Fabien Goa

Going to the Peacehaven Mosque Some reflections following the 4 October terrorist attack

I added some thoughts on the Peacehaven mosque attack here www.hauntologies.net/p/going-to-t...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Two people in balaclavas torched a mosque in Peacehaven, East Sussex. This is not far from where I live.

Fascists are in an open war with Muslims and people of colour in the UK.

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The only ideology they have is infinite consumption, and he has affected that, so now they are upset. What they wanted, by the same token, was not free speech but infinite speech - to say what they liked without backlash. And that deserved backlash is upsetting them too. That's basically it.

Any credible future history of the rise of the early c21st UK far right will include a chapter on the crucial process of mainstreaming, in which Goodwin and the rest of the "legitimate concerns" gang will feature prominently. His later journey will be a footnote.

If anything, Goodwin was far more useful to the far right back then than he is now. Wittingly or unwittingly, he acted as a plausibly authoritative outrider, mainstreaming their "concerns" and undermining the norms that had kept them marginalised until then.

To what extent is it radicalisation and to what extent is it his real self being revealed? I suspect it's both. Ten years ago he was whitewashing racism as the legitimate concerns of the downtrodden and deriding anti-racists as a cosmopolitan elite. These were not exactly small red flags.

One my favourite thinkers, who also happens to be one of my favourite human beings, and whose writing, podcasting and documentary-making never fails to inspire and energize.

Your department, your project, your crew would undoubtably benefit from having Elia onboard!

Eric Cantona shares jersey of refugee camp team to benefit Palestine French football legend wears jersey of Lajee Celtic Club in Israeli-occupied West Bank - Anadolu Ajansı

Palestine 🇵🇸

Eric Cantona voiced support for Palestinian refugees by backing Lajee Celtic Club from Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp. He appeared on Instagram wearing the club’s shirt, endorsing a Celtic fan campaign in Scotland raising funds for the team.

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

"For the right, this crackdown wasn’t a sign of the excesses of the Cold War but rather the proper role of government: to police public life to make sure it conformed to conservative values"
The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left @pastpunditry.bsky.social
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The Continent 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 | ISSUE 215 15 INVESTIGATION The Djiboutian massacre Ethiopia won’t acknowledge Djibouti drones killed eight people on the other side of its border with Ethiopia. Djibouti claimed they were terrorists. Ethiopia said nothing. This investigation found that some of the dead were Ethiopians, revealing another episode in Addis’s tendency to let its neighbours kill its citizens with impunity. Crossing the line: Djibouti’s bombs landed inside Ethiopia, killing civilians – not armed fighters. zecharias zelalem On 30 January this year, a drone manned from Djibouti dropped a bomb on a funeral gathering in Siyaru, a remote, semi-arid village near the Ethiopia Djibouti border. As rescuers rushed in, a second bomb dropped. And then a third. At least eight people were killed, including three children. Several others were injured. Given the village’s remoteness, the incident might have gone unreported if graphic images of the dead hadn’t spread across Ethiopian social media. A statement from the Djibouti’s defence ministry said the drone struck rebel fighters from the Front for the

Restoration of Unity and Democracy (Frud), a Djiboutian political party with a military wing. It has been fighting for Afar interests in Djibouti since the 1990s. The Afar are a community split by the colonial border separating Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Eritrea. “Eight terrorists were neutralised on site,” said a Djibouti military statement. “Unfortunately, collateral damage among Djiboutian civilians in the area has been documented.” International media, including Voice of America, Agence France Presse, and Radio France Internationale reported this version of events. Now, new findings from an open In recovery: Mariam Mohammed Abdullah was injured in the drone strike. source investigation by The Continent reveal a different reality. The bombs landed inside Ethiopia, not in Djibouti, and civilians – not armed fighters – were killed. That distinction matters. It shows Ethiopia is once again tolerating a foreign military targeting its own citizens, as it did with Eritrea during the Tigray conflict. A transparent lie Even before the ink could dry on the Djiboutian military’s statement, The Addis Standard and human rights groups in Djibouti were emphatic that the strike had actually occurred inside Ethiopia’s Afar region. But Alexis Mohamed, an adviser to Djiboutian President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, rubbished these reports in now-deleted social media posts. The Continent got to work to figure out what really happened. Over the course of eight months, we collected eyewitness testimonies, interviewed human rights activists in Ethiopia and Djibouti, and examined images and footage from the strike. Our findings align with those of Djiboutian activists, who pinpointed Siyaru in Ethiopia’s Afar region as the site of the strike. The ammunition residue found on the night of the strike confirms the bomb was manufactured by Roketsan, a state run weapons manufacturer in Türkiye. Former US army explosives expert Trevor Ball identified t…

