Clive Gabay
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Writes stuff: Jewishness, Zionism, Race, Pol/Soc Theory, Arab Jews. "Lefty Twat". #FirstGen #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine he/him. @clivesg .bsky.social
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Protestors burned a police van. The Government burned Grenfell. If we're going to talk violence then let's talk about all of it.
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Academic boycott detractors: "Israeli universities are the wrong target! It's where all the liberal peaceniks are! And what about all the Palestinian students???"
Israeli Universities: "We manufacture Palestinian death! 🥳🕺"
Fast, Furious, and IDF-ready:
TAU's engineering students have turbocharged IDF's remote-controlled vehicles, extending their control range to tackle the harshest conditions. With a commitment to saving lives, this breakthrough promises to revolutionize battlefield strategies.
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Accusing Jews, collectively, of dual loyalty is indeed antisemitic. Accusing Lord Polak, who has worked to represent Israeli interests in Parliament for decades, of having a loyalty to those interests, is not even remotely antisemitic. Thank you for your concern and do one.
Accusing a Jewish parliamentarian of not being loyal enough to the UK because he’s a supporter of Israel is disgusting. These people seem to have no idea of the age-old tropes they’re repeating, or else they just don’t care.
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When "Never Again" becomes "Again! Again! Again!". Brought to you by Times of Israel.
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This is a logical outbreak of our philosemitic era. Jews must conform to European imperialism or face state violence. Sick of seeing cops, politicians, scholars and commentators continue to try and squeeze Jews into a box to justify their penchant for racist imperial violence
Police are attempting to arrest Jews in prayer.
We shout “let us pray” for Palestine.
The police have confiscated copies of our speeches.
GET YOUR COP HANDS OFF OUR JEWISH COMRADES
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"settler" and "colonial" is literally how many early Zionists and founders of the State described what they were doing. Please reckon with that first before pronouncing on "Jewish self-determination", how it is constituted and thus what 'denying' it means.
Disgusting that mover of Palestine motion compared Israel to Franco and delegitimised Israel as "settler colonial", a clear denial of Jewish self determination and possible breach of IHRA definition.
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I've been unable to express myself on here since Saturday. I've felt numbed by the onslaught of savage violence. I also think it's unnecessary to speak just for the sake of it. However, two things have shifted that for me.
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Just watched last night's
@BBCNewsnight
with
@Dannythefink
and
@RivkahBrown
. Really important to disabuse the notion that the existence of the State of Israel guarantees Jewish safety (
@Dannythefink
's argument) 🧵
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Didn't expect much better from Jonathan Freedland on this, but he now joins David Baddiel as a self-anointed and massively platformed expert on antisemitism who is willing to throw Jews he doesn't like under the bus.
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The article on philosemitism during the Corbyn-era Labour Party that I had accepted by a journal has finally been squashed by the publisher's lawyers. /1
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Lost £1800 out of my wages today, and my employer will repeat this for the next 2 months, *even though* all of my marking has been completed. They are refusing to budge on this & are the most punitive institution in the country. Pls donate to the
@qm_ucu
fighting fund if you can
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Maybe if you'd asked some of the Jewish people in the crowd protesting against the genocide in Gaza how they felt, you might have thought twice about weaponising our community to pursue your own party interests
So as a “tolerant” country are we just going to accept that every weekend, Jewish people will have to adjust to avoiding central London? Altering their journeys to avoid being uncomfortably at train stations?
Not a glowing endorsement of multiculturalism
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My employer, for whom I have been working well beyond contracted hours in order to cater for students I care about during a global emergency (at a time when I am meant to be working to contract), has today told me it is going to dock my pay for strike action. 1/4
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My colleague Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kavorkian was attacked by her main employer, arrested, and subject to inhumane treatment while held under custody.
@QMUL
must condemn this treatment and cut ties with Hebrew University immediately
#IStandWithNadera
@qmulPalestine
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Been a bit quieter on here these last few weeks as been organising this👇with
@SamiaKhatun
! 1 Nikahnama, 1 Ketubah, and oodles of joy!
