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Clive Gabay

@clivesg.bsky.social
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Writes stuff: Jewishness, Zionism, Race, Pol/Soc Theory, SWANA Jews. Teaches at QMUL Book - A Family in Fragments: Race, Zionism and Retrievable Futures (Rutgers University Press, 2027)

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The @brismes.bsky.social 2026 annual lecture is coming soon! 12 November, 17:30-19:00 GMT (online) with the amazing and insightful @rafeefz.bsky.social Free to attend but registration is essential - book here: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/annua...
brismes.ac.uk
2026 Annual Lecture
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tell me your university is about to go bust without etc.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tfw when Obama-era official grasps the boomerang theory of colonial violence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A fitting end to a night out on Kingsland Road last night. A reminder that all the right people are losing their shit over some milquetoast sanctioning of the genocidal settler colony.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In the 1990s murdering 8000 people was also considered a genocide.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tldr: It's never about academic freedom, despite what the freezepeach brigade say.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
law.berkeley.edu
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Lots of people celebrating this, but Cofnas would have priced this in. It's the whole point. Get cancelled, move on, make a buck on the grift economy. Don't get me wrong, he should lose his job and whole lot else, but Cofnas won't be crying about this.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is a major issue that the right so far have been winning the debate on. Academic freedom ≠ being tolerated for making shit up. In academic terms, you're not being cancelled if a university doesn't give you a job or a journal doesn't publish you because you're pushing discredited nonsense.
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.
@muhammadshehad2
Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on
Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unitIt's abundantly clear Israel is NOT serious about prosecuting any of the atrocities committed in Gaza. Since the genocide began, only two soldiers were punished by the IDF; one for microwaving a living frog & another for cooking sausages in the army kitchen on Shabbat.
The producer asked me: What about the 150 cases the IDF said are pending review?
I answered: it's just a number designed to give the appearance of seriousness, but it's essentially meaningless.
If it took the IDF two whole years to admit the simplest of facts that the entire world had already known, which is that their troops were the ones who fired on Hind Rajab's car, how do you expect them to do with the remaining cases that are not as high profile?
Five minutes after the call, the producer wrote me that they decided to cancel the interview & will not even host anyone else to comment on the issue, & instead they'll play archival footage!
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Compare to the media coverage of a white academic *convicted of assaulting a student* www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Sussex University failed duty of care to assault victim, inquiry finds
The investigation found that, when assessing the danger the attacker posed, the university only interviewed him
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.
varsity.co.uk
Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists
More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Watch them circle the wagons, again.
Lukas Degutis C @LukasDegutis
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Exposing lies and fraud should carry no guilt, no matter how anyone reacts to the truth, no less when they were happy to twist it. It's tragic and sad, but the media didn't hound him to this.
Believing that might feel better in the moment, for you, but isn't healthy.Andrew Neil *
@afneil
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RIP Jason Arday. I never met you, never knew you and what I read of your work I found unimpressive. And yet I feel a sadness and loss at your death. You never deserved for it to end this way. You were used and even abused by others for their own ends. I do not believe you were in any way a bad person. Indeed there are many reasons to believe you were a good person. You needed help. Yet when you needed help it never came. Despite the huge pile on, nobody seemed to be there for you. You were left to die on your own, which only adds to the sadness. RIP Jason Arday. You were failed by those who had a duty of care towards you.David Aaronovitch ®
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I'm not in the game of blaming other people for someone taking their own life. It's too easy and likely to be wrong. let's just be sad
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
People who take money to write for the media platforms that hounded Jason Arday to death should stfu
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Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The VC of the Uni of Greater Manchester has just been sacked for misuse of over £1m of university funds. Hardly a mention in the media. Not black so not newsworthy.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Do not let Katharine Viner get away with this one. Yes the Comment desk have been publishing anti racist columns but Viner's been green-lighting so-called investigative journalism into the man's childhood relationships. RIP Jason Arday.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Or, in fact, not really a news story at all. I don’t believe at all that this was nationally important and certainly not “third on the BBC 6 o’clock news” important as a story. Cofnas started all of this because he’s a racist and the media ran with it.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
At this rate the Jason Arday (not-much-of-a) story will stay up on the Guardian landing page longer than Liz Truss was Prime Minister. Tells you a lot about race in Britain, and how the Guardian is talking out of both sides of its mouth on this story.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The merry-go-round of columnists who have never seemingly heard of national socialism.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Before pointing out how Israel is a colonial project, Europeans should reflect on their own colonial projects" is not the own Zionists think it is, and yet they always fail to see it.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Senator Mark Warner has called what has happened in Myanmar, Sudan and Xinjiang genocides. But not Gaza. Watch the absolute word salad he delivers when @mehdirhasan.bsky.social confronts him with that basic hypocrisy. Liberalism in a nutshell. fb.watch/IzunJufVD1/
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I’m convinced Hegseth is just an AI that Judith Butler created to demonstrate that Gender is a social construct
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Shihab S Joi @shihabsjoi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
To commemorate the passing of Bonnie Tyler (RIP), if I may share my absolute favourite YouTube video of all time x
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Total Eclipse of the Heart Literal Video Version
YouTube video by artistwithouttalent
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza has been arranging public screenings of World Cup matches across the strip. 1 hour before Egypt-Argentina yesterday the IOF murdered the committee's PR director Muhammad Fawaz al-Wahidi in his car, as well as a child travelling with him. Depravity upon depravity
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BRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
TODAY: Iran in Context Part II: Politics and Counter Politics in Contemporary Iran with Naghmeh Sohrabi, Mohammad Ali Kadivar and Paniz Musawi Natanzi. Join us online at 17:00 BST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
DR CONGO'S STATUE SUPERFAN HAS ARRIVED AT THE WORLD CUP 🚨 Known as 'Lumumba Vea', the supporter who stands still all game in homage to the country's revered first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, has landed in Guadalajara before the Leopards' game vs. Colombia on Tuesday 🇨🇩
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It's that time of year when the Dan David prize committee helpfully outs all of those 'critical' scholars working on histories of enslavement, racism and imperialism who are happy to shill for a racist settler colony and who you should spend the rest of your life avoiding like the plague.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 15/06/2026
CALL-OUT: if you took part in the protest against the "Great Israeli Real Estate Event" held at Edgware United Synagogue yesterday, Netpol wants to hear your experience of the policing of the demo and of violence from pro-Israel counter protesters. Email in confidence to netpoladmin@protonmail.com
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This shows just how farcical constructions of 'terrorism' are, and how they exist to criminalise dissent. But to be clear: these constructions are no better when the average terror suspect is a brown or black man in his 20s - the accceptance of which paved the way for our current predicament.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"The crown of thorns is now worn by the people of Palestine, Palestine being their cross, but also their throne, and this pain is the sign of their victory" - Tamim al-Barghouti www.instagram.com/reels/DQPWbf...
