So, #DavidMiller has won a landmark case, that says anti-zionist ideas are protected speech in the UK. This is a BIG WIN for those of us who teach on Palestine and Israel but make no mistake the Left should not support his very problematic take on
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Dr. Michal Nahman
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Associate Professor in Social Anthropology, @4sWeb Council member . Views expressed r my own. Author of Extractions (2013) global repro justice, Israel-Palest
Joined December 2009
- Replying to @michalnahmanZionists and Jews as shady secretive power possessing...this mimics and mirrors far-right take on Jews and we on the Left should be very careful not to side with this. Especially as it misses out the predominant role of #imperialism completely 2/
- Replying to @michalnahmanDavid Miller case may have gotten progress for free speech and the ability to criticise cruel and violent state practices but his framing of the problem is entirely off the mark.
- Replying to @michalnahmanFixate on Jews and Zionists too much and you miss the entire big picture and end up reproducing a simplistic and racist trope...also...he throws the whole Palestine solidarity movement under the bus in his remarks about his win...
- Tonight at @4sWeb conference in Cholula Mexico, our special issue, co-edited by Siggie Vertommen, @ParryBronwyn and Me. Chaired by @LucyvandeWiel #feministtechnoscience #Coloniallineages #globalfertilitychains #reproductivepolitics @catalyst_sts
- Thrilled to have been awarded a @UWEBristol grant to work with @uweFBL colleague Susan Newman and @sallyjdowling exploring the changing nature of women's labour and bodily commodification through the 'lens' of the cross-border breastmilk industry! @UWESociology @IdentitiesUWE
- I'm very excited to announce my first collaboration with the Museum of the Home in London, @museumofthehome. Their work on themes of home and belonging is so resonant with my research. 🧿 I'll be cooking a three course Sephardi and Mizrahi style supper celebrating Hanukkah 🧿
- We made a statement calling-in the field of reproduction: “Resistance is Fertile: No Reproductive Justice without Freedom for Palestine.” The time for resistance and transnational solidarity is now. Repro-workers, scholars, and activists, please sign ♥️docs.google.com/forms/d/1OtOXd…
- Register now for this conference co-organised by @IdentitiesUWE and @UWESociology and @britsoci and supported by @wellcometrust . Please register soon! Some great speakers inc, @ParryBronwyn @Menzwa @SayaniMitra_ @christina_weis members of @ReproSoc, Dr Sigrid Vertommen, & more!
- A thread: Beginning my prep today for my KE event @MuseumoftheHome... a Sephardi Supper Club in which we talk about Jewish diversity, migration and inequality. I'm cooking beautiful foods. Menu in second tweet.
- Ooh, here's the link to my talk TODAY about Jewish food cultures from the Middle East and North Africa, its just an introduction so expect nice food pics and a tale of how I found my new field. @Finn_Mackay @UWESociology @race_uwe @JayneEEgerton @CliveSG @JewishStudiesUKSOAS Food Forum: ‘The Mizrachi Food Project: Migration, Home and Un/Belonging’ 21 January at 13:15 Dr Michal Nahman (University of West England) soas.ac.uk/foodstudies/
- Ooh! My work with @susanamynewman on #breastmilk markets and women's labour is out, please see link below. @ReproUCL1 @ReproSoc @CRRDMU Funded by @UWEBristol @VCUWE IRCF @uwebristolnews @UWESociology for the real world.New article by myself and @michalnahman has been published online (open access). It will form part of a special issue on Feminist Global Political Economies of Work and Social Reproduction that will be out in 2021. @SaraStevano @Economics_OU @IntDev_OU tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
- Im giving a talk in Delhi this month @UWE_Research @JayneEEgerton @ReproSoc @CRRDMU @UWESociology @UWE_Migration













