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UN Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

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The introduction for this special issue was written by @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social, Griffin Leonard, Aidan Gnoth, Joseph Llewellyn, and Tonga Karena!

Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

It's a genocide and we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to stop it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

The dam of Gaza genocide denial has broken A hard-hitting analysis by genocide scholar Martin Shaw of how politicians and the media long denied there was a genocide…

This. www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/the-...

An Otago Student General Meeting just passed a BDS motion 200 Ayes to a single Nay! This after executive council voted to disregard a BDS referendum. The hero of the day Politics Rep Jett Groshinski who called the meeting in defiance of exec. Hats off to Otago Students for Justice in Palestine.

"We rarely leave the house anymore, afraid our legs might give out. It already happened to my sister: while searching on the streets for something, anything, to feed her children, she suddenly collapsed to the ground."

This is a brilliant analysis of what's going on in the Middle East right now and how to understand it in historical context. www.securityincontext.org/posts/wester...

Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand The Extinction Rebellion (XR) model, including three demands and a disruptive theory of change, were transferred from the imperial center of the United Kingdom to Aotearoa. Initially activists assu...

Excited to see a major article from my doctoral research, Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand, out at Social Movement Studies (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

One day, let's hope they face prosecution in court for providing material support for genocide.

If you ever wondered what you would do during a genocide, you're doing it now.

Even Once Reluctant Scholars Now Agree on Israel's Gaza Assault: It's a Genocide | Common Dreams Is Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza? Leading international experts say yes, with the majority of their peers in academia concurring. The debate is shifting as the death toll ris...

It's a genocide. www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

Otago academics plan declaration on Palestine to ‘face daily horrors’ | Asia Pacific Report

The Otago Declaration on Palestine. asiapacificreport.nz/2025/05/12/o...

Being pro humanity is being pro Palestine!

THE OTAGO DECLARATION ON THE SITUATION IN PALESTINE THE OTAGO DECLARATION ON THE SITUATION IN PALESTINE We, the staff, students and graduates, being members of the University of Otago, make the following declaration. We fully and completely recogniz...

Otago alumni may want to sign this Declaration on the Situation in Palestine: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Words from @theimeu:

Today marks 77 years since the massacre of Deir Yassin, an atrocity that came to define the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 to establish the state of Israel on stolen Palestinian land.

One of the hardest things about watching the Palestinian genocide is the certain knowledge that one day, when the weight of evidence silences all denial, and when it's no longer risky to say it aloud, everyone will exclaim how terrible it was and how they were always against it.

Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up | Owen Jones No crime in history has been so well documented by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship reign, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players.

Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue.

Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians.

New column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Al-Haq Publishes New Report: “The Systematic Destruction of Gaza’s Healthcare System: A Pattern of Genocide” After 15 months of continuing genocide against the Palestinian people, Al-Haq releases a new report: “The Systematic Destruction of Gaza’s Healthcare System: A Pattern of Genocide&...

Yet another detailed report documenting Israel's genocide in Gaza. One day justice will come. www.alhaq.org/publications...

This is why 'institutional neutrality' is wrong.

Gideon Levy on Israel’s “Moral Blindness”: Gaza Babies Freeze; Strikes Kill Medical Workers, Reporters In northern Gaza, the director of the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital says five medical workers were among 50 people killed in Israeli strikes near the hospital. Israeli forces then stormed the hospital...

There's no point to the war, just mass killing of Palestinians. Israeli society is morally bankrupt. www.democracynow.org/2024/12/27/l...

Genocide Israel is living in the past A state founded on apartheid and settler colonialism is no longer viable.

The impossibility of establishing a settler colonial state today. aje.io/scob5c

Merry Christmas from Gaza.

Great to see this. BDS is working. We need to keep going. It may be the only thing that will stop the genocide, end the ethnic cleansing, stop the land grab and end the apartheid in Israel.

Today, I am ashamed of the University of Otago. At the university council meeting they refused to adopt a motion to disclose and divest from Israel and its genocide. More than a year of genocide and they haven't said anything or done anything. So much for its values. Shame.

Our new special issue on 'What the War on Terror Leaves Behind' is now out! 9 amazing *open access* articles on topics including social policy, proscription, climate change, nuclear politics, monstrosity, coloniality, anarchism, securitisation, nuclear politics, & critical theory (Thread 1/12)

The special issue's final piece, by @michaellister.bsky.social & me, asks what happens to critical security thinking when its ideas and arguments achieve (or appear to achieve) wider currency: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread, 11/12)