Alice Speri
@alicesperi.bsky.social
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The list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims. The 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
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New from me: I spoke to some of the dozens of university professors facing Title VI investigations over their pro-Palestinian advocacy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The chilling effect of Title VI investigations: the professors accused of antisemitism
Exclusive: Andrea Brower quits Gonzaga University after the Civil Rights Act is used to challenge her pro-Gaza activism
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"We’re going to need to politicize this fight". My latest, on what's ahead for US universities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Everyone is coming into fire’: students return to US campuses bruised and changed by Trump’s assault
The effects of a rightwing campaign to remake American higher education are fueling fear and anxiety, but advocates say they have plans to fight back
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“Millions taking to streets, asking an end to genocide, beaten, arrested, held on counts of terrorism, while those wanted by ICC for war crimes are received, allowed to fly over European & western space. This is absurd. This is the end of the rule of law.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Recognising Palestinian state must not distract from ending Gaza mass deaths, UN expert says
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied territories, calls for practical actions and warns against distracting ‘attention from where it should be: the genocide’
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“The power is not just with the prime ministers or with the governments. The power is with us, and we can start choosing through our wallet.” My interview with Francesca Albanese. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Recognising Palestinian state must not distract from ending Gaza mass deaths, UN expert says
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied territories, calls for practical actions and warns against distracting ‘attention from where it should be: the genocide’
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Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. 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
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My latest, for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jewish organizers are increasingly confronting Trump: ‘The repression is growing, but so is the resistance’
As the administration continues to exploit antisemitism to arrest protesters and curb academic freedoms, more American Jews are saying ‘not in my name’
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BREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit. We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.
Breaking: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan was placed on administrative leave following reports of sexual abuse and retaliation by @dropsitenews.com and WSJ. Earlier this week, the President of ASP, which oversees the court, called on Khan to resign, but he declined. www.dropsitenews.com/p/karim-khan...
“Hiding Behind Atrocities”
As Prosecutor Karim Khan seeks a flurry of arrest warrants, ICC staff accuse him of using court cases to dodge sexual abuse allegations.
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Breaking: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan was placed on administrative leave following reports of sexual abuse and retaliation by @dropsitenews.com and WSJ. Earlier this week, the President of ASP, which oversees the court, called on Khan to resign, but he declined. Read our story here ⬇️
“Hiding Behind Atrocities”
As Prosecutor Karim Khan seeks a flurry of arrest warrants, ICC staff accuse him of using court cases to dodge sexual abuse allegations.
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“Hiding Behind Atrocities” The ICC prosecutor's handling of serious sexual abuse allegations has plunged the court into a deep crisis at one of the most vulnerable moments in its history. My investigation, for @dropsitenews.com
“Hiding Behind Atrocities”
As Prosecutor Karim Khan seeks a flurry of arrest warrants, ICC staff accuse him of using court cases to dodge sexual abuse allegations.
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Must read by @alicesperi.bsky.social @theguardian.com about organized attacks on faculty research. @bletiecq.bsky.social quoted: “We are totally under attack...we’re like sitting ducks.” We need strength and solidarity. Keep doing the good work, and fight back. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘We’re like sitting ducks’: the right’s ‘war on woke’ has a well-tested playbook to take down academics
The campaign against Claudine Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, has become a blueprint increasingly wielded against women and scholars of color
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Exclusive: Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal. New from me, for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal
Exclusive: records show evacuees with pending applications to enter US ‘forced to remain in limbo’ in at least 36 countries, some in ‘untenable conditions’
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My take on all the Trump genuflection: Once you have convinced yourself you can stay silent on a genocide unfolding live on your phone, you can stay silent/make peace with pretty much anything. Israel has blown a massive hole in our moral universe and now pretty anything can drive through it.
Alice Speri@alicesperi.bsky.social · 2y agoFor @theguardian.com I wrote about how Gaza has split the academic field of genocide studies. As one scholar put it, “Where can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?” My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
A pair of reports published this month mark a significant contribution to the raging debate over how to characterize a war that has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians and decimated Gaza. But the reports are unlikely to quell deep divisions in the academic field of Holocaust and genocide studies.
Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars
New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israel’s offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence
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What is genocide studies for? Or as a student put it, "Do you only study genocide or do you also want to prevent it?" My latest for The Guardian, on a field in crisis. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars
New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israel’s offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence
theguardian.com
“For a lot of colleagues it's very difficult to accept that a nation of victims could commit genocide,” says @uungor.bsky.social. “But now that Israel is doing the killing, all of a sudden we’re not supposed to apply everything we learned about violence?” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars
New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israel’s offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence
theguardian.com
For @theguardian.com I wrote about how Gaza has split the academic field of genocide studies. As one scholar put it, “Where can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?” My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars
New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israel’s offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence
theguardian.com
In The Guardian, @alicesperi.bsky.social reports on Trump's planned attack on DEI policies. Fear of future repercussions has prompted some campus leaders to cut back on DEI initiatives—even where no laws have been passed, notes @jeremycyoung.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump promises a crackdown on diversity initiatives. Fearful institutions are dialing them back already
As the president-elect and his allies plan a multi-pronged attack on DEI policies, companies and campuses are complying with threats even though they don’t have to
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“Where life is precious, life is precious.” - Ruth Wilson Gilmore And where it’s not, it’s not. The for-profit health care industry profits off denying care. Across the industry 1 in 7 claims are denied. Our job isn’t to debate a murder, it’s to create a system where life is precious. My latest:
What's a life worth?
On the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson
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“A university that doesn’t have a new building is still a university, it’s just a poor university. A university that has lawmakers banning ideas and restricting the actions of the administration is really not a university at all.” @jeremycyoung.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump promises a crackdown on diversity initiatives. Fearful institutions are dialing them back already
As the president-elect and his allies plan a multi-pronged attack on DEI policies, companies and campuses are complying with threats even though they don’t have to
theguardian.com
"What [college presidents] need to do is find a backbone, and I say that with a lot of understanding and empathy for the situation they’re in." I talk to @alicesperi.bsky.social @theguardian.com re: colleges voluntarily closing DEI offices to appease politicians. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump promises a crackdown on diversity initiatives. Fearful institutions are dialing them back already
As the president-elect and his allies plan a multi-pronged attack on DEI policies, companies and campuses are complying with threats even though they don’t have to
theguardian.com
Trump promises a crackdown on diversity initiatives. Fearful institutions are dialing them back already. My latest @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump promises a crackdown on diversity initiatives. Fearful institutions are dialing them back already
As the president-elect and his allies plan a multi-pronged attack on DEI policies, companies and campuses are complying with threats even though they don’t have to
theguardian.com
“It is a very scary time for universities. But universities have to continue to preserve academic freedom and the right to learn – those are critical to them fulfilling their mission.” My latest @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
US universities brace for education policies overhaul under Trump
School initiatives focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion are likely to be first on the chopping block.
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Free speech advocates expect the IHRA definition of antisemitism to be “used as a sledgehammer” in the incoming administration’s attacks on pro-Palestine activism. New from me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump likely to use antisemitism claims to launch crackdown on US universities
Schools brace for cuts and investigations as the president-elect and his advisers make them a prime target of their ‘anti-woke’ crusade
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@alicesperi.bsky.social and I recently had the chance to delve into the ties of law enforcement to the January 6th insurrection through an investigation into the Fontana Police Department, where we heard rare testimony from former officers about their experience with racism: youtu.be/aIaQVFyStQk?...
Fontana PD: Hate Within the Ranks
YouTube video by The Intercept
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“I expect that we will see people who try to salvage their reputations and say, ‘We were doing what we could on the inside.’ But I think the evidence is clear that the US had massive leverage that it did not use.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
Biden is a ‘lame duck’ president – but can he still put pressure on Israel?
The Biden administration has shown no willingness to change course on Israel. It is running out of time to do so.
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"A lot of senior administration officials need to start really thinking hard about their legacy. While it is too late for tens of thousands in Gaza, I think there are still some opportunities there to salvage something." www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
Disillusioned members of the US military have turned to a Vietnam war-era policy to terminate their service because of their opposition to US support for Israel. I wrote about the US military officers filing for conscientious objector status over Gaza. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
‘I had to get out’: the US military officers filing for conscientious objector status over Gaza
Disillusioned members of the US military have turned to Vietnam war-era policy to terminate their service because of religious or moral convictions
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