I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Interesting analysis arguing that HaDemokratim could end up with anywhere between ~18 and ~7 seats. Now I’m curious what the equivalent figures are for Place for all and Ra’am with Segalovitz (if they’ve even been collected). @ronskolnik.bsky.social

You also need clear achievements for palestinian leadership that allow them to counter hardliners.

If you want a better future for Palestinians and Israelis, your number one question should be how to generate sustainable leverage for Palestinians.

‘it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel’

Elderly man beaten for removing banner supporting Rabin’s killer, suffers brain bleed

Still no arrests a week after Ilan Manes, a former lieutenant colonel in the IDF, was assaulted by a gang of youths on camera near Mevasseret Zion

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Glad you’ve apologised. But you (and Cambridge, Liverpool and the GLP) could easily have known that denying obvious and easily verifiable plagiarism makes the racists look reasonable, the scandal more long-lasting and prominent, and Arday therefore more of a target, whatever your intentions were.

I reserve the right: A) to laugh at the Tory party because they're awful and the Tories failing is funny B) to be deeply alarmed about the collapse of the centre right and rise of the far right We can't have every election be a game of Russian roulette with our democracy

Danielle Blake SUPPORTER OF ARSENAL FC, CHAMPIONS@abradacabla.bsky.social · 4d ago

On both sides of the pond you get responses like this to people correctly saying “hey given that liberals can’t win every election forever, we really need a non-extremist right of centre party here” because they can’t see past the ends of their noses.

On Twitter rn the big discourse is that Nathan Cofnas has exposed some education theorist at Cambridge (pertinently: a black bloke working on racism in education) for committing plagiarism and maybe being a bit of a fabulist more broadly. As far as I can tell the evidence seems damning but we'll see

Je résume : un universitaire (Nathan Cofnas) qui a été dégagé de Cambridge après avoir publié des trucs bien sales sur la race et le QI a publié un post sur susbtack où il montre que Jason Arday (un prof de sciences de l'éducation à Cambridge) a plagié une énorme partie de sa thèse,

We put fresh findings of research discrepancies to Professor Jason Arday. He agreed to an interview, telling his side for the first time. “It’s soul-destroying because I’ve done everything I can to try and do the best I can," he said. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Jason Arday: I am not a liar, says star academic accused of plagiarism

The youngest ever black professor at Cambridge University claims allegations he is a fraud are cruel, racially motivated and do not account for his autism

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I agree that the role of AIPAC in US politics is often overstated, in the same way that the NRA serves as a synecdoche for a broad-based collection of interests, but the thing about spending $30 million on an election is that people are going to assume you have some kind of stake in winning it.

Charles Gaba ✡️@charlesgaba.com · 5d ago

Abdul was asked the does Israel have a right question four times in a row on CNN and he kept saying he thinks Palestinians and Jews have the right to self-determination and they wouldn't accept it as an answer. Makes you wonder what the question actually means!

This will be interesting on a variety of levels. www.timesofisrael.com/in-major-shi...

In major shift, Yesh Atid MK reportedly set to run as No. 2 in Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am party

Yoav Segalovitz, Jewish lawmaker who won trust among Arab public for fighting violent crime, will reportedly meet Abbas to join revamped, historically Islamist party next week

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"What we did not anticipate was that the organization would apparently interpret 'policing their literature' as involving actual police to prevent people from reading opinion pieces." "We once praised the American Diabetes Association’s courage. How things have changed." In @statnews.com

We once praised the American Diabetes Association’s courage. How things have changed

“The ADA is no longer what we’d call a profile in courage,” write Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch.

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New UEFA statement. "UEFA knows there is significant and growing opposition to FIFA’s scheme. FIFA cannot continue to use our sport to enrich themselves and their friends. We can grow the game correctly. It’s time to prioritise associations, clubs, leagues, players and fans"

Single strongest thing you could do to counter China is to make it easier for Chinese citizens to visit, study, work, live, and in certain cases attain refugee status in the United States btw.

neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 7d ago

siri show me a strong example of motivated reasoning

TBH I think "it is unlawful to destroy sufficiently rare books that are no longer in print without government permission" would be a totally fine law to pass.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 7d ago

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

1. I hope this (⩾year old) account is fake. 2. Cofnas and his ilk couldn’t’ve made up a post better able to make Arday’s defenders look foolish, provincial and ignorant of Carter–Fuck’s ignoble clients or racists the reasonable ones. 3. Is the GLP now in favour of SLAPPs? They weren’t before (1, 2).

Prof Jason Arday@profjasonarday.bsky.social · last wk.

If only academia could hold itself to the same high standards as the legal proffesion. Carter-Ruck are almost as inspirational as me✊🏻

I feel like the essentialization of Israelis as the pinnacle of colonization and cultural theft by people who are overwhelmingly white Americans functions to displace their own responsibility for colonialism and cultural theft.

Florence Ashley@floralashes.bsky.social · last wk.

“Spiritually Israeli” is a term I could really do without.

Big news in the Washington Post. Scotland's top rate of tax lost £30bn in revenue. An impressive feat when all of Scottish tax comes to about £20bn.

What I love about this story is that, at its core, it rests on the idea that French naval officers can identify members of the Shadow Cabinet from a distance, something most politicos can't do from up close.

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · last wk.

update: Chris Philp has invaded France.

Palestinian who snatched settler’s weapon was killed while unarmed, videos show An analysis of four clips capturing different angles of the shooting incident in the West Bank village of Tel calls into question Israel’s version of events. www.972mag.com/tel-palestin...

Palestinian who snatched settler’s weapon killed while unarmed

Analysis of four videos capturing different angles of the shooting incident in the West Bank village of Tel calls into question Israel’s version of events.

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This is a crazy thing to say. It’s like saying you can’t criticize your boss or employer because they pay your salary, except it’s even worse, because he isn’t paying her and she owes him nothing! You’re allowed to critique things! He should be grateful she cares enough to probe his work so deeply!

This is an amazing foreword. Morgan Ortagus is directly saying Arabs don't need sovereignty. She really views the region as one large group of tribal confederations to be managed by the US. As American empire gets dumber and more insular, it also becomes more racist.

Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · last wk.

Worth noting about Ortagus. And Sahnawi is a crook and an embezzler who owns a tonne of media outlets in Lebanon.

This is like saying "If Muslim people of Britain want to fight rising Islamophobia, the first thing they must do is condemn rape gangs in Rotherham." Saying people of a faith group should be held accountable for perceived actions of co-religionists before their concerns about bigotry are heard.

Jewish News@jewishnews.bsky.social · last wk.

Conservative Cllr Simche Steinberger fumes 'To be honest, if I was Haifa, I'd be ashamed to twin with Hackney in such a current situation'

Also most people who defend Arday don't really give a shit about how this whole thing will make scholars of color's lives and careers even harder. The racist academics are just bursting with glee right now. It's so depressing.

I think this is right?

ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · last wk.

Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...

David Latchman has been appointed Vice Chancellor of University of London He was found guilty of research misconduct by University College, London. He blamed his postdocs. Nice to see strategy, networking & playing the long game win out in the end 😉

Sadness and Horror at Cambridge University Some are angry about collapsing academic standards, others about how a young black man was failed, and many both Anger should be directed at those who failed in their duty of care, integrity & stewardship 21percent.org?p=4049