Researching counterterrorism & the criminalisation of social movements @ISGnews • Organising, thinking, writing on & against counterinsurgency ☀️
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7 Mar 2025
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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Apr 20
‘British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students’ WTAF! aje.news/30ic1p
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Apr 15
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
Apr 15
Two shipments of military components bound for Israel from the U.K. have been seized in Belgium.
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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 >
Apr 14
🚨 The UK has been ordered not to report on the #Filton24 retrial AND the jury is not to know that the charges are being brought under *terrorism* legislation, not regular criminal law. It's outrageous.
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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.”
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Apr 10
Mark Fisher in 2015 had the most prescient view of what was needed and also where the UK is now at 10 years later.
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Apr 9
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
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RT @mayamikdashi: Disturbing that the very idea of AUB being targeted is causing more uproar that the actual targeting of the Lebanese Univ…
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Mar 19
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
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Mar 18
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.
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Maya is very emotional as she talks about how she was suicidal after discovering Robert Hastings was a #spycops officer. She started smoking crack. She is now 11 years into her PhD and it is still not done.
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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.
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Mar 5
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.
Iraqi Kurds are planning on launching a ground military operation into Iran.
1. The Iraqi Kurds have long been used by the CIA in the past couple of decades, and every time the CIA abandons them.
2. For some reason, they continue to bootlick for the CIA.
3. They are not doing this out of the kindness of their heart, they want to claim Iranian land as their own. That is their end game.
4. This will lead to an elongated civil war with other ethnic groups in Iran jumping in and fighting one another.
Please read through the reality of this situation, this is NOT GOOD.
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The security state is insatiable in its search for maximum powers to disrupt & pacify the population.
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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.
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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.
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The sheer hypocrisy of European liberals decrying ICE tactics when the Mediterranean remains the most dangerous border in the world & a mass graveyard...
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Feb 13
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.
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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.
Feb 13
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.
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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.
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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.
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