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No one is free until all are free, from every river to every sea (Joe Dobkin). Never again for anyone. Opinions my own not my uni's. profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p28173-ben-ro…

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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 13h
‼️A MUST-READ THREAD FROM @annsplaining.bsky.social ‼️
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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 14h
Reading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵
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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The only way you can identify yourself as anti-Zionist and say that Israel has committed genocide in a shul and not be thrown out, is if you are standing for election and get invited to a hustings there. So shekoyech to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for speaking for all of us excluded from these spaces.
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 18/09/2026
OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 74:5, featuring 16 new papers💡 Includes a Special Section, Sociology in the Times of Genocide, guest edited by @galarexer.bsky.social, Karis Campion and @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social buff.ly/KuDpTMf @journals.sagepub.com
The Sociological Review Journal Vol 74 Issue 5                                         With contributions from Gala Rexer,  Kirsteen Paton, Karis Campion, Hala Shoman, Mai Taha, Rana Sukarieh, Shereen Fernandez, Waqas Tufail, Isabel Frey, Ben Rogaly, Sociologists for Palestine, Katherine Appleford, Fatima Rajina, Sonya Sharma, Angela Man Xu, Josephine Browne, Phil Crockett Thomas, Iveta Ķešāne  Maija Spuriņa, Diana García-Catena, Anastasios Hadjisolomou, Dennis Nickson, Malene Lue Kessing, Peter J. Hemming, Anna Strhan, Joanna Malone, Sarah Neal, Kate Summers,  Daniel Edmiston, Ben Baumberg Geiger, Jo Ingold, Lisa Scullion, Robert de Vries, David Young
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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And finally, Isabel Frey and @benrogaly.bsky.social model transnational solidarity with Palestine through an engagement with the collective album project "Lider mit Palestine," featuring newly composed Yiddish songs that respond to the ongoing violence in Gaza journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
In his memoirs, translated into English by Samuel Portnoy, the famous Bundist leader Vladimir Medem described having his words misconstrued by a Zionist journalist 🧵
Excerpt from a book that reads: 
In my address I concentrated on the pogroms. I could readily discern
in the audience the terribly depressing effect induced by those
sanguinary events. Words of consolation are hard to come by in such
circumstances; and that was n ot my task. I had merely wished to set
the matter in its proper light. And I said: Blood is being shed, the
situation is horrible, but one should keep in mind (I can literally
recall the words that follow): " Blood constitutes that lubricant
without which the carriage of history does not move ahead." Here
was a thought, one would imagine, that was perfectly legitimate and
plainly elementary, yet these words had the effect of stirring up a
hornet's nest. The audience included some sort of Zionist (I don't
know whether he was a fool o r a vicio us faker) who wrote a report in
a Jewish newspaper about the meeting, and he p ut altogether different
words into my mouth. According to his report, I allegedly
stated that Jewish blood is the lubricant of the R ussian revolution. A
brouhaha ensued. The Zionists seized upon those fictitious words
and tormented me with them for years. Several weeks after the
speech-as soon as I arrived in Russia-! published a denial in Der
Fraynd. I declared that what the correspondent had written about me
was a lie; and I cited my actual words. Alas, to no avail. Those nice ·
folks simply ignored my response; it suited them better to sustain the
furor. And year after year the words would be thrown up to mewords
which I had never uttered. It became simply habit. A real
tradition was established in the Zionist press: whenever my name was
mentioned, the following addendum would be tacked on: "This is the
same individual who said that Jewish blood is a lubricant for the
Russian revolution." To this very day, sixteen years later, the identical
statement continues meandering through Zionist byways. When faced with liars, one truly remains powerless.
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
'We will not let this horror be weaponized to justify crackdowns on Palestine solidarity movements or violent retribution against Muslim communities, furthering the divide-and-rule politics that plagues so much of our world.' Excellent piece by Em HIlton. www.972mag.com/bondi-massac...
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After the Bondi massacre, we don't have the luxury to grieve silently
Before the blood had dried, the deadliest attack on Australian Jews was being used to justify repressing Palestine solidarity and retribution against Muslims.
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Powerful new report from Progressive International and concerned Indian citizens and experts on the dangers of biometric identity cards, especially in welfare programmes progressive.international/wire/2025-12...
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Beware of Aadhaar
A Warning on India’s Biometric Identity Model
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Solidarity with the hunger strikers. It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction. All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My friend Deena Prischep did a story for NPR on the Yiddish album “Lider mit Palestine” (“Songs with Palestine”) that came out last month. The story ran in “All Things Considered” yesterday. www.npr.org/2025/09/01/n...
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This album of songs for Gaza is in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated by genocide
People are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs for Gaza was released in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated through genocide.
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
After the IOF's horrific targeted murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and four Al Jazeera colleagues yesterday, this run down by Muhammad Shehada of the lies told by Israel about its genocidal killings in Gaza is vitally important (from 12’50”). youtu.be/XJYtrXNbmA0?...
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Five Al Jazeera Journalists Killed By Israel In Gaza | 11 August 2025
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Revealed: UK's Labour Government Is Secretly Allowing Israeli Military Planes Involved in Bombing Gaza to Land in Britain open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
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Revealed: UK's Labour Government Is Secretly Allowing Israeli Military Planes Involved in Bombing Gaza to Land in Britain
Britain’s Labour government has secretly allowed at least three Israeli Air Force (IAF) planes involved in the bombing of Gaza to land in the UK since it took office, according to flight data reviewed...
