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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This policy brief indicts US tech giants for enabling Israel’s assault on Gaza, arguing that their AI and cloud technologies are integral to military targeting, effectively automating and scaling violence against Palestinians. By @marwasf.bsky.social at @alshabaka.bsky.social buff.ly/Aa4D7h6
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AI for War: Big Tech Empowering Israel’s Crimes and Occupation | Al-Shabaka
This brief traces how corporate complicity with Israel now extends to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide
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Chronique de Palestine @chroniquepalestine.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
#Gazagenocide - Marwa Fatafta - @alshabaka.bsky.social: www.chroniquepalestine.com/ia-au-servic...
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L'IA au service de la guerre : les géants de la technologie facilitent les crimes israéliens
Les géants technologiques des Etats-Unis se présentent comme des innovateurs éthiques qui façonnent un monde meilleur grâce à l'intelligence artificielle (IA) et au « cloud computing ». Pourtant, à Ga...
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Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine @ldfpalestine.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
A helpful and refreshing article. Looks ahead to the ethical, law-based reconstruction that the Gazan people deserve after 80 years of suffering. @alshabaka.bsky.social al-shabaka.org/roundtables/...
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Gaza: Restoring Life Beyond the Physical Structures | Al-Shabaka
Dena Qaddumi and Jehad Abusalim examine the challenges and complexities of rebuilding Gaza amid ongoing genocidal warfare.
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
❝ As the US and its allies lead a sweeping assault on the global legal order to shield the Israeli regime from accountability for genocide, international outrage has sparked an extraordinary wave of pro-Palestine solidarity and organizing. ❞ @alshabaka.bsky.social
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Focus On: Global Solidarity with Palestine | Al-Shabaka
This collection examines how such Palestine solidarity can be sustained and transformed into a lasting political force.
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SUDS @sudscat.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"La gent està començant a comprendre com de profund palestina està connectat amb les injustícies globals". Auditori plé per escoltar a @yarahawari.bsky.social, escriptora palestina y coordirectora de @alshabaka.bsky.social Amb @serveicivilcat.bsky.social i @cehi.bsky.social
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🧵After over 16 months of engagement, we welcome the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs' (FDFA) decision to correct its public communications and remove any implication that the Swiss government ended its contract with Al-Shabaka as part of its 2023 investigation. (1/7)
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“When we are crafting a design strategy, we have to ask ourselves: how much of that is about their survival? Is that sufficient? How much of this do we foresee helping a future free Gaza or free Palestine? And how much of this is actually just normalizing colonization & occupation?” - Dena Qaddumi
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“When we are crafting a design strategy, we have to ask ourselves: how much of that is about their survival? Is that sufficient? How much of this do we foresee helping a future free Gaza or free Palestine? And how much of this is actually just normalizing colonization & occupation?” - Dena Qaddumi
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"Far-right Republican leaders unapologetically wield authoritarian tactics—not only to silence advocates for Palestinian rights but to advance a broader agenda of eroding civil liberties and targeting dissent." - Al-Shabaka US policy fellow Tariq Kenney-Shawa al-shabaka.org/briefs/proje...
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Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US | Al-Shabaka
This brief situates Project Esther within the assault on free speech & dissent & outlines strategies to resist this authoritarian turn
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"Project Esther is more than just a desperate attempt to salvage a crumbling Zionist narrative—it is part of a broader authoritarian shift in US politics." New essential reading by @tksshawa.bsky.social al-shabaka.org/briefs/proje...
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Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US | Al-Shabaka
This brief situates Project Esther within the assault on free speech & dissent & outlines strategies to resist this authoritarian turn
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
NEW! This policy brief situates #ProjectEsther within the broader bipartisan crackdown on Palestine advocacy—a consequence of the Zionist movement’s failure to win the argument in the public sphere. By @tksshawa.bsky.social #GazaGenocide al-shabaka.org/briefs/proje...
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Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US | Al-Shabaka
This brief situates Project Esther within the assault on free speech & dissent & outlines strategies to resist this authoritarian turn
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Invita Azofaifa ⚡🕋🎵🎶 @cristaljar.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Mientras, en Palestina.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Palestinian architect & researcher Abdalrahman Kittana, who has been actively engaged in discussions and initiatives on Gaza’s reconstruction, joins @yarahawari.bsky.social to examine the various reconstruction plans & their feasibility #GazaGenocide Listen & Share! al-shabaka.org/podcast/gaza...
