Anna Stavrianakis (@StavrianakisA) / X

Anna Stavrianakis

4,510 posts

Anna Stavrianakis

@StavrianakisA

Find me at @ annastavrianakis.bsky.social Arms trade researcher at U. Sussex and Shadow World Investigations

Joined April 2015

Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Nov 28, 2023
Small story: today I learnt that a Palestinian student I taught on a summer school in Lebanon last year was imprisoned by Israel; she is due for release today. Last summer she told me she wanted to submit her uni coursework ahead of time before travelling back to Palestine. Why?
Rafeef Ziadah
@RafeefZiadah
Nov 28, 2023
Let's organise in every single branch...
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Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Nov 28, 2023
Replying to @StavrianakisA
In case she got arrested crossing the border on her way back home. Stop for a moment to let that sink in. If some of our students are unfree, all our students are unfree
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Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Nov 18, 2024
Spent the day at the Royal Courts of Justice today, listening to the @alhaq_org @GLAN_LAW judicial review hearing. Key takeaways: 1) the UK govt accepts that there is a clear risk that F35 parts might be used in IHL violations. Repeat: the govt ACCEPTS this. And /
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Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Sep 2, 2024
David Lammy, I rewrote your speech more accurately: "we will suspend the export of components for fighter aircraft, except for components for the F35, our main contribution to Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, because we don't want to upset the Americans"
UK policy on arms export licences to Israel: Foreign Secretary's statement
From gov.uk
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Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Sep 4, 2024
This is a big deal: FCDO officials WERE telling David Cameron there was a clear risk of misuse of weapons. He didn’t act on it, and - in my view - deliberately misled Parliament and the Foreign Affairs Committee in particular -
David Cameron sat on advice that there was breach of law in Gaza, officials say
From theguardian.com
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Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Sep 2, 2024
Any state or company supplying parts for F-35s is complicit in a genocidal war. That includes the 79 companies on the UK government's open licence for the F-35. I have directly asked UK govt officials why they haven't revoked that licence. Met with blank stares and silence.
Shadow World Investigations
@ShadowWorldInv1
Sep 2, 2024
‼️For the first time during this genocide, the involvement of an F-35 in a specific deadly Israeli airstrike has been confirmed. 15% of every F-35 is made in the UK. Palestinian lives matter! We cannot wait any longer! @Keir_Starmer: #StopArmingIsrael information.dk/indland/2024/0…
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Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Nov 18, 2024
Replying to @StavrianakisA
4) So from today's discussion, the govt is content to allow UK arms exports to facilitate a genocide because it doesn't want to upset the USA. Channelling @4noura, it's not what the UK says about genocide that matters, but what the genocide says about the UK. /end
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Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Jun 30, 2025
Terrible day for justice: the High Court has ruled against Al Haq in the judicial review of UK arms exports to Israel. 3 main types of reasoning: 1) that some of the issues are non-justiciable ie can't be adjudicated in a UK court of law. So what is the point of export controls?/
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Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Mar 19, 2020
Seriously, @SussexUni? Do you really think it is reasonable, when your staff are making heroic efforts to transition to online classes, to remind them of the importance of declaring their strike days so you can dock their pay? Take a long hard look at yourself.
Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Aug 8, 2025
Reflection on the @BBCRadioWales phone-in re: Gaza: my chat with the producer was all about Keir Starmer’s response to Israel’s escalation. The presenter chose to start with the need to disarm Hamas /1
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Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Jun 22, 2025
Today seems like a good day to gem up on the Terrorism Act 2000. Tomorrow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will tell Parliament she wants to add Palestine Action to the list of proscribed organisations. This must be must be actively approved by both Houses of Parliament /1
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Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Nov 18, 2024
Replying to @StavrianakisA
3) My reading of C2 is that it is an absolute/stand-alone commitment: once the clear risk test is met, no exports can be permitted. Yet Defence Secretary John Healey said that the risk to "US confidence in the UK" by prohibiting F35 parts was too great, hence the "carve-out" /
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Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Nov 18, 2024
Replying to @StavrianakisA
2) the UK govt, since 2 Sept, has been of the view that Israel is overall NOT committed to compliance with IHL in Gaza. Taken together, these two things mean that what's known as Criterion 2C kicks in. C2 says that if there is a clear risk of misuse, govt will not allow exports /
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Anna Stavrianakis
@StavrianakisA
Aug 8, 2025
Replying to @StavrianakisA
Those of us that have the opportunity to communicate publicly must keep pushing back against this framing. The source of violence in Palestine is Israel’s occupation, apartheid rule, and now genocidal war /2
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