I published an article in Mondoweiss arguing against ‘Jewish safety’ as rhetorical support for genocide, building on arguments I make in Chapter Five of The New Racial Regime. Claims that “antisemitism” is being weaponized to support Israel miss that its function has always been to bolster European supremacy. Today, the…
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The New Racial Regime is published today by Pluto Press. I am honoured that Elizabeth P. Robinson agreed to write the foreword. Here’s a part of what she had to say. It gives a sense of the scope of the racial regime as they work to recalibrate in the face…
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I was asked to speak at an important event organised by the Italian University workers for Palestine Network to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2025, Proteggere la Memoria: la Shoah, Gaza e la storia (Protect Memory: the Shoah, Gaza and History). 27 January has been the annual International Day of…
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On the deliberate ambiguity of defining race in service of the racial state. The Lebanese-Australian journalist and founder of Media Diversity Australia, Antoinette Lattouf appeared in court on February 3 2025 on the first day of hearings in her unfair dismissal case against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In sum, to cite The Guardian, Lattouf lost her job…
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Marx refused to accept the terms… because he understood them to be distortions… very clearly related to distortions, to the oppression of a people Cedric Robinson Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are respectfully warned that this post contains the name of a person who has died. The lead-up to Invasion…
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A 3-part interview I did with Radio Blue Mountains Rights, Rorts and Rants show in May 2024.
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A seminar held at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University on 11 November 2024 with Ronit Lentin, Amani Haydar and myself, and chaired by Juan Francisco Salazar. How do academics and cultural workers draw attention to the collusion by their institutions without falling into the trap…
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This week Politics, Power and resistance is joined by Dr Ryan Al-Natour. Dr Al-Natour is a Palestinian-Australian scholar who is a lecturer in the School of Education at Charles Sturt University. Ryan has qualifications in Auslan (Australian Sign Language) and is very active as an interpreter (in training) for the…
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It has been a slow start to the semester as I have been down with Covid. Workplaces are noxious when it comes to the spread of the virus which I caught a particularity nasty bout of at a meeting held in an airless and overcrowded room. The mantra of personal…
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Since the start of the genocide in Palestine, a group of staff and students have been organising for Palestine at Western Sydney University. You can find a link to our activities, including the open letter signed by over 430 staff and students here.
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I helped co-edit a blog series over at the Identities blog on Gaza, Solidarity and the Right to Protest. The series brings together five posts by Ronit Lentin, Clive Gabay and Rachel Solnick, Waqas Tufail and Sherene Fernandez, Tom Six and Anna-Esther Younes. You can access each of these fantastic…
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