This is a thread about the Buffalo shooter, who slaughtered 10 people and injured three in a horrific racist attack last Sunday. I’ve read large chunks of the killer’s so-called manifesto and dipped into his diaries and Discord logs, and these are some observations.

👇🏼 A quick ethical note: I will not name the shooter or link to or even screenshot any of this material.

The killer’s texts illustrate four of the features of today’s international far right scene that I think are especially important.👇🏼

1/x Malcolm—who died just over a year ago—touched my life in many vital ways.

His decision to focus on his passion frontline youth work instead of research opened up the first job I got at @thecucr, and (after the late, great Pete Pope) was the second person I interviewed as…

https://twitter.com/AcademicDiary/status/1518637144029474817

…a professional researcher. Those interviews with him & Pete orientated the whole of the first decade of my research career, and I often think of their generosity. Later, he was instrumental in creating the first research project I worked on full time, in Deptford, born out of…

Bristol University professor David Miller finally terminated.

Three thoughts: First, as David Feldman says, his comments on Jews, including, crucially, Jewish students, aren’t just textbook antisemitism but also a clearcut case of harassment. It’s not an academic freedom issue, it’s about fitness to do a job in a diverse classroom. haaretz.com/israel-news/da…

Government source says French threats against Jersey are worse than Nazi occupation: “At least the Nazis kept the lights on.”

The ignorance & denialism about history here is shocking. The scale of violence in the Channel Islands, occupied June 1940 until 9 May 1945, was vast… “At least the Nazis kept the lights on.”

The Jews of Jersey were registered within weeks of the Nazi occupation, then had their businesses appropriated, then their homes, and then were deported to the concentration camps and death camps of the Nazi empire, mostly to Auschwitz.

David Feldman (@PearsInstitute), @b_mcgeever & I have written in the Guardian about the #EHRC's Labour antisemitism report, standing back from the factional tumult to understand what the findings mean for anti-racism. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Here’s a thread summarising it: 2/ The noise and emotion in the aftermath of the report have drawn attention from its substance beyond the top line that Labour has been found responsible for harassment and discrimination. In the piece we draw out the implications for anti-racist politics in Britain

Looking forward to speaking at the @UKJewishFilm screening of @alexandre_amiel’s “Why do they hate us?” at @JW3London on Thursday night, alongside @marievanderzyl (@BoDPres), @joanryanEnfield and @Tom_Godwin.

ukjewishfilm.org/event/why-do-t… 1/9 Was an honour to speak at the @UKJewishFilm screening of @alexandre_amiel’s “Why do they hate us?” @JW3London. A great film on anti-Jewish racism in France (part of a trilogy also exploring anti-Arab and anti-Black racism)