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[Akala @akalamusic]

Hard to imagine them making this argument about Ukrainian children.

[Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawog_now]

@TheAtlantic published a justification for the murder of Palestinian children today.

[Akala @akalamusic]

We can only imagine what our ‘leaders’ would be saying/doing if it was not their ally doing this.

[Akala @akalamusic]

The rules based order.

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

One of the largest camps for displaced people in Rafah was struck by missiles.. killing dozens of people.. fires quickly spread through the tents & families had little protection.. the attack comes after the ICJ ruling on Friday, ordering Israel to stop its assault.

[Akala @akalamusic]

‘Free speech’

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

First, German police arrest Iris Hefetz, our Israeli-Jewish comrade, for opposing genocide in Berlin. Now, Ilan Pappe (@pappe54), the renowned Israeli-Jewish historian, is detained in Detroit by the FBI for questioning over his campaigning against Israel's genocide. Dark times!

[Frankie Boyle Updates @frankieboyle]

A good friend of mine is organising this to evacuate people from Gaza, where things are desperate. Please donate if you can.

https://t.co/dkPjzkx7bF

[Refugees In Libya @RefugeesinLibya]

House to house manhunt for black Africans takes toll in Tunisia 🇹🇳.

In the last two weeks a door to door and street collection of any dark skinned persons even those identified as Tunisians are crammed into police vans & deported to the eastern border regions.
Women, men and children are caught and deported without any of their possessions, documents, savings and other materials they have worked for and accumulated over the years.
Most of those arrested during the house to house raids are legally entitled to stay in Tunisia, they are students, workers and refugees.

These people have committed no crimes but the Tunisian government have taken it as his political power to scapegoat Refugees and Sub-Saharan Africans for his failed dictatorial regime under the pretext of demographic change and great replacement theory.

The African Union is silent while the so—called democratic European countries with their values for human rights are the very ones supporting and financing Kaïs Saeid to act as the border guard of the Fortress Europe.
This must STOP🛑

[Akala @akalamusic]

International law.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Read the letter from 12 Republican senators threatening ICC chief prosecutor @KarimKhanQC with "severe" consequences for him, his family & staff if he goes ahead with an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. "You have been warned."

Oh and subscribe to Zeteo too:
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[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

“Criminal Act”: Israel Bans Al Jazeera, Largest Int’l News Org. in Gaza, Ahead of Rafah Invasion https://t.co/GSMT6nNzo7

[Stormzy @stormzy]

Introducing the brand new #MerkyFC HQ in Croydon - A new multi-purpose centre providing opportunities for young Londoners across football, music and gaming. 3 years in the making so I'm feeling quite emotional. To God be the glory. Thank you to @adidasUK
https://t.co/LFat5Dwm0Q

[Akala @akalamusic]

Mad ting, I can’t lie.

[Takeshi Morisato 森里 武 @TakeshiMorisato]

@akalamusic's "Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire" is now available in Japanese.

[Akala @akalamusic]

This despite the fact that the Caribbean has much less people, loses more of its best educated to migration and is made up almost entirely of the descendants of downwardly biased samples of the West African and Indian peasantry.

[Akala @akalamusic]

U just gotta accept that adult human beings will just say anything despite having a super computer in their pocket to check. Just three nations in Latin America have even a single Uni that ranks above the University Of The West Indies…

[َ @finnsomnia]

I once asked a teacher why they were asking race in a questionnaire we were doing about attitudes to learning. He said they were looking at variation across demographics because "for example, Caribbean students don't come from a culture that values education". Shit was upsetting

[Akala @akalamusic]

‘Caribbean culture’ promotes academic failure exhibit 2254.

[Ronke Lawal @ronkelawal]

Steep rise in schools in England recruiting teachers from Jamaica
"Jamaica supplied 486 qualified teachers last year, twice as many as in 2022, as schools in England launched recruiting drives in a country suffering its own shortages of qualified teachers" https://t.co/CplMudeWHk

[Akala @akalamusic]

I mean, of course. Middle class Jamaicans or Trinis have more chance of going to Harvard than getting shot, even though they live in nations with high overall murder rates. (it’s almost entirely poor people being killed, obviously).

[Mr.B 🇯🇲🇬🇧 @TallBrownGent]

@kelsosimon @akalamusic But it's always been a youth problem, hardened gangster olders at the top, street violence by "expendable" kids at the bottom. The factors that lead kids into that lifestyle are most likely the same across the World and over the ages.

[KAS Simons @kelsosimon]

@akalamusic Please share this. Representing “Gloves up knives down” real estate kids representing some great positivity. I work with young people, the memorial in the video is that of a kid I worked with that was stabbed to death.
#gimmesomelove

https://t.co/3ISTQ7j6vl

[Brian @JedSparklet]

@turnerchris @akalamusic The most famous Razor Gang member was Billy Fullerton who started up a Glasgow branch of the KKK

[Akala @akalamusic]

indeed we do. The first Teddy Boy killing they kicked an older civilian to death because he did not give them some pocket change. By looking @ what young men attracted to street gangs have in common and what other teenagers (even in the same cultural group) do not we can begin.

[KAS Simons @kelsosimon]

@akalamusic Kids as young as 11 going round with machetes and swords and having sword fights in broad daylight whilst families are shopping though is getting a bit much, we have to admit and address that there is a lot of toxic bravado and vanity within youth culture contributing 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Akala @akalamusic]

Hope you lot are good though. 👊🏾

[Akala @akalamusic]

For non British people a ‘Glasgow smile’ is when a man cuts half your face open.

https://t.co/9XFNXUlhnD

[Akala @akalamusic]

Of course. There is half a library full of great books on the history of Gangs in major U.K. cities, all of those historians were just making up though, apparently.

[Mike Harding AKA Lord Hardinge of Dribblesdale @HardingMike]

@akalamusic There were razor gangs round Ancoats, Manchester when my mum was a girl in the 1920s and the razor gangs in Glasgow in the 50s were fearsome. As far as I know they were pretty much all white.