"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.
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.
“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
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Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that 64 Palestinians have been killed since dawn on Sunday in Israeli raids across the Gaza Strip.
🔴 LIVE updates:
"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
“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.
PRCS: The Killing of Eight of Our Medics is A Tragedy Against Humanitarian Work
www.palestinercs.org/en/Article/1...
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...
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”
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“What stunned doctors was the number of children… Just child after child, young patient after young patient."
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 +
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)
“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.”
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-...
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.
‘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...
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.
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...
Schumer and Jeffries
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.
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...
The Farewell Address
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?
Have you followed @adalahjustice.bsky.social yet?
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.
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.
book cover, depicting Palestine from the river to the sea
Contents 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 Barakat
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 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 Adam Hanieh
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 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
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...
"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."
