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Emmaia Gelman

@mishmoshk.bsky.social
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Exec. dir., Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (@critzstudies.bsky.social). Out now: The Anti-Defamation League & the Racial State (UC Press, 2026) at bit.ly/ucpress-gelman, discount code UCPSAVE30! Writing & podcasts at emmaiagelman.com.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What Tucker and company are doing is really obvious, but the thing that needs more attention is the susceptible audience of liberals and "resisters." It's high time a lot of people reckon with the fact that this is a group that is, probably unconsciously, conservative and fascist-curious.
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
TALK ABOUT IT: Brownwashing the !@#$% out of conservative politics has a long history as play of the Zionist movement. * Receipts (aka footnotes): ucpress.edu/books/the-an...
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
I said: “Sir, you need to stop kicking hundreds of thousands of people off health insurance just because they are vulnerable. ‘Not using you insurance’ is not a reason to evict someone from their insurance.”
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Brownwashing the !@#$% out of conservative politics has a long history as play of the Zionist movement. * If you like your history with receipts, read The Anti-Defamation League & the Racial State. ucpress.edu/books/the-an...
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The ADL has tried hilariously hard to never mention my book, but now it's in the teeth of Zionist trolls and they're making sure everyone knows. Womp womp. substack.com/@emmaiagelma...
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Defending history from trolls at North Carolina universities
With thanks to right-wing Lawfare Project for advertising my book, I guess.
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New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This week's front page. Pick it up. Read it. Share it. Subscribe at amsterdamnews.com/subscription.
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I mostly think of Robert Kraft as the cringefest who astroturfs his warped Zionist vision of "Black-Jewish alliance." But he's also a billionaire megadonor who *took* a million dollars from the Israeli state to oppose BDS. WTF? The combo of money & racism makes people really weird.
Screenshot from https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/what-you-need-to-know-about-robert-kraft-the-pro-israel-billionaire-who-pressured-ed-sheeran-to-drop-macklemore/Screenshot from Blue Square alliance's "black friend" superbowl ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgOkCFGNeTE
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Must read: @soljbrager.bsky.social’s beautiful essay confronting the conservative capture of “Holocaust education,” its deployment against BIPOC, queer, & trans people, and its dire real-world consequences for teaching against genocide.
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Read @kbruyneel.bsky.social’s clear & necessary essay on the ADL’s “playing Indian” with Zionist indigeneity claims as it also denies & colonization & attacks Indigenous knowledge.
Page image from essay
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy pub day to this collective labor of love. With essays by all your faves! Dismantle Zionism. @notechforapartheid.bsky.social @ajbauer.bsky.social @soljbrager.bsky.social @kbruyneel.bsky.social @isaackamola.bsky.social @ahmedmoor.bsky.social
Book cover: The Anti-Defamation League, A Critical Reader. White with street protest photo & Palestine flags. Set against green foliage.Muhannad Ayyash
Lau Barrios
A.J. Bauer
Hatem Bazian
Sol Brager
Kevin Bruyneel
Mama Ganuush
Me!
Felice Gelman
Maxwell Greenberg
Abdeen Jabara
Amira Jarmakani
Isaac Kamola
Darryl Li
Merrie Najimy
Nicole Nguyen
Nora Lester Murad
Dylan Rodríguez
Charlotte Rosen
Heike Schotten
Stephen Sheehi
Dean Spade
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Lesley Williams
Carrie Zaremba
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Their trans attacks are after women. Their immigrant prisons are after free speech. And by the time they’re here for your child it’s too late because when it was happening to someone else’s child you thought what does this have to do with me
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OSINT Signals @osint-signals.com · 20/09/2026
According to reports, Israeli forces raided multiple West Bank towns, detaining Palestinians and vandalizing homes, while settlers allegedly attacked vehicles and stabbed Palestinians near Nablus. #Israel osint-signals.com/summary/2440
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Since Gaza has taught us that business & civic institutions all support genocide if their risk managers say it’s the fiscally responsible thing to do, it’s actually a matter of global, existential importance to make being a spineless “who me?” collaborator cost everything.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Macklemore wanted to shift the focus back to Palestinian victims of Israeli occupation and assault, pledging to donate the $1m he earned from the shows with Ed Sheeran to six charitable organisations. He also invited Robert Kraft to match his donation. But Kraft's response drew widespread criticism
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dirt that’s emerging on Kraft’s racist grift doesn’t end. Today’s installment: to undermine players’ BLM kneeling protest, NFL owners including Robert “Black friend” Kraft scrounged for a Black face to oppose it. (Scrounging turned up Jay-Z.) Per @kaepernick7.bsky.social on @meidastouch.com pod.
Video still from the interview: Colin Kaepernick (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdW41p-DBio/?stkn=ZzF4NHc3bGdsYW4z)Transcript screenshot from the interview
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Goddamn, there's more. Kraft has the Patriots co-flying ICE flights, as @gillianbrockell.com writes. Kraft's surveillance of the left & students runs out of his stadium. *And* he's on campuses, astroturfing a "Black-Jewish alliance" to brownwash the Palestine scare. Can we be done with Kraft?