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Synagogues are being used to launder war crimes. Not all of them, etc, but this is a real thing, and the Board of Deputies are defending it/lying about it. I don't know how non-Jewish people can distinguish between Zionism & Judaism while mainstream Jewish orgs run interference for ethnic cleansing.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
In the past six years there have been 30 women murdered in Northern Ireland. All the perpetrators were white, and not a single road was closed or house firebombed.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Homonationalism doesn't cover this.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This has all been actively driven by a Labour government though. 'Legitimate concerns', 'stopping the boats', the criminalisation of Palestine solidarity, the refusal to take on Musk and the algorithms; Labour has birthed this. It's not just or even mainly the far right and their suited avatars.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
THREAD: It's telling how many supposed leftists jumped straight to the anti-Arab/Palestinian/Islamophobic position of "angry Palestinian man thinks there should be less Jews on TV" trope when they read this essay. There's literally nowhere in the essay where Salaita says this.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘There’s wee girls inside’: panic as masked men storm house in Belfast
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
THREAD: It's telling how many supposed leftists jumped straight to the anti-Arab/Palestinian/Islamophobic position of "angry Palestinian man thinks there should be less Jews on TV" trope when they read this essay. There's literally nowhere in the essay where Salaita says this.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Amid Zionism, there is no such thing as a neutral expression of Jewish culture...When we say “Israeli,” they hear “Jew.” When we say “Zionist,” they also hear “Jew.” But if we say “Jew,” then we are making bigoted conflations. Great piece @stevesalaita.bsky.social stevesalaita.com/the-ugly-exi...
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The Ugly Exigencies of Genocide - Steve Salaita
Israel's atrocities in Gaza have changed the way we speak about Zionism and Jewish culture.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I guess it's formal now. Thanks to the editors at @ejir.bsky.social for their support (which was a lot!) in getting this into print, and the two reviewers for some comments that really pushed me to think harder about what I was trying to say here. Open access so please let me know what you think!
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
88 people were murdered by the IOF in Gaza last weekend, and this is how the enablers of this violence evade accountability, by criminalising the word 'Palestine'. In my workplace, 'Stop the Genocide' posters were removed because the word 'Stop' implied an institutional opinion on said genocide.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Let's notice how Goodwin doesn't reach the conclusion that the police is an intrinsically violent institution that needs to be abolished, but rather calls for the deportation of a brown woman. Well done BBC, well done.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw calling Hamas's Operation Al Aqsa Flood an "antisemitic pogrom" (it wasn't), & questioning whether it would be acceptable to say that Hamas fuels Islamophobia (um, clearly yes, given there's been an internationally endorsed genocide) www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Planet Israel review – valuable personal documentary about Israel/Palestine conflict
Gillian Mosely’s film argues that Israelis are asked to accept a ‘forever war’ in part motivated by Netanyahu’s desire to defer investigation into corruption allegations
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
New up by me in European Journal of International Relations: IR theory, history and retrieval in a time of genocide Free to read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Tldr: IR should stop being so self-referential and think about Palestine more
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
For those who can vote, BRISMES Council elections are open. There are some really great candidates. And then there's me (lols?). The good news is that if you're a BRISMES member you can vote for four candidates, so away you go! www.brismes.ac.uk/elections
brismes.ac.uk
Elections
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In 942 days Israel has killed 363 journalists across Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran and Syria. That’s roughly one journalist killed every three days across 5 countries. stopmurderingjournalists.com
stopmurderingjournalists.com
Stop Murdering Journalists - Databases for Palestine
Israel is on a journalist mass-murdering spree.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
No-one should have to decide if what they're wearing makes them a target. But this statement is a lie. If you're brown you have to make these decisions. If you're a woman you have to make these decisions. If you're gender non-conforming you have to make these decisions. Stop exceptionalising Jews.
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A shout-out to anyone who might want to review or is in a position to commission a review of my forthcoming book, called A Family in Fragments: Race, Zionism and the Retrieval of Liberated Futures. More details below! 👇
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A wonderful former student of mine has just spent a month in the Jordan Valley where the Israeli State is constructing ANOTHER wall to cut it off from the rest of the West Bank. She's just returned to the UK and put all of her on-the-ground updates here substack.com/@emma1618/no...
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Tehran’s embattled Jewish community endures despite Israeli bombing of synagogue
Members of Rafi’ Nia synagogue braved airstrikes to celebrate Passover hours before it was destroyed
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
They would have gotten away with it if it had been an actual human. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Two Israeli soldiers jailed over smashing of Jesus statue in Lebanon village
Israel Defense Forces say the ‘soldiers’ conduct completely deviated from IDF orders and value’
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