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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
When Reagan was given an honorary degree by UCG in 1984, three holders of honorary doctorates handed back their degrees at a 'deconferring' ceremony presided over by the ‘Acting Chancellor’, Peadar O’Donnell. A strong political tradition that has surfaced again today over Galway's ties to Israel.
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
An Irish air traffic controller guided a United States Air Force bomber on its way to attack Iran through Irish-controlled airspace. In an audio recording obtained by The Ditch the AirNav Ireland employee assists the bomber’s crew. www.ontheditch.com/irish-air-st...
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Irish air staff assist US bomber on way to Iran
The Ditch obtained an audio recording.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/03/2026
Cause we always have to look for racism in the hearts or bones, never in the way Black people are actually regarded or treated.
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Decolonial Thought Plus
In this hellscape of living we are instructed
not to name the killers, not to mention the killing, and not to look too closely at the manufacturing of death.
Instead, we are disciplined into hygiene-language scrubbed sterile, sounding 'academic enough, standing safely,
at the centre of the abyss.
It then gets stamped, approved by
the editors of silence, before it's sold back to us as decolonial thought plus.
Khawla in Grief
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The world is so messed up now. We should be still, suffused in mourning and grief and tears and silence. But the machine keeps going, feeding on our hopes and dreams and bodies and bones. Who interrupts the machine? Where does the machine end and humanity begin?
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I’ll never regret speaking out against genocide. These institutions on the other hand are complicit and active participants.
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Stephen Hewer @stephenhewer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I had the great pleasure to work with @insurgentthought.bsky.social and Phil on this two years ago and it is finally out and open access: dx.doi.org/10.1080/1368...
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‘Decolonising’ medieval Irish history? The (im)possibility of challenging existing practice
The ‘Decolonial’ turn has come to the discipline of Irish history. How will it be used? As a liberal metaphor or decolonial praxis? As the turn proceeds through the discipline to pre-modern studies...
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A private jet touched down in Shannon Airport. Onboard were Palestinian deportees from the US, their wrists and ankles shackled. It’s not that the Irish state doesn’t want to involve itself with this depravity – it doesn’t want to acknowledge it. www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...
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Comment: The Shannon Three – awaiting judgment
For the last two and a half years the state has done all it can to reserve judgment on Israeli genocide.
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The Ditch can reveal that 75 Irish citizens have served in the Israel Defense Forces during its genocide in Gaza. Opposition asked government about Irish nationals serving with Israeli forces – while they committed war crimes – two years ago. www.ontheditch.com/seventy-five...
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75 Irish citizens served in IDF during Gaza genocide
Micheál Martin won't answer questions about them.
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Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025! On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded. #decolonialconference
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
"Why do you talk about genocide at parties" "Why do you talk about genocide with kids around" "Why do you talk about genocide during work calls" "Why do you talk about genocide with people who have their own shit going on" Why do you talk about genocide when... BECAUSE there is a GENOCIDE.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The Microsoft data centre in Grange Castle industrial estate, South County Dublin, storing Israeli intelligence data used to target and kill Palestinians in Gaza.
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Stephen Hewer @stephenhewer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
New piece by @emerp.bsky.social and myself in Rundale today: Early Medieval Law and a Call to Action for Palestine www.rundale.org/2025/09/01/e...
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Early Medieval Law and a Call to Action for Palestine - Rundale
...Medieval history is not a foxhole to hide from today’s problems but provides a set of perspectives and tools that can help orient ourselves in the present...
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Follow and support Lifeline4Gaza. They collate links to existing chuffed & gofundme appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza. The algorithm prioritises those receiving the least donations over the past 5 days. lifeline4gaza.com
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lifeline4gaza - a list of appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza
lifeline4gaza gathers links to existing chuffed & gofundme appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza.
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Share widely and consider submitting a proposal! www.decolonialconference.org/call-for-pro...
