Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism on March 4 @ 6pm ET, register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... 17227
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025@blatmannaama.bsky.social and @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social on the dangerous new antisemitism definition adopted by universities. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/jewish... 0156
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Melbourne Jewish community members explain why they support the Jewish Council of Australia. Videography by Simon Aubor. youtube.com/shorts/CNiT8... #melbournejewishcommunity #australianjewishcommunity #jewishdiversity #diversityinjudaism #jewish #jewishaustralia #jewishmelbourneyoutube.comMembers of the Melbourne Jewish community explain why they support the Jewish Council of Australia.YouTube video by Jewish Council of Australia 713569
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Join us in writing to Education Minister @jasonclaremp.bsky.social about the targeting of academics Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and Prof Chelsea Watego. And while you're at it, why not write to the Vice-Chancellors of Macquarie University and QUT too. Read our full open letter at jewishcouncil.com.au 313473
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Trump’s recent comments were enthusiastically received in Israel, which has been working to override Palestinians’ right to remain for decades. #RightToRemain New piece out with @gordonneve.bsky.social in @aljazeera.com. aje.io/htu3doaje.ioTrump must not be allowed to torpedo the Palestinian right to remainUS president’s latest comments confirm Israel’s wholesale destruction of Gaza is aimed at removing Palestinians. 020
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 03/02/2025New Editorial piece from the team at @societyandspace.bsky.social. Pls read and share - it’s all about where the journal is heading next and how you can be a part of it. 063
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Why does the world’s richest man, a man no one voted for, have access to my Social Security number? 512130042747
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Our EO, @sarahschwartz.bsky.social spoke to ABC News Breakfast about another terrifying antisemitic incident. Everyone deserves the right to freely practice their religion and culture. Politicians need to stop politicising antisemitism to spread division and hate www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO44...youtube.comJewish community 'terrified' amid rise in antisemitic attacks | ABC NEWSYouTube video by ABC News (Australia) 1387
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Sarah Schwartz must be punished: The instrumentalisation of a dissenting Jew After calling out Peter Dutton's use of Australian Jews for his own political purposes, Sarah Schwartz has faced a campaign of demonisation. via @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/29/s...crikey.com.auSarah Schwartz must be punished: The instrumentalisation of a dissenting JewAfter calling out Peter Dutton's use of Australian Jews for his own political purposes, Sarah Schwartz has faced a campaign of demonisation. 28932
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 29/01/2025This one from @naomiaklein.bsky.social sums it up really well for me today. 000
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 28/01/2025A must read from our EO, @sarahschwartz.bsky.social Murdoch, we won’t let you silence our anti-racism work! 27933
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉derridalicious @derridalicious.bsky.social · 28/01/2025A searing piece from the indomitable @sarahschwartz.bsky.social, who is facing a campaign of silencing & intimidation by the Murdoch Press || When Peter Dutton and the Coalition use the Jewish community as political footballs it makes all of us less safe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.com 23812
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Read our piece and talk to us about it! Co-authored with the wonderful @emmakrussell.bsky.social @drnatosborne.bsky.social @francismarkham.work and Andrew Burridge. 041
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Emma is an excellent interviewee - you should have a coffee and listen to this one! 👇🏼 000
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/01/2025"Rent spiked by 20 percent in Los Angeles County after wildfires ravaged the area, according to a Washington Post analysis of listings data from RentCast, a property analytics service, raising alarms of price gouging in the midst of a housing crisis." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...washingtonpost.comRent rose by 20 percent across L.A. County after fires. That’s illegal.Rent for single-family homes across Los Angeles County rose by almost 25 percent, and even more in certain areas, according to a Washington Post analysis. 919867
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Can’t say I’m shocked cause it’s The Australian (🙄) but definitely alarmed at the ease with which people publish outright lies and hit pieces like these. Solidarity with @sarahschwartz.bsky.social ✊🏾 072
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Our letter to QUT VC in support of Sarah Schwartz. @sarahschwartz.bsky.social is under massive attack by Zionist orgs and the right-wing media. We urge QUT admin to take a clear stand against these defamatory actions! 040
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Letter from our Executive and Advisory Committee members to QUT Vice Chancellor urging her to defend Sarah Schwartz against malicious and defamatory attacks 210441
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Reposting, for those working in carceral/ abolition geography space and are curious about what’s happening in Australia. 010
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Our new piece out this morning, with new data about Australia’s prison boom and why it’s a waste of money! 3103
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 22/01/2025Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t help reduce crime.theconversation.comPrisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them? 02314
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 22/01/2025New piece out, co-authored with @emmakrussell.bsky.social @drnatosborne.bsky.social Francis Markham, Andrew Burridge. On Australia’s prison boom and why it must stop. Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them? theconversation.com/prisons-dont...theconversation.comPrisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t help reduce crime. 022
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Conditions on Congressional aid to your fellow Americans but not on Congressional aid to foreign Israelis. Gotcha. 2063205736
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Thrilled to share that I joined the editorial team at @societyandspace.bsky.social. What an honour to be a part of this brilliant journal and stellar team. Can’t wait to see what comes through my inbox this year! 0121
