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Jas Nijjar

@jasnijjar.bsky.social
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Teacher, reader, reluctant writer.

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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The fate of Muslims is inseparable from the fate of all people of colour in the UK ... When supporters of Israel promote Islamophobia, they are playing with fascist fires that will end up engulfing us all" - @arunkundnani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Islamophobia is rising – and Britain’s politicians have been dangerously complacent in tackling it | Arun Kundnani
Mainstream figures have been enabling anti-Muslim racism, creating the ideal conditions for the rise of hard-right political parties, says Arun Kundnani, editorial director of Monthly Review Press
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"As Irish people we know all about genocide, forced famine & violent occupation. I cannot stand by & allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence rightful voices who speak up against Israeli genocide & who highlight the savage murder of children" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore
Four openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cancelled Futures: Class, Race & Place in Post-Industrial Britain, book launch with Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social UCL Main Campus London, England Wednesday 16 September, 5:30-7:30pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cancelled-...
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Cancelled Futures: Class, Race & Place in Post-Industrial Britain
Join us in person to discuss the launch of Amit Singh's new book, Cancelled Futures: Class, Race & Place in Post-Industrial Britain.
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Pubs for the People: An Evening with Amit Singh and Sivamohan Valluvan Thursday 22 October 2026 19:00 at Waterstones, London - Trafalgar Square www.waterstones.com/events/pubs-...
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Pubs for the People: An Evening with Amit Singh and Sivmohan Valluvan | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Pubs for the People: An Evening with Amit Singh and Sivmohan Valluvan today.
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"One in six prison leavers in London are released into homelessness ... part of a wider picture of failing support for people leaving prison" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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One in six prison leavers in London released into homelessness
The issue is part of a wider picture of failing support for people leaving prison, experts say.
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"Trillionaire politics is not simply the concentration of wealth. It is the concentration of power, influence & the capacity to shape the stories societies tell about themselves" -H. Giroux on the culture of greed, cruelty, fascism & masculinity underpinning Musk www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/19/e...
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Elon Musk and the Politics of Trillionaire Fascism
Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue, exploitation into spectacle, and mistakes its own deepest failures for its grea...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Summer School on class, culture & discontents. 23-24 July at Chestnut Grove Academy, Balham Workshops on topics ranging from emergent fascistic cultures, class struggle, football fan cultures, education provision, meritocracy, social infrastructure & more www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...
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Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents
Summer School on class, culture and discontents.
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Summer School on class, culture & discontents. 23-24 July at Chestnut Grove Academy, Balham Workshops on topics ranging from emergent fascistic cultures, class struggle, football fan cultures, education provision, meritocracy, social infrastructure & more www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...
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Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents
Summer School on class, culture and discontents.
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
📌 The latest issue of Race & Class is out now! It leads with an incredibly important article by @tribunalpeople.bsky.social ‘Obstinate memory: the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings’ by Ken Fero, Jodie Bradshaw and Samantha Patterson. journals.sagepub.com/share/JGVQ8R...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My article, The fallacy of an anti-racist police force Argues that the London Race Action Plan reflects a neoliberal move to recast the machinery of structural racism as anti-racist & to create doubt over anti-racism, amid a 'post-race' mythology in crisis www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The fallacy of an anti-racist police force
PDF | This article unpacks the Metropolitan Police's current aim to rebrand itself as an 'anti-racist organisation' via its London Race Action Plan,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My article, De(-)meaning Anti-Racism De(‐)meaning redefines anti‐racist struggle—inc demands for a free Palestine & scholarship explaining the politics of racism—as racist & hostile, while recasting racialised & militarised state power as anti‐racist & humane www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) De(‐)Meaning Anti‐Racism
PDF | Following David Theo Goldberg's astute insights, this article discusses a form of neoliberal authoritarianism that extends incessant denial of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 15/07/2026
We're happy to support Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents, organised by @amit-singh.bsky.social (UCL). A free two-day summer school exploring class, culture & today's social challenges through workshops and discussion. Find out more and register: buff.ly/MSeyFEG #Sociology #SummerSchool
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"In The racial politics of police warfare, Jas Nijjar is promoting an anti-racist politics of the human, emphasizing infrastructures of care over those predicated on suspicion, vengefulness & destruction" - David T. Goldberg's foreword to my book available here www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Your independence reveals the immeasurable distance between us. Justice, liberty, prosperity .. bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. Sunlight that brought life & healing to you brought stripes & death to me. Fourth of July is yours, not mine" www.democracynow.org/2026/7/3/wha...
