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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 01/09/2026

How might mass politics and direct action work together? Martin Shaw reflects on his experience in the student protests and antinuclear movement of the 1960s to the Palestine solidarity campaign of the 2020s.

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On Mass Politics and Direct Action

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

JOB vacancies in International Relations at LSE: Two Assistant Professorships, focusing on Geoeconomics and Global Environmental Politics. Just over a week until the deadline, 7 Sept 👇

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

JOB vacancies in International Relations at LSE: Two Assistant Professorships, focusing on Geoeconomics and Global Environmental Politics. Just over a week until the deadline, 7 Sept 👇

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Melanie Richter-Montpetit @mellimo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

30,000 people gathered to honour Professor Jason Arday at tonight's vigil in central London

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

30,000 people attended the vigil for Prof. Jason Arday at Trafalgar Square. Speeches can be heard here: www.youtube.com/live/lPHGREJ...

30,000 people attended the vigil for Prof. Jason Arday at Trafalgar Square on 17 August 2026.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The largest funeral in Gaza history is being held today as the remains of 112 people from a single clan are laid to rest after being buried in rubble for three years. More than 300 people were killed in the strike by Israel, including 44 children and 37 women. The others were vaporized.

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Gaza families bury 112 people recovered nearly three years after Israeli strikes

Remains recovered from beneath the rubble renew grief for families still searching for thousands missing in Gaza

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is something of a revolution in paradiplomacy! Traditionally and obviously NYC has been zealously symbolically pro Israel (even if tacitly willing to facilitate the UN and work with eg Palestinian delegations). This is reminiscent of boycotts against South Africa…a big blow to Netanyahu

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.

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LSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Dr Marwa Daoudy joined us for the 2026 Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture to discuss how colonialism continues to shape environmental vulnerabilities in the Arab world, with Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social as discussant. ✍️ Read the report: bit.ly/4pbPBBt 📺 Watch: bit.ly/4f6ebPN #AvademicSky #PoliSky

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The ecological continuation of empire in the Arab world – student event report - LSE Department of International Relations

Report by a student on a public event from the Department of International Relations at LSE.

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Glad to be part of this great forum on 'Revolutions and World Order' - open access @millennjournal.bsky.social 👇

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Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... - open access - Liberal Crisis Machine - Hewlett Foundation in age of crisis- These networks consciously organize elite consensus and disorganize or downplay mass movements’ roles in driving radical change.

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Liberal crisis machine: The Hewlett Foundation in the era of polycrisis philanthropy

This paper shows that the Hewlett Foundation, contra its legal status, its non-political self-concept and conventional scholarly claims to third-sector or technocratic neutrality, acts as a liberal...

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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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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The UK "needs a political leadership willing to challenge misinformation, confront prejudice and speak up for those who have become the targets of systematic suspicion and violence. The question is whether anyone is willing to do so."

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In the not too distant future, private schools will be advertising themselves on the basis that their pupils are taught to think, read and write without the use of AI. Being able to use your own brain will be treated like a commodity, and a privilege for the elite.

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Pls join us for the annual Fred Halliday lecture, 11 June 18.30 online & in-person @lseir.bsky.social. Dr Marwa Daoudy (Georgetown University) will be speaking on 'The ecological continuation of empire in the Arab world', with myself as discussant. Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/events/plp-1...

Please join us tomorrow for the annual Fred Halliday lecture, 6.30pm online and in-person @lseir.bsky.social , this year delivered by Marwa Daoudy (Georgetown University) speaking on 'The ecological continuation of empire in the Arab world'. This year would have been Fred Halliday's 80th Birthday - this event will be followed by a reception to commemorate his legacy.
Register here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/plp-11-june

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

At #BISA2026 ? Come to our roundtable: "The British state as a source of global insecurities: critical scholarship & political accountability in a time of crisis", at 1.15pm today. Our aim is to start a conversation about what a new critical scholarship on UK foreign relations can look like.

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

St Andrews University academic on Gaza aid flotilla (mobilised to challenge the ongoing siege of Gaza) intercepted by Israeli forces: Geography lecturer Dr Antonis Vradis joined a boat believed to have been intercepted off the coast of Cyprus. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

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St Andrews University academic on Gaza aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces

Geography lecturer Dr Antonis Vradis joined a boat believed to have been intercepted off the coast of Cyprus.

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Book event tomorrow 13 May - "Mobilizing Mainstream Islam" (Cornell University Press 2026) Speakers: Saskia Schäfer (author) and John Sidel 2pm at LSE and online - register below @lseir.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...

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Mobilizing Mainstream Islam: The Politics of Orthodoxy in Indonesia in Comparative Perspective (book launch)

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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Full story: The European Union reaches a political agreement to sanction Israeli settlers over their violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. The deal was possible after Hungary, now under Péter Magyar, lifted its long-standing veto.

