Lydia Wilson
@lsmwilson.bsky.social
Culture editor, New Lines magazine. Writer. https://newlinesmag.com/writers/lydia-wilson/
Editor’s Pick: The banning of the British activist group Palestine Action and the resulting public outcry reveal a steady erosion of rights that goes back a quarter of a century, writes @lsmwilson.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
How Britain Became a Country Full of Terrorists
The banning of the activist group Palestine Action and the resulting public outcry reveal a steady erosion of rights that goes back a quarter of a century
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“The bigger picture, of course, is that Palestinian Action is making a comment about upholding international law, laws that Britain itself has signed up to.” | @lsmwilson.bsky.social
How Britain Became a Country Full of Terrorists
The banning of the activist group Palestine Action and the resulting public outcry reveal a steady erosion of rights that goes back a quarter of a century
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NEW: Public protests for the banned activist group Palestine Action have seen thousands in the U.K. arrested as terrorists. Their handling and the trial of the group’s members are about far more than Palestine, writes @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social
How Britain Became a Country Full of Terrorists
The banning of the activist group Palestine Action and the resulting public outcry reveal a steady erosion of rights that goes back a quarter of a century
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I unpicked the detail of the Palestine Action legal cases and what I found was unexpected: this wasn't about geopolitics, really, but part of a far long trajectory of a crackdown on dissent in the UK. For @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
How Britain Became a Country Full of Terrorists
The banning of the activist group Palestine Action and the resulting public outcry reveal a steady erosion of rights that goes back a quarter of a century
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Excellent and deeply researched piece by @lsmwilson.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on the British Museum's obfuscation around its policy of referencing Palestine in public messaging newlinesmag.com/reportage/why-did-the-british-museum-remove-references-to-palestine
Why Did the British Museum Remove References to Palestine?
Experts have been surprised by a lack of open engagement on the issue, which has been raised with the UK Foreign Office by the Palestinian ambassador
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In defiance of its agreed obligations, Israel has created a financial crisis in the occupied territory that has left Palestinians increasingly desperate @lsmwilson.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...
The West Bank on Strike
In defiance of its agreed obligations, Israel has created a financial crisis in the occupied territory that has left Palestinians increasingly desperate
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An important new piece on what's going on at the British Museum over references to Palestine, from my colleague @lsmwilson.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...
Why Did the British Museum Remove References to Palestine?
Experts have been surprised by a lack of open engagement on the issue, which has been raised with the UK Foreign Office by the Palestinian ambassador
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Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been detained in Kuwait for six weeks without charge amid broader criminalization of speech and a denaturalization campaign | @lsmwilson.bsky.social
A Journalist’s Arrest Points to Diminishing Freedoms in Kuwait and the Gulf
Prize-winning, high-profile international journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been in prison in Kuwait for the past six weeks, with limited access to his lawyer. Charges are yet to be brought, but it is feared that he, and others detained with him, will be tried under new national security laws for posting footage and photos relating to […]
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As many Orthodox Christians mark the holiest day of the year, politicians on the American right have remained silent on Israel’s restrictions in Jerusalem — even after a rare rebuke from U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, writes @lsmwilson.bsky.social .
Long a Cause of the American Right, the Holy Land's Christians Face Israeli Restrictions Alone
Politicians on the American right have remained mum about Israel’s cancellation of a Palm Sunday mass in Jerusalem, even after U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, a staunch Christian Zionist, issued a rare rebuke.
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@lsmwilson.bsky.social has written (and is writing!) a ton of brilliant stuff on this - eg newlinesmag.com/argument/und...
Gone to Waste: The 'CVE' Industry After 9/11
After the rise of the Islamic State, I was part of this race for cash, working on CVE projects from media messaging to radicalization research, and it slowly dawned on me how flawed the industry is. N...
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Asef Bayat is a leading theorist of revolution and social movements. In a powerful open letter to imprisoned Iranian scholar Saeed Madani published by @newlinesmag.bsky.social, he reflects on the December-January uprising and what it might portend for Iran's future. newlinesmag.com/argument/fro...
From 'Woman, Life, Freedom' to 'Anyone Is Better Than These'
An open letter to Saeed Madani, an Iranian sociologist and journalist currently imprisoned in Iran
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A beautiful read on seeing the earth from space again, in its fragile, beautiful whole. Almost 60 years ago it brought the world together - could this happen again? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This Artemis moon mission is a truly unifying international project, one of the few we have left | Christopher Riley
For the first time in over 50 years, astronauts will see Earth from distant space. Let’s hope the images they send back of our fragile home bring some much-needed unity, says author Christopher Riley
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Recent Israeli restrictions on Palestinian Christian worship "drew criticism from across the Christian world, achieving the astonishing feat of uniting previously fractured communities — nowhere more divided than in Jerusalem itself." | @lsmwilson.bsky.social
Long a Cause of the American Right, the Holy Land's Christians Face Israeli Restrictions Alone
Politicians on the American right have remained mum about Israel’s cancellation of a Palm Sunday mass in Jerusalem, even after U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, a staunch Christian Zionist, issued a rare rebuke.
