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I wrote a love letter to a neighbourhood in Athens called radio, and to all the Mediterraneans it holds within itself.
(Tenderness is all I have at the moment)
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Empty Zara like we've emptied Starbucks
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And still universities in the west haven't got a single thing to say about this
The largest university in Gaza seized by Israeli forces, transformed into a military base and site of soldier celebrations.
#GazaGenocide
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It gets more and more dystopian. The very next day after speaking on TV...
Breaking: Israel has just killed political analyst Dr. Ayman al-Rafati. Al-Rafati had been hosted by Al Jazeera last night as a guest from Gaza. It is evident that Israel seeks to silence any voice from Gaza.
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People buried alive. Kids buried alive
"At least 20 people may have been buried alive at the medical complex. Children were also amongst the bodies recovered"
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These beautiful ribbons have now been taken down. The organisers of the intervention asked for the ribbons and the names of the martyrs to be respected. They didn't last one night 💔
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I refuse to get used to it. Flour Massacre – the meaning and weight of those words – is one of the worst things I've ever heard. And now I've lost track of how many of them have happened
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Refaat Alareer got his masters degree from the university I teach at, which in the last two months has said exactly zero about genocide, has ignored calls to divest from funding the Israeli military, and has tried to intimidate people expressing support for Palestine
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Loads of South Africa flags on the London march 🇿🇦❤️🇵🇸
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Feel like I'm tweeting on repeat but this is fucking awful and I wish more academics would say something about it
Israel airstrikes just killed Professor Nasser Abu Al Nour, Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the Islamic University of Gaza, along with 7 members of his family, sheltering in their home today.
May they rest in peace🙏
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In the big room, teaching migration and the colonial geographies of citizenship
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Please don't do this. Not while the university refuses to acknowledge an actual poet and alumnus – Refaat Alareer – who was assassinated by a regime that is torturing many people, including Palestinian academics
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Professor Al-Saqqa taught the geography of Palestine at Al-Aqsa University. Geographers please rally yourselves and speak and act against the assassination of our colleagues!
Al-Aqsa university Dr. Abdel Nasser Al-Saqqa was killed today by Israeli airstrikes targeting his home in Gaza.
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Full academic boycott now. Keep organising. Don't stand for this
The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott.
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Yesterday we read Refaat Alareer’s poem “If I Must Die” in 10 languages (I read it in Greek). We are the university, and I’ve never felt closer to the people I learn with and the communities I’m part of. Thank you, Dr Refaat, for this and much more
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Nakba
Breaking | Al-Jazeera: According to an Israeli official, Israel has informed mediators that it will not agree to the return of residents to the northern Gaza Strip.
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There's so many things that are fucked about Britain but a load of people walking slowly through cities saying they don't agree with genocide really isn't one of them
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I still refuse to get used to this. Bombing refugee camps. Relentlessly bombing refugee camps
The scene from Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza shows Israeli occupation artillery and airstrikes persisting for more than two weeks without cessation.
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Almost a year (+75 years) and still every week the new worst thing I've ever seen
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Already on today's London march I've seen "Skaters Against Genocide" and "Gardeners for Palestine" banners and that's how you know it's a massive movement
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Infinite respect for people blocking ships and ports and weapons factories. People as anti-genocide infrastructure
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This year we failed to stop a genocide. But the outline of a world got clearer, drawn by the collective hand of people able to see past empire and all its brutishness. To see futures of life and freedom. Next year we keep building that world
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We don't move on from this
Three weeks have elapsed since Israeli occupation forces withdrew from al-Shifa Hospital, leaving it in ruins and incapable of operating ever again.
Since this withdrawal, Palestinians have been horrified by what they witnessed in areas where Israeli forces were present.
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Citizenship is a colonial project and product, a racialised regime, a border, a bordering
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Liberation camp is up at SOAS. Same all over London, the country, the world...
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Shout-out to my mum who hides all the Sabra hummus at the back of the fridges every time she goes to Tesco 😅
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It's almost a month since the kids held a press conference outside Al-Shifa hospital. One world didn't blink and kept on bombing and killing. Another world keeps growing every time we protest and rally and boycott and centre love and justice
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Whatever happens, gratitude to these good people
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The IOF destroyed all the universities and now people in Gaza are using PhD theses to light fires for warmth. We are in the abyss
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The thing is, as faculty, when you stand with (and spend time with) students who are organising and occupying and creating actions on campus, you enter into a version of the university that is infinitely more inspiring than the one that the uni bosses want us to inhabit
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I'm shocked and saddened too – both by this incident and by the fact that the university still hasn't said anything about the complete decimation of every university in Gaza, and the assassination of UCL alumnus Dr Refaat Alareer
UCL is shocked and saddened by the tragedy which happened at
@unikarlova
in Prague, one of
@UCLSSEES
closest partners.
We offer our deepest condolences to everyone within the Charles University community.
