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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 20/05/2025
"We really are just lost for words at this point. The suffering is intolerable." UNRWA Louise Wateridge tells @cnn.com. After months of war and siege, #Gaza humanitarian crisis is overwhelming. People are starving, deeply traumatized, and have nowhere safe to go. The siege must be lifted.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Gaza - scenes from a, literal, hell. Notice the child on top of this pile of shrouded dead bodies. A reminder, these are people who were killed with their bodies intact, many more are blown to pieces and bc of the sanctity of the body, fare collected in bags, for burial, chunks and bits by bit.
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“it was his commitment as editor of Shu’un Filastiniyya to free debate and intellectual integrity that established the periodical as the arena for all Palestinian political factions and ideological currents to debate issues dividing them deeply.” -Yezid Sayigh carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...
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On Reading Herzl in Beirut
Or how the absence of insights about the Israeli “other” is a hindrance for the Palestinian liberation struggle.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/03/2025
Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that 64 Palestinians have been killed since dawn on Sunday in Israeli raids across the Gaza Strip. 🔴 LIVE updates:
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14 bodies of missing Gaza health workers, attacked by Israeli troops, found
The Red Crescent says dead include eight of its personnel, five from the Palestinian Civil Defence and one UN employee.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day...Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, at least 36 in a brigade. 1/4
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In Gaza, almost every IDF platoon keeps a human shield, a sub-army of Palestinian slaves | Opinion
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 30/03/2025
“I never expected to face such a distressing experience after escaping persecution from the CCP in China, only to encounter a somewhat similar situation at New College in the United States,” he added.
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Florida college fires Chinese professor under state’s ‘countries of concern’ law
New College of Florida fired Kevin Wang, a professor who sought asylum and is authorized to work in the US
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
PRCS: The Killing of Eight of Our Medics is ‏A Tragedy Against Humanitarian Work www.palestinercs.org/en/Article/1...
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‏PRCS: The Killing of Eight of Our Medics is ‏A Tragedy Against Humanitarian Work - Palestine Red Crescent Society
PRCS
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I wrote something for @thenation.com about Alabama PHd student Alireza Doroudi's abduction at the behest of Marco Rubio. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Alabama Won't Say Alireza Doroudi's Name. We Must.
The Iranian Ph.D. student is one of several abducted by ICE in the past month—a pattern we cannot become numb to.
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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Absolutely horrifying “A New College of Florida professor was abruptly fired this month under a controversial state law that limits public universities from employing people from so-called “countries of concern,” including China, Cuba, Iran, Russia and Venezuela” www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
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New College fires Chinese professor under controversial Florida law
Kevin Wang had been teaching at the small liberal arts college in Sarasota for nearly two years when the school terminated his contract March 12.
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“What stunned doctors was the number of children… Just child after child, young patient after young patient."
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is important. More than 700 Harvard faculty, with diverse views, have now signed a letter urging the university administration to "publicly condemn attacks on universities," "legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom" and +
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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
www.thenation.com/article/acti.... Congress is now pressuring universities to give detailed information on all “anti-Semitic” activities (which basically include all possible actions)
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Columbia Expelled Me for My Palestine Activism, but I Won’t Be Silenced
And neither will anyone else targeted by the university. We are not afraid, we are undeterred, and we will continue to fight.
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Arang Keshavarzian @keshavarziana.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“Now their universities are on notice that the government is looking for a settlement that includes abridging the autonomy of centers and departments devoted to the study of the Middle East,” Professor Bali said…. “I’ve never seen anything comparable to this. This is totally unprecedented.”
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Leaders of Harvard’s Middle Eastern Studies Center Will Leave
Harvard University has been under pressure by the Trump administration to follow directives related to diversity and combating antisemitism.
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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
www.claremontundercurrents.com/pomona-says-...
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Pomona College will give protest disciplinary records to Congress
Rep. Tim Walberg sent a letter asking for records related to two divestment protests and other incidents. Pomona said they will "fully cooperate."
