William A. Booth

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William A. Booth

William A. Booth

@WilliamABooth

Historian of Latin America & the Left at UCL 🚩🏳️‍⚧️🕊️✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿 الحرية لفلسطين Hope there is plenty, just not for us. Views often different from my employers.

Ipswich & Bloomsbury شامل ہوئے Ağustos 2015
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William A. Booth
William A. Booth@WilliamABooth·
A good illustration of why antizionism and antisemitism need to be understood as distinct concepts, and also of why so many try very hard to tell us that they are the same thing.
cez@cezthesocialist

Almost half of British people, and almost three quarters of Green voters, say that Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews. Only a small minority of people hold antisemitic beliefs, the lowest rate being among people who are more likely to be anti-Zionist.

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npj@TiltingatM3·
Of the roughly 100-120 billion humans to have ever been born, 8b are alive now. If you had to guess without looking when the median human by birth order came into the world—what was the year such that half of all humans were born before and half after—what year would you guess?
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William A. Booth@WilliamABooth·
The thing that is different about this administration is that they say the quiet part out loud. There are myriad consistencies and commonalities in US foreign policy at a global level running from around 1950 to the present (it’s complex before then). Rhetorical cover has changed
Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦@lugaricano

Many of us, liberal Europeans, spent decades pushing back against the European extreme left's cartoon version of America ( it's all oil/ imperialism/getting rich at the expense of others) and then one dumb administration walks in and performs the caricature to perfection.

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Thomas Rath
Thomas Rath@thom_rath·
@WilliamABooth Do people say “timeline cleanse” anymore? Anyway, timeline cleanse
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William A. Booth
William A. Booth@WilliamABooth·
A deer friend crossing the road into our garden on my way home!
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Samplo Corvodina of Streatham
Today is the day. Eric Cantona's kung-fu kick becomes closer in time to the assassination of JFK than the present day. We are, without any shadow of a doubt, #HurtlingTowardsDeath.
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William A. Booth
William A. Booth@WilliamABooth·
@johnpmerrick Yh Fulham’s too posh. Brentford too Moneyball. Milwall too fash. So maybe Palace but probably Charlton 🤣. The real but unacceptable answer is Spurs, and as a huge Mets fan it’s very painful to even moot it.
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John Merrick
John Merrick@johnpmerrick·
Obviously (and sadly) it’d be a football team, right? None of the hipster clubs, like Dulwich. But probably not any of the big teams either. Fulham? Too West London, probably
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