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The correct answer to everything tbh
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I am raising my money to fund my friend, Professor
@Jairo_I_Funez
’s legal defence. Jairo has been suspended by Texas Tech University for standing with Palestine. Every single share and donation makes a difference.
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What made me antizionist was working with Jewish communities jn Eastern Europe, early 90s. Zionist orgs were coming there to tell people that they were living in a graveyard and had to make Aliyah. They actively undermined efforts to rebuild Jewish life in E. Europe
True story: one big reason I'm anti-Zionist is Tal Becker. Becker came to my grad school for Israel week. A kid rushes into the library to ask people to attend because no one came. So, I went, thinking it would be interesting. I've never been so offended in my life. 🧵
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I’m thrilled that after almost 10 years at
@westernsydneyu
, having arrived as a Senior Lecturer in 2012, today I was promoted to Professor 🥳
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I want Tehan to know that if this becomes policy I will always pass every one of my students.
University students who fail half their subjects face losing HECS-HELP access as part of proposed higher ed overhaul
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The Hamas is worse than the Holocaust theory is the final proof that Zionism has nothing to do with care for Jews. If people can’t work that out then I don’t know what to say
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Every day I learn of a new horror of Zionism and more proof that it is in fact antisemitism
To give a sense of how far back this idea goes: in 1948, Israel sent letters to Holocaust survivors in DP camps informing them that they were now Israeli citizens and subject to a compulsory draft (source: Dear Palestine, Shay Hazkani)
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What makes it so is an international consensus to elevate the Holocaust above all in order to freeze racism in the past and in so doing allow the modern colonial order to persist free of the taint of race. The wilful denial of what race is is at the core
Truly I must ask, what makes Jewish people believe that our suffering is so unique that it justifies the colonization and slaughter of other human beings? For example, 10-15 MILLION Congolese people were murdered under the colonial direction of King Leopold of Belgium.
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Yes. I’ll say it. He looks like he just came out of the concentration camps
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I was contacted by the
@tonightly
producer to give advice on the preparation of this video. A thread.
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Same as racist. It’s not a slur, it’s a description.
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My favourite sign at today’s Sydney
#BLM
#blacklivesmatteraustralia
protest made by a very astute and brilliant scholar!
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‘Our academics will stand idle—that is until the dust settles…’
This was hard to write. “Are we indeed all Palestinians?”
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That terfs have a problem with Caster Semenya blows apart their professed core argument and demonstrates the extent to which it’s actually about a very narrow - misogynistic and white supremacist - vision of what ‘real women’ look like: Black women really can’t be women
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Where I have felt scared as a Jewish person: Eastern Europe. Where I have not felt scared as a Jewish person: among Palestinians.
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I’ve found the worst paragraph in this execrable piece of Holocaust revisionism. According to this ‘leading British historian and peer’ the Nazis did not deliberately murder children!
‘What Makes Hamas Worse Than the Nazis.’ A very important piece by leading British historian and peer Andrew Roberts.
@aroberts_andrew
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Stop conflating Jewish people with a genocidal ethnonationalist state challenge
School protests for Palestine risk isolating Jewish children who are already so frightened by rising antisemitism that many are choosing to hide their identity. 2/3
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No ceasefire though. The court agreed with all of South Africa’s arguments but still couldn’t bring itself to say to Israel lay down your arms
Israel has lost in the ICJ. The Court's order will stand as a permanent, authoritative record of the genocidal words uttered by the most senior Israeli government officials. An indelible stain on the Zionist colonial project
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I don’t think Germany has guilt for the Holocaust as such but rather that it uses its position as the ‘worst perpetrator of the only genocide™️’ to propel its Islamophobia, white supremacy & philosemitic antisemitism by portraying itself as the prime victim of the Palestinians
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I will never forget how African people were treated as they tried to flee Ukraine. This thread informs us of how they are doing. And it’s worse not better. An absolute shame on all of us
2 years ago I lived on the 16th floor of a high rise building in Dnipro, Ukraine. 2 years ago today, I woke up at around 6am and opened my twitter account to find out Russia had invaded Ukraine. (1)
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Please don’t read White Fragility, especially if you’ve never really read anything else about race. Start with something written by a Black or Indigenous or POC critical scholar from your own country.
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My new book
#WhyRaceStillMatters
is coming out with
@politybooks
on April 24 in the UK. I’ll be doing some readings and interviews and sharing some pull quotes from the book on here, FB and Instagram.