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10 years and one month after getting my PhD, I have finally had official confirmation that I can read. I am therefore now a Reader in International Politics 🥳 This wouldn't have happened without some awesome people, some still in
@QMPoliticsIR
and some gone and sorely missed 🙏
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I have just resigned as external examiner for IR degrees at
@UniOfBath
@PoLIS_Bath
over
#USSmess
and
#FourFights
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
@UCUBath
@UCU
@QM_UCU
@JosephineCumbo
Massive shame it's come to this, but EE roles are largely performed on good will
#GoodWillInTheBin
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In which
@BoardofDeputies
once again makes it much harder for anyone to tell the difference between the organisations purporting to represent British Jews and adjuncts for Israeli govt policy. People like this pose as arbiters of antisemitism & consistently make matters worse.
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Race is not a 'feeling' or an 'identity'. It is not something that you choose to lean into or out of. Watching Jason Lee's interview with David Baddiel, and it's depressing how powerful this liberal understanding of race-as-identity has become.
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THREAD: Clearly the question of Jewish ethnicity is fraught. On the one hand, when you have Jews of different ethnicities then it's difficult to say that Jews - as Jews - constitute an ethnic group /1
I've just been on the BBC's Politics Live where the BBC literally just asked four non-Jews if they agreed with me that Jews are an ethnic minority. Imagine if I was Black and four white people were asked to judge if I was a member of an ethnic minority. It would be as offensive.
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These numbers are equivalent to some of the biggest synagogue memberships in the UK. Really feels like a rubric has been crossed
#FreePalestine
#CeasefireNow
The Jewish bloc is over 3000 strong today. Several Jewish BJA members have brought their parents. The shift is no longer just among young Jews: the genocide is crystal clear for all to see. Free Palestine. ✊🏿✡️
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There is an almost uniform, top-down, international and governmentally-led dehumanisation of Palestinians happening at the moment, and always. 'Israel has the right to defend itself' being used to justify the murder of Palestinians in Gaza, of all ages.
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Germany, where you can be Zionist, but you can't be Palestinian, or Jewish.
BREAKING
German police are now arresting people outside the building where the event was taking place. Those arrested include Udi Raz from Jewish Voice for Peace.
Disgusting behaviour from the police, but unfortunately not surprising!
#PalaestinaKongress
#WeAccuseGermany
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Any Ottomanists out there know what the medals my ancestral grandfather is wearing (if they are indeed medals)? At the time of the photo (1880s) he was the Hakhambashi (Chief Rabbi) of Halab/Aleppo/Aram Zoba
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People often misunderstand ethnic cleansing/Nakba. They think it means people being literally kicked out of their homes by an invading force. But dropping a leaflet that says "leave or die" and then flattening your neighbourhood so you can't return is also ethnic cleansing/Nakba
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This is such a non-story that
@JewishNewsUK
didn't even contact me, or any of the organisers, for comment. I stand by every word I said at the event, and every word they've grasped from peering at my Twitter feed.
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@elivalley
is a provocative and ardent opponent of fascism and racism both outside, but also, inside Jewish communities. This is why he is currently being slurred by alt-right Jewish commentators as an antisemite. White supremacy is in our communities, and needs confronting
I spoke to
@StanfordDaily
about art that malicious smear-merchants like
@bariweiss
pretended was antisemitic:
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A 🧵for people scared of speaking up: From the ages of 6 to 18, I attended and later took local leadership positions in a hard right Zionist youth group called B'nei Akiva (BA). This was weekly meetings, summer camps, weekends away; it was full on.
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Where to start with this? Whether most Jews or not want peace is not the point. Zionists on the other hand, especially those who live and vote in Israel, or fund the regime from abroad, regularly tell us clearly that actually they want genocide.
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Full list of ppl murdered by state violence included in the Roger Waters concert in Berlin last night: Sophie Scholl, Mawda Shawri, Shirin Abu Aqla, Masha Amini, Anne Frank, Philando Castile, George Floyd, Stanislav Tomas, Breonna Taylor, Adama Traore, Rachel Corrie, Blair Peach.
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So if I stop talking about white privilege will working class white kids start doing better at their under-funded schools, read more books in their closed down libraries and have better access to extra-curricular activities in their austerity-ravaged community centres? Cool cool.
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So what we get is a conflation of the fights over Corbyn with whether someone is deemed legitimate to speak about antisemitism. Apparently pro-Corbyn Jews were 'over-represented' during 2015-19, and thus didn't need to be included in this show (which is based on 13 interviewees).
