Hilde Stephansen
hildestephansen.bsky.social
Hilde Stephansen
@hildestephansen.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Westminster.
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The Rafah crossing is expected to re-open.

Alongside the desperately needed aid, journalists must be allowed into Gaza.

Over 200 journalists have been killed in Gaza - but the crimes of the Israeli government and military must not go undocumented.

Let the journalists in.
October 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”

Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT
October 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Many thanks to my brilliant supervision team @hildestephansen.bsky.social @adameldridge.bsky.social and Paulina Tambakaki and examiners @benpitcher.bsky.social and @gypjh2000.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to @csjresearch.bsky.social doctoral researcher Ed Hadfield @ed1900and86.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Place and publics: the role of social media in resistance to gentrification in London” today!
September 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Huge congratulations to @csjresearch.bsky.social doctoral researcher Ed Hadfield @ed1900and86.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Place and publics: the role of social media in resistance to gentrification in London” today!
September 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Today, I've closed my Barclays account with hundres of others in protest at the bank's complicity in Israel's genocide against Palestinians. Join the campaign to #BoycottBarclays: palestinecampaign.org/boycott-barc...
palestinecampaign.org
July 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Now is the time for lawful sanctions.

When thousands of our babies are looking death in the eye because the Israeli occupation is denying all goods from entering Gaza, including baby formula and essential medical supplies, NEVER AGAIN IS NOW!

#SanctionIsrael
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Never Again Is RIGHT NOW – The World Must Act
The livestreamed genocidal horror of rolling massacres and induced starvation inflicted by apartheid Israel on millions of Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip has reached a breaking poin...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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UCU Westminster notes with dismay that two senior professors from the University of Westminster delivered keynote addresses to a conference at Tel Aviv University last November.

Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/
or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG
February 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...
Ofcom, stop GB News broadcasting hate
*CW: Homophobia, hate speech GB News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies. They take pride in it, and pretend the rules don’t matter. But they do. And they must be enforced. On 22 January,...
action.goodlawproject.org
February 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM