Jonathan Preminger

YouTube video by BUIRA Online BUIRA 2025 Presidential Address - What's the Place of IR Academics and their Association(s)

Prof Peter Turnbull gives the presidential address at BUIRA 2025, held at the University of Exeter, Cornwall campus - What's the Place of IR Academics and their Association(s)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP9p...

There is no Water shortage in the UK.

Just an excess of people running Water Companies who should be in jail.

England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade as experts call for hosepipe bans Levels even lower than in severe drought year of 2022, data shows, with water firms urged to ‘be proactive’

England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade, experts call for hosepipe bans.

No new reservoirs built since 1989.

Over a trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks.

Water companies paid out £85bn in dividends. No regulator/Govt had a national plan.

Crisis created by privatisation.

CUNY suspends student activist leader, fires four faculty members in escalation of repression against Palestine activism Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have…

READ: CUNY just suspended a leading Palestinian student organizer and fired four faculty for protesting Israel’s genocide. This is a blatant crackdown on free speech — a McCarthyite purge to silence the growing movement for Palestinian liberation.
mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny...

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.

Why BBC editors must one day stand trial for colluding in Israel's genocide In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel's destruction of Gaza

Why BBC editors must one day stand trial for colluding in Israel's genocide
In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel’s destruction of Gaza
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Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

"The BBC should hang their heads in shame" for not airing the 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' film, said Gary Lineker at a screening in London tonight.

Luckily, Zeteo bought the global rights to this hugely important documentary and is airing it here:
gazadoctors.film

JVL Official Statement
We oppose the proscription of Palestine Action and send them our solidarity

We support the right for people to engage in direct action to prevent greater harm e.g. for Palestine, to limit environmental catastrophe, to support rights of asylum seekers
https://is.gd/NEoGfH
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🚨 EMERGENCY DEMO: Defend The Right To Protest, Don't Ban Palestine Action
⏰ Wednesday, 2 July, 6PM
📍 Outside Parliament, London

Join us to protest this government's attacks on the right to protest and to demand that MPs vote against the plans to proscribe Palestine Action.

The U.S. and Israel aren't rational actors.

They bomb nuclear sites, escalate a regional war, commit genocide, then act shocked when there's retaliation.

Palestine Action to be banned after RAF base break in The home secretary will move to proscribe the Palestine Action group in the coming weeks, the BBC understands

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's a very dangerous step to define groups that do not threaten physical harm as terrorist.

The extension from bullets and bombs to paint is another step towards a fascist state

Never forget Israel started this war with Iran, and they are still committing Genocide in Gaza.

Israel continues to claim victimhood, even as it slaughters children in Iran We are told, again and again, that Israel is defending itself. But it is only defending its right to act with impunity throughout the Middle East to maintain its supremacy. Israel’s attack on Iran is…

Enough with the myth of Israel-as‑victim. The latest strike on Iran—killing civilians, including children—is not self‑defense. It’s aggression. A decades‑long pattern of impunity. Israel casts itself as wounded, weaponizing narrative to justify regional dominance mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

Iranians and Israelis call for ceasefire and diplomacy We, Iranians and Israelis, share grave concerns for the future of our countries and the region. Israel and Iran have been engaged in indirect conflict for decades; a conflict that puts the entire regi...

I am proud to announce that a group of 21 Iranians and Israeli have come together to call for ceasefire, diplomacy and an end to this devastating war.

Please spread our message as far and wide as you can, -- and consider joining us!

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Weekly Briefing: Israel attacks Iran as Gaza genocide reaches new depths Israel strikes Iran, killing top officials, while Gaza’s medical system collapses and starvation spreads. Trump fans the flames at home with military crackdowns on protestors.

Weekly Briefing: Israel attacks Iran as Gaza genocide reaches new depths
mondoweiss.net/2025/06/week...

8 years later and not a single person has been put on trial for Grenfell, even though a report a year ago listed all the people involved, and what they did or didn't do.

They don't want to convict them, because they are rich.

Israel continues to claim victimhood, even as it slaughters children in Iran We are told, again and again, that Israel is defending itself. But it is only defending its right to act with impunity throughout the Middle East to maintain its supremacy. Israel’s attack on Iran is...

We are told, again and again, that Israel is defending itself. But it is only defending its right to act with impunity throughout the Middle East to maintain its supremacy. Israel's attack on Iran is just the latest example.

mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

#Palestine #Israel

Trump wants you to believe that this is about Iran signing a nuclear deal - one he tore up in 2018! - but Israel just killed Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator who was telling US television just two weeks ago that Iran was open to a deal.

A very important and fascinating book on how property works. The chapter on how states have surrendered to international investor power is crucial. Well done, @brisunipress.bsky.social and thank you, Paddy Ireland

Nationalisation is the only way to fix the crisis in the water industry Despite the damning evidence the government is clinging on to private ownership of water, which has fleeced customers for 36 years.

Water Follies

In the 35 years before privatisation, 100 reservoirs built; no major English reservoir built since.

Asset-stripping: Thames Water sold-off 25 reservoirs. Southern Water to decommission 43 of 93 by 2030.

Companies paid £85bn in dividends, borrowed £70bn. People fleeced and abused.

Watch this montage of clips from Israel's Channel 14, filled with racist and genocidal bile, shocking stuff, ask yourself why you don't see these clips on US or UK mainstream news, and then read Prem's deep dive for Zeteo into Channel 14:
zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

Reimagining Solidarity in Israel/Palestine - with Arees Bishara, Assaf Bondy, Walid Habbas, Jonathan Preminger, and Ibrahim Shikaki. Featured panel at the upcoming @sasemeeting.bsky.social annual meeting:
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אבא אני חי, תוציא אותי | דעה הארץ

www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/202...

Workers for democracy? Trade unions and the struggle against democratic backsliding As champions of workplace and economic democracy, as well as promoters of parliamentary (liberal) democracy, trade unions have an established historical link to democracy. Recent decades have seen ...

A timely investigation into democracy and trade unionism by @assafbondy.bsky.social - I suspect we'll be seeing more of this kind of study as democracy appears ever more under threat
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I also discuss the bizarre and disturbing association between the Starmer government and former special advisers to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
I vaguely remember being told something about "Change". But this continuity is beyond our worst nightmares.
Not just Tory policies, but actual Tories.

Keir Starmer is caught in yet another trap of his own making | Rafael Behr The prime minister’s immigration approach follows a now-familiar pattern: letting fear of a difficult argument get in the way of policy that might work, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Keir Starmer is caught in yet another trap of his own making | Rafael Behr

Israel is annihilating Palestinian children. Amer Rabea was one of them | Ahmad Ibsais This US citizen was shot by Israeli forces in April. There was no warning, no investigation but worst of all – no outcry from the west

Israel is annihilating Palestinian children. Amer Rabea was one of them | Ahmad Ibsais

Exterminating Gaza was always Israel’s plan, but now it’s official Israel carried out its plan to erase Gaza over the course of 18 months. Now that the plan has clearly fallen into place, the Netanyahu government is openly discussing ethnic cleansing. And still,…

Israel carried out its plan to erase Gaza over the course of 18 months. Now that the plan has clearly fallen into place, the Netanyahu government is openly discussing ethnic cleansing. And still, Israel enjoys complete international impunity. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/exte...