Anthony Fish Hodgson

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I’m a huge believer in Arteta but recently have wondered whether the recurring mental barriers we struggle with don’t perhaps start with the coach? Is he the scared one? What is his responsibility here? Do coaches speak to sports psychologists?

Who gets to call what antisemitic is often a function of the politics of power. Nevertheless, we unpacked some of the mechanisms Israel lobbyists have developed to make it easier to supress Palestine advocacy supposedly on the basis of antisemitism.

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The Trump administration is strangling Cuba.

Together, we can break the siege: buff.ly/nxJTwSK

Why is international law still not being enforced against Israel? By virtue of the architecture of international law, obligations are laid out in terms of what states must do. But as of now, most states are still acting fearfully, not wishing to incur the wrath of T...

BDS is a mechanism for enforcing international law — one which the ICJ, the General Assembly & UN OPT Commissioners have instructed all states to use to bring Israel's unlawful occupation to an end. BDS, far from radical, is a basic universal obligation.

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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

YouTube video by From the Periphery Where Are The Arabs?

Where Are the Arabs? By our very own @aymanmak.bsky.social premieres at 17:00 UK time!

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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

So obvious that it feels absurd to even engage with this, but some statistics re the extreme economic position of white South Africans, in one of the most unequal countries in the world:

Thanks a lot for the wonderful praise, for your assistance, and for all the work that you do!

Huge thanks to @spudde.net @dandekadt.bsky.social @kaibarron.bsky.social and Tali Cassidy who all made important contributions to my thinking along the way!

Pirkis et al. have argued that one reason we might not have observed higher suicide rates with COVID was as a result of effective mitigation strategies. In my view our two results together offer support for this idea, & suggest that alcohol bans were an example of such a strategy

Our findings are congruent with global data showing (fantastic work by Ann John, @drknipe.bsky.social & others) that the COVID pandemic did not precipitate a marked rise in suicides despite expectations that it might.

To our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind from Africa.

Our results suggest alcohol bans imposed in SA during COVID-19 pandemic may have had a protective effect on suicide rates, adding to work of @kaibarron.bsky.social @tom-moultrie.bsky.social & Kathryn Chu who found similar associations with significantly decreased unnatural deaths & trauma admissions

Alcohol restrictions and suicide rates in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a natural experiment Background Alcohol use is a well-established potentially modifiable risk factor for suicide, yet few studies have investigated the impact of alcohol restrictions on suicide rates, particularly in low-...

Thrilled to share this paper based on my MPH research!

Before-after analysis of suicide rates in South Africa:
-no evidence of increase in overall rates during pandemic cf 2017
-significantly decreased rates when alcohol was fully banned, especially among men

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Join us next Sunday for what promises to be a very illuminating conversation with Ofer Cassif, the lone anti-Zionist Jew within the Knesset, currently suspended for supporting SA’s ICJ case and calling out the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Just as white South Africa depended on assurances from Western powers to maintain confidence in its apartheid regime, so too does Zionist Israel today. The logic of BDS goes beyond direct economic impact, extending also to psychological impact.

From Rick Turner’s Eye of the Needle (1972).

This is my cat. His name is Calvin. He’s not on social media because he’s oldschool and prefers to engage irl