Alice Speri
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- The list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims. The 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
- Reposted by Alice Speri"Blistering opinion" is absolutely right. But this principled, outraged ruling is an entirely appropriate response to Trump's effort to imprison and deport people for their constitutionally protected speech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- New from me: I spoke to some of the dozens of university professors facing Title VI investigations over their pro-Palestinian advocacy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- "We’re going to need to politicize this fight". My latest, on what's ahead for US universities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Alice SperiMore than 115 scholars have condemned the cancellation of an academic journal dedicated to Palestine by a Harvard University publisher as “censorship”. www.theguardian.com/education/20... We too condemned it. Read Index CEO @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/shad...
- Reposted by Alice Speri“Millions taking to streets, asking an end to genocide, beaten, arrested, held on counts of terrorism, while those wanted by ICC for war crimes are received, allowed to fly over European & western space. This is absurd. This is the end of the rule of law.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- “The power is not just with the prime ministers or with the governments. The power is with us, and we can start choosing through our wallet.” My interview with Francesca Albanese. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- My latest, for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Alice SperiBREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit. We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.
- Breaking: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan was placed on administrative leave following reports of sexual abuse and retaliation by @dropsitenews.com and WSJ. Earlier this week, the President of ASP, which oversees the court, called on Khan to resign, but he declined. www.dropsitenews.com/p/karim-khan...
- In a statement, the court said "the Prosecutor communicated his decision to take leave until the end of the OIOS (UN Office of Internal Oversight Services) process". My sources said he was forced to step down.
- In an email to staff, Khan wrote he has been "fully cooperating" with the investigation, and that his decision is driven to his "commitment to the credibility" of the office. "As I have often said: the victims are the true owners of our work. Our responsibility is to them."
- Breaking: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan was placed on administrative leave following reports of sexual abuse and retaliation by @dropsitenews.com and WSJ. Earlier this week, the President of ASP, which oversees the court, called on Khan to resign, but he declined. Read our story here ⬇️
- “Hiding Behind Atrocities” The ICC prosecutor's handling of serious sexual abuse allegations has plunged the court into a deep crisis at one of the most vulnerable moments in its history. My investigation, for @dropsitenews.com
- Reposted by Alice SperiMust read by @alicesperi.bsky.social @theguardian.com about organized attacks on faculty research. @bletiecq.bsky.social quoted: “We are totally under attack...we’re like sitting ducks.” We need strength and solidarity. Keep doing the good work, and fight back. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Exclusive: Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal. New from me, for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
- Reposted by Alice SperiMy take on all the Trump genuflection: Once you have convinced yourself you can stay silent on a genocide unfolding live on your phone, you can stay silent/make peace with pretty much anything. Israel has blown a massive hole in our moral universe and now pretty anything can drive through it.
- For @theguardian.com I wrote about how Gaza has split the academic field of genocide studies. As one scholar put it, “Where can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?” My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
- Reposted by Alice SperiA pair of reports published this month mark a significant contribution to the raging debate over how to characterize a war that has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians and decimated Gaza. But the reports are unlikely to quell deep divisions in the academic field of Holocaust and genocide studies.
- What is genocide studies for? Or as a student put it, "Do you only study genocide or do you also want to prevent it?" My latest for The Guardian, on a field in crisis. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
- Reposted by Alice Speri“For a lot of colleagues it's very difficult to accept that a nation of victims could commit genocide,” says @uungor.bsky.social. “But now that Israel is doing the killing, all of a sudden we’re not supposed to apply everything we learned about violence?” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
- For @theguardian.com I wrote about how Gaza has split the academic field of genocide studies. As one scholar put it, “Where can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?” My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
- Reposted by Alice SperiIn The Guardian, @alicesperi.bsky.social reports on Trump's planned attack on DEI policies. Fear of future repercussions has prompted some campus leaders to cut back on DEI initiatives—even where no laws have been passed, notes @jeremycyoung.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
- Reposted by Alice Speri“Where life is precious, life is precious.” - Ruth Wilson Gilmore And where it’s not, it’s not. The for-profit health care industry profits off denying care. Across the industry 1 in 7 claims are denied. Our job isn’t to debate a murder, it’s to create a system where life is precious. My latest:
- “A university that doesn’t have a new building is still a university, it’s just a poor university. A university that has lawmakers banning ideas and restricting the actions of the administration is really not a university at all.” @jeremycyoung.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
- Reposted by Alice Speri"What [college presidents] need to do is find a backbone, and I say that with a lot of understanding and empathy for the situation they’re in." I talk to @alicesperi.bsky.social @theguardian.com re: colleges voluntarily closing DEI offices to appease politicians. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
- Trump promises a crackdown on diversity initiatives. Fearful institutions are dialing them back already. My latest @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
- “It is a very scary time for universities. But universities have to continue to preserve academic freedom and the right to learn – those are critical to them fulfilling their mission.” My latest @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
- Free speech advocates expect the IHRA definition of antisemitism to be “used as a sledgehammer” in the incoming administration’s attacks on pro-Palestine activism. New from me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
- Reposted by Alice Speri@alicesperi.bsky.social and I recently had the chance to delve into the ties of law enforcement to the January 6th insurrection through an investigation into the Fontana Police Department, where we heard rare testimony from former officers about their experience with racism: youtu.be/aIaQVFyStQk?...
