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Ben Whitham
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I teach, research & write about world politics - especially the politics of (in)security, inequalities, intersectionality. Trade unionist. Martial artist. www.soas.ac.uk/about/ben-whitham www.bloomsbury.com/uk/global-politics-9781350328419
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My article "The Revolution of Values and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy" (part of a forthcoming SI in Global Political Economy on "progressive politics in an age of crisis") is currently available open access: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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A list of some of the 94 professors, 7 deans and 3 university professors killed by Israel compiled by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association mesana.org/advocacy/com...

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The ICJ proceedings show that states have no legitimacy, the ‘rule-based international order’ is nothing but haughty rhetoric. They cannot and do not uphold their own stated reasons for existence; they are competing charnel houses

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This is the twitter of Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, calling for the mass murder of civilian hostages by the IDF, dehumanising them by calling them "Muslim Nazis" & referencing genocidal myth of Amalek. If you don't believe that Israel is carrying out crimes against humanity and genocide you're a fool.

Post of Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Arieh King in Hebrew with pictures of IDF holding Palestinan civilians hostage, having stripped them and taken them to the desert.
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Eliminates the Muslim Nazis in Gaza.
  We have to pick up the pace.
 If I had made the decision, I would have jumped 4 D-9s and put them behind the mounds of dirt and given an order to cover all these hundreds of ants, while they were still alive.
 They are not human beings and not human animals, they are subhuman and that is how they should be treated.
 To protest the memory of Amalek, we will not forget.
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might as well be a pile of kindles in a trench coat bc bezos/mgmt won’t give us a fair contract so I’m going on strike today with 750 of my Post colleagues!✊🏼 pls do not cross the picket line (visiting the Post site, using the app, buying a paper) today 🫡

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If you want to join future actions (for reassurance, there were no arrests, and yet we formed such a huge, solid picket that no workers got in and no lorries got out!) check out Workers for a Free Palestine on the bad place or linktree linktr.ee/workersfreep...

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Took a leave day today to shut down this factory and disrupt its supply of arms to Israel. It was an awesome, impenetrable picket, and an inspiring action that shows there are ways to materially intervene in the unfolding genocide in Gaza, from the UK. www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

Gaza protesters blockade aerospace firm in Dorset
Gaza protesters blockade aerospace firm in Dorset

The group says the company makes air-to-air refuelling systems used by the Israeli military.

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"Up to 1.8 million Gazans — around 80 percent of the population — have been forced to leave their homes since Israel began its bombardment in response to Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7. That number is expected to rise after Israel issued a new evacuation order on Saturday for areas in the south."

What the Scale of Displacement in Gaza Looks Like
What the Scale of Displacement in Gaza Looks Like

Eighty percent of Gazans are displaced from their homes as Israel orders more evacuations. See where thousands have been sheltering amid the war’s destruction.

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After the "pause" our politicians & commentariat insisted on instead of a ceasefire, the genocidal assault on Gaza has resumed and intensified. The Israeli military today says it is occupying "all areas of Gaza". UK trade unionists: take action this Thursday! Sign up now airtable.com/appzGVmn17yq...

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Ben Whitham
@drbenwhitham.bsky.social
I teach, research & write about world politics - especially the politics of (in)security, inequalities, intersectionality. Trade unionist. Martial artist. www.soas.ac.uk/about/ben-whitham www.bloomsbury.com/uk/global-politics-9781350328419
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