Ronit Matar
@ronitmatar.bsky.social
Lecturer in Human Rights Law, Queen Mary University London | Intersectional Feminist Queer and Critical Approached to Law | Previously University of Essex School of Law PhD | she/her
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Thrilled to update that my new book, "Occupation from Within: How Israel's Oppression of Palestinians Turned Inwards" will be published next month (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, Taub Center for Israel Studies NYU) and is available for pre-order. Link below.
* Cover photo by Oren Ziv
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* Cover photo by Oren Ziv
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August 6, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Thrilled to update that my new book, "Occupation from Within: How Israel's Oppression of Palestinians Turned Inwards" will be published next month (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, Taub Center for Israel Studies NYU) and is available for pre-order. Link below.
* Cover photo by Oren Ziv
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* Cover photo by Oren Ziv
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🚨 BREAKING
We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help.
Join us in fighting back 👇
We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help.
Join us in fighting back 👇
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
goodlaw.social
August 5, 2026 at 9:02 AM
🚨 BREAKING
We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help.
Join us in fighting back 👇
We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help.
Join us in fighting back 👇
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✊No more cuts! No more spending on war!✊
At a time of constant cuts and mergers, Queen Mary University of London joined the Defence University Alliance (DUA) in an opaque move.
At a time of constant cuts and mergers, Queen Mary University of London joined the Defence University Alliance (DUA) in an opaque move.
July 29, 2026 at 11:28 AM
✊No more cuts! No more spending on war!✊
At a time of constant cuts and mergers, Queen Mary University of London joined the Defence University Alliance (DUA) in an opaque move.
At a time of constant cuts and mergers, Queen Mary University of London joined the Defence University Alliance (DUA) in an opaque move.
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Theory 101: “gender is a framework that’s been developed through the social sciences. A framework is not subjective. A framework is a way of framing knowledge and a mode of inquiry”.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/judith-butler-explains-the-gender-panic
www.currentaffairs.org/news/judith-butler-explains-the-gender-panic
Judith Butler Explains the Gender Panic
The leading scholar and philosopher responds to critics of “gender ideology,” both from the right and left.
www.currentaffairs.org
July 21, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Theory 101: “gender is a framework that’s been developed through the social sciences. A framework is not subjective. A framework is a way of framing knowledge and a mode of inquiry”.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/judith-butler-explains-the-gender-panic
www.currentaffairs.org/news/judith-butler-explains-the-gender-panic
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These new laws build on years of successive governments chipping away at our rights, and have come into effect while we’re still waiting for the outcome of the Government’s own review into protest legislation.
They should be upholding our rights, not stripping them away.
They should be upholding our rights, not stripping them away.
June 29, 2026 at 1:54 PM
These new laws build on years of successive governments chipping away at our rights, and have come into effect while we’re still waiting for the outcome of the Government’s own review into protest legislation.
They should be upholding our rights, not stripping them away.
They should be upholding our rights, not stripping them away.
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TODAY: The Crime and Policing Act has come into effect, bringing with it more anti-protest laws.
Police can now consider "cumulative disruption" of previous protests when deciding to ban a protest, effectively stopping one from happening if another took place the week before on a different issue.
Police can now consider "cumulative disruption" of previous protests when deciding to ban a protest, effectively stopping one from happening if another took place the week before on a different issue.
June 29, 2026 at 1:54 PM
TODAY: The Crime and Policing Act has come into effect, bringing with it more anti-protest laws.
Police can now consider "cumulative disruption" of previous protests when deciding to ban a protest, effectively stopping one from happening if another took place the week before on a different issue.
Police can now consider "cumulative disruption" of previous protests when deciding to ban a protest, effectively stopping one from happening if another took place the week before on a different issue.
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Together with @petefussey.bsky.social and @daragh.bsky.social we are releasing "Pushed into the Shadows: evidencing digital surveillance chilling effects and the erosion of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association” 1/
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
May 25, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Together with @petefussey.bsky.social and @daragh.bsky.social we are releasing "Pushed into the Shadows: evidencing digital surveillance chilling effects and the erosion of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association” 1/
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
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Fantastic work on protest and public order offences from my @qmschooloflaw.bsky.social colleagues www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...
New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise
More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Fantastic work on protest and public order offences from my @qmschooloflaw.bsky.social colleagues www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...
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Just piss off, whydontcha
April 29, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Just piss off, whydontcha
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Good tying together of the many complex strands that make up the #UKHE clusterfuck. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
April 23, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Good tying together of the many complex strands that make up the #UKHE clusterfuck. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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We invite you to read Khaled El Mahmoud's interview with Janan Abdu, a distinguished attorney, researcher, and human rights defender, in which she shed light on Palestinian prisoners.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-plight-o...
voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-plight-o...
The Plight of Palestinian Prisoners in Israel
voelkerrechtsblog.org
April 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
We invite you to read Khaled El Mahmoud's interview with Janan Abdu, a distinguished attorney, researcher, and human rights defender, in which she shed light on Palestinian prisoners.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-plight-o...
voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-plight-o...
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This week over 400 members of the University community met at a joint union meeting to consider the motion below.
97% voted that they had no confidence in VC Frances Bowen and her leadership team.
Staff demand accountability.
www.ucu.essex.ac.uk/2026/04/17/v...
