Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra || محمد السيّد بشرى

My joint paper on Ennahda has been published open access in @PandRJournal 👇

The picture is from Eid in Al Fashir in 2015 a city that was sieged and subsequently massacred by the UAE sponsored RSF militia late last year.

“The literary translator is the philologist par excellence, and in a world literature, comprised by texts travelling frictionlessly across language barriers, there’s no need for them: Whoopee! But here’s the rub, Homer Simpson: all culture is friction, doh!”

People who usually drone on about purity politics tend to hold people who are actually on the ground resisting their extermination to standards no one in their situation can meet.

@Malikarred Congrats bro 🥳

GUESS WHO GRADUATED???!!!!! 🎓 🤪

@Malikarred He means there’s no Islamic MCU.

Islam: famously incapable of "cultural osmosis"

“Are you offended, yeah?” as a ruling political ideology.

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants. Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict. Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences. Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670? It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide. Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-01-1…

When @Telegraph finds a Jew it doesn't like, it temporarily abandons the fake campaign against antisemitism and turns itself back into Fleet Street's version of Der Sturmer.

Just had this disgusting leaflet put through my letterbox portraying Polanski as an Islamist by someone from Reform. I check on my Ring cam and it turns out this is my old primary school teacher who was sacked for noncing. Couldn’t make it up.

@Malikarred 😂

Read German and french people so that you can abandon the west and become greek.

@empressshanist @FearedBuck I thought I was going insane. Did people not watch the clip or what?

@FearedBuck I heard her say she, herself, is an illegal and half her team is not at the show because they didn’t get the visas. I also heard, once you’re illegal you’re always or something to that effect. Is she not advocating for immigrants by wearing the insult like a badge of honor?

Kid Cudi has removed M.I.A. from his tour after she opened for him in Dallas and went on a rant about “illegals” and “being canceled for being a Republican” and how she was performing to a bunch of illegals

I'm reluctantly posting on X again because the world needs to read this. My daughter Zoe Rogers gave her own closing speech at the Filton trial, as did 4 other defendants, while their barristers looked on. This is what she said 🧵 1/

her employer is northwestern university

SHE LEAKED THE MEMO THAT COULD HAVE STOPPED THE IRAQ WAR. In January 2003, Katharine Gun was a Mandarin translator at GCHQ, Britain's signals intelligence agency. She showed up to work one morning, opened her email, and found a memo that would destroy her career, threaten her marriage, and land her in court facing two years in prison. The email was from Frank Koza, chief of staff at the NSA's regional targets division, asking GCHQ to help spy on the private communications of six UN Security Council nations whose votes would determine whether the world approved an invasion of Iraq. The goal was to gather intelligence that would give US policymakers leverage over smaller nations. Angola. Cameroon. Chile. Guinea. Pakistan. Bulgaria. Countries with no dog in this fight, being bugged so Washington and London could fix the result. Gun printed the email, slipped it into her handbag, and eventually passed it to a journalist. In March 2003 the memo was published by The Observer, creating a media firestorm and raising serious questions about the legality of the Iraq War. Then they came for her. She was charged under Section 1 of the Official Secrets Act in November 2003. She refused to plead guilty. Her legal team decided the best defence was to prove that the war itself was illegal, and demanded the government hand over its own legal advice to Tony Blair. And here is the part that tells you everything you need to know about how power actually works. The case came to court on 25 February 2004. Within half an hour it was dropped. The prosecution offered no evidence. In May 2019 The Guardian reported the case was dropped because the prosecution realised that evidence would emerge showing that even British government lawyers believed the invasion was unlawful. The government could not prosecute the whistleblower without putting the war on trial. So they quietly walked out of court and hoped everyone would forget. Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, called Gun's action the most important and courageous leak he had ever seen. Three UK inquiries into the Iraq War never once examined her case. Sources: The Observer / The Guardian

Still crazy to me that the AP Style Guide bans the use of the word "Palestine"

@DrUsaama This sentence is forbidden in Germany 😶

Just in time for the centenary?

Inconceivably evil.

So Americans need to see people eating outside, wearing western clothes and having nice cars to believe they're humans enough to not bomb them? I see.

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