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EU approves sanctions on Israeli settlers after Hungarian backing

The sanctions — which include asset freezes and travel bans and will also target Hamas members — come amid growing international criticism of Israel’s settlement expansion and escalating violence in the occupied territories. #EuropeNews

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International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🚨New issue is out now! 🌍 Is there a future for the UN in the Middle East? 💻 Have technologies revolutionized maritime security? 👀 How does ignorance shape world orders? Read research on these topics and much more, along with 20 book reviews, in our May issue: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/102/3

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Article "Protests in the United States on Palestine & Israel, 2023–2024" in Social Movement Studies, 25(2), 234–247 (2006) vital work by Erica Chenoweth, Soha Hammam, Jeremy Pressman & Jay Ulfelder www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Does anyone know of similar empirical studies of the UK protests?

Abstract; From 7 October 2023 to 7 June 2024, the Crowd Counting Consortium recorded nearly 12,400 pro-Palestine protests and over 2,000 pro-Israel protests in the United States. Since January 2017, when CCC first started counting protest events and their crowd sizes, the current pro-Palestine protest wave involves the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event. We hypothesize three possible reasons for the size of the pro-Palestine mobilization: casualties and suffering motivate protestors and the Palestinian casualties have been much higher; protestors react to the US government’s position, which in this case strongly favors Israel; and protestors are driven by emotional outrage at Israeli policy and the resultant Palestinian suffering. By looking at property damage and police injuries, we also conclude that this pro-Palestine movement has not been violent. That is true of both the national protest wave in general and of the student encampments in spring 2024 in particular. The rhetorical core of this pro-Palestine movement has not been a call for violence against Jews, but rather a call for freedom for Palestinians and an end to violence being inflicted upon them. To substantiate this point, we considered two sources of evidence: 1) the banners, signs, and chants seen or heard at pro-Palestine events; 2) the demands issued by organizers of over 100 student encampments. One caveat: Although we use the terms pro-Israel and pro-Palestine as shorthand, we acknowledge that these binary terms are unsatisfying and misleading.

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

With the resurgent interest in the nexus between policy and knowledge production, here is our open access article "The impact of colonialism on policy and knowledge production in International Relations" in @iajournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ia/article/9....

Abstract: Is there an academic–policy divide, and does that gap need to be bridged? For decades, International Relations (IR) scholars have reflected on their roles and responsibilities towards the ‘real world’, while policy-makers have often critiqued the detachment of academic research. In response, there have been increased calls for academics to descend from their ‘ivory tower’. However, the articles in this 100th anniversary special issue of International Affairs interrogate this so-called theory–policy divide and problematize the exchange of knowledge between academics and practitioners, highlighting the colonial underpinnings of their historical entanglements. In this introductory article we bring together the core arguments of the special issue contributions to delineate three prominent dynamics in the academic–practitioner nexus: the role of academia as a supplier of knowledge for colonial policies; the influence of imperial practice and policy-makers in shaping IR and academic knowledge production; and the contestation from academics and/or practitioners against racial hierarchies in knowledge production and policy-making. Confronting the exclusions, amnesias and denials of colonialism in the theory and practice of International Relations is the necessary first step in any process of repair towards a more just and viable politics.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return. Both are war crimes punishable under international law. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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'Like Gaza': IDF razes south Lebanon villages during cease-fire, sources say

Sources Describe a Policy Modeled on Gaza Operations, With Contractors and Heavy Machinery Demolishing Civilian Infrastructure South of the Litani; Officials Say It Aims to Prevent Residents' Return a...

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Walid Khalidi "documented the more than 400 Palestinian villages & towns destroyed in 1948 and wrote on the question of Palestine locally and globally. His work as a scholar [is a] cornerstone of Palestine studies." Read full collection here 👇OA until 31 May www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Arms industry giants like BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce now sit on 53 university advisory committees across the UK, shaping what students learn. This is what the normalisation of the war economy looks like. Sign up for our workshop on militarism in education. 🧪👇 www.sgr.org.uk/events/milit...

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Militarism and the politics of education

A free SGR webinar with four guest speakers and time for discussion. CHAIR Laura Shewan, Scientists for Global Responsibility SPEAKERS

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Luca Tardelli @lucatardelli.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Given the tensions between the Trump administration and Pope Leo XIV, come along to our @lseir.bsky.social event to learn more about the 'Papacy in Global Politics', with @massimofaggioli.bsky.social, Dr Carmody Grey, and Prof.James Walters. Chaired by yours truly. www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

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Papacy in global politics: Pope Leo XIV and peacemaking today

6.30pm Wed 6 May | Massimo Faggioli, Carmody Grey, James Walters | Free public event at LSE

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

NYT headline. Vance going out of his way to embarrass himself.

