Gabriel Garroum Pla
@GabrielGarroum
Lecturer in IR @UPFBarcelona. Fellow @ProjectSEPAD. Pendent dels fogons del Xix Kebab de Barcelona.
So glad to see my first book published! @ManchesterUP ‘Perhaps we must insist on the need to think transnationally about the experience of urbicide in the Middle East, to keep thinking about the global through the specific, and to problematise how colonial relations circulate’.
"They are not Fidel Castro. Much more Machiavelli." Seven months in the works, our Reuters investigation into how Syria's new rulers are secretly remaking the Assad-era economy via takeovers and deals with tycoons. W/ the brilliant @FerasDalatey reuters.com/investigations…
Catalan Parliament passes resolution recognizing Zionist ideology for what it is: racism. There is no room on the planet for any supremacist ideologies and our duty to supplant them w ideologies predicated on the equality and dignity of all peoples. #ZionismIsRacism
The @parlamentcat APPROVES A GROUNDBREAKING RESOLUTION ON 🇵🇸 It passed thanks to @cupnacional @SomComun @Esquerra_ERC and @socialistes_cat It is a minimal measure in light of the extreme gravity of the situation in Palestine, but it represents a step toward ending complicity
While starving Gaza and its 80% refugee population, Israel is expanding its war on Palestinian refugees—and on their very ‘refugee-ness’—in the West Bank. Our updated analysis shows that the Israeli military is continuing to carve up the refugee camps of Tulkarm, Jenin and Nur…
‘Israel must deliver on its pledges’ - no, the EU must break with Israel
Civilians cannot be targets. Never. The images from Gaza are unbearable. The EU reiterates its call for the free, safe and swift flow of humanitarian aid. And for the full respect of international and humanitarian law. Civilians in Gaza have suffered too much, for too long.…
I write this with deep sorrow after the tragic events unfolding in #Syria. We’ve entered the familiar cycle where “Syria experts” suddenly find themselves called on to speak about sectarian tensions — as if this is new. Since 2011, academic and policy circles have flooded the…
📕¡Novedad editorial! "Urbicide in Syria. A postcolonial understanding of civil war" escrito por @GabrielGarroum y editado por @ManchesterUP 👁️👇manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180261/
Centenari del naixement de Frantz Fanon, un dels intel•lectuals anticolonials més brillants de la hª. 🧵amb 📚 en pdf:
Not any female protestor. The wonderful Zena Shahla, a former detainee and one of our strongest voices against Assad and member of the official committee on missing people. And if she wasn’t any of those things, one of the kindest people in the world.
One of the sectarian thugs approaches a female protester and calls here a whore, while asking his comrade to pass him a stick so he can beat her.
El Centro de Estudios Árabes Contemporáneos (#CEARC) convoca 4 #becas para jóvenes investigadores para participar en el XXVII Encuentro del Foro de Investigación sobre el Mundo Árabe y Musulmán (#FIMAM) Fecha límite solicitudes: 30 julio Info: cearc.net/colaboracion/x… @foroFIMAM
It is the state’s responsibility to find a less bloody solution to the crisis. How? – Avoid exclusionary policies – Establish a meaningful social contract with all citizens (serious national dialogue, inclusive constitutional announcement). 2/5
“For too long, international law has been treated as optional – applied selectively to those perceived as weak, ignored by those acting as the powerful. This double standard has eroded the very foundations of the legal order. That era must end.” theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities aje.io/66loh2
Two days after, results: 0
Today marks the deadline for the investigative committee probing the violations on Syria’s coast. The committee was formed on March 9, 2025, and its mandate was extended, once, and non-renewably, for three months on April 10. We now await the findings.
Just landed in London bookshops: Resisting Erasure. A radical critique of Israel's settler-colonial capitalism and empire. by @AdamHanieh @pashukanist and myself. Preorder link live too versobooks.com/products/3410-….
Garantir el dret a la salut, al treball o a la ciutadania és totalment compatible amb el dret dels pobles a protegir les seves llengües. Passa a la majoria d'Estats democràtics. Sobreprotegir drets individuals respecte els col·lectius esborra el concepte de societat i de poble.
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That Francesca Albanese, like the ICC, is now being sanctioned by the US—the announcement coinciding with Netanyahu’s ongoing visit to Washington—shows that international law is one of the greatest threats to US/Israeli hegemony. Their campaign to erase Palestine thus requires…
The brilliant scholar/activists of the @WeSmellGas collective has published the results of some of their research on how natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean basin is becoming a conduit of policing and repression: antipodeonline.org/2025/06/26/pol…