Jo Bluen
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writes, teaches, phd-ing @LSEIRDept . work on genocide, apartheid, law, war, race, gender, capital, land, food. abolition now|insta: jozi_blue. they
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On the tinder date in the coffee shop I’m at the dude said, “I get where it was coming from but I think the Gillette ad went too far” and the woman said “I think this date is over” and walked out unceremoniously and now he’s sitting here alone with his patriarchy looking stunned
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I just accidentally tagged myself in the photo my ex shared on Facebook of him, his wife, and the sonogram of their baby. How’s your day going?
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In all seriousness the absolute lack of skill, legal argument, moral argument, and professionalism of this scattered presentation stands in stark juxtaposition with the brilliance of the SA legal team
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@shabbirie
@Jason_McEwan
It's not women's responsibility to explain patriarchy to patriarchs.
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Victimhood and rage and entitlement and mediocrity. It’s a case study in white patriarchal violence.
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These are AI generated images & none of these buildings in Johannesburg are lit up with the Israeli flag. This is being shared by the German Ambassador to South Africa and still not deleted after multiple sources including humans who live here have shown it to be misinformation
Johannesburg 🇿🇦 this week.
🇮🇱 colours in solidarity against Hamas terror.
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SA media’s obsession with asking Afriforum what they think about things is so dangerous. It situates them as legitimate political actors rather than as a white supremacist hate group. Platforming Afriforum is complicity. It’s white supremacy.
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So the argument here is that banning the apartheid flag is bad because it might be a gateway to *checks notes* the dismantling of other racist things.
Banning the old SA flag would be absurd. Next we would need to demolish the Voortrekker monument and the Union Building and stop people publishing or singing the words of Die Stem.
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1. Genocide is not unique to the Nazi Holocaust; it is the story of colonial modernity.
2. While Israel weaponises Judaism it is a settler colonial fascist state, not a religion.
3. Stop denigrating the memory of our ancestors’s deaths for similar fascist genocide.
Israel at The Hague, charged with genocide, is a most egregious act of Holocaust inversion.
Formally charge the Jews with what was done to them, and the guilt of the non-Jewish world evaporates.
We see their twisted games.
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Not cool enough for soundcloud. In lieu: white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy is the problem; not all ideas are up for debate; some of my favourite thinkers are Sylvia Wynter, Patricia Hill Collins, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Christina Sharpe, Angela Davis.
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PSA for friends & comrades abroad: the SA Jewish Board of Deputies is a racist, zionist organisation that was in full support of apartheid & is making false allegations of antisemitism against the SA government that are based on its disgraceful defense of genocide in Palestine
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Renaldo Gouws is a raging white supremacist who also doxxed me a couple of years ago and spurred on countless misogynistic queerphobic antisemitic racist fascists that are his loyal base as they made the most vile threats and violent comments.
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It’s good that they suspended him but, they knew exactly who he was when they sent him to parly. We have been telling them for years. More importantly, he has been telling them for years.
JUST IN: DA Federal Executive suspends Renaldo Gouws. The DA has established that the video, in which Gouws uses execrable language, is genuine and not as fake as initially suspected. "The DA Federal Executive has therefore suspended Mr Gouws with immediate effect." DC to follow
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SA Jews for a Free Palestine (
@SAJFP_
) statement on SA Government’s Invocation of Genocide Convention against Israel at the ICJ and the dangerous racist Zionist response
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Abolish the SA Jewish Board of Deputies. Abolish the SA Zionist Federation. They do not speak for Jews, but for Zionists. They’re dangerous, Islamophobic, racist, and antisemitic. We did not choose them, they set up shop in apartheid to sustain connected apartheids
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From Palestine to Congo, imperialism has got to go! Cape Town march for DRC today
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Grateful for the opportunity to speak with
@MasaKekana
about South Africa’s submission to the ICJ and anti/colonial international law, genocide and hasbara more broadly on Newzroom Africa
South African Jews for a Free Palestine have welcomed the government's application to the International Court of Justice against Israel’s continuous bombardment of Gaza.
@MasaKekana
speaks to SA Jews for a Free Palestine's Jo Bluen.
Watch:
#Newzroom405
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Stop giving Afriforum a platform. Stop acting like they're anything other than an Apartheid denialist white supremacist hate group.