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New Rubio order (leaked to me) directs the State Department to spy on student visa holders and applicants social media for "a hostile attitude toward U.S. citizens or U.S. culture (including government, institutions, or founding principles).” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
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Exclusive: Trump Admin Spies on Social Media of Foreign Students
Ideological purge of foreign students revealed in new leaked directive
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 29/03/2025
Palestinian artist and community organizer Dorgham Bassam Qreiqea, 28, was killed in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City amid the onslaught of Israeli airstrikes last Tuesday, March 18.
hyperallergic.com
Palestinian Artist Dorgham Qreiqea Killed in Israeli Airstrike
The muralist and oil painter, one of hundreds killed in Israel’s renewed attacks, is also remembered for his devotion to helping the children of Gaza.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
‘Canary in the coalmine of totalitarianism’: how Columbia went from a home for Edward Said to a punching bag for Trump The university had a history of being a home for cutting-edge discourse on Palestine – until it capitulated to the administration’s demands www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Canary in the coalmine of totalitarianism’: how Columbia went from a home for Edward Said to a punching bag for Trump
The university had a history of being a home for cutting-edge discourse on Palestine – until it capitulated to the administration’s demands
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services is
"watching" the outbreak, which he described as
"not unusual" during a Wednesday meeting of President Donald Trump's cabinet members.
The health secretary did not provide specifics on how or if the federal agency is assisting on the ground.CDC chart of measles cases, showing a profound drop off after the vaccine was introduced in 1963 and an elimination declared in 2000.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Schumer and Jeffries
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The values we are defending are so very, very basic. We must aim for a mass throw-your-body-on-the-machine resistance movement in the millions. And please, red-baiting from any liberals or moderates, no purity one-upsmanship from radicals. We must love one another, or die.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
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Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’
The declaration by the vice president came as court orders have temporarily blocked parts of the Trump administration’s agenda.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The Farewell Address
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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is truly excellent. Print it out and post it in your living room, office, wherever. Most of the world has been confronted with authoritarianism. We are not at all unique. The question is can we be as courageous as most of the world?
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Have you followed @adalahjustice.bsky.social yet?
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
My new essay comic, Antisemitism in a Time of Genocide, is now up at Le Monde Diplomatique in France. I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I expect universities to be in the crosshairs, and Israel/Palestine to be the leading wedge of the attack as it’s been the last year; of course it won’t end there, it was never going to. But the roadmap to weaponize government power against anti-Israel expression has been clearly laid out.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Honored to be publishing "The War on Gaza and the War on Free Speech" in this important free ebook, From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, just released by @haymarketbooks.bsky.social & @versobooks.bsky.social. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2370-f...
book cover, depicting Palestine from the river to the seaContents
Editors’ foreword
A note on our contributors in Gaza
Part 1. In This Moment
In this moment
Noura Erakat
Testimonies from Gaza youth
Dunia Aburahma, Sara Besaiso
I couldn’t bid my apartment farewell
Tawfiq Abu Shomer
A Gaza daughter in exile
Reema Saleh
It seems like things can’t get worse
Khalil Abu Yahia
We’ve lost the ability to provide true care
Three doctors’ testimonies from Gaza
Dispatches from the West Bank
Five testimonies from the West Bank
On why we still hold onto our phones and keep recording
Asmaa Abu Mezied
Is the sky crying?
Rana Barakat10
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Western journalists have blood on their hands
Mohammed El-Kurd
Part 2. No human being can exist
No human being can exist
Saree Makdisi
Hamas and a century of resistance
Khaled Hroub
What was Hamas thinking?
Tareq Baconi
Exchange rate
Eyal Weizman
The end of colonial government
Samera Esmeir
Lessons from ’48
Soheir Asaad and Riya Al’Sanah
A war without a plan
Rashid Khalidi
Part 3. The enemy trinity
The enemy trinity
Jamie Allinson and Sai Englert
What the rules allow
Spencer Ackerman
The Oslo illusion
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The shifting dynamics of Palestinian resistance
Toufic Haddad
Bread, freedom and an Arab Palestine
Nihal El Aasar
Ink, gas, and water: Jordan’s peace with Israel
Samar Saeed
Reality denial: the war to resuscitate the myth
Haim Bresheeth-Žabner
Israel, fascism, and the war against the Palestinian people
Alberto Toscano
Three new realities for American power after 7 October
Noah Kulwin
Part 4. Not in anyone’s name
Not in anyone’s name
Ashley J. Bohrer
Gaza’s imperial boomerang
Hil Aked
The war on Gaza and the war on free speech
Rebecca Ruth Gould
For Palestine, it’s BDS or bust
Omar Barghouti
No Moses in Siege
Mohammed El-Kurd
About the contributors
Notes
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
"Professor Robert Vitalis, who served as MEC director from 1999 to 2006, wrote to the DP that he advised Küçük to resign. 'The president and the provost have lost sight of the university’s academic mission, and I am ashamed of a place that once inspired me,' Vitalis wrote."
