This is a big. University of Sussex is working on a policy for anti-Palestinian racism. At a time when students in the US are defamed and attacked for standing against genocide, Sussex could be the first British university to recognise specific racism directed at Palestinians 🇵🇸✊

1300 students have been arrested so far in the United States.
Had this been China, Russia or Iran... say no more

Great meetings today, and I can anticiapate that the University of Sussex is working on an anti-Palestinian racism policy. Much needed pioneering work - especially given the repression of Palestinian free speech across universitites.
#antipalestinianracism

When my government started beating up (eventually killing) demonstrators who opposed government policy in my own country, I started calling my government authoritarian and anti-human-rights. Facts on the ground outweigh nationalist myths about liberty and pursuing happiness

I say this as someone who held the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Palestine Studies. Boycott Columbia.

To reporters writing this up: this was a unilateral, surprise attack by Zionists. Encampment residents were eating lentils and sitting around. Suddenly reports of men in plastic white masks at the gates. Then poles thrown. Shouts of GET DOWN... skunk spray...

Ready for a set of meetings in which I will speak with compassion about anti-Palestinian racism + surveillance. We must engage with these important themes. What else am I supposed to research as a Palestinian scholar, given the existential threat to our people?
احب غزة

I am amazed about how the both-sidism applied to the Israel/Palestine situation is now expanding to the student freedom movement/zionist countermovement.

Im ending my shift. More thoughts later. I was sprayed by Zionists along with everyone else tonight. Attempts to characterize this as if both sides started it will be completely false.

The logics of domination on Palestinians are extended to those who support the freedom for Palestinians. We are not free until …

A simple idea sits behind the ever increasing list of university protest encampments:

War is terrorism. Genocide is evil.

It’s not complicated. This idea and their organising is met with police violence. Free speech is being shut down. Yet we all know, these kids are right.

Professor Steve Tamari is a historian of the early modern Middle East. He is a Palestinian Quaker from Jaffa and Little Rock. I look forward to a statement from the American Historical Association.

On behalf of the Sayegh family, I invite you to St. Peter's Catholic Church in DC this Sunday, May 5th, at 5 pm Mass to commemorate my dearly beloved sister, Lara, who I just tragically lost back home in Gaza at the young age of 18.

Address: 313 2nd St SE, Washington, DC 20003

I am deeply alarmed by reports of mass graves in Gaza.
 
Independent investigators must be allowed immediate access.
 
The families of the dead have a right to know what happened.

The world has a right to accountability for any violations of int’l law that may have taken place.

Intanto, in Italia siamo tornati a 100anni fa, giusto per ricordare che nel’Aprile 1924 ha vinto la Lista Nazionale ( ideata e guidata da Benito Mussolini ). Furono le ultime elezioni politiche prima della dittatura. Da paura.

Netanyahu vowed to invade Rafah “with or without” a temporary ceasefire deal, where over 1.5 million Palestinians are displaced.

The Biden admin called this deal “extraordinarily generous.”

A 40 day ceasefire is just a pause in this genocide. We need a permanent ceasefire now.

Smotrich again uses unquestionably genocidal language: 'We must destroy Rafah, Nusseirat, & Dir al-Balah 'wipe out the memory of Amalek! …There's no half- measure. Rafah, Dir al-Balah Nusseirat absolute destruction!”

Students at Columbia University have occupied Hamilton hall. Today the university president explicitly said to students the school would not be divesting and threatened to suspend students protesting. The last time this building was taken over by student protesters was in 1968

This is because DEI as an entire discipline is disengaged from anti-Palestinian racism practices!! Let’s change that through our scholarship. #antipalestinianracism 👇🏼

Today marks a historic occasion. By seizing control of Hamilton Hall, students at Columbia University have anchored in historical memory the nexus between the horrors inflicted in Vietnam that was the hallmark of my generation with the horrors inflicted in Gaza that is the