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Latest haul from Chapters. Looking forward to diving in.
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
The Irish government will prevaricate about this until after the big shindig in the White House, debasing our country and degrading international law so they can "fumble in a greasy till" in Washington. Sickening stuff.
This is a really interesting thread that's worth a read.
I am sure the gay Arab in occupied Palestine, occupied Lebanon and occupied Syria love their Jewish military dictatorship so much
Israel does invention of traditions on the hoof
Some good news, and God knows we need some- I'm delighted that, after a long visa process, Dr Brian Ngwenya will be joining the COLVET project. Brian is a brilliant historian of British colonial rule and postcolonial state-building in his native Zimbabwe. universe.unibas.ch/projects-col...
Genuinely don't understand how some people with no research background or specific expertise on Iran write an article on Iran and get it published in a newspaper of record... Better to read those who have worked on Iran for years and write with real insight.
In which a Wall Street Journal op-ed explicitly compares Erdogan to the Ayatollah after the fall of Saddam Hussein and implicitly makes the case for an eventual war of aggression against Turkey by the US and Israel.
Corey Lewandowski to begin affair with Markwayne Mullin
I wonder what the United States would have to do for the Irish government to refuse to go to Washington DC for the Siant Patrick's Day shindig. So far we know facilitating genocide and starting an illegal war of aggression are not enough for them to turn down the chance to hobnob in the White House
Government politicians in Ireland have no compunction about rightly calling out Russia's many war crimes in Ukraine or denouncing the illegality of its imperialist invasion of that country. When it comes to the US however, they claim it is only posterity that can judge their crimes of aggression.
A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime
The best thing I've read on Iran of late. Nuanced, insightful and beautifully written.
"Wars of choice rarely confine themselves to their intended targets. They consume not only the combatants but the assumptions that animate them."
The idea that it's antisemitic to say that Israel practices apartheid really is just ludicrous and even if you possess a pro-Israel perspective it is going to backfire. There is, demonstrably and factually, a two-tiered racial system in the land that Israel controls. You can't rebut it with words.
This is inconceivable for the Irish government and their outriders... International law is not conditional on self-interest. It is also the case, as Alanna O'Malley argues in today's Irish Times, that multinationals won't leave behind their tax breaks because we defend international law.
It's Brigid Laffan who is the Chancellor, not Alan Shatter.
Nothing to see here just the Chancellor of the University of Limerick retweeting a post suggesting that those of us who campaigned for Catherine Connolly would have preferred Ayatollah Khomeini (though I think Shatter actually means Khameini) as a candidate... Outrageous stuff.
Great piece from Alanna O'Malley here. Now is the time to stand up for international law.
It's the former far more than the latter I would say, married with an increasingly Atlantacist view of foreign policy and a general aversion to sticking their head above the parapet.
And they have a much longer genealogy in the "small wars" and "policing actions" of empire. Some eerie similarities between these attacks and the British "aerial policing" of Iraq in the 1920s.
Sánchez speaking with moral clarity and courage. Even Macron and Mark Carney have now acknowledge the attacks were in breach of international law. Crickets from the Irish government for whom, it seems, the rhetorical commitment to the rules based order doesn't apply to the United States. Shameful.
How do you live with yourself telling prospective students from Sudan, where the UN sees the 'hallmarks of genocide', that they can't study here because they're from Sudan?
Micheál Martin is talking out of both sides of his mouth, refusing to specifically condemn the attacks on Iran as a breach of international law, while also affirming "Ireland is in favour of a multilateral, rules-based international order and has consistently advocated for same,”.
Even Macron has now said that the attacks on Iran were "conducted outside the bounds of international law". And still, the Irish government cannot bring itself to acknowledge this reality. Cowards who are morally compromised by their subservience to the US. Shameful.
Ali Shariati enters the conversation.
Sorry to be missing it. I had hoped to join but too much travel these days. I know you've a great programme in store and undoubtedly a great welcome from Raphaël and the team. Enjoy.
"Liberating women" by bombing a girls' school and a maternity hospital. Iranian women deserved better than both the Islamic Republic's tyranny and this war of aggression.
This gives History Reclaimed a new meaning. But seriously, this is ghastly...
Our doctoral researchers Ben Casey and Brian Farrell did a great job organising the event, supported by other researchers in the department and by the society's dedicated committee of volunteers. Special shout out to @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social who has given so much to the IHSA over the years.