Santosh Anand

Rare aerial imagery shows displacement and destruction in Gaza Airdrop flights offered a vantage over the closed-off Gaza Strip.

Rare aerial imagery shows displacement and destruction in Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

My short essay on the racialization of Mamdani - simultaneously coded too black & too white - not only demonstrates the way in which Islamophobia takes the contours of 20th C antisemitism, but also serves as a place-holder for the way socialism upends a neoliberal racial commonsense

Two girls shot in Gaza - BBC pieces together what happened and looks at dozens more child shootings Layan and Mira were killed in proximity to IDF soldiers - the Israeli military says intentional harm to civilians is prohibited and their cases will be examined by the authorities.

I have curated material from conflict zones for more than 15 years and have seen many children killed.

I have not seen children intentionally shot in the head or chest anywhere other than those killed by Israel in Gaza.

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We are the ones we have been waiting for.

This Labour government has failed. People want real transformative politics – we will give it to them | Jeremy Corbyn More than 500,000 people have signed up to our new party to help build a genuine alternative to poverty, inequality and war, says former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

For too long, people have been denied a real political choice.

Not anymore.

My piece for the Guardian on the extraordinary response to www.yourparty.uk

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I was talking with a teenager recently who is not a transphobe but said he didn’t think it was fair for trans women to play women’s sports . I said that I didn’t think it was fair that people who are taller than me get to play basketball and he paused for a moment and then said, ok you’re right.

Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context. For many months, it has been beyond reasonable doubt that the Israeli government, the Israeli military, sections of Israeli politics and society as well as their aiders and abetters abroad, have been ...

A condition of total starvation is highly unusual. No doubt, the reality on the ground continues to exhibit gradations of inequality. But this finding points to the exceptional circumstance of Gaza, which are those of a siege, a prison or a ghetto. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

"In my entire career, I have never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate, unnecessary force against a civilian population—an unarmed, starving population ... until I was in Gaza, at the hands of the IDF and U.S. contractors."

Abundance for the many is about making essentials affordable by all means necessary.

Great conversation about the need for a new economic policy agenda that goes beyond removing blockages and waiting for corporations to do the rest.

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I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance On 3 July 2025, Justice Nancy Hernandez, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), announced the issuance of the new Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency (AO-32). In front o...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency earlier this month. There's a LOT to be said about its content, but for now, I am sharing my first impressions in case you are interested 😎

‘Do the pilots who bomb children have children’

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Notes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel Winant Featuring Aslı Bâli and Gabriel Winant on the emerging conjuncture: the Trump regime’s fascist and authoritarian second coming; the giant vacuum created by the Democratic establishment’s inability to ...

If you haven’t listened to it, this episode of The Dig is SO GOOD!! Gabe as always is fantastic, and Asli is amazing (still can’t believe someone as smart and radical as she is a law professor)

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Anti-immigration is the perfect reactionary politics not just because it allows one to entertain the most racist fantasies of cruelty while claiming to be concerned only about the law, but also because the way it corrodes any kind of oppositional solidarity...

germans will claim they can't collect data to statistically analyse racial inequality in case they could be used for evil but set up a government wide database of transgender people

Order your copies now (one for yourself and another for a friend who needs it badly)! The brilliant combination of Knox, Ziadah and Hanieh

I’ve just published this comparison of the Vietnam and Gaza genocide debates. The former frames the latter. But the #ICJ has ways to escape the frame if it’s willing to think outside the box link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
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Zohran Mamdani’s Lesson for the Left The New York City mayoral primary showcased a better kind of politics than progressives are used to.

This is framed as "lessons for the left," but Lander and Mamdani actually offer lessons for the center: Instead of ruthlessly undermining leftist candidates, emphasize shared values and refuse to amplify right-wing attacks.
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The American Police State Is Here ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.

“ICE will have twice as many agents as the FBI and will have its own huge and growing prison system (which it operates independently) as its masked and un-uniformed officers continue to snatch people off of the streets and mete out violence as they see fit.”

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"concentrating the civilian population in order to isolate it from combatants" is exactly what the phrase "concentration camp" was invented to describe. (during the Boer War.)

"Defense Minister Israel Katz said Monday that he has instructed the
IDF to prepare a plan to establish a "humanitarian city" on the ruins of Rafah"

"the plan envisions moving 600,000 Palestinians ... into the new zone after security screening. Once inside, residents would not be allowed to leave"

ICE wearing full balaclavas? IOF refusing to be photographed? Despite the rhetoric, they do in fact know they are the bad guys

This is unfortunately reminiscent of early camps in Nazi Germany, which were also widely lauded by politicians (they were by no means a secret), treated as tourist curiosities, and featured in glossy magazine spreads. It’s unfathomable to me how so many people can take such joy in human suffering.

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A US firm (Boston Consulting Group) was paid $4M+ to model ethnically-cleansing 500,000 people from Gaza.

This is the same firm that helped establish the 'aid' operation currently murdering Palestinians every single day.

(They have now disavowed that depraved project.)

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obvious maybe but still worth noting that the western news media treats someone shouting "death to america" or "death to the idf" much, much more seriously than the actual deaths being caused by america and the idf

On Monday of this week, Hamas' Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip published an updated list of those killed in the war, a 1,227-page chart, arranged from youngest to oldest. The Arabic-language document includes the deceased person's full name, the names of the father and grandfather, date of birth and ID number. Unlike previous lists, this compilation notes the precise age of children who were under the age of one year when they were killed. Mahmoud al-Maranakh and seven more children died on the same day they were born. Four more children were killed on the day after they entered the world, five others lived to the age of two days. Not until page 11, following 486 names, does the name appear of the first child who was more than six months old when he was killed.

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000

The list is 1,227 pages long.

The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.

The first 381 pages are all children.

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anyway as an afropessimist aside, I think today it is fair to say that in response to the election of a Black president, a bunch of white and aspirationally white Americans have—in part by accident, carried along by forces they cannot name—abolished the presidency and replaced it with a sovereign.

Hey folks, the thing Palestinian analysts have been shouting for weeks is now confirmed by Haaretz - you’re now allowed to believe it. 👋