⚠️ BREAKING: Newcastle University Students Establish an Encampment for Gaza and Call on Students Everywhere to 'Rise Up!'

Amazing day today and more to come. Waiting to hear more details, but I might be doing a short teach-out soon on my research around orphans in the context of Israel's 'war on children'.

Ah well, nevertheless
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There are no more universities left in Gaza.

We’ve witnessed an Orwellian effort to describe peaceful encampments as somehow inherently violent. Now we see actual violence and it’s committed by fascist/Zionist thugs against those same peaceful anti-genocide protesters. Where are the officials condemnations?

In a very, very crowded field James may be the most pathetic member of the Spiked cult.

Amidst police violence at Columbia, CUNY and UCLA, the news that my friend Paul Auster has died. In 1968 he was one of the Columbia student occupiers, fleetingly captured by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead in a documentary called The Fall

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Someone claiming to be intimidated while giving a textbook example of intimidation is objectively funny, but this is also a textbook example of the conservative insistence on a hierarchy of privilege. 'You work in the public sector' is less about neutrality than inferiority.

Can't get Lady Gaga's 'The Edge of Glory' out of my head, but all the lyrics have been changed for a high camp bit of Kier Starmer drag, singing 'I'm on the edge of Tory'.

Here are some of the people trying to storm the encampment

i really can't stress how useful it would be for people in political media to occasionally, from time to time, read a book

Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.

They unearthed ancient carbonised papyrus to find out exactly where Plato was buried and it turns out it's right here:

This is America to me.

I had to check to see that this wasn't just made up, but no, it's true…

Descent into the Maelstrom: A Note on Deterritorialization and Anti-Hauntology xenogothic.com/2024/04/29/des…

Take my Gothic Marxism out on a cemetery walk with some Fields of the Nephilim 😈

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