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Dana El Kurd

@danaelkurd.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed danaelkurd.com to contact

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 4h
My podcast episode with @yara-asi.bsky.social on how Israel attacks Palestinian health comes out tomorrow. It's such an important conversation, but a difficult listen.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 9h
An abundance of riches. Thanks all
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mike Pompeo, whom Columbia's SIPA has just hired, had this to say about American Muslims in 2013, after the Boston marathon bombing, though every significant American Muslim leader condemned the attack.
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wow! Senator @ChrisMurphyCT is denied entry to U.S. military facilities in the Persian Gulf. He wasn't even allowed to meet with military leaders! He believes this is on the order of Pete Hegseth, who is trying to hide the damage and the cost of this war of choice with Iran.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Whatever terrible impulses americans have, triple that for residents of Idaho.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Behind the Bastards is apparently eligible for a Golden Globe this year I can't imagine we'll win, given the number of podcasts by famous Hollywood people on the list. But it's nice to be considered eligible! goldenglobes.com/articles/bes...
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Best Podcasts Eligible for the 84th Golden Globes® Revealed - Golden Globes
Best Podcasts Eligible for the 84th Golden Globes® Revealed The Golden Globes announced the 30 podcasts that are eligible to submit for consideration in the Best Podcast category for the 84th Golden G...
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Three years of nightmare, and it doesn't end. It doesn't end. We are all irreversibly damaged.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I checked and thankfully they haven't identified "flat buttocks" for me. But I am disturbed by the level of detail that is there
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For members of @warontherocks.bsky.social, check out the latest newsletter (I'm in it) warontherocks.com/kindling-cat...
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Kindling, Catalyst, and Containment: Will the West Bank Ignite?
As violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank has escalated, often with the acquiescence or support of Israel’s military, and the
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social for the launch of our new resource, an archive of 2010s higher ed protest in the U.S. and Canada, designed for campus activists and others working on left and liberatory organizing. Oct 20, 9am PT / 12pm ET Register: bit.ly/decade-of-campus-protest
Event poster with a white background and black text, with the title "A Decade of Mass Campus Protests, Website Launch Event". At the bottom is a photo of a long line of people marching on a sidewalk in winter clothing, holding blue and white picket signs that say "On Legal Strike" in capital letters and "University of Toronto" at the bottom.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The more revealed the more horrifying it gets. He tries to claim Jane Doe assaulted him. What do we do with men, honestly? What are we supposed to do when the rot goes this deep?
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There are too many books to read. When will I have the life for all these books.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something I’ve heard about during my trip to the Gulf? War profiteering. Often by U.S. companies. Let me tell you what I learned. And why a Democratic Congress should do something about it
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"But why do they tell stories where we look bad?" "Because when they make you feel bad about yourself, and believe that theyre better than you, it becomes easier to control you"
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026
It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘Antisemitism isn’t systemic’ is the Left’s version of ‘the world’s oldest hatred’. An easy slogan that is in fact a sign of impoverished thought, a stubborn unwillingness to think critically & rigorously. One hyperbolizes, the other minimizes;
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Addressing any level of bigotry is good, I think. Overall net positive in my humble opinion.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jesus stfu. Brett mcgurk especially, but all of them. All of them need to disappear into the dc suburbs and never speak again.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NAZA is a film by Israelis primarily for Israelis. And *that is a good thing*. It is a thing that cannot be accomplished by palestinian victims. It is a thing we NEED israelis to do. The critiques of this film from the left+Palestinians come from a position of pain, but are inaccurate & not helpful.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The US Commission on Civil Rights has formally rebuked the Trump administration's legal strategy for its "anti-antisemitism" on campus campaign, citing Jewish Studies scholars arguing that "Zionism is not an ethnic or ancestral trait." www.usccr.gov/reports/2026...
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The Federal Response to Antisemitism on American College and University Campuses
The Federal Response to Antisemitism on American College and University Campuses examines how institutions of higher education and the federal government have responded to allegations of antisemitism ...
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Regarding the #Naza film and debate about war crimes vs genocide, the debate has been underway for a while, based on the documentary makers research, I published this in July 2025 link.springer.com/article/10.1... People are beginning to understand the illusion of the war/genocide distinction.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What a fuckin loser
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026
From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️
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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It Could Happen Here "West Bank Takeover" Dana( @danaelkurd.bsky.social )El Kurd @coolzonemedia.bsky.social #CoolZoneMedia www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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West Bank Takeover - It Could Happen Here | iHeart
<p>In this episode Dana El Kurd talks about how the settlers and the Israeli state are working hand in hand to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the West Bank, and how we should understand the rela...
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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It Could Happen Here "After Ceuta" Dana( @danaelkurd.bsky.social )El Kurd, Harsha( @harshawalia.bsky.social )Walia @coolzonemedia.bsky.social #CoolZoneMedia www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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After Ceuta - It Could Happen Here | iHeart
<p>In this episode Dana El Kurd talks with Harsha Walia about the anti immigrant backlash that has emerged in the aftermath of the migrant crossing incident in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Harsha bre...
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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It Could Happen Here "Executive Disorder: Trump Bans the “Free Press” Palestinian National Council Elections, Ice Shooting, Canadian Neoliberalism" @bishonentype.bsky.social @miawong.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social @danaelkurd.bsky.social @coolzonemedia.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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Executive Disorder: Trump Bans the “Free Press,” Palestinian National Council Elections, ICE Shooting, Canadian Neoliberalism - It Could Happen Here | iHeart
<p>The gang discuss Trump&rsquo;s speech at the UN, the Paramount-Warner Brothers merger,<br>another ICE shooting in Texas, how Mark Carney&rsquo;s Bill C-39 threatens Indigenous rights and labor, a n...
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this day 26 years ago I was a child watching another Palestinian child on tv, about my age, hide behind his dad & then get killed, because the soldiers shooting didnt value his life at all. His name was Mohammad al-Durra. 26 years later, the lives of Palestinian children matter even less.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The co pilot stabbed the pilot. Is that a scuffle?
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Sophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Support our shows and my pride by voting for our podcasts at the 5th Annual Signal Awards.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I dont think people should declare normalization just to describe things that make them uncomfortable.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Someone sent me this today. Apparently i'm this person. But I'm also 100% correct!!! 😤
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My episode with Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social where we talk about what happened in Ceuta and why anti-immigrant narratives are so crucial to fascism. open.spotify.com/episode/3Hee...
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After Ceuta
It Could Happen Here · Episode
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israeli settlers attack Jalud village in occupied West Bank pogrom A group of settlers attacks two homes belonging to the Tubasi family in northern West Bank. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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Israeli settlers attack Jalud village in occupied West Bank pogrom
A group of settlers attacks two homes belonging to the Tubasi family in northern West Bank.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men feel entitled to our bodies, lives, and futures and it makes me want to scream. Sure yes teach your boys about consent but I am sure that it isnt enough to undo this rot.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 28/09/2026
The Baffler is excited to once again partner with @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for Jewish Currents Live on Sunday, October 11, in Brooklyn, NY. It’s an all-day program, featuring speakers, panels, and performances. Get your tickets now!
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Jewish Currents Live
JC Live is an all-day gathering of performance, learning, and discussion convened by Jewish Currents.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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