Staff & students at @UniversityLeeds have shared shocking photos/videos sent to them by their chaplain who has travelled to join Israel’s reserve army-he says Israel is doing the “most moral” thing rn! Will he return to a pastoral role!? I won’t draw the comparison but… imagine!





.@UniversityLeeds chaplaincy services are meant to be for all students wellbeing… would ANY student feel safe that someone in the reserve army of a state blatantly violating international human rights law and enjoying it, be their go-to for help when struggling? Astonishing!!

This week I’ve been in an employment tribunal where a Muslim academic at @UniversityLeeds is bringing multiple claims of race and religious discrimination against the University. It has been astounding so far hearing the processes of exclusion, racial governance & undermining 🧵 Two of the claimants initial claims that were dropped due to being out of time included that the Claimant’s module “Global Jihad” was referred to the PREVENT programme because he and his Muslim colleagues were not trusted to report their students for risk of radicalisation

So I decided to explain more behind this on Instagram and will copy to here because tbh this sort of activity is important to counter. It’s straight up deflecting accountability and normalising the home office’s intrusion into every facet of Muslim life online or offline. Thread

https://twitter.com/thebrownhijabi/status/1332625343480541187

So remember supersisters were found to be home office funded as part of a BSBT counter extremism project to socially engineer Muslim girlhood that is apolitical and especially uncritical of systems of oppression operating by or for the state

Listen to Black ppl & Black Muslims & activists>>> but iv compiled a resource ill keep updating esp for south asians (but other non-black POC) to help with unlearning white supremacy & with also therefore disinvest from anti-blackness! hope its helpful: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… We r all born into white supremacy if ur in the UK or USA (as well as globally tbh). We internalise racial hierarchy from the moment we r born & recognise very early on that being nearer to Whiteness brings benefits - safety, access to healthcare, education, better outcomes

Whilst we all feel heartbroken let’s recognise that if we’re not black it’s our duty to implement real material changes to change the anti black status quo. In the UK anti blackness is upheld by non black people of colour - south Asians and Arabs especially - in so many ways One of the most subtle of these is the internalised desire to be closer to whiteness. If we look at the likes of Patel & Javed we see how Asians are able to access power through performing proximity to whiteness THROUGH their internalised racism

It's late here in Lahore, so I'll be going to bed now, but I wanted to just post a few more email excerpts before I do. I have received over 50 emails today and listed 160+ people stranded after flights were cancelled overnight on Saturday in these unprecedented times... If I have found the time to reply to all 50+ ppl, chase FCO updates & be in contact with journalists y have @ukinpakistan only found time to advertise one commercial airline to us that costs £1300-1600pp? UK Pakistanis live in disproportionate poverty in UK - who can afford this?

I spoke to 3 friends/activists - Helen from The Stansted 15, @NLSistersUncut & @CAPExpansion - to discuss how counter terrorism & securitisation of the state in the last 5 yrs has hampered activism across the board & how we build a consensus against it! independent.co.uk/independentpre… There’s frustratingly a paywall on the piece so I will expand here... CT policies have not only failed to protect people but have produced huge amounts of harm compromising marginalised people’s safety whilst providing the state with a tool to criminalise any/all critique.

I am absolutely fuming.
Just watched @BBCTwo's "Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong For Asian Men" presented by Mehreen Baig and I am in shock about how disgracefully she happily used her "insider" status to reproduce racist, culturally essentialising tropes & ignore racism.
A thread: First off, how the hell are you going to make a documentary about Asian men in Britain and "what's going wrong" for them without ever ONCE mentioning race, racism or class? It's absolutely dismaying that the analysis completely removes Asian boys & men from their context!