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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi

@peruana.bsky.social
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Peruvian historian between worlds. Chola respondona. History Professor at UC-Santa Barbara & columnist in La República. Academic website: www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/mendez. Opinión: larepublica.pe/autor/cecilia-mendez.

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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Why Does ICE Look More and More Like the Israeli Military Lately?
Prem on the jarring parallels between the two violent forces that receive billions of US tax dollars.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Tracking Israel’s ‘Ceasefire’ in Gaza: These Numbers Show the Genocide Isn’t Over
Three months later, as 'phase two' of Trump and Netanyahu's so-called 'peace deal' begins, these horrific statistics tell a different story.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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We Refuse to be Silenced: The Palestinian Historians Group Responds to the AHA Council Vetoes
We, the Palestinian Historians Group, are outraged by the American Historical Association Council’s decision to veto two resolutions that members passed by 78 and 79 percent at the AHA Annual Business...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Grand Illusion
We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the “bellicose frivolity of senile empires.”
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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Eye on Palestine (@eyeonpalestine)
“They have stolen my harvest and taken everything from us they’ve left us with absolutely nothing. They’ve destroyed our identity.” A Palestinian grandfather cries after Zionist settlers destroyed hi...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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Mosab Abu Toha (@mosababutoha)
This belongs in every headline!! This is the most heartbreaking video today. A Palestinian hostage who’s just been released was told his wife and children were slaughtered by Israel while he was hel...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Palestine Will Be Free (@palestinewillbefree)
DO NOT LOOK AWAY Utterly horrific scenes from the latest massacre committed by the Jewish supremacists against civilians while they were trying to get drinking water on Al-Thalathini Street in Gaza C...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Mosab Abu Toha (@mosababutoha)
Self defense in the West Bank. Shame on you and every complicit government.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi)
HORRIBLE! Israel uses a quadcopter to assassinate a Palestinian doctor while he's working inside the hospital. The drone shoots him in the head from outside the window of the hospital. This is not c...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Israel is using some of America's most advanced bombs on children hiding in tents. Israel's leadership and much of its public assert that no child in Gaza is innocent. Including this little angel, wh...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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Epilogue: The 116-Year War on Palestine
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi)
Wow! Wow! MASSIVE walkout of diplomats at the UN as soon as Netanyahu takes the podium. I don't recall seeing such a large walkout for quite some time at UNGA. Israel has chosen to be a pariah an...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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AJ+ Managing Director’s Message to the Global Sumud Flotilla Setting Sail to Gaza
YouTube video by AJ+
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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This man on every news show everywhere please.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Exclusive: The 100-Word Ceasefire “Proposal” Trump Sent Hamas www.dropsitenews.com/p/exclusive-...
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Exclusive: The 100-Word Ceasefire “Proposal” Trump Sent Hamas
“It looks like it was written by the Israelis,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The Border Is Invading America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
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Opinion | The Border Is Invading America
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Criminals. "Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda" www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...
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Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda
Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Fascism is contagious. “Under New Law, Greece Can Imprison Rejected Asylum Seekers”. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/w...
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Under New Law, Greece Can Imprison Rejected Asylum Seekers
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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Since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Israel has killed over 800 Palestinian athletes. Here are some of their names and faces.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Funeral held in Italy for Gaza evacuee who died after severe malnutrition | AJ #shorts
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 21/08/2025
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi)
YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH THE FULL 3min! UN emergency coordinator @TFletcher says people should read the IPC report about the Israeli-made famine in Gaza "in sorrow and in anger." "Be in no doubt th...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Mustafa Barghouti on Israeli plan to ‘kill the possibility of a two-state solution’
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
According to Hannah Arendt, to be human is to be part of a political community. We don’t think of it very often, maybe because we associate humanity mostly with charitable sentiments. But the biggest taboo is to recognize someone else's political rights. larepublica.pe/opinion/2025...,
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
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Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The horror does not stop… Supreme Court Lets Trump Administration Cut N.I.H. Grants for Disfavored Research www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Administration Cut N.I.H. Grants for Disfavored Research
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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An American doctor recounts how a pregnant Palestinian woman was shot in the uterus by Israeli soldiers. The bullet went through the neck of the 15-week-old fetus. The woman went from having a baby i...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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Ryan Grim (@ryangrim)
After murdering Anas al-Sharif and 4 other Al Jazeera journalists in a strike on their tent, Israel claimed Gaza’s most prominent journalist of the past 22 months was moonlighting as a Hamas fighter. ...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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Ryan Grim (@ryangrim)
“There should be a disclaimer on anything the Israeli military is claiming.” Drop Site MENA editor @Sharif Abdel Kouddous calls out Reuters’ coverage of the killing of their colleague Anas Al-Sharif ...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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Egyptians protest for Palestine at Journalists’ Syndicate in Cairo
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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Old video shows murdered Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif reuniting with his daughter during Eid
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Criminals! substack.com/@ryangrim/no...
