Reform UK's new 'Small Boats Watch' app is not only cruel, it is in clear violation of Apple and Google’s rules and must be removed immediately. You can take action now: bestforbritain.org/take-action/...

Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain

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We have got used to the idea of the Gaza Genocide. But what if the right frame is a variable, two- or even multi-zone Israeli Genocide? martinshawx.substack.com/p/we-have-go...

We have got used to the idea of the Gaza Genocide. But what if the right frame is a variable, two- or even multi-zone Israeli Genocide?

B’tselem‘s new report on Israel’s Elimination Project shows the West Bank is a second zone of genocide - even if it doesn’t use the term. I discuss the implications for understanding and policy.

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Some of us remember the Rwanda scheme.

Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · 2w ago

It does say a lot about the current and previous government that they have been less willing to clearly state this than Sunak. Quite why is a mystery for the ages.

I analyse Miliband’s statement line by line—bottom line, they’re sanctioning the settlements, companies and individuals not the occupying state or the IDF. While Israel is retaliating directly against the British state. martinshawx.substack.com/p/ed-miliban...

Ed Miliband’s statement - full line-by-line annotation

He proposes to address the state’s unlawful occupation by tackling the economic relationships with the territories, not with the state that is occupying. While Israel targets the British state.

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I’ve written a piece for History Workshop reflecting on mass activism and direct action - as Marral says, we first met when a group of members of the late 1960s LSE Socialist Society supported today’s Palestine activists in the School, who were under threat from the LSE authorities.

marral@marralsham.bsky.social · last mo.

A pleasure to publish Martin’s reflections for this series! Fitting that we first met as a result of his and other 1960s LSE activists’ support for the LSE encampment.

My commentary on the controversial open letter to Iranian political prisoners. martinshawx.substack.com/p/no-binary-...

No Binary between Freedom and Resistance

Weaknesses in the controversial Open Letter to Iranian political prisoners do not negate the validity of its premise that we can oppose the regime and the war at the same time.

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My new article explains what Burnham and Miliband should really be doing about Israel—breaking the UK’s alliance with the genocidal state, not pleading with it to change course; sanctioning the state, not just the settlers and individual ministers. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/08/the-...

The UK Must Break With Israel

No more piecemeal measures. The government should sanction the genocidal occupying state and renounce the UK-Israel relationship.

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“What the physical record shows is a military that could confine its violence to a single room when it chose to, and elsewhere chose otherwise.” - Israel discriminated between Christian and other areas in the degree of “precision” it used in targeting.

Chris Osieck@chrisosieck.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In our latest @newlinesmag.bsky.social investigation, @baydoun.nl and I used site visits, spatial analysis, testimonies and interviews with military and legal experts to present an anatomy of five Israeli "precision strikes" in Lebanon.

Raz Segal and I were the first genocide scholars to recognise Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Unlike me, he paid a serious price for speaking out, losing a prestigious position that he had just been offered. But now, 2 years later, he has won financial compensation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000

The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer for Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring

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My new open-access article in Genocide Studies and Prevention examines the neglected question of OCCUPATION AND GENOCIDE, from Raphael Lemkin’s Axis Rule in Occupied Europe to contemporary Palestine. digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol20/is...

My new podcast on 99 Zu Eins covers why we are in a “new age of genocide”, the relationships of war and genocide, the “structure of genocide” in Palestine, and my views on Omer Bartov’s new book on Israel and Dirk Moses’ The Problems of Genocide—and much more, especially Gaza. youtu.be/5OA6MrAKRGY

The New Age of Genocide w/ Martin Shaw - 99 ZU EINS - Ep. 679

YouTube video by 99 ZU EINS

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Brilliant talk, inc. plenty of excellent reflections on so-called subaltern genocides. Also agree that the term genocide should not be dumped. Now I wonder, if genocide is indeed part of a historical colonial continuum, what criteria do we use to date its actual start? @martinshaw.bsky.social

Hanno Hauenstein@hahauenstein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The *full* transcript of my interview with genocide scholar Martin Shaw is up – read it here. hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/martin-sha...

I wrote in detail about ‘Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel' for Byline Times. Gaza is the sharpest edge of Starmer’s domestic as well as international legacy. Fail to address it, and Burnham could end up as the UK’s Kamala Harris. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/w...

'Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel'

The likely incoming Prime Minister must break with Keir Starmer's "morally bankrupt" legacy on Gaza in order to restore his party's reputation with the public, argues genocide scholar Martin Shaw

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I examined the strange timeline of the Palestine Action ban presented by the Court of Appeal - focusing on the missing Trump connection. open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...

The strange timeline of the Court of Appeal in the Palestine Action case

I oppose genocide - and I smell a rat in the missing Trump golf course connection and the overegging of the Brize Norton action as a "national security"threat.

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I wrote about how Brexit unleashed the racism and violence that now threatens Britain with a Farage regime, and how Labour’s complicity in Gaza has divided the forces that can resist it.

