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19/03 Housmans London: tinyurl.com/tta5dmur
21/03 SOAS London: tinyurl.com/y7bkzy36
24/03 Topping St Andrews: tinyurl.com/48szxjxf
28/03 Tigre de Papel Lisbon: tinyurl.com/mrx3kpuu
03/04 Lighthouse Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/mrxbsnaj
24/06 Rhodes House Oxford: tinyurl.com/ycx93naj

9/n finally spare us the virtue signalling via reminders that 'ISA is no longer engaged on Elon Musk's X because its values contradict ours'. when it comes to institutional indifference to mass killing, i'm finding it hard to see the contradiction. /fin

8/n so yes, the motion to discuss failed because it didn't reach the 2/3 threshold (hi Robert!?), but when you have votes this close (23-23 and then 23-25), the issue is far from 'settled'. what is @isanet.bsky.social going to do to recognise the strength of feeling on this issue?

6/n if BDS motions are precluded by antiboycott laws in US states, this is another illustration of how the leading IR professional association in the world is hamstrung from becoming truly international by its location (see also ISA's terrifying, if well-intentioned, msg about how to deal with ICE)

1/n it takes some ideological gymnastics to invoke the spirit of ACT UP and radical anarchist organisations while throwing Robert's Rules of Order in our faces. what does this do? insinuates 'disruptive actions' while providing little evidence of this. but worse ...