I didn’t lose my job when I spoke about anti-Black racism. I didn’t lose my job when I spoke about gender rights. I didn’t lose my job when I spoke about Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan… I lost my job ONLY when I spoke about Palestine. You do the math.

If you want to know who is objectively unsafe on university campuses, look at who university admins are firing, banning, censoring, and sending police to beat and arrest. Look at which groups university admins ghost and which groups they're willing to sit down and talk with.

Charles Dickens, 1857: "I wish I were Commander in Chief in India. The first thing I would do to strike that Oriental race…that I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race…to blot it out of mankind and raze it off the face of the Earth." This is how the Empire ALWAYS thinks!

As a junior academic, I was advised to avoid writing about racism until after tenure. Some senior colleagues feared that discussing structural discrimination or critical race theory might limit opportunities. Here’s why I chose to ignore that advice. 🧵(1/)

The irony is that those of us risking our careers, livelihoods, and safety to advocate for Palestinians right now are the ones who would have been risking the same for Jewish people in Nazi Germany. And those sitting idly by on the sidelines right now, complicit in their silence

This is a crucial reminder by Stephen Walt, probably the most renowned Harvard professor of International Relations: "Palestinian resistance is completely legitimate" because "international law explicitly says that population under belligerent occupation have a right to resist".

"If you stick a knife in my back 9inches and pull it out 6inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out, thats not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made.. They won't even admit the knife is there" Malcolm X Cutting <10% of arms does nothing

Amid an outbreak of polio, Israel kills the head of the laboratory department at the Ministry of Health

“I wanna be surrounded by people who share the same outrage and disgust over what we're witnessing, and if you're not enraged, then I don't wanna be friends.”

That moment when the police knock on your door to invite you to a 'voluntary' interview for posting a video calling out Coconuts for being Coconuts 🙄We are in dangerous times when West Midlands Police think it is a good use of time to police Black political thought youtu.be/rZkD-e-b6Iw

‘Incompetence, dishonesty, greed’ Absolutely damning final report from Grenfell Tower inquiry lays out how residents were ‘badly failed’ by almost every single organisation • governments • TMO • Kensington & Chelsea Council • manufacturers of cladding & insulation •

#Grenfell: Muslim survivors denied halal food while being rehoused, inquiry finds. My latest report. "We live in a society where a hierarchy of human worth is premised upon the colour of your skin". MCB #BlackLivesMatterUK Runnymede Trust independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

It’s been said before but the second Greta started making connections between climate change and capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism the media coverage came to a screeching halt.

Poor leadership allows poor management which results in toxic workplaces&people leaving.I always ask about staff turnover & who is leaving. Often its those who are different/cause trouble (i.e refuse to be sycophantic)& leadership remains an interchangeable version of the same.

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Charity for Disabled children funnelling over 40% of its funds to right-wing think-tanks. Utterly shocking - an example of what happens when disability organisations aren't run by us, for us, with lived-experience at the forefront. goodlawproject.org/disabled-child…

Only Ukrainian (white) asylum seekers were given specialised access to housing schemes, jobs, education &fast tracked to refugees. This compounds the narrative that AS/R have priority for services and feeds tropes that nonwhite asylum seekers are lazy and get preferential access