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An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn't incidental abuse but a deliberate tool of ethnic cleansing and control. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/how-...

How Israel has used sexualized violence as a weapon of settler colonialism from 1948 to today

An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn’t incidental abuse but a deliberate tool…

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Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New analysis

Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 2mo ago

The American order that gave Israel stability now constrains Israel’s expansion. In response, Israel is dismantling U.S. hegemony in the region, turning allies Turkey and Egypt into enemies, and working to end the U.S.’s ability to restrain it. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/isra... #Palestine #Israel

Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ben Gvir popped champagne on the Knesset floor to celebrate a death penalty law that only applies to Palestinians. In this analysis, I trace it back to the British Mandate and the ways colonial power still learns from and restores its own history: mondoweiss.net/2026/04/the-...

‘The rope is for Arabs only’: Israel’s new death penalty law for Palestinians recycles a colonial playbook

The passing of the recent Israeli death penalty law aimed at Palestinians formalizes what Israel and colonial powers have always done: creating new laws to legalize colonial violence.

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Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I wrote this essay to think through something that’s been with me a long time — the way Palestine surfaces as a weight others try to set down, and what it means to carry it anyway. From Kipling to Sliman Mansour’s porter to the bombs now falling on Tehran. communispress.com/the-burden-a...

The Burden Assumed

Palestine is the remainder that refuses to be remaindered.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I've been thinking for the last few days about Omid Mehrgan's complex essay in @parapraxismag.bsky.social which moves between Tehran, Gaza, resistance – and the task of the translator www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ren...

Rendering Tehran Bombardable — Parapraxis

Notes on a Self-Targeting Subjectivity omid mehrgan

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Mondoweiss [Unofficial]@mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 6mo ago

Palestinian resistance and the trap of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’

The Palestinian resistance faces a dilemma with Trump’s 'Board of Peace': reject it and risk annihilation, or engage and risk normalizing permanent occupation.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 6mo ago

The Palestinian resistance faces a dilemma with Trump’s 'Board of Peace': reject it and risk annihilation, or engage and risk normalizing permanent occupation. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/pale... #Palestine #Israel

Palestinian resistance and the trap of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’

The Palestinian resistance faces a dilemma with Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’: reject it and risk annihilation, or engage and risk normalizing permanent occupation.

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Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Analysis of the compression and reduction of life in the West Bank

Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 6mo ago

Israeli violence in the West Bank isn't as dramatic as in Gaza, but it is methodical, durable, and sometimes harder to understand. Here’s how Israel is using settler terror, financial policies, and legal tactics to suffocate Palestinian life. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/how-... #Palestine #Israel

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 6mo ago

Palestine's most important university used to hold classes in living rooms when Israel shut it down. A devastating essay by one of its own professors on what happens when a university keeps functioning but stops meaning anything. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...

The hollowing out of Palestine’s most important university

Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the…

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Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Here I write on the current state of Birzeit

Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 6mo ago

Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the Palestinian struggle. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-... #Palestine #Israel

@bestofthenet.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Check out one of our 2025 Nonfiction Selections, "Crosshairs" Abdaljawad Omar (Rusted Radishes), selected by Jen Soriano on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-nonfiction/crosshairs/ #bestofthenetanthology #nonfictionwriting #finalist

Crosshairs
“to live in the crosshairs is to occasionally yield to the dominance of the sniper’s lens. in this realm, two types of submission are recognizable. the first is to dodge, to acknowledge the sniper’s omnipotence, to shield oneself from death and to persist within the boundaries of the scope’s vision. the second is to stand defiantly, touched with a dash of madness, unconcerned with the meticulous contemplation of one’s past or future. it is to be utterly devoted to the present, a moment of absolute submission to the now.”
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance – to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For the Palestinian people, psychic life is just as much a site of struggle for liberation as social life. Palestinians are persistently refused psychological amplitude, characteristics easily granted to those who are never worried they might fall out of what is constituted as the category of the human. Abdaljawad Omar’s writings in English published since October 7, 2023 (as well as writings by other Palestinians, other Arabs, and those of Palestinian descent) offer means of understanding material resistance in relation to the terrain of the psyche. Omar offers distinctive accounts of mourning, loss, and ruins, as well as of how settler colonialism reorganizes experiences of time and relations between past, present, and future. The article reads Omar’s writings against other accounts of mourning and of psychic phenomena that are indebted to psychoanalysis. Omar’s analyses of Palestinians’ resistance to unfreedom and annihilation open up other ways of understanding the psychic vicissitudes of those who suffer, grieve, and struggle to exit a colonial condition characterized by the colonizer’s repeated attempts to break psychic worlds as well as erase bodily life. Understandings of psychic life that do justice to how Palestine is redrawing the world are central to the work of ‘cracking history open’.

Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Important and remarkably timely piece by @trillingual.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR

How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart

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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This week, we’re sharing two segments: A chat with Palestinian writer and assistant professor @hamayel.bsky.social ; Plus a segment of the October 2025 B(A)D News with network participants discussing thinking through resisting the rise of fascism thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...

photo of Abdaljawad Omar in front a view of Bethlehem and “TFSR 11-09-25 | Assessing the Israeli Ceasefire (with Abdaljawad Omar)”

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until it takes “accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza.”