Our thoughts are with all those affected.
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Hi
@fatimazsaid
sorry this is a bit random, but a couple of weeks ago I shared your beautiful words – "We’re not freeing Palestine, Palestine is freeing us" – with a friend in Burj el Barajneh camp, then yesterday they told me that artists in the camp had made this!
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I actually feel sick this morning. This is completely intolerable
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Half a million of us out in London today. HALF A MILLION 🇵🇸🍉
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On Wednesday we will honour Refaat. His life and writing and voice. UCL Main Quad, Gower Street, 2pm ❤️
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They had to update the football against apartheid banner 😭
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76 universities!!!
BREAKING: The confederation of Spanish universities will cut ties with Israeli universities and research centers.
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The main quad on campus today. Thank you to students and colleagues for beautifully honouring UCL alumnus Dr Refaat Alareer, countering institutional silence, and filling the space with the names of the martyrs 🤍
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This is so far beyond awful. Where is Hind?
🚨More than 89 hours have passed, and the fate of our colleagues Yousef Zeino and Ahmed al Madhoun from the PRCS ambulance team, who went to rescue the 6-year-old girl, Hind, remains unknown.
Where is Hind? Where are Yousef and Ahmed? Are they still alive? We want to know their
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SOAS have put out a statement about Refaat Alareer and have called for ceasefire! Will UCL – where Refaat did his masters – do the same, or continue in its lack of care for Palestinian students, academics, and alumni?
We are devastated to hear that former SOAS student Dr Refaat Alareer has been killed in an air strike in the Gaza Strip.
Our statement on Refaat's death and the destruction of the higher education sector in Gaza.
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Scholasticide. Speak out against it. Organise against it
Head of the geography department in Al Aqsa university has been killed.
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Every week now I see the new worst thing I've ever seen
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People bound and blindfold in a swimming pool. Robo-dogs. Yazan al-Kafarna. That's just today. Nothing is fine. Keep protesting. Hold onto your souls
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If people can't see the beauty and compassion at the heart of how students are moving and rising, they're missing out on a lot
During Jummah (Friday prayer) this afternoon, Columbia University students formed a human shield with blankets to provide privacy to those students participating in prayer after a video showing students praying on the lawn began circulating on social media
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All universities. The position of university bosses is untenable. To think you can have multimillion investments in arms companies and not be complicit is untenable
Live on CNN today,
@GhassanAbuSitt1
called for the profits Glasgow university has made from investments in the arms trade to be set aside & used to rebuild Gaza’s health and education systems.
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To the politicians who found a million reasons not to call for ceasefire, to the university bosses still investing in the genocide machine, to the media who only tell the stories that service empire, to the writers who both-sides themselves into irrelevance – this is on you
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It works you know!
🚨BDS VICTORY - Coffee shop chain Pret has pulled out of its planned investment in Israel, with media sources citing the threat of a major boycott campaign by Palestine solidarity activists. (1/6)
#BDS
#FreePalestine
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Scholasticide all over Palestine. People talk a lot about knowledge production but less so, it seems, about knowledge destruction
The IDF has attacked and destroyed two Palestinian publishing houses in the occupied West Bank.
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The first 35 seconds of this is 0-year-olds 💔
Here is a list of the names we know from the more than 11,500 Palestinian children killed during Israel’s continuing war on Gaza ⤵️
Know their names:
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Amazing students renamed the student centre today (one day it will be permanent) ❤️
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UCL students call for an end to the institution's investments – its complicity – in genocide
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Makes me truly sad that I can't keep up with care work for students. This year I'm teaching two 1st-year courses with 240 and 160 students enrolled. I got c50 emails over the holidays asking for meetings or additional support. I don't know how/when I'm supposed to do this
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Feel like we're seeing the distillation and culmination of centuries of western imperialism and the west as a genocidal project. It has to end now. All of it
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March for Sudan this Sunday
Join the London protest for Sudan on the 18th Feb. We need voices, we need numbers. We must support and stand in solidarity with the Sudanese people!
#KeepEyesonSudan
#LondonforSudan
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Gentleness in the least gentle times ❤️
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Every time I'm on the Palestine march I see a beautiful anticolonial map brought to life by flags and chants and I think about how people are again doing the work of reorganising the world’s histories and geographies to see life after empire
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All out for Palestine tomorrow 🍉🇵🇸
Let's be thousands, let's be millions
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I just feel sick by this point. Bodily sick, visceral sick. Israel bombed Jabalia refugee camp, killed hundreds, and we're being told ceasefire is more violent than massacres piling up on top of massacres. Ceasefire now! End the siege!
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This is amazing 😍
And listen to the chant: "we are the workers, we won't be silent, stop the contract now now now now" (riffing on the one from recent marches)
Every week our collective voice gets louder and clearer. Keep amplifying and defying till they can't ignore us anymore
🚨BREAKING: After destruction of al-Shifa, hundreds of NHS workers are blockading
@NHSEngland
demanding an end to its contact with surveillance technology firm Palantir, which profits from Israel’s war on hospitals & killing of health workers.
