy.</p> <p>The motion called for the Israeli military to be proscribed, which would make membership of the Israeli military or even glorifying it a terrorist offence under British counterterror legislation.</p> <p>Party leader Zack Polanski backed the motion, saying in the conference hall that to do so was a "moral imperative".</p> <p>The motion also said that Britain "should formally apologise to the people of Palestine for the Balfour Declaration", which in 1917 expressed British support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.</p> <h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/green-party-demands-ban-israeli-military-terror-group-and-apology-balfour-declaration">Green Party demands ban on Israeli military as terror group and Balfour apology</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Zack Polanski, of the Green Party, attends a demonstration outside Downing Street in central London to oppose the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, on 9 September 2025 (AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="91042d41-77c6-4643-b718-0dde1a3baf76" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/000_73xb3rc-2.jpg" width="1024" height="576" alt="Zack Polanski, of the Green Party, attends a demonstration outside Downing Street in central London to oppose the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, on 9 September 2025 (AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Zack Polanski, of the Green Party, attends a demonstration outside Downing Street in central London to oppose the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, on 9 September 2025 (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url("https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png") rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 3d

Israel has carried out 93 air strikes on Gaza in just 24 hours

Again showing that what Trump says is irrelevant, Israel has continued to pound Gaza - killing over 70 people in just a day
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Israel has carried out 93 air strikes on Gaza in just 24 hours

Again showing that what Trump says is irrelevant, Israel has continued to pound Gaza - killing over 70 people in just a day

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 3d

We live in fascist times. The so-called 'west' is an abomination.

Saw this last night in #Manchester - physical theatre, satire, cabaret, and dance that has the guts to call what is happening in our so-called 'democracies' #FASCISM

#FreePalestine

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 4d

#Manchester yesterday.

Peaceful protest against the UK-supported #genocide in #Palestine

#KnowTheirNames

🐝🕊🇵🇸💔✊🏼

List of names of at lest 18000 children killed by IsraHell 'know their names'

Protesters with flags and banners, including the Jewish community

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 5d

NEW: Last week, Microsoft cut off services for the Israeli military after the Guardian exposed that they were being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians.

This historic win shows the joint power of good journalism and movement pressure.

@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social in @thenation.com:

How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military

A grassroots campaign successfully pressured the tech monopoly to take an unprecedented step toward suspending its complicity in the Gaza genocide.

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 5d

Genuine Q:

why should #Hamas (a democratically elected party with a miltary wing, Al-Qassam Brigades) disarm, regardless of the #IllegalOccupation (which it has a legal right to resist under #InternationalLaw)?

Other countries have armies & miltaries. Why shouldn't #Palestine?

#PalestineException

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🤮⛓️🔐
#WarCriminals

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 5d

EN DIRECT, Gaza : le Hamas a jusqu’à dimanche soir pour accepter le plan de paix de Donald Trump

« Si cet accord de la dernière chance n’est pas trouvé, l’enfer se déchaînera comme jamais contre le Hamas », a écrit le président américain sur son réseau social.

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