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Garden variety liberals claim to 1) oppose the Zionist ethnostate's actions in Gaza and 2) support the ethnostate's "right to exist." The ethnostate's existence is inseparable from its genocidal murderousness. History has shown it cannot exist without nonstop violence and tyranny. It was set up as a settler-colonialist outpost for western imperialism, and that's what it has always been. It's impossible to drop an artificial ethnostate on top of an already-existing population in which the pre-existing population is legally subordinate to the new one without tremendous amounts of warfare, police violence, mass displacement, apartheid, disenfranchisement, and oppression. This is a historical fact. Of course, it's possible to have a nation in which Jews are welcome and safe. Many such countries exist outside of the Zionist ethnostate, and the majority of Jews live in them. What isn't possible is placing a Jewish ethnostate in historic Palestine, in which the indigenous people are treated as less than Jews, that doesn't necessarily require nonstop violence, tyranny, and abuse. These goals directly contradict one another, but it's what liberals pretend to believe is a realistic possibility. There could be a state where Palestinians and Jews coexist peacefully, but it would be so wildly different from the Zionist ethnostate that you can't pretend they would be the same. It would require a radically dramatic overhaul of ethnostate civilization, a comprehensive dismantling of deeply ingrained racism, a drastic restructuring of governmental and living systems, so much labor, sacrifice, humility, inner work, and reparations, that it would make the current and alternative states entirely different from one another. But this isn't even what liberals want when they say they oppose the ethnostate's atrocities in Gaza but support the ethnostate's "right to exist." They want the killing to stop but are ok with the ethnostate remaining the unjust and tyrannical apartheid entity it has always been. They want the injustice to continue, but they want its most overt manifestations to stop causing them cognitive dissonance. They want the status quo without the murderous savagery that's needed to maintain it. They pretend to live in a fantasyland where they feel better than they would here in the real world. This isn't limited to Palestine; it underpins liberals' positions on everything. On every issue, their position is essentially, "maintain the status quo, but make it pretty and psychologically comfortable for me." They don't want to do what's right; they just want to feel like they're right. Their ideology is an imperialist, militarist, tyrannical, oligarchic one garnished with feel-good social justice slogans. A wolf in sheep's clothing. That's who liberals are. It's who they've always been. The issues and their arguments change, but their "maintain the status quo but let me feel nice about it" value system has always been this way.

The new volume ‘Teaching/Writing Resistance: Women’s Studies in Contemporary Times’ co-edited by Dr Panchali Ray brings together a diverse set of essays around gender and women’s studies as a formal discipline and raises important questions: What are its achievements, and equally, what are its historical blind spots and faultlines? Has women’s studies emerged as a critical space within the academy—as its pioneers envisioned—or does it remain limited by institutional bias and social inequality? The chapters explore a variety of themes: pedagogical practices; the relation between knowledge production and university structures; the role of social, regional, religious, and caste locations in the way women’s studies is perceived and transacted; and for the first time, the crucial relation between feminist scholarship and State and institutional power, both in India and internationally. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/gGYECMRW #FacultyInFocus #FacultyInNews #KreaInNews #KreaUniversity #Krea #SIAS #KreaFaculty #GenderStudies

Call for Panelists  African Philosophy Through the World-Sense of African Women The 9th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference Theme: Continuities and Discontinuities in African Studies Hybrid: Lagos and Zoom Date: June 17-21, 2025 Abstract Deadline: January 15, 2025 Panel Organisers: Dr. Lindokuhle Gama (Rhodes University/LAWP); Dr. Diana Ofana (University of Pretoria/LAWP); Dr. Nolwandle Lembethe (Rhodes University/LAWP) Introduction and Significance Through the perspective of African women philosophers, the theme of this panel focuses on a critical investigation and assessment of the status of African philosophy. African women's lived experiences have shown how important it is to change not just our communities but also the way we perceive the social structures that comprise them. To further challenge the epistemic marginalisation of African women, made most intelligible by a myriad of African feminist scholars (Eboh 2000; Bakare-Yusuf 2004; Mama 2006), there is the need to examine or interrogate topics like gender and sex, sexuality, and sexual diversity that have not been adequately mainstreamed in African philosophy. Continued, here: https://lnkd.in/gT_uzCrm

