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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 16h

#standoutforgaza1610

Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 17h

UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the national Workplace Standout for Gaza on 16th Oct at 1 PM. Walk outside your workplace with a sign or flag, and if you can, join the rally organised by UCD students in front of Newman Arts at 1 PM.

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 7d

If any folks from UCD would like to march together at this Saturday's big national demonstration, please join UCD Justice for Palestine (I'll be holding a sign) at 12:15 outside of the Hugh Lane Gallery. It would be great to meet other folks and share in solidarity!

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 7d

Eyes on Gaza where apartheid Israel is carpet bombing and now threatening with mass murder the people in Gaza City. This must end. #GazaGenocide
Israeli Defense Minister: Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...

Israeli Defense Minister says half a million Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate

With at least half a million people still left in Gaza City, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a “final warning” for residents to evacuate, saying those who remain will be regarded as “terro...

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 7d

There are emergency protests in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla called around the country tomorrow, keep an eye on social media. This is at the Dáil, 12.30pm. #LiftTheSiege #GazaGenocide

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 7d

Ships in the Global Sumud flotilla are being intercepted, including the Spectre. Irish-resident friends, please call and email Simon Harris now to condemn Israel's illegal abduction of peaceful citizens and demand safety for all aboard the flotilla:
Phone: 016194000
Email: [email protected]

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 14d

Automated template to email Irish government TDs calling on them to condemn the bombing of the Global Sumud Flotilla and ensure its safe passage to bring aid to Gaza: action.uplift.ie/campaigns/fl...

Flotilla under attack

The Global Sumud Flotilla has been bombed with Irish citizens on board. I have just emailed my TDs calling on them to condemn the bombing of the Global Sumud Flotilla and to ensure the blockade of Gaz...

action.uplift.ie

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 14d

The Gaza Aid flotilla organisers say they have "credible intelligence that Israel is likely to escalate violent attacks on the flotilla within the next 48 hours". All eyes on flotilla, all eyes on Gaza!
www.thejournal.ie/gaza-aid-flo...

Gaza flotilla organisers say thay have 'credible intelligence' pointing to more Israeli attacks

The flotilla organisers are set to hold a press conference later today.

www.thejournal.ie

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 19d

"We repeat our demands that UCD end its current partnerships with Israeli universities, commit to refusing any future such partnerships, and to join efforts that seek to exclude Israeli universities from European funding initiatives."
academicsforpalestine.org/2025/09/19/u...

UCD Partnership with Israeli Universities

With the recent UN report on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the expanded invasion of Gaza City, and the renewal of campus activism at UCD, we are publishing a letter written to UCD President Orla…

academicsforpalestine.org

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20d

“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”

In Defense Of Mass Censorship

When The Onion’s editorial board convened to discuss the tumultuous events of the previous month, one conclusion became evident: The world stands at a crossroads. Two visions of our collective future ...

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 21d

Please sign! "No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Faculty and staff in European higher education and research call on our academic leaders to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions"

uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – Uppsala Declaration

uppsaladeclaration.se

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 28d

Nuanced investigation from Bellingcat confirming that the #globalsumudflotilla was indeed struck by incendiary munitions dropped by drones. Up the flotilla, solidarity with all the courageous folks sailing to break the siege and bring aid to Gaza! #FreePalestine

www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...

Incendiary Munitions Strike Gaza-bound Flotilla Two Nights in a Row - bellingcat

On September 8 and 9, two vessels of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) were attacked outside the port of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia. Bellingcat analysed footage and images from both incidents. ...

www.bellingcat.com

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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · Sep 4

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Sep 4

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

www.irishtimes.com

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · Sep 1

We take the win and we keep pushing, Occupied Territories Bill with services included is next. #StopFundingGenocide
IPSC chair Zoë Lawlor: “today is a huge victory for the people of Ireland who stand resolutely in solidarity with the people of Palestine”.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Central Bank of Ireland confirms it will no longer approve sale of Israeli ‘war bonds’

Use of Irish prospectus to market Israel bonds has been hugely controversial

www.irishtimes.com

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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · Aug 29

Since the genocide began the EU has given Israeli tech start-ups run by ex-IDF soldiers nearly half a billion euros in research grants designed to support civilian projects. Some of this tech has been used in Gaza. Some of the founders have even served in Gaza www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science...

EU Science Grants Are Funding Israeli Military Technology

The EU has given Israeli technology start-ups run by ex-IDF soldiers nearly half a billion euros in research grants since the start of the Gaza genocide.

www.donotpanic.news

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · Aug 1

"The vast gap between the calories Gaza needs, and the food that has entered since March makes clear that Israeli officials are doing different maths today. They cannot pass responsibility for this human-made famine to anyone else, and nor can their allies" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

www.theguardian.com

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 24

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · Jul 23

I'm seeing an uptick in journal editors inquiring about @openlibhums.bsky.social and scholar-led, non-profit diamond #OpenAccess as a direct result of the Trump administration's crackdown on EDI and academic freedom. If we want research integrity, we need an independent academic publishing sector.

Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · Jul 23

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication

As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

www.theguardian.com

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · Jul 23

'Earlier Jewish leftists built a Jewish left-and a critique of Zionism-out of the terrain autochthonous to the United States: one in which racial oppression, a rapacious bourgeoisie, a bloated military budget...are the norm rather than the exception' portside.org/2025-07-22/l...

The Long Anti-Zionist History of the American Jewish Left

This is an excerpt from Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left by Benjamin Balthaser, out this week with Verso Books. === As historian Karen Brodkin tel...

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · Jul 23

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication

As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

www.theguardian.com

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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · Jul 14

New review of Oil Fictions!
stm.cairn.info/revue-revue-...

(The full text is also freely accessible!
directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.50...)

#energy #oilfictions @amitav.bsky.social @sharaerua.bsky.social @wordbird20.bsky.social @imreszeman.bsky.social @chiday.bsky.social @ashdawson.bsky.social

Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere (Stacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi, 2021)

Pas encore de compte ?

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · Jun 28

Greatly enjoyed the chance to discuss 'World-Literature as Research and Form' with the excellent Michael Boog as part of the Rethinking the Global podcast series at UniBe

open.spotify.com/episode/6ZPF...

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Daniella Bella @daniemililly.bsky.social · Jun 11

"But, Governor of the Central Bank Gabriel Makhlouf today defended its offerings, telling TDs at an Oireachtas Committee that the UN’s Genocide Convention applies only to the Irish State, not the country’s banking regulator."

What an incredible argument to give in your own defense

Government rejects motion calling on it to stop sale of 'Israeli war bonds'

Government TDs argued that directing the Central Bank to stop selling Israeli bonds would impede on its independence.

www.thejournal.ie

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · Jun 5

Now we need to call on UCD to follow TCD's example and commitment to total divestment: from existing ties and in the future!

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · Jun 4

A huge well done to the Trinity students and staff who did worked so hard to get this over the line. We need total divestment from, and boycott of, apartheid Israel until Palestinian liberation. #BDS #FreePalestine
TCD votes to cut ties with Israel
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies

University will no longer facilitate Erasmus+ exchange agreements with Israeli colleges

www.irishtimes.com

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · Jun 5

Looking forward to speaking on social reproduction and resistance in Itamar Vieira Junior's Crooked Plow at this symposium on "Gendered Precarity and Literary Form" tomorrow, org. by Josh Jewell & Iris Gioti. 6 Jun, 9:30-5:30 in @ucdhumanities.bsky.social . All welcome, no reg. required!

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