NYU faculty creating a ring around the Gaza solidarity encampment to protect their students after the school threatened mass arrest. So beautiful.

We are horrified by the arrest of our colleagues at NYU. #FreeThemAll

Holy shit.

'The $75,000 prize accompanying the PEN/Stein award will be donated, this year, to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at the direction of the Literary Estate of Jean Stein.'

publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

Massive faculty walkout at Columbia University opposing the university’s decision to call in NYPD on Palestine solidarity protests:

Feminist borders are an oxymoron.

Borders, walls, jails, cages, war and occupation all disproportionally and deliberately reproduce gender-based violence.

Borders are always an anti-feminist structuring.

📣 Recording now available

The Walls Have Eyes: Border Tech Conversations w/ The Migration and Tech Monitor (Migration and Technology Monitor) feat. Petra Molnar and Wael Qarssifi | وائل

Part 2 in the Logic(s) speaker series ✨

youtu.be/I2yevn6jgQk?si…

Latest from RefugeeLawLab Associate Director Petra Molnar:

'Nothing about us without us': People on the move interrogate border tech with Migration and Technology Monitor

openglobalrights.org/people-on-move…

🚨'These tools are particularly troubling in light of reports that Israeli defense startups are hoping to export their battle-tested technology abroad.'

Read my full comment to the The Verge on the Lavender system that Israel uses against people in Gaza 👇
theverge.com/2024/4/4/24120…

📡 Call to Action for Academics:

In light of the educide in Gaza, the Palestinian Students and Scholars At Risk Initiative (PSSAR) is seeking professors who can accept highly competitive students from Gaza in their graduate programs with funding.

pssar.ca

Journalist John Washington has spent years reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border. In a new book, he makes the case for its abolition. newrepublic.com/article/179320…

🚨TNI with SOMO, IT for Change and Statewatch present:

A free six-week course from brilliant experts and activists taking on Big Tech worldwide and advancing an alternative digital world rooted in justice.

ℹ️tni.org/en/form/pre-re…

An incarcerated brother I am in correspondence with donated $17.74 for relief efforts in Gaza. This donation is the sum of 136 hours of his labor in the prison working as a porter/janitor. May his sincere donation be multiplied by the Creator. #Gaza #ceasefirenow

📢7amleh launched the 'Digital Security' platform, an educational guidance platform designed in the Arabic language, to constitute a source of specialised educational and training guides in the field of digital security.
👉Digital Security platform: dsc.7amleh.org

More about Passages Through Genocide (gazapassages.com), an online project that collates and disseminates texts written by Gazans living through the current Israeli assault, today on ArabLit:

arablit.org/2024/01/29/all…

The second fellowship we are working on launching Logic(s) is to support two Palestinian journalists this year. Details are forthcoming because we are waiting to launch until we secure enough Palestinian partners to co-envision the program. (They will ofc be compensated)

The Israeli weapons and surveillance market has a long history of selling “battle tested” state-of-the-art weapons and border surveillance, after testing them out on Palestinians in occupied Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, writes Petra Molnar.

tni.org/en/article/all…

Wow this is an unbelievable development in terms of employment discrimination by Ontario MAG. Egregious violations of Ontario human rights code protections against anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia as well as Charter protected freedom of expression and equality.

New in The Border Chronicle 🦂🎄A very moving end-of-the-year piece by Todd Miller The Modern-Day Nativity Scene: A Concertina Wire Christmas
theborderchronicle.com/p/the-modern-d…

Because I have been speaking out against the genocide in Palestine…I have lost friends, colleagues, career opportunities, job offers, and my consulting contracts too.

I’m a genocide survivor & educator. & I cannot wrap my mind around the fact people think I should be quiet.

'Israel’s brutal crackdown in Gaza is a bleak reminder of how authoritarianism and technology go hand in hand, as rockets and drones in the sky dim the stars of Bethlehem.'

Read Petra Molnar’s latest about how this technology ends up on the US border:

theborderchronicle.com/p/the-new-gosp…