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Mediterranean poetics comrade Also

Athens and London
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
3 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
Empty Zara like we've emptied Starbucks
@AnamSalem
Enaam S.
7 months
Marketing over a #genocide . New low. Our pain isnโ€™t for sale. Shame @ZARA . #boycottZara
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
And still universities in the west haven't got a single thing to say about this
@RamAbdu
Ramy Abdu| ุฑุงู…ูŠ ุนุจุฏู‡
7 months
The largest university in Gaza seized by Israeli forces, transformed into a military base and site of soldier celebrations. #GazaGenocide
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5 months
It gets more and more dystopian. The very next day after speaking on TV...
@RamAbdu
Ramy Abdu| ุฑุงู…ูŠ ุนุจุฏู‡
5 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
2 months
People buried alive. Kids buried alive
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Saul Staniforth
2 months
"At least 20 people may have been buried alive at the medical complex. Children were also amongst the bodies recovered"
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
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 ๐Ÿ’”
@seasonedsara
sara is on refaatโ€™s campus โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ
7 months
ribbons with the names of martyrs at UCL ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
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โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
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4 months
I refuse to get used to it. Flour Massacre โ€“ the meaning and weight of those words โ€“ 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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
Loads of South Africa flags on the London march ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆโค๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
4 months
Feel like I'm tweeting on repeat but this is fucking awful and I wish more academics would say something about it
@sawporg
sawporg
4 months
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 peace๐Ÿ™
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
In the big room, teaching migration and the colonial geographies of citizenship
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
2 months
Please don't do this. Not while the university refuses to acknowledge an actual poet and alumnus โ€“ Refaat Alareer โ€“ who was assassinated by a regime that is torturing many people, including Palestinian academics
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
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!
@Timesofgaza
TIMES OF GAZA
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Al-Aqsa university Dr. Abdel Nasser Al-Saqqa was killed today by Israeli airstrikes targeting his home in Gaza.
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
Full academic boycott now. Keep organising. Don't stand for this
@PeruginiNic
Nicola Perugini
6 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
Yesterday we read Refaat Alareerโ€™s poem โ€œIf I Must Dieโ€ in 10 languages (I read it in Greek). We are the university, and Iโ€™ve never felt closer to the people I learn with and the communities Iโ€™m part of. Thank you, Dr Refaat, for this and much more
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5 months
Nakba
@QudsNen
Quds News Network
5 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
4 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
1 month
I still refuse to get used to this. Bombing refugee camps. Relentlessly bombing refugee camps
@QudsNen
Quds News Network
1 month
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
25 days
Six months today ๐Ÿ’”
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
8 months
Infinite respect for people blocking ships and ports and weapons factories. People as anti-genocide infrastructure
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
3 months
We don't move on from this
@QudsNen
Quds News Network
3 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
Citizenship is a colonial project and product, a racialised regime, a border, a bordering
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
2 months
Liberation camp is up at SOAS. Same all over London, the country, the world...
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
Shout-out to my mum who hides all the Sabra hummus at the back of the fridges every time she goes to Tesco ๐Ÿ˜…
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
Whatever happens, gratitude to these good people
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
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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Fatima
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
2 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
I'm shocked and saddened too โ€“ 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
UCL
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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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
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Hi @fatimazsaid sorry this is a bit random, but a couple of weeks ago I shared your beautiful words โ€“ "Weโ€™re not freeing Palestine, Palestine is freeing us" โ€“ 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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
2 years
40 fully funded PhD scholarships @ucl ! Open to people everywhere and across all departments and disciplines. Open to current and prospective students. Deadline 13 Jan. Get into it! #phdlife
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
I actually feel sick this morning. This is completely intolerable
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
8 months
Half a million of us out in London today. HALF A MILLION ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‰
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
On Wednesday we will honour Refaat. His life and writing and voice. UCL Main Quad, Gower Street, 2pm โค๏ธ
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
They had to update the football against apartheid banner ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
2 months
76 universities!!!
@Jairo_I_Funez
Jairo I Fรบnez-Flores
2 months
BREAKING: The confederation of Spanish universities will cut ties with Israeli universities and research centers.
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
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 ๐Ÿค
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
This is so far beyond awful. Where is Hind?
@PalestineRCS
PRCS
5 months
๐ŸšจMore 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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Evacuation means massacre. All eyes on Rafah
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
SOAS have put out a statement about Refaat Alareer and have called for ceasefire! Will UCL โ€“ where Refaat did his masters โ€“ do the same, or continue in its lack of care for Palestinian students, academics, and alumni?
@SOAS
SOAS University of London
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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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
Scholasticide. Speak out against it. Organise against it
@AbdelgawadDoha
Doha Abdelgawad
5 months
Head of the geography department in Al Aqsa university has been killed.
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@tom_western
Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
3 months
Every week now I see the new worst thing I've ever seen
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
4 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
3 months
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
@UofGsolidarity
UofG Student Solidarity Coalition
3 months
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 Gazaโ€™s health and education systems.
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
2 months
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
@probablyreadit
katie smith
2 months
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 ๐Ÿ“ธ
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
2 months
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 โ€“ this is on you
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
28 days
It works you know!
