Uri Horesh

Australia must investigate President Herzog for genocide Israeli President Isaac Herzog is due to arrive in Australia on February 8, following an official invitation from the Australian Government. With this

Join me and Amnesty supporters in calling for a ceasefire and unimpeded humanitarian access in Gaza now! www.amnesty.org.au/act-now/aust...

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

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Scots is often wrapped up in classism and labelled as 'weird' or 'uneducated', but by every standard it is its own language with its own grammar, syntax and words, and should be respected as such, writes Emma Grae ✍️

Read more: www.thenational.scot/commen...

Representative Ilhan Omar Is Attacked at Town Hall in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Storm Chandra wtf

Rembering the Children of Gaza

For two and a half continuous days, beginning January 27 , 2026, 7:00am Palestine/Israel time, we will read the names of 18454 children from more than 22,000 children have been killed in Gaza since October 2023.

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Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Sheer luck. I try a new word each time, on a whim.

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Sociophonetics This book provides a critical overview of sociophonetic research and considers how the findings of this field illuminate and problematize a range of central issues in phonetics and phonology. The core...

Available today on Google Books! "Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory" edited by me and @jennycz.bsky.social

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Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.

Raise your hand if you think ICE should be abolished and their murderers prosecuted 🖐️

Council-backed LGBTQ+ Gaelic choir to begin in Glasgow Composer and choir leader Josie Duncan has set up Còisir Chuèir (Queer Choir) for members of the LGBTQ community to participate in Gaelic singing.

Council-backed LGBTQ+ Gaelic choir to begin in Glasgow.

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YouTube video by ObservActu TV Anatomie d’un Déclin Moral : L’Occident en Question ! Dr Uri Horesh , Dr Saade et Mourad Guichard

Don't be too impressed that I so readily responded to questions asked in French; I had an English translation of them in front of me!
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If only the British Library shops had on offer something useful, like a notebook that costs less than £14… @britishlibrary.bsky.social

YouTube video by Ben Jewish and Yiddish Reactions to the Destruction of Gaza: a Panel

Jewish and Yiddish Reactions to the Destruction of Gaza: A Panel

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I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

#OTD 117 years ago, Morris Swadesh (1909–1967) was born 🎉 A historical linguist and expert on Indigenous American languages such as Chitimacha, Menominee, and Mahican, he used lexicostatistics to develop glottochronology and compiled the so-called Swadesh lists.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

People who put “non-political” on Hinge 🧐

UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’ Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights

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Find out about our University's scholarships for 2026 entry which are open to School of Modern Languages' PhD applicants. Apply by 21 January 2026: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Dr Saeed Talajooy's piece In Memoriam of Bahram Beyzaie (26 December 1938- 26 December 2025): www.iranicaonline.org/announcement...

Byre World is back for the new semester, continuing the annual series of talks, workshops, and performances bringing the School of Modern Languages' global cultural studies research to the local community. Read about our upcoming events here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Read the piece about the academics and students in Iran, for which our Saeed Talajooy was interviews: Iranian scholars fear tougher clampdown as protests spread | Times Higher Education (THE): www.timeshighereducation.com/news/iranian...

Tue 27 Jan 6pm at Byre Theatre join this semester's first Byre World event: the screening of Konrad Wolf’s Sterne, followed by a Q&A with our Prof Sean Allan & Elizabeth Ward of the University of Leipzig and author of East German Film and the Holocaust: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/east-...

Amen to that.

No one wants to extend your 90-minute Zoom meeting to 100. Well, some do, but don’t listen to them.

Providing support to the children and families of Gaza This humanitarian campaign works to provide food and basic necessities to the people of Gaza whose homes have been completely or partially destroyed by the war, leaving them suddenly without shelter t...

Israel continues to deliberately starve the Palestinian people.

Our governments are facilitating this crime.

But we can help Palestinians trying to feed the people of Gaza. Please give whatever support you can.

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