IG @moataz.writes https://www.instagram.com/p/DdSH2tyROgo/
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Ed Sheeran/Robert Kraft debacle should be the last time anyone credits Kraft’s bajillion-dollar astroturfed “antisemitism watchdog,” the Blue Square Alliance. (Also responsible for the most cringe “Black friend” Super Bowl ad in white guy history.) www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45918
Rolling Stone: Kraft tells Macklemore he won’t allow performance in his stadium, and has “rallied” other stadium owners too.Image of misleading antisemitism stats presented in Blue Square Alliance ad in Times Square, discussed in linked article
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
GEO was my grad union. Outrageous is too mild to describe it. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-...
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The U.S. government is going after a Michigan labor union over its Palestine activism
The U.S. government is criminalizing a campus labor union at the University of Michigan for supporting Palestine. We are calling on fellow labor organizers to resist this dangerous act of repression
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Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism @critzstudies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Apply apply apply! criticalzionismstudies.org/underground-...
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Underground Fire: ICSZ Faculty Fellowship | 2027 - Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
The Underground Fire fellowship supports SWANA and Global South critical lenses on Zionism and builds intellectual connections among CZS researchers in the US
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New faculty fellowship in Critical Zionism Studies from @critzstudies.bsky.social! Research cohort focused on SWANA & Global South perspectives. Details at criticalzionismstudies.org/underground-fire 🔥
Applications open for Underground Fire faculty fellowship in Critical Zionism Studies. Apps due 10/16. Details & text at criticalzionismstudies.org/underground-fire.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m still convinced most people still have no understanding of how barbaric the Israeli army is. They take extra steps to be cruel, and they clearly enjoy it. “Look son I just blew up someone’s home! Happy back-to-school kiddo. Hope you grow up to continue the genocide buddy.”
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Excellent review of THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE AND THE RADICAL STATE in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social: “[A]n immense contribution…. The details of the Anti-Defamation League’s role in advancing this agenda and its racial aspects have never been documented so thoroughly or explained so carefully.”
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Rethinking the Anti-Defamation League
Emmaia Gelman’s new book explores the group’s opposition to leftist movements, especially those linked to racial issues.
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🧵Five years ago, six Palestinian political prisoners made a historical escape from Israel’s high-security Gilboa Prison after spending 10 months digging a tunnel with their hands and a metal spoon: www.palquest.org/en/overallch...
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Gilbo Prison Escape (6 September 2021 - 21 May 2022)
Event - Six Palestinian prisoners—Zakaria al-Zubaidi (former leader ofal-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin ), Mahmoud Ardah , Yakub Qadri , Munadel...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 02/09/2026
We need to collectively rethink describing colonial Israeli settlers as "terrorists." The label was designed to serve imperial interests, and it implies that settler violence is an aberration, not a systemic part of Zionist settler colonialism. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/why-...
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Why we shouldn’t call colonial Israeli settlers ‘terrorists’
We need to collectively rethink describing Israeli settlers as “terrorists.” The label was designed to serve imperial interests, and it implies that settler violence is an aberration, not a systemic…
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Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
On YouTube now, my talk for @critzstudies.bsky.social on representations of Jewishness in contemporary Britain, whiteness and compulsory Zionism, with response from #UmayyahCable. youtu.be/npNYZiioDKc?...
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Promising Land: Compulsory Zionism, Whiteness, & Cultural Reps of Jewishness in Contemporary Britain
YouTube video by Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
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Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism @critzstudies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In this episode of In Flames, Meira Gold & Roy Eidelson discuss a new Zionist “antisemitism training” aimed at students in psychology PhD programs. Listen to the episode now through the link in our bio (under podcasts), on our website, or on Apple Music. criticalzionismstudies.org/in-flames-zi...
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Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism @critzstudies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
CFP Deadline extended to September 30, 2026! With this issue, JCSZ seeks to generate a broader understanding of the impacts and effects of Zionist imperialism on peoples and lands throughout the world. Submit to journal@criticalzionismstudies.org Full call: criticalzionismstudies.org/cfp-2027/
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Per Damkier @perdamkier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Sadists. All of them👇
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Getting published isn’t as scary as you think! Join us for an info session on academic publishing and our special issue on health and Palestine with R. R. Abdelnabi (JPS Production Editor) & @yara-asi.bsky.social (JPS Board Member, Guest Editor) Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Israeli government cannot insulate its citizens from the impact of the ecocide it wrought onto the strip.