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From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social archives: As war escalates between Israel and Lebanon, @lsmwilson.bsky.social reports on how Israel’s ongoing bombardment has destroyed Lebanese heritage.
Lebanon’s Heritage Is Disappearing Under Israel’s Bombardment
The war has already damaged many lesser-known antiquities and poses a threat to sites of global importance
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In this provocative essay, @lsmwilson.bsky.social turns the lens on the academic world, showing how respected scholars in Epstein's orbit didn’t just tolerate but actively legitimized ideas underpinning male supremacy.
The Academic Justification for Male Supremacy
From Noam Chomsky to Larry Summers, elite intellectuals shared more than they want to admit with Jeffrey Epstein
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I was reading that stuff over the years. Fitting it all into the Epstein phenomenon is fascinating and terrifying. We know money pushes study directions but the idea that this small group of people shaped so much about our lives is mindboggling. And the Edge is Atlas Network (Kochtopus).
"It is clear, now, that Epstein and his associates engineered much of the backlash against the #MeToo movement. Based on what I know of academia, I have no doubt that, despite the high-level resignations, these networks will remain intact for a long while yet."- @lsmwilson.bsky.social #academicsky🗃
New Lines Magazine@newlinesmag.bsky.social · 5mo agoNEW: From Noam Chomsky to Larry Summers, elite academics shared more than they want to admit with Jeffrey Epstein, reports @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
📽️ @lsmwilson.bsky.social revisits the Epstein files, tracing how evolutionary psychology helped shape and legitimize his views on women and race, and how funding $20M a year in research lent a veneer of respectability to his “proclivities.”
Epstein’s Obsession with Evolutionary Psychology
New Lines’ Culture Editor Lydia Wilson revisits the Epstein files and focuses on one revealing thread: the role of evolutionary psychology in shaping and leg...
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When I saw Chomsky was in the Epstein files, I knew there'd be people I'd worked with - and I was right. As I dug into it, a horrifying picture of academia emerged. I wrote it up, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
New Lines Magazine@newlinesmag.bsky.social · 5mo agoNEW: From Noam Chomsky to Larry Summers, elite academics shared more than they want to admit with Jeffrey Epstein, reports @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
🚨 Dear @newlinesmag.bsky.social readers, A letter from our Middle East and Newsletters Editor, @kshaheen.bsky.social : newlinesmag.com/become-a-mem...
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An amazing collection of primary sources on how science is represented and how these representations evolved #histsci #philsci #hps
Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive
Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.
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Take 13 minutes to watch this Nan Goldin documentary on Gaza www.equator.org/articles/nan...
Gaza Notes • EQUATOR
Scenes from the destruction of a people
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Instead of withdrawing from Gaza, Israel has imposed a so-called "Yellow-Line," leaving its military occupying 58% of Gaza and forcibly confining Palestinians to the remaining 42 percent. This largely unmarked and lethal boundary functions as de facto annexation... 1/3
Festivities have returned to the place of Jesus’ birth after a two-year pause, but the shadow of Gaza, occupation and genocide was never far from the muted celebrations. @lsmwilson.bsky.social reports from Bethlehem.
Christmas Celebrations Are Returning to Bethlehem
But behind the still-muted festivities lies the shadow of Gaza
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Powerful. Christmas in Bethlehem last month “felt particularly joyful — welcoming back the spirit of the festival that is all about rebirth, goodwill and peace — even though the constant threat of violence, small and large, is never far from the surface,” my colleague @lsmwilson.bsky.social writes ⤵️
Lydia Wilson@lsmwilson.bsky.social · 8mo agoI wrote about the Christmas I just spent in Bethlehem - the joy was palpable after 2 years of cancelled festivities, although the violence, occupation and genocide remain. For @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/chris...
NEW: Christmas festivities have returned to Bethlehem after a two-year pause, but the shadow of Gaza, occupation and genocide was never far from the celebrations, reports @lsmwilson.bsky.social from the ground in @newlinesmag.bsky.social . newlinesmag.com/essays/chris...
Christmas Celebrations Are Returning to Bethlehem
But behind the still-muted festivities lies the shadow of Gaza
newlinesmag.com
I wrote about the Christmas I just spent in Bethlehem - the joy was palpable after 2 years of cancelled festivities, although the violence, occupation and genocide remain. For @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/chris...
Christmas Celebrations Are Returning to Bethlehem
But behind the still-muted festivities lies the shadow of Gaza
newlinesmag.com
Israel is bombing southern Lebanon again This is what the Israelis call ceasefire: you cease, we fire
