Nigel Clark

🇵🇸 Fire-handling hominin, not-very-social scientist, unsettled colonial, extinguished professor. He/him. "Planetary Social Thought"@politybooks

[Nigel Clark @InhumanNigel]

Indulging myself today for reasons that will remain unspoken....

How it started How its going

school project 1973 school project 2020

[Nigel Clark @InhumanNigel]

Nobody wants to live next to a war criminal... I've just signed my name calling for the government to investigate Brits who have returned from serving in the IDF - you should too! @DeclassifiedUK https://t.co/cydlE9ByRi

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

[Lisa Moorish @LisaMoorish]

Jews playing football during the German Holocaust.

What shame you haven't inherited their dignity, resilience and pride.

[Nigel Clark @InhumanNigel]

there are only six degrees of Kevin Bacon between you and every Muslim on earth

[Redd @ReddCinema]

Muslims are reportedly outraged about this photo and say that it’s Islamophobia.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Israeli Quadcopter drones were used in Gaza to emit the sound of a baby crying.

When people rushed to help what they thought was a baby suffering, they were shot.

This is what the Filton 24 did to one of those Quadcopter drones.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Hi @guardian why is the religion of the two victims in Golders Green mentioned

But the religion of the victim in south London is not mentioned?

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

We completed the investigation at Minab school, so Donald Trump doesn't have to.

Triple tap U.S Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired on a busy school day. Many children were still alive after the first strike. As some tried to flee, they were targeted again - this time with teachers and parents too.

This can only be described as evil crimes against children and humanity.

[Nigel Clark @InhumanNigel]

Special thanks to our friends from Newcastle who got up at 1.30am to be there ❤️💚🖤🤍

Lancaster activists join Gaza protest at factory which supplies military aircraft parts https://t.co/ChItFMjl6T

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

VIDEO | "I received direct threats targeting me on my phone from the Mossad, from the Israelis, and they threatened to kill me. They were literally saying they would sever my head from my shoulders if I didn’t leave south Lebanon."

In an interview recorded before her targeted killing, Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, from the southern village of Baysariyyeh, reflects on the threats she received while covering Israeli aggression in south Lebanon for Al-Akhbar.

"Before 23 September, I definitely didn’t take precautions and I didn’t pay attention to these threats, because I said if I’m going to do what they want, why would I let the Israeli enemy impose its own narrative on me? It brings journalists onto my land and promotes the narrative it wants, while preventing me from moving freely on my own land."

Amal Khalil, along with her colleague Zeinab Faraj, was deliberately attacked and subsequently killed by Israel yesterday in the southern Lebanese village of Tayri. Zeinab Faraj was severely injured and, as per latest reports, remains in stable condition after undergoing emergency surgery.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then firing on international rescue crews, all with the world watching in real time. There are no words left for the horrors that U.S. political leaders are enabling.

[Ghali ⵣ 𓂆🍉🗝️🇵🇸 @GhaliZayane]

Amal Kaawash
❁ Ya Tal'een | سعيد سلباق ونور درويش - يا طالعين ❁

“Ya Tal’een” is more than a traditional song, it is a quiet act of resistance carried through melody. Originating from the Galilee, it is believed that Palestinian women sang it during visits to their imprisoned relatives in Israeli occupation prisons. Beneath its simple, almost playful rhythm, the song held hidden meanings.
The women would insert the letter “L” into certain words, subtly distorting the language to make it sound confusing or nonsensical to prison wardens who understood Arabic.

But for those meant to receive it, the message was clear. Within this coded singing lived words of reassurance, fragments of news, and sometimes even whispers of hope, that freedom might be near, that they were not forgotten.
In this way, “Ya Tal’een” became more than a song; it became a bridge between walls, a form of communication that no prison could fully silence, and a testament to the ingenuity and resilience of Palestinian women.

❀ #FreePalestine ❀
•❁🇵🇸🗝️🍉❁•

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

France is on the eve of voting one of the most shameful laws in its history: it would effectively outlaw criticism of Israel and criminalize any speech seen as even remotely sympathetic to whoever the French government chooses to designate a "terrorist group."

In effect this law would turn France's foreign policy into unchallengeable dogma backed by prison time. You could literally be sent for 5 years in prison if you, for instance, call what France says are "terrorists" a "resistance group."

Think for instance Nelson Mandela during the apartheid (the ANC was on every Western terrorist list) or, heck, France's own Résistance against Nazi Germany - designated as "terrorists" by the Vichy regime and the Nazi occupation.

It's frankly absolutely insane.

The new law is called "loi Yadan" after its author Caroline Yadan, a MP who represents French expatriates living in Israel. The U.S. has congressmen paid by AIPAC: France has cut out the middleman entirely, we have MPs whose constituency is literally in Israel.