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Conference Theme & Call for Proposals | Submit Your Proposals Now — Decolonial Conference
Explore the Decolonial Conference theme and submission guidelines. Engage in discussions on liberation amid global challenges.
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Stephen Hewer @stephenhewer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Final episode of series 1, Archaeology and Geography is up now! We talk with Laura McAtackney and Paddy Bresnihan open.spotify.com/episode/3Hom... @emerp.bsky.social
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Archaeology and Geography
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Stephen Hewer @stephenhewer.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Episode 5, Sociology, is up now! open.spotify.com/episode/0Ez0... We talk with Su Khoo and David Landy. @emerp.bsky.social
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Sociology
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Plan to listen to this one later today open.spotify.com/episode/3IEL... #gaza #palestine
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Solidarity and Complicity in the Academy
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Stephen Hewer @stephenhewer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Episode 4 is live! open.spotify.com/episode/3IEL... Rita Sakr and Eman Abboud talk about being Palestinian and Lebanese, coloniality and decolonial studies, activism and Eman's recent trip home to Palestine.
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Solidarity and Complicity in the Academy
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Stephen Hewer @stephenhewer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This week's @afp-ire.bsky.social podcast episode has been delayed. Now is your chance to catch up on the previous episodes! academicsforpalestine.org/2025/07/21/t... @emerp.bsky.social
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The Academics for Palestine Podcast – Episode 2: Journalism
The Academics for Palestine Podcast is a series of roundtable interviews with academics about Palestine, genocides, coloniality and activism. Episode2: JournalismThis week’s episode has Dr Mi…
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
open.spotify.com/episode/5CRc... Dr Brendan C. Browne and Dr John Reynolds from talk to us about International Law and the lack of any law-in-action, the metaphorisation of the term decolonial, their experiences living and teaching in Palestine and much more. #gaza #law #academia
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Law
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emerp.bsky.social @emerp.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
In episode 3 of @AcademicsforPalestine podcast series we delve deep into international law and the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, with @brendanbrown and @seanmacr.bsky.social. @stephenhewer.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/a...
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Stephen Hewer @stephenhewer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Episode 2 of @afp-ire.bsky.social Podcast is up! open.spotify.com/episode/13ur... podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/j... @emerp.bsky.social
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Journalism
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emerp.bsky.social @emerp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
In collaboration with @afp-ire.bsky.social , myself & @stephenhewer.bsky.social are hosting a podcast series focused on what is happening in Palestine & what we can do about it. There are 6 episodes & will be talking academics about their activism for Palestine. Links below:
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Stephen Hewer @stephenhewer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Episode 1 of the Academics for Palestine Podcast coming soon! With @emerp.bsky.social and John Reynolds
John, Emer and Stephen in the recording studio
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
FedEx – which has repeatedly flown munitions through Irish territory illegally – is under criminal investigation after The Ditch reported it illegally transported F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel through Liège Airport last month. www.ontheditch.com/fedex-under-...
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FedEx under criminal investigation in Belgium – not Ireland
Irish officials are “conscious of the reaction of the Trump administration".
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Powerful and thought provoking conference in Liverpool today about #Palestine, including @stephenhewer.bsky.social, a reminder that doing nothing and saying nothing should not be an option. A few random pics:
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thanks to new paid subscribers, I was able to donate almost 150 dollars to Gaza. Please consider sharing my longer posts and/or becoming a paid subscriber to raise more funds. Everything will be donated to Palestinian organizations and verified fundraisers. open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...
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Resistance, Scholasticide, and Counterinsurgency
Excerpt from the book I'm currently writing
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Over the bank holiday weekend and ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, Irish state authorities assisted two flights through illegally carrying F-35 combat jet parts to an Israel Defense Forces airbase through Irish territory. www.ontheditch.com/two-more-ill...