Genocide profiteers
#HandsOffOurNHS
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Palestine teach-in at UCL next Wednesday! Open to all UCL workers and students
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Tomorrow we will honour Dr Refaat in prayer and poem, knowing that his words continue to live
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We had a Palestine teach-in today and we packed a lecture theatre and people spoke beautifully and we broke the fear the university is trying to impose on us. We are more than they are. Our communities, rather than any leaders, will free us
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Christmas love to everyone resisting this awful genocidal world and building paths to a better one. Next year in a free Palestine 🤍🎄
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Teaching prep is coming together :)
Some new (or newish) things I'm excited to think and teach with this year
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Just so predictable that some people are more angry about a painting of a century-dead eugenicist coloniser than they are about 30,000+ colonised people being murdered
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I feel so many heartfuls of love for this man ❤️
Just now, we welcomed our esteemed colleague, Wael Al Dahdooh, to Doha as he arrives to receive medical treatment. Wael's unwavering dedication during his coverage in Gaza, where he tragically lost his family, is a testament to his resilience and commitment. We stand united in
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From Teju Cole's "A Quartet for Edward Said".
There is no justice under the occupation
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"Geography is therefore the art of war but can also be the art of resistance if there is a counter-map and a counter-strategy" (Edward Said)
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The fuck is this. It's sickening enough that this is happening, but making a little video with some crappy beat to congratulate yourselves is just
BREAKING: The first people set to be removed to Rwanda have been detained.
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Get here if you can get here!
(Outside Downing Street now)
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Back in school, prepping the intro lecture for a course on "Space and Society" I'm running this term
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This thread 😭
Came across Dr. Refaat Alareer's poem "If I must die" just a few days ago, I cried and couldn't help but translated it to Chinese without his permission. Now that he's gone.
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Sound as bordering, border violence, and torture. Sound cannons are all three. They cause distress, nausea, tinnitus, bleeding. Fortress Europe has long had a soundtrack – this is the latest sadism.
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Lol I worked at Edinburgh uni when this guy arrived, and I remember that the university spent more on shipping his pets from Hong Kong than it paid me for a year's teaching fellow salary 😂
‘80 percent of the flights were business, but 100 per cent were subsidised by student fees’
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March tomorrow! March for ceasefire. March against genocide in Palestine. March against bombing Yemen. March against murderous British imperialism and hubris. March for another world
🚨The route for the 7th National March for Palestine on Saturday 13 January has now been confirmed. Assemble @ Bank Junction - join us!
#ceasefirenow
#SaveGaza
#FreePalestine
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A Geography prof wrote this. I want to see all geographers speaking out against ethnic cleansing
OPINION: The facts demonstrate that the northern Sinai Peninsula is an ideal location to develop a spacious resettlement for the people of Gaza.
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Just a reminder that several UK universities set up *new* research partnerships with this university since this genocide began. Edge Hill, Exeter, Queen Mary, Teeside, UCL
The president of Tel Aviv University, and former Law Dean, tries to salvage the image of Israeli academia. In an appalling Op-Ed he asks “difficult questions” such as: is there a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and whether there is a moral or legal justification to create one../1
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I learnt a while ago not to think I work *for* a university and to know instead I work *at* a university. Now I'm ever more certain I have to work *against* the university
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UCL is taking its own students to court for running an encampment (rather than seriously engaging with demands to end ties with genocide)
You can support by contributing to students' legal fees here
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People working at UK universities will want to sign this open letter to the UKRI. The govt is trying to shut down academic freedom (on things like, you know, being able to criticise genocide...)
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Happy St Patrick's Day and thanks to all the Irish people disowning Joe Biden, calling for free Palestine, and teaching how conditions of colonialism, starvation, and justice are always interlinked ☘️
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This is our beloved UCL colleague Dr James Smith working with MAP ❤️
“Last night was horrific. The system has fallen apart - not even the best triage system can withstand this. The operating rooms are full. We have run out of morphine. There's no space for dignity in dying."
This is the harrowing report sent to us by Dr James Smith, a MAP EMT.
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Yearning for a tender world, without everywhere empire and its endless brutality
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We're not helpless to stop this. Keep organising. Keep demanding ends to complicity. Keep filling the streets
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Was trying to have a twitter break but fuck it. On Saturday we had to organise to stop fascist groups attacking the student encampments. On Sunday the bowels of hell opened further. People in power are denying and enabling genocide. The whole world has to change
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Scholarships, fellowships, and other initiatives to support Palestinian students and academics
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What kind of wickedness is alternating 20 hours of genocide and 4 hours of ethnic cleansing? And calling it "humanitarian"?!
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