Yoav Galai
@yoavgalai.bsky.social
Formerly a photojournalist, a project manager in an NGO, now an academic based in London writing about visual politics and memory
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
Israel had already occupied Gaza City and forced its population out - in late 2023. The difference this time is that Israel pledges loud and clear to destroy the city in its entirety, and not to allow the population back. This is what it makes this occupation into a crime against humanity.
Biden's WH aided and abetted Stage 1 of Gaza genocide: siege, displacement, killing of at least 50k people (over 80% of them civilians), and obliteration of infrastructure. The Trump WH has aided and abetted Stage 2: starvation, mass destruction of Palestinian cities, preparation for expulsion.
By continuing business as usual, Israel’s international partners are allowing the Israeli government to continue with its genocidal campaign with no consequences beyond symbolic gestures of disapproval and statements. The time to act is now - me @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I live in Britain; I grew up in Israel. It’s painful to say, but we need real UK sanctions to save Gaza | Yair Wallach
Symbolic gestures and empty statements are no longer enough. In Israel’s globalised economy, here’s what will shift public opinion, says says senior lecturer in Israeli studies Yair Wallach
theguardian.com
Students made thus website after a doing week-long workshop with @trillingual.bsky.social on social justice and journalism. Some powerful stories from our graduates, and incredible visuals as well well worth a read at - rtn.earth
PIR at Royal Holloway@rhulpir.bsky.social · last yr.Last week, students embarked on an intensive week-long workshop on Social Justice Journalism led by @trillingual.bsky.social convened by @yoavgalai.bsky.social from PIRP. Students researched and wrote the articles, made the visuals and designed the website at: rtn.earth
Students of Law and Social Science are taking part in a week-long workshop on social justice journalism led by @trillingual.bsky.social and PIRP’s @yoavgalai.bsky.social Watch this space for student work! visualwriting.org/sj/
The Visual Writing module is a research-led course on Political Visual Literacy designed and taught by @yoavgalai.bsky.social whose eye for design can be seen in the website! Yoav's work on Political Visual Literacy is published open-access here: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
PIR at Royal Holloway@rhulpir.bsky.social · last yr.The in-person exhibition of student work from the Visual Writing module was a huge success and you can now see the students' work exhibited online: visualwriting.org/exhibition/ 🧑🎨🖼️
This is an exciting time for secrecy research and an important time to understand how central it is to our current crises. Do consider contributing a chapter to what we hope will be a new definitive volume.
SPIN Research Network@researchspin.bsky.social · last yr.🗓️ Less than a month to go! We’re seeking contributions for an edited volume on secrecy in an era of polycrisis. Call for Chapter Proposals for edited volume: Secrecy Studies: Enduring Themes, New Directions Details at: buff.ly/bSnIaw6 Deadline: 1st June
My latest article with Jinal Parekh: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... In this we look at how the British state shifted its focus from worrying about young South Asian men as a source of immigration fraud to South Asian women, and the consequences of this.
South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’
This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘vir...
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My piece on the latest Israeli plan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Seize Gaza, or make it uninhabitable. That’s Netanyahu’s plan – and either way he wins | Yair Wallach
The talk of a major new offensive may be strategic bluster, but it shows extremist policy is now mainstream, says writer and academic Yair Wallach
theguardian.com
If your cause leads to a rise in young people's suicides, self harm & utter terror; if your words/actions are pushing others to kill someone else's child then pausing & stopping that anti trans campaign may be the bravest thing you'd have ever done. You don't need to like s.o to do right by them.
My new open-access article in International Political Sociology is about “visual politics”, a growing subfield of International Relations. It considers how visual politics is structured to ignore race and racism and why it shouldn’t. academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
The Racial Visual Imaginary of International Relations
Abstract. Visual politics is a thriving subfield of international relations (IR) that traces its origin to the “visual turn” at the turn of the century. Ho
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