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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Don't let the UK govt's confected outrage distract you from the key thing it could do to stop the carnage in Palestine: halt all military collaboration with and arms sales to/from Israel - thanks to @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social for hosting my piece - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-r...
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Why the UK refuses to do the one thing that could stop Israel's 'intolerable' war on Gaza
Despite harsh words from Lammy, the government has taken the narrowest possible approach to arms restrictions
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
‘Why don’t you read my stories?’ Powerful interview with Pullitzer Prize-winning Gazan Abu Mosab Toha youtu.be/gu2-ZgBxng0?...
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Pulitzer prize-winning Palestinian poet on the war in Gaza: 'Why is our suffering not acknowledged?'
YouTube video by MSNBC
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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
It's out! It's here! My first ever journal article 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' is out today with @tibg.bsky.social 🤩 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by L...
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Powerful words from Mahmoud Khalil to his newborn son… and to us all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
In reach of East London on Thursday evening? Don’t miss this chance to see and hear the amazing Prof Alana Lentin as she launches her latest book, The New Racial Regime, with an excellent panel of commentators. Register here pelicanhouse.org/event/the-ne...
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The New Racial Regime – A Book Launch and Talk with Alana Lentin – Pelican House
We are incredibly excited to be hosting the London launch of Alana Lentin’s fantastic new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy…
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Mohsen Mahdawi released! youtu.be/QOu_r219UxU?...
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Columbia University's Mohsen Mahdawi released from ICE detention
YouTube video by CBS News
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The pro-Israel campaign in the US often targets Jews www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why? | Josh Schreier
The pro-Israel campaign to ‘protect’ Jews by punishing anti-Zionist speech often targets Jews. That is no surprise
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Feel like hearing a voice of hope? Try listening to this interview with New York’s exciting, progressive mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. open.spotify.com/episode/3fYh...
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Zohran Mamdani’s Moral Stand
On the Nose · Episode
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is so sad. The genocide must end. NOW.
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
thepalestineproject.medium.com/but-why-did-...
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But why did they bury the ambulances?
By Tom Zandman • Translated by Sol Salbe
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Perpetrators of horrific five-hour mob attack on pro-Palestine protestors at UCLA last year now challenged by 96-page lawsuit theintercept.com/2025/03/20/u...
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Victims of UCLA Mob Attack Sue to “Hold the Aggressors Accountable”
Pro-Palestine protesters at UCLA who were attacked by a mob allege that the school did little to stop nearly five hours of violence.
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The horrific reality of ethnic cleansing and seizure of more Palestinian land by Israel in close alliance with the US. Don’t turn away. We must all stand resolutely against this. vashtimedia.com/israel-pales...
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Israel’s return to war is a prelude to mass expulsion
This was the point all along.
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner
A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Excited to launch our new project via this event for Law & Resistance Research Group Sussex Law… join me, my fabulous partner + chair Darcy Leigh and this brilliant panel NEXT WEEK to learn more about Rights & Resistance ‘After Liberalism’ criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/10/c...
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Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights & Resistance 'After Liberalism'
You are warmly invited to join us for an interdisciplinary roundtable, ‘Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights ‘After Liberalism’, featuring
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The real reason why the BBC documentary 'Gaza: how to survive a war zone' was taken off i-player. @josephfinlay.bsky.social nails it again.
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
On Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse Gaza: ‘This is what you get when you treat a state as a god’ Peter Beinart open.substack.com/pub/peterbei...
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From Greenland to Gaza
The New American Imperialism
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I recommend reading this excellent and timely piece by @annsplaining.bsky.social vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...
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The geometry of remembering
An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead.
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
'As Jewish institutions respond to an unfolding genocide by trying to bind Jewish identity even more tightly with Zionism, drawing us further from the horizon indicated by anti-colonial education, the march toward fascism continues apace...' jewishcurrents.org/more-truth
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More Truth
To truly oppose the right’s attacks on education, Jewish communities must face Palestinian history.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 28/12/2024
The survivors of Israel’s ongoing assault in the north have seen their lives indelibly shaped by fresh traumas compounding a full year of horrors.
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Trauma and Terror in the North of Gaza
Whether they fled or stayed behind, the survivors of Israel’s scorched-earth campaign in northern Gaza experienced untold horrors.
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Best Foot Music @bestfootmusic.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
brightondome.org/whats-on/VSG... We stand up to the racists who tried to stop this play. I for one am incredibly proud to have been a part of it. It Launches this Friday, tickets are nearly sold out.
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Let it Be a Tale / Theatre / What's On - Brighton Dome
Award-winning company ThirdSpace Theatre presents strange and vibrant stories through comedy, movement, and live music from Best Foot Music.
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Ben Rogaly @benrogaly.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
At long last. The beginning of some justice...
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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I wrote a long and slightly edgy piece about how Holocaust trauma leads many Israelis and Jews to misinterpret Palestinian violence, and why this makes everything worse toratalbion.substack.com/p/seeing-thi...
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Seeing Things Clearly
How projecting past persecution onto Palestinians only perpetuates the war
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