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"The notion of 'building back better'—a prominent concept in post-disaster situations—is unattainable in a context where the Israeli regime can unleash destruction at any moment." - Al-Shabaka policy analyst Dena Qaddumi al-shabaka.org/roundtables/...
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Gaza: Restoring Life Beyond the Physical Structures | Al-Shabaka
Dena Qaddumi and Jehad Abusalim examine the challenges and complexities of rebuilding Gaza amid ongoing genocidal warfare.
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Mhmd @mhmdhemish.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
One of the most informative & timely episodes we worked on. We keep hearing about reconstruction plans & initiatives but how much do we really know about them & their feasibility as the #gazagenocide continues w/ complete impunity. Abed’s analysis was food for thought
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Gaza’s reconstruction unfolds under immense challenges, shaped by the enduring impact of Israeli warfare and the structural constraints of an ongoing genocide and blockade. @alshabaka.bsky.social
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Gaza: Restoring Life Beyond the Physical Structures | Al-Shabaka
Dena Qaddumi and Jehad Abusalim examine the challenges and complexities of rebuilding Gaza amid ongoing genocidal warfare.
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samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social · 27/03/2025
"Understanding Palestinian liberation, therefore, requires situating it within this broader regional context. Decolonization in Palestine cannot be disentangled from the decolonization of the region." - By Tariq Baconi, via @alshabaka.bsky.social . al-shabaka.org/commentaries...
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The Palestinian Struggle: From Genocide to Global Realignment | Al-Shabaka
Tareq Baconi reflects on over 12 months of genocide in Gaza and discusses its ramifications on the Palestinian liberation movement
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🚨NEW Episode! Abdalrahman Kittana, who has been engaged in discussions & initiatives on Gaza’s reconstruction, joins @yarahawari.bsky.social to examine the various reconstruction plans and their feasibility amid the ongoing #GazaGenocide: Listen. Rate. Share.
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Gaza Reconstruction Reality Check with Abed Kittana | Al-Shabaka
Abdalrahman Kittana, who has been engaged in initiatives on Gaza’s reconstruction, examines reconstruction plans and their feasibility
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
From grounding October 7th in the context of Israeli colonialism, to interrogating Israel’s war machine, to assessing rapidly evolving regional relations, this compilation of works represents Al-Shabaka’s effort to articulate the Palestinian condition in real time: al-shabaka.org/policy-focus...
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Focus On: A Year of Genocide in Gaza | Al-Shabaka
This Focus On highlights how Al-Shabaka has sought to respond to the ongoing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"The ineptitude of Abbas’s leadership lies not only in undermining the Palestinian quest for liberation, but in doing so while expanding and fortifying authoritarian rule," said Tareq Baconi in this 2023 roundtable: ow.ly/wwWJ50VoKyn
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The Legacy of Mahmoud Abbas | Al-Shabaka
As speculation mounts regarding Mahmoud Abbas's future successor, the question of the president's legacy lingers.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
THURSDAY, April 3, at 7pm London time! Join this @palfest event to mark the UK publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates' THE MESSAGE. He'll be in conversation with Al-Shabaka policy analyst Zena Agha for his first ever UK event. More info/RSVP: www.palfest.org/full-schedul...
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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Reminder that students are protesting university complicity on their campuses Our institutions are profiting off of genocide, while our government funds it & supplies the bombs for it Every educational institution in Gaza has been impacted, most have been completely destroyed
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Yesterday, Mahmoud Khalil, a US permanent resident abducted by ICE last week, shared a powerful public statement that he dictated over the phone to his legal team.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"Killing large number of children in Gaza is not simply forcible depopulation. It is an effort to destabilise communities and crush their hopes for liberation and the right of return as mandated by the UN." - By Al-Shabaka policy analyst Mai Abu Moghli in @uk.theconversation.com
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Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children – new UN report
Children represent the future. In Gaza that future is being snuffed out.
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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Israel wants Palestinians dead or gone. Those are the only two options. Complete erasure. There is no ceasefire. No negotiations. No pandering that will suffice. Israel wants Palestinians disappeared one way or another. That has been the case since the dawn of Zionism.
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Arab Reform Initiative @arabreforminit.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Webinar Series: #Palestine Insight | The Arab League’s Reconstruction Plan for #Gaza: What Role for Palestinians? 📅 Thursday, March 20 ⏰ 10-11:30am CET | 11am-12:30pm Gaza 📍 Online Details & Zoom registration: tinyurl.com/49v6755m @alshabaka.bsky.social
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The UK has a duty to impose a total arms embargo. Attempts...to implement a quasi-embargo that undermines its effectiveness would only serve Israel’s genocidal aims while creating the illusion of action for the British public. - Important piece by Shahd Hammouri al-shabaka.org/policy-memos...
