The violent clampdown on encampments in Germany has been supported by the Minister of Education, which has cast the students and their supporters as antisemitic and violent. BRISMES wrote the minister asking her to to safeguard the student's constitutional rights.

You might think that #Islamophobia is the driving force behind US anti-Palestinian bigotry. In fact, it’s the other way around New piece of mine explaining what we get wrong about American Islamophobia. With illustrations by the great Mona Chalabi theguardian.com/news/article/2…

Just in case you believed in the myth of the Israeli state as the “outpost of western civilization” in the ME. Say no to #scholasticide and book burning. End the #GazaGenocide‌

BREAKING: Hundreds of Harvard students and faculty have walked out of commencement in support of Palestine and the 15 seniors having their degrees withheld for protesting a genocide.

To repeat, Israel was founded on a racialist supremacist principle that requires Jews to rule, and its partisans brook no resistance to it. The congressman shares those principles and that intolerance.

NB: if you are consuming lentils or eish baladi in Egypt, you are already complying with this advice.

Tonight in LA. palfest.org/full-schedule/…

They're going to replace him with Mitt Romney, aren't they? He's a DNC wet dream -- the consensus centrist imagined by The West Wing -- the sometimes never-Trumper who invented Obamacare... Not to worry: Biden's proteges will negotiate to keep their jobs...

“The problem that the West has with Palestinian resistance is not terrorism. It's not the targeting of civilians. It's not armed resistance. It's resistance full stop,” Rabbani said. “There is not a single form of Palestinian resistance that the West is prepared to accept.”

The Democratic Party is what happens when you let the pigeon drive the bus.

Here's an astute rundown published in 2020 on Kamala's Israel/Palestine record, from Joshua Leifer in Jewish Currents jewishcurrents.org/restoring-the-…

PALESTINE 101

More garbage from The New York Times. I WONDER, DEAR Erika Solomon, WHAT IS DRIVING ALL THIS OPPOSITION? WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE NATIVES THAT MAKES THEM SO MILITANT AND RESTLESS?

"Why Biden-Harris will not defund the civilian slaughter in Gaza" - 🔹1. Washington hugs Israel close as an asset that’s repeatedly shown its regional military dominance in cooperation w/ the USA - mostly recently vs Hezbollah and Iran. 🔹 2. The USA explicitly supports the

As the semester starts with heightened surveillance and police presence, faculty continue to experience repression for their work on Palestine. To quote Huda Fakhreddine هدى فخر الدين, one of three Penn professors targeted by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce:

Tea-leaf readers take note: Unless she surprises everyone by declaring her independence from Biden, Kamala will stay the course on genocide.

Things are happening in the paw-paw patch.

Zionist. A misunderstood word. Maybe we stop using it? I wonder if a better phrase to describe the core of the ideology is: Jewish supremacist. Since, if you are a Zionist, you believe Jews should be supreme in a land that is 50% non-Jewish. Thus, you are a Jewish supremacist.

Happy Labor Day! “If we raise the minimum wage, then prices will go up.”

History does not have this sensibility to make space for people who have an incomplete story, one that is fragmented and full of gaps... Literature allows this shattered story to exist, particularly at the moment when you lose your ability to speak fluently.