iida käyhkö

Researching counterterrorism & the criminalisation of social movements @ISGnews • Organising, thinking, writing on & against counterinsurgency ☀️

[iida käyhkö @iidaest]

My piece on the November 2024 raids on the Kurdish community in London has been published in Race & Class. Thanks to everyone at @IRR_News for getting this out into the world!

It's open access, please read & share widely. https://t.co/77pYD7Xqfg

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

‘British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students’ WTAF! https://t.co/1F9uAVQjnE

[Kam Sandhu @_kayayem]

Wild

[enter shakira𓅮 @BARFJAMiN]

people need to go to jail for this because what do you mean Britain is intentionally concealing and smuggling weapon parts through a country that has banned arms exports to Israel and how is this not a major international incident

[Donna McLean @Donna__McLean]

Friends in the #spycops survivor community would articulate this better, but the right to peaceful protest has *always* been an illusion. We've been spied on, infiltrated, and physically/ sexually/ psychologically abused. New methods — classifying protest as terrorism without >

[Rojava Information Center @RojavaIC]

Emina Ehmo was one civilian waiting for her cousin to return home after his capture. She told RIC, “We are very happy, our holidays and blessed days have just started. Hopefully all other prisoners will be released soon as well. May the heart of all Kurdish mothers be relieved.”

[Em Colquhoun @xenogothic]

Mark Fisher in 2015 had the most prescient view of what was needed and also where the UK is now at 10 years later.

[The Amargi @the_amargi]

Syria has opened a path to citizenship for stateless Kurds, but some applicants are already being registered as “Syrian Arab”, reviving fears that reform may reproduce older patterns of erasure rather than undo them. ✍️ Eve Morris-Gray

https://t.co/BYtDWNB5P8

[Maya Mikdashi @mayamikdashi]

Disturbing that the very idea of AUB being targeted is causing more uproar that the actual targeting of the Lebanese University and the assassination of its professors

[usaama @yoUsaama]

UK police arresting an anti-genocide peace activist from her home, ostensibly over a social media post, with their faces covered like they're in a neo-nazi gang. totally normal country

[Judy Berxwedan @Judy20255]

A fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces of Arab origin, who was released today, says that the prisons in Deir ez-Zor are overcrowded with Kurdish detainees. He added: “We were subjected to beatings, broken ribs, and insults, and they forced us to bark.”

It appears that the Damascus government is delaying the release of Kurdish fighters and civilians, and that this is part of a psychological war against the people of Rojava in particular and Kurds in general.

#FreedomForThePrisoners
#SaveTheKurdsAct

[Donna McLean @Donna__McLean]

I will say this again. These men set out to destroy us. Anyone who has experienced domestic abuse will relate to this, but the difference is this abuse was inflicted on dozens of women by British state #spycops as part of their political policing 'strategy'. Let that sink in.

[el loves gromit and books @gromitreads]

feminism should be a core value in anti-imperialism and decolonisation yet it is demonised by patriarchy centred so-called “leftists” bc they can’t see passed feminism as a “western” concept and not a global radical concept.

[Meghan Bodette @_____mjb]

The KDP and the PUK are, and I cannot stress this enough, never going to invade Iran. Let's not comment on this if we can't find Erbil on a map.

[iida käyhkö @iidaest]

https://t.co/cKIeTI20j4

[iida käyhkö @iidaest]

The Palestine Action verdict shows that there are still cracks in the arsenal of counterterrorism legislation.

The question is, where will this trial run of expanding those powers exponentially take us now. Because there will be other avenues trialled.

[iida käyhkö @iidaest]

The security state is insatiable in its search for maximum powers to disrupt & pacify the population.

[Lord Walney @LordWalney]

The government must agree to create a new category of Extreme Criminal Protest Group to make it easier to ban groups like Palestine Action without necessarily labelling them as terrorists. Ministers should accept my amendment in the House of Lords.

[iida käyhkö @iidaest]

The sheer hypocrisy of European liberals decrying ICE tactics when the Mediterranean remains the most dangerous border in the world & a mass graveyard...

[iida käyhkö @iidaest]

Being able to use counterterrorism powers more broadly, by expanding proscription, enables the use of 'softer', pacificatory methods on larger parts of the population with significantly less oversight. The remit of counterterrorism purposely creates grey areas of secretive power.

[iida käyhkö @iidaest]

Being able to use counterterrorism powers more broadly, by expanding proscription, enables the use of 'softer', pacificatory methods on larger parts of the population with significantly less oversight. The remit of counterterrorism purposely creates grey areas of secretive power.

[iida käyhkö @iidaest]

Not trying to get too Foucauldian with it, just remembering that the state assemblage's drive is ultimately towards violent social ordering & counterterrorism is where that's most easily accomplished.

[iida käyhkö @iidaest]

The Palestine Action verdict shows that there are still cracks in the arsenal of counterterrorism legislation.

The question is, where will this trial run of expanding those powers exponentially take us now. Because there will be other avenues trialled.

[iida käyhkö @iidaest]

With prisons full & the judicial system overwhelmed, counterterrorism is an alternative avenue for ordering & controlling the population. Instead of prosecution, it's about disruption. Border stops, bank account closures, threats re: citizenship, expanded intelligence powers.