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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reform UK's new 'Small Boats Watch' app is not only cruel, it is in clear violation of Apple and Google’s rules and must be removed immediately. You can take action now: bestforbritain.org/take-action/...

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Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some of us remember the Rwanda scheme.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I analyse Miliband’s statement line by line—bottom line, they’re sanctioning the settlements, companies and individuals not the occupying state or the IDF. While Israel is retaliating directly against the British state. martinshawx.substack.com/p/ed-miliban...

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Ed Miliband’s statement - full line-by-line annotation

He proposes to address the state’s unlawful occupation by tackling the economic relationships with the territories, not with the state that is occupying. While Israel targets the British state.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’ve written a piece for History Workshop reflecting on mass activism and direct action - as Marral says, we first met when a group of members of the late 1960s LSE Socialist Society supported today’s Palestine activists in the School, who were under threat from the LSE authorities.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My new article explains what Burnham and Miliband should really be doing about Israel—breaking the UK’s alliance with the genocidal state, not pleading with it to change course; sanctioning the state, not just the settlers and individual ministers. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/08/the-...

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The UK Must Break With Israel

No more piecemeal measures. The government should sanction the genocidal occupying state and renounce the UK-Israel relationship.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“What the physical record shows is a military that could confine its violence to a single room when it chose to, and elsewhere chose otherwise.” - Israel discriminated between Christian and other areas in the degree of “precision” it used in targeting.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Raz Segal and I were the first genocide scholars to recognise Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Unlike me, he paid a serious price for speaking out, losing a prestigious position that he had just been offered. But now, 2 years later, he has won financial compensation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000

The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer for Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My new podcast on 99 Zu Eins covers why we are in a “new age of genocide”, the relationships of war and genocide, the “structure of genocide” in Palestine, and my views on Omer Bartov’s new book on Israel and Dirk Moses’ The Problems of Genocide—and much more, especially Gaza. youtu.be/5OA6MrAKRGY

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The New Age of Genocide w/ Martin Shaw - 99 ZU EINS - Ep. 679

YouTube video by 99 ZU EINS

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Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Brilliant talk, inc. plenty of excellent reflections on so-called subaltern genocides. Also agree that the term genocide should not be dumped. Now I wonder, if genocide is indeed part of a historical colonial continuum, what criteria do we use to date its actual start? @martinshaw.bsky.social

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I wrote in detail about ‘Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel' for Byline Times. Gaza is the sharpest edge of Starmer’s domestic as well as international legacy. Fail to address it, and Burnham could end up as the UK’s Kamala Harris. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/w...

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'Why Andy Burnham Must Break With Israel'

The likely incoming Prime Minister must break with Keir Starmer's "morally bankrupt" legacy on Gaza in order to restore his party's reputation with the public, argues genocide scholar Martin Shaw

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I wrote about how Brexit unleashed the racism and violence that now threatens Britain with a Farage regime, and how Labour’s complicity in Gaza has divided the forces that can resist it.

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Zeteo UK @zeteo.uk · 15/06/2026

"The distinction between protest and terrorism has been blurred." The sentencing of four pro-Palestine activists known as the Filton 4 has sparked a wider debate over how terrorism laws are being applied in Britain, writes lawyer @tayabali.bsky.social 🔗 zeteonews.co.uk/p/filton-4-p...

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Andy Burnham (in the Guardian) burning his bridges by failing to express a clear moral condemnation of Israel. His weasel words suggest he could be Labour's Kamala Harris, needlessly alienating the left and Muslim voters that are needed to defeat Farage - as they were to beat Trump.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This reply to @jonathanliew.bsky.social accurately pinpoints the weakness of his alternative to continued engagement with X. Read their following tweets - exactly my experience too.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Disappointingly simplistic of Jonathan to dismiss X and its progressive users so sweepingly, especially when he has no credible alternative and admits this place is no substitute. I use it for Gaza / genocide and it remains an essential point of connection and source of information.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

ICC prosecutor requests further warrants against Israeli ministers: ‘the charges against Smotrich include forced displacement as a crime against humanity and war crime, the transfer of Israel’s own population as a war crime, and persecution and apartheid as crimes against humanity’

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

As European leaders proclaim a values-based order in Yerevan, my article on the long shadow of the Gaza genocide in Europe’s crisis reminds us that as long as it is tied to Israel, Europe will not succeed. share.google/ujYNzP078nRV...

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Martin Shaw · Europe’s Crisis: The Long Shadow of Genocide

Europe’s complicity has not only sustained the genocide of Palestinians, but also triggered a crisis of political legitimacy. If any political or moral credibility is to be salvaged, a different movem...

