Reposted by Ted SwedenburgUNRWA @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. 06543
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Gaza - 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. 2157
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgAbu 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/...carnegieendowment.orgOn Reading Herzl in BeirutOr how the absence of insights about the Israeli “other” is a hindrance for the Palestinian liberation struggle. 143
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/03/2025Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that 64 Palestinians have been killed since dawn on Sunday in Israeli raids across the Gaza Strip. 🔴 LIVE updates:aje.io14 bodies of missing Gaza health workers, attacked by Israeli troops, foundThe Red Crescent says dead include eight of its personnel, five from the Palestinian Civil Defence and one UN employee. 14257171
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgViet 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. 1/4haaretz.comIn Gaza, almost every IDF platoon keeps a human shield, a sub-army of Palestinian slaves | Opinion*** 7224551436
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgKerim 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.theguardian.comFlorida college fires Chinese professor under state’s ‘countries of concern’ lawNew College of Florida fired Kevin Wang, a professor who sought asylum and is authorized to work in the US 210556
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025PRCS: The Killing of Eight of Our Medics is A Tragedy Against Humanitarian Work www.palestinercs.org/en/Article/1...palestinercs.orgPRCS: The Killing of Eight of Our Medics is A Tragedy Against Humanitarian Work - Palestine Red Crescent SocietyPRCS 14215
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgDave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 28/03/2025I wrote something for @thenation.com about Alabama PHd student Alireza Doroudi's abduction at the behest of Marco Rubio. www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comAlabama 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. 28537
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgLisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Absolutely 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...tampabay.comNew College fires Chinese professor under controversial Florida lawKevin Wang had been teaching at the small liberal arts college in Sarasota for nearly two years when the school terminated his contract March 12. 175
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgAbu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 29/03/2025“What stunned doctors was the number of children… Just child after child, young patient after young patient." 07260
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgDani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 28/03/2025This 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 + 342609601
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgDavid Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025www.thenation.com/article/acti.... Congress is now pressuring universities to give detailed information on all “anti-Semitic” activities (which basically include all possible actions)thenation.comColumbia Expelled Me for My Palestine Activism, but I Won’t Be SilencedAnd neither will anyone else targeted by the university. We are not afraid, we are undeterred, and we will continue to fight. 1146
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgArang 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.”nytimes.comLeaders of Harvard’s Middle Eastern Studies Center Will LeaveHarvard University has been under pressure by the Trump administration to follow directives related to diversity and combating antisemitism. 11012
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgDavid Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025www.claremontundercurrents.com/pomona-says-...claremontundercurrents.comPomona College will give protest disciplinary records to CongressRep. Tim Walberg sent a letter asking for records related to two divestment protests and other incidents. Pomona said they will "fully cooperate." 288
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/03/2025New 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-...kenklippenstein.comExclusive: Trump Admin Spies on Social Media of Foreign StudentsIdeological purge of foreign students revealed in new leaked directive 22631411215
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgHyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 29/03/2025Palestinian 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.comPalestinian Artist Dorgham Qreiqea Killed in Israeli AirstrikeThe 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. 15730
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgRima 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...theguardian.com‘Canary in the coalmine of totalitarianism’: how Columbia went from a home for Edward Said to a punching bag for TrumpThe university had a history of being a home for cutting-edge discourse on Palestine – until it capitulated to the administration’s demands 1199
Reposted by Ted Swedenburgsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025No 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... 17664822541
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgRick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 09/02/2025The 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. 421755
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgRick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 09/02/2025We 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...nytimes.comVance 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. 30879295
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The Farewell Address 231233192
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgDavid Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 23/01/2025This 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? 05316
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgLena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Have you followed @adalahjustice.bsky.social yet? 0163
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025My 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. 6963411524
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgAbu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 06/11/2024I 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. 12710
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgRebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 14/12/2023Honored 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... 03721
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgAnil 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."thedp.com‘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. 1188
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 01/12/2023Two 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 65920
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 30/11/2023MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan show, per Semaforsemafor.comMSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan's showHasan will become an on-camera analyst and fill-in host. 2813553
Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social · 30/11/2023y 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... 030
Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social · 30/11/2023My 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... 020
Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social · 30/11/2023University 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... 020
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgJillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social · 24/11/2023globalvoices.org/2023/11/08/d...globalvoices.orgDigital Blackout: Systematic censorship of Palestinian voicesDuring the continuous Gaza bombardment and worsening humanitarian crisis, Palestinians face a communication blackout and tech censorship, hindering access to crucial information and the documentation ... 0135
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/11/2023www.972mag.com/israel-thoug...972mag.comIsrael's ‘thought police’ law ramps up dangers for PalestiniansRights advocates warn the draconian law will enable unprecedented surveillance, raising Palestinian fears of arrest for their online activity. 043
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/11/2023An update from poet Mosab Abu Toha who was abducted by the IDF while trying to evacuate Gaza with his family: 10523212
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgDiana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 12/11/2023From a webinar today with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta in Gaza (notes from Arwa Damon): 22116
Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social · 13/11/2023Why 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? 021
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgRima 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.comIsrael's army to recruit settlers with no army experience to guard West Bank settlements*** 001
Reposted by Ted Swedenburgعمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 02/11/2023Dick Durbin, AIPAC’s First Successful Recruit, Becomes First Senator to Call for Gaza Ceasefiretheintercept.comDick Durbin, AIPAC's First Successful Recruit, Becomes First Senator to Call for Gaza CeasefireDurbin’s willingness to tiptoe ahead of his colleagues is all the more surprising given his own electoral history. 001
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 02/11/2023Thai 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...france24.comThailand held direct hostage talks with Hamas in Iran 012
Reposted by Ted Swedenburgعمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 02/11/2023Students walk out of Hillary Clinton’s class to protest Columbia ‘shaming’ pro-Palestinian demonstratorstheguardian.comStudents 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 012
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgKen Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 21/10/2023www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/a...nytimes.com92NY Pulls Event With Acclaimed Writer Who Criticized IsraelThe 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. 2125
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 21/10/2023One 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. 0204
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgAbu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 21/10/2023My 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. 35623
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgAbu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 21/10/2023Amnesty on war crimes in Gaza www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...amnesty.orgIsraeli attacks wipe out entire families in GazaAmnesty International has documented damning evidence of war crimes. 1149
Reposted by Ted SwedenburgLaila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 22/10/2023Hard not to see this as a signal to writers about what they can and can’t say. 0194