Congratulations to our colleagues Maja Gergorić University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, and Đurđica Degač Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb on the publication of their scientific paper in the international journal Religion, State and Society Taylor & Francis Group! This paper is based on ethnographic research conducted in 2021 on the "40 Days for Life" campaigns in Croatia. The research examines how anti-abortion protests in front of hospitals and clinics reintroduce religion into the public sphere. The authors analyze the public spaces chosen for protests, the religious symbols and artifacts used, and the performance of prayers to construct new meanings for public spaces. More about the paper can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dGqW4wXB #Sociology #Science #Religion #PublicSphere #CroatianSociologicalAssociation

🔵 Fishbowl Discussion: Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation This discussion explored the complexities surrounding conflict recovery and reconciliation, highlighting that reconciliation is a contested and often misunderstood term. Participants noted that its meaning varies across cultures and communities, with some seeking justice and truth rather than forgiveness. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, younger generations question the relevance of reconciliation, preferring terms like peacebuilding and dialogue. The discussion also addressed the rise in religious discrimination, including Islamophobia and antisemitism, and the political manipulation of survivor communities. Additionally, lessons from global crises, such as the COVID pandemic, were discussed in terms of preparedness and humanitarian interventions. The conversation underscored that reconciliation is not a one-size-fits-all solution, and in many cases, the pursuit of justice, truth, and empathy is more critical for long-term peace. Political and religious identities continue to shape conflicts across the globe, making it crucial to engage in open dialogue and to build understanding between communities. Participants emphasized the importance of integrating cultural, ethical, and humanitarian approaches in conflict resolution and post-conflict rebuilding efforts, with an eye on both local and global contexts. 👥 Participants: - Dr. Jim Waller, Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice, University of Connecticut (US) - Prof. Rachel Kerr, FRHistS, FHEA, Professor of War and Society in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London - Dr. Alfred Montoya, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Trinity University - Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Professor Manhattan University, New York - Richard S. A. Newell, Researcher at the University of Graz, Center for South East European Studies - Velma Saric, Founder and President of the The Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC) Moderated by Paul Lowe, Professor of Conflict, Peace and the Image at the University of the Arts London #SSC2024

#SummerReadings Early 2024 saw the publication of nine books by Geneva Graduate Institute faculty that span the Institute's areas of expertise and provide exceptional insight on the contemporary world: From an evaluation of the depoliticisation of the world, to a global ethnography of Afghanistan, a volume on youth sexuality in postward Britain, a consideration of the Kremlin vs the West. 👉https://lnkd.in/e7yi9N3c

Anna Chrysostomides Women fighting the enemies of Muḥammad and converting to Islam before their husbands: The Abbasid-era stories of Umm Faḍl and Umm Hakīm Monday Majlis Online on the 14th of October, 17:00-18:30 (UK time) Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter Register please on this link: https://lnkd.in/eGq7PFFH Bio: Anna Chrysostomides is a lecturer in Islamic History at Queen Mary, University of London. Her primary research interests cover the social dynamics of conversion between Christianity and Islam from the 8th through the 10th centuries CE as well as shared practices and beliefs between these two faiths. She is particularly interested in people who vacillated between Christianity and Islam, and social situations which would have engendered people identifying with both religions, such as inter-religious marriages, children of those unions, Christian mawālī of Muslims, and Christian slaves of Muslims. Recently her research has turned towards sexuality and gender in the late antique and medieval Middle East. https://lnkd.in/ewk3d8wG Abstract: Abbasid-era texts describing female conversion to Islam often reflect oral traditions which were shared in informal settings and were likely used in a didactic manner – mimicking awkward domestic situations as a result of conversion that Abbasid Muslim women may well have found themselves in. Texts which preserve narratives of prominent 7th-century women who converted to Islam before their husbands celebrate these strong female examples. Within these stories, there is a striking parallel between women converting to Islam before their husbands do and women who physically killed men (Byzantine or Quraysh) with tent poles. This paper explores the narratives of Umm Faḍl and Umm Hakīm, two companions of Muḥammad who wielded tent poles in defense of the innocent in their communities, or as part of the Arab conquest, respectively, in an attempt to understand the symbolism, or possibly even historical reality, behind this connection. In the spirit of the label ‘Majlis’ and also to make the talks even more interesting, our speakers present the topic discussed as embedded in their own journey. You can watch the previous Majlises here https://lnkd.in/ezWKbH2F, but we don’t record the Q&A in order to keep the discussion free. Please come and enjoy the talks and the discussions : ) If you’d like to be included in the CSI (Centre for the Study of Islam (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter) mailing list, please write to me (I.T.Kristo-Nagy@ex.ac.uk). We’ll be happy to welcome you! István https://lnkd.in/e2qXg5Ud