97% voted that they had no confidence in VC Frances Bowen and her leadership team.
Staff demand accountability.
www.ucu.essex.ac.uk/2026/04/17/v...
April 17, 2026 at 12:36 PM
This week over 400 members of the University community met at a joint union meeting to consider the motion below.
97% voted that they had no confidence in VC Frances Bowen and her leadership team.
Staff demand accountability.
www.ucu.essex.ac.uk/2026/04/17/v...
97% voted that they had no confidence in VC Frances Bowen and her leadership team.
Staff demand accountability.
www.ucu.essex.ac.uk/2026/04/17/v...
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It’s been a year since the UK Supreme Court disrupted the lives of trans folk and placed them all in an even more precarious legal position. The @goodlawproject.org has an online form you can use to ask your local MP to ensure the new Code of Practice does not enable transphobic exclusion. Act now.
Force the government to rip up the EHRC’s transphobic guidance
It’s been a year since the Supreme Court's decision that accelerated the rollback of trans rights in the UK. It’s been a difficult year, but it’s also been a year of coming together and fighting back....
action.goodlawproject.org
April 16, 2026 at 6:51 AM
It’s been a year since the UK Supreme Court disrupted the lives of trans folk and placed them all in an even more precarious legal position. The @goodlawproject.org has an online form you can use to ask your local MP to ensure the new Code of Practice does not enable transphobic exclusion. Act now.
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"If people did learn from history, history would be very different... If one blames the Jew for not having been ennobled by oppression, one is not indicting the single figure of the Jew but the entire human race... I know that my own oppression did not ennoble me." - James Baldwin
April 15, 2026 at 2:04 AM
"If people did learn from history, history would be very different... If one blames the Jew for not having been ennobled by oppression, one is not indicting the single figure of the Jew but the entire human race... I know that my own oppression did not ennoble me." - James Baldwin
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Yesterday MPs and the council leader met with over 50 staff and students at Essex Southend.
The verdict? "A huge lack of engagement" from university management.
800 students. 400 jobs. This is the face of the Higher Education crisis.
The verdict? "A huge lack of engagement" from university management.
800 students. 400 jobs. This is the face of the Higher Education crisis.
Southend crisis meeting over university campus closure
Students and staff affected by the closure of the campus in Southend meet with politicians.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 31, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Yesterday MPs and the council leader met with over 50 staff and students at Essex Southend.
The verdict? "A huge lack of engagement" from university management.
800 students. 400 jobs. This is the face of the Higher Education crisis.
The verdict? "A huge lack of engagement" from university management.
800 students. 400 jobs. This is the face of the Higher Education crisis.
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The cuts. They cuts are never-ending. And they're cutting away what it means to be a university.
March 19, 2026 at 12:43 PM
The cuts. They cuts are never-ending. And they're cutting away what it means to be a university.
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We are very pleased to announce one of the winners of the Feminist Legal Studies Editors' Prize 2025 is Ariël Decoster for her article, 'Men in/and Law: Developing "Critical Legal Studies of Men and Masculinities."'
You can read the article online for free here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
You can read the article online for free here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
February 24, 2026 at 12:15 PM
We are very pleased to announce one of the winners of the Feminist Legal Studies Editors' Prize 2025 is Ariël Decoster for her article, 'Men in/and Law: Developing "Critical Legal Studies of Men and Masculinities."'
You can read the article online for free here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
You can read the article online for free here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk’s right-wing populist politics, because he wants to brand himself as a populist insurgent against the “elites,” but as the world’s wealthiest person, he needs a definition of elite not rooted in actual material wealth.
February 23, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk’s right-wing populist politics, because he wants to brand himself as a populist insurgent against the “elites,” but as the world’s wealthiest person, he needs a definition of elite not rooted in actual material wealth.
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The Hungarian government, cited as direct ideological inspiration by the Trump admin, allowed neo-Nazis to march in SS uniforms last weekend - but banned a Holocaust survivor from giving a speech warning about fascism in response. www.errc.org/news/budapes...
Budapest: Nazis openly march in SS uniforms, while Holocaust survivor gets banned, and Romani Pride organiser gets prosecuted - European Roma Rights Centre
By Bernard Rorke
On Sunday 14th February, neo-Nazis converged on the Castle district in Budapest to ...
www.errc.org
February 19, 2026 at 3:07 PM
The Hungarian government, cited as direct ideological inspiration by the Trump admin, allowed neo-Nazis to march in SS uniforms last weekend - but banned a Holocaust survivor from giving a speech warning about fascism in response. www.errc.org/news/budapes...
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'When it opened, the campus housed a GP surgery and a new dental clinic offering free treatment to local people. This was followed later by the forum – a library and art gallery shared by the university and local people.' 1/2
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:44 AM
'When it opened, the campus housed a GP surgery and a new dental clinic offering free treatment to local people. This was followed later by the forum – a library and art gallery shared by the university and local people.' 1/2
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Thrilled to have received the updated paperback edition of *Human Shields*, including a new Preface and Epilogue about the use of human shields during the genocide in Gaza.
February 4, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Thrilled to have received the updated paperback edition of *Human Shields*, including a new Preface and Epilogue about the use of human shields during the genocide in Gaza.
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400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
January 26, 2026 at 3:13 PM
400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
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The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield
The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action
www.ucu.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...