Zeteo UK@zeteo.uk · 4mo ago

A decade after the EU referendum, a by-election on Thursday poses a major test of Britain’s ability to resist the racism and violence it unleashed, says a leading genocide scholar. Read here, by @martinshaw.bsky.social: zeteonews.co.uk/p/ten-years-...

"The distinction between protest and terrorism has been blurred." The sentencing of four pro-Palestine activists known as the Filton 4 has sparked a wider debate over how terrorism laws are being applied in Britain, writes lawyer @tayabali.bsky.social 🔗 zeteonews.co.uk/p/filton-4-p...

Andy Burnham (in the Guardian) burning his bridges by failing to express a clear moral condemnation of Israel. His weasel words suggest he could be Labour's Kamala Harris, needlessly alienating the left and Muslim voters that are needed to defeat Farage - as they were to beat Trump.

This reply to @jonathanliew.bsky.social accurately pinpoints the weakness of his alternative to continued engagement with X. Read their following tweets - exactly my experience too.

@mparsfield.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Agree with 95% of this and I haven't missed X since deleting my account earlier this year. But your remedy - "The only reliable disinfectant for a surfeit of lies and white supremacism is a balanced, informed media diet" - falls down when elite editors, publishers or groupthink-prone (1/3)

Disappointingly simplistic of Jonathan to dismiss X and its progressive users so sweepingly, especially when he has no credible alternative and admits this place is no substitute. I use it for Gaza / genocide and it remains an essential point of connection and source of information.

Jonathan Liew@jonathanliew.bsky.social · 4mo ago

we see you www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ICC prosecutor requests further warrants against Israeli ministers: ‘the charges against Smotrich include forced displacement as a crime against humanity and war crime, the transfer of Israel’s own population as a war crime, and persecution and apartheid as crimes against humanity’

I’ve written about Omer Bartov’s book, Israel: What Went Wrong? open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...

Israel: did it go wrong?

My contribution to the debate on Omer Bartov's book 'Israel: What Went Wrong?'

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As European leaders proclaim a values-based order in Yerevan, my article on the long shadow of the Gaza genocide in Europe’s crisis reminds us that as long as it is tied to Israel, Europe will not succeed. share.google/ujYNzP078nRV...

Martin Shaw · Europe’s Crisis: The Long Shadow of Genocide

Europe’s complicity has not only sustained the genocide of Palestinians, but also triggered a crisis of political legitimacy. If any political or moral credibility is to be salvaged, a different movem...

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I just wrote to airlines facilitating racist and cruel 'one in one out' deportations. Join me, and write one here using this tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Stop racist and cruel 'one in one out' deportations

These five airline companies are facilitating forced deportations. Email their CEOs and tell them to stop. The people being deported on these flights came to this country seeking safety. Many of...

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I’m speaking in Brighton on the Gaza genocide and its large political and geopolitical consequences

I wrote for the Berlin Review about the long shadow of genocide in Europe's crisis. Drawing on the experience of when Europeans confronted US power in the 1980s, I argue that we need movements from below to challenge our complicit elites. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Martin Shaw · Europe’s Crisis: The Long Shadow of Genocide

Europe’s complicity has not only sustained the genocide of Palestinians, but also triggered a crisis of political legitimacy. If any political or moral credibility is to be salvaged, a different movem...

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If you’re in the UK, this C4 documentary on the Suez war that broke Britain’s imperial power is well worth watching, not least for its premonitions of America’s failure in the attack on Iran - like Suez undertaken together with Israel. www.channel4.com/programmes/s...

Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire

The dramatic inside story of the Suez Crisis, which changed Britain forever

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I look forward to contributing to this impressive lecture series on Genocide, Settler Colonialism, Modernity’ at the University of Potsdam. www.uni-potsdam.de/de/allg-sozi...

Dirk addresses the changing significance of ‘genocide’: ‘There is no mistaking the changing winds in the language of transgression. It is illuminating liberal permanent security as genocidal, thereby repoliticizing a concept whose foundations were flawed in its codification in the 1940s.’

Dirk Moses@dirkmoses.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Just out journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

‘The U.S. and Israel have employed so-called “double-tap strikes” in their campaign in Iran. The attacks, which involve aircraft bombing a site and then conducting further strikes, show a callous disregard for civilians by the US & Israel, & may show a pattern of seeking to inflict harm on Iranians’

Chris Osieck@chrisosieck.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Analysis by @ntabrizy.bsky.social and myself for @newlinesmag.bsky.social reveals that the U.S.-Israeli coalition has employed so-called double tap strikes, showing a callous disregard for civilians and a pattern of airstrikes seeking to inflict reckless harm on Iranians.

Ahead of direct talks between Lebanon and Israel, my assessment remains that the outcome for Lebanon depends on the ongoing U.S.-Iran contest of wills and "negotiation through fire" in the Gulf: What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon?

Until and unless Donald Trump ends the Gulf war, Lebanon will remain hostage to Israeli domestic politics

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