Yasmin Gunaratnam
@YasminGun
Mindful sociologist, now https://bsky.app/profile/anilsghost.bsky.social, free 🇵🇸 Go Home? http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526113221/
I tried to write something on the stuttering of anticolonial solidarity for Palestinian liberation & the traces left by colonial explosivity on critical social thought, indebted to the work of @ForensicArchi @GhassanAbuSitt1 @InhumanNigel & many others journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
‘‘For months, my UK colleagues & I have pleaded with our medical instits to speak out. We have been met with silence or polite deflection…The deepest pain comes from realising that the very instits tasked with upholding our health system are complicit’ newarab.com/opinion/gazas-…
Defending the Indefensible - Alberto Toscano ‘in the face of the Gaza genocide, Western govts R treating any dissent as a threat to national security while granting Israel carte blanche & unending material support, 4 its countless violations of intern law’ inthesetimes.com/article/palest…
This is an even better result than many of us were expecting. Our employer has repeatedly failed to protect staff (& students) from racist-gendered harassment & doxing by zionists. TY to our unions reps for taking our concerns serious & getting this vote out
Results are now in on our consultative e-ballot on academic freedom and staff safeguarding ➡️ we PASSED the threshold for a valid result with 🌟91% 🌟sharing our concern that management is not doing enough to protect us and our rights kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/06/11/con…
I was asked to review Adam Kirsch’s atrocious book on settler colonialism (which is basically an apologia for Israeli genocide). So I actually took the occasion to highlight the amazing Palestinian scholarship going back DECADES on the subject: jewishcurrents.org/history-lesson
Have just donated to this fundraiser for legal costs in challenging the proscription of Palestine Action. Birnberg Peirce Ltd are the solicitors, funds transferred directly to the firm's account crowdjustice.com/case/palestine…
“Gaza: doctors under attack” will finally be released this week after months of delay. It chronicles Israel’s targeting and destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and medics, 1,500 of whom have been killed. See it on @zeteo_news internationally and Channel 4 in the UK from Wednesday.…
PACBI has called for a boycott of the 5th ISA Forum in Rabat (July 6–11) due to the ISA’s continued refusal to exclude academic representatives of Israeli institutions complicit in occupation, apartheid & genocide gs4p.org/wp-content/upl…
'‘In the context of Palestine, the veneer of neutrality…helps to obscure institutional complicity in global systems of oppression, including colonial violence, capitalism and the military-industrial complex’ @RafeefZiadah journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…
London, 12th May – don’t miss @PanosTheodorop6’s book launch @KingsECS ↓ details interregnum.ghost.io/book-launch-th… @YasminGun
The Sociological Review Palestine webinar is tonight, definitely not only for sociologists & students esp welcome thesociologicalreview.org/announcements/…
'We should no longer see the Palestinian struggle as ‘Palestinian struggle’ per se. It’s part of a global struggle' We are forever traumatized – Aseel Baidoun interviewed by Cairsti Russell journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
📣 Palestine: A Sociological Issue 8 May, 18:30 Rafeef Ziadah, Ashjan Ajour, Cairsti Russell & Yasmin Gunaratnam on #GazaGenocide, resistance & reclaiming campuses. Hosted by @TheSocReview + SISP Register: thesociologicalreview.org/announcements/… #FreePalestine #Sociology #AcademicSolidarity
“Palestine: A Sociological Issue is a way to reflect on the role of sociology in times of genocidal violence & settler colonialism" Kirsteen Paton (ed) All the articles in the special section are free to access here journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/2/
The soldiers raided my house today, they wanted to revenge from me for participating in the @BBC documentary “ the settlers” , after the army left the settlers raided my house, they injured one activist and cut the tree, they stole tools and the garbage containers. The Israeli…
Hope to see some of you on Thursday for this free webinar on Palestine organised by the Sociological Review & @socispal , for social scientists but really for anyone who needs this space to think, listen, learn.
Save the date - May 8th, Palestine: sociological issue thesociologicalreview.org/announcements/…
Working with journalists from Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines @ForensicArchi collaborated with @earshot_ngo to examine the circumstances of the murder of Hind Rajab, her 4 cousins, her aunt & uncle & the 2 paramedics who came to rescue her. More details here forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…
Thankful for a world with @ForensicArchi in it. They produce timely & forceful empirical data to counter Israel's lies & denials, inc an investigation of the murder of Hind Rajab. They mapped 335 bullet holes in the right side of the car that had been run over by a light vehicle
FA and members of the Investigative Commons have been monitoring the status of the @GazaFFlotilla as it embarked on a journey to deliver aid to Gaza under the ongoing genocide and total blockade. This morning just after midnight (CET), while just outside Maltese territorial…
Dr Ahmad Muhanna abducted 499 days. Dr Hussam Abu Safiya abducted 183 days. Dr Mohammed Obaid abducted 149 days. Dr. Mohammed Abu Musa abducted 372 days.
Dr Ahmad Muhanna abducted 499 days. Dr Hussam Abu Safiya abducted 183 days. Dr Mohammed Obaid abducted 149 days. Dr. Mohammed Abu Musa abducted 372 days. #FreeThemAll
Sky News correspondent @YousraElbagir has returned to her childhood home in Khartoum after two years of war in Sudan. The house was left for ruin by paramilitary troops Full eyewitness report ➡️ trib.al/nrg0Wx7