"Before pointing out how Israel is a colonial project, Europeans should reflect on their own colonial projects" is not the own Zionists think it is, and yet they always fail to see it.
Clive Gabay
@clivesg.bsky.social
Writes stuff: Jewishness, Zionism, Race, Pol/Soc Theory, SWANA Jews. Teaches at QMUL Book - A Family in Fragments: Race, Zionism and Retrievable Futures (Rutgers University Press, 2027)
Senator Mark Warner has called what has happened in Myanmar, Sudan and Xinjiang genocides. But not Gaza. Watch the absolute word salad he delivers when @mehdirhasan.bsky.social confronts him with that basic hypocrisy. Liberalism in a nutshell. fb.watch/IzunJufVD1/
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I’m convinced Hegseth is just an AI that Judith Butler created to demonstrate that Gender is a social construct
Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w agoHegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting
To commemorate the passing of Bonnie Tyler (RIP), if I may share my absolute favourite YouTube video of all time x
Total Eclipse of the Heart Literal Video Version
YouTube video by artistwithouttalent
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The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza has been arranging public screenings of World Cup matches across the strip. 1 hour before Egypt-Argentina yesterday the IOF murdered the committee's PR director Muhammad Fawaz al-Wahidi in his car, as well as a child travelling with him. Depravity upon depravity
TODAY: Iran in Context Part II: Politics and Counter Politics in Contemporary Iran with Naghmeh Sohrabi, Mohammad Ali Kadivar and Paniz Musawi Natanzi. Join us online at 17:00 BST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
BRISMES@brismes.bsky.social · last mo.📢 #OnlineEvent | Join BRISMES, @merip.bsky.social & SeSaMO for the second event in our #Iran in Context series titled "Politics and Counter-Politics in Contemporary Iran" with Naghmeh Sohrabi, Mohammad Ali Kadivar & Paniz Musawi Natanzi. 🗓 2 July 2026 ⏰ 17:00 – 18:30 BST 🔗 Register: bit.ly/OP_Iran2
DR CONGO'S STATUE SUPERFAN HAS ARRIVED AT THE WORLD CUP 🚨 Known as 'Lumumba Vea', the supporter who stands still all game in homage to the country's revered first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, has landed in Guadalajara before the Leopards' game vs. Colombia on Tuesday 🇨🇩
It's that time of year when the Dan David prize committee helpfully outs all of those 'critical' scholars working on histories of enslavement, racism and imperialism who are happy to shill for a racist settler colony and who you should spend the rest of your life avoiding like the plague.
CALL-OUT: if you took part in the protest against the "Great Israeli Real Estate Event" held at Edgware United Synagogue yesterday, Netpol wants to hear your experience of the policing of the demo and of violence from pro-Israel counter protesters. Email in confidence to netpoladmin@protonmail.com
Netpol@netpol.org · 2mo ago‘Unacceptable’: London protesters slam illegal Israeli settlement land sale www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...
This shows just how farcical constructions of 'terrorism' are, and how they exist to criminalise dissent. But to be clear: these constructions are no better when the average terror suspect is a brown or black man in his 20s - the accceptance of which paved the way for our current predicament.
Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s as a result of the Palestine Action ban Almost 2,800 arrests were made for supporting the group in 6 months - surpassing the number of terror suspects detained in the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/politic...
"The crown of thorns is now worn by the people of Palestine, Palestine being their cross, but also their throne, and this pain is the sign of their victory" - Tamim al-Barghouti www.instagram.com/reels/DQPWbf...
Synagogues are being used to launder war crimes. Not all of them, etc, but this is a real thing, and the Board of Deputies are defending it/lying about it. I don't know how non-Jewish people can distinguish between Zionism & Judaism while mainstream Jewish orgs run interference for ethnic cleansing.
In the past six years there have been 30 women murdered in Northern Ireland. All the perpetrators were white, and not a single road was closed or house firebombed.
This has all been actively driven by a Labour government though. 'Legitimate concerns', 'stopping the boats', the criminalisation of Palestine solidarity, the refusal to take on Musk and the algorithms; Labour has birthed this. It's not just or even mainly the far right and their suited avatars.
Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou see these scenes from Belfast? That's our future if Reform, Restore, the Tories, GB News, Elon Musk and the right-wing media get their way. Except this will be on a much bigger scale. We have to decide: do we want those inciting hatred to destroy our country?
THREAD: It's telling how many supposed leftists jumped straight to the anti-Arab/Palestinian/Islamophobic position of "angry Palestinian man thinks there should be less Jews on TV" trope when they read this essay. There's literally nowhere in the essay where Salaita says this.
