Olaf Corry

Teach/research international politics, climate, science 'n societies. City and University of Leeds, Kingdom of Denmark - not all rotten. @olafcorry.bsky.social

[Olaf Corry @TOClimates]

My own contribution to this very special Special Issue is on the meta-politics of climate change. It combines, finally, my climate intervention & governance-object sides, & offers a novel distinction between gov objects that can just b protected, versus more 'malleable' ones🧵👇

[Alejandro Esguerra @Alej_Esguerra]

🥁Special Forum on Objects of Expertise🥁 Explore articles on the political dynamics of knowledge production by @jrodehaun Laura Pantzerhielm @TOClimates Anna Leander @c_bueger @AnnabelleLittoz Thomas Müller. Thanks for great comments @bentleyballan O-J Sending, @AudreyAlejand

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Israel dropped 2,000-pound bombs, each with a lethal radius of 3.3 football fields, on refugee camps packed with displaced Palestinians, including on the "safe zone" it forced them to flee to.

Blinken and the Biden administration sent at least 14,000 MK-84 2,000-pound bombs to Israel between Oct. 7, 2023 and late June 2024.

The former Secretary of State today said “Israelis didn’t intend to harm Palestinian civilians.”

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🇵🇸 Displaced Gazan generates electricity with makeshift wind tribunes

Above rows of displacement tents in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, a makeshift wind turbine spins, generating electricity amid chronic power shortages.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇬🇧 “Is it now the Labour position that a genocide is not racist?”

Green Party leader Zack Polanski confronted Conservative and Labour politicians at the London Assembly on Thursday after Conservative Susan Hall introduced a motion condemning the Greens’ decision to define Zionism as racism.

Hall called the Green Party’s position “abhorrent” and argued it threatened Jewish Londoners.

Polanski, who is Jewish, accused Hall of weaponizing antisemitism and challenged Labour members over their government’s continued military support for Israel amid the genocide in Gaza.

The Assembly passed Hall’s motion 19–3, with just the three Green members voting against it.

[Tariq Ali @TariqAli_News]

Labour Bans Andreas Malm fron entering Britain. An appalling decision. Here is my statement as Chair of Verso, Malm 's publishers.

https://t.co/4S52auC8cE

[Olaf Corry @TOClimates]

Cracking article:
"This empire has always been fossil; but it becomes ultra-fossil when it makes a priority of violently cranking up extraction at the threshold to 1.5C and beyond."

[Oliver Eagleton @Oliver_Eagleton]

This is the essay the government doesn't want you to read.

Andreas Malm's overarching theory of the present — as an age of 'ultra-fossil' empire — in the new Tribune.

The rest of the issue isn't out yet, but we've released this early on our website:

https://t.co/cEGZVbi1hO

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

In the Myanmar genocide case currently before the ICJ, Britain, France, Denmark, Germany, Canada and the Netherlands said that targeting children was indicative of genocidal intent. None of them have commented on Israel’s targeting of children, on which the UN commission reported. But the issue will come back to bite them.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Basic education piece:

Not all Jewish people are Zionists.

Lots of Zionists aren't Jews.

The Board of Deputies largely self identity as Zionists.

The Media often report the Board of Deputies as the opinion of Jewish people.

Yet many Jewish people say #NotInOurName

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Ed has never threatened the Labour Party with non-cooperation for facilitating and enabling a genocide, arresting pensioners for holding signs, or overseeing new restrictions on the right to peaceful protest... despite being the Party of civil liberties. Why is that?

Seems to me the whole political establishment is telling on itself. A motion is a red line, but genocide isn't.

[Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal]

This is the first genocide in human history in which the perpetrators openly boast of their colonial campaign of ethnic cleansing and extermination —and the first in which sanctions are imposed on prosecutors, judges, and international tribunals to shield war criminals and génocidaires from accountability.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

To be clear: both the Lib Dems and Labour are saying that they will refuse to form a coalition with the Greens, even if it as the expense of a Reform or Tory government, because of a Green Party conference motion condemning a political ideology that’s led to genocide?

Really?

[Sarah Helm @SarahHelm1]

People who attack Palestinians for choosing the poppy as a symbol should see the blooms on the remains of Burayr, a Gaza district village erased by Haganah units in 1948 its inhabitants murdered in their homes or as they fled in terror to what is now the Gaza Strip.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

There has never, in our lifetimes, been a genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign that the genocidal ethnic cleaners have so openly bragged about doing.

[Rima Hassan @RimaHas]

Un maire français Bernard Baudoux a été agressé par des colons israéliens en Cisjordanie occupée.

Il se trouvait avec des diplomates français, belges et polonais ainsi que des représentants catholiques, qui ont également été ciblés par les colons israéliens.

L’UE est toujours le premier partenaire commercial d’Israël et aucune sanction n’est prise contre la politique coloniale, d’annexion et d’apartheid d’Israël.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Yeah, so my father arrived in the UK in 1966 as a legal immigrant. He and his fellow Indian immigrants didn’t claim the entire country was theirs, didn’t kick 100s of 1000s of Brits out of their homes, and didn’t set up an Indian ethno-national state in the UK. If you’re too dumb or dishonest to understand the difference between normal, legal immigration and settler colonialism, that’s on you, not me.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Does this apology extend to the hundreds of Palestinians who were brutalized during the same attack?

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

A statement was issued just moments ago announcing a ban on the entry of commercial goods into Gaza City until further notice.

Meanwhile, late at night, people have begun rushing to the markets, trying to buy whatever food they can for their children out of fear that food supplies will run out and famine will return.

If the ban on commercial goods and food supplies entering Gaza continues, famine will return in an even more severe and devastating form.

Enough playing with our lives. We are human beings, not numbers.

[Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley]

A really excellent response by Barnet’s solitary Green councillor Charli Anne Thompson to Zionist hooligan Sarah Sackman (ex vice chair in Labour Zionist group the JLM).

This is the polite, articulate politician’s way to say “F off”.

10/10, no notes.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Latest on Heidi Levine: broken rib, four broken vertebrae, her finger was nearly cut off, multiple potential stabbing wounds. Surgery first thing in the morning.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Here’s the American that just got savagely beaten by settlers. Not Heidi Levine—the one from yesterday, Haitham Taysir.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Many people have asked so—the answer is no, I have not been contacted by a single US or Israeli authority. Hope the investigation is going well 🤞