Emma Crewe

Anthropologist researching parliaments. Posting from @emmacrewe.bsky.com

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[Ben Bowles @benonaboat]

I'm a podcaster! I had a lovely chat to Yadong from the New Books Network earlier this week and now people can listen to it, if you like. https://t.co/HmNZfK80J0 @SOASanthro

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[Emma Crewe @_Emma_Crewe]

Moved to @emmacrewe.bsky.com, but last post here will be this.

Foreign office plans to hold talks with CARICOM (Caribbean governments) on reparations for transatlantic trafficking and enslavement. Long long overdue.

https://t.co/YusZ5bXrvj

[Emma Crewe @_Emma_Crewe]

Not posting here. But staying on for research purposes. Posting on @emmacrewe.bsky.com

[Emma Crewe @_Emma_Crewe]

For link to a blog about bipartisanship under attack in the Texas House of Reps see @emmacrewe.bsky.social

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

There is an increasing consensus that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza because the evidence is overwhelming. Here is a reminder of some of the available and useful resources: An initial syllabus:

13 October 2023, Raz Segal, https://t.co/w5EktiPJHW

15 October 2023: Public Statement: Over 800 Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza
https://t.co/LZqsP9DoF1

2 November: UN experts call to prevent genocide: https://t.co/k8VeScP20q

16 November: UN experts call to prevent genocide: https://t.co/dZnoqA2dtA

16 November, William Schabas: https://t.co/Q9oTXa4cpU

16 November: Holocaust and genocide scholars John Cox, Victoria Sanford, and Barry Trachtenberg declaration, https://t.co/lmu46XF7FF

29 December, South Africa submission to ICJ: https://t.co/29iEQZFBOO

29 May, South Africa's dossier of evidence of Israel's genocidal intent, the UN Security Council: https://t.co/2B7G5cgEyh

Martin Shaw, https://t.co/itCTK3qjW4

UN Expert Francesca Albanese, first report on the Genocide (March 2024): https://t.co/vbPULxoVWN

UN Expert Francesca Albanese, second report on the Genocide (October 2024): https://t.co/en3WkpPq8A…

John Quigley, “Legal Standard for Genocide Intent: An Uphill Climb for Israel in Gaza Suit”, 14 March, EJIL: https://t.co/nU9Xbdx5xh

UK Judges’ and Lawyers’ Open Letter Concerning Gaza, 3 April 2024: https://t.co/uPTO5zN20G

Jinan Bastaki, Gaza, Forced Displacement, and Genocide”, EJIL, April 2024, https://t.co/HvXIdiYPQr

Nimer Sultany, “A Threshold Crossed: On Genocidal Intent and the Duty to Prevent Genocide in Palestine”, May 2024: https://t.co/1ZH6tZdR9g

University Network for Human Rights report, May 2024: https://t.co/7XIgy2bYHS

Aryeh Neier, NYRB, 6 June 2024: https://t.co/yFkkayNhJN

UN Commission of Inquiry, 10 June: Detailed findings on the military operations and attacks carried out in the Occupied Palestinian Territory from 7 October to 31 December 2023: https://t.co/gsEWqUbz2P

Oxfam, Water War Crimes report, July 2024: https://t.co/vCr6Dt8AMV

Omer Bartov, 13 August: https://t.co/Zn0VG29rxW

Haaretz, “The Numbers Show: Gaza War Is One of the Bloodiest in the 21st Century”, 14 August: https://t.co/0xlBslwi5R

Maryam Jamshidi, On Genocidal Intent, August: https://t.co/ydV5MOlFrk

Forensic Architecture: cartographic analysis of the genocide in support of South Africa’s case in the ICJ: https://t.co/SS74LAGPTv…

AOAV analysis that shows that vast majority of killed in Gaza are civilians: https://t.co/j5W3OpbOD4

10 October 2024: UN Commission of Inquiry: Israel’s destruction of the health system in Gaza https://t.co/WKBbyiYrrq

8 November 2024: UN Commission of Inquiry: 70 percent of verified victims (October - 30 April) were children and women: https://t.co/3jEw0pQWaW

12 November 2024: 8 aid organisations of the systematic violation ICJ orders on humanitarian assistance, thereby establishing genocidal intent: https://t.co/1rg5KyOLus

14 November 2024: UN Special Committee Report https://t.co/laY40r7kDj

North Gaza:

9 October 2024: 18 Aid organisations warn of dramatic escalation of humanitarian catastrophe in northern Gaza: https://t.co/o3L8UnDhbV

15 October: 38 organisations: “Northern Gaza is being wiped off the map”: https://t.co/yMWzyIDeEQ

1 November: statement by 15 UN and humanitarian organisations: https://t.co/a1BKUHOGvq

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Study of Parliament Group @StudyofParl]

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[Emma Crewe @_Emma_Crewe]

A tired colleague snapped at me mildly yesterday, for understandable reasons, and sent me an apology and beautiful flowers this morning. Imagine if everyone was so thoughtful.

[SOAS University of London @SOAS]

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[Emma Crewe @_Emma_Crewe]

Congratulations to one of our new colleagues in @SOASanthro and a huge welcome to our dept Bolaji 👏🏻

[Bolaji Balogun @BobBalogun]

The wonderful Marketa Krizova and I have a new paper published in Interventions. Thanks to @SOASanthro for making the paper accessible through Open Access. https://t.co/vgSIiiN0ei

[Emma Crewe @_Emma_Crewe]

To be cheered up 👇

[Sarah Ashaya Soysa @SarahAshaya]

Wonderful. Read about Sri Lanka’s new prime minister. An academic, civil society actor & a feminist

https://t.co/r0PbJMzbaL

[Emma Crewe @_Emma_Crewe]

Not just academic - anthropologist! 👏🏻

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Former academic named Sri Lanka's third female prime minister https://t.co/cbMLrG3YWG

[Emma Crewe @_Emma_Crewe]

Proud beyond measure that @Dr_HariniA has been appointed PM of Sri Lanka. She’s brilliant, kind, tough, collaborative and an anthropologist (I examined her PhD) - perfect qualifications. This gives me a sense of hope.

[Julia Modern @laamodern]

In a first for @oxfamgbpolicy 's From Poverty to Power Blog, we've included a Ugandan Sign Language translation of my recent post: https://t.co/fi70d76RMn
Thanks to translator @ssenyomdo
See the blog and video translation here: https://t.co/1frZ8ET3Tt

[Gabrielle ፍረወይኒ Tesfaye @tesfayetra]

I am so happy to share that Nebsey is an official selection of @animagefestival Film Festival in Recife, Brazil. I am grateful our film will show amongst various powerful animated films.

🎥

[Emma Crewe @_Emma_Crewe]

It was an honour to chair this panel. Fascinating, painful and moving.

[Lord Norton of Louth @LordNortonLouth]

Panel on representation of indigenous populations in Parliaments, with papers by Andrea Cullen and Richard Egan (Australia) and @Sayutihassan (Malaysia)

[Emma Crewe @_Emma_Crewe]

As the world becomes unbearably sad and alarming, I find solace in tiny things. Like my 89 year mother is starting a new yoga class tomorrow so we were practising dog pose today. Her dog Jessy was a bit awestruck and kept jumping on her.