#racecritical
#criticalrace
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People who have read zero books on colonialism and race are pontificating on colonialism and race.
People who’ve written books on colonialism and race are choosing to prioritise their chairs and publishing deals.
We will remember where you stood in the midst of genocide.
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While universities, including my own, have committed not to collaborate with Russian institutions, when it comes to Israeli institutions apparently the situation is 'much more complex'
The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott.
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The problem with forgiving people’s antisemitism because we agree with them on their anti Zionist positions is that, paraphrasing Fanon, if someone is antisemitic they tend to be racist in general.
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Australia is a settler colony that’s brutalising Indigenous ppl and keeps asylum seekers in cages. It stopped Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust. It criminalises Muslims. It engages in imperial wars. And it blocks people desperate to leave Gaza. This tweet is bankrupt.
Australia is the best multicultural country in the world. Racism has no place here and I am deeply concerned in particular by the unprecedented rise in antisemitism over the last few months.
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The damage is done. Most people believe Hamas raped even if this story has been exposed as false. That’s because global Islamophobia has already structured their beliefs. We need to fight on all fronts.
Following
@theintercept
’s stunning revelations yesterday,
@wawog_now
& PYM activists held an emergency press conference outside the Times to demand the retraction of Anat Schwartz & Jeffrey Gettelman’s “Hamas mass rape” article and resignation of editors responsible for its lies
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It is the white liberal media that has to shoulder this. You are responsible. You have failed to show solidarity with the most vulnerable and exploited people in this society, all while pretending to care about what a supposedly silenced - but actually amplified - WWC thinks.
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The look on the Germans’ faces!
Director Basel Adra calls for Germany to “respect the UN calls and stop sending weapons to Israel” from the stage of the Berlinale
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I’m very pleased to have signed a contract with
@PlutoPress
for my next book, ‘A Drop of Poison’, on the ‘war on CRT’ - a cipher for any public discussion of race - and the threat to radical antiracisms
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If this doesn’t make you think: Nazis, then I don’t know what to say
Israeli police on Wednesday raided the anti-Zionist Jewish neighborhood in occupied
#Jerusalem
to take down Palestinian flags and brutally attacked anti-Zionist Jews, knocking them down on the road, hitting, and punching them in the face.
#Palestine
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Colonial capitalism
“A house on the beach is not a dream”: An Israeli real estate company specialising in Jewish settlements in the West Bank is planning for the day after. This is beyond aspirational, their staff is already working on plans.
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Israel does not run Britain or any other country. Stop platforming Miller’s barely veiled antisemitism. It’s offensive to the anticolonial cause and does not further understanding if we actually went to defeat Zionism.
"It's an indication of the way in which Israel runs the UK"
@Tracking_Power
discusses the Zionist influence on the UK lawmakers
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Israel has no right to self defence, neither in law nor morally, because it was established through violent colonisation and proceeded to attempt to annihilate Palestinians every day of its existence.
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Starting today. There's a link to readings if you want to follow along
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I’ll be there with the Jewish Bloc today!
Keep protesting, it gets more urgent by the minute. Sydney 1pm today.
#CeasefireNOW
#FreePalestine
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Silence all around from our craven academic institutions and many of our colleagues.
Israel airstrikes just killed Professor Nasser Abu Al Nour, Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the Islamic University of Gaza, along with 7 members of his family, sheltering in their home today.
May they rest in peace🙏
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Theory is for everyone. Theories are tools. Theories aren’t monolithic. Theories are flexible. Theories aren’t dogmas. Theories aren’t elitist. Theories are testable. Theories can be dumped. What else can theory do?
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@jonnoxrevanche
When I see arguments like this I was always wonder what would people prefer, that all celebs be like Scarlett Johansson?!
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Out of everything we have watched in the last four months, this is the worst thing I have seen. It may not hit like this if you don't understand Hebrew and you can't hear this absolute fascist, slave-owning aspirant, mocking these men's accents. I feel a deep sickness.
This is extremely disturbing and disgusting. Dozens of kidnapped Palestinians from Gaza being humiliated, forced to praise the soldier's family and say they will be their slaves. I'm afraid to imagine how much physical torture they had to endure before and after this was taken.
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Aboriginal woman Ash Barty has won Wimbledon on NAIDOC week. With all the other awful things happening in the world that’s some good news to wake up to 🖤💛❤️
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My biggest dream is that in my lifetime I can hear the words ‘welcome to Palestine’ said in a free Palestine from the river to the sea. These are the only conditions under which I’ll ever return to the place I was born.