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The UK and Its Illusive Arms Embargo | Al-Shabaka
This policy memo details Britain's international legal obligations and potential governmental maneuvers regarding arms sales to Israel.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Understanding how we got to this horrific moment in history — the US giving unconditional support and funding for the Israeli government to massacre Palestinians — requires a commitment to clarity about how we got here.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"The bloc’s geopolitical interest in the MENA region has grown along with its Arab membership, and its outreach allows it to push forward an alternative Global South agenda for stability and development." Must-read analysis by Ahmat Alqarout on the #BRICS: al-shabaka.org/commentaries...
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Palestine and an Expanding BRICS: Swaying the Global Order | Al-Shabaka
This commentary examines the evolving ties between MENA countries and BRICS, focusing on the prospective Palestinian membership in the bloc
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
NEW! This commentary, by Ahmed Alqarout, examines the evolving ties between MENA countries and BRICS, focusing on the prospective Palestinian membership in the bloc and the group’s rationale for extending the invitation al-shabaka.org/commentaries...
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Palestine and an Expanding BRICS: Swaying the Global Order | Al-Shabaka
This commentary examines the evolving ties between MENA countries and BRICS, focusing on the prospective Palestinian membership in the bloc
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"To limit the blood that will be spilled as Israel’s system of apartheid is challenged, the int'l community...must first reckon with the fact that it has enabled an ethnonationalist political system that has eviscerated Palestinian rights." - Must-read by Tareq Baconi ow.ly/xUJc50Ro5vR
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An Inevitable Rupture: Al-Aqsa Flood and the End of Partition | Al-Shabaka
Tareq Baconi unpacks Israel’s ghettoization of Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Flood operation as a moment of rupture for the partition framework.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"But the similarities between what Israel did to Palestinians in 1948, what it did in Gaza, and what it is starting to do in the West Bank are not simply pictures. Netanyahu and his ministers have declared precisely what they intend to do." By Diana Buttu in @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/the-gaza-i...
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The Gazafication of the West Bank: ‘Is This Really Happening Again?'
Netanyahu is doing what his government promised all along: level the West Bank just as it did Gaza.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
In this third and final episode in a collaboration series between Al-Shabaka & @mondoweiss.net, Yumna Patel, @yarahawari.bsky.social & Abdaljawad Omar discuss the precarious ceasefire & different future scenarios in Gaza & wider Palestine. Listen here: al-shabaka.org/podcast/gaza...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 03/03/2025
For families who lost loved ones, Ramadan is a seat left empty at the Iftar table, and the unbearable weight of being the ones left behind. buff.ly/JqBFuh2 #Palestine #Israel
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Ramadan in Gaza: painful memories of the past, and a lingering hope for the future
For families who lost loved ones, Ramadan is a seat left empty at the Iftar table, and the unbearable weight of being the ones left behind.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In February alone, the Israeli military and settlers killed 25 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"Polls consistently showed a net positive percentage of voters in key states who would be more likely to vote for Democrats if they changed their unflinching support for Israeli genocidal warfare." - By our US policy analyst Halah Ahmad ow.ly/ls7050V9hqA
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Depressing the Vote: Genocide and 2024 US Presidential Race | Al-Shabaka
This brief revisits data from US elections to show the effect of the Democratic Party’s support for the Gaza Genocide on demobilizing voters
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"The Israeli government forces Palestinians in Gaza to rely on outdated technologies such as 2G mobile networks, which impede their ability to communicate with each other and connect to the outside world." - By our policy analyst from Gaza Ali Abdel-Wahab ow.ly/MQuw50V9fuZ
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Gaza’s Telecommunications: Occupied and Destroyed | Al-Shabaka
This policy brief examines the impact of the Israeli regime’s actions on Gaza’s telecommunications infrastructure and internet access.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
In case you missed it! In this policy lab, Dena Daddumi & @jehadabusalim.bsky.social joined host @tksshawa.bsky.social to discuss what the ceasefire in Gaza means for Palestinians and the state of the physical and political landscape that determines what comes next ow.ly/646350V7ysP
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Beyond the Ceasefire: Reconstructing Gaza After Genocide | Al-Shabaka
Dena Qaddumi & Jehad Abusalim discuss the Gaza ceasefire & the state of the physical and political landscape that determines what comes next.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
From grounding Oct 7th in the context of Israeli settler colonialism, to interrogating Israel’s multifaceted war machine, to assessing evolving regional relations, this compilation of works represents AS's effort to articulate the Palestinian condition in real time al-shabaka.org/policy-focus...
