Dr Sadia Habib

Lecturer @EducationUoM /
Also find me here: @OSCH_MCR @mcrmuseum @EthnicityUK /
Co-founder @theriztest /
Own views.

[Bella Morris @Belorris]

It’s fine for the US to close Cuba’s and Venezuela’s waters, and it’s fine for Israel to close Gaza’s waters, but if Iran blocks the countries that waged war against it from the Strait Of Hormuz, that’s unacceptable?

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

They’re not even subtle.

[𖤀𖦪ꚶꛘꛤꚳ𖤢ꛎꕷꛎꛘ𖢧 @drunpleasant]

Weird. I remember being told for weeks that the Greens only won because they got the Muslim vote? Must have misheard.

[Strathclyde UCU @StrathclydeUCU]

Hmmm

@unistrathclyde say: we are skint and will lay 76fte staff off (with more to come)

Also @unistrathclyde: hey, here’s £60k for business class travel and perks

(plus the grace and favour villa, the chauffeur, and the other stuff…)

Link below
#StrathLife
#DefendEveryJob

[Jonathan AC Brown @JonathanACBrown]

I lived and traveled in Iran for months. In Tehran I lived with the family of a retired bank worker who saw me looking for housing. I roomed with his son for months, ate all my meals with them, and they never accepted any money. Once I was sick and throwing up and they all came into the bathroom and the dad stroked my head while I barfed and told me “Aybi nadare” (no shame, it’s ok). I traveled around most of the country by plane, train, bus, shared taxi, etc. Eventually I stopped booking hotels because I’d always meet people on the train, bus etc who’d insist I stay with them. The family of Iran/Iraq war vets from Yazd who took me to Taft for bbq in the mountains. The taxi driver from Rasht who made a bed for me on the floor of his tiny apartment because all the hotels were full. The only time a police officer talked to me was once to make sure I was ok. I never felt in any danger day or night. The land of Iran is as incredibly diverse as its people. There are mountainous rain forests and desert salt flats. I met among the most liberal and most conservative people there, and everything in between. Everyone was so kind it makes me cry with shame.

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

I was denied tenure.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Why are more questions not being asked of @wesstreeting and @ShabanaMahmood of the extent to which this odious American business is now immersed in our health and security services?

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

This was the first genocide where victims begged the world in real time.

Not through archives.

Not through declassified files.

Through cracked phone screens and shaky hands.

They said, "We are being erased."

And the world replied,

"I am tired. I have work tomorrow."

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

THE MET POLICE ARE LYING

1. It was a public entrance, open gates, no guards, no signs, nothing to suggest the public cannot enter.

Nobody was seen asking protesters to leave.

This 🧵 counters the police’s ridiculous attempt to justify arresting 85 peaceful protestors.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

We are not here to be disappointed by Labour anymore. At the by-election in Gorton and Denton, we are here to replace them. This election is a two-way race now - Greens Vs Reform.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Labour have blown it. This is it. Time to take on Reform.

Manchesters first Green MP is coming. Join us to help get them elected on Saturday.

https://t.co/pTo5QEJ2Nj

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

A Thread 🧵

Did you know that ICE is using an app called ELITE created by Palantir that populates a map with alleged deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address? The confidence score calculates the probability of the subject physically being at the address, which requires data from other sources such as DHHS and USCIS, as confirmed in digital rights reports. .

Such technology empowers ICE agents who filter the map by what the guide calls Special Operations. These are “groups of pre-defined aliens specifically targeted by Leadership for action”

This form and level of surveillance should not take Americans by surprise. From slave patrols and Jim Crow policing that targeted Black people, to the COINTELPRO operations that spied on civil rights and anti-war organisers, the United States has a rich history of spying on marginalised communities.

From the US to Palestine to England, Palantir continues to cement its status internationally.

In November 2023, NHS England awarded Palantir a £330m contract to create a new data management system. In response, more than 100 health workers, patients, and allies picketed the offices of NHS England on 3rd April 2024 to demand the cancellation of this contract.

In addition to this, Palantir’s CEO Alex Karp says he is “exceedingly proud” of Palantir’s involvement in what he calls “operationally crucial operations in Israel. Palantir is responsible for creating systems like ‘Lavender’ and ‘Where’s Daddy?’, which reportedly speed up the process of killing Palestinians.

Will we see more private companies creating technology used by Western governments to help hunt and deport people from marginalised communities?

[Morgan Freeman @morgan_freeman]

There are certain people you know that you’re going to click with. After working with Robert Redford on Brubaker in 1980, we instantly became friends. Working with him again in An Unfinished Life was a dream come true.

Rest peacefully, my friend.

[Tez @tezilyas]

So this week…

A punk band is under criminal investigation for an anti IDF chant.

An activist group have been proscribed as terrorists for opposing Israel.

And we all watched a film detailing IDF and Israeli war crimes.

Yet our government and media continue to support the war criminals, and oppose the activists and artists who oppose a FOREIGN military power who have committed provable war crimes and countless abuses.

Got it.

#GazaDoctorsUnderAttack

[The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) @cfmmuk]

If you watched tonight's documentary #GazaDoctorsUnderAttack you will have seen the fate of Dr Adnan al-Bursh. In our report, we showed how the BBC mentioned his death just 3 times, omitting UN concerns he died following torture. While the media frets about chants at festivals, it wilfully ignores the murder of Palestinians in Gaza.

Read more at 👇
https://t.co/eo8ovcYPq6

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

.@Pal_action isn’t being proscribed because they are terrorists, but because they have been astonishingly effective at disrupting the work of Israel’s largest weapons company.

An inexhaustive, chronological thread of the group’s achievements to date 🧵

[Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social @NewcastleUniUCU]

A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI UCU!!

[University & College Workers for Palestine @UCW4Pal]

Nearly 1200 academics and activists including hundreds of members of @ucu say no to the proscription of @Pal_action by @ukhomeoffice and @YvetteCooperMP. We urge MPs to vote against this repressive move. https://t.co/6MTtB3w7za

[Ahmed Sewehli @LibyanIntegrity]

Great news from the British Medical Association’s annual conference.
It is now BMA policy that condemning Israel is not antisemitic per se, that students and medics should be able to advocate for Palestine without harassment by universities and trusts, and condemns اsraeا for killing health workers and bombing facilities and calls for accountability at ICJ and ICC. The conference calls for the immediate release of all detained health workers in اsraeا #BMAARM25

[@shaftag.bsky.social @shaftag]

We often get asked what @theriztest is & why me & @educ_research created it, so who better than our man @rizwanahmed to explain it himself. Proper G mA 👊🏽

We’re hard at work behind the scenes on some new research, podcast season 3, and some updated workshops