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@vayasophia
what a vicious thing to say about students who have learnt more about both their subjects and the world than most generations. Finishing a degree during a pandemic and the global hellscape of the year. If I had a company (lol) I would hire every student I taught this year
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There’s a long history of fascist obsession with flight. Jews are absolutely fine in South Africa. Good riddance to this settler colonial airline. From the river to the sea!
That's it, the last El Al flight out of South Africa flew out last night.
From now on South Africa will plunge into an even darker abyss and the more Jews leave South Africa the more South Africa will move backward into the dark ages.
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Every time Helen demonises critical race theory, it's apparent that she's never read any CRT. If she had, she would know that the conversations about education and jobs she thinks should be prioritised can't happen outside of race. It's white supremacy masquerading as engagement.
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This superb piece by
@LalehKhalili
is a fascinating look into the violence of management consulting and also opens with crucial reflections on the global political economic linkages of the Gupta family and transnational connections from and to South Africa
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So many of the international law scholars who jumped on the BLM/decolonisation bandwagon to make careers out of decolonising international law (lol) are curiously silent or inept right now
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Went to IRR's thing on expropriation without compensation in London last night. Their white supremacist lobbying campaign is slick & I was again enraged by how they're given legitimacy as a think tank not a hate group & said as much. They're broederbond, but make it Oxford.
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International law is a language. Most often a colonial one. The ICJ has, however, quite often issued anti-colonial rulings eg the Palestine wall case, the Chagos Islands case, the ‘South West Africa’ case, the Nicaragua case.
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In 2019 in South Africa you can go to the university town where most Apartheid leaders were educated to watch a rape apologist who got fired from the Sunday Times for a column defending colonialism in conversation with the head of a white supremacist lobby group.
What does the future really hold for SA, and what can you do about it? Don’t miss IRR CEO Frans Cronje and outspoken columnist David Bullard at Stellenbosch next week.
@SouthAfrica2030
Take a stand with the IRR at
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As a Jewish former head girl of
@RedhillSchool
, I am absolutely appalled by this virulent zionist, racist, anti-semitic incursion on freedom of speech at the school and policing of students. All alumni should immediately withdraw financial support from the school as a start.
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Statement in support of SA’s ICJ a submission by international lawyers, scholars of international law, international studies and genocide studies. Please sign and share widely
@TWAILReview
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If you needed a reminder of how the rainbow taught white people we were the centre of all universes and allowed us to weaponise imagined victimhood in the service of racism, here she is.
She said she lives in the area, and explained: “I came from South Africa to move away from this... I don’t want this. This is not the Hong Kong I’ve grown to love.”
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My brilliant bestie
@sthembete
, who dances magnificently with ideas and life, submitted her PhD thesis yesterday and I haven't stopped smiling since. So proud of you darling!
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Cancel culture has gone too far
Parrots removed from UK wildlife park after they started swearing at customers
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Always remembering that it was white supremacist Jan Smuts who insisted on the inclusion of the term ‘human rights’ in the UN charter and exactly who he considered human for those purposes
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Should eNCA be allowed to foster violent bigotry suggesting actual disenfranchisement while pretending it's doing a neutral poll?
#YourView
: Should mental health patients be allowed to vote? Results just after 3pm on
#NewsDay
with
@maggsonmedia
#DStv403
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It goes without saying that a vote for the DA is a vote for fascism
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Scholar, educator, mentor
@YesEAHenderson
was charged with creating a hostile environment & banned from teaching & attending meetings at
@penn_state
for writing an op ed on institutional racism & white supremacy. Watch this. Contact the provost. All solidarity with Dr Henderson!
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This tweet embodies the intersections between racism and patriarchy
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Sorry I’m late but solidarity with
@JamilFarouk
❤️ Gareth is trash. Herd immunity is eugenics. Sitting at home advocating for the sacrifice black workers for white capital is white supremacy.
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Imagine if there were a whole literature & millions of people everywhere that an institute focusing on race could engage to understand that racism can't be divorced from structural power. It's *almost* as if they're wilfully misrepresenting racism to further white supremacy.
An opinion poll conducted by the Institute for Race Relations (IRR) suggests that more white people have experienced personal racism than black people since 1994.
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Maybe if we don't want Zindzi Mandela to call us cowards and land thieves we shouldn't be cowardly and shouldn't have stolen/should stop stealing all the land.
