Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 13/03/2025It’s not law’s repressive face that’s the issue here but that of academia (& its cravenness)! Using generalities like “recent events” without a single mention of Yale? Not even a call to investigate the termination of Dr. Doutaghi or how you are planning to support her through this! 020
Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 11/01/2025In solidarity with Prof. Franke. Day of disgrace for all academia. LAW schools might as well shut down if condemning & fighting against occupation & genocide is to be censored. 020
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshJoseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...drive.google.comStatement from Katherine Franke.pdf 611430533
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshRyan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I’m genuinely at a loss for words - Katherine Franke is as brilliant as she is principled and her being forced out of a tenured position for her position on Gaza and student protests feels like a gut punch to whatever remains of academic freedom in the US.nytimes.comColumbia Professor Says She Was Pushed to Retire Because of Her ActivismKatherine Franke, a law professor and vocal advocate of pro-Palestinian students, had been under investigation over remarks she made about Israeli students. 085
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshAhmad Algohbary @ahmadalgohbary.bsky.social · 25/11/2024“If I get killed, don’t wear black; my heart is red, not black. Wear rainbow or pink instead.” Israel wiped out Fatima and her entire family in Beirut, dropping bunker buster bombs on their home as they slept. #JusticeForFatima 022
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Today marks 300 days since Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her in Gaza. For months, I have pressed the US government again and again on the killing. How they’ve responded is shocking. Watch all 300 days here: zeteo.com/p/300-days-a... 662348872
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkateshaunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Anti-genocide protestors have laid waste to Montreal. I toured the wreckage today: potholes everywhere, McGill's campus walk ripped up, sinister-looking construction workers playing Uno nearby, & worst of all French citizens running amok calling chocolatines "pains au chocolat." 0101
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshJairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Please donate and share this fundraiser in support of a comrade in Canada who was arrested recently and had their apartment raided for organizing for Falastin. They will remain anonymous but they need funds to move and cover legal fees. gofund.me/ee220c7bgofund.meDonate to Help a Black Militant Facing Political Repression., organized by She HerA well known Black militant in Canada has gone through a series of politica… She Her needs your support for Help a Black Militant Facing Political Repression. 95035
Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 18/11/2024CSIS “objective was to keep [Canadian] Abdelrazik detained [and tortured] in Sudan” as it “felt he was a terrorist.” in 2007, the RCMP confirmed that it had no "substantive information" that he was involved in any criminal activity. Gross Islamophobic Charter violation. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.ca 110
Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 18/11/2024“The complete dismissal of entire populations as sub-human, or not equivalent to European or Euro-American bodies, is a stark reminder that the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and colonial genocide of indigenous populations by Western empires have never left us.“ 020
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshWorkshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 16/11/2024We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀 501103833
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshJairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Reasons why our struggles in Latin America are deeply entangled with Palestine's liberation/decolonization. Israel’s role in Indigenous/campesino genocide in Guatemala —technologies of violence imported from Israel are still used to repress the movements in Guatemala.🧵1/ 114659
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshTerrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Keep it going. Let’s see how much reach this place has. 019897
Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Must read interview of Rashid Khalidi by Tariq Ali- two intellectual powerhouses. newleftreview.org/issues/ii147... Great title too. When asked why don’t you “just talk (with Israel)”. Ghassan Kanafani answered “That is [a] kind of a conversation between the sword and the neck"newleftreview.orgRashid Khalidi, The Neck and The Sword, NLR 147, May–June 2024Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali discuss the political and intellectual history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught entanglement with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the ‘peace p... 000
Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 24/12/2023"The South African Church taught us the concept of state theology defined as the theological justification of the status quo with its racism, capitalism and totalitarianism. Theology of empire is disguise for superiority, supremacy, “chosenness”, and entitlement." www.facebook.com/christmaslut...facebook.comChrist in the Rubble A Liturgy of Lament Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac...Christ in the Rubble A Liturgy of Lament Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church Bethlehem Saturday December 23rd, 2023 We are... 100
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 22/12/2023"Gaza is now a different colour from space" apnews.com/article/isra...apnews.comIsrael's military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in recent history, experts sayAfter 11 weeks of war in Gaza, the Israeli military campaign against Hamas now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history, experts say. 01617