Clive Gabay@clivesg.bsky.social · 2mo agoAmid Zionism, there is no such thing as a neutral expression of Jewish culture...When we say “Israeli,” they hear “Jew.” When we say “Zionist,” they also hear “Jew.” But if we say “Jew,” then we are making bigoted conflations. Great piece @stevesalaita.bsky.social stevesalaita.com/the-ugly-exi...
Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘There’s wee girls inside’: panic as masked men storm house in Belfast
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
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THREAD: It's telling how many supposed leftists jumped straight to the anti-Arab/Palestinian/Islamophobic position of "angry Palestinian man thinks there should be less Jews on TV" trope when they read this essay. There's literally nowhere in the essay where Salaita says this.
Clive Gabay@clivesg.bsky.social · 2mo agoAmid Zionism, there is no such thing as a neutral expression of Jewish culture...When we say “Israeli,” they hear “Jew.” When we say “Zionist,” they also hear “Jew.” But if we say “Jew,” then we are making bigoted conflations. Great piece @stevesalaita.bsky.social stevesalaita.com/the-ugly-exi...
Amid Zionism, there is no such thing as a neutral expression of Jewish culture...When we say “Israeli,” they hear “Jew.” When we say “Zionist,” they also hear “Jew.” But if we say “Jew,” then we are making bigoted conflations. Great piece @stevesalaita.bsky.social stevesalaita.com/the-ugly-exi...
The Ugly Exigencies of Genocide - Steve Salaita
Israel's atrocities in Gaza have changed the way we speak about Zionism and Jewish culture.
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I guess it's formal now. Thanks to the editors at @ejir.bsky.social for their support (which was a lot!) in getting this into print, and the two reviewers for some comments that really pushed me to think harder about what I was trying to say here. Open access so please let me know what you think!
EJIR@ejir.bsky.social · 2mo ago“IR theory, history and retrieval in a time of genocide” by @clivesg.bsky.social is out now in EJIR and available open access. 📚 Read it here: t1p.de/mxep0
88 people were murdered by the IOF in Gaza last weekend, and this is how the enablers of this violence evade accountability, by criminalising the word 'Palestine'. In my workplace, 'Stop the Genocide' posters were removed because the word 'Stop' implied an institutional opinion on said genocide.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Art Institute of Chicago has censured a faculty member for making an assignment that has “anything with Palestine in it,” in this case just quite literally the existence of a Palestinian. US higher education is actively policing Palestinian existence as ‘antisemitism.’
Let's notice how Goodwin doesn't reach the conclusion that the police is an intrinsically violent institution that needs to be abolished, but rather calls for the deportation of a brown woman. Well done BBC, well done.
Huw C. Davies@huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2mo agoGot to be one of the most inflammatory statements ever broadcast on the BBC, let alone a current affairs show. Apparently, there’s a ‘regime’ that for ‘30 years’ has been operating against the interests of whites.
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw calling Hamas's Operation Al Aqsa Flood an "antisemitic pogrom" (it wasn't), & questioning whether it would be acceptable to say that Hamas fuels Islamophobia (um, clearly yes, given there's been an internationally endorsed genocide) www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Planet Israel review – valuable personal documentary about Israel/Palestine conflict
Gillian Mosely’s film argues that Israelis are asked to accept a ‘forever war’ in part motivated by Netanyahu’s desire to defer investigation into corruption allegations
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New up by me in European Journal of International Relations: IR theory, history and retrieval in a time of genocide Free to read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Tldr: IR should stop being so self-referential and think about Palestine more
For those who can vote, BRISMES Council elections are open. There are some really great candidates. And then there's me (lols?). The good news is that if you're a BRISMES member you can vote for four candidates, so away you go! www.brismes.ac.uk/elections
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In 942 days Israel has killed 363 journalists across Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran and Syria. That’s roughly one journalist killed every three days across 5 countries. stopmurderingjournalists.com
Stop Murdering Journalists - Databases for Palestine
Israel is on a journalist mass-murdering spree.
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No-one should have to decide if what they're wearing makes them a target. But this statement is a lie. If you're brown you have to make these decisions. If you're a woman you have to make these decisions. If you're gender non-conforming you have to make these decisions. Stop exceptionalising Jews.
A shout-out to anyone who might want to review or is in a position to commission a review of my forthcoming book, called A Family in Fragments: Race, Zionism and the Retrieval of Liberated Futures. More details below! 👇
A wonderful former student of mine has just spent a month in the Jordan Valley where the Israeli State is constructing ANOTHER wall to cut it off from the rest of the West Bank. She's just returned to the UK and put all of her on-the-ground updates here substack.com/@emma1618/no...
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