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"Reconstruction plans imposed on Palestinians with the implicit aim of destroying Palestinian life in Gaza demonstrate the reason Lemkin reserved a place for architecture in his conception of the crime of genocide."

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

With unwavering US support under both Biden and Trump, is it any surprise that Netanyahu concluded that Israel can bomb virtually anyone and anywhere in the Middle East, with impunity? — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"For two years after the October 2023 attacks, Netanyahu undermined ceasefire talks with Hamas in Gaza and blocked potential deals by adding new conditions or changing his mind at the last minute. He also tried to stall negotiations by assassinating Hamas leaders involved in the talks, and even ordered a brazen Israeli airstrike on Hamas officials meeting in Qatar, a US ally, to consider a ceasefire proposal that had been submitted by Israel and Washington.

Despite Netanyahu's obstinance, Israel continued to receive unconditional political support and tens of billions of dollars in US weapons, under both Joe Biden's administration and Trump's. Is it any surprise that Netanyahu concluded that Israel can bomb virtually anyone and anywhere in the Middle East, with impunity? By late 2025, Israel had attacked Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar and Yemen that year - without losing the flow of US weapons or Washington's political cover at the United Nations and other international institutions. Of course, Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, which killed at least 70,000
Palestinians and instigated a famine, paved the way for Israel to flout international law."

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Would never use Trump's rhetoric of genocide, but was willing to let Trump use UK bases to conduct one.

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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 02/04/2026

@financialtimes.com's Andrew England and @hauslohner.bsky.social on how the Gulf states have belatedly recognized that yoking themselves to a rogue, aggressor United States – obviously a mistake – may, in fact, have been a mistake: www.ft.com/content/dcbd...

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Book launch for new textbook on "Concepts in IR" - tomorrow 2 April at King's College. I'll be speaking about my chapter on the concept of Colonialism, and its evolution in theory & practice. Look forward to sharing a panel with great colleagues & co-contributors www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Book Launch: Concepts in International Relations - A New Introduction

This event explores the role of concepts as windows into world politics.

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Last month, we hosted a book launch with @lseir.bsky.social for Daniel Neep's latest book, 'A History of Modern Syria' 📚 We were joined by discussant Charles Tripp and chair @jasminekgani.bsky.social. You can listen to the event recording here: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas...

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Taj Ali @tajali1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My book on the history of British South Asian political activism is out this September! Available to pre-order now from all good bookshops and online.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Secondary effects. Asia's investors reconsidering investments in the UAE. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Asian wealth has become a significant driver of that expansion. About a quarter of the 2,270-plus foundations set up in the UAE have Asian ownership, according to Yann Mrazek, managing partner at Dubai-based wealth advisory firm M/HQ. Asia accounted for 47% of all multinational companies attracted by the Dubai International Chamber in 2025, according to a statement by the entity.

Firms from Tokyo-based Nomura Holdings Inc., as well as DBS Group Holdings Ltd., and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. - Singapore’s two largest lenders - have expanded their operations in Dubai to cater to rising demand from the wealthy.

The war is now forcing a reassessment for many Asian families.

“It’s definitely a wake-up call,” said Felix Lai, principal of Hong Kong-based multi-family office JMS Group. “People might need to rethink their decision to move to the Middle East with their family and money, though it is too early to make a decision.”

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say

Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This US govt's dehumanisation of whole categories of people on a racist whim will not remain confined to war or people abroad.

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International Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Atmospheric violence: Fanon and postcolonial subjectivity - cup.org/46vlUCw "Revolutionary violence in anti-colonial movements is either glorified as a liberating force or vilified as terrorism" - Hye Yun Kang

Abstract discussing Frantz Fanon's influence on revolutionary violence, highlighting the concept of 'atmospheric violence' as pervasive and omnipresent. It emphasizes violence's nature beyond physical acts, involving societal structures and being dynamic.

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Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

📢 New out! Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social argues for Black activism in Britain to be viewed through a more global lens. #activism #anti-colonialism #anti-racism #BlackLiberationFront #BlackPower #decolonization #neocolonialism #Pan-Africanism Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

"The absence of justification is not incidental. It is a morbid symptom of an intl system in crisis. The certainties of the US’ hegemonic stewardship of the intl rules-based order have been deformed beyond recognition by the Gaza genocide, but no alternative architecture has cohered in their place"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports
By Helen Regan
More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children.
More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported.
The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Israel's policies put the US at risk. So instead of restraining Israel, the US bombed Iran - with no agreement on their end-goal, with zero plans for what comes next, and no system for safe evacuation of US citizens in the region. Does the US have agency in its Middle East foreign policy or not?

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