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I'm not an expert on
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and have already spent 2hrs of my Saturday reading
@MRichterMontpet
&
@alirhowell
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@ole_waever
&Buzan's rebuttal. I'm not qualified to wade thru the allegations of misrepresentation. What I will do though is respond to some...
#SecuritizationTheory
is racist, anti-black, methodologically white, civilizationist & supremacist. Claimed article by Howell&Richter-Montpetit in SecurityDialogue Aug19. The theory’s creators
#BarryBuzan
& I now got reply publ’ed w many hurdles
#SdScandal
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It is possible to both recognise the structural differences between these two things, to contextualise and explain, AND deplore them both in the same terms. We shouldn't be distracted by false reporting (like the 40 babies story) into downplaying the real tragedies.
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Jonathan Freedland says that his choice of interviewees for his Royal Court show about histories of antisemitism and how they insert themselves into the present was framed by a 4 year period and whether someone was 'pro' or 'anti' Corbyn in that period.
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My Egyptian family didn't to go to Israel in the 1950s, because of what was happening to Arab Jews there. The last Jews in Yemen have chosen not to go to Israel. Millions of Jews fleeing Europe b4 & after the Shoah, chose not to go to I/P. Is this not self-determination?
Anti-Zionist Jews in Britain might not be bothered denying themselves the right to self-determination, but they should remember they’re also denying that right to millions of Jewish refugees and their descendants.
You might not need that right, but they did and they still do.
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Hi
@MarcusRashford
, my little boy got inspired by you to do this 👇🏼and wanted to say thank you for everything you've been doing! 💪🏻
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This isn't about 'both sides' or drawing equivalences. It's about holding lots of things at once, even though they're painful. It's about doing the exact opposite of what most Western political leaders are doing at the moment (and also looking at you Narendra Modi).
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I have 16 dissertations to mark, with a marking time of approximately 3-4 days. For not doing that work, my employer wants to deduct 100% of my wages for *42 days*. Since reaching an agreement with
@QM_UCU
a couple of months ago, campus had been a nicer place to be. No longer.
100% deductions for MAB elsewhere: resulting in dreadful situations for students and staff.
QMUL Senior Management: “hey! Let’s do that AGAIN! Now. Revert on our two-month-old good practice.”
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Some other universities are NOT docking staff pay, in light of this global emergency. They have chosen to hold an olive branch out to staff, support them at a time of great stress and anxiety, and perhaps improve industrial relations for a post-COVID-19 world. Shame on
@QMUL
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Another wonderful (x a million) colleague leaving
@QMUL
, pushed out by a destructive management culture. Whatever the outcomes of this industrial action,
@QMUL
has ruined its reputation, a tragedy for the working class students it purports to care so much about.
Last week I resigned my post at QMUL. Although the sector as a whole is becoming inhospitable & I loved my students & colleagues, QMUL managerial decisions made staying untenable. For me the last straw was the cruel, craven call by management for students to snitch on us.
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This is the Israeli state showing us what it really is, again. Murray is a Holocaust denying great replacement theory propagator. It has always been a myth that Israel is somehow central to Jewish safety and liberation. This shows how shallow that claim always was.
#FreePalestine
A tremendous honor to receive this award in Jerusalem from President Isaac Herzog (
@Isaac_Herzog
) and Minister Amichai Chikli (
@AmichaiChikli
) for being a friend to the Jewish people and fighting the resurgence of anti-Semitism.
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Arguably no one who believes in a Jewish (or any) ethno-state should be considered a leftist, but given that there are many who consider themselves to be on the left who simultaneously believe in the legitimacy of a Jewish ethno-state, this pretty much nails it.
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This is why it remains important to talk about Zionism. Zionism today (arguable ever) isn't a desire or project for Jewish safety. It isn't a historical and cultural longing for and access to holy sites. It's a project of racialised accumulation, dispossession and settlement.
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There is venn diagram of people who write this stuff and objectively poor scholarship. Both of these editors have published (or tried to; I've knocked back one of their books in the past) polemical, poorly substantiated texts that make no contribution to the pursuit of truth & 1/
The right-wingers really are spoiling us these days...
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There are still 1000s of Jews living in Iran and Morocco. Utter clown. You don't have to believe that Jews lived utterly free of strife in Muslim majority societies to know that they lived better lives than Jews in Christian majority Europe, and that many never wanted to leave.
