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David Graeber

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

I'm an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such. I see anarchism as something you do not an identity so don't call me the anarchist anthropologist

London

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Joined March 2009

David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Dec 3, 2019
this video is going up in a bunch of places but here's mine: my take on the AS controversy and why intentionally fanning the flames, as so many are doing, endangers Jewish people
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David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Dec 26, 2019
as for the Guardian, we will never forget that during the "Labour #antisemitism controversy", they beat even the Daily Mail to include the largest percentage of false statements, pretty much every one, mysteriously, an accidental error to Labour's disadvantage
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Jan 16, 2020
much though I hate to admit it, I had nothing to do with making this up
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Apr 12, 2020
in Aug 2019 I tried repeatedly to get a piece in the Guardian suggesting anti-Corbyn saboteurs in the LP were fanning the flames & doing so was itself #antisemitism. Editor told me explicitly I would NOT be allowed to criticise Corbyn's critics motives
For the first time in my life, I'm frightened to be Jewish
From opendemocracy.net
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Jul 19, 2018
Replying to @margarethodge
Speaking as a Jew, let me say I consider your behavior so vile as to itself be anti-Semitic, since crying wolf like this for cynical political advantage means when the real anti-Semites start mobilizing no one will take the warnings seriously
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Sep 2, 2020
I don't know who writes these tweets but they should be fired. This is either awful PR or intentionally trying to alienate someone for internal political reasons. If you're non-ideological, doesn't that mean you're not socialist OR pro-capitalist? Why leave one of the two out?
Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍
@XRebellionUK
Sep 1, 2020
Just to be clear we are not a socialist movement. We do not trust any single ideology, we trust the people, chosen by sortition (like jury service) to find the best future for us all through a #CitizensAssembly A banner saying ‘socialism or extinction’ does not represent us 🙏🏽🙏
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Jan 22, 2020
so it's official: Ronald Reagan became President of the United States by committing the crime of high treason. To offer to pay a declared enemy not to release American officials they hold hostage is about as clear an example of treason as you can get 1/
Jacobin
@jacobin
Jan 22, 2020
A batch of quietly released documents confirms what many have long suspected: Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign worked behind the scenes to delay the release of US hostages in Iran, for the benefit of Reagan’s election campaign. jacobinmag.com/2020/1/ronald-…
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Mar 22, 2019
it's a far far better meme than I have ever done
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
May 31, 2020
Whoa! This is when revolutions happen. When this sort of thing becomes widespread forbes.com/sites/lisettev…
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Sep 6, 2019
it took me two months of trying to get this out anywhere at all. The level of censorship in the British media on this subject is beyond imagination. Jewish people are simply not allowed to say certain things in the UK today and this is chief among them:
For the first time in my life, I'm frightened to be Jewish
From opendemocracy.net
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
May 12, 2020
What if we defined "the economy" as "the way we take care of one another"? Since that's what it ultimately is. What would economic indicators then look like?
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Feb 4, 2020
after having done everything they could possibly think to to do to throw the election to a far-right bully, the UK media is shocked, shocked, to discover they too now have to deal with a far-right bully
Journalists stage mass walk-out after Downing Street bars critical reporters
From metro.co.uk
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Dec 5, 2019
so my #antisemitism video has been up a day and half now & already has over half a million views, which I'm pretty sure counts as viral. Number of UK reporters, media people who have contacted me so far: zero.
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Dec 3, 2019
this video is going up in a bunch of places but here's mine: my take on the AS controversy and why intentionally fanning the flames, as so many are doing, endangers Jewish people
00:00
David Graeber
@davidgraeber
Aug 29, 2020
According to pretty much every publisher I know Jeff Bezos is personally responsible for the destruction of the book industry. They can no longer pay most authors anything as it all gets squeezed by Amazon.