"I was pretty horrified."
The psychological trauma over receiving the text, "Welcome to Palestine" from Vodafone to customers in Israel.
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A far right-wing hit on our comrade, the brilliant intellectual and public educator Jairo Fúnez whose solidarity with Palestine is in no way antisemitic. The alliance of Zionists and white supremacists is a threat to us all and to myself as a Jew. I stand with Jairo Fúnez.
So my university placed me on suspension today.
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I know we say this often, but paying the price for the Nazis is the veneer. Israeli settler colonialism uses our tragedy as legitimation but foundational Zionists did not much care about Jewish suffering. Zionism should be seen as integral to European colonialism
Palestinians should not be forced to pay the price for Europe’s persecution of Jewish people.
This burden was unjustly thrust on Palestine with the arrival of western-backed Zionist occupiers, but it was never theirs to carry:
Palestinian liberation is about Palestine.
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So was Herzl
Elon being anti-semitic and pro-Israel is entirely consistent. Balfour was too
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A letter signed by Gayatri Spivak, Rashid Khalidi, David Scott, Talal Asad,
@LalehKhalili
,
@PriyamvadaGopal
,
@lewgord
among many others, written by
@GavanTitley
and I in solidarity with race and decolonial scholars under attack in France
@openDemocracy
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He also says ‘we are too humane’ (for those who still insist that it’s the Palestinians who are the barbaric ones)
Israel’s Deputy Knesset Speaker says:
"We have been too humanitarian. Burn Gaza now, nothing less!"
Please, tell me how these words are not genocidal? & combined with Israel’s actions this month, how is this about self defence?
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Do people hate their kids so much they can’t wait for them to be back at school? After 5 weeks at home I’ve learned that kids can be happier when they don’t go to school. School can be a place of stress. Let’s use this time to think about how to radically change schools
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If anyone is interested in doing a PhD or a MRes in race critical studies, please get in touch. We need to build this area in any way we can.
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I think Jewish Zionism demonstrates very clearly why the focus on victimhood and trauma is an erroneous tactic for antiracism. We must insist on antiracism as a political, and not a moral, stance (as theorised by Houria Bouteldja). The latter reduces it to competing feelings.
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This is really a tragedy. May his memory be a blessing and may no other human being ever feel so much despair that they feel forced to make this ultimate sacrifice.
Absolutely heartshattering.
May the memory of 25 year old Aaron Bushnell be a blessing. May his sacrifice be a call to action for those with the ability to do something and a haunting reminder for those who refuse to change course.
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This is exactly the kind of thing they taught us as kids that the Nazis did to Jews. Exactly.
My friend and nurse in Gaza just told me that patients are coming in with gun shot wounds saying that Israeli soldiers in the north took the aid that came in, ATE IT in front of starving Palestinians. After they said they can come forward to receive aid, THEN STARTED SHOOTING!!!
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And here we are today reading prominent journalists such as Leigh Sales and Katherine Murphy say that the New Yorker should not have disinvited Steve Bannon in the interests of 'freedom', and white cis male comedians are telling us off for heralding in the right!
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Protect Jairo at all costs! Jairo is own of the most principled decolonial thinkers. He has done so much for political education. And never stops speaking out for Palestine. This is why they’re coming for him. I stand with Jairo!
So someone wrote a hit piece yesterday to try to get me fired. I won’t share it since they don’t deserve the attention. There are also 3 FOIA requests from the same conservative organization. Soon, they will receive an archive of all my emails. They already have everything else.
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Isn’t interesting that there are all these white people running around saying their countries are not safe for Jews and that’s why we need a place to escape to. A not so unconscious desire for us all to up and leave?!
The rise in antisemitism has reminded Jewish people of the reason Israel is of such importance to them. It is a statement that Jewish people have a right to exist.
My column on how the world’s universities, ours included, incubated the new antisemitism.
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I stand by this today more than ever even as I wish for a break between Jewishness and Zionism. It is up to us to make it so but we will not do this by making Palestine about us
While it’s important Jewish comrades are seen and heard on
#Palestine
, it’s also important solidarity with and understand Palestinian revolutionary voices and orgs like the PFLP/DFLP aren’t drowned out in the process. Comrade Alana Lentin explains it well in this article.
