Anna Stavrianakis

Inside the Campaign to Block Israel’s War Ships Podcast Episode · Things That Go Boom · 01/12/2025 · 43m

This, with Katy Fox-Hodess and Rafeef Ziadah, looks amazing. Can’t wait to listen. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Disciplining dissent: UK universities, the arms industry, and protest Laura Shewan, SGR, describes the increasingly close relationship between the military-industrial complex and the academic sector in Britain. She also highlights the increasing antagonism of university...

SGR’s campaigner Laura Shewan documents how UK universities are clamping down on student protests while deepening ties with the arms industry.

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War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital examines the war economy from feminist perspectives, bringing fresh thinking in the context of heightened geopolitical tensions. The book challen...

What better gift for the festive season for your loved ones than a comprehensive feminist analysis of the global war economy? Edited by the fabulous @hozic.bsky.social and Jacqui True and with a chapter by yours truly - www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

A case was brought against UK arms exports to Israel by Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq & the Global Legal Action Network, but High Court judges refused their case.

@annastavrianakis.bsky.social explains why the government was taken to court.

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Why the UK Government was Taken to Court Over Arms Sales to Israel When peace and security mean arming genocide.

When peace and security mean arming genocide.

@annastavrianakis.bsky.social, a Senior Lecturer in International Relations, explains why the UK government was taken to court over arms sales to Israel, and makes the case for a two-way arms embargo on Israel.

Transition Security Project

While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty.

Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵

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Today! I am delighted to be a fellow of the TSP - tune in to hear what the project is all about!

Why the UK Government was Taken to Court Over Arms Sales to Israel When peace and security mean arming genocide.

Why we need a two-way arms embargo on Israel:
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This letter, out today, has been endorsed by a number of experts listed by the Forum on the Arms Trade. The Forum itself does not take positions. Partial list of endorsers includes:

Thousands protest against presence of Israeli companies at London arms fair Several activists, calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza, received medical treatment amid police clashes at the DSEI event

Hundreds and hundreds of protesters at the DSEI arms fair today, of all ages, races, genders and faiths, making their presence felt as the suited and booted, mostly male, mostly white delegates went for their big jolly - www.middleeasteye.net/news/protest...

Police have charged a further 46 more people with supporting the banned campaign group Palestine Action, bringing the total facing prosecution related to protests in London to 114.

Centrism isn't an obstacle to fascism or a bulwark against it. It's a welcome mat.

There's no point telling people "It's Starmer or Farage" when the dynamic at work here is plainly Starmer *and* Farage.

"Labour or Reform" makes as much sense at this point as "Vichy or the Third Reich".

Leading genocide scholars organization says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide says that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

NEW: The world’s largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide just voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

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This made my day today.

Police pulled over a dalek outside DSEI, London's arms fair, scanned the QR code on its lanyard and were taken to my fake Royal Navy recruitment website - royalnavy.org.uk

Excellent short read - especially pertinent as flags are going up in Brighton and, crucially, being taken down again by anti-fascists

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Israel says it won’t participate in upcoming UK weapons show after Defense Ministry officials barred from taking part * * *

Huge victory for public pressure on the British government as genocidal rogue state Israel pulls out in a huff from the DSEI arms fair. Campaigners that Netpol is speaking to say the next step is to close the entire event down with a blockade on 9 September www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Classic UK govt move: there is a useful fiction of the separation between arms companies and governments. So the UK gets to look like it did something good while materially enabling the bad stuff to happen and letting the Israeli govt cry wolf about how badly it’s treated.

Starmer's government bans Israeli officials but not Israeli arms companies. Says it all about Starmer.

When ‘Peace and Security’ Means Arming Genocide On 30 June 2025, the High Court refused a judicial review of UK arms export policy towards Israel. This article examines the government's claims in the case and the judges’ ruling, arguing that the l...

3/ Poland notification is labeled as F-35. And the UK Globemaster notification comes after the courts there ruled to allow it to continue to provide parts into the F-35 pool (see @annastavrianakis.bsky.social for some background
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) Might there be a connection?

This is the even darker dimension to Russia's pro-natalism push, including paying schoolgirls to have babies. Putin's Russia is obsessed with demographics and the composition of Russia's population. This demonstrates an intense focus on preventing Ukrainian society from growing.

When ‘Peace and Security’ Means Arming Genocide On 30 June 2025, the High Court refused a judicial review of UK arms export policy towards Israel. This article examines the government's claims in the case and the judges’ ruling, arguing that the l...

I wrote a short, open-access account of how the High Court ended up accepting the UK govt's argument that protecting "international peace and security" means arming genocide in Palestine: please read and share - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Resisting Erasure w/ Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah and Robert Knox Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 20/08/2025 · 1h 19m

Excellent taster of their new book - thank you Rafeef, Adam and Robert! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Headline: BBC under pressure to pull Sally Rooney dramas over vow to fund Palestine Action

Headline: Tory minister Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief at far right protest.

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

The three best ideas I’ve had for how to organise my book have come when I’m 1) not sitting at the computer and 2) physically moving. Apparently the body isn’t just a receptacle for the brain.