Based on tweets like this, you might conclude the Jewish populations of Arab countries only moved to what would soon become Israel because of "Zionist ideology". In reality, they were forced out by the Muslim majority. Without Zionism, they'd likely have been slaughtered.
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It's very common to hear the refrain that Zionism is simply the Jewish people's "fundamental right to self determination". Funnily enough, it's not that simple 🧵
@CliveSG
@kellyjobluen
@SantiagoVargasN
I never suggested for a second that “all Jews think the same”. (Two Jews, three opinions!) My claim is that a majority support Israel as a home for the Jewish people, exercising their fundamental right to self determination, and that this should be taken into account.
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In comparison to Israeli elderly and infant victims, there is also a wholly predictable absence of care and outrage about the 260 children who have been bombed to death in Gaza since Saturday.
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Freedland's 'expert' on antisemitism for the play was Dave Rich, a deeply divisive figure among those who study and fight antisemitism. Rich also acts as one of Freedland's interviewees (from which Freedland constructed the play's dialogue).
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No data is given to back this, but if even if this was the case, does that mean that everyone who doesn't like Margaret Hodge or Tracey A-O (2 of the interviewees) are definitionally 'pro-Corbyn'?
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I spend 3 weeks reading Edward Said with my undergraduates, and they never fail to be bowled over and inspired by his ideas. Evergreen, and sorely missed: Edward Said seems like a prophet: 20 years on, ‘there’s hunger for his narrative’
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Another classic upside down exhibit of bonkers philosemitism from Germany. A Biennale gets cancelled because of the Facebook posts of one its Bangladeshi curators. Said Biennale gets its sponsorship from the legacy company of IG Farben, manufacturer of Zyklon B.
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Supporters of the IHRA said that this wouldn't happen, that it wouldn't be deployed to conflate scholarship on Palestine with antisemitism, and suppress the former. Surprise surprise we have the latest installment of how misguided that belief was. Solidarity with
@ssen03
.
unfortunately my book talk at the
@UofGlasgow
is under scrutiny due concerns expressed by the uni’s Jewish Society. Here is a letter from
@OfficialBrismes
expressing concern regarding this matter and the university’s adoption of the IHRA definition
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Iraqi Muslim Communist Party members taking bullets in protest against being separated from their Iraqi Jewish comrades in prison in the 1940s
in the interests of trying to get something positive on the timeline...
can you quote retweet or reply to this tweet with an example of a thing or an event that epitomises SOLIDARITY to you. it can be historical, contemporary, something you've experienced personally, whatever.
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Benny Morris, once famous for telling the world what Palestinians had been trying to tell the world for decades, that the Nakba was real, only to become even more famous for telling the world that he only wished the Nakba had been more deadly. A racist AND a bore.
'I'd rather be a racist than a bore' – Israeli historian Benny Morris at
@LSEnews
, when some of his quotes on Palestinians as a 'time bomb', a 'fifth column', and 'wild animals' were put to him by students
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Forgot to take the picture last night, but liberation never gets old. Pesach Sameach, and Free Palestine
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Editor of the Jewish Chronicle talking like an actual Nazi (not for the first time).
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Large numbers of Jewish & Israeli members of staff have been trying to meet with Senior Management for 3 years to talk to them about the problems with their adoption of the IHRA, and the uncritical and exclusive relationship it has with the uni jsoc, which we probably outnumber.
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(6) Rather, authors need to be historicised, and their categories not treated as necessarily transhistorical and universal. F/more, the idea that 'of course they were racist, these were racist times' ignores the large canon of pre-1945 anti-racist scholarship
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This is not whatabouttery. There is a very direct and structural relationship between state and police violence, the constriction of space for peaceful protest through said violence (physically i.e. kettling, and legislatively), and violent responses. Read Fanon
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Director of SOAS: "It's fine to use racial slurs because I'm from Africa. And now I'm going to use it again in my Twitter thread because I'm from Africa. And you can't disagree with that if you're not from Africa" Also Director of SOAS: "iDenTIty PoLITics iS BAd":
1. I notice some individuals deliberately misrepresented a conversation in a student meeting yesterday. The video is deliberately cropped in a way to misrepresent. Unfortunately many others have rushed to judgement without the full facts. So let me explain what really happened:
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Partly (because it's *also* racist) this is structural. Journalistic and photographic reporting is near-impossible in Gaza. Many journalists in Gaza are shielding. There are no equivalents to the army-led tours that have taken place of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, the site of a massacre.