@PSCupdates
PSC
28 days
๐ŸšจBDS 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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
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Scholasticide all over Palestine. People talk a lot about knowledge production but less so, it seems, about knowledge destruction
@SaulStaniforth
Saul Staniforth
5 months
The IDF has attacked and destroyed two Palestinian publishing houses in the occupied West Bank.
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
The first 35 seconds of this is 0-year-olds ๐Ÿ’”
@AJEnglish
Al Jazeera English
5 months
Here is a list of the names we know from the more than 11,500 Palestinian children killed during Israelโ€™s continuing war on Gaza โคต๏ธ Know their names:
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
Amazing students renamed the student centre today (one day it will be permanent) โค๏ธ
@seasonedsara
sara is on refaatโ€™s campus โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ
5 months
๐Ÿ“ The Refaat AlAreer Student Centre, UCL
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
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25 kids have now been starved to death in Gaza
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
UCL students call for an end to the institution's investments โ€“ its complicity โ€“ in genocide
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
1 year
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
2 months
UCL campus looking extra lovely these days
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
March for Sudan this Sunday
@LondonforSudan
LondonforSudan
5 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
Gentleness in the least gentle times โค๏ธ
@Timesofgaza
TIMES OF GAZA
5 months
Gaza | All life is precious.
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
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 worldโ€™s histories and geographies to see life after empire
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
9 months
All out for Palestine tomorrow ๐Ÿ‰๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ Let's be thousands, let's be millions
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
8 months
A very good morning to Chile, Bolivia, and Colombia
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
I love London, man
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
Wednesday โค๏ธ๐Ÿช
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
8 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
3 months
This is amazing ๐Ÿ˜ 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
@_GeorgieBlaise
Georgie Robertson
3 months
๐ŸšจBREAKING: 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 Israelโ€™s war on hospitals & killing of health workers. Genocide profiteers #HandsOffOurNHS
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
Tomorrow we will honour Dr Refaat in prayer and poem, knowing that his words continue to live
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
8 months
Palestine teach-in at UCL next Wednesday! Open to all UCL workers and students
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
Christmas love to everyone resisting this awful genocidal world and building paths to a better one. Next year in a free Palestine ๐Ÿค๐ŸŽ„
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8 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
Refaat is here. Refaat is always here
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
Teaching prep is coming together :) Some new (or newish) things I'm excited to think and teach with this year
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
4 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
Student walkout tomorrow! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
I feel so many heartfuls of love for this man โค๏ธ
@moawady
Mohamed Moawad
6 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
From Teju Cole's "A Quartet for Edward Said". There is no justice under the occupation
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
1 year
"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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
2 months
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
@ukhomeoffice
Home Office
2 months
BREAKING: The first people set to be removed to Rwanda have been detained.
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
7 months
This thread ๐Ÿ˜ญ
@blkpaws
blkp๐Ÿ”ป๐Ÿ
7 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
Get here if you can get here! (Outside Downing Street now)
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
1 year
Back in school, prepping the intro lecture for a course on "Space and Society" I'm running this term
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
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 โ€“ this is the latest sadism.
@dwnews
DW News
3 years
Europe is testing a "sound cannon" to be used against refugees.
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
1 year
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 ๐Ÿ˜‚
@TheTabEdinburgh
The Edinburgh Tab
1 year
โ€˜80 percent of the flights were business, but 100 per cent were subsidised by student feesโ€™
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
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
@PSCupdates
PSC
6 months
๐ŸšจThe 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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
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A Geography prof wrote this. I want to see all geographers speaking out against ethnic cleansing
@Jerusalem_Post
The Jerusalem Post
6 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
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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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
3 months
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
@NoamPeleg
Noam Peleg
3 months
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 โ€œdifficult questionsโ€ 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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
8 months
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
4 months
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 โ˜˜๏ธ
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
This is our beloved UCL colleague Dr James Smith working with MAP โค๏ธ
@MedicalAidPal
Medical Aid for Palestinians
6 months
โ€œLast 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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
6 months
Yearning for a tender world, without everywhere empire and its endless brutality
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
We're not helpless to stop this. Keep organising. Keep demanding ends to complicity. Keep filling the streets
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
1 month
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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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
4 months
In our thousands in our millions
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
3 months
"lost their lives"
@vonderleyen
Ursula von der Leyen
3 months
I pay homage to the @WCKitchen aid workers who lost their lives in Gaza. @WCKitchen is a crucial partner in alleviating the suffering of the people of Gaza, including by channeling food via the Maritime Corridor. My deepest condolences to their families and friends.
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
8 months
What kind of wickedness is alternating 20 hours of genocide and 4 hours of ethnic cleansing? And calling it "humanitarian"?!
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
5 months
there are good people
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
"The categorisation of people into those with and without rights of entry and stay sustains and reproduces colonial practices of racial ordering ... Britain must be understood as a contemporary colonial space" ( @NadineElEnany , Bordering Britain)
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Tom Western ๐Ÿ‰
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I've given up on thinking university leaders are anything but bloodsucking moral vacuums dressed in expensive suits. But still we will keep organising against this
@USSbriefs
USSbriefs
6 months
UK-Israel university partnerships awarded in the first round
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