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Focus On: A Year of Genocide in Gaza | Al-Shabaka
This Focus On highlights how Al-Shabaka has sought to respond to the ongoing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This must-read commentary, by Al-Shabaka co-director, @yarahawari.bsky.social reflects on the immense losses for the Palestinian people since Oct 2023 & the emerging opportunities to work towards a future free of settler colonial oppression al-shabaka.org/commentaries...
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Reimagining Palestine After One Year of Genocide | Al-Shabaka
Yara Hawari reflects on the losses since October 2023 and emerging opportunities to work towards a future free of settler colonization.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
TODAY! In this policy lab, Dena Qaddumi & @jehadabusalim.bsky.social join host @tksshawa.bsky.social to discuss what the ceasefire in Gaza means for Palestinians & the state of the physical & political landscape that determines what comes next. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/gaza-genoc...
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
In this third and final episode in a collaboration series between Al-Shabaka & @mondoweiss.net, Yumna Patel, @yarahawari.bsky.social & Abdaljawad Omar discuss the precarious ceasefire & different future scenarios in Gaza & wider Palestine. Listen here: al-shabaka.org/podcast/gaza...
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
TOMORROW! In this policy lab, Dena Qaddumi & @jehadabusalim.bsky.social join host @tksshawa.bsky.social to discuss what the ceasefire in Gaza means for Palestinians & the state of the physical & political landscape that determines what comes next. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/gaza-genoc...
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
NEW from Al-Shabaka! In this policy brief, Halah Ahmad revisits polling & election data to demonstrate the effect of the Democratic Party’s unflinching support for the Israeli regime on demobilizing voters in a presidential race taking place amid a genocide al-shabaka.org/briefs/depre...
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Depressing the Vote: Genocide and 2024 US Presidential Race | Al-Shabaka
This brief revisits data from US elections to show the effect of the Democratic Party’s support for the Gaza Genocide on demobilizing voters
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 24/02/2025
A brief history of Israel’s theft and trafficking of Palestinian organs mondoweiss.net/2025/02/a-br...
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A brief history of Israel’s theft and trafficking of Palestinian organs
There are over three decades of evidence that Israeli doctors harvest Palestinian organs in direct violation of international law. These stolen body parts were not just used for transplantation and re...
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In this commentary, Samer Alatout offers insights into the new wave of student mobilization, details student demand, places them within the historical legacy of US student organizing, & examines the relationship between university administrators, students, & faculty al-shabaka.org/commentaries...
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Student Organizing & Change-Making on University Campuses | Al-Shabaka
Samer Alatout offers insights into the new wave of student mobilization and places them within the legacy of US student organizing.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In this policy brief, Al-Shabaka Palestine Fellow, Fathi Nimer, traces the origins of food sovereignty & the challenges Palestinians face today to put the framework into practice & argues that doing so will help better recontextualize the resistance economy al-shabaka.org/briefs/food-...
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Food Sovereignty in a Palestinian Economy of Resistance | Al-Shabaka
Fathi Nimer traces the origins of food sovereignty and the challenges Palestinians face today to effectively put the framework into practice.
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
❝ The Israeli and Western portrayal of Palestinian children as "adults" aims to cover up their murder, maiming and imprisonment. ❞ Yara Hawari • @alshabaka.bsky.social - الشبكة
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Unchilding Palestine’s children
Israeli and Western portrayal of Palestinian children as adults aims to cover up their murder, maiming and imprisonment.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
In this recent roundtable, Al-Shabaka analysts offer insights into how Trump will compare to his predecessor, what lies ahead for Palestine solidarity organizing in the US, and the material impact will be on the ground in Palestine. #gazagenocide #gazaceasefire READ ⤵️
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Trump's Return: Implications for the Palestinian Struggle | Al-Shabaka
While many aspects of Trump's foreign policy remain uncertain, they will undoubtedly have devastating consequences for Palestinians.
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Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Next Wednesday, 6pm Palestine time! Dena Qaddumi &@jehadabusalim.bsky.social join @tksshawa.bsky.social to discuss what the ceasefire in Gaza means for Palestinians & the state of the physical & political landscape that determines what comes next. More info: www.crowdcast.io/c/gaza-genoc...
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