@samharrison1812
Historian of political thought, postdoc at the Turin Humanities Programme. Mostly looking at ideas about slavery and citizenship in C18 France but moonlighting as a political theorist. Inarticolato informatore. All views are those of my employer. he/him.
it just feels so horrible we feel powerless we've tried fighting, we've tried surrendering we've tried ignoring we've tried building israel doesn't let you exist that's it, our choice is fast death or faster death
From a friend in Beirut this morning, who in the last few days has seen several Israel missile strikes within walking distance of their home.
Israeli settlers in the West Bank harass, terrorise, destroy, burn, injure and kill Palestinians, their properties and livestock every day, while the IDF is aiding and abetting them.
Every. Day.
www.972mag.com/israeli-sett...
#Israel just attacked βAl Ramlet El Baidaβ, #Beiruts public beach area. So far there have been reports of many injuries and more than 8 deaths. This is a public beach where people stroll the seaside and where many displaced people who couldnβt find shelter slept. This is pure horror.
As HRW has repeatedly documented, Israel has been using white phosphorus on civilian areas for years -- in Lebanon, they've often used it alongside industrial herbicides and even depleted uranium to desertify agricultural land and force already impoverished farmers out
www.hrw.org/news/2024/06...
French politicians convicted of crimes, since 1990, a database.
Beside Israel's northern border fence, the bursts of machine-gun fire from inside Lebanon are loud and long, as new Israeli forces push in to take strategic positions near the border. The regular rumble of air strikes echoes over the shattered remains of Shia villages, destroyed during Israel's last ground war there in 2024. A senior military official said on Thursday that Israeli ground forces were taking additional hilltops inside Lebanon - a defensive operation, he said, to better protect Israel's northern communities. But there has been a significant military build-up here. On Friday morning we passed dozens of tanks and armoured bulldozers, newly-positioned right by the border, fuelling growing speculation that a full-scale ground invasion is planned.
Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians have been fleeing Israeli air strikes in Lebanon over the past few days, less than 18 months after a ceasefire ended the last conflict with Israel in November 2024. During that war, Israel fought its way house to house through many Lebanese border villages. Their crushed remains still litter the landscape. But some Hezbollah fighters have reportedly returned to these areas, and Israel is now fighting its way through the area again. Without those assaults on Hezbollah in 2024, which left a key Iranian proxy severely weakened, Israel would have found it much harder to launch its current war on Iran - or the previous one in June last year - without a much higher cost at home.
This is the language used by the BBC to describe Israel's war on Lebanon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cited: IDF Chief of Staff, Israeli living near the border, another Israeli, an Israeli politician and a Israeli commentator. No one else.
The Lebanese are just numbers throughout the piece.
Post See new posts ConversationSΓ©amus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says that Israel should depopulate and destroy every village in southern Lebanon, with the Yellow Line in Gaza as the model, and that "it may not be pleasant to scrape off two or three Lebanese villages, but they brought this on themselves." 0:29 / 0:45 2:44 PM Β· Mar 5, 2026 Β· 126.6K Views
Well the good news is that the Israeli opposition isn't actually all that crazy right.
Picture unrelated btw
IsraΓ«l a donnΓ© quelques heures pour s'enfuir Γ une population estimΓ©e Γ 4 Γ 700 000 personnes habitant le sud de Beyrouth et a commencΓ© ce soir Γ bombarder. Est-ce qu'on se rend bien compte de la monstrueuse toute-puissance confΓ©rΓ©e Γ cet Etat en le laissant commettre un crime de masse Γ Gaza ?
The irony of Iran adopting a kind of international Dahiya doctrine in response to Israel/US attacks
American friends! Come listen to our Director, Nicholas Cronk, discussing Voltaire and Slavery on March 26th
@amphilsociety.bsky.social: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ce...
One thing that's consistently surprised me is how many people (especially but not exclusively Americans), even on here, seem genuinely convinced Iran might pose a military threat to western countries, an idea that doesn't stand up to even five minutes of independent research or critical thinking
In essence, US ME policy aims haven't changed since Biden; only the level of responsibility the US is willing to take is different. Biden wanted to secure Israeli hegemony by creating an alliance of Gulf states to constrain Iran and thereby avoid war; Trump simply doesn't care about the costs of war
The objective is just to knock out Israel's regional rival so it can dominate on the US's behalf. Any regime, even a friendly one, is potentially a threat to that hegemony in future, so from the Israeli/US perspective, civil war is likely preferable
Have to assume he's encouraging them to do this so Israel can imprison or assassinate whomever they pick
In mind as you see more confirmations that Israel is attempting to wipe out the entire political echelon from both government to opposition
Don't have any love for the Labour Party (which after all has made it abundantly clear how much it hates people like me) but I do feel bad for all the activists who've devoted their lives to it, only to watch it get demolished from within by a bunch of malignant narcissists
For what it's worth, Welsh and Irish are actually the *only* de jure official languages in the UK -- I would be fully in favour of all campaign literature across the country being distributed solely in those two languages however
An in-depth investigation from France24 on how Israel is cutting down vast amounts of forestry along its de facto border with Syria while also spraying herbicides on Syrian farmland.
It was deeply unwise of Sir Keir to appoint Andrew to the royal family in the first place
RaphaΓ«l Glucksman ne sβembarrasse pas avec les faits : il nβen a aucun Γ sa disposition pour incriminer LFI mais ce nβest pas grave, une Γ©limination cinglante dΓ¨s le premier tour des prΓ©sidentielles vaut bien un mensonge diffamatoire π€·ββοΈ
Ε½iΕΎek probably picked it up because he's written about this idea of monstrosity, most notably in describing Christ as a monster, but ofc by and large people only like it because it sounds portentous
Agreed, but the new translation *is* good if one takes seriously the concept "monster", which originally described any being that stands outside the moral and natural order, and so accurately describes the tendency of the system to produce phenomena that should, by its own lights, be impossible
On December 28, 2024, the IDF kidnapped Dr Hussam Abu Safiya from his post as pediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. He had refused to abandon his patients. He has been held in Israeli prison without charges ever since, tortured, starved, refused family visits.
A screenshot from a proclamation issued by French commissaire LΓ©ger-FΓ©licitΓ© Sonthonax in 1793. It reads (in French): "In France mores soften that which is cruel in the laws; among the English mores are even more cruel than is the law."
Hard to disagree
When people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, thereβs a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not βrealβ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why thatβs wrong.
The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.
two years today since Hind Rajab was killed by the IOF. she was 5.
To close the educational attainment gap, we are rolling out a scheme to get poorer students addicted to amphetamines
Matt Goodwin makes a living out of railing against university educated elites & his whole schtick is "he was the first person in his family to go to university", which is a bit weird given that his Dad, now being heavily invoked for his Manchester connection, appears to have a string of degrees.