#Gaza
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I know everyone is differently positioned with regards to their safety to speak out, but there are too many notable silences from people in secure positions. You may think one voice less won't matter, but every voice counts and yours does too.
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Euro-Americans don’t ‘care’ about Jews. They have a self interest in defending the euro-colonial order, the most obvious bastion of which today is Zionism.
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Tweeting this demonstrates ignorance of the colonial context. A majority voted Melenchon in the first round. Massive abstention in Round 2 in protest against Macron. Therefore, this vote represents a majority of white settler colonials (descendants of slavers!), not Black people!
Le Pen overturns 2017 Macron majorities in majority black regions:
Guyana:
Le Pen: 60.7%
Macron: 39.3%
Guadaloupe:
Le Pen: 69.6%
Macron: 30.4%
Martinique:
Le Pen: 60.9%
Macron: 39.1%
Important & possibly uncomfortable lessons to be learnt for parties globally re “black vote”.
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WE WON!!! 70% of the Western Sydney University branch of the
@NTEUnion
voted in favour of this members’ motion in full solidarity with
#Palestine
and against the branch committee’s watered down foreshadowed motion. Despite shocking tactics, our members came out strong! 🍉🇵🇸
Tomorrow we’ll be moving a motion of solidarity with Palestine at the Western Sydney University branch of the NTEU. Fingers crossed comrades or if you’re a member make sure you register and attend the meeting to vote with us
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If I had patience I’d say that white Jews need to have a sit down and excavate why we have a need to feel persecuted, but I don’t have any patience left. Real antisemitism exists. We don’t need to invent it when it doesn’t. Especially not in the service of murderous colonialism.
BREAKING: it took 100+ days, but NSW police can now confirm there’s no evidence “gas the Jews” was chanted outside the Opera House.
@cameronwilson
& I investigated the authenticity of the AJA edited & distributed video
Then I was savagely targeted for doing accurate journalism
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Israel is slashing and burning, destroying every living being in its sights. And people are still condoning and justifying and excusing and cheering and crying wolf snd saying they deserve it and look at me, I feel unsafe. And I can’t stand any of you.
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After every Palestinian has condemned every single thing that the west might think is condemnable, they will still be killed, they will still be maligned and their land still occupied with millions as refugees. So let’s uphold their dignified right to refuse to condemn
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But the stage was set and the line was decided. What they wanted an academic opinion for was to rubber stamp an idea - that the 'left' (but really Black, Brown, Indigenous, feminist, trans people) are responsible for the increasing respectability accorded to white supermacists.
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This is something the unions haven’t even begun to think about as far as I know. We’re not being adequately compensated for effectively running the university from our homes. And still colleagues are willing to accept reduced salaries in the name of ‘saving the university’.
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People literally clinging to the underside of the Eurostar in desperation to reach the UK to safety could have been travelling for free if Europeans weren’t so blatantly white supremacist
This is a great initiative from Eurostar; but the contrast with non European refugees could not b starker. It demonstrates that safe routes for refugees are possible and no one escaping conflict should need to risk their life again to cross the Channel. A better way IS possible.
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A tiny boy
Liberated child prisoner Iyas Al-Khatib of Hizma embraces his family after being freed in the exchange
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RIP Sinead who would have been marching with us for a
#FreePalestine
#FromTheRiverToTheSea
🍉🍉🍉
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When exactly was this?! It was simpler when people who know nothing about racism didn't speak (unfortunately this never happened either)
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For those who may be interested, I have uploaded the text of my mammoth introductory
#racialcapitalism
lecture at
@westsyduics
today to my website. (Note to self: do not over prepare in future!) I will also share the recording when it is made available.
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Harry: ‘the thing about unconscious bias is that it’s no one’s fault’. We know why UB is so popular with universities and other institutions
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Black people, Indigenous people, Jewish people, all people are standing up for Palestine, not because it’s more important than anything and anywhere else, but because - truly - if Palestine is free we are all free. That the dominant require Zionism tells us we are all at risk.
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So much work has been done to paint Palestinian, Arab and Muslim men as violent misogynists. It’s so damaging
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Among everyone the most contempt I have is for Germany. We don’t want your philosemitism. It makes my skin crawl and worse
It is indescribable how worse it feels to live in Germany during such a grim time. I cannot walk outside, hear the language, speak to a German without feeling dehumanized. The grimacing stares from blue eyes haunt me. Eyes complicit in the murder of my people.