As the Zionist ethnostate unleashes its gen0cidal operation against over 1.5 million Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, after rejecting every proposal made by the Palestinian resistance to end the hostilities and exchange prisoners, it is well past time for Americans to come to terms with how vicious the US' involvement in this is and that it's led by warmongering liberals and Democrats instead of warmongering conservatives and Republicans. The US is employing a strategy of deception, including against its own citizens, to enable this gen0cide to continue undisrupted. Believe what you're seeing. The US is working to create a false narrative of occasional disagreements with the Zionist ethnostate to: - save face and - confuse and weaken public opinion by creating the false hope that the US would never allow gen0cide and that surely the US would put a stop to it. History shows that US wouldn't merely allow gen0cide, but would participate in committing gen0cide. What's happening in Gaza is no exception. As much as it pains you, no matter if you remain in purposeful denial to maintain all of the assumptions upon which your worldview is based, the US would commit gen0cide. It's presently doing so under the leadership of Democrats. It'll continue to do so when under the leadership of Republicans. The US has been in on every part of the Palestinian gen0cide. The US is assisting in the Zionist ethnostate's gen0cide of Palestinians in Gaza in every way possible. And it will not stop doing so until all Palestinians are dead or civil unrest brings the US to a standstill. These are the only two options. Everything else, including elections, is all part of a massive psychological operation to deceive. Americans want things to be different so badly. Americans are told the US is different and try desperately to hold on to believe otherwise. But the US empire is intentionally and strategically using Americans' humanity against them so the US can commit gen0cide before American eyes and with Americans' consent. Like it or not, those are the facts. Until Americans realize that and come to grips with it, nothing will be done to stop the US war machine from killing innocent people, including Palestinians in Gaza, and may soon include Americans in the US. That's how imperialism and fascism work. The US is no exception.

This is the deputy mayor of occupied Jerusalem calling for his ethnostate's military to exterminate Muslims in Gaza. Yet, when Northwestern University president Michael Schill, Rutgers University president Jonathan Holloway, and UCLA chancellor Gene Block testified at Thursday’s congressional clown show on imaginary campus antisemitism, they didn't have the words or backbones to acknowledge that the Zionist ethnostate is a gen-oh-cidal entity. American society doesn't have a crisis of - antisemitism, - far leftism, - radicalism, - Islamism, - extremism, - supporting terrorism, or - dissent influenced by foreign powers. American society has a crisis of - morality, - cruelty, - imperialism, - militarism, - propaganda, - insincerity, - stupidity, and - obedience. Empire managers and imperial propagandists pretend there’s an emergency in the US involving hatred of Jews, love for Hamas, and other nonsense. This is because the US empire itself is in crisis. More Americans are seeing its propaganda and rejecting its narrative manipulation. This is why more Americans are opposing and not just accepting the US-backed destruction of Gaza. Because of this, imperial narrative managers are desperately trying to spin protests against gen-oh-cide so they seem like problems that must be solved. But civil disobedience isn't the problem; the problem is civil obedience. The problem isn't that more and more Americans are opposing the Zionist ethnostate's US-backed atrocities in Gaza with more and more disruption; the problem is that Americans aren't opposing it disruptively enough. The problem is that too many Americans - follow the herd and believe the mainstream worldview, - ignore the most urgent matter in the world, instead focused on trivialities like why Messi isn't playing in Vancouver and what went down with Nicki Minaj's arrest in Amsterdam, and - trust that their rulers are doing what’s best for all while those same rulers provide the Zionist ethnostate with bombs that are dropped on a giant concentration camp full of children. The problem isn’t that Americans are becoming too disobedient, but that they're still too obedient. The problem isn’t that Americans are becoming too radicalized against their government, but that they aren’t radicalized enough. The problem is that - the maniacs who rule Americans aren't sufficiently afraid of Americans, and - Americans have not come to the collective realization that there are a lot more of them than there are of their rulers. Americans don’t have to tolerate their rulers brazenly doing crazy and evil things. But Americans do, distracted by nonstop diversions on screens while US-supplied military explosives are used to slaughter thousands of children because they happen to belong to a less desirable ethnic group. That's the real crisis in American society: that too many Americans are still blindly obedient to a murderous and tyrannical empire. But there'll be no congressional hearing on it