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In celebration of @FranceskAlbs recent standing ovations at both LSE and SOAS, let me highlight the main contributions her Reports have made to the way we understand the genocide of the Palestnian people in Gaza 🧵
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This woman’s grandfather was literally Hitler’s finance minister and the final head of the third reich after goebbels killed himself. You can’t make it ip.
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It really disturbs me professionally as a researcher of colonialism that I so fell for the idea that the worst of genocidal colonialisms is well behind us that my analytical imagination was and still is is unable to encompass the perpetration and legitimisation of so much evil.
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After almost 4 months of encampment, the student Palestine encampment in Dortmund were forced by German police to take down the camp and leave, and police said they would arrest me if I went there. All this just because the students had invited me to speak at their event and I had been to a pro Palestine protest in Berlin the day before that police has stormed. 1/2
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Greta stopped being a media darling when she started connecting climate to capitalism. Now that she connects climate to colonialism and genocide, she has fallen outside the acceptable bounds of corporate media altogether.
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india is such a stellar example of why the postcolonial is not decolonial. Less than a few decades after “gaining” their own independence their is a complete erasure of the collective memory of what imperialism is what solidarity means who the aggressors are what is colonialism
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War for “civilization against savagery” has been code for genocide for more than a couple centuries
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From April next year, Canadian, German, US, UK and 29 other countries, will require a visa to enter Namibia. These include all “non-reciprocating countries”. In other words, if you make Namibians pay for your visa, you will pay for theirs
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Professors are told to 1) ignore the historical record, 2) ignore the UN, 3) ignore the ICJ/ICC, 4) ignore academic consensus, 5) ignore NGO consensus. We are told to stop being academics when it comes to #Palestine. This is the threat to the university we should be talking about
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Mahmoud Darwish, tr. Sinan Antoon
ALT I asked you: Were you acting, my friend? You said: I used to invent love when necessary. When I walked alone on the riverbank. Or whenever the level of salt would rise in my body, I would invent the river.
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1/6 🧵I’ve given a few talks recently about trans-Atlantic slavery in British history, to people who really don’t want to hear it. I don’t mean haranguing shoppers in Oxford Street, but talks to church, community and business groups comprised of small ‘c’ conservative White people who’ve been willing to hear me out, even if they find it uncomfortable.
I’ve kept it factual and based it on two main databases: slavevoyages.org/ on British participation in the trans-Atlantic slave ‘trade’ and ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ on slave ownership.
On every occasion, there have been two main objections. In case its useful for others, this thread sets out what they are, along with my own attempts to answer:
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If one includes both direct & indirect deaths from Israel's assault, the death toll in Gaza goes up to 186,000 people, according to the medical journal @TheLancet. That's 1 in every 12 Gaza inhabitants killed in the last 9 months of genocide.
BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.
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"Our house is on fire and we're literally telling the firemen they have too much water."
It has long been clear that despite all the climate pieties mouthed by global elites, if an energy transition threatened to upset the geopolitical status quo the collective West would do everything possible to block, or slow it down. This is why the planetary crisis is primarily a geopolitical problem and not an issue that can be 'solved' through techno-scientific fixes.
Important, even crucial point by Professor @adam_tooze in the FT:
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He argues that "the extraordinary pace of China’s green energy investment [...] is our best hope of actually achieving climate stabilisation in time to stave off planetary disaster".
Because of this, it is extremely consequential "whether Beijing’s planners have the courage and conviction to throw their weight behind the startling pace at which China’s businesses are driving the energy transition, or whether they retreat to a more cautious line."
And, insanely, all the messages the West is sending Beijing - first and foremost its demonization of China's green efforts with the "overcapacity" narrative - is that Beijing should in fact retreat to a more cautious line.
I suspect China won't listen to this: their response is to point out - rightly - that far from an overcapacity in green technology, the world suffers from chronic undercapacity given the scale of the challenge.
But it is still important, as Tooze is doing, to highlight the sheer insanity of what's going on right now. Our house is on fire and we're literally telling the firemen they have too much water.
