Really necessary set of essay about this moment: www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192
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Apparently negotiating with Israel and Trump is a good way to get blown up-- Israeli military says it attacked Hamas leaders in Qatar’s Doha
You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure" It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started. today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Trump approval falls, Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and vaccines: June 13-16, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll | YouGov
This week’s Economist/YouGov poll covers Trump approval numbers, the Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and opinion of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his actions
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What kind of statement is this from Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?? Why put anything out at all? The biggest gripe seems to be that they don’t get cool briefings anymore
OUT NOW: Middle East Report 314, "New Gender Frontlines" Our Spring Issue delves into the gender dynamics of the political forces shaping the Middle East in our present -- from Women, Life, Freedom to revolutionary Syria and the genocide in Gaza. Read, Teach, Share! buff.ly/XB8cxtW
Many important points here, like why this is not a preemptive strike and how this fits into Israel's larger goals of remaking the Middle East with force. abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/why-did-isra...
Why did Israel attack Iran now?
What is it really trying to achieve... and can it succeed? Last night, Israel launched a major military strike against Iran, killing a number of its senior military commanders and taking shots at key...
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Community health work can be transformative even in the midst of active and ongoing dispossession -- a great blog post about 1for3's work in Tulkarem. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Mejd Azzeh | In the West Bank
When I walked through the shattered streets of Tulkarem refugee camp the day after a military incursion last November,...
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Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.
Important article for all in education and beyond! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Harvard appears to think all Jews support Israel. That is discriminatory | Barry Trachtenberg, Victor Silverman, Atalia Omer, Raz Segal, Rebecca T Alpert
We are Jewish scholars who filed an amicus brief with the US supreme court on Harvard’s discriminatory assumption that being Jewish means supporting Israel
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Friends! Please support fiercely independent Palestinian data in this campaign for Badil's irreplaceable and unparalleled research on Palestinian refugees and displaced people. badil.org/press-releas...
BADIL’s fundraising campaign: Raise Palestinian Refugees’ Voices and Rights
Available in | English |French | Italian| German | Spanish Raise Palestinian Refugees Voices and Rights campaign aims to challenge the strategy of the Israeli regime and its colonial allies to elimin...
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stunning and deplorable reports that the US wants to deport migrants to Libya, with no apparent concern for where they came from.
Lisa Hajjar @lisahajjar.bsky.social · last yr.Rubio said the United States was not satisfied only with sending migrants to El Salvador. "We are working with other countries to say: We want to send you some of the most despicable human beings, will you do this as a favor to us," Rubio said. "And the further away from America, the better."
We are humbled by the dozens of activists, scholars, leaders, dissenters, and truth-tellers who joined us at the JVP National Member Meeting in Baltimore this past weekend.
“‘Never Again is now’ as JVP activists have chanted throughout this genocide. We must ask ourselves: Who is grievable, who’s ungrievable? Who’s countable, who is uncountable — and who is accountable? Palestinians are not begging the world for charity. We’re calling for meaningful solidarity…"
Sudan: In Zamzam Camp, North Darfur, communal kitchens have been burnt down, and parts of the camp are in ashes. About 80% of the population have fled, many on foot. Many of those fleeing have subsequently been attacked along the way. 1/3
“She suffered very severe asthma attacks while there, received inadequate medical care. There has been no religious accommodation...Her hijab was removed without her consent" - @pressley.house.gov tells me about her visit to detained student Rümeysa Öztürk. Full interview: zeteo.com/p/hijab-was-...
If, as President Garber wrote, “the fearless and unfettered pursuit of truth liberates humanity,” then he – and all of us – must demand that liberation without exceptions, caveats, or fear. For every single one of us. My latest oped on @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Harvard talks free speech but silences Palestine
It stands up to the Trump administration’s sweeping demands, but bows to those of its own billionaire donors.
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Only 1 in 10 people have access to clean water in Gaza today. www.972mag.com/gaza-water-c...
Israel pushes Gaza water crisis to the brink
The army's intensified targeting of water infrastructure has left Gazans no choice but to drink seawater and ration contaminated supplies.
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Gaza's universities sheltering those displaced 8 and more times... books being used as fuel. This is the current stage of scholasticide. www.972mag.com/islamic-univ...
PHOTOS: A ruined university in northern Gaza becomes a refuge
Fleeing their homes once more, thousands have crowded into the Islamic University, burning books to boil water, heat food, and stay warm.
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Israeli War Crimes in Gaza Continue: Bombardment, Water Deprivation, Burning People Alive in Tents
Israeli War Crimes in Gaza Continue: Bombardment, Water Deprivation, Burning People Alive in Tents
( IMEMC ) – In the 28th straight day since obliterating the ceasefire agreement on March 18th (the day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to testify in his trial for corruption), Israeli forces continued to bombard the terrified residents of the Gaza Strip, who have no place to go and no shelter […]
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Honored to win the Carnegie Fellowship for my project that centers the costs of borders here, in Palestine, & elsewhere & argues that their violence not only dehumanizes those who move against them but erodes the rights of all within the nation that built them 1/ www.carnegie.org/awards/honor...
Heba Gowayed | Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Autocrats always try to dismantle universities and other sites of free thought. But the current effort to destroy American institutions is also a reactionary backlash against real progress on racial justice in this country. Backlash only happens when movements are winning the argument.
What Americans can learn from Salvadorans about the fight against fascism, spiritually, politically, tactically. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Deadly Seriousness Behind Trump and Bukele’s “Joke”
The Trump administration is learning dangerous lessons from El Salvador’s president, but there’s also much that the US left can learn from Salvadoran antifascists.
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Congressmember @beccabalintvt.bsky.social demands the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University student arrested by ICE this week. “He is being attacked because of free speech. This should terrify every single person living in this country, regardless of your citizenship status.”
An important story by a student journalist emphasizing how before Harvard took the public stance for academic freedom this week, it had already repressed academic freedom on campus, especially regarding Palestine. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Do Not Applaud Harvard for Doing the Bare Minimum | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Do not mistake Garber’s scramble to retain a semblance of liberalism as a stand — let alone fight — against the Trump administration. No number of strongly worded statements nor invocations of “indepe...
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People somehow put their lives in the hands of this government, in the processes it offers, knowing all the contradictions involved, and this is the snare they encounter. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
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Hands off our students & colleagues indeed! Mohsen, Rümeysa, Mahmoud, Badr and all of the others deserve dignity, safety, and freedom. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
theintercept.com
Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
Stunned and outraged to see that the US administration is using El Salvador's autocratic leader Bukele to ignore US court rulings that require that the return of Maryland resident Kilmar Ábrego García to his home. Truly a network of unjust and violent imprisonment. www.bbc.com/news/article...
El Salvador's leader won't return man deported from US in error
Nayib Bukele has won praise from Donald Trump for imprisoning some "very bad people" deported from the US.
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