Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 24/12/2025It's not pointed out often enough, Palestinians were the first Christians. They converted the rest of us. And how do we repay them? By letting them be exterminated, in full view of the whole world, for the third Christmas now in a row. 030
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Thank you Francesca Albanese: brave as ever, not mincing her words OR her dates. “For nearly a CENTURY Palestinians have been living under the weight of a brutal settler colonial project.” Disrupt, strike, boycott, for those who stand to lose EVERYTHING. #togetherforpalestine 040
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 17/09/2025If you're still watching BBC (I stopped 2 yrs ago) don't let them forget: their refusal to broadcast SAfrica's ICJ case in Jan 2024 (while broadcasting Israel's defence) enabled millions to keep looking the other way. They get no credit for finally reporting what everyone in the universe already saw 000
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 16/09/2025I’m tired of people, from celebrities, to journalists, to the UN itself, finally solemnly declaring what was clear to everyone from the start. South Africa laid it all out before the ICJ in JANUARY 2024. What took the rest of you so long? Waited till deaths were in 100,000s?? 021
Reposted by Maria Aristodemou Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 21/08/2025“Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...theguardian.comRevealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza warFigures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000 46259
Reposted by Maria Aristodemou Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Money has now officially become the ONLY thing that matters in the UK. Your protests - meaningless! Caring about children being slaughtered - meaningless! Those of us who care about anything else should all just give up now as it is meaningless in the UK. 196
Reposted by Maria Aristodemou Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Christ. I mean, why not just suggest adding phrenology to the points based immigration system? 1331882295
Reposted by Maria Aristodemou Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Eleven days ago, Israel assassinated a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist. Anas al-Sharif documented the relentless Israeli assault on civilians, breaking down on camera as he reported on the gathering famine. He was 28 years old www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him. 313277
Reposted by Maria Aristodemou Ewan McGaughey @ewanmg.bsky.social · 21/08/2025What should be publicly owned, or privatised? We have a century of data on what works, so we should be able to get beyond ideology + build an evidence-based theory. New paper from me looks at theory since Adam Smith + maps OECD outcomes. Download + please repost!👇 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 031
Reposted by Maria Aristodemou Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2025See, the problem with 'its this or fascism' is that the 'this' directly legitimises and mainstreams fascism. Labour are acting as Reform's greatest ally and asset by continually accepting anti-migration narratives as the foundation of debate. 1185
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 31/07/2025I tweeted this a year and a half ago. A YEAR AND A HALF AGO! So yes, I feel sick seeing our media suddenly feigning surprise Israel is starving a whole population to death. YOU did it BBC et al. YOU did it: by turning a blind eye, by repeatedly platforming Israeli lies, YOU did it. 010
Reposted by Maria Aristodemou sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Children so hungry and dehydrated they cannot even cry. 32916
Reposted by Maria Aristodemou UNRWA @unrwa.org · 19/07/2025UNRWA has food for the entire population for over three months — stockpiled and ready also in Al Arish, Egypt. The supplies are available. The systems are in place. Open the gates. Let UNRWA deliver. 1 million children are waiting. 6232179
Reposted by Maria Aristodemou Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Imagine if a British charity donated millions to a Russian-backed building project in Kherson. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...theguardian.comTwo UK charities donate millions to Israeli settlement in occupied West BankCharity Commission criticised for endorsing transfer of about £5.7m to high school in illegal village of Susya 052
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Day 600, which means Israel has committed 600 October 7s since October 7, but its bloodthirst is still not satiated. Where are the international lawyers so keen on humanitarian interventions in the past? Where are you now ah?? 030
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 14/04/2025You won't hear this on BBC so in case of doubt: people under occupation have right to resist their oppressors, inc with armed resistance. They can also seek and receive support from third states for their struggle. Third states have not only the right but *duty to support liberation struggles. 010