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 28/11/2023❤️❤️❤️ The Onion: "According to witnesses, South African–born Musk immediately dropped to his knees after stepping on Israeli soil, overwhelmed with joy to be back in a state segregated by race and religion."theonion.comEverything Elon Musk Did While Visiting IsraelFacing millions in lost advertising revenue after he championed an antisemitic conspiracy theory on Twitter, Elon Musk toured Israel and met with the country’s leaders. The Onion examines everything... 0228
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 30/11/2023Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in pissrollingstone.comHenry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally DiesHenry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday. 427138915225
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshJairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 27/11/2023Israel’s bombing of universities and libraries is a “calculated, and often vindictive, destruction of a people’s culture, language, history, and shared sites of community…to erase all evidence of Palestinian life, Palestinian humanity, from Gaza.” lithub.com/gazas-main-p...lithub.comGaza’s main public library has been destroyed.Authorities in Gaza City have condemned what they say was the deliberate destruction of the city’s main public library by Israeli forces after finding the building in ruins while a ceasefire was be�... 0126
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshLauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 27/11/2023Who else had no fucking clue that the KKK is considered a tax-exempt religious organization instead of a terrorist organization archive.ph/wUICX (free link to article) 37699243
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshSonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 20/10/2023ICYMI: All the Palestinian speculative you can eat. Fantasy, Sci-fi, futurism, dystopias, fabulism, horror. All lengths and shapes, with links to where to find the good stuff. Curated and kept up to date by me. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...soniasulaiman.com#ReadPalestinianSpecFic Reading ListThe following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na… 03738
Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 28/11/2023You’re supposed to be polite in your suffering. & I completely refuse this. I refuse these politics of appeal. We are human not just because we cry when we lose our mothers, or our homes, or we have pets or hobbies. We are humans because we feel rage & disdain—because we resist” t.co/cOMiRdoIjot.coThe Right to Speak for OurselvesFor far too long, Palestinians have been denied the freedom to tell our own story. 000
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshDr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 25/11/2023Precisely how many more people will lose work by standing AGAINST genocide??? 023
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 25/11/2023This and the Houthi arrest of the NYK vehicle carrier are interesting because Iran and Yemen are targeting not the shipping company (NYK/CMA CGM), but the actual owners of the vessel, in this case Eastern Pacific Shipping, which is HQed in Singapore but owned by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer. 1/apnews.comAn Israeli-owned ship was targeted in suspected Iranian attack in Indian Ocean, US official tells APA container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire came under attack by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. 1148
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 25/11/2023As Iranians often joke: "We have freedom of speech; but we don't have freedom AFTER speech." 1151
Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 25/11/2023Absolutely outrageous disgusting police behaviour against peace activists. 000
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshEthel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 25/11/2023Let me get this straight: the Toronto police spent $1 million dollars to dispatch several officers on early morning raids to arrest...peace activists? Who put up protest posters & washable red paint? Does this city not have other spending priorities? 032
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshJairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 31/10/2023"Many academics write on decolonizing curriculums and epistemologies but hardly engage with actual forms of undoing injustice. Do we stand against settler colonialism only when it has already succeeded and when reversing colonization is deemed impossible?" mondoweiss.net/2023/10/deco...mondoweiss.netDecolonizing Palestine in the time of academic metaphorsWe are in an era of academic metaphors where critical recognition is divorced from recognized reality. Many academics write on decolonization but hardly engage with actual forms of undoing injustice. 0144
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshIf you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 31/10/2023Apropos of Bolivia breaking diplomatic ties with Israel the biggest newspaper in the country is also saying Bolivia is planning to send humanitarian aid directly. This may be the path forward for given the US’ unconscionable paralyzing of the UN eldeber.com.bo/pais/bolivia...eldeber.com.boBolivia rompe relaciones diplomáticas con Israel | El DeberAnuncian envío de ayuda humanitaria a la Franja de Gaza 12715
Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Superb article: “Clinics often serve to appease and deflect opposition to the ways that law schools reproduce hierarchy. To truly live up to their radical origins, clinics must be re-politicized ……..” t.co/B2XTZhGT3ct.coWhat Law Clinics Left BehindThough a familiar feature of legal education today, law clinics have a complex history. In the 1960s and 1970s, when student activists demanded curricular reform, law schools embraced clinics as a way... 100
Vasanthi Venkatesh @drvv.bsky.social · 24/09/2023THIS is Modi’s India. We have a moral obligation to stand up against it and a right to do so (in Canada at least) without being labelled Hinduphobe or Khalistani and dehumanizing slurs. 020
Reposted by Vasanthi VenkateshExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 24/08/2023I gazed into the abyss and it was way overrated. I don't really see what the big deal is. 2317