My husband, Prof. Steve Tamari, is out of the hospital. He will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. We are asking for time to rest and heal. We will not be taking media interviews at this time. Here is Steve's statement and ways you can support.

Voted #LocalElections #LondonElections2024 #LondonMayorElections

#ERSSymposium

The following thread lists 3 new symposiums published recently!

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The cat’s out of the bag! @sociologylancs is home to not one but two incoming British Academy mid-career fellows - @alasirriyeh and Carolyn Pedwell. Read more abt it - Outstanding academics’ Fellowships will SHAPE public understanding and engagement buff.ly/4aX3OdJ

Have you read our latest #symposium ?

Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance

Published in our latest issue, 31(2) ⬇️
tandfonline.com/toc/gide20/31/2

Mihaela Mihai Nasar Meer Aaron Winter T&F Social Sciences and Humanities

Wild to be at this press conference and see someone defend the overt racist comedy of the 70s, such as Alf Garnett. Sure, some people were laughing at him, but go watch the clips, listen to the canned laughter, plenty were laughing with him theguardian.com/culture/articl…

Jewish Faculty Network Statement of Solidarity with the UBC Encampment for Gaza:

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jfn-ubc.ca

BREAKING: The first people set to be removed to Rwanda have been detained.

My Jewish community is concerned too.

We’re worried that an extremist organization with the chutzpah to speak in our name is calling for…

🚔Violent dismantling of legal encampments

⚔️Encouraging confrontation

🤷🏽Students treated as “trespassers” on their own campuses

If you don't clarify who was committing the violence & who the targets were BBC News (UK), it just becomes part of the longer narrative/misrep of pro-Palestinian protestors as hateful violent extremists - which is used to justify state & security crackdowns, & defend & enable genocide

Check out this statement by University of Connecticut sociology students on their department’s silence re Palestine and calling on them to support their protesting students, the soc for pal resolution, and to take a stand against genocide. This is how you do it!

Most of the time, we are actually very thoughtful & intentional about not using ‘Zionist’ as code for ‘Jew’ and it is Israel’s defenders, in insisting our intentions are sinister, that reify the very antisemitic conflation they claim to want to combat

The entire world should be shocked by the level of violence that a Democratic Mayor, Governor, and President are willing to use to stop students from criticizing America’s support for Israel.

Students occupy UK university campuses in protest over Gaza bbc.in/3QsOSvL

Tomorrow evening, Media, Communications and Cultural Studies will welcome Aurelien Mondon to present on his and Aaron Winter 's Runnymede Trust report CREATING A CRISIS.

Find out more: bit.ly/3y8xNAF

When my father went bankrupt in my last year at McGill 1967 I applied for a loan to pay my tuition. Back then the university provided the loan not a bank. The officer asked “how can you need a loan. You’re Jewish?

Time to re-post this (free to read) article on immigration raids
Raids incorporate all the elements of #kidnapping . Fear (of the unknown), elements of forcible entry, coercion, taking away the means of contact with the outside world, asportation, relocation and traumatization.