the permanent freak show that is US politics

Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's family and colleagues would like it shared widely that while detained, Israeli police subjected her to torture and interrogated her. They spent an hour asking about an article she wrote in 2020. They shackled her feet and hands, put her in

from the joint letter of the Columbia and Barnard chapters of the American Association of University Professors
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Nadera Hearing: The judge to police: I can understand that you wanted the arrest to conduct searches, but so far you have not found anything that justifies the arrest and I have not received any other explanation. The pages you found are an expression of opinion....

The silencing continues. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian arrested and being investigated for incitement to violence and terrorism.

Mohammed Salem, World Press Photo of the Year.

#AcademicFreedom | We have written again to Max Planck Society about the provisions that the Max Planck Institute has in place to protect #academicfreedom & #freedomofexpression and whether they were followed when Ghassan Hage was dismissed.
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this weekend’s huge civil society demonstration in Berlin - against Zionism, in support of Palestine, under the noses of 2,500 police - shows that Germany’s business/political/media class love affair with Israel is not universally popular…

Back in germany doing that quintessentially German thing: Waiting at a train station for a forever delayed train connection, my initial train having been late for the preceding connection which is the only one to have mysteriously left on time.

Germany, antisemitism and the death of liberal Europe | Ghassan Hage - YouTube - goo.gl/alerts/2ZMtMQ #GoogleAlerts

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the eclipse to come

Sydney out again in thousands in solidarity with Gaza and against Israel's depraved war. Gazans have been robbed even of the chance to properly mourn their dead. Enough starvation, disease, homelessness, terror of bombs. Support for the Gazan resistance, justice for Palestine now