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Two more illegal munitions flights over long weekend
Irish state authorities assisted the two flights.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20/05/2025
14,000 babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours in Gaza if aid doesn’t reach them, warns Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs – a figure he called “utterly chilling.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x26ghx
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/challenges... One day conference online and in person University of Liverpool 12th June 2025. All welcome!
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Challenges of Conflict Transformation
Interdisciplinary one-day conference: Challenges of Conflict Transformation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The Ditch can exclusively report that EU member states have exported €53 million in arms and ammunition to Israel since October 2023 under their controversial Israel trade agreement. Including €6.38 million in the first four months of this year. www.ontheditch.com/weapons-worth/
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€53 million in EU weapons exports to Israel since Oct 2023
That includes €6.38 million in weapons sent from EU member states to Israel in the first four months of this year.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I also propose hazard pay for those who give talks on racial injustice due to being constantly gaslit by the inevitable claims of the end of all racism. "It often feels that [some people] would rather believe that all their colleagues and students of colour were lying!" Than admit racism exists.
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Israel doesn’t have the right to defend itself. Colonized people, however, do have the right to armed resistance against an occupying power. Yet, time and again, we see anticolonial resistance portrayed as barbarism, savagery, and terrorism.
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Stephen Hewer @stephenhewer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
First episode of the AfP Podcast with @emerp.bsky.social is recorded! Stay tuned for release dates
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Though Simon Harris claims ignorance, Israel’s national airline illegally transported well over a tonne of handguns to Israel through Irish territory this January. Harris said last week he doesn't 'believe' Irish airspace is used for these journeys. www.ontheditch.com/harris-claim...
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1,500kg of guns transported to Israel through Irish airspace
And Simon Harris claims ignorance.
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I keep being told that I am antisemitic for saying that this is absolutely wrong. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Silkway Airlines illegally transported missile launchers for Israel Defense Forces (IDF) F-35 fighter jets through Irish territory – just weeks after The Ditch told government the airline was using Irish airspace to transport weapons to Tel Aviv. www.ontheditch.com/idf-missile-...
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IDF missile launchers illegally transported over Ireland
Weeks after The Ditch told government the airline was using Irish airspace to transport weapons to Tel Aviv.
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DeWereldMorgen @dewereldmorgen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025... Wat kunnen we doen terwijl de genocide in Palestina zich voor onze ogen voltrekt? Twee mediëvisten (historici van de Middeleeuwen) zoeken naar antwoorden, parallellen én oproepen tot actie. Stilte en onverschilligheid is medeplichtigheid
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Genocide in Palestina: wat kunnen wij doen? Veel!
Wat kunnen we doen terwijl de genocide in Palestina zich voor onze ogen voltrekt? Twee mediëvisten (historici van de Middeleeuwen) zoeken naar antwoorden, parallellen én oproepen tot actie. Stilte en…
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
It’s not a fucking humanitarian crisis, a fucking war, or a fucking conflict. It’s a genocide against a people who, for decades, have refused to be displaced, permanently occupied, and erased. Those who remained silent & complicit helped create the world that now awaits us all.
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Stephen Hewer @stephenhewer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025... Here is one thing by @emerp.bsky.social and myself
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Genocide in Palestina: wat kunnen wij doen? Veel! - DeWereldMorgen.be
Wat kunnen we doen terwijl de genocide in Palestina zich voor onze ogen voltrekt? Twee mediëvisten (historici van de Middeleeuwen) zoeken naar antwoorden, parallellen én oproepen tot actie. Stilte en ...
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Stephen Hewer @stephenhewer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I don't think the 'starter pack' is the same as a facebook group. If you're looking for that, @emerp.bsky.social has made one on facebook, also called 'Irish Medievalists for Palestine'. Check it out there.
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Stephen Hewer @stephenhewer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
@emerp.bsky.social and I have been working on recruiting medievalists (of any sort) to speak up about Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Direct Provision. We have some things coming out soon. I made the starter pack today, so message to join.
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