Jo Smith Finley

ps. @timeshighered.bsky.social raises the red flag-but only for the UK: "foreign government interference on UK campuses"
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie...

But China silencing us by weaponizing their students, is a live threat against the whole world, all our universities, not just UK!

Please everyone, re-read all of Laura Murphy's reports on the current slavery in China in their Uyghur genocide.

How precious they are!

Sheffield Hallam U actually DELETED her page at Forced Labour Lab, at the Helena Kennedy Centre, SHU!

But some are still here: www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our...

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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

This is a huge scandal -- a warning to all the world's academia, about China's brazen intimidation and shameless weaponizing of their own students in order to silence the BEST RESEARCH in our free universities.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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China's Embassy in the UK openly admitting their students are now their WEAPONS: "over 200,000 Chinese students in the UK.. China the largest source of international students in the UK," adding "educational cooperation has become a driving force in bilateral ties".. yeah, and not just in the UK.
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research www.bbc.com/news/article...
Shame on SHU for caving to Chinese intimidation.
Even if they backed off when they were duly warned by the UK govt.
But how many such horror cases of selfcensorship by universities go undetected, out of fear?

Lessons on Genocide From Xinjiang and Gaza Comparing events in Xinjiang and Gaza not only illuminates the double standard over genocide, but reveals the hole at the heart of the supposedly rules-based international order.

Nader Hashemi and James A. Millward. 2024. ‘Lessons On Genocide From Xinjiang And Gaza’. Dawn. February 23.

Islamophobia, the Global War on Terror, and China’s policies in Xinjiang What we need to understand is how and why these incidents were used to justify such massive, invasive and violent methods of control over the Muslim peoples of Xinjiang. After all, violent incidents i...

Rachel Harris. 2020. ‘Islamophobia, the Global War on Terror, and China’s policies in Xinjiang’. Society and Space. December 7.

Joanne Smith Finley. 2019. ‘The Wang Lixiong Prophecy: “Palestinization” in Xinjiang and the Consequences of Chinese State Securitization of Religion’. Central Asian Survey 38 (1): 81–101. doi:10.1080/02634937.2018.1534802

Science Publishing Hamburg - Resisting under Occupation. A Palestinian – Uyghur Comparison This comparative study of the resistance behavior between the Palestinians and Chinese Uyghurs delineates the commonalities of the two case studies in ...

Daniel James Schuster. 2017. Resisting under Occupation: A Palestinian–Uyghur Comparison. Hamburg: Anchor Academic Publishing.

The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs This article provides an overview of People’s Republic of China (PRC) counter-terrorism policies targeting Uyghurs since 2001 when the state first asserted that it faced a terrorist threat from thi...

Sean R. Roberts 2018. ‘The Biopolitics of China’s “War on Terror” and the Exclusion of the Uyghurs’. Critical Asian Studies 50 (2): 232–58. doi:10.1080/14672715.2018.1454111.

China : Xinjiang :: India : Kashmir Kashmir and Xinjiang share a border. Or, more precisely, the erstwhile princely state of Kashmir that is now divided between India, Pakistan, and China (and officially known as Jammu and Kashmir and L...

Nitasha Kaur. 2020. ‘China : Xinjiang :: India : Kashmir’. Made in China Journal 5 (2): 62–71. doi:10.22459/mic.05.02.2020.05.

On the Travel of State Crimes by Algorithm: Chinese Camera Systems in Israel | Made in China Journal In one of the opening scenes of Surveillance State, Josh Chin and Liza Lin (2022: 41) describe how then Xinjiang party secretary Chen Quanguo tested the response time of local police in front of a mar...

Darren Byler and Karissa Ketter. 2024. ‘On the Travel of State Crimes by Algorithm: Chinese Camera Systems in Israel’. Made in China Journal 9(1): 18–21. doi:10.22459/MIC.09.01.2024.02.

For those considering a facetious ’what about the Uyghurs’ argument against people expressing care for the desperate fate of the Palestinians, I refer to my extensive bibliography of sources that make clear many true Xinjiang experts have seen linkages from the very start.

Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

PLEASE SIGN. On Thursday 8th May 2025, 153 academic colleagues at Newcastle University were summoned at short notice to meetings with Uni Exec Board, where they were told they have been placed in ‘redundancy pools’ with 38 of them to be laid off. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

Absolutely sickening. Full solidarity with Newcastle academics.

The intercepted data, including communication details, contacts, and movement details (location coordinates) was reportedly sent directly to a handler in #China, whom the spies referred to as the "big boss".

The suspects, all #Chinese citizens, established a sophisticated operation self-funded by allegedly hacking into the bank accounts of regular Turkish citizens to drain savings for operational expenses. Their aim? To collect personal information of #Uyghurs & Turkish officials in contact with them.

Turkey busts Chinese spying ring using fake cell towers Officials say it's the most sophisticated espionage cell uncovered and used IMSI-catcher devices to eavesdrop on Uyghur and Turkish targets in Istanbul and Izmir

BUSTED. #PRC spying on #Uyghurs in #Turkiye in aggressive act of #TransnationalRepression. The cell's leader, a Chinese citizen identified by the initials ZL, allegedly arrived in Turkey five years ago to establish the groundwork for the intelligence operation. www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-...

@ucu.org.uk @newcastleucu.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social

Costs could also be cut by pruning management salaries and structures. Since tuition-fee rises in 2012, the number of staff drawing six-figure pay-cheques has mushroomed. We urge Newcastle University Executive Board to abandon these unnecessary cuts to frontline staff and do the right moral thing.

There are other options. Recently announced capital expenditure projects – including a £274m student accommodation block replete with luxuries like a cinema and gym, and plans for a new campus in India – should be reviewed or delayed.

To add insult to injury, on the day staff were threatened with redundancy they were also invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session. ‘Let your pen dance across the page,’ they were told, as ‘a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle.’

In an unpleasant twist, they will be forced to compete against each other in an academic equivalent of ‘The Hunger Games.’

Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

PLEASE SIGN. On Thursday 8th May 2025, 153 academic colleagues at Newcastle University were summoned at short notice to meetings with Uni Exec Board, where they were told they have been placed in ‘redundancy pools’ with 38 of them to be laid off. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

A win (for now) but it's unlikely this struggle for our university is over

The workers united will never be defeated!

Our strike action finishes at Sheffield after membership of our UCU branch @sheffielducu.bsky.social accept offer from management for no compulsory redundancies as a result of organisational restructures this year (and no pay deductions to be taken!)

Een vote amongst staff shows trust in the current leadership is incredible low.

Sign the petition to #FundHENow 👇
stopthecutspetition.org.uk

Trying to open a new campus while cutting jobs. Not a good look.

Our members should not lose their livelihoods because of management can't handle the finances.

14 days of strike action started today at @newcastleucu.bsky.social 👇

With hundreds of jobs at risk we must #STOPtheCUTS.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.