Hilary Clinton et al: students don't know what they're protesting about, they don't know the history, they just want to look cool.
LSE Students: produce a 112 page meticulously researched report of LSE complicity in genocide and arms trade w key findings and action points. Bravo

This really is crucial - I feel there is a growing belief, encouraged by some Con MPs and parts of the right wing press - that 'they' (foreign students) are taking 'our kids places'. This is not just wrong, it is upside down - 'they' are *funding* 'our kids' places.

THEORY AND SOCIETY reboots as THEORY AND SOCIAL INQUIRY in collective response to Springer’s unconscionable bully-boy tactics. A coup for the Open Library of the Humanities too.

All the luck to all involved. scatter.wordpress.com/2024/05/13/int…

Demands:
- divestment
- academic boycott of Israeli unis
- disclose all investments
- no spin-offs for surveillance or war
- Jerusalem Declaration definition of antisemitism to replace IHRA
- scholarships for Palestinians
- support Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and alumni in Gaza

Biden 2024: There Are Worse Things Than Genocide.

On current evidence, ‘progressive realism’ involves all the cynicism of realism but none of its humility, and all the smugness of progressivism but without any of the solidarity.

middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labour…

“Listen, Jack, that’s not a red line, that’s just blood”

Breaking Professorial ribs in the name of campus safety.

Oxford University Press? Hamas.

Copies spotted in the wild!

Not at #ISA2024 but GOVERNING THE FEMINIST PEACE is.

Positioned just between Jervis and Waltz.

Publication day!

From me and Laura J. Shepherd a new history and theory of the fractured gender equality project that is the Women, Peace and Security agenda.

20% discount with the code CUP20: cup.columbia.edu/book/governing…

Please also consider a copy for your library and/or students.

Disengaging from this hellsite for a few months, as a new addition to the Clan Cinnamon is imminent. Stay safe out there y'all.

Weasel words are no surprise from a politician, but UKRI have shown zero self-awareness. Retreating behind 'complexity', euphemising about 'difficulties' and in Leyser's quote evading even an acknowledgement that the accused did nothing wrong.

Who investigates the investigators?

It took longer for UKRI to investigate two tweets than for the International Court of Justice to receive a dispute, hold hearings, weigh evidence, issue provisional orders, and review an application for further measures under the Genocide Convention.

ukri.org/news/outcome-o…

Publicly denounced by the government, abandoned by their research quango, their equality committee suspended, smeared by some of their colleagues, hounded into deleting or locking accounts, and all they get after four plus months was this lousy non-apology.

Read this carefully worded statement from the Secretary of State which is markedly different in tone from the now deleted tweet. Note it omits any actual apology and also omits alt text of the actual statement necessary for many visually impaired people to be able to read it. 1/N