Sébastien Bachelet

Exclusive: Inside the Diss hotel – a refugee’s view of the anti-refugee crowd outside Families fleeing danger thought they'd found safety, until protesters gathered outside their hotel, chanting for their removal

What’s it like to be an asylum seeker inside a hotel where racist mobs chant for your removal outside?

What will it take for the frightened children to recover from this & be able to feel safe & at home in this country.
Which WILL BE their home. eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...

An effigy of refugees, burned by a crowd: this is where Europe’s brutal fantasy of border control has led us | Maurice Stierl The shocking scene in Northern Ireland is the result of a decade spent militarising Europe’s fringes – and dismissing the human cost, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl

My piece for the Guardian on 10 years since Europe’s border crisis: “The burning of an effigy of refugees is what happens after a decade of dehumanisation. Many have implanted a dangerous border fantasy that will continue to divide, hurt and kill.”

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As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now

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Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

If, instead of taking the far right at their word, this kind of coverage was the norm, it would be clear to all that racism is always the motivation that women and children are the least of their (illegitimate) concerns

See also transphobia

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Nastassja Martin : « Les montagnes, ces franges qui ont su résister à l'appropriation capitaliste » Pour espérer répondre à la crise écologique, il faut repenser nos imaginaires, notre lien à la nature en général, aux montagnes et aux glaciers en particulier. Ce à quoi invite l'anthropologue Nastass...

Pour espérer répondre à la crise écologique, il faut repenser nos imaginaires, notre lien à la nature en général, aux montagnes et aux glaciers en particulier. Ce à quoi invite l’anthropologue Nastassja Martin avec « Les Sources de glace ». Entretien ⤵️

GCs: Kids mustn’t transition, it makes them infertile, they may want a baby.

Also GCs: You must be sterilised to legally transition.

As an adopted person, Alice’s potential loss of fertility was one thing about her transition that never worried me.

Families form in all sorts of different ways.

Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, a one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza City, Gaza, faces life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade. His mother cradles his almost lifeless body which is skeletal. Photograph credit to Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini for Anadolu via Getty Images

Photo of the Day

Widely shared but rarely credited to the photographer, Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini.

Gaza is the most dangerous place that has ever existed for journalists. But they work on, documenting a genocide for a world desperately trying to look away.

May their images haunt us forever.

Over the past week, protests outside The Bell Hotel, housing asylum seekers, escalated into violence. While locals raised legitimate worries, far-right agitators hijacked the demonstrations. ❗

Here’s what happened, who’s behind it, and why it matters.

I (genuinely) don't get this. UK govt has agency here!

We could expel Israeli Ambo, suspend trade deals & impose targeted economic sanctions. & invite a "coalition of the willing" in Europe to do likewise.

Would this feed Gazans? No.

Would it change internal Israeli political dynamics? Surely.

TBH, I'm surprised he didn't get a follow-up email from WYP: "We care about your opinion. Help us to improve our services. How happy were you with the circumstances of your arrest?"

Labour will spend our tax money for the sole purpose of terrorising migrants

Labour: “we must listen to the genuine concerns of people who want to burn other people alive in hotel buildings”

UN: End Impunity for Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians United Nations member countries should use the ministerial-level conference on Palestine on July 28-29, 2025, to publicly commit to concrete actions aimed at ending decades of impunity for Israeli aut...

🚨 @hrw.org: UN member states should use next week's UN high-level conference on #Palestine to commit to concrete steps to end impunity for Israeli crimes.

HRW's Bruno Stagno: “Without clear action from governments, Israeli authorities will only continue to exterminate & expel Palestinians.”

Afik, Liram and Emmanuel watching the bombing of Gaza

Israelis looking at the destruction of Gaza

The title

Israelis gathering at Sderot overlooking Gaza to watch the genocide unfolding. One of them told French paper Le Monde: “it’s the greatest show in town.”

They’re using binoculars to get a better look at the bombings.

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Israel has pledged to annihilate the Palestinians of Gaza so what exactly are you saying here?