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That they have nothing legitimate or insightful to say about antisemitism in the current conjuncture? That they don't share some of the feelings that Freedland's interviewees expressed? But also hold different feelings, that might be worth mining?
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Ooh, something about
@jeremycorbyn
@jewdas
@boardofdeputies
@judithbutler
#zionism
and
#jewishness
, all in one article, and all open access in
@Thesis11
you say? Ok then, here ya go:
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But it's immoral to reflect this structural and intentional dehumanisation back onto Hamas's victims. Yes, Palestinians and supporters of Palestine are constantly asked to condemn, in ways that Hasbarists are not. And this needs to be addressed.
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If someone tells you it's complicated, what actually needs to be made complicated is their Zionism. The struggle for freedom and dignity is NOT complicated. It never has been, and it never should be.
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I am working these additional hours because I care for my students, a fact that my employer is always very happy to exploit. This is what forces staff to go out on strike, because when we don't nothing changes and things just get worse. In docking our pay, when we all have 2/4
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In the past 24 hours, I have personally heard of a mother and her baby trying to get out of Gaza, being given permission, but having to return after Israel bombed the Rafah crossing, and a friend of a family of ten people who have been kidnapped by Hamas.
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"How come a Christian can be an Arab but a Jew cannot? Why should it arouse such amazement, then, when I say that I am an Arab Jew? I am always told that I am Iraqi. Where is Iraq— on the moon?'" Shimon Ballas
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But it's important not to dehumanise the actual victims of Hamas's violence. I've seen too much of that, and it's not ok.
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For instance, there are all kinds of angry questions to be asked about the blindness and violence of holding a rave next to a giant open prison, but that doesn't mean that the people who attended it deserved to die. And yes, I've seen people callously making that suggestion.
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I was there for this speech yesterday. It's being used to make some very sweeping points. I've got some thoughts about it...
The problem and reason why this is a road to nowhere is if it wasnt about stopping Israel bombing, it would be about bankers, or about communists, or about Jews in the media. Antisemitism exists because there is always an obscure justification. In reality its evangelised bigotry.
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The claim of transhistorical and generalised anti-Jewish antipathy across the Maghrib and Mashriq is a product of contemporary Islamophobia. It is deeply intertwined with the idea of Europe as a civilised space.
One of the claims regarding the status of Jews as inferior "protected" minority under Islamic rule, is that their testimony didn't count in the Islamic court against Muslims.
I'm reading 16th century Islamic court records in Jerusalem, this is clearly untrue 1/
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Been having this conversation with my students this week. Settlers are *made* via colonial proprietary relationships to land. Settlers do not pre-exist this relationship. People moving somewhere else to live does not necessarily make them settlers, and is the historical norm.
Here's the thing. Settler colonialism is inherently genocidal. Historically, people have found peaceful ways to move & live elsewhere with new neighbours in reciprocity. Settler colonialism isn't one.
This is why there's so much spitting froth at 'decolonization'. It knows this.
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And it is all of a part with the Government's anti-protest legislation, and sabre-rattling over 'free speech' for racists, terfs and other assorted bigots on university campuses. Free speech for some, but not for all, evidently. End.
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bills, rents, mortgages to pay, when food is scarce and costly to get hold of, and when we are struggling to support students who are rightly anxious about their health and degree outcomes, my employer is illustrating that it doesn't care about its staff, or students. 3/4
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(11) ...makes us think more seriously about where our categories come from, how they are far from neutral, and may reflect knowledge systems that have done and continue to do great violence, they that wouldn't be such a bad thing.
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'Cultural Marxism' is not a political position. It is an updated form of the term 'Judeo-bolshevism' and directly emerges from and feeds conspiracies about 'white replacement'. I don't care who says it, or what they think it means, it is deeply racist and dangerous.
This is utter nonsense!
'Cultural Marxism' has not been 'misappropriated' by the far-right. It IS a far-right conspiracy
It doesn't "inadvertently" act as a dog-whistle. It IS a Nazi talking point
Shameful attempt by Andrew Percy to avoid the fact his party has a Nazi problem.
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Apparently JK Rowling, a non-Jewish white woman who deploys antisemitic tropes in her writing, who fans a movement with significant antisemitic overtones, on a day when those overtones appear in the manifesto of a white supremacist manifesto, is a 'defender of Jews'.