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Toxic waste of war on Gaza reached Israel
The Israeli government cannot insulate its citizens from the impact of the ecocide it wrought on the strip.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If folks here have contacts within Ontario or Quebec academia, especially pertaining to helping a potential non-Canadian incomer, please lemme know. (French is one of my native languages and I have a PhD in Cultural Studies, for what it’s worth)
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On August 12, Writers Against the War on Gaza launched a growing oral archive honoring Palestinian journalists martryed while documenting life, loss, and resistance. Leena Ahmed reports on the project for Palestine Square. Read at the link below: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Our last conversation was 3 years ago, as @critzstudies.bsky.social was getting off the ground. Then Gaza genocide shifted the earth off its rails. Dismantling Zionism is existential. The ADL's history just helps us see where the levers are, especially in liberalism and its rationales. Let's go.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Anything done in collaboration with Manhattan Institute is purely fascist propaganda and anyone reporting on it as anything but that—even with a federal agency and especially *this* admin—is not only unreliable, but actively participating in toxifying our information ecosystem.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And we're live, ask me anything! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
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Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook
Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Palestinian-American determined to defend his home from Israeli settlers - www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestin…
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The Palestinian-American determined to defend his home from Israeli settlers
After months of attacks, Louai Abu Ridi leaves Ohio and returns to the occupied West Bank to stop settlers from taking his home
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Buried lede: Black people in Little Rock had known and been saying it.
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Watching Dems who have poured fuel onto the anti-left, anti-Palestinian “antisemitism scare” now trying to thread the needle — denouncing Trump’s use of the tools they handed him. They own this.
Jamie Raskin quote from linked article affirming “antisemitism crisis” narrative.
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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
STATEMENT: We're being sued under the KKK Act. Local zionists backed by the Brandeis Center allege NSJP & PCC entered into a "conspiracy" to organize the 2024 UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment w/ the purpose to deprive Jewish people of their civil rights on campus Thread 👇
PEOPLE'S CITY
CITY COUNCIL
STATEMENT ON
ZIONIST
REPRESSION LAWSUIT
DURING THIS
TIME OF HEIGHTENED REPRESSION,
PEOPLE'S CITY COUNCIL (PCC] AND NATIONAL STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE [NSJP] ARE BEING SUED UNDER THE "KU KLUX KLAN ACT." THE SUIT, FILED ON BEHALF OF LOCAL ZIONIST REACTIONARIES LIKE ELI TSIVES THROUGH ATTORNEYS BACKED BY THE LOUIS BRANDEIS CENTER, ALLEGES THAT NSJP AND PCC ENTERED INTO A "CONSPIRACY" TO ORGANIZE THE APRIL 2024 UCLA PALESTINE SOLIDARITY
ENCAMPMENT WITH THE PURPOSE OF DEPRIVING JEWISH PEOPLE OF THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS ON UCLA CAMPUS. A JUDGE RULED AGAINST OUR MOTION TO DISMISS THIS LAWSUIT LATE LAST YEAR AND OUR SUBSEQUENT APPEAL IN APRIL, ALLOWING THIS CASE TO MOVE FORWARD. WE HAVE RETAINED A SOLID LEGAL TEAM TO HELP US DEFEAT THIS LAWSUIT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE NEED TO RAISE FUNDS FOR LITIGATION COSTS TO SEE THE PROCESS ALL THE WAY THROUGH.THIS DEVELOPMENT COMES AS ATTACKS ON US AND OTHERS WITHIN THE MOVEMENT CONTINUE TO RAMP UP.
EARLIER THIS YEAR AT THE 10TH ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL (IAC) NATIONAL SUMMIT, ADAM MILSTEIN - AN EX-IOF MULTI-MILLIONAIRE WHO FOUNDED AND FUNDS THE NOTORIOUS CANARY MISSION AND IS A MAJOR DONOR TO THE BRANDEIS CENTER - NAMED PCC AS AN ENEMY THAT MUST BE ATTACKED AS PART OF ZIONISTS' AGGRESSIVE AND OFFENSIVE STRATEGY TO TARGET GROUPS CRITICAL OF ISRAEL. [SEE NEXT SLIDE]. WITHIN THIS CONTEXT, IT BECOMES CLEAR THAT DESPITE THE LAWSUIT'S FLIMSY CLAIMS OF VICTIMHOOD WHICH RELY ON THE INDISCRIMINATE CONFLATION OF ANTISEMITISM AND ANTIZIONISM, THIS IS NOT TRULY ABOUT THE
"DEFENSE" NOR "DEPRIVATION" OF THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS AT ALL. RATHER, AS MILSTEIN HIMSELF ADMITS, IT IS YET ANOTHER THINLY VEILED ATTEMPT TO WEAPONIZE THE LEGAL SYSTEM TO INTIMIDATE US INTO SILENCE AND INCAPACITATE ANY FORM OF RESISTANCE AGAINST THE ZIONIST ENTITY'S ONGOING GENOCIDE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"I think about what it costs us, the Palestinians, dispossessed, blockaded, bombed, and dispossessed again, every time we’re told that a new framework designed to administer our future without our participation represents a new beginning." @mohamhawish.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Plot to Eliminate Gaza
What Trump’s Board of Peace really means for the future of Palestine.
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Over 300 Arab intellectuals, academics, artists, and activists from around the world are opposing the growing normalisation with Israel and affirming the right of Arabs to self-determination.
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Arab intellectuals against normalisation with Israel
Over 300 Arab intellectuals from around the world are opposing the growing normalisation with Israel and affirming the right of Arabs to self-determination.
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La Resistencia @laresistencianw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Inside the infamous Northwest Detention Center, there are currently 140+ people who are refusing food due to the mistreatment and GEO Group's refusal to provide healthy, edible food. GEO also delays meals for hours.
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