Chris Rossdale
@crossdale
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Teaching at @SPAISBristol. Writing about militarism, policing, racism, rebellion.
Bristol
Joined April 2008
Brand new article, in which I examine how arms companies - Thales in particular - try to legitimate themselves through policing discourses, and think about what it means to situate the arms trade as an integral component of global policing. https://t.co/OUbfIN6D5B
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Abstract. As the beating heart of global circuits of violence, arms companies face a constant crisis of legitimation. Tracing how these companies seek legi
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the lesson of zohran mamdani walloping one of the most racist campaigns in modern us history on the largest turnout since 1969 is that democrats need to move to the right
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They thought they were going to get a dumb angry punk ranting. Instead they got articulate and considered responses to each question with facts to back it up when needed. Their hope to further vilify me couldn’t run, so they target Louis to make an example for sitting with me.
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Greta: They tortured me Online Zionists: Greta is obviously lying Israeli government: Yes, we tortured her, and we’re proud
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While Israelis are celebrating wildly the release of their hostages, Palestinian families are terrorised that, if they dare celebrate the release of their own, hell will be visited upon them. This is not Peace breaking out. This is Apartheid at its worst!
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Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails
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One of the biggest tricks Israel pulled on the world is kidnapping 10,000 Palestinians that they didn't charge with anything - and getting the world to call them everything but hostages.
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Israel has banned any of the Palestinian hostages being released today, or their families, from speaking to the media. Their voices or pictures of their torture to be hidden from the world. If they do they'll murder them. This isn't a peace deal - it's further dehumanisation
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If a ceasefire holds, you boycott Israel HARDER, you divest, you push for sanctions. You don't perform for apartheid. You don't whitewash genocide. You don't pretend like Israel isn't still a violent occupier stealing land and collectively punishing Palestinians daily
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Don't think there was this level of coverage in 2017 when Darren Osborne from Wales drove his van into Muslims at Finsbury Park mosque killing one and injuring eleven. His original target was Corbyn. Yet BBC said yesterday's attack on a religious organisation was unprecedented.
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People from all walks of life — including many British Jews — are protesting against your government’s complicity in genocide and standing in solidarity with Palestine. Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.
I urge anyone thinking about protesting this weekend to recognise and respect the grief of British Jews. This is a moment of mourning. It is not a time to stoke tension and cause further pain. It is a time to stand together. We are a country that welcomes all people, no matter
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Is he fucking insane? Has the genocide paused for the weekend? It’s utterly insane that they’d use this attack to conflate a protest against the Israeli government’s genocide and the UK’s complicity with it with disrespecting the grief of British Jews. THIS is antisemitism.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer appeals to those planning to attend Gaza protests: "I urge anyone thinking about protesting this weekend to recognise and respect the grief of British Jews this week. This is a moment of mourning. It is not a time to stoke tension and cause further pain"
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Zack Polanski is a Jewish lad from Salford, Manchester. Today, he taught our journalists & politicians a wee lesson in honesty.
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If you see a group of unarmed people on little boats trying to deliver aid to a starving population, and then you see a powerful military blocking them and calling them terrorists, and you don't know which side you're on, I don't think there's any hope for you.
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If the Houthis enforced their blockade of the Red Sea by boarding boats in international waters and kidnapping the crews you can be extremely sure that western media would not refer to it as an 'interception'
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every single person on this flotilla has more courage in their pinky than the entire American ruling class combined
Just to be clear, we are sailing in ships that are barely seaworthy to do what governments with expensive armies won’t do: sail directly to Gaza knowing Israel will attack so we can reach and help a people being exterminated. What excuse do governments actually have? Cowards.
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Not only are the two men in the pictures not the same, and not Hamas, but one of them is a globally famous British politician called George Galloway! The shameless and public dishonesty of the Israeli government is a sight to behold. But then again, they hired @EylonALevy so…
EXPOSED: Official Hamas documents found in the Gaza Strip - now revealed for the first time - prove Hamas’s direct involvement in the funding and execution of the “Sumud” flotilla to Gaza Hamas documents that were discovered in the Gaza Strip, and are being revealed for the
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Dear friends, I fear this will be the final letter that I write to you from the Global Sumud Flotilla — now just 120 NM from the shores of Gaza. Last night, several Israeli naval ships menaced our convoy. They attacked our vessels, intimidated our crew, and disabled our
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Did you notice how quickly the debate has moved from “it’s not about you, you came here legally and integrated, it’s illegal immigration that is the issue” to “yes it’s totally fine to say that people who have been here for years, integrated and have indefinite leave to remain
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