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I am looking for someone willing to write a 2500-3500 word entry on 'Antiracism, digital technology and social media' for the Routledge Encyclopaedia on Race and Racism section on 'Antiracism Mobilisations and Resistance'. Please share.
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Fellow non-Indigenous academics in Australia, time to mobilise against deaths in custody. 7 this year already. Please respond w/ ideas which could include boycotting institutions and events relate to the carceral complex as well as standard letter writing etc. I can coordinate
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I have been building this new syllabus - 'Politics, Power and Resistance' - for the last 3 weeks, non-stop. Soon, I'll share the plan, reading list and additional resources if anyone is interested.
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Even if every Jew outside Israel stopped being a Zionist it’s unlikely the west will give up supporting Israel. It’s too integral to the western determination to cling on to power & little to do w/ ‘protecting Jews’. The target must always be western dominance & white supremacy
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Epistemicide is happening in Palestine. Download this lecture slide and include it in your lectures this year
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I quite literally feel like we’re watching the Shoah before our eyes. And the fact is that the world powers had exactly the same response then. The only difference is that we couldn’t watch along. This is beyond everything humanly imaginable but here it is
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I am happy to have been Zoom awarded the 'Researcher of the Year Award 2020' for my school at
@westernsydneyu
for my article, 'Looking as White' on antiracism apps, in a special issue of
@IDjnl
edited by
@NasarMeer
. I was especially pleased given the attacks on race studies atm.
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So do none of the people who write for or subscribe to the Saturday Paper have a problem with the fact that Schwartz media won’t publish anything on Palestine?
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Twitter is not a safe or comfortable place for me right now but please don’t think Palestine is not at the forefront of my mind. Long live the Palestinian resistance. End Israel. Free Palestine.
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Solidarity to all my Muslim friends who will undoubtedly face the brunt of Islamophobia in the coming times.
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Zionism is racial-colonialism. It was always so, from the start. Jews need to drop it. That’s it
Zionism is extremely varied in the Jewish community. Try condemning the Israeli govt, settlements, Likud, etc instead of throwing around Zionism as an insult esp for Jews critical of Israel. You’re making us condemn our own communities to stand w/ Palestinians. It’s not helpful
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This myth of ‘dying quietly’ is so insulting. And yes, antisemitic. Like Zionism in general
Better to stand alone than to live at the mercy of others.
We are the first Jews in 2000 years who refuse to die quietly. We will continue to stand, to prosper and thrive.
We have survived exile, the inquisition, crusades, programs and the Holocaust.
We will prevail.
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I am delighted to announce the 2023
@westernsydneyu
Culture & Society online seminar series supported by
@westsyduics
‘RADICAL ANTIRACISM TODAY: New Books in Abolitionist, Anticolonial, Internationalist Antiracism’. See the thread for more details and how to register
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But guess what, you’re not Jewish. Many of us are standing with Palestine while you, as ever, are on the side of fascism.
Imagine you're a British Jew. You've just witnessed the worst atrocities against Jews since World War Two. And then a wave of anti-Semitic & pro-Hamas chants on Britain's streets. And now your national leaders fall over themselves to warn the country about "Islamophobia".
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Every time I am reminded that students have told me that profs are advising them not to seek me out as a PhD supervisor, I get really depressed. Students are working on race with profs who are not skilled in this area because they've been advised to avoid me :-(
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People like Fartlow who cry Holocaust, blood libel, etc. at every given turn endorsing the perpetrators - Germany - as having more knowledge of genocide and racism than South Africa is notable. Just like the Jewish Chronicle endorsing Douglas Murray’s whitewashing of the Nazis.
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A restaurant owned by an Australian-Palestinian man was fire bombed in Melbourne
CCV camera has been leaked the Burgertory shop in Caulfield Melbourne was definitely fire bombed early morning Friday as shown here on the video evidence.
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Solidarity with my friends in the Netherlands, especially Black peoples, Muslim people, people of colour and migrants who’ve long been victimised by the ‘white innocence’ undergirding the liberal racial state and who now have to put up with an open fascist as prime minister
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The last thing I want to see today on Holocaust Remembrance Day is western leaders, currently committing or underwriting genocide, lighting candles and donning yarmulkes. Our slain ancestors are spinning in their graves.
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‘Judeo-Christian’ is a racist construct in the service white supremacy of which Zionism is an integral part, globally.
A reminder that this isn’t just about the Jews. Or Israel. Or Zionists. This is a battle for western civilisation.
#endhamas
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