Clive Gabay

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All this bs about freedom and democracy. Let's not forget that last time they bombed the trans wing of a prison.

‘Woman, Life, Freedom,’ they said.

it's very French how the entire UK political spectrum has basically adopted islamo-gauchisme as their understanding of the Green Party of England and Wales

I was privileged to be able to attend the launch of the European Legal Support Centre's Index of Repression today. It holds 964 cases of repression of pro-Palestine speech/action since 2019, just the tip of the iceberg. The index is very user friendly - www.index-of-repression.org/uk/platform

Labour now reduced to the TERF vote

Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Man i love liberalism. So utterly incoherent

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Article in Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz from Jan 29th 2026 reporting the Israel's Ministry of Health accepts the mortality figures issued by the Gaza Ministry of Health.

Ha'aretz reports that the Israeli State now accepts the Gaza Ministry of Health mortality figures (an undercount) that their own spokespeople have been uniformly denying and slandering for over two years.

United Arab Emirates plans to bankroll first ‘planned community’ in south Gaza Exclusive: Blueprints describe a ‘case study’ community where residents submit biometric data to gain entry

This is a plan to attract a rump population desperate enough to submit to 24/7 biometric surveillance, while everyone else will be left to flee or die in the hellscape that will continue to be the rest of Gaza. It suits Israel perfectly.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"I’ll add right up front that nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training."

Excellent piece

These policies have also reconfigured the state itself. Rather than shrinking, the Iranian state has mutated into an apparatus of authoritarian austerity: fiscally disciplined, physically coercive, and interventionist in the monetary and financial sphere, while retreating from universal welfare and redistribution.3 Social justice is thus reduced to a technical matter of administrative inclusion and exclusion, and society itself appears not as a political subject but as a risk to be managed through “transparency,” persuasion, and policing. The structural reforms pursued by Ali Madani-Zadeh—the current minister of economy, a University of Chicago economics graduate and the latest heir to Chicago-style neoliberalism—are a class project aimed at reproducing the state and its dominant class fractions under crisis, even as they further undermine social reproduction in wartime conditions.

A brilliant analysis of how sanctions have transformed the Iranian government into a Chicago School regime of austerity that benefits those attached to the regime, creates precarious labour, and rolls back all the redistributive and social measures of the past:

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Not even a hyperlink here. Because it's all made up. Like, just a highly paid commentator shooting the breeze. Nice for some.

Jonathan Freedland as exhibit a) of liberal brainrot. He diagnoses the Palestine movement without a shred of evidence. We marched for Palestine because of the complicity of our governments in the genocide, and because Israel launders itself via centres of Western financial and cultural power.

“Two Jewish mums came to see me at my advice surgery, to tell me that there had been a cultural day at their children’s school where they were given biscuits in the shape of Israel and then iced them with the flag of Palestine.”

1. It's the shape of Palestine.

2. Biscuits are khamas.

Academic Freedom | BRISMES CAF Expresses Concern Over Removal of Pro-Palestine Materials at QMUL

Having had anti-genocide posters ripped from my office door under the instruction of the University Principal, I'm glad to see this important letter from @brismes.bsky.social to @qmul.bsky.social outlining the potential illegality of these actions 👇

www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academi...

Even if we take the 'revenge' framing seriously (which anyone with any sense of the history of violence in Palestine could call bs on), it should have taken about 5 seconds to reach that conclusion.

Walzer can go and do one

Abd el-Fattah's historic tweets are leading to calls for his UK citizenship to be revoked, and a UK Government review of his case, while Nigel Farage's history of racism and Nazi goose-stepping has led to a few Guardian front pages.

Abd el-Fattah's historic tweets are leading to calls for his UK citizenship to be revoked, and a UK Government review of his case, while Nigel Farage's history of racism and Nazi goose-stepping has led to a few Guardian front pages.

When Zionists engage in whataboutery about double standards and other violent genocides, you can just gently remind them that actually eradicating the Israeli settler colonial project will go some way to addressing other genocides too.

YouTube video by WILLA THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB | Official Trailer | In Theaters December 17

The Voice of Hind Rajab is a film using the actual audio of the little girl’s desperate call for help before Israel murdered her and the paramedics who tried to save her: youtu.be/JkeKrG0YONQ?...

The main victims of ISIS and ISIS-affiliated violence have been Muslim, and there is no planet on which Palestinians (including Hamas) and ISIS would have common cause. The conflation of the Bondi shooters with Palestine is thus at best a moral panic, although more evidently a cynical smear attack.

Linking the antisemitic violence at Bondi to Palestine/pro-Palestine movements will not prevent attacks on Jews and Jewish sites. The speed with which the Israeli State has manufactured this moral panic will only endanger Jewish lives, in addition to those Palestinian lives it already endangers.

The main victims of ISIS and ISIS-affiliated violence have been Muslim, and there is no planet on which Palestinians (including Hamas) and ISIS would have common cause. The conflation of the Bondi shooters with Palestine is thus at best a moral panic, although more evidently a cynical smear attack.

Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two.

Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

UK govt joins a list of authoritarian regimes that have sought to divest desperate people of their personal belongings before kicking them out of their countries, most notably the Nazis. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...