Michelle Farrell

But then how would mediocre academics keep talented ECRs, crits, etc in their place? 🧐

According to people in Aida refugee camp this demolition could happen as soon as tomorrow. They wrote today to FIFA and the Swiss government urging them to call on Israel to desist from any demolition plans. The pitch is a lifeline for hundreds of Palestinian boys and girls.

Misan Harriman on Instagram: "The PM speaks…" 2,158 likes, 846 comments - misanharriman on January 5, 2026: "The PM speaks…".

"Let me be absolutely a framework position of clear international transition before the law weekend and remain the substance of absolutely clear".

www.instagram.com/reel/DTI8A1A...

Two white lions. I thought it was 3

I missed this; maybe others have too. El Shewy, Griffiths & Jones, 'Israel's War on Gaza in a Global Frame' @ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....:
"the war on Gaza—and Israel's entire colonial project in Palestine—is not only produced through geopolitical relations but generative of them." 👌

More political theatre while Gaza burns - josimarfootball.com Uefa and Fifa’s failure to sanction the Israel Football Association is a moral and political failure.

In advance of tomorrow's match between Italy and Israel, here again is my and @antoineduval.bsky.social piece in @josimarfootball.bsky.social on the serious governance failures that mean Israel is still allowed to compete. And no, the peace-plan changes nothing josimarfootball.com/2025/10/06/m...

Manchán Magan: Writer and documentary maker dies aged 55 Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair

i was in a coffee shop one ordinary day in Liverpool when Manchán Magan wandered in. He came over to me as though he knew me. We had a lovely chat. A striking moment. I went to his show that night. He had a soft kind sagesse abt him. I'm sad. May be rest in peace
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

The moral case for the Israel Football Association's suspension from football is horrifically self-evident, but important to stress there are very clear grounds for their exclusion in the UEFA and FIFA statutes. Joint letter to UEFA from Bohemians, Irish Sport for Palestine and FairSquare 👇

Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza - UN commission Professor Shane Darcy, of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway, on the report from a United Nations Commission of Inquiry which finds that Israel has committed genocide in Gaz...

Spoke on RTÉ radio ‘News at one’ today on the UN Commission of Inquiry report on genocide in Gaza.

@rteradio1.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social

You can listen back here:

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.

Webinar on corporate accountability taking place tomorrow at 17:00 Irish time.

Hear from those at the frontlines of accountability efforts for international crimes perpetrated in Gaza. And me.

Still time to register 👇👇👇

Germany and Italy need more time to consider whether Israel should be denied *partial access* to the Horizon Europe research fund.

More time in the face of daily Palestinian deaths from bullets and starvation.

More time to mildly sanction a State accused of genocide by Israeli NGOs this week.

Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights? The long read: Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UK’s commitment to international law. Yet Labour’s record over the past year has been curiously mixed

I think the fundamental error in this piece is imagining that there is some inherent tension between Starmer the human rights lawyer, and Starmer the ruthless bourgeois state manager.

And like, I don't think that's what's going on?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Migrants are subject to hypervisibility & invisibility - this manifests in a specific way in UK law & policy, which is most obvious from the Rwanda plan. This however connects to a longer history of deterrence & characterisation of asylum seekers as 'destitute'
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I read sycophantic unchallenging BS: “It is a major achievement,” says Conor Gearty...long-term acquaintance of Starmer, “to have stabilised Britain’s commitment to law at a time when the current is flowing the other way internationally.”

Al Jazeera calls for global action to protect Gaza’s journalists Media network urges action to end forced starvation that threatens Gaza’s entire population, including journalists.

Media network urges action to end forced starvation that threatens Gaza’s entire population, including journalists.

WHO says residence and main warehouse in Gaza hit by Israeli forces Staff quarters attacked three times and four people detained, three temporarily, as IDF tanks enter Deir al-Balah

The World Health Organisation can be added to the list of international and local organisations - already including UN, International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, Red Crescent, World Central Kitchen - attacked by Israeli forces in Gaza

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws.

Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.

This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.

We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".

And so it begins.

this was very clearly a likely consequence of proscribing a pro Palestine group.

Ignorance, opportunism and govt goals all working together here to chill speech and end freedoms.

Free Palestine

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.

The Terrorism Act-the basis for discriminatory executive UK powers/policy since 2000-has @ 25 come of age, its remarkably wide definition & extraordinary exec powers put to the authoritarian purpose of proscribing an anti-war direct action group & criminalising the views of a big proportion of UK.

Palestine Action ban: We must learn from university protests Government’s proscription of the group follows months of similarly chilling repression on campuses across the UK

In a week when the divide between direct action protest and terrorism disappeared for the UK Government, Anne Alexander, @aliceellafinden.bsky.social and I share our thoughts on the dangerous chilling effect for Art 10/11 ECHR rights with @opendemocracy.net:

www.opendemocracy.net/en/palestine...

How lovely. Did you then vote to designate Palestine Action a terrorist group?

The Israeli human rights organisation B'tselem gave up on cooperating with IDF inquiries years ago:

"no accountability"

"the veneer of a functioning system"

Legal experts tell Fifa Israel breaking international law as it considers sanctions Thirty scholars, including two former UN rapporteurs and Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, say Israel is violating Fifa statutes

Great piece from Oscar Rickett in @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social. This experts' letter doesn’t explicitly tell Fifa to suspend or expel Israel from international football, but it leaves them in no doubt that that’s what their own rules require them to do. www.middleeasteye.net/news/legal-e...

Leading legal experts and scholars provide FIFA committee with assessment of illegality of Israeli settlements A group of leading scholars, including numerous professors of international law, have today written to FIFA’s Governance Audit and Compliance Committee (GAAC), in relation to the committee’s examinati...

“Member associations and their clubs may not play on the territory of another member association without the latter’s approval.”

Pleased to sign this letter to FIFA coordinated by @ncgeehan.bsky.social of @fairsq.bsky.social

fairsq.org/letter-fifa-...

The UK definition of terrorism is sweeping and gives way too much discretion to the executive.

When that executive is irresponsible. that's dangerous.

Starmer and Cooper's move to proscribe Palestine Action is just bad and pretty damn worrying.