Jonas Fossli Gjersø

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● Lorenzo Veracini, "Genocide in Gaza and the End of Settler Colonialism" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom and the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)'s non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism or the IHRA WDA, adopted by IHRA in 2016, and since adopted or endorsed by some 43 c...

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● Sindre Bangstad, "The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom and the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

Gaza and the Structure of Genocide in Palestine Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Vol. 53, No. 2, 2025)

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● Martin Shaw, "Gaza and the Structure of Genocide in Palestine" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide The article examines the combined violence of settler colonialism in Israel and the US in two parts. The first part discusses the Jewish supremacism at the heart of Israeli settler colonialism, foc...

Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social

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● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

"Drawing on the [Raz] Segal case, this essay offers a conceptual and philosophical history of academic freedom especially in US universities."
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

The new Google Scholar metrics have @jich.bsky.social ranked in the top 20 history journals! @yiannicart.bsky.social,
@evansmithhist.bsky.social, @jonasgjerso.bsky.social scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

UK to recognise state of Palestine in September unless Israel holds to ceasefire Cabinet agrees to support Middle East roadmap at emergency meeting called amid humanitarian crisis in Gaza

We'll recognise a Palestine state ... unless Israel maintains a ceasefire. Quite the powerful principled stand against genocide and for human rights.

Centrism is quite a drug.

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

palestinian self-determination is the inalienable right of the palestinian people and should not be conditional on whether israel do or do not decide to finally abide by some actual rules

It was a pleasure to be part of this special issue on Petitions and Petitioning in Colonial and Post-colonial contexts. If you want to see the full SI (and check out my article on West Papuan petitions) you can find it here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

Our latest special issue (53/3) on 'Petitions and Petitioning in Colonial and Post-colonial Contexts' has been released, fantastically co-edited by Miranda Johnson and @henryjmiller.bsky.social - you can read the issue here:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...

‘In recent months, higher education in the US has faced a withering assault from a national government committed to reversing generations of halting progress towards racial equality. “Yale and Slavery” seems now to have arrived at the end of a moment.’

Vincent Brown: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I pledge that I will not provide any service to Columbia University. I will not speak at conferences held at or organized by Columbia. I will not publish with Columbia publications or provide peer reviews for them. I will not provide outside tenure evaluations for Columbia departments. I will not contribute in any way to the institution until everyone who is responsible for this week’s shameful decision has resigned, retired, or been fired, and until Columbia repudiates their catastrophic choice.

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy.

This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:

3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

🚨Shocking scenes from Gaza: children ravaged by famine and malnutrition — thin bodies, eyes searching for life, and at any moment, they may be added to the list of the dead.

Baby Judy Al-Arouri is wasting away from hunger.
She’s not even six months old.

A little child receives medical treatment after being inured in an air strike that targeted an apartment in Al Yarmouk neighborhood in Gaza City.

Something I found in the CJH papers a few years ago.

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Petitions and Petitioning in Colonial and Post-colonial Contexts. Volume 53, Issue 3 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

The latest issue of @jich.bsky.social (53/3) has just been published!

It is a special issue on colonial and post colonial petitions, edited by Miranda Johnson and @henryjmiller.bsky.social.

Also featuring book reviews and commentaries.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

British surgeon Nick Maynard explains how Israeli soldiers target Palestinian children at food distribution sites in Gaza, changing the location of gunshot wounds at times, such as aiming for the head one day, the chest the next, followed by the legs or genitals on other days. 🤬🤬🤬

This was Zeinab just 5 days ago.
She was 5 months old.

A photo of me holding a placard stating: Palestine Action Are Protesters Not Terrorists

If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.

Speaking of left-wing alternatives to the British Labour Party, here is my article on The Red Front, the short-lived attempt by the Revolutionary Communist Party to build a left alliance in 1987.

DM me if you don’t have access.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action? I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’

Huw Lemmey on the proscription of Palestine Action:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

For anyone who wants to see more research on the English countryside’s relationship with colonialism, there’s this on Capability Brown’s landscape gardens: alanlester.co.uk/blog/capabil...

The Dam of Gaza Genocide Denial Has Broken Several prominent media outlets are coming off the fence over Israel’s actions, but a conspiracy of helplessness still prevails

The Dam of Gaza Genocide Denial Has Broken by @martinshaw.bsky.social - newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

Labour’s misguided assault on Palestine Action This government is inflicting authoritarianism on the “working people” it claims to serve.

I’m in the @newstatesman.com today on the other side of declining public trust — a government that prosecutes grandmas for holding signs while water bosses and those responsible for the Horizon scandal get off scot-free
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Literally doing the Matt Bors cartoon for real

The biggest barrier to social cohesion in this country is this: a news agenda framed by a stream of pseudo-research “reports” from right wing think tanks with the pre-determined conclusion that immigrants and Muslims are intrinsically a threat to our country.

Children in England living in 'almost Dickensian poverty,' report says Almost one in three children in the UK live in poverty and the report comes as the government faces growing pressure to scrap the two-child benefit limit. #EuropeNews

Four decades of neoliberal policies later: “Almost one in three children in the UK live in poverty”—4.5 million children.

1/11 History Reclaimed is still trying to invalidate the Church of England’s Project Spire reparative justice investment fund on historical grounds, with letters to the TLS and this rebuttal of the work of historians who examined the Church's complicity in slave-trading:

Tareq Baconi · Short Cuts: Gaza under Siege Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force is...

‘“What can be done?” the European diplomat might ask me today.

For a start, call a spade a spade. This is an apartheid regime carrying out a genocide on a captive population. End military assistance. Suspend arms exports to Israel.’

Tareq Baconi on Gaza:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The High Court judgement regarding Palestine Action's proscription and the enforcement of the order today from is the most extreme application of terrorism legislation we've yet seen in this country. It's so extreme, in fact, that it's causing the law itself to become openly incoherent. Thread🧵🔽