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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Clive Gabay
@clivesg.bsky.social
· Nov 13
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!
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
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".
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
Anyone else getting followed by these weird bot (I think?) accounts that are all posting the same Barack Obama skeet?
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
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.
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 🧵).
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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
Just another day when another cancelled person gets a six-part BBC podcast to talk about how they were cancelled.
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
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-....
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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!)
(And I know, I shared it twice. But it's just that nice!)
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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!)
(And I know, I shared it twice. But it's just that nice!)
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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
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.
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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.
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
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.
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
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"
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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
Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue
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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
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.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"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
newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier
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
Goodwin finally delivering some good news.
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
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.
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...
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
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...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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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
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.
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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
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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
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
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The distances this Labour government is willing to go to shield Israelis from any consequences is astonishing
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.
October 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.
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This is why the "Jews aren't white" discourse is so batshit. Whiteness is possibly the most socially constructed of the racial categories, given how many groups move in and out of it over time. It doesn't matter what Jews look like, if Jews are group-racialised based on their ascribed Jewishness.🧵
October 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is why the "Jews aren't white" discourse is so batshit. Whiteness is possibly the most socially constructed of the racial categories, given how many groups move in and out of it over time. It doesn't matter what Jews look like, if Jews are group-racialised based on their ascribed Jewishness.🧵
This is why the "Jews aren't white" discourse is so batshit. Whiteness is possibly the most socially constructed of the racial categories, given how many groups move in and out of it over time. It doesn't matter what Jews look like, if Jews are group-racialised based on their ascribed Jewishness.🧵
October 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is why the "Jews aren't white" discourse is so batshit. Whiteness is possibly the most socially constructed of the racial categories, given how many groups move in and out of it over time. It doesn't matter what Jews look like, if Jews are group-racialised based on their ascribed Jewishness.🧵
"Siege starvation is a military tactic that selectively targets civilians, beginning with the frail, sick, and poor...scholars of mass starvation have long found that wherever famine unfolds, it threatens not just individual lives but also a society’s way of life" jewishcurrents.org/famines-long...
Famine's Long Shadow
Even if food is surged into Gaza today, the history of weaponized mass starvation shows that the social aftershocks will reverberate for generations.
jewishcurrents.org
October 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Siege starvation is a military tactic that selectively targets civilians, beginning with the frail, sick, and poor...scholars of mass starvation have long found that wherever famine unfolds, it threatens not just individual lives but also a society’s way of life" jewishcurrents.org/famines-long...
The selective and racialised empathy which sees stories like this prompt zero national outrage, compared to the events in Manchester last week.
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Suspected arson attack at East Sussex mosque investigated as hate crime
Fire at mosque in Peacehaven on Saturday night left front entrance damaged and a car burnt out
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The selective and racialised empathy which sees stories like this prompt zero national outrage, compared to the events in Manchester last week.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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A force once infamous for collaborating with loyalist terrorists in the north of Ireland, today out on the streets of London arresting sign holders for "terrorism"
BREAKING: Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) arrest protestors in Trafalgar Square, London, for holding signs which say they oppose genocide and support Palestine Action.
October 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A force once infamous for collaborating with loyalist terrorists in the north of Ireland, today out on the streets of London arresting sign holders for "terrorism"
Read the interview in this piece with Hamas’s head of international and legal relations Mousa Abu Marzouq, and tell me again that Hamas is an irrational, nihilistic terror organisation with which no negotiation is possible.
Hamas just accepted Donald Trump’s “peace” plan. Here’s what Hamas didn't accept, how Trump reacted, and why Netanyahu was blindsided.
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#Palestine #Israel
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#Palestine #Israel
Hamas just accepted Trump’s ‘peace’ plan. Here’s what it didn’t accept.
Hamas just accepted Donald Trump’s “peace” plan. Here’s what Hamas didn’t accept, how Trump reacted, and why Netanyahu was blindsided.
mondoweiss.net
October 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Read the interview in this piece with Hamas’s head of international and legal relations Mousa Abu Marzouq, and tell me again that Hamas is an irrational, nihilistic terror organisation with which no negotiation is possible.
The people heckling David Lammy in Manchester today to "go back to Palestine" are not some kind of 'gotcha'. Lammy wouldn't have been able to speak without the community's consent. It's also highly likely that the event was crashed by EDL-adjacent Zionists.
October 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The people heckling David Lammy in Manchester today to "go back to Palestine" are not some kind of 'gotcha'. Lammy wouldn't have been able to speak without the community's consent. It's also highly likely that the event was crashed by EDL-adjacent Zionists.