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Jasmine K Gani
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Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE.
History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA
Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine

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"Race Reports: How universities 'reckon' with their imperial past, and how their investment portfolios say otherwise." www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Excellent - by @rahulraothariel.bsky.social
Extract from the linked article "Race Reports": "What does it mean for the university to acknowledge the 'displacement of indigenous people' in the nineteenth century as a generative driver of its wealth at the same time as it exhibits a studied indifference or, worse, active hostility to those campaigning against the decimation of the indigenous people of Palestine in the genocide that has been ongoing since October 2023? Within weeks of the onset of the genocide an early facade of institutional neutrality, itself premised on a morally objectionable equation of the violence of the colonised and the coloniser, gave way to outright condemnation of Palestine solidarity"
October 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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UN commission: “Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, have incited the commission of genocide.”

5 days ago: Keir Starmer welcoming Isaac Herzog into 10 Downing St
Photo of Keir Starmer welcoming Isaac Herzog into 10 Downing Street
September 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Honoured to be giving the keynote speech tomorrow (25 Apr) at the inaugural Decolonial Methodologies conference at St Andrews. I'll be speaking about our intellectual and ethical responsibilities as scholars under the shadow of fascism and genocide
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Decolonial Methodologies workshop University of St Andrews 25 April. Keynote Speech: Jasmine Gani (LSE)
April 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Abstract:
This paper explores racial militarism as a framework to think about the under-theorised nexus between race and militarism. Constituted by race, I argue militarism in Europe has historically performed three functions: racial chauvinism abroad; societal exclusion at home; and delegitimation of dissent or resistance in order to carry out violence. I apply this framework to the British Mandate in Palestine between 1920 to 1948 to excavate the connections between colonial violence conducted by British forces and the above functions of racial militarism. I then briefly consider how this formed a colonial inheritance for the early Zionist movement in Palestine, with an enduring legacy of militarism in Israel today. (Abstract of paper)
January 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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In light of the AHA's unconscionable veto of the members' vote, it's worth reading this excellent & prescient article by Hajir & Qato on how scholasticide operates (precisely via such institutional silences & silencing):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Article title: Academia in a time of genocide: scholasticidal tendencies and continuities by Basma Hajir & Mezna Qato ABSTRACT This essay takes up Edward Said’s insistence on truth, justice, and tracing continuities of colonial violence to reflect on the university in a time of genocide. We set the stage with an outline of the university complicities; conditions continuous with, and connected to, the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We establish the legal resonance of ‘scholasticide’ and use the term as an explanatory tool to unpack four key ‘scholasticidal tendencies’ that extend to the USA, UK, and European academies: silence, the suppression of solidarity, ‘complex’ or ‘nuanced’ arguments, and the threat posed by certain theories. We critique these tendencies and highlight their deflections, obfuscations, contradictions, and moral failings. We gesture to possibilities beyond them and towards justice as an answer to the ‘question of Palestine’.
January 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Thoughtful essay by @esmat.bsky.social & Maya Wind in South Atlantic Quarterly - speaks to the question of what the student protests over Gaza achieved. A reminder that how we define success/failure depends on the timeframe we adopt, and what we see as markers of change.
"Student organizers across encampments have effectively rejected the framing that questions of justice at the university can be limited to the com- position of rights and distribution of resources within and among commu- nity members inhabiting the campus, and they have insisted that it must also address how the university shapes the lives of communities outside its walls. They refuse to inherit a university that so narrowly defines the cate- gory of the human. They dare to use their years in higher education not merely to understand the world but also to prepare to transform it." Extract from article by Elhalaby and Wind "Palestinian Liberation and Zionist Ideology at the Western University" South Atlantic quarterly https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article/doi/10.1215/00382876-11623532/393162/Palestinian-Liberation-and-Zionist-Ideology-at-the
December 16, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Relevant to some of the orientalist discourse reacting to the fall of Assad 👇

"From discourse to practice: Orientalism, western policy and the Arab uprisings": academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...
Abstract of my article in International Affairs "From discourse to practice: Orientalism, western policy and the Arab uprisings"
December 9, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Our book on Syria (2022) 👇 for those interested in the background of recent events. Most importantly it contains multiple chapters by Syrian scholars & chapters on the oft-neglected human impact of the conflict. TOC:
www.routledge.com/Actors-and-D...
Book on Syria by Gani & Hinnebusch "Actors & Dynamics in the Syrian conflict". Image of a boy on a bicycle in front of a building destroyed by the war.
December 2, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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Today (online): 2024 BRISMES Annual Lecture "Witness to Genocide - In Conversation with Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah"

Friday 29 November, 18:00-19:30 GMT. Event free & open to all, but registration required: brismes.ac.uk/events/annua... @nicolapratt.bsky.social
Brismes Annual Lecture with Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah 18.00 - 19.30 GMT. Click on link to register.
November 29, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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Week of events against scholasticide in Gaza, until Friday 29 Nov, LSE.
Week of events against scholasticide - activities until Friday 29 Nov held at LSE and London universities
November 26, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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"Apartheid 101" - Panel this Thursday 21st March in St Andrews, as part of anti-Apartheid week.
All students and staff welcome.
March 19, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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Our second Teach-in on Gaza, next Tuesday @ St Andrews 👇
Teach-in on Gaza Tuesday 23 January 2024 in Sr Andrews
January 16, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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This Wednesday, St Andrews - Readings of the Gaza Monologues, first-hand testimonies of Palestinian children in Gaza 👇
November 27, 2023 at 9:40 PM
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Join us for the next Webinar organised by Centre for Syria Studies webinar & St Andrews School of IR:

- GAZA & SYRIA: Connected Histories

30 Nov. Registration details below 👇
November 22, 2023 at 4:18 PM
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Teach-in on Gaza @ St Andrews, 14 November 👇
November 9, 2023 at 4:08 PM
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Webinar next week, Thurs 2nd November: "The Media in Syria - Broadcasting in Authoritarian States"

@ Centre for Syrian Studies & St Andrews School of IR

Speakers Nour Al-Halabi, Omar Al-Ghazzi, Lina Al-Hafez. Reg details on poster 👇 Polisky Menasky
Poster for Syria Studies event: The Media in Syria - Broadcasting in Authoritarian States. Webinar 2nd November, register @ irevents@st-andrews.ac.uk
October 27, 2023 at 1:09 PM
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Join us next week for this ISA panel on State Violence.

I'll be discussing racial militarism & state violence as features of the (post)colonial state.

Register here: isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

w/@tsolomon.bsky.social, Alexandria Innes, Leonie Fleischmann, Sasikumar Sandaram #Polisky
ISA Online Panel on State Violence on 19th October - 1PM BST, 8AM ET.
October 10, 2023 at 9:43 AM
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Webinar this Thursday 5 Oct on 'Feminism in Contemporary Syria' (org by Centre for Syrian Studies & St. Andrews School of International Relations) - Registration details on poster below 👇

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Feminism in Contemporary Syria webinar this Thursday 5th Oc 4-5.30pm. Speakers Ola Rifai, Birgit Poopuu, Omar Imady, Roua Al Taweel, Lina Al Hafez, and Rahaf Al-Doughli. Register at irevents@st-andrews.ac.uk
October 2, 2023 at 10:19 AM