Immigration and deprivation causing UK public to lose faith in politicians, says Rayner Deputy PM says government must show it is helping people amid concerns about potential for more riots in England

The "immigration issue" is a top-down construction to divert attention away from the top-down decisions which have caused and are entrenching deprivation

Dividing the working class/the people is the oldest trick in the book and still works wonders unfortunately

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

On Monday the UK and 27 other countries signed a sharply critical letter condemning the Israeli military’s killing of hundreds of Palestinians seeking food in recent weeks and calling for an immediate end to the conflict.

What words remain for a government that goes to court to insist it be allowed to continue selling weapons to a state committing genocide, then sends a letter of complaint when those weapons are used?

1/6 As happens so often now, the news agenda today is set by right wing outrage, expressed in The Telegraph and seized upon by Tommy Robinson. It centres on this speech that a white British girl was prevented from delivering on her school’s world cultures day:

Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions The EASA Executive Committee announces the publication of Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions. This document provides implementat...

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#TaxTheRich

La cartographie comme trace des parcours d’exil.
Entretien à lire dans le numéro #91 de la revue Mémoires, éditée par le centre Primo Levi. primolevi.org/ressource/la...

If you haven’t been plugged into Extremely Online right-wing circles, you may not know that this aesthetic (and idea) is a whole thing in that world.

It leans into Rockwell-style art (particularly 50s-era images, but also Old West stuff) to insist on a specific vision of what America was/should be.

book cover of my monograph: "the adventure Violent borders, illegal migration, and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco"

This ethnographic exploration of irregular migration from Western and Central Africa in Morocco deconstructs dehumanising narratives of a "migration crisis" and a "sub-Saharan problem" in politics of migration. The book provides an original focus on how migrants understood and experienced their entrapped mobility. The emic notion of "the adventure" at the heart of this study sheds light on a transformative, epic quest to carve out a better life and future. The book traces how young men from Western and Central Africa sought to assert themselves as agents of their own destinies, despite uncertain, illegalising processes. In steering away from aesthetics of despair and fearmongering narratives, the book brings new insights into inter-disciplinary debates (e.g. illegality, uncertainty, immobility, violence, suffering, transit, etc.). Such focus is essential to draw out the complexity and existential depth of (irregular) migrants' lives, journeys, and stories.

So thrilled ! I have received the copies of my book published by ‪@manchesterup.bsky.social ! “a compelling an urgent book about life at the borders of Europe” #migration #morocco Copies available here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177681/ @uomsoss.bsky.social #monograph #anthropology

The constant threats of stripping citizenship from dissidents is a gigantic red flag that we ignore at our peril.

For most, the end result will be a gulag (b/c of other nation-states’ own restrictive citizenship and immigration laws).

This doesn’t break the business model at all. It just freely returns migrants to the smugglers who can smuggle them all over again.

It’s literally increasing the smuggler’s customer base.

Yet more proof that racism fries your brain.

@manchesterup.bsky.social Cheers!

book cover of my monograph: "the adventure Violent borders, illegal migration, and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco"

This ethnographic exploration of irregular migration from Western and Central Africa in Morocco deconstructs dehumanising narratives of a "migration crisis" and a "sub-Saharan problem" in politics of migration. The book provides an original focus on how migrants understood and experienced their entrapped mobility. The emic notion of "the adventure" at the heart of this study sheds light on a transformative, epic quest to carve out a better life and future. The book traces how young men from Western and Central Africa sought to assert themselves as agents of their own destinies, despite uncertain, illegalising processes. In steering away from aesthetics of despair and fearmongering narratives, the book brings new insights into inter-disciplinary debates (e.g. illegality, uncertainty, immobility, violence, suffering, transit, etc.). Such focus is essential to draw out the complexity and existential depth of (irregular) migrants' lives, journeys, and stories.

So thrilled ! I have received the copies of my book published by ‪@manchesterup.bsky.social ! “a compelling an urgent book about life at the borders of Europe” #migration #morocco Copies available here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177681/ @uomsoss.bsky.social #monograph #anthropology

NEW BOOK - Very happy to announce that today is the publication date for my monograph: "'The Adventure': violent borders, illegal migration, and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco" An open-access copy is available here www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

NEW BOOK - Very happy to announce that today is the publication date for my monograph: "'The Adventure': violent borders, illegal migration, and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco" An open-access copy is available here www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.