‘Censorship’: over 115 scholars condemn cancellation of Harvard journal issue on Palestine
In an open letter, writers denounced abrupt scrapping of a Harvard Educational Review issue dedicated to Palestine by
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replugging this in the week of Fanon's 100th birthday, because the way he is misinterpreted keeps me up at night
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“The cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal, which has not been previously reported, is a remarkable new development in a mounting list of examples of censorship of pro-Palestinian speech.”
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Oxford friends: I'm giving 2 book talks in the-town-where-Rhodes-has-not-fallen on Monday, June 9, 2–4 pm, St Antony's College (in person)
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and later in the month, courtesy Rhodes House, on June 24 (online)
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I'm hosting a free online workshop series on Anti-Racism and Reparations in Education.
Please join us!
10am UK time: June 11, June 18 and July 2.
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Please help spread the word to academic/education folx! 🙌🏾
“Two million Palestinians in Gaza, nearly half of them children, are now surviving on a single meal every two or three days.
…signs of prolonged starvation are becoming more frequent and alarming.”
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Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
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"A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing..."
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"Even before Trump had a chance to weigh in, Joe Biden immediately characterized the protests at Columbia as “antisemitic” and declared that “order must prevail” on college campuses."
I would like first to thank from the bottom of my heart every single individual and organization that supported me through this, particularly my fantastic legal team. Everything I have tried to do has been in service of affirming the humanity of the Palestinian people, a struggle that will leave a lasting mark on me. Today I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high. For those following this story: I decided to sue the Trump administration with the hope that it would offer reprieve for myself and other similarly situated persons. But Trump did not want me to have my day in court and sent ICE agents to my home and revoked my visa. We held out but our first motion was denied. We were due to submit a second briefing with the hope that I could stay out of detention whilst the lawsuit progressed.
For every person that has remained silent, just know that you are not safe either. Is the imprisonment of those who speak out against a genocide a reflection of your values? Is this the kind of nation you want to live in? We are already seeing the Trump administration exploiting the complicity of those who have remained silent on the Zionist genocide of Palestinians. The repression of Palestinian solidarity is now being used to wage a wholesale attack on any form of expression that challenges oppressive and exploitative relations in the US.
Given what we have seen across the United States, I have lost faith that a favourable ruling from the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs. I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted. Weighing up these options, I took the decision to leave on my own terms. This is of course not the outcome I had wanted going into this, but we are facing a government that has no respect for the judiciary or for the rule of the law.
It is surreal that we live in a world where you get into trouble for saying killing babies is wrong. Where those advocating for, and celebrating, endless massacres against Palestinians are able to, time and again, present themselves as victims while presenting those fighting against genocide as the oppressors. For months on end, we've had to listen to - ad nauseam - concerns regarding the safety of Zionist students when they are the same students who dox, monitor and collaborate with law enforcement to target students of color. If you have been led to think that your safety is only guaranteed by state kidnap, repression, deportation, the slaughter of children, and the suppression of the global majority, then let Gaza's shards of glass be your mirror.
Momodou Taal left the United States. forwarding his statement from twitter:
"It is not just international students who physically participated in campus activism but also those who shared or liked ‘anti-national’ posts that are the target of these emails, said an immigration attorney."
"it’s not gravity that keeps our heads and arms down it’s just shame for someone else has always died instead of us" - senthuran varatharajah
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what if we were to rethink God as kneeling on the floor like a wounded, tired animal, and bent forward like a shape, with one ear closer to the concrete and Their knuckles bruised and open?
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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
“Hamdan tried to protect his family and the settlers attacked him. Soldiers started shooting in the air to prevent anyone to help Hamdan. He was shouting for help. They let the settlers attack him and then the army abducted him.”
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‘I don’t believe we can build a different, better world without being heartbroken.’
In ‘We, The Heartbroken’ (2023), Gargi Bhattacharyya plays with the 7 stages of grief to explore heartbreak as class consciousness, asking how being broken by this world could move us to remake it 🌹
The Trump administration is now targeting Momodou Taal, seeking to detain and possibly deport the Cornell University PhD student.
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"I feel like my heart is going to stop from the grief."
- Basma Mashharawi (Gazan)
"Those who were bombed tonight died hungry."
- Ne'ma Hassan (Gazan)
"The children are back to lying on the morgue refrigerator floors. There's no more room for the bodies. Has the world really become too small to hold us?"
- Anis Ghanima (Gazan)
Israel killed over 400 Palestinians in one night
"Mahmoud is not safe...He is in real danger, and everyone who helped fashion a moral panic around students fighting to stop the outright annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza—and increasingly also in the West Bank—bears moral responsibility for that fact." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Here's @detentionwatchnetwork.org statement on ICE's detention of Mahmoud Khalil: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
excited & looking forward to reading this promising upcoming book on the politics of memorialisation by @rahulraothariel.bsky.social
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moving out of delhi this month after a beautiful year here. grateful beyond words for the friendships and the sense of freedom & belonging this city has given me.
A moment of sorrow for the passing of Zakia Jafri, who tried, from 2002, to get justice for the murder of her husband Ahsan, in the Gujarat pogrom that Narendra Modi is culpable of. Keep her truth alive.
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