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...so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist

Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Wed 7 Feb 2018 12:22

6. if you look at the organisers’ statements, the point is it has representatives of numerous groups like Syriac Christians, Armenians, Yazidis, Arabs.. Cole ensures we don’t even know the organisers’ claims in this regard.

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Wed 7 Feb 2018 12:21

5. n fact it’a a unity rally from across the North Syria Democratic Federation, a multi-ethnic group trying to build a directly democratic society across the region. Cole thus is thus enable to ignore all this. Rather he makes it sound like it’s just Kurdish nationalism

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Wed 7 Feb 2018 12:19

4. It starts “Arabic daily Elaph reports that 100s of Kurds who came into Afrin from other Kurdish cantons” – staged a rally in Afrin. This is clever. Citing a biased source makes it possible to present a biased view w plausible denability (as his friends at the CIA might put it)

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Wed 7 Feb 2018 12:15

3. let’s take his latest entry, https://t.co/RAtccNXwYv, about a march of civilian supporters to Afrin, the canton of Rojava that has been invaded by the Turkish army with Islamist allies including former ISIS and Al Qaeda

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Wed 7 Feb 2018 12:13

2. if I had a blog, I’d love to take apart his comments on anything involving the Kurdish Freedom Movement, against which he is wildly & systematically biased, constantly presenting either false, or weirdly slanted information against them

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Wed 7 Feb 2018 12:12

1. it has always disturbed me that @jricole the popular scholarly blogger on Middle Eastern politics (“informed politics”) purports to give a left-wing take, but actually, is a Sanders democrat in the US, but seems to hate all ME leftists & prefer moderate Islamists

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Mon 5 Feb 2018 14:52

Dutch gov’t approves of unprovoked genocidal attack by Turkey on its neighbour, but then withdraws ambassador as Turkey doesn’t show sufficient gratitude https://t.co/9j9Ljqb2FT

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Mon 5 Feb 2018 12:41

I am so happy to hear the news about @laurilove, & I must express my profound respect for his fortitude under the most gruelling psychological conditions. They tried to destroy him. But they failed. https://t.co/ngf8xI1Yq9

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Mon 5 Feb 2018 11:50

Things getting epic in Mesopotamia: “To this, the YPJ fighter has her own response: ‘This time, My sisters will make history. We will avenge our Goddess Tiamat and smash the legacy of Marduk.'” https://t.co/D9zKrAGLZT

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Sun 4 Feb 2018 22:06

it’s just a matter of time before the Turkish army kills American troops – who are basically just there as human shields. It’ll be genuinely interesting to watch what happens when they do. https://t.co/QxGEibf3uB

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Sun 4 Feb 2018 22:01

so what do you think the real numbers are? For every one Turkish soldier whose death is announced, I’d say, 2 really killed, and how many? 5-6 “FSA” allies? https://t.co/q4ailECjbv

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Sun 4 Feb 2018 14:02

apparently people in many Arab districts of Syria are organising marches to Afrin to show solidarity against the Turkish invasion https://t.co/MtGHJYy3VQ

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Mon 29 Jan 2018 13:14

(except it’s behind a paywall anyone want to put it up properly somewhere? This needs to be seen by everyone in the entire world.)

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Sat 27 Jan 2018 20:15

Kind of amazing if you think about it – after all how hard would it be? And if this happens in a case with massive press attention… https://t.co/oPRMafUcyd

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Thu 25 Jan 2018 19:50

This is important: Afrin is the part of Rojava that has gone the furthest in enacting women’s liberation. Almost two thirds of those active in civic institutions are women. This is the experiment Erdogan wishes to destroy. https://t.co/4XIQ7pRBwj

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Thu 25 Jan 2018 14:07

Germany postpones upgrade of Leopard tanks sold to Turkey until after people aren’t quite so keenly aware they are being used for terror attacks against civilians https://t.co/S3yrH2hFZg

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Thu 25 Jan 2018 01:26

Turkey claims to have lost 4 soldiers in Afrin & killed 360. Afrin’s defenders release pictures of the photo IDs of a dozen Turkish soldiers killed in one village alone https://t.co/Jp57VF83Hs https://t.co/GFTXeKdfSC

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Thu 25 Jan 2018 01:24

why are people repeating this obviously false information? There’s no ISIS fighters in Afrin.. https://t.co/QmIcP8vSU2

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Thu 25 Jan 2018 01:20

so I would say this is twitter openly aiding terrorism here. People are setting off bombs that kill civilians and they’re refusing to allow people to know about the casualties https://t.co/HGWXMzoaRt

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Wed 24 Jan 2018 18:37

“Islamic State” eh? So if Turkish military that Osama bin Laden had risen from the dead & was personally directing operations vs them, would news organisations just report this with a straight face? Everyone knows the YPG are the ones who fought vs Daesh & Turkey supported them https://t.co/WelqnqitoJ

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Wed 24 Jan 2018 00:23

this is good to hear. I’d actually feel bad if it was just innocent teenage draftees currently getting mowed down by the YPG/J. Erdogan seems to have been careful to select the people who most deserve it. https://t.co/CvKjpQXh56

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Tue 23 Jan 2018 18:37

anybody know any UK-based celebrities particularly worked up over the Turkish invasion of Afrin lately? We’re trying to get together a petition: In arts, politics, lit, basically anyone the gov might say “oh THEY signed it?”. Give me contact info, I’ll send them the text.

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Tue 23 Jan 2018 18:11

yup, he’s going full-on Hitler Stalingrad level of strategic genius, We know where this leads. https://t.co/Rg0XszTxrZ

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