An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities: “The time for symbolic solidarity has passed. We now ask for practical, structured, and enduring partnership.” aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/…

hi ISA 👋🏽

When asked to explain a line from “Black Skin, White Masks,” Fanon replied: 💡“This sentence is inexplicable. I seek, when I write such things, to touch my reader with affect … that is to say irrationally, almost sensually.…

To watch via internet cafe connection as a colleague in Gaza turns ever more gaunt, as they try to teach and research between dizzy spells and physical collapse, throws into sharp relief the many complicities of the academy at work. Divestment now.

Said later writes, in this excerpt, "As Aimé Césaire says, 'there is room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.'”

OFFICIAL CUAD PRESS RELEASE: In a historic first, Columbia has suspended nearly 80 students for participating in a teach-in honoring Basel al-Araj. The announcement comes just ahead of the University's deal with the Trump administration and the Anti-Defamation League.

very similar to how eleonor roosevelt responded to the petition that the naacp (edited by du bois) submitted to the un human rights commission

What is there left to say?

Columbia Re-Education Camp in the City of New York

We’re on the last Stretch to Gaza 🇵🇸‼️ 2 days away! Keep all eyes on the #Handala Keep us safe! ✊🏽

i mean how the fuck do you plan to recognize a STATE and in the same breath demand that it agrees to DEMILITARIZE? make it make sense s’il vous plaît

sadly, even “someday everyone will have been against this” still feels overly optimistic

et ça fait un quart de siècle (depuis Wade 1er) que tous les régimes promettent de faire du Senegal un “hub” de quelque chose. on attend toujours…

Throughout the months of organizing at Columbia, extractive journalists would show up to our protests, nod as we spoke of Gaza, and then reduce everything to a tired free speech “debate.” They preyed on our desperation to be heard & then erased our words about the genocide itself

donc la police nationale est habillée par israël?

O.Kolawole. For the colonial powers, sovereignty is always conditional. Earned or bestowed, rather than intrinsic.

You can tell it's a neo-liberal genocide because they are making a separate category for pre-existing conditions.