Barely three months into 2024, the Israeli government has already set a record for the amount of West Bank land declared as state-owned property. Its annexation in broad daylight. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

This article by ⁦Rashid Khalidi⁩ is the only thing you need to read about Gaza, Palestine, and Israel. ‘New abyss’: Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

'على مدى العقد الماضي تقريبًا، برزت في سورية أنظمة أمنية موازية، تركية وإيرانية وأميركية، يعمل كلٌّ منها في مناطق جغرافية محددّة العمليات والنفوذ. [...] إلّا أنها تسبّبت إلى حدٍّ كبير بتقويض سيادة الدولة والنظام في سورية.'

خضر خضّور يناقش.
carnegie-mec.org/diwan/92097

On top of Israeli leadership just expecting Israelis to sit around and withstand a potential war with Iran, there is no end in sight for those already displaced from the north, and it seems like many of the hostages in Gaza are dead. There is no plan. No off-ramp. No light

If you're in DC next week for the #IMFMeetings consider attending this timely in-person side event that The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy is co-hosting

I'll be joining Sarah Saadoun from Human Rights Watch and Hussein Cheaito حسين شعيتو from Arab Watch Coalition. Nabil Abdo from Oxfam International is moderating

RSVP here timep.org/2024/04/09/her…

I spoke with @edmund_bower for the The Guardian about the massive new inflows of financing heading to Egypt & the risk that the country's leadership could once again squander these new funds, if proper conditions aren't put into place and vigilantly enforced theguardian.com/global-develop…

Hamas took a lot from Ayala Metzger on October 7. But they couldn’t take away her humanity.

I think that German officials have to understand that they have inflicted untold damage to thier global standing for years to come. The German state is now like a madman, ranting in the streets in its underwear. No one is listening

Exceptional and much-needed. More than 40 universities in Spain have joined efforts to connect with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt and learn from her on the magnitude of the war crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza and how to stop it. Our Faculty is hosting it at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

The inaugural piece by Eddie Thomas MERIP’s forthcoming special issue 'The Struggle for Sudan' has been released. The full special issue will be released next week. Land, Livestock and Darfur’s ‘Culture Wars’ merip.org/2024/04/land-l…

The murder of teacher, Blair Peach – a 🧵
 
Blair Peach was born in New Zealand. In 1969, and moved to the UK with his partner, Celia. Peach taught at the Phoenix School in Bow in East London, a school for young children with special needs. #Defiance

Thank you ACLS for your support, for giving me the opportunity and space to write and for putting in me in the same orbit with all of these amazing scholars.

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Sickening, sickening. Sickening. What are smug, self-regarding Western policy-makers and elites doing about this? Oops, sorry, silly question.

New from @HRW: Following months of collective punishment, kids in #Gaza are dying from starvation-related complications. Israeli officials ordering or carrying out these actions are committing war crimes. hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

Recognition would be helpful, an acknowledgement of Palestinian national rights but it needs far, far more than that to tackle extremism, and far more than that to get to a viable peace agreement. (Inc: End of occupation, system of apartheid, accountability)

“The best future we can be providing for our children is when we provide for the children of the people we don’t know, the same future and the same hope we are trying to provide for our own,” he continued. “What is so difficult to understand about that?” huffpost.com/entry/jose-and…

Is the problem that Washington elites don't understand, or simply that they don't want to? No holds-barred by Sam Heller | سام هيلر:
Washington Can’t Make Israel’s War in Gaza Moral. Instead, It Needs to End the War. via The Century Foundation tcf.org/content/commen…

Journalist Amira Hass has been covering the Israeli occupation for decades. She spoke with Catalyst about Israel’s genocide in Gaza and expulsion plans in the context of Oslo’s occupation regime and the destruction of Palestinian self-determination.
catalyst-journal.com/2024/03/can-pa…

Helpful explainer by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe on the history of Gaza and the construction of the “Gaza Strip” by Israeli officials in 1948.