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‘Disheartened' and ‘dismayed’: Penn community reacts to resignation of Middle East Center dire...
Faculty members, students, and alumni affiliated with the MEC talked to the DP about the implications of Küçük’s resignation as director amid heightened campus tensions.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Two TAs removed from their positions and barred from hiring next semester because after being approached by students + receiving confirmation from their supervising professor - they shared mental health resources with students in their class, in case they were impacted by the ongoing conflict
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 30/11/2023
MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan show, per Semafor
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MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan's show
Hasan will become an on-camera analyst and fill-in host.
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Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
y article on kufiyas (#kaffiyeh #keffiyeh) from 1992: "Seeing Double: Palestinian/American Histories of the Kufiya," (Michigan Quarterly Review) is now available as a pdf here --> drive.google.com/file/d/1SbTS...
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Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
My book chapter, "The Kufiya" (2021), which appeared in Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera, Global Middle East: Into the Twenty First Century, is now available as a pdf on my blog #keffiyeh #kaffiyeh #kufiya. swedenburg.blogspot.com/2023/11/my-b...
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Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
University of Arkansas Historian of the Middle East Joel Gordon shares his story of academic censorship after being forced to indefinitely postpone an event with Ted Swedenburg on Palestine/Israel and Israel's war in Gaza. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/p...
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Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
globalvoices.org/2023/11/08/d...
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Digital Blackout: Systematic censorship of Palestinian voices
During the continuous Gaza bombardment and worsening humanitarian crisis, Palestinians face a communication blackout and tech censorship, hindering access to crucial information and the documentation ...
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
www.972mag.com/israel-thoug...
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Israel's ‘thought police’ law ramps up dangers for Palestinians
Rights advocates warn the draconian law will enable unprecedented surveillance, raising Palestinian fears of arrest for their online activity.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
An update from poet Mosab Abu Toha who was abducted by the IDF while trying to evacuate Gaza with his family:
I'm safe but I still have severe pain in my nose and teeth after being beaten by the Israeli army last Sunday.
I gave them all my family's passports, including my American son's passport but they didn't return anything to me. Also my clothes and my children's were taken and not returned to me. No wallet, no money, no credit cards.
Everything was confiscated.
I'm in pain.
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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
From a webinar today with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta in Gaza (notes from Arwa Damon):
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Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Why has no one picked up the story of the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas, producer of the white phosphorus munitions being used against Gaza and South Lebanon?
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Madness The IDF intends to recruit settlers who have not undergone military training and place them as regional defense militiamen in their area of residence www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Israel's army to recruit settlers with no army experience to guard West Bank settlements
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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 02/11/2023
Dick Durbin, AIPAC’s First Successful Recruit, Becomes First Senator to Call for Gaza Ceasefire
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Dick Durbin, AIPAC's First Successful Recruit, Becomes First Senator to Call for Gaza Ceasefire
Durbin’s willingness to tiptoe ahead of his colleagues is all the more surprising given his own electoral history.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Thai officials held direct talks with Hamas in Iran last week over the fate of 22 of the kingdom's nationals taken hostage by the Palestinian militant group in its attack on Israel, the head of the Thai delegation said. #Gaza #Hostages #Israel www.france24.com/en/video/202...
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Thailand held direct hostage talks with Hamas in Iran
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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 02/11/2023
Students walk out of Hillary Clinton’s class to protest Columbia ‘shaming’ pro-Palestinian demonstrators
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Students walk out of Hillary Clinton’s class to protest Columbia ‘shaming’ pro-Palestinian dem...
Walkout at foreign policy lecture was in support of students who signed a declaration blaming Israel for October Hamas attacks
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/a...
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92NY Pulls Event With Acclaimed Writer Who Criticized Israel
The decision to call off an event with the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen on Friday drew criticism that the organization was stifling voices it disagrees with.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
One of the 3 BBC "experts" who absolved Israel from the Al Ahli bombing is at an Israeli counter-terrorism think tank whose board is stuffed to the gills with Israeli military and intel folks. The other 2 are RUSI and NATO guys.
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
My daughter is in a NIC unit just like this one. Premature babies in Gaza deserve the same chance to live. Do they deserve it because they voted for Hamas? Stop this madness. Let real humanitarian aid in. Stop this.
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Amnesty on war crimes in Gaza www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza
Amnesty International has documented damning evidence of war crimes.
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 22/10/2023
Hard not to see this as a signal to writers about what they can and can’t say.
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