From my essay that a lot of liberal Zionists are complaining about: "as Arabs we had long ago observed that if you play out the string, or let the string play out on its own, then these supposedly apolitical cultural productions always end up justifying Israel, as do their producers."
TAKE OVER THE CITY by Neil Gray provides the first comprehensive spatial analysis of Italian operaismo and the extraordinary urban struggles of 1970s Italy. Available 7/7/2026! Preorder with TAKEOVERTHECITY for 25% off: tinyurl.com/TakeOverTheCity
This essay is my way of exploring the current debates about the relationship between Jewishness and Zionism. stevesalaita.com/the-ugly-exi...
The Ugly Exigencies of Genocide - Steve Salaita
Israel's atrocities in Gaza have changed the way we speak about Zionism and Jewish culture.
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Huge thanks to Joshua Sperber and @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social for a rave review of @stevesalaita.bsky.social's new novel JERRY AND RODRIGO GO TO WAR! Read the full review👇
On Steven Salaita's "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War"
It is hard not to root for Steven Salaita, a professor who was fired from his job before he had worked a single day, but after he and his wife quit their
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"Of the campus lit I’ve read, Kingsley Amis’s LUCKY JIM and Bernard Malamud’s A NEW LIFE are the funniest, John Williams’ STONER is the most poignant, and Vladimir Nabokov’s PNIN is the most playful. JERRY AND RODRIGO GO TO WAR brings together the best of each of these."
if you get a copy from Open Books' Bookshop4Gaza, they donate all of their proceeds to the Sameer Project!! open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sal...
[B4G] Salaita, Steven: Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War
Common Notions, paperback Publication Date: March 03, 2026 Publisher Marketing: A sharp yet honest caricature of the neocolonial, uncritical right on American college campuses. Rodrigo Suarez's Coyot...
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Steve Salaita@stevesalaita.bsky.social · 4mo agoFinally got a copy. I hope you'll get one, as well.
I was interviewed for the Chronicle of Higher Education about my new novel "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War" as well as a host of other topics relating to the current state of the university.
Confessions of a Campus Radical
Steven Salaita on censorship, political violence, antisemitism, and why he returned to the academy.
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Workshops4Gaza@workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Rival Enemy Lapdog: Japan in the US-Israel War on the World" traces Japan's historical development as proxy to the US, incl in the imperialist war against Iran. 2 sessions, April 19 and 26. This workshop supports the Sameer Project's ongoing work in Gaza. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/riv...
I'm giving a talk in London next week (Queen Mary University). Please come out if you can. Would love to catch up with old friends and comrades.
Steven Salaita on scholasticide: www.youtube.com/live/74N6t8s...
Steve Salaita@stevesalaita.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'll be live on Breaking Culture this Tuesday at noon eastern to discuss scholasticide and the (pitiful) condition of higher education today. I'm sure the conversation will make its way to the current war, as well.
Should you be kind enough to buy my new novel, "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War," please stay on the Common Notions website and browse the many amazing titles. I hope you'll support @commonnotions.bsky.social in general--it's a brilliant revolutionary publishing project.
I can’t recommend this new Project 2052 story by @cowbellemoo.lets.abolish.family highly enough. Revolutionary hawks taking down police drones and military jets, sex forests, and much more. Reshare, check out new stories every day this week. www.commonnotions.org/project-2052...
Project 2052 | Isabel Plummett and the Silent Nights at LaGuardia Airport — Common Notions Press
Isabel Plummett identifies the birds that shaped her long life in the city, from time as a pleasure militant nurturing avian and human residents of the fledgling sex forest in Central Park to the Broo...
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I'll be live on Breaking Culture this Tuesday at noon eastern to discuss scholasticide and the (pitiful) condition of higher education today. I'm sure the conversation will make its way to the current war, as well.
This is tomorrow! Still very underenrolled for this one, please share widely! We'll be discussing the role of labor and labor strikes within US prisons, specifically how incarcerated people understand the role their labor plays in upholding or disrupting the prison system.
Workshops4Gaza@workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 5mo agoHere is an excerpt of "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War," which is officially released today: stevesalaita.com/an-excerpt-o...
An Excerpt of "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War" - Steve Salaita
The following is an except from the newly-published novel Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War, which you can learn more about here. Amid this period of sadness, I decided to hit the town and see if I couldn’...
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Right as a book of mine is close to being published, I worry that I'm about to make an enormous fool of myself. Even so, I am proud to announce the publication of my second novel, "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War." May it provide you warm and meaningful company.
Here's a long essay analyzing the recent emergence of rightwing critics of Israel. I argue that it is a bad idea for the Palestine solidarity movement in North America to seek any kind of alliance with those critics or to validate the ideologies they represent. stevesalaita.com/palestine-so...
Palestine Solidarity in the Age of Reaction - Steve Salaita
Should people involved with the Palestine solidarity movement in North America, traditionally leftist in orientation, seek alliances with the political right?
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Daily bombings, hundreds of thousands of people living in tents, cell phones brought in by the entity instead of medicine and food exploding in people's hands, approval of another fucking infrastructure of settler colonial genocide, and Palestinians continue to support each others' survival.
It's a little depressing how the bodies in Gaza haven't even been buried and US national socialists are already back to positioning Palestine as a faraway irrelevant cause (except when useful to build credibility for their celebrity politicians)
Steve Salaita@stevesalaita.bsky.social · 9mo agoDo you get annoyed when uncompromising anti-Zionism is dismissed as "purity politics"? If so, you might find this short essay worth a read: stevesalaita.com/palestine-an...
Do you get annoyed when uncompromising anti-Zionism is dismissed as "purity politics"? If so, you might find this short essay worth a read: stevesalaita.com/palestine-an...
Palestine and the Politics of Purity - Steve Salaita
Accusing anti-Zionists of “purity politics” is a lazy rhetorical evasion.
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"One looks at the United States right now and wonders, What democracy? Which law? Where free speech? Whose human rights? If these existential treats can’t be located in the metropole, then we certainly won’t find them anywhere on the periphery." stevesalaita.com/palestine-an...
Palestine and the Making of a New New World - Steve Salaita
The liberation of Palestine is, above all, a world-building project.
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Please read this amazing essay by my dear friend Saher Safi, who discusses his childhood in Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza, and the pain of now witnessing genocide. Saher worked for months on this essay, which was a difficult process for him. He ended up producing some exceptionally powerful writing.
I came to UK from Gaza seeking hope. Instead, I found complicity
After a lifetime under Israeli siege and shelling in Gaza, Saher Safi built a life of his own. He expected Israel’s cruelty, but not the UK’s indifference.
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ALERT!!! Casey Goonan is entering DAY TWO of their hunger strike at Santa Rita in solidarity with T. Hoxha, who has entered critical condition 🚨🚨🚨🚨
Powerful letter by our Chairperson Zoë Lawlor @zazafl.bsky.social in yesterday's Irish Examiner. We need immediate sanctions on apartheid Israel to protect Palestinians from its genocide. #EndIsraeliImpunity #GazaGenocide
Don't give your money to NGOs, politicians, or online pundits. Please donate instead directly to Gaza. Below is a link to the Sameer Project's South Gaza Campaign, which urgently needs support: chuffed.org/project/1132...
South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water
**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**
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