The law has already passed committee and heads to a full parliamentary vote on April 16th - 3 days from now - under a very unusual fast-track procedure. Seven of eleven parliamentary groups have said they'll vote yes and the law is expected to pass.

What does the law say? Let me quote from it directly (full text here: https://t.co/m03R4z0gX6):

1) Article 1 introduces the concept of "implicit" provocation to terrorism and punishes it with five years imprisonment and a fine of €75,000

That's the one I was speaking about. Under this provision, describing anyone France designates as terrorist as a "resistance movement" - the way France describes its own Résistance against Nazi occupation - could effectively become a crime.

The key concept is what does "implicit provocation to terrorism" mean? Nobody knows. And that's the point. It means whatever a prosecutor wants it to mean: a perfectly good case could be made that, for instance, quoting international law on the right of occupied peoples to resist with respect to Hamas is, in fact, "implicit provocation to terrorism."

France's most famous anti-terrorism judge, Marc Trévidic, says he has never seen anything like it in his entire career (https://t.co/CytQnuK3hS): "Implicit provocation to terrorism: do you realize what that means? Becoming a censor of other people's thoughts, trying to guess what a person really meant."

2) The same article also expands the terrorism apology offense to include "minimizing or trivializing acts of terrorism in an outrageous manner."

This is even crazier: until now, "apology of terrorism" meant actually expressing a favorable judgment of "terrorist acts" (which is already insane because, as we all know, one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter).

Well, under this new provision, a judge could decide that providing context, explaining root causes, or insufficiently condemning an act amounts to "trivializing" terrorism - and that would now be punishable with 5 years in prison.

So, for instance, a history teacher explaining the origins of Hamas or Hezbollah is providing context - but a prosecutor could argue that contextualization is trivialization. The same reasoning could apply to a journalist, a researcher, or anyone on social media who says "yes, it was terrible, but here's why it happened." The "but" becomes a crime, as it is trivialization.

3) Article 4 expands Holocaust denial law

Under current French law, denying the Holocaust is already a crime. This provision extends that crime by specifying that contestation of crimes against humanity now includes, "whatever its formulation, a negation, minimization, or outrageous trivialization" of those crimes.

Again with "outrageous trivialization"! In this instance the very authors of the text - Caroline Yadan and her colleagues - explain their reasoning explicitly in the law's preamble (https://t.co/rIiYQbbk23): "Comparing the State of Israel to the Nazi regime would thereby be punishable as an outrageous trivialization of the Shoah."

So while the provision is written in general terms, its architects are openly saying what it's for: making it a crime to draw any parallel between Israel's actions and those of the Nazis.

4) Article 2 creates a brand new crime: calling for the destruction of a state.

The law adds to an existing 1881 press law a provision punishing anyone who "publicly, in disregard of the right of peoples to self-determination and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, calls for the destruction of a state recognized by the French Republic." Five years imprisonment, €75,000 fine.

The qualifiers about self-determination and the UN Charter are meant to sound reassuring. But what does "destruction" mean? In practice, if you advocate for a one-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians live as equals, you are de-facto calling for the "destruction" of the state of Israel. Well, that would now be punishable by 5 years in prison 🤷

There you go. Absolutely insane: if this new law passes, and it unfortunately very much looks like it will, France - the country that gave the world the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the country whose national identity is built on the Résistance - will have made it illegal to use the word 'resistance' about anyone the government doesn't like. Jean Moulin would be prosecuted. De Gaulle would be prosecuted.

The only people who wouldn't be prosecuted are those who stay silent. Which, of course, is the whole point.

[Nigel Clark @InhumanNigel]

Uncle. Legend.

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

If this is Britain’s idea of the terrorist threat, then British counter-terrorism has lost all connection to reality.

[Dr. Ghada Sasa, PhD 🇵🇸 @drghadasasa]

I just read the new Haaretz article about how Israeli planted pines are suddenly dying en masse and it is absolutely worth dissecting. Here are a summary & my observations as a Palestinian scholar who writes on green colonialism. 1/

[Nigel Clark @InhumanNigel]

The General Medical Council are targeting Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah again - join thousands of doctors to support him and demand the GMC leadership resigns! https://t.co/UEcH933t1L

[Nigel Clark @InhumanNigel]

Watch til the end '...because they're child killers'

[ParaPower Mapping @KlonnyPin_Gosch]

THIS IS THE GUY WHO BROUGHT THE BLACK HAWK HELIS DOWN? And his lil hijabi daughter followed him out to cheer him on, disobeying his commands because she wanted to see the Minab school girls avenged?! Holy shit

[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

Someone should open a university and hire every single professor, academic and professional who was fired or blacklisted for being Palestinian or speaking out for Palestinians. I will teach filmmaking.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

So while the Knesset passes a Palestinian death penalty bill, another Knesset bill – one that the UK has much more directly enabled, and which will lead to many, many death penalties being handed out – is about to get its second reading.

Let me tell you about it 🧵