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 12/01/2025My Co-founder Josh Weinsch took this photo of his little daughter’s bike, which was in their driveway when they evacuated. Their neighborhood was vaporized. 455112252500
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10/01/2025A new study published in The Lancet, a prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal, estimates that 64,260 people were killed in Gaza between October 7, 2023, and June 30, 2024—41% higher than official reports. Nearly 60% of the dead were women, children, and the elderly. 412681
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Nat Osborne she/her @drnatosborne.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Popping this back at the top of the feed for other academics who started back at work today - using @brkeogh.bsky.social's tracker has made it so much easier for me to understand where my time's going, and has offered me more confidence in using the "flexibility" our jobs purportedly offer 1137
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I’ve tried to share a post abt each journalist killed since Oct 2023. At first these posts got shared thousands of times. Then hundreds. Then tens. Now they get shared in single digits. Bc each one is just one of hundreds of journalists killed, an almost daily occurrence. 1555155
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/12/2024The official death toll in Gaza is over 45,000, but the true figure "is closer to 300,000," says Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a British Palestinian surgeon. "This is literally and mathematically a genocidal project." www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/gaz… 19431248
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 08/12/2024What hope looks and sounds like in this continent. Thank you @nasser mashni www.instagram.com/reel/DDT3lQr...instagram.comLogin • InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. 000
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉derridalicious @derridalicious.bsky.social · 30/11/2024The World Central Kitchen pauses operations in Gaza after Israel kills more of its aid workers. The aim is starvation, the genocide has not taken a pause www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...haaretz.comWorld Central Kitchen pauses operations in Gaza after aid workers killed in Israeli strike*** 11411
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Two permanent human geography posts at Durham University ( a focus on nature, climate change and just futures) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...durham.taleo.netAssistant Professor in Human Geography (GEOG_01 %26 02)Click the link provided to see the complete job description. 38053
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Sarah Schwartz @sarahschwartz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024By lumping all Jews in with a genocidal zealot who has called Palestinian children “little snakes”, this article increases antisemitism. www.theage.com.au/national/fed...theage.com.auCanberra’s Gaza comments have contributed to antisemitism in AustraliaMisplaced attacks and the constant blaming of Israel for civilian deaths have contributed to an atmosphere permissive of the sharp rise in antisemitism since October 2023. 31710
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Nick Riemer @nickriemer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024The external review into @Sydney_Uni claims to respect free speech, but really gives a green light to the stifling of debate. Adopting its recommendations will send the message that contesting the status quo is dangerous, harmful and undesirable. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comUniversity of Sydney review proposes ‘civility rule’ that requires ‘meaning of contested words’ to be made clearLecturer questions if academics will have to explain context of every phrase they use, saying those who speak up on Palestine would be affected 054
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Excellent #DP26 outcomes for geography and urban studies. FINALLY 👊🏽 Wonderful to see excellent and deserving scholars getting these grants, no doubt they’ll do amazing work! 000
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024It’s difficult to overstate what a huge deal this is. Perhaps, dare we hope, justice is finally coming for the people of Gaza. A first, historic step. 23268321144
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social · 21/11/2024First Bluesky post and so glad it’s Mona Fawaz and the Beirut Urban Lab. important piece. beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/2...beiruturbanlab.comBeirut Urban Lab - Homeless in the City of the 44 Thousand Empty Homes… 040
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉derridalicious @derridalicious.bsky.social · 18/11/2024“Not in our name: Jewish Australians speak up” is a survey of Jewish people in Australia who who are against Israeli policies and practices in the West Bank and Gaza. If this is you, please take 5 minutes to fill this survey out. Shares appreciated. griffithuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...griffithuw.qualtrics.comNot in our Name: Jewish Australians Speak UoExploring the views and experiences of Jewish Australians who do not support the actions of the Israeli government in the West Bank or Gaza. 02426
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024 Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens. Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors. #menasky, #geosky palestine.araburbanism.compalestine.araburbanism.comPalestine: Spaces and PoliticsIntroductory Curriculum 1015579
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Hi Blue Skyers! We're a group of Jewish academics, lawyers, teachers and writers who do antiracism work and support Palestinian freedom and human rights. You can read our core principles, which almost 900 Jews in Australia have signed, below. To find out more visit www.jewishcouncil.com.au 27464164
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 12/11/2024NEW at @dropsitenews.com: As Infested Flour Becomes a Staple, State Dept. “Still Assessing” Israel’s Aid Restrictions to Gaza Read Abubaker Abed dispatch on the crushing hunger gripping Gaza amid Israel’s blockade. “I dream of food everyday,” he writes. www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-hunge...dropsitenews.comAs Infested Flour Becomes a Staple, State Dept “Still Assessing” Israel’s Aid Restrictions to Gaza“I dream of food every day” 017574
Reposted by Naama Blatman 🍉Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024My colleague @premthakker.bsky.social on how the Biden administration set a deadline/warning for Netanyahu - 30 days to increase aid into Gaza, or else! - and how Netanyahu just blew right through it. Again. zeteo.com/p/dramatical...zeteo.com'Dramatically Worsened': Israel Defies Biden and Blinken's 30-Day Deadline to Increase Aid to GazaSen. Chris Van Hollen tells Zeteo he's concerned the deadline was a "political attempt" ahead of the election to show Biden cared about the situation. 47952230