Dr. Valerie Hobbs is on strike 🍉

Great day of #SUCUstrike action at the University of #Sheffield. Today we started our #Palestine support roving picket, which much solidarity around the campus. Join us! ucu.group.shef.ac.uk @drvaleriehobbs.bsky.social @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Crafting my protest in prep for tomorrow's pocket line at Sheffield University. #NoRedundancies
@sheffielducu.bsky.social

No Other Land (2024) Oscar-winning film offering a powerful view of destruction in the West Bank

www.channel4.com/programmes/n... don't miss watching this very important and beautiful Oscar winning documentary @jvp.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social #peaceinpalestine #stopgazagenocide

“What begins as frontier violence – physically invading and then shooting one’s way forward – is reprised as military training and then as leisure: shooting and speeding over the land are still central forms of recreation out here.”
Rebecca Solnit on American manifest destiny [and football]

And this includes without question our commitment to REST.

Zero point to being an academic unless we are resisting the current state of HE every single day.

#FreePalestine2025

‘Absolutely not the time for humour’, Bishop on Welby speech The Archbishop of Canterbury says a head had 'to roll' over the Church of England's handling of abuse by the late John Smyth - believed to be the most prolific serial abuser ever to be associated with...

Pride comes before a fall, yet a fool fails the lesson, bragging lightheartedly about the depth of the plummet!

Justin Welby boasting about the frenetic nature of his all-important timetable & the size of his "head" isn't the flex he thinks it is.

www.channel4.com/news/absolut...

Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.

“States that continue to transfer arms to Israel at this time must know they are violating their obligation to prevent genocide and are at risk of becoming complicit in genocide."
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

The Anerican Presbyterians are at it again.

The techno fascists have built a belief structure where they are the naturally superior beings and anyone who is not them are subhuman. Yarvin and others within the dark enlightenment have for years illuminated their belief that they are gods amongst mere mortals. Literal ubermensh.

I care about assisted dying but maybe we should be talking about all the forced dying as a matter of priority. #FreePalestine

I strongly believe violence operates the same at every level. If you cant comprehend the macro scale, consider the micro. Just as one people can colonise an entire people, so can one person colonise a friendship, a romantic partnership, a marriage, etc.
It happens every day.

This is the logic of settler colonialism. This is what has been done to Palestine.
The claim to supremacy that fuels the right to claim whatever their heart desires & murder/remove anyone in the way.
#FreePalestine

Now imagine someone sees your world, wants it & rather than asking to join, siphons off all these people/places/activities from u, excluding u from ur own life, acting as if u r dead.
When confronted, when boundaries r reasserted, they protest in anger: How dare u act as if I don't exist?

Imagine your life, everything dear to you. Maybe a spouse, maybe kids, your family & friends, all the special things/places u share. Hold onto this world in your mind.

The ICC has finally issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders. The fight is far from over. The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes committed in Gaza. As a result, the two will...

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes committed in Gaza. As a result, the two will be unable to travel to at least 124 countries.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc-has-final…

An excellent and very personal article on the weaponisation of antisemitism within academia and the chilling of pro-Palestinian voices that comes with it.

Thank you

Thank you, all.

Francesca Albanese: 'International law is on a knife's edge' over Gaza inaction The outspoken Italian human rights lawyer accuses British politicians of genocide denial and urges the EU to cut trade ties with Israel

Francesca Albarese: "international law is on a knife's edge."

www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/un...

Major red flag that following the publication of the Makin report, the @churchofengland.bsky.social has not called for an institution-wide period of mourning, reflection and repentance.

Don’t stop talking about Palestine

Don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Don’t stop organizing.
Don’t stop fighting.

What a crucial time to be in an HE trade union. Eternally grateful for
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
and especially my School of English friends. In times like these, you truly find out what stuff people are made of.

How to describe neo-liberalism in one headline?

Stop this incessant profiteering.

Nationalise water. Regulate housing. Build efficient and sustainable affordable and council homes.

Keep it going. Let’s see how much reach this place has.

bird sounds

Israel has just committed a horrific massacre in northern Gaza, bombing a building in Beit Lahia where more than 70 people were sheltering, killing 50 of them, with the read injured or missing.

Redundancies loom at University of Sheffield over £50m funding gap Up to £23m in cuts made primarily from support staff could be made at the University of Sheffield, with hundreds of jobs on the line.

Redundancies loom at University of Sheffield over £50m funding gap as staff pass vote of 'no confidence'

www.thestar.co.uk/education/re...

"We should never expect forgiveness for what we have allowed to happen in Palestine."