PROOFS!

🚨 An urgent message from Palestinians from Gaza who live in the UK

Support their call for a Gaza Family Scheme that would reunite them with their loved ones & offer sanctuary until it’s safe to return. ✍️ Sign the urgent petition (closes 18 April): petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

it’s 🔥 publication day 🔥 for BURNOUT by hannah proctor, which is a truly brilliant book that you can read an extract of here The Baffler and then immediately rush out and buy a copy thebaffler.com/salvos/beyond-…

“How is it possible to observe such widespread destruction, suffering, and pain, and yet remain indifferent and passive?”--Lama Z. Khouri Dpsa parapraxismagazine.com/articles/is-th…

he’s got great taste that Michael Magee

there’s me in the paper talking about how I’m definitely not a British novelist and also other things

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

This is an ongoing thread of fundraisers for Palestinians in Gaza. Feel free to add to it. No one should have to crowdfund to escape a genocide. Free Palestine

The UK higher education sector is increasingly under threat.

Here Angela McRobbie writes about the sweeping series of planned redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the wider assault on the sector.

Please sign/share - petition calling on the UK govt to establish a Gaza family reunion scheme. Like the one for Ukraine. The call comes from a collective of Palestinians from Gaza and others. They'd like 100,000 signatures by 18 April so don't be shy! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

‘We are proud Jews who denounce the weaponization of Jewish identity and the memory of the Holocaust to justify what many experts in international law, including leading Holocaust scholars, have identified as a “genocide in the making.”’

variety.com/2024/film/glob…

Samah Jabr is a Palestinian psychiatrist who has been critical concept of PTSD in the Palestinian context for for many years - this recent lecture discusses its limitations (without rejecting the concept of trauma)

More evidence for the criminal court: theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

‘Gaza has exposed the flaws in an entire model of politics and the assumptions that underpin it. If liberalism cannot offer a moral and stabilising form of governance, then what is it for?’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

They murder aid workers bringing food to the starving. They make a hospital into a killing ground. Atrocity after atrocity. There can be no justification. There is no excuse.

So far this week, Israel has murdered aid workers distributing food, left Al-Shifa hospital in ruins, and bombed Iran's embassy in Damascus. It has done this despite pleas and demands for explanation from America, Britain etc.
It is a rogue state.

What's the relationship between individual and social transformation?

I'll be talking about self-criticism and consciousness raising practices - April 11th, 7pm MayDay Rooms in London

maydayrooms.org/event/document…

Solidarity with Rio Cinema, who have taken a principled stand against Israel’s inclusion in Eurovision. Fellow East Londoners, please support our local cinema!

The 'restructuring' of Goldsmiths, University of London is an attack on the production of knowledge disguised as economic recovery. The effects will be devastating on staff, students and the cultural sector more widely. As The Goldsmiths Prize winner I stand with Goldsmiths UCU theguardian.com/education/2024…