300+ pledge to boycott the New York Times’ op-ed page over their anti-Palestinian bias.

Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until three demands have been met. The demands address the anti-Palestinia…

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Jonathan Shainin @shainin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our new magazine, Equator, is officially out in the world — and here @equatormag.bsky.social Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org

Analú López @analulopez.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A new one by @hamayel.bsky.social communispress.com/the-homely-a...

The Homely and the Beast

Quite homely, intensely homely. It suffocates you …

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11mo ago

Benjamin Netanyahu's recent comments that Israel must start making its own weapons and become a self-sufficient "super Sparta" signals that the small colony might be willing to embrace its isolation — all in the name of annihilating Palestine. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/isra...

Israel moves to embrace its isolation

Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent comments that Israel must start making its own weapons and become a self-sufficient “super Sparta” signals that the small colony might be willing to embrace its isolation...

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uninterpolated @plagalgrind.bsky.social · 11mo ago

if you read anything today (or ever) i recommend “Death has died in Gaza” by @hamayel.bsky.social communispress.com/death-has-di...

Let us vanish so governments may be excused from staging their clumsy theater of democracy, no longer forced to arrest their own citizens while policing dissent. So headlines no longer stumble awkwardly over the word Palestine, choking as if on a stone lodged in the throat. Let us vanish without memory, without residue—so we will not become what our enemies have become, so our names cannot be instrumentalized in the slaughter of another. Let us vanish without a trace, so those who remain can go on, unburdened by the loss of Palestine, relieved even of mourning.

This is not the same as nihilism, nor is it the clean poetics of martyrdom. It is something murkier: a refusal of the world’s cruel prolongation of suffering, an impatience with its slow-motion genocidal theater. A desire to collapse the unbearable waiting, to shorten the interval between loss and one’s own disappearance. A death wish, yes—but collective, almost utopian in its twisted way: that if we must vanish, we vanish together.

Analú López @analulopez.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New essay by @hamayel.bsky.social salvage.zone/the-anxiety-... go give it a read 📚

The Anxiety of Liberation - Salvage

The real and tangible feeling that Israel is defeatable comes with an endless stream of possible regret for choices made under the stress of an existing and seemingly all powerful order.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 12mo ago

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staged attempt at humiliating Marwan Barghouti exposed the impotence of the Palestinian political order — but it also laid bare the insecurities and anxieties that fuel Israel’s need to publicly subjugate Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/marw...

Marwan Barghouti, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the Israeli need to humiliate

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staged attempt at humiliating Marwan Barghouti exposed the impotence of the Palestinian political order — but it also laid bare the insecurities and anxieties that fuel Israel’s...

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 12mo ago

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staged attempt at humiliating Marwan Barghouti exposed the impotence of the Palestinian political order — but it also laid bare the insecurities and anxieties that fuel Israel’s need to publicly subjugate Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/marw...

Marwan Barghouti, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the Israeli need to humiliate

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staged attempt at humiliating Marwan Barghouti exposed the impotence of the Palestinian political order — but it also laid bare the insecurities and anxieties that fuel Israel’s…

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Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social · 12mo ago

My new article analyzing the need to humiliate

Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 12mo ago

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staged attempt at humiliating Marwan Barghouti exposed the impotence of the Palestinian political order — but it also laid bare the insecurities and anxieties that fuel Israel’s need to publicly subjugate Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/marw... #Palestine #Israel

Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · last yr.

'[P]erhaps the hatred that simmers among the pariahs of Palestine is not a hatred to be feared, but one to be understood—as a cry for coherence, as the residue of a love unfulfilled' Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social on how to hate is another way to love dabartis.com

dabartis

Circulator of Autonomous Forms

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · last yr.

From a forthcoming essay by our beloved contributor & workshop participant & friend, Alaa Alqaisi. An incredibly gifted writer, translator, & scholar. Being starved.

Beneath the Howl of Hunger

By Alaa Alqaisi

Long before hunger lays claim to the body, it loosens the scaffolding of language, erasing clarity, dismantling rhythm, and leaving behind the fragile debris of thought. What begins as a coherent paragraph soon dissolves into fragments, until all that remains is the involuntary tremor of a mind too starved to hold meaning. And so, before my language deserts me entirely, I write this, less to be understood than to remain traceable, to leave behind the shape of thought before it slips into silence.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · last yr.

Zohran Mamdani's victory over Andrew Cuomo is a historic turning point for Palestine in U.S. politics. It reflects a growing fatigue with Israel’s role in American life and the slow implosion of Zionism under the weight of its own excess. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/zohr... #Palestine #Israel

Zohran Mamdani’s victory marks the end of Israel’s central place in U.S. politics

Zohran Mamdani’s victory over Andrew Cuomo is a historic turning point for Palestine in U.S. politics. It reflects a growing fatigue with Israel’s role in American life and the slow implosion of Zionism...

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