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Ryan Grim (@ryangrim)
Footage of the Israeli massacre of journalists outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City — filmed by journalist @Abdel Qader Sabbah, who rushed to the scene and captured the immediate aftermath. @Drop S...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi)
One has to be blind not to see that Israel has completely lost the majority of the world - including in the West. This is Sydney today. No level of intimidation, surveillance, or threats can force th...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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La ayuda que Europa lanza a Gaza desde el aire, “ineficiente” y “cosmética”
La ONU y organizaciones humanitarias critican que la estrategia alivia la presión sobre Israel, pone en riesgo a la población local y profundiza su deshumanización
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This is what Israel calls “humanitarian pauses”.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 31/07/2025
NEW: Israeli settlers attacked the village of Abu Falah, east of Ramallah, and set fire to a local resident’s vehicle.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 30/07/2025
Hearing in groupchats that the language here on gender is much worse than the Columbia settlement
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It’s truly brutal what US universities have come to accept. “Unlike the (…) video that presented a pro-Israel viewpoint (…) there was no historical context for the Palestinian cause. Nor did it mention what has happened in Gaza after the 7 Oct Hamas attack”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Antisemitism training designed by pro-Israel groups is becoming compulsory at US colleges. What’s in it?
Training asks students to attribute the statement ‘every time I read Hitler, I fall in love’ to an ‘anti-Israel activist’
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
“There’s no precedent for how damaging this law is,” she said, describing it, as have several other environmental organisations, as “the greatest setback to Brazil’s environmental legislation” since the 1980s, when licensing first became a legal requirement” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Brazil passes ‘devastation bill’ that drastically weakens environmental law
President has 15 days to approve or veto legislation that critics say will lead to vast deforestation and destruction of Indigenous communities
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Explaining the silence of legal scholars, academia, media, politicians … until now. It is this silence that allowed the genocide to go on. Brilliant, Nimer Sultany youtube.com/watch?v=vObF...
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Palestinian Scholar DESTROYS Genocide Deniers - w/. Nimer Sultany
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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Israel continues to kill Palestinians as aid trickles into Gaza
Hours after declaring “humanitarian pauses,” Israeli forces killed 43 Palestinians 9 of them were waiting for aid.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/07/2025
Israeli forces killed at least 92 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday despite ‘pauses’ in fighting to deliver aid.
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Death toll nears 60,000 in Gaza as Israel kills at least 92 in one day
Israeli forces killed at least 92 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday despite ‘pauses’ in fighting to deliver aid.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Please help spread the word about this, I have only seen it in Dropbox, the hell for Palestinians goes on. www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bom...
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Israel Bombs Gaza School With U.S.-Made Missile During Friday Prayers
The school was sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza City.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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Countries denounce Israel but keep trading with it
Twenty-eight countries sign statement calling for end to Israel’s war on Gaza but won’t move to stop bilateral trade.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 25/07/2025
📄 NEW: USAID Review Found No Evidence Hamas Systematically Diverted U.S. Aid Credit: Reuters | July 25, 2025
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Facebook just suspended my account after I revealed Perú’s Army will manufacture arms for Elbit Systems, Israel’s company profiting from genocide and using Palestine as testing lab even though the news of the contract is on Elbit’s on web site. Please spread widely. Peruvian media is silent.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi)
MUST WATCH: Former US special forces lieutenant-colonel tells the BBC that he has never in his entire career "witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against ...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We are wining. The silence will not hold! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Challenging the Silence Over Palestine in the American Historical Association
Institutional complicity in injustice.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Architects Of Israel’s Genocide Will Stand Trial For What They’ve Done
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Virginia Commonwealth University withholds Palestinian American student's degree for campus protest
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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