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I’m speaking in Brighton on the Gaza genocide and its large political and geopolitical consequences

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I wrote for the Berlin Review about the long shadow of genocide in Europe's crisis. Drawing on the experience of when Europeans confronted US power in the 1980s, I argue that we need movements from below to challenge our complicit elites. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

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Martin Shaw · Europe’s Crisis: The Long Shadow of Genocide

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

If you’re in the UK, this C4 documentary on the Suez war that broke Britain’s imperial power is well worth watching, not least for its premonitions of America’s failure in the attack on Iran - like Suez undertaken together with Israel. www.channel4.com/programmes/s...

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Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire

The dramatic inside story of the Suez Crisis, which changed Britain forever

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I look forward to contributing to this impressive lecture series on Genocide, Settler Colonialism, Modernity’ at the University of Potsdam. www.uni-potsdam.de/de/allg-sozi...

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Lecture Series

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Dirk addresses the changing significance of ‘genocide’: ‘There is no mistaking the changing winds in the language of transgression. It is illuminating liberal permanent security as genocidal, thereby repoliticizing a concept whose foundations were flawed in its codification in the 1940s.’

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

‘The U.S. and Israel have employed so-called “double-tap strikes” in their campaign in Iran. The attacks, which involve aircraft bombing a site and then conducting further strikes, show a callous disregard for civilians by the US & Israel, & may show a pattern of seeking to inflict harm on Iranians’

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Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Ahead of direct talks between Lebanon and Israel, my assessment remains that the outcome for Lebanon depends on the ongoing U.S.-Iran contest of wills and "negotiation through fire" in the Gulf: What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

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What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon?

Until and unless Donald Trump ends the Gulf war, Lebanon will remain hostage to Israeli domestic politics

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It’s good that @davidallengreen.bsky.social wrote about this as a ‘genocidal’ threat. I’d just point out that Prospect has never published an article recognising the *actual* genocide that Israel has committed in Gaza.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The excellent Declassified putting the mainstream media to shame with a full expose of the role of UK bases in the US’s illegal war. Essential viewing.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This is reported in the US press but will the BBC or even Channel Four news mention it?

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Remember the campaign for a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine? Where is the campaign for a tribunal to try the US-Israeli aggression against Iran? Or maybe one body could try both cases? www.coe.int/be/web/porta...

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Imagine how much more Farage’s Trump UK would be hurting if Labour had come out clearly against the disastrous US-Israeli war and was clearly blaming Farage for Trump. open.substack.com/pub/morningc...

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Morning Call: The psephological consequences of Mr Trump

The US president’s misadventure in Iran appears to be hurting Reform in the British polls

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Why does the UK government have to assist the illegal US war, when Trump and Hegseth treat it with contempt?

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

BBC TV news reporting Tiger Woods’ arrest at great length but not a mention of the half million strong march against the far right in London today.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I’ve written about the implications of the war and the Gaza genocide for British politics. The Greens can be the voice of the left and help mobilise the coaltion needed to stop Farage. I put my cards on the table - I’m joining them. open.substack.com/pub/martinshaw…

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Essential reading: deaths in the first Covid wave could have been much lower and the second wave could have been largely avoided. The report lays out missed opportunities, delayed decisions, refusal to learn, failure to believe advice, and general unseriousness on the part of the Tory government.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Disturbing dismissal of director of Armenian Genocide Museum following JD Vance visits to Armenia and Azerbaijan. keghart.org/whitehorn-cr...

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Crisis at the Armenian Genocide Museum - Keghart

By Prof. Alan Whitehorn, Kingston ON, 25 March 2026

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

In the West Bank, at-risk youth are recast as pioneers — funded by Israeli ministries and US tax-deductible charities and deployed to harass, dispossess, and drive Palestinians from their land.

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Israel’s Young Settler Vanguard

In the West Bank, at-risk youth are recast as pioneers — funded by Israeli ministries and US tax-deductible charities and deployed to harass, dispossess, and drive Palestinians from their land.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Canada, like the UK, enabling the illegal US aggression against Iran despite what its leaders say.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

‘Around 50 magistrates gathered in the courthouse of the southern city of Naples to follow the count and started singing the anti-fascist anthem of resistance "Bella Ciao" when it became clear the government had lost.’

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

‘Do you remember the days when the world already knew there was a Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan and that it was spreading rapidly, but you were not under lockdown yet? This stage of the US and Israel’s illegal attack on Iran is another such moment. The shock is here. The shockwaves are on their way.’

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I’m in conversation in London on 12 April with Na’amod, a movement of Jews in the UK seeking to end their community’s support for apartheid and occupation, and to mobilise it in the struggle for dignity, freedom and democracy for all Palestinians and Israelis. actionnetwork.org/events/the-n...

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The New Age of Genocide: Na'amod with Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw is a sociologist and a leading authority on genocide. He serves as Emeritus Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex, as well as Research Professor at ...

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I’m not sure this is exclusive to Scotland. Farage has spent decades distinguishing himself from ‘overt racism’ - but is he still bothering?

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

One diplomat with knowledge of the talks said: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach

Exclusive: Jonathan Powell thought Tehran’s ‘surprising’ offer on its nuclear programme could prevent rush to war, sources say

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