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Clive Gabay
@clivesg.bsky.social
Writes stuff: Jewishness, Zionism, Race, Pol/Soc Theory, SWANA Jews. Teach at QMUL: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/gabayclive.html Drum. Sometimes some bass too. Is this the chill-out room?
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Probably making the full-time move over here, so hi everyone! Currently trying to get my book published, which is about Jewish grammars of anti-colonial world making. More details soon!
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Abd el-Fattah's historic tweets are leading to calls for his UK citizenship to be revoked, and a UK Government review of his case, while Nigel Farage's history of racism and Nazi goose-stepping has led to a few Guardian front pages.
December 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Abd el-Fattah's historic tweets are leading to calls for his UK citizenship to be revoked, and a UK Government review of his case, while Nigel Farage's history of racism and Nazi goose-stepping has led to a few Guardian front pages.
December 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
When Zionists engage in whataboutery about double standards and other violent genocides, you can just gently remind them that actually eradicating the Israeli settler colonial project will go some way to addressing other genocides too.
December 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The Voice of Hind Rajab is a film using the actual audio of the little girl’s desperate call for help before Israel murdered her and the paramedics who tried to save her: youtu.be/JkeKrG0YONQ?...
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB | Official Trailer | In Theaters December 17
YouTube video by WILLA
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December 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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The main victims of ISIS and ISIS-affiliated violence have been Muslim, and there is no planet on which Palestinians (including Hamas) and ISIS would have common cause. The conflation of the Bondi shooters with Palestine is thus at best a moral panic, although more evidently a cynical smear attack.
December 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The main victims of ISIS and ISIS-affiliated violence have been Muslim, and there is no planet on which Palestinians (including Hamas) and ISIS would have common cause. The conflation of the Bondi shooters with Palestine is thus at best a moral panic, although more evidently a cynical smear attack.
December 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two.

Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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UK govt joins a list of authoritarian regimes that have sought to divest desperate people of their personal belongings before kicking them out of their countries, most notably the Nazis. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
UK govt joins a list of authoritarian regimes that have sought to divest desperate people of their personal belongings before kicking them out of their countries, most notably the Nazis. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
In today's news from the upside down, students who protest against genocide get doxxed, harassed, kicked out of programmes, dorms and universities, while the people who carried out the genocide get given platforms to talk about their so-called harrowing experiences and some "light refreshments".
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Anyone else getting followed by these weird bot (I think?) accounts that are all posting the same Barack Obama skeet?
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Sir Walter Layton, Economist editor in the 1930s, was respondent to JM Keynes's 1937 Galton Lecture, where in response to Keynes's reflections on "population stability" Layton argued “Scientific questions will have to be considered, such as preventing the propagation of the unfit.” Plus ca change.
The Economist Says We Need to Invent Phrenology Again.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Just another day when another cancelled person gets a six-part BBC podcast to talk about how they were cancelled.
The BBC and The Times have decided to resurrect the victimhood of Clanchy. But the facts are the facts: Clanchy wrote her racist, Islamophobic, ableist, and Anti-LGBT thoughts for all to see, and when challenged attempted to deny it. (See full 🧵).
bsky.app/profile/snig...
I see the 2021 scandal around Kate Clanchy's book "Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me" is back in the news as Clanchy receives an apology from the publisher of that book. Here's a reminder of the racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBT comments, and fat shaming from the book.
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
On December 1st 6-8pm the research centre I co-direct will be hosting @rafeefz.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh and Robert Knox for the launch of their brilliant new book, Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-....
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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And now, a physical metaphor for "LLMs can be just as good as human writers and artists!"

(And I know, I shared it twice. But it's just that nice!)
just....enjoy this
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Watch his victory speech for how it gives zero time to the nonsense binary of "idpol" vs "class politics". The stars of that speech are the *multi-ethnic* working class. It's a speech grounded in the rich complexity of material reality, not two dimensional caricatures and facile abstractions.
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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And note that he never rejected what some sneeringly refer to as "idpol". Never came close to throwing minorities under the bus. On the contrary. The affordability agenda came hand in hand with him actively standing up for those principles. He could never have mobilised his base like this otherwise.
Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!

His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.

It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I was today years old when I found out this was a real sentence in a real book: "I felt the need to explain the lightness of my skin tone, as it often acts as a barrier to people understanding that, despite my appearance, I am indigenous to the Land of Israel"
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue
Satellite images show most el-Fasher civilians likely still trapped
Latest images suggest that majority of 260,000 civilians still in captured city, as mass RSF killings continue
www.middleeasteye.net
November 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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"The New York Times is an accomplice to the genocide in Gaza... Times editors have told reporters to avoid 'inflammatory terms' like 'genocide,' 'ethnic cleansing,' and 'occupied territory' — and even to avoid saying 'Palestine.'" Read the @wawog.bsky.social dossier here
newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier
Exposing The New York Times: The Paper of Zionist Record
High-ranking Times editors and reporters have material and ideological ties to Israel’s occupation and apartheid. Their journalistic malpractice enables genocide in Gaza.
newyorkwarcrimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Goodwin finally delivering some good news.
'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
And as anyone with any sense would know, Maccabi fans were banned because numbers of them are violent islamophobic thugs, not because they're Jews.
October 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The contradictions and knot-tying would be funny if it wasn't all in defence of genocidal maniacs. Maccabi Tel Aviv laughably proclaim their "multi-faith" fanbase/team, while Lisa Nandy says that the decision to bar their fans “chooses exclusion” of Jewish people

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
UK government ‘deeply saddened’ as Maccabi Tel Aviv decline any Aston Villa tickets
The Israeli side’s fans have been blocked from attending, with the club saying in a statement: ‘The wellbeing and safety of our fans is paramount’
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Incredibly, Keir Starmer is even going after the West Midlands police for their decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans after last year's violence

The distances this Labour government is willing to go to shield Israelis from any consequences is astonishing

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
No 10 says talks happening ‘at pace’ across government to lift ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending Aston Villa match – live
Fans of Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv banned from match at Aston Villa next month
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM