At #HRC55 , I reiterated my support to women & men HRDs in #Afghanistan who continue to monitor gross human rights abuses despite great personal risks, in the hope of seeking accountability in the future. The international community must stand firmly behind them. Afghanistan in Geneva

Next Week Georgetown SFS

Look forward to hosting Ussama Makdisi

Cosponsored by acmcu GU CCAS GU African Studies

My essay:

'Teaching the Middle East after October 7: Reflections on Academic Freedom, Antisemitism & the Question of Palestine.'

pomeps.org/teaching-the-m…

In Gaza, I studied at two universities and worked at a third. Professors who taught me have been killed, colleagues have been murdered, and the campuses where I studied and worked lay mostly in ruins. The entire academic system has been obliterated by Israel's bombs. Yet, here,

Hundreds of students were refusing to leave as the NYPD staged mass arrests in a protest encampment at Columbia University.

Students are demanding that the school divest from weapons manufacturers arming Israel.

#EndGenderAparthied

Talk about a fall from grace, of all the people to collaborate with! First Apple+ and now Clinton. No wonder we haven’t heard a peep from Malala on Gaza.

The first of the Yale students arrested today has been released and just gave a speech to the crowd, met with some of the loudest cheering I’ve heard in the last three days.

47 students were arrested, according to organizers.

“For our friends, we shall not be moved,” they sing.

Mass graves found in Gaza but the 'civilised' West looks the other way, its media relegating the story to p.17. The only silver lining is that, now, even the West's elites do not believe their own propaganda about human rights et al. It's something... aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/…

With her lack of reaction to the #KharQamarMassacre Malala Yousafzai replaced her Pashtun nationalist support base with Paki liberals who couldn't get enough of the #PakPositive from her Nobel. Now, during IDF's genocide she seems to have chosen Western elite over Paki one. #ToughChoices

یہ متضاد ہے کہ عام افغان مہاجرین کو سیکورٹی کے نام پر ہراساں کیا جاتا ہے جبکہ جو لوگ سیکورٹی کے لیے اصل خطرہ ہیں وہ ملٹری اسٹیبلشمنٹ کے سٹریٹجک اثاثے ہیں انہیں مکمل پروٹوکول فراہم کیا جاتا ہے۔

Whether we are urged to be civil to racists or polite to patriarchy, the goal is the same: to maintain the power of the racist, to maintain the power of patriarchy. #WhyISayFuck feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…

My weekly message to the “civility” and “politeness” club (from November 2019)

Our custom officials are unsafe while Anas Haqqani has travelled to Waziristan in peace.

جدا ہوئے ہیں بہت لوگ ایک تم بھی سہی
اب اتنی بات پہ کیا زندگی حرام کریں

Point.

جہاں انتخابی نتائج کا احترام نہ ہو اور ووٹروں کی خواہش کو نظر انداز کرنے کی روایت بن گئی ہو وہاں ووٹ سے سیاسی تبدیلی آسان نہیں۔ حقیقی جمہوریت و سویلین بالادستی کی جدوجہد کو ایک فرد یا پارٹی کی حمایت تک محدود کرنے سے ہدف حاصل ہونا مُشکل ہے۔ بغیر وسیع تر متحدہ محاذ کام نہیں بنے گا۔

ہم جس ان دیکھی جنت کیلیےہلکان ہورہےہیں۔
ابلیس نے اسے دیکھنے کےبعد بھی محض ایک سجدہ کے عوض بھی قبول نہیں کی۔۔۔سالی۔۔

As many have said, if you wonder where you would’ve stood on the Holocaust and slavery, you need only look at where you stand on Gaza today. On a suppressed history of ivy leadership support for fascists, and student anti-fascist resistance, from the indomitable Barnaby Raine.

This is colletral damage for ethno supremacists from proper Pak. In contrast, this reveals the brutal consequences of the struggle for the imposition of control and domination.