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

"Conor called for a return to compassion as the core normative impulse of human rights movements – not compassion as charity or benevolence, but as a commitment to a radical empathy and to justice. For Conor, human rights were rooted in a radical universalism, premised upon an equal humanity."

Chez France Travail, Frontex promet « de la chasse » de migrants pour recruter Retrouvez sur StreetPress nos enquêtes & infos, sur Paris et en banlieue. Et découvrez chaque jour les lieux et les gens qui font l’actu urbaine en Île-de-France.

Chez France Travail, l’agence européenne chargée du contrôle aux frontières Frontex, promet « de la chasse » de migrants pour recruter des « jeunes hommes » ⬇️
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I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

UK anti-slavery commissioner condemns Shabana Mahmood’s asylum comments Home secretary’s remarks about ‘vexatious’ claims will have real-life impact on trafficking victims, says Eleanor Lyons

It was trivially easy to predict that the Starmer government's belated condemnation of far right criminality last weekend would be quickly followed by even more intensive pandering to the far right's politics. Its who they are. They won't change

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Imagine what he'll do when he finds out that a senior politician stoked racism and struck fear into the heart of black and brown Britons by giving a speech about immigration where he said that Britain risked becoming "an island of strangers."

2/ The far right deals in fear because they cannot compete with the solidarity we embody every day. Do not mistake their noise for strength.

They shout for cameras; we organise for a better future for everyone.

Let’s look after each other, and remember, our #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders

on a blue background, with a yellow bird. Text says "Dignity, justice and welcome for all migrants" Art by Migrants in culture

Solidarity is not a slogan; it is a practice.

Every bit of progress we’ve made, from trade union rights to migrant justice, was won not because those in power handed it down, but because ordinary people demanded it. And took action to make it happen. ⬇️

"We're going to go after the NGO Networks"

JD Vance and Stephen Miller openly outline how they are going to crackdown on civil society and use the government to crush political opposition.

On this day in 1890, the great Claude McKay was born.

(My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.

"I don't care that he's dead."
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."

No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.

Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

Also a kind reminder that the CEO of Palantir UK is Louis Mosley, the grandson of Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists. Louis is of course friends with Peter Thiel.

Labour gave Palantir UK hundreds of millions of pounds and access to our NHS data.

Let me elaborate my disagreement with @zackpolanski.bsky.social in a 🧵. The scenes on our streets are not "the consequences of decades of austerity" but of centuries of racism propagated by the British ruling classes to rationalise the social order they have constructed at home and abroad.

I'm genuinely grateful for the solidarity, irrespective of how rare this is from a politician. But fascism can't be reduced to displaced economic concerns. It doesn't stand up analytically, it won't help politically or strategically, and I really wish the left (of which I'm part) wouldn't do this.

Women's Super League table 14th September 2025 showing Manchester United in 1st position after 1-5 thrashing of London City Lionesses

United! Top of the league! UNITED, UNITED top of the league 🇾🇪

This was Conor Gearty only a week or so ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on ECHR withdrawal and the Palestine Action ban.

Awful news about the death of the great Conor Gearty.

Perhaps the kindest and most encouraging law professor imaginable.

A dreadful loss to the study of civil liberties and constitutional law.