Gavin Jacobson

Founding editor @equatormag | former @newstatesman

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

"The terrifying thought that strikes you while watching the film is that we have already crossed some kind of historical event horizon and are living in that eternal present." I wrote about the enduring power of Alfonso Cuarón’s 'Children of Men' https://t.co/lAzFEFmlxo

[Richard Seymour @leninology]

The 'hard problem' is life, which means that the 'hard problem' is matter.

My lecture, on the dialectics of disaster, from the Subversive Festival, is up on YouTube:

https://t.co/SGy2JUx2Ua

[Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸 @m00dyjonas]

Oh hiya duck

P.S. shout me if you wanna review it x

[Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother]

This documentary on Red Vienna looks fascinating -
features historians, housing activists, architectural critics, and relatives of some of central figures in the 1920s and 1930s:

https://t.co/5sI5WalAfx

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

A previously unpublished essay by Thomas Mann, introduced by Pankaj Mishra and brilliantly translated by @MortenHoiJensen https://t.co/q6MIpDdysh

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔗 Read in full here: https://t.co/1xHHFhdSFh

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“One evening, to punish us for praying audibly, a guard simply cut the electricity to our cell. As for the block officer, we were forbidden to look at him, and had to lower our heads during conversations. The prison director had turned into a God, everywhere and nowhere,” Nasser Abu Srour, who was jailed in Israeli prisons from 1993 to 2026, writes for the Equator Magazine.

He continues:

“If the indifference was distressing, the violence was terrifying… They attacked prisoners for the slightest infraction, real or imagined. They targeted us everywhere – in the head, legs, chest, face – and they assaulted us with everything: canes, truncheons, tear gas, electric shocks, rubber bullets and live ammunition. Sometimes they rushed into cells, beat prisoners, bound them in chains – and then dragged them into the prison yard for a repeat beating. Often, they were accompanied by an enormous dog that would attack chained prisoners and leave bleeding wounds on their bodies (as happened to me multiple times).

A guard once opened the grille of my cell and demanded that I hand over my hidden radio. I told him the truth: I did not have one. When he repeated the order, I repeated my answer, perhaps at a louder volume. He again summoned me to the grille opening – and unleashed pepper spray in my face. There was no rationale linking error and punishment. Even the cleverest among us were unable to interpret these new practices. Any appeal for explanation resulted only in an extra measure of violence.”

🔗 The full article, “Why Don’t You Just Die,” by Nasser Abu Srour, translated from Arabic by Luke Leafgren, is linked below.

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

@paulewart23 Can’t wait to listen to this. Coincidentally, today I’ve been watching this wonderful lecture on Stuart Hall by David Scott, whose long-awaited biography of Hall can’t come soon enough! https://t.co/G1hWp9onHc

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

Few things guarantee you're on the right side of things quite like landing on the opposite side of this guy.

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

“Today I shudder to think how a country [England], so foreign to our own instincts, could have achieved the miracle of being called Mother”.

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

Nasser Abu Srour was incarcerated for over 33 years in Israeli prisons. He was released in October 2025, and yet, as he writes in a new memoir for @Equatormag, “what can liberation possibly mean amid a genocide?”

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

Good to see the European press pick up Nasser’s *incredible* @Equatormag essay on surviving brutality and torture inside Israel’s prisons, which you absolutely must read if you haven’t done so yet https://t.co/MGaG3opfjE

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

Anyone familiar with DG's history (insightfully detailed in Sudhir Hazareesingh’s ‘Le Mythe Gaullien’) knows that part of his "genius" was using long public absences to project an aura of providential authority. Blair, on the other hand, just won’t fuck off.

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

Hutton is not to be outdone.

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

God this is embarrassing

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

Missing Tom Nairn today

[The Stuart Hall Foundation @StuartHallFdn]

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[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

With thanks to @the_diasporist for translating my @Equatormag interview with @BarnabyRaine on antisemitism:

https://t.co/HT7UYVExqC

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

I may not have been explicit enough , but the homeland empire is what comes after the crumbling of the globalist one. It’s also profoundly nasty, but it presents new political opportunities. https://t.co/HLtFt7fGYc

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

Love this short 1982 news report staring Stuart Hall, A. Sivanandan, Hazel Waters, Cedric Robinson, Colin Prescod and others about the radical transformation of the Institute of Race Relations. https://t.co/KgMrFefQJx

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

Nasser Abu Srour — Israeli political prisoner and torture survivor in the excellent Equator. https://t.co/W6uwPXYWwO

[ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit]

‘Why Don’t You Just Die?’
Nasser Abu Srour
Translated from Arabic by Luke Leafgren

On surviving torture and brutality inside Israel’s prisons

https://t.co/o4FVofQrzu