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I’m proud to be among the 65 Jewish SA signatories of the letter supporting the academic boycott of Israeli universities. The SAJBD’s attempt to situate us as discriminatory or outsiders of our community is yet another indication of the fact that they’re about Zionism not Judaism
I am Jewish regardless of what South African Jewish Board of Deputies says about me. I unequivocally support the struggle of Palestinians against colonisation of their land by Zionists who have perverted our history to justify oppression
@mailandguardian
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Are you seriously instrumentalising the Holocaust to propagate racist myths about white marginalisation in response to efforts at racial equity in the context of apartheid’s enduring structural racism in South Africa? You should be ashamed of yourself.
What!!!!!???? I am busy reading a book on the rise of Nazi Germany on the 30s and this looks and feels like the "Aryanisation" that excluded Jews from any and every profession or occupation - before the Holocaust.
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Equal opportunity participation in a racist, colonial, patriarchal killing machine is not feminism. And using it to whitewash violent militarism is vile.
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don’t think my grand aunt’s survival of Auschwitz gives me any particular authority, but they probably do. What you’re doing by weaponising the memory of our ancestors for a directly linked genocidal project is shanda & a disgrace to victims & survivors of both genocides 🧿🕯🧿🕯
RESOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL AUSCHWITZ COUNCIL ON THE TRAGIC EVENTS IN ISRAEL, APPROVED BY CIRCULATION ON 18 NOVEMBER 2023
The International Auschwitz Council by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland acknowledges with the deepest pain and sorrow the suffering of
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I’ve spent a fair amount of time in the legal archives and every time anyone tries to use colonial legal frameworks for anti-colonial ends the rush of the genocidal west to smear and stymie is the same.
Israel accuses South Africa of being “complicit with Hamas’ campaign of Genocide against our people”- saying “We assure South Africa's leaders, history will judge you”.
Govt spox added that Israel will appear at ICJ where SA has filed a case accusing Israel of genocidal acts.
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@Sugarintheplum
I am - quite clearly - very bad at Facebook, but sources seem to suggest he would still get a notification. Just going to drink and cook and read trash spy thrillers for the rest of the day
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what a vicious thing to say about students who have learnt more about both their subjects and the world than most generations. Finishing a degree during a pandemic and the global hellscape of the year. If I had a company (lol) I would hire every student I taught this year
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The United States Consulate, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 11 October 2023
All solidarity with Palestine. From the river to the sea!
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@Jason_McEwan
@shabbirie
Demanding that women explain things to men invested in their oppression is demanding (more) of women's free labour. It is centering men, not women, as is this conversation. That itself is patriarchy.
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drop a cool photo someone took of you doing your job
Drop a cool photo someone took of you doing your job
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Israel is a settler colony. Like apartheid South Africa. The global move to treat Israeli & SA apartheid with colourblindness divorced from white supremacy, land expropriation & dispossession is part of liberal-fascist zionist carceral project of global settler colonialism.
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Cape Town march looks incredible. Solidarity from Joburg. From the river to the sea 🍉✊🇵🇸💜❤️🔥
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What are white South Africans going to talk about at dinner parties, on the internet, or everywhere after Zuma leaves?
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What an absolutely unbelievable collection of readings! Rhodes Must Fall literature
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The idea that genocide is a uniquely Jewish phenomenon when the Shoah was a colonial genocide in constellation with centuries of colonial genocide by the west is a violent negation of the enormity of those who lived and died under genocidal colonial fascism
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Updated poster for Wednesday’s demo in Joburg! After Friday’s workers’ summit more groups are joining in unity to say no to genocide, apartheid, occupation and call for a ceasefire.
29 November, Mary Fitzgerald Square to Nelson Mandela Bridge. 10AM.
See you there! 🍉✊❤️🔥🇵🇸
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@RenaldoGouws
Hi Renaldo. I don’t debate white supremacy where the terms of the debate are set up by racists.
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Of course Christchurch was made possible by the hideous violence of the right. But it is also made possible by white liberalism. It is not an aberration but part of the same racist grammar, and treating as ideationally divorced is a move to erode complicity.
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Anyway. Here’s what I managed to get out before they stopped me. Absolutely terrified by how they manage to pretend they’re anything other than what they are and the complicity of so many in making this possible.