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(10)...that actively reproduces colonial forms of knowledge and centres a sanitised version of European teleology that is highly raced. Not all work in the field does this, but if a "threat" to our "methodology of classificatory differentiation"...
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A postscript: People currently experiencing violence, or with loved ones experiencing violence, can generally say and react however they want. This thread is not aimed at them, and the people anonymously referenced are not them either.
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I'm fine. I'm an established scholar and I've moved on to other things. But for early career scholars, and particularly minoritised ones, this threat is very very real, and is already harming or closing down careers. /9
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I even think of the conscripted 18 years olds whose lives are sacrificed by the State in the name of ongoing apartheid and settler colonial dispossession. None of this looks like Jewish safety to me.
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Tbf, these takes aren't really weird at all. They're the product of centuries of specific forms of liberal amnesia that have been necessary in erasing ongoing forms of colonial violence and racist historical excision that maintain the idea and material reality of 'Europe'
'Now the unthinkable has happened to them, and this is not a developing, third world nation, this is Europe.'
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People talking about Albert Zemmour's Algerian Jewish 'trauma' as an explanation for his deep islamophobia and revanchism have clearly never heard of Myriam Ben, Daniel Bensaïd, or Jacques Derrida.
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In defense of German colonialism which provided the template for the Holocaust and death-marching 100,000 Herero and Nama? *That* German colonialism? Nice.
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Which all in all points to the perniciousness of our philosemitic moment, and the very real threat to freedom of speech that it has generated. Anti-antisemitism has become a cudgel to clamp down on free speech, hence things like this: /8
🚨🪧🪧🚨
The Tories want to ban public bodies from engaging in BDS and other ethical boycotts on the grounds of protecting Jews.
This morning, Jewish activists were out on Westminster Bridge to say loud and clear: Not In Our Name!
#JewsForDemocracy
#ResistTheBoycottBill
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Far right antisemites have come for this principled and powerful scholar and voice for Palestinians. We live in an upside down world where the racists get to decide what racism is. Solidarity ✊🏻
So my university placed me on suspension today.
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From its inception, the State of Israel has only guaranteed the safety of *some* Jews, and indeed actively endangered the lives of others
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Presumably all the 'new antisemitism' people will have something to say about German Zionists calling Germany the Jew of of the nations...
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Philosemitism relies on the same kinds of tropes as antisemitism. It rests on tropes about Jewish ingenuity, wealth, survival, etc. It often reinforces eugenicist conceptions of Jewishness. Zygmunt Bauman proposed the term allosemitism to encompass both anti and philosemitism /1
This really helps to sharpen things. There is a debate raging within Jewish communities - what do we ask from non-Jews to do about antisemitism?
And there are two answers:
anti-racism vs. philo-semitism.
These are radically different paths.
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I've read the EHRC report. I'm struck by the mundanity of the findings. This isn't the same as saying that they're unimportant. What it means is that they seem unexceptional when considering the ways in which public bodies deal with and perpetuate racism. /1
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Retired Major General of the IDF Giora Eiland compares Gaza to Nazi Germany and calls for the obliteration of the whole population of Gaza.
Full translation of Giora Eiland's genocidal column in Yediot Ahronot.
I expect all relevant parties to start issuing arrest warrants and writing up prosecution files.
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"Support for Hamas" will presumably be open to be interpreted as any material support for anything happening in Gaza i.e. sending cash to help rebuild homes that the Ministry of Public Works or Local Government is overseeing. Support for Gaza will = support for Hamas
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David has decided to drop another 'Jews don't count' bomb. Problem is, whenever he does it, he illustrates an ignorance of scholarship on race and ethnicity, and shows how *only* white Jews count for him:
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(9) This is certainly a discussion that needs to happen. The categories deployed by much conventional and critical IR scholarship rests on categories (failed states, good governance, international anarchy, democratic peace, security/insecurity, democratisation, etc)...
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I am an external examiner
@aberdeenuni
and unless threats to dock staff pay for asos/not rearranging teaching is dropped I shall be writing to vice chancellor Ian Diamond on Monday morning to resign.
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This is my first year as an external examiner
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If this intimidating threat of 100% salary docking for staff taking part in ASOS continues, I will resign.
Solidarity
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