6. I, like millions of others, ask again: for the love of God, or for the love of any spiritual peace that one aspires to: please, please, let us find our humanity, and bring this killing & massacre to an end.

5. Arendt’s work suggests that when one decides some people’s lives are not as important as one’s own, then totalitarian thinking has become one’s preserve. In this case, you have become no more than an example & an exhibition of the ‘banality of evil’.

4. October 7th was outrageous. But so is this continuous massacre of civilians in Gaza. The massacre in Gaza can never be the answer for October 7th. Indeed, this response in Gaza highlights Arendt’s greatest fear: the infection of the body politic with totalitarian thinking.

3. Our govts must do all in their power to force a ceasefire. Children, women, civilians are deliberately targeted. For those who defend this murder of civilians & this destruction of univs, schools & hospitals;I can only give you the words of Hannah Arendt: the banality of evil.

2. How can the world’s universities, and those in the ‘democratic West’ remain silent? SOAS came out against this targeting of universities, academics & students in December 2023. I say again: we collectively need to demand a ceasefire.

1. A poignant open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities via @AJEnglish. This is an entirely legitimate & reasonable request. These individuals & their academics operate in the most trying & tragic of circumstances, & yet they persevere.

RT @UNRWA: The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza. Among them are 1 million children. Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bri….

RT @Pontifex: Tragic news continues to arrive in these days from the Middle East, especially from Gaza. I express my profound sadness regar….

Had to prune my twitter followers today. The racists on both sides of the divide, are out in full force. And I have no interest in either of them.

Copying in the President - @CyrilRamaphosa - so those around him can never claim they did not know. @DeliaByliefeldt.

This alone is enough evidence for the Minister to be fired. And let me blunt, you should be appointed to be a General because you are competent, not because you have a certain pigmentation. This is why our streets are rampant with crime.

A useful thread showing that the SANDF’s critical function is not defence but to serve as a social service for former ANC & MK combatants. Again, a nation’s resources was essentially used to support an incompetent liberation aristocracy. Until we break this, we have no future.

This needed to be said. The single bravest public intervention by a higher education leader in the UK. Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy via @ft.

RT @RediTlhabi: So, the reciprocal tariffs ranging from 25 to 40%, depending on the country, are now official. The deadline for ALL countri….

RT @RediTlhabi: This has to STOP!.

RT @antonioguterres: I am appalled by the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The last lifelines for survival are being cut off. Withou….

Life at SOAS is:

RT @BDHCLondon: .@SOAS University of London and @BRACUniversity in Dhaka have launched a joint PhD programme — the first of its kind in Ba….

5. In the end we all have to realise that whatever our rhetoric about freedom,democracy & human rights, it is our behaviour that ultimately defines us.If we behave no different from the fascists of the past & former & current autocrats,then we are simply like them in new clothes.