Today the London Review of Books is publishing my piece about the history of the Israeli settlements around the Gaza Strip. It is an effort to think through the historical context of current events. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

wrote about 'air policing' in the British Empire, a strategy still being used – in Gaza, for instance – warning people about bombing was *never* about humanitarian concerns, and still isn't

.Francis Gooding wrote an excellent piece in London Review of Books about how the strategy of ‘air policing’ was used in the British Empire (and elsewhere, including now in Gaza) to justify indiscriminate bombing of civilians. It was never about “humanitarian concerns”. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

I hope they sent a copy of this reel to the ICJ.

It's not just thousands of children buried in the rubble of Gaza. Buried alongside them is the moral authority of those who cheered on Israel's massacre - or who said almost nothing when the scale of the crime was obvious. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Defunding UNRWA at this critical time overtly defies @ICJ's order to allow effective humanitarian assistance "to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in Gaza". This will entail legal responsibilities - or the demise of the int'l legal system.

wrote something about the IWM and the act of witness, to link colonial violence, the holocaust and gaza

"How do we live in this country now? I do not see that there are good futures in a place whose institutions and representatives have chosen genocide."// newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/… via New Socialist

Every word of this rings true and captures the rage of how it feels to be British right now. newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/…

newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/… Every word of this.

‘A new kind of anachronism has overtaken the Imperial War Museums: it now stands for values that its own government has reneged on.’ Francis Gooding on the memorialisation of conflict at the Imperial War Museum: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

This piece by Owain Gerald in New Socialist captures exactly how I feel about Palestine: newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/…. After genocide anything and everything is now possible. Liberal humanism is dead.

Gaza has been a test for humanity, and our political leaders have failed. Their moral authority lies under the rubble, along with the thousands of lives that could have been saved by a ceasefire. We still believe in a more peaceful world, and we are not going anywhere.

ComGen Philippe Lazzarini: the highest number of people ever recorded as facing human-made famine, along with mass killings, constant harm & creation of conditions that gut life of humanity has a name: Genocide. Israel wants no witnesses, no truth-tellers. Respect & solidarity.

THREAD: 1. Anatomy of a genocide sketched out. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

so anyway the real problem here is Lacan's shirt: even my most dandyish friends cannot explain the throat-latch or the double button situation. plus the mohair jacket is out of control. draped up

Next week at Camden Art Centre, Francis Gooding on South African jazz in exile during the apartheid era: camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/publi…

Camden Art Centre's Public Listening series continues this week with Francis Gooding presenting a discussion on the music, voices and images of South African jazz artists exiled in Britain during the apartheid era. London Camden Art Centre, 6 June, 7pm: camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/publi…

Can I say something, possibly controversial? I strongly believe, based on conversation I have had off the record with certain people, that in the US and UK (possibly throughout Europe) everyone is aware that Israel is committing genocide and they will let them do it….

wrote about Maurice Godelier's work on incest for London Review of Books... takeaway here is that 'incest prohibitions' effectively *precede* incest as such, so Freud and Levi-Strauss and everyone else who thinks they were invented to outlaw incest have it the wrong way round