The new Rector of University of Glasgow Ghassan Abu Sitta finished his address with the immortal words of Bobby Sands MP…

“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.”

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For The Guardian, @[email protected] writes about our connected struggles, about student-staff solidarity, about attacks on the arts and humanities, and about why “The Goldsmiths Crisis” is a crisis for us all - but it’s not a done deal.
theguardian.com/education/2024…

Israeli Gideon Levy delivers one of the greatest speeches in modern history…🇮🇱🇵🇸

Palestinians in Gaza are celebrating the first day of Eid outside flattened mosques and among the rubble of their homes.

As Eid al-Fitr begins, we must rediscover something very simple: we are all human beings on one planet — and we all deserve to live in peace.

'Thirty years ago the world failed to stop the Rwandan genocide. Now we fail Gaza. The same countries that said ‘never again’ after Rwanda have given Israel a free pass during six months of death and destruction.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is fascinating: globaltimes.cn/page/202404/13…

An Irish professor of international law - Anthony Carty - has spent considerable time looking through British and French archives, spanning from the 1880s until the late 1970s, to look at the historical understanding of sovereignty…

Please circulate this petition through all your networks

A ‘decolonise’ conference that’s rejected a panel on Palestine because they only want topics that aren’t divisive 🙃 tells you everything you need to know about ‘decolonisation’ and UK universities 🫠

Jon Stewart checks in on the war in Gaza and examines how America's 'values' stack up against its support of Israel

🗳 #OTD 1981, Bobby Sands, Óglaigh na hÉireann, was elected as the MP for Fear Manach/Tír Eoghain Theas, in a historic election for the republican movement.

🇮🇪“He was a poet and a soldier, he died courageously, and we gave him 30,000 votes while in captivity”

Have nothing but awe and appreciation for these folks

West in 'bleak' place amid Israel offensive that could cause 'wider conflict' mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/w… - “However we look at the world situation, and its multiple simultaneous and overlapping crises, the outlook is very bleak and therefore dangerous.' OPEU Roads Initiative

Fellowships for scholars from Gaza

nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/sa…

We are all Irish today.

Foreign Office ‘elitist and rooted in the past’, says new report “Modernising premises – perhaps with fewer colonial-era pictures on the walls – might help create a more open working culture and send a clear signal about Britain’s future.” theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

During this #ISA2024 we have shown that the ISA membership stands firmly against genocide and on the side of Palestinian freedom. It's well past time for ISA leadership to open up to the democratic force of scholars of conscience.
#BDSatISA #EndTheGenocide #EndScholasticide

ISA #ISA2024 Laura J Shepherd: I just watched you give a lovely speech about relationally, kinship and Indigenous knowledge. Then a group of ISA members came to the stage to protest the #genocide in Gaza. I asked you to consider staying and responding, but you left 1/

Thank you Miriam Margolyes

#MiriamMargolyes

Joaquin Phoenix, Elliott Gould, Chloe Fineman and More Jewish Creatives Support Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars Speech in Open Letter variety.com/2024/film/glob… via @variety

It's NATO's 75th birthday. 75 glorious years of US-led terrorism and banditry to trouble the world. 75 golden years of robbing the poor to fund mass violence against the people of the Global South. A vicious relic of the Cold War that will not die. We live in hope.