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Sorry to go off-topic (ie Palestine and Palestine again) but a note to academics (and lay people generally) sniffy about ADHD: it’s not a con, it’s not undiagnosed or undiagnoseable, it’s very real. Show some understanding if not compassion. 000
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 29/03/2025This is so beautiful, I’m in tears. Exactly the kind of pilgrimage we need today. Peter & Pilgrims have been walking from Bristol to London for two weeks while fasting and reading Palestinian children’s poems. Let’s join and welcome them when they arrive at Parliament Square tomorrow ♥️♥️ 010
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Many of us sit at home saying genocide is bad but what can little us do blah blah and others get up and climb Big Ben wrapped in a Palestinian flag. Sorry, was away yesterday and looking at the pics now in tears and in awe. 040
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 05/03/2025It's insane our media report endlessly on plans to reconstruct Gaza from Trump's illegal fantasy to Arab states' initiative without mentioning the obvious answer: Israel has to pay for its crimes. They report of Russia's frozen assets paying for Ukraine but never of Israel paying for Gaza. 020
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 03/03/2025I dread for Palestinians in villages featured in No Other Land. As the settlers wake up to the film winning an Oscar they will unleash more of their hell on Palestinians. Their frustration following any symbolic win, be it at the ICJ or at the Oscars, is always lethal. 021
Reposted by Maria Aristodemou Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 26/02/2025👇👇👇 Statement by international lawyers, ESIL members and ESIL IG convenors on the forthcoming ESIL Annual Conference in Berlin in light of the very troubling decision by FU to curtail academic freedom. The letter remains open for signature. 11710
Reposted by Maria Aristodemou Palestine Day 🇵🇸 @palestineday.com · 24/02/2025youtu.be/d7P5o4X7pTg?...youtu.beThey’re Trying To Ban This Gaza DocumentaryYouTube video by Novara Media 14120
Reposted by Maria Aristodemou Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @comrade-kumar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Starmer is a fraud who doesn’t believe in anything but his own accumulation of power 1318
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Pursuing IDF soldiers under the international criminal justice system is a start, but only a start. The civil justice system must also start suing them for every amputated limb, for every house destroyed, for every orphan left behind. Before paying for holidays, they must pay for their crimes. 040
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 04/02/2025The hubris of this. The unashamed, unapologetic, unbounded hubris. Even if we had no other evidence, this hubris of presuming they have a say where the people whose land they stole should live, that itself confirms the settler colonial mindset. But there’s more: there’s genocide. 1154
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 01/02/2025After 15 months of siege, bombing, starvation and torture, it shouldn’t need to be said but I will say it again since our media refuse to: We only need one look at the released Israeli versus released Palestinian hostages to know who behave humanely and who behave like savages. 083
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 23/12/2024If there’s one time when it’s crystal clear that Lacan was right to suggest the injunction to enjoy comes from the superego and that far from benign, it’s punitive, relentless and sadistic, it’s Christmastime. Good luck everyone xx 030
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 26/10/2024This constant seeing one thing with our eyes and being told that the opposite is happening by our politicians and our media is rotting the soul. That's precisely what they want isn't it? A nation of apathetic, despondent, cynical zombies who give up on truth altogether. 063
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 16/09/2024Protesting the genocide is imperative. It's also necessary to read and reread Arab texts, history and culture. Texts that have been so demonised and misrepresented for decades, esp since 9/11, that committing genocide against Palestinians became possible, even acceptable, to the West. 031
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 04/09/2024There's the endless pain of displacement. Of becoming refugee in one's own land. I know that from Cyprus too. There's the pain of bombings, of starvation, of mutilation, of torture, of harassment. And there's the pain of Injustice. That pain, in and of itself, is debilitating. 030
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 08/11/2023We spend our whole life as academics bemoaning our powerlessness. Then a genocide is taking place and the victims ask that we condemn it, demand it ceases. And guess what. Some stay silent, others sign letters saying, "Well, is it really genocide." Shameful. 052
Maria Aristodemou @maariaris.bsky.social · 23/10/2023I’m here because on twitter I get harassed for trying to tell some simple truths, on facebook (cleverer algorithm probably) anything I post vanishes down a black hole. I’m tired. 241
