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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

It's always those opposing genocide that are labeled as 'un-British'. This is simply Far Right discourse. People can be in denial of that as much as they want, the effect is the same: a further descent into authoritarianism.

Israel marks 7 October attacks anniversary as Starmer tells students to avoid 'un-British' protests

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · 1d

This term our migration students are writing manifestos for migratory futures, so we're reading Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World for inspiration

Cover of the book Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World, edited by Christina Sharpe

A slide with a quote from Christina Sharpe's intro to Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: "gathering, speaking, dreaming, and writing are each powerful actions in the face of structural violence, genocide, and repression"

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · 2d

This year's Claire Dwyer lecture @uclgeography.bsky.social is with Dr Shabna Begum (@runnymedetrust.bsky.social) – reflecting on the 60th anniversary of the Race Relations Act of 1965

Tuesday 25 Nov, tickets below

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-c...

The 2025 Claire Dwyer Lecture: Dr Shabna Begum

Eventbrite - UCL Department of Geography presents The 2025 Claire Dwyer Lecture: Dr Shabna Begum - Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at Common Ground, London, England. Find event and ticket information.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4d

#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about what Said called "community of method" that pushes past national(ist) "community of culture". And how we need to hold true to this and true to this and true to this

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · 5d

Statement from the Syrian community in the UK ❤️

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Statement from the Syrian Community in the UK on the Tragic Attack in Crumpsall – Syrian British Consortium

syrianbritish.org

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5d

Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying,

"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"

"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 5d

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · 6d

Palestine Geographies Reader

palestinegeographies.org

Palestine Geographies Reader

The Palestine Geographies Reader is a growing, open access digital reference of geographical writings, media and resources on Palestine.

palestinegeographies.org

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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 6d

Breaking | dozens of protesters march through the streets of Athens, Greece, denouncing Israel’s illegal interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the genocide in Gaza.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 6d

People have to stop working and shut the economy down. That's the only way to save Palestinian lives. Protests will not be enough.
Please ask your labor union why they aren't supporting Italian unions.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 6d

There are spontaneous protests throughout Italy for Gaza happening right now. This is in addition to calls for a general strike this Friday by the country's largest union (see above in thread)

Here Napoli/Naples

www.instagram.com/reel/DPRlQP9...

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · 8d

Getting a new set of plans and projects together for our anti-genocide university...

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 10d

“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful."
— Assata Shakur
(July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 12d

Same people who can take over every Palestinian's phone also apologize every week for accidentally killing someone they shouldn't have killed because they "made a mistake". And Western head of States just open their mouth and swallow. It's disgusting.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

JERUSALEM (AP) — In 'unprecedented operation,' Israeli army takes over mobile phones of Gaza residents to carry Netanyahu UN speech live.

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 15d

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 16d

Thousands of Italian workers and students are on strike for Gaza

apnews.com/article/ital...

Italian workers' strike in solidarity with Gaza brings disruptions across the country

Thousands of workers and students across Italy have joined a general strike and demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

apnews.com

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 18d

You want to read this book.

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 18d

In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w

Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20d

“Israeli forces fired upon a clearly identified MSF water truck while it was distributing drinking water in Gaza City. The vehicle’s route and schedule had been communicated in advance to the Israeli authorities. 

This attack was a deliberate attempt to sabotage water distribution to civilians.”

Statement18 September 2025
On the afternoon of Monday, 15 September, Israeli forces fired upon a clearly identified Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) water truck while it was distributing 10,000 litres of drinking water in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Radwan, in the eastern part of Gaza City, Palestine. The vehicle’s route and schedule had been communicated in advance to the Israeli authorities, as MSF does on a daily basis. 

This attack cannot be dismissed as an error. It was a deliberate attempt to sabotage water distribution to civilians who cannot leave the area, particularly the poorest, the sick, and the most vulnerable living in tents or in the rubble of what used to be their homes.

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 21d

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 21d

My rage knows no bounds

Gaza City mosque blown up by Israeli air attack

Israeli forces bombed and destroyed a 13th century mosque in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on Tuesday.

www.aljazeera.com

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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.

loom.ly/gnUoYQY

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22d

Sharp right turn there from ‘we’re not racist’ to ‘I don’t see no white kids in the school opposite my home, it’s full of Muslims and they breed like rabbits’

Confirming my sense that too many White people think that unless they’re actively lynching racialized minorities they’re ‘not racist’

Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 22d

This, from The Londoner yesterday, also features people on the march who claim not to be racists. Though the things they say prove otherwise

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22d

BREAKING: At least 45 Palestinians have been killed across Gaza today by Israeli attacks while three people died of starvation in the besieged enclave.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n14xy9

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