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“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: Frederick Douglass Speech Read by James Earl Jones
We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My new article for Race & Class, 'The fallacy of an anti-racist police force.' Unpacks the police's attempt to reframe itself as an 'anti-racist service,' arguing that the terms and conditions of that move reinforce institutional racism and militarised policing. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The fallacy of an anti-racist police force
PDF | This article unpacks the Metropolitan Police's current aim to rebrand itself as an 'anti-racist organisation' via its London Race Action Plan,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"Come what may, we are here to stay" - Today we remember Gurdip Singh Chaggar, taken from us fifty years ago in a racist attack in Southall. We do so to connect our past and present struggles while ultimately building towards a different, more humane future. www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
July 24th with @alexkelbert.bsky.social @academicdiary.bsky.social @sachahilhorst.bsky.social @lukedenoronha.bsky.social myself with a closing panel on racism & nationalism in a changing world Event generously supported by @thesociologicalreview.org including free lunch for attendees on both days
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents 📆 July 23rd - 24th 📍London Full programme with all star line up ⭐ 23rd July feat @darrenchetty.bsky.social @jolittler.bsky.social @jasnijjar.bsky.social etc on prison education, meritocracy, colonialism, war + more www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
My new article, 'De(-)Meaning Anti-Racism', in the British Journal of Sociology. It argues that de(‐)meaning works to redefine anti‐racist struggle as racist and hostile, while recasting racialised and militarised state power as anti‐racist and humane. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
researchgate.net
(PDF) De(‐)Meaning Anti‐Racism
PDF | Following David Theo Goldberg's astute insights, this article discusses a form of neoliberal authoritarianism that extends incessant denial of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"The engineer, who is of Palestinian heritage, told the Guardian that ... he felt “terrible”, because “you were going in every day and you feel like you are, you’re betraying humanity and your people”". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI engineer says Google unfairly sacked him after he protested against work for Israel
Exclusive: Employment tribunal claim says worker lost his job after distributing leaflets throughout London office
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"Israeli troops stationed in eastern Gaza shot and killed two civilians on Monday. Elsewhere, medics retrieved the bodies of two Palestinians from central Gaza after they were hit by shrapnel from Israeli artillery fire." www.democracynow.org/2026/5/12/he...
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Israeli Forces Continue Deadly Violations of U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire
In Gaza, Israeli forces have once again violated the U.S.-brokered ceasefire with deadly violence. The Palestinian Health Ministry reports Israeli troops stationed in eastern Gaza shot and killed two ...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
New faces, same system.
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My book, The Racial Politics of Police Warfare, is published today. It explores the intersection between institutional racism and war power through everyday policing. David Theo Goldberg kindly wrote its foreword & Eric Drooker is behind the cover art. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174420/
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
All 🌟 line-up @jasnijjar.bsky.social @jolittler.bsky.social @alexkelbert.bsky.social @sachahilhorst.bsky.social @academicdiary.bsky.social @darrenchetty.bsky.social @lukedenoronha.bsky.social + many more who aren't on here. Please share! Full programme TBA soon!
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Organising this summer school with support from @thesociologicalreview.org 🚨Class, Culture & Discontents 📍23rd & 24th July 🏫 Balham, South London 🧑‍🍳 Free lunch Great line-up of speakers on a wide range of topics, come one, come all Free tickets ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Linton Kwesi Johnson - Reggae fi Peach (Tribute to Mr. Blair Peach) - LIVE in Paris
YouTube video by Dr Deivid
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Southall remembers 23 April 1979 - Blair Peach
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
“It was 10 minutes of terror ... It was hard to tell what was blowing up where, because those hundred or so attacks were all happening simultaneously.” www.democracynow.org/2026/4/10/le...
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“10 Minutes of Terror”: Lebanon Death Toll Tops 300 from Israel’s “Black Wednesday” Attack
As the United States and Iran prepare to hold talks in Pakistan aimed at ending the war, Israel is continuing to bomb Lebanon, where the death toll from Wednesday’s massive wave of attacks has topped ...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"U.S.-Israeli strikes have hit more than 113,000 civilian sites, including homes and schools, killing more than 2,000 people, including women and children, with at least 21,000 injured" www.democracynow.org/2026/4/3/hea...
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Israel Says It Struck 3,500 Targets in Lebanon in One Month of War
Israel’s military says it struck more than 3,500 targets across Lebanon in the month since it renewed large-scale attacks on Hezbollah while invading parts of southern Lebanon. The Lebanese Health Min...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Spaces of Dissent, Protest and Transformation: Past, Present and Future. London School of Economics and Political Science. Wednesday, 20 May, 1-5 pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spaces-of-...
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Spaces of Dissent, Protest and Transformation: Past, Present and Future
Organised by Political Studies Association: Political and Social Movements Group, Brunel Human Geography Group and Urban Salon London
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"Israel has also carried out at least five double-tap strikes, a tactic in which an initial strike is followed by a pause, allowing medical workers to arrive before the area is bombed for a second time." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers
Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Potemkin City Limits
YouTube video by Propagandhi - Topic
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"The February 28 hit on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school stemmed from the use of old data showing the school building to be part of an adjacent Iranian military base" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump claims ignorance as Pentagon admits US struck Iranian girls’ school
The strike would be the largest civilian casualty event since the war began more than ten days ago
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
'This is a must-read for anyone seeking to confront the violent realities of state racism and imagine anti-racist and humane alternatives' - Sarita Malik's generous endorsement of my forthcoming book, The Racial Politics of Police Warfare manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174420/
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Manchester University Press - The racial politics of police warfare
The racial politics of police warfare - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The racial politics of police warfare by Jasbinder S. Nijjar
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Congratulations to my sister Jaspreet on passing her PhD viva today. Jaspreet's excellent thesis, on the politics of gender and resistance in Orange is the New Black, was carefully crafted over eight years and examined by Sarah Lamble and Simon Weaver. It's a remarkable study. Well done, Jaspreet.
