Yes, I was reinstated, but this is what the President and Chancellor shared with all faculty and local media.

Excellent news. Big win for academic freedom and the right to speak against Israel’s occupation, apartheid and genocide against the Palestinians.

The rector of the University of Glasgow

The word left means anti capitalist. The number of economic departments that are left in the US is like two.

Being a Muslim hijabi is ‘performative’ only in the sense that all social life is performative.

Try to imagine any kind of activism that is not performative.

It is fine to protest at a university event at a private residence. It’s also fine to be thrown out of said private residence and be mildly manhandled. No big deal.

I wonder how the profs would feel if, instead of reading a statement and leaving, people were there to settle in their house permanently, steal their stuff, and kick them out into the street

The replies to this post are amazing. It’s a bunch of diaspora Iranians awakening to the reality that zionists aren’t interested in liberating Iran.

Was once hired to assess a British NGO project to teach Pakistani school children journalistic methods on the premise that this would make them ‘objective’ and they’d become pro Western. Nobody could imagine that if they learn the truth they’d become more anti Western.

Anytime Islamophobes start fearmongering about 'taqiya' I am confused because the term means 'hat' in Arabic. I don't understand half the words they use with me.

Economists will kill us all.

In 1994, the (in)famous William Nordhaus surveyed natural scientists & economists about what impact they thought global warming would have on the economy.

Natural scientists' estimates were 20 to 30x higher than economists.
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There's a whole folk anthropology of counterinsurgency behind these Game of Thrones, 'red wedding'-style attacks that target whole lineages. The idea is that resistance is carried on in particular families and you can eliminate it if you exterminate the right bloodlines.

The anti-war American liberal sees the moral calamity committed by fellow liberals but is still unable to name and define what he’s witnessing: it is not that the Biden & his admin lack ‘courage to stand up to Israel’— it is that Biden & his admin believe in this genocide.

That Tucker Carlson has been able to muster more humane coverage of Gaza than others is a stain on Western media.

Today I got called haji sb. by a mangne wali so I am officially a buzurg now.