New blog from Maria Balarin and me on the need for a greater focus on justice in education...

I support Palestine Action.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.

As always, @rachelshabi.bsky.social is so good.

This pointing the finger of antisemitism at every criticism of Israel is so damaging because there are people who should be allies who now will not hear it when we call out REAL antisemitism- to them it’s all a smear.

& meanwhile Gazans are murdered.

A girl’s future shouldn’t depend on a budget line.
The UK’s legacy on #GirlsEducation is at risk.
Our Director Professor #PaulineRose, #MalalaYousafzai #RichardCurtis #AnnieLennox #MyleneKlass #KevinWatkins & others are calling on the PM to act.
Read & share: bit.ly/4lgaYOP
#GirlsDeserveEducation

Speak up for Palestine 🇵🇸 🍉

Ways you can speak up...

I knew some of the paramedics killed in Gaza. As humanitarian workers, we are drowning in grief | Amy Neilson I write to bear witness to the incredible nature of these men – to their kindness, their gentleness and their goodness

www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Big congratulations on your 1st solo authored paper! This looks very important reading particularly for EdD students @depteducationbath.bsky.social

100 years ago today, Tony Benn was born.

This is from 2009 when he defied the BBC’s ban on a humanitarian appeal for Palestine.

For 77 years, Israel has killed & displaced Palestinians & the BBC continues to dehumanise them. Benn saw this injustice clearly & stood against it 🇵🇸

Trump and Musk have ushered in a terrible era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it | Julia Steinberger The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop this, says Julia Steinberger of the University of Lausanne

"The climate and ecological implications of this shift are as disastrous as they are deliberate. We need an appropriate name for this new era of fossil and tech bros accelerating attacks on democracy and the planet: cataclysm capitalism."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

even as telling kills
#KeepTellingofGaza

Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat was killed by Israel today. This was his last post, for the shame of a world that allows Israel to do this.

1/We analysed GP Patient Survey data from>750K people in England:
Around 1 in 20 people had #LongCovid & nearly 1 in 10 were not sure if they have it.
We did adjusted analysis by social & demographic attributes to find out who's more likely to have LC or is uncertain about it.
Here's what we found🧵

This Moment Or, Why I Cannot Mourn Gaza

I wrote this two months: why I cannot mourn Gaza.

Because we all knew Israel was note done with the genocide.

www.hauntologies.net/p/this-moment

Exploring Long Covid Prevalence and Patient Uncertainty by Sociodemographic Characteristics Using GP Patient Survey Data Background The high global burden of Long Covid (LC) has significant implications for population well-being, health care, social care and national economies. Aim To explore associations between pa...

Our paper is here:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Interesting question from my MA teaching today:
Is the 'transformative' in 'gender transformative education' the same as the 'transformative' in 'transformative climate/environmental education'?
Thoughts?
#education

Every time the world attention is turned towards Trump's antics, or any other distraction, Israel uses the opportunity to ratchet up the genocide of Gaza and ethnic cleansing of West Bank.

PS I know "ethnic cleansing" started out as a euphemism, but is now understood as full crime against humanity.

An admirable and principled decision from someone who has long been a credit to the Labour Party. Defence spending must go up, but this is the wrong way to do it, and Anneliese is absolutely right to say so.

📢Our Call for Abstracts is now open!📢
Deadline 21 March.
Lots of different presentation types & themes.
Download the Abstract Writing Pack & sign up to join one of our Abstract Writing Drop-in Sessions 4, 5 or 6 March:
www.ukfiet.org/conference/u...

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

UKFIET Conference 2025 More information coming soon…

Details of the 2025 @ukfiet.bsky.social conference are out with some brilliant sounding sub-themes and great people on the committee. Take a look #educationalresearch and #comparativeeducation folk:

www.ukfiet.org/conference/u...

I think my brain and heart attack the moment needs 'so far fun and subtly getting into complicated places' so I'll check out the Arafat novel. Thanks for the recommendation 😊

I'm also (very slowly) reading the Khalidi book. Alongside listening to 'the great derangement' (the analysis and prose stops you in your tracks) and desperately trying to finish kare Atkinson 'emotionally weird' for the fiction book club I'm in (just can't get into it despite loving others by her).

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

‘Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents. There will be no buildings' - Israeli defence official, Oct 23
'Bring down buildings! Bomb without distinction... Flatten Gaza' - Knesset member (Likud), Oct 23
Israel did exactly what it said it would do, with full support from western allies

‘Hope Is Something That You Create’: Greta Talks Gaza, Trump, and LA Fires World-renowned activist Greta Thunberg joined Zeteo’s Town Hall to offer inspiration and draw connections between some of the world’s most pressing issues.

"Some people who have a very racist view of the world will not understand even the basic logic that if you care about human well-being you should care about all humans' well-being."

Greta Thunberg, to me, on why she speaks out on Gaza, & not just the climate crisis.

#UNICEF is concerned about the number of children killed in #Gaza. More than 120 children have been killed in Gaza in the last two weeks. Nowhere does UNICEF mention WHO is killing the children in Gaza. It's Israel. Israel is killing the children of Gaza. 😔 #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide

All eyes on Gaza. The ceasefire agreement doesn’t begin for 72 hours and Israel is on a killing spree.