Tessera
Folgen

Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸

@nickthoburn.bsky.social

Professor of Sociology at University of Manchester, author of Anti-Book, Brutalism as Found, and Deleuze, Marx and Politics. www.brutalismasfound.co.uk / https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/anti-book

50 Posts307 Follower133 Folgt
Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸@nickthoburn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Huge props to the students at University of Manchester voting to demand UoM cut ties with Tel Aviv University, with an amazing 94% majority - and winning ‘cops out’ motion too 🔥✊🏼 manchesterstudentsunion.com/news/article...

University of Manchester Students' Union

Discover your student community at the University of Manchester Students' Union. Access support, join societies, get involved in campaigns, and make your voice heard.

manchesterstudentsunion.com

Netpol@netpol.org · 10mo ago

For the benefit of the cops and the Telegraph, "Intifada 87" is clearly a reference to the First Intifada, where Palestinian mass protests, civil disobedience and strikes were brutally crushed by Israel. Read a book, FFS...

Netpol@netpol.org · 10mo ago

On Tuesday we warned that the Home Secretary could "ban more groups as rebranded versions of Palestine Action. Legislation already makes this possible". Now it's happening

Telegraph headline: "Police to assess if pro-Palestinian group Intifada 87 broke terror laws". Subheading: "Counter-terrorism officers investigate whether name illegally supports Hamas, which was founded in 1987"
Netpol@netpol.org · 10mo ago

Yesterday's narrative of 7 October as ‘another 9/11’ – "yet another day torn free from any history or context" with only two sides – seeks to demonise all Palestine solidarity as "pro-terrorist." It is critical to understanding Britain's current crackdown on protest rights netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

Protesters against the banning of Palestine Action in Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025.
Netpol@netpol.org · 10mo ago

Yesterday's narrative of 7 October as ‘another 9/11’ – "yet another day torn free from any history or context" with only two sides – seeks to demonise all Palestine solidarity as "pro-terrorist." It is critical to understanding Britain's current crackdown on protest rights netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

Protesters against the banning of Palestine Action in Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025.
Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸@nickthoburn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Desperate to do anything and everything to keep the apartheid colony’s genocide on the road, the Labour government now appeal the granted right to an appeal. Keep digging you absurd ghouls

Netpol@netpol.org · 11mo ago

Today the Labour government is challenging the High Court ruling allowing Palestine Action's co-founder Huda Ammori to seek a judicial review of the group's ban as a 'terror organisation'. Don't believe for a second that a new Home Secretary means a change of direction www.itv.com/watch/news/g...

Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians@socispal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We’re a collective of sociologists in Britain calling on sociologists and sociological professional bodies to use their platforms to stand with Palestinians. We run events, calls to action and share teaching resources, see our website socispal.wordpress.com/teaching-res... and follow us for more

Teaching Resources

Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians – Syllabus Version 2, October 2024 The Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians (SISP) collective has curated a wide-ranging Palestine reading…

socispal.wordpress.com

Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultana.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Starmer’s Labour government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £2,000,000,000 for Elbit, Israel’s partner in genocide. This obscene deal must be stopped. They have Palestinian blood on their hands.

ALL SYSTEMS GO ELBIT Systems, which as Israel's largest arms firm is a key cog in the Israeli war machine, is close to winning a £2bn contract that would make it a "strategic partner" of the Ministry of Defence, working on the training of 60,000 British soldiers every year. Elbit Systems UK, its British arm, is bidding for the Army Collective Training Service contract. The chosen bidder will work with the MoD to transform military training "through digitalisation, simulation, a different relationship with industry, and by changing how and where the military trains" Many defence giants put in bids, but in February the MoD reduced the bidders to two: Elbit and Raytheon. The MoD paid the companies €2m each to develop their bids. The development period was supposed to run until mid-August, meaning the final decision is imminent. Elbit has certainly done its best to get the inside track with the ministry, appointing two top former MoD figures to its UK board of directors: Sir Simon Bollom (who made the move in June - see Eye 1651) and Sir Mark Poffley. The firm already has similar contracts with the MoD. Since 2023 it has run Project Vulcan, a €57m, ten-year contract of simulation-based training for tank crews. But the new deal would be a significant step up, both in value and in its relationship with the MoD. The Eye asked the MoD if it would be appropriate to give a company so involved in the Gaza war such a major contract, but it did not respond. • Meanwhile, the anger across Europe over Israel's attacks on Gaza didn't prevent Serbia from agreeing a $1.64bn deal, announced last week, for Elbit to supply "a range of defence solutions" including artillery-rocket systems and attack drones.
Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸@nickthoburn.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The obscenity that is UK imperialism and its Labour Party - close to giving a £2bn contract to Elbit, Israel’s main weapons supplier for the Gaza genocide (while proscribing those who seek to shut it down). You couldn’t make this shit up. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...

UK close to giving Israel's Elbit £2bn contract to train British soldiers

Elbit, which was the primary target of Palestine Action's activism, is close to winning a contract that would allow it to train 60,000 troops per year, according to Private Eye

middleeasteye.net

Global Sociologists for Palestine (GS4P)@gs4p.bsky.social · last yr.

[2/5] Also, if you have not already, please add your name to our petition in support of ISA's suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society. Your support is crucial to pressure National Sociological Associations in ISA for the continuation of the suspension. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Statement from Sociologists in Support of the ISA's Suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society

Statement from Sociologists in Support of the ISA's Suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society As sociologists deeply committed to the principles of justice, anti-colonialism, and the defense of l...

docs.google.com

Netpol@netpol.org · last yr.

Among the peers who signed the letter are Lord Pannick, a patron of the genocide deniers UK Lawyers for Israel; Baron Mendelsohn, a former chair of Labour Friends of Israel; and Lord Walney, a prominent lobbyist for Israel. There's a pattern emerging... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Minister dismisses peers’ claims that UK recognition of Palestine may break international law

Gareth Thomas says move is ‘political judgment’ after challenge from 40 members of House of Lords

theguardian.com