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the zionists are losing the culture war and they know it. the zionists have lost ground on the territories that were once unimpeachable. they're doubling down, like colonial fascists always do when they've lost control of the narrative in hegemonic places.
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From the archives: on connected israeli and South African apartheids
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How strange that the party that wants to open the economy to kill black, poor, disabled, and immunocomprimised people also wants to spout murderous conspiracy theories. It’s almost as if pretending the virus doesn’t exist might support a white supremacist capitalist agenda 🤷♀️
@BongaDlulane
#COVID19SA
Dr Ferreira says on the DA CoronaCast with John Steenhuisen that this "virus is perpetuated by politicians, the media and the internet without support from medical science".
He is an anesthetist.
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Hi fam. Not sure if anyone noticed lol, but sorry for just disappearing the last while. I’ve been struggling a lot with my mental health, grief, & recovering from a sexual assault which truly broke me & been very nowhere. I’ve requested a year of medical leave from the phd
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Go fuck yourselves
The Nazi’s had the brown shirts that went around terrorising minorities. South Africa has the red shirts.
#BrackenfellHigh
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Apartheid cannot be divorced from military occupation, settler colonialism and white supremacy
Apartheid is deprivation.
Apartheid is segregation.
Apartheid is fragmentation.
Apartheid is dispossession.
Israel’s apartheid over Palestinians is a crime against humanity.
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South Africa now has 38 cases of coronavirus, up by 14 in a day. Almost all from the U.K., US and Europe. It’s wildly irresponsible to come to this hell scape and return as a vector for the virus to SA. Rich white South Africans, don’t be murderous, cancel your holidays!
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She is just straight up lying about humanitarian aid and also using this lie in a familiar way to use humanitarian claims to ‘mitigate conditions’ to justify genocide
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@ztsamudzi
I don’t know but I do know my mom keeps calling and asking me if I’m excited for a vax and a wax
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@RenaldoGouws
Lol. This is at once a direct personal attack on me, a recentring of whiteness by focusing on white women’s comments when Black people have been saying IRR is white supremacist for years & so embarrassing for you. Who makes a whole video on a random woman’s remarks at a seminar?
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Starvation is a war crime amidst a brutal fascist joy at violence and murder and subjugation I cannot find words and grammars for though I try every day. This genocidal regime knows no limits.
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So proud of the students and alums at Redhill. All solidarity. From the river to the sea
A South African school (Redhill School) told students not to talk about Palestine or face school censure This is the response they got this morning outside the school premises ✊🏿✊🏿 from their own students. The irony does not escape one 🤔
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I rarely share hate mail because it can be a distraction, (I’m fine, let’s keep it moving) but given the Holocaust weaponisation, the racist equation of Palestinians with Nazism & the pinkwashing, thought I’d share this which is an exemplar of a lot of the themes in my inbox
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Read ‘Constructing an international legal order under the shadow of colonial domination’ by
@OumarKBa
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Afriforum's strategic avoidance of the language of white genocide in favour of that of human/minority rights is sinister. White genocide is a white supremacist myth, whatever you call it. White South Africans are not minorities in any sense other than demographic. We're settlers.
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The rules based liberal international order is a mechanism and institutionalisation of the white supremacist settler colonial internationalism that is a central condition of possibility for this genocide
Explain the ‘rules-based international order’ to me again.
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Grad students at the UCT encampment have set up study spaces for students to study with tutors available to support before exams
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I'm outrageously excited to share our CFP for the Millennium conference this year entitled, 'Extraction, Expropriation, Erasure? Knowledge Production in International Relations'. 19-20 October 2019. Please submit to us!
Call for Papers: 2019 Millennium Conference
'Extraction, expropriation, erasure? Knowledge production in International Relations', 19-20 October at LSE.
Keynote Address: Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Opening Addresses: Gurminder Bhambra & Linda Tuhiwai Smith
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Passover is a big deal in my fam. We get together & love each other & fight over the pesach story & how much of it we have to read before eating. My gran & great aunt are in their 90s & this is their first pesach alone. My dad just sent this mail & maybe I’m crying or whatever
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I haven’t posted personal stuff in ages because because but everyone seems to find a lot of joy in them and I’m besotted. We got kittens! It’s Frankie and Lola.
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