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"The walls of the school were painted with these bright murals. If I can see as an open-source investigator that ... these brightly colored walls are visible, I know that this is not part of an IRGC base, so should anybody that’s adding this to a target list" www.democracynow.org/2026/3/4/nil...
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Who Bombed Girls’ School in Iran? Reporter Nilo Tabrizy on What We Know About Massacre, 175 Killed
After a strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, killed at least 175 people, nearly all young schoolchildren, online reports spread disinformation about the attack, including claims that t...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"A nation dedicated to liberty Justice and equality Does it look that way to you? It doesn't look that way to me The sickest joke I know" www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPxO...
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'Merican
YouTube video by Descendents - Topic
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Iranian state media reports one Israeli strike hit an elementary girls’ school in Minab, killing at least 85 people, including scores of children" www.democracynow.org/2026/2/28/sp...
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Special Report: U.S. & Israel Attack Iran, Risking Regional War
The U.S. and Israel have launched an unprovoked attack on Iran, striking sites across the country, including the compound of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian state media reports o...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"The (Presidential) Liar's in the house. Bono’s in the house! We’re DOOMED! FUCKING DOOMED! FUCKING DOOMED! FUCKING DOOMED! FUCKING DOOMED! FUCKING DOOMED! FUCKING DOOMED!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpMC...
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Superbowl Patriot XXXVI
YouTube video by Propagandhi - Topic
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/01/2026
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Download the full report here: irr.org.uk/article/poli...
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Policy and prosecutorial responses to the summer 2024 riots risk fuelling a cycle of racist violence  - Institute of Race Relations
Policy and prosecutorial responses to the summer 2024 riots delink the violence from racism, paving the way for anti-immigration and Islamophobic protests and far-right vigilantism to form an infinite...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"Jon Burnett studied a sample of court cases related to the riots. He found that the Conservative PM Rishi Sunak’s “stop the boats” slogan & the policy framework around it..“was repeatedly echoed (either by defendants or by broader mobilisations they were among)”" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Response to 2024 summer riots failed to address root causes and links to racism, report says
Institute of Race Relations says violence in Southport and elsewhere often reduced to ‘mindless’ thuggery
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"We must defame, defund, and abolish these systems. We must empty all the cages, kick dirt over made-up borders, and fund the things that help us thrive, imagine, create. Free us all." truthout.org/articles/we-...
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We Can Honor Renee Nicole Good’s Life by Abolishing Death-Making Institutions
Those of us who see ourselves in Renee Good can take this moment to deepen our solidarities with all who are policed.
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
"The government must engage with the issue and examine the arguments for bail and the questions around prison communication. At present it looks dangerously complacent, given the prisoners’ rapidly deteriorating health." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on the Palestine Action hunger strikers: the government is trying to ignore this protest | Editorial
Editorial: Doctors have warned that the lives of these prisoners are now in danger. Pretending this is not happening is not good enough
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
"Israeli forces have killed seven more Palestinians in Gaza in Israel’s latest violation of the ceasefire declared nearly two months ago ... Officials in Gaza report 366 Palestinians have been killed & 938 injured by Israeli forces since the Oct 10 ceasefire" www.democracynow.org/2025/12/4/he...
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Israeli Forces in Gaza Kill Seven Palestinians in Latest Violation of October Ceasefire
Israeli forces have killed seven more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in Israel’s latest violation of the ceasefire that was declared nearly two months ago. Among the dead are five members of a single ...
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"Products provided by Big Tech are so integral to Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine that the mass killings and near-total destruction of infrastructure in Gaza are often described as “the first AI-powered genocide.”" truthout.org/articles/mic...
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Microsoft Faces Reckoning for Assisting Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
The tech giant could face legal liability for aiding and abetting “atrocity crimes” in Palestine, legal groups say.
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The racial politics of police warfare by Jas Nijjar for @manchesterup.bsky.social with a foreword from David Theo Goldberg will be must read/must teach for anyone interested in race, racism and/or policing! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174420/
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Manchester University Press - The racial politics of police warfare
The racial politics of police warfare - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The racial politics of police warfare by Jasbinder S. Nijjar
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
My first book, The Racial Politics of Police Warfare, with a foreword by David Theo Goldberg and cover art by Eric Drooker. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174420/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
Manchester University Press - The racial politics of police warfare
The racial politics of police warfare - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The racial politics of police warfare by Jasbinder S. Nijjar
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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
"At Friday’s demo, there was anger as locals and civil rights activists denounced what they called a massacre targeting the deprived favelas, that have predominantly black populations" - Thousands join protests in Rio favela after deadliest ever police raid www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Thousands join protests in Rio favela after deadliest ever police raid
Demonstrators demand inquiry after operation on Tuesday in which at least 121 people were killed
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