Lisa Hajjar
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo.
@johncusack.bsky.social Hi John. On July 17, Say Anything is playing at the Santa Barbara courthouse(8:30 pm). UCSB Academics for Justice in Palestine will be there to (re)enjoy a great film and to express our appreciation for you as a champion of Palestinian rights. If you are around, join us!
Basil Farraj has an article in the new issue of Journal of Palestine Studies, "'I Have Seen The Terminal': Israel, the US, and Regimes of Racialized Mobility in the Age of Genocide" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“I Have Seen The Terminal”: Israel, the US, and Regimes of Racialized Mobility in the Age of Genocide
In this essay, the author, a Palestinian academic, reflects on his detention and interrogation by US and Israeli forces during the Gaza genocide. Situating his experiences within the growing interc...
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Smadar Ben-Natan has an article in the new issue of Journal of Palestine Studies, "The 'New Nazis': The Changing Discourse on the Death Penalty in Israel Since October 7" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The award-winning Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha was castigated by the president of Le Moyne College for using the word "genocide" to describe the situation in Gaza. The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network responded with a letter on Mosab's behalf. www.ghscn.org/letters-and-...
GHSCN - Letters and Statements
April 29, 2026 - Letter to Le Moyne College in support of Mosab Abu Toha
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NEW: Our latest issue features a roundtable with faculty organizers Lisa Hajjar @lisahajjar.bsky.social, Lara Deeb, Darryl Li, Andrew Ross, Meera Shah on the experience of fighting against repression on their campuses since October 7, 2023.
‘The University Is a Site of Struggle’—A Roundtable with Faculty Organizers on Repression and Resistance on US Campuses
As part of MER issue 318, Campus Politics—Palestine and the New University Order, MERIP editor Lisa Hajjar organized a roundtable with faculty organizers and a legal advocate. Lara Deeb is professor…
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Basil Farraj on Palestinians in Israeli prisons. substack.com/@turbulencep...
Episode 22: Palestine's Prisoners w/ Basil Farraj
With Basil Farraj
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I moderated this roundtable with Lara Deeb, Darryl Li, Andrew Ross, and Meera Shah. It's part of the new issue of Middle East Report on Campus Politics -- Palestine and the New University. www.merip.org/2026/04/the-...
‘The University Is a Site of Struggle’—A Roundtable with Faculty Organizers on Repression and Resistance on US Campuses
As part of MER issue 318, Campus Politics—Palestine and the New University Order, MERIP editor Lisa Hajjar organized a roundtable with faculty organizers and a legal advocate. Lara Deeb is professor o...
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Hot off the press, the first published article from the new issue of Middle East Report. www.merip.org/2026/04/cens...
Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities
The night before the start of the Fall 2025 semester, facilities workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill quietly boarded up a pro-Palestine mural. The mural, created by art students...
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Steven Thrasher: scholasticide reveals “an intent to destroy"...by rendering them unable to educate their young people (or even to keep them alive), create scholarship, perform research, or engage in the fundamental human necessity to teach and to learn from one another. lithub.com/on-the-us-is...
On the US-Israeli Coalition’s Continued Acts of Scholasticide in the Middle East
With the killing of 175 school girls, educators, and parents in Minab, Iran, the latest chapter of the US-Israeli war in the Middle East began with a cruel act of scholasticide—a term many of us we…
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Palestinian Children in Israeli Prisons - Visualizing Palestine
[April 2025]. A record number of Palestinian children were held in Israeli military detention at the end of 2025, and a record proportion of these children were held without charge. This visual summar...
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Toby Craig Jones: "The convergence of oil, militarism, and Gulf capital also accelerated the making of a new geography of war-making inside the United States. Weapons circulated and created their own political-economies and networks of violence." www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47300
America, War, and Imperial Decline in the Gulf
The US–Israeli war on Iran is the latest phase of the United States’ long-war in the Persian Gulf, a fifty-year project to secure imperial power in a region defined as a “vital interest” since the 197...
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New issue of the weekly Egypt Security Sector Report is out!
Fragmented Skies
Egypt Security Sector Report
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New research challenges what we thought we knew about men's friendships. A new study by @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Sociology grad student, Emily Fox (@emilycfox.bsky.social), asks: is the "gender friendship gap" really about gender? Spoiler: not exactly. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles
Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...
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A disgusting end to a saga detailed by @lisahajjar.bsky.social and Basil Farraj a year ago in MERIP. www.merip.org/2024/10/isra...
Israel Is Waging War on Palestinian Prisoners - MERIP
Behind the systematic torture and sexual violence in Israeli prisons.
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Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis documented Sde Teman torture+abuse was the only major Gaza-related case pursued by the military prosecution. It led to the downfall of the military prosecutor herself - dismissed, charged, and tried to take her life. Her successor today closed the abuse case. apnews.com/article/isra...
Roundtable of experts Noura Erakat, Luigi Daniele, Shahd Hammouri, Ata Hindi, Maryam Jamshidi, and Darryl Li. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47234
Roundtable on the War on Iran and International Law
The United States and Israel claim their latest attack was a form of preventive self-defense, widely understood as illegal in international law as it neither meets the threshold of the Charter definit...
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The irony: no DoD $$$ because Harvard is too liberal. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
Hegseth Says Defense Department Will Cut Ties With Harvard
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"Israel’s End Game" is a podcast series probing whether Israel can indefinitely sustain policies of expansion, dispossession, military occupation, and apartheid, and how shifting geopolitical balances might enable or constrain those policies. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47165
Announcing "Israel’s End Game": A Limited Podcast Series
"Israel’s End Game" is a podcast series probing whether Israel can indefinitely sustain policies of expansion, dispossession, military occupation, and apartheid, and how shifting geopolitical balances...
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De-healthification restructures health into a domain of domination, where illness and vulnerability are deliberately produced and administered by manufacturing illness, dependency, and the degradation of the conditions of Palestinian life. al-shabaka.org/briefs/de-he...
De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life | Al-Shabaka
By tracing the historical evolution of de-healthification, this brief argues that naming the process is essential for accountability.
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Josh Brolin plays Adrian Vermuele in the new Knives Out.
Europe sends increasing amounts of illegal waste to Turkey. Activists and investigators are revealing how the country’s state-backed recycling boom depends on fraud, off-the-books subcontracting and a rising death toll of migrant laborers. www.merip.org/2025/12/dirt...
Dirty Work—The Hidden Machinery and Human Toll of Europe’s Broken Recycling Trade
As Europe sends increasing amounts of illegal waste to Turkey, activists and investigators are revealing how the country’s state-backed recycling boom depends on fraud, off-the-books subcontracting an...
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Steven Thrasher and Afeef Nessouli's research on the global impact of Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies and the gutting of foreign aid confirms that the result is tragedy, intensified suffering, and avoidable deaths. #mustread theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
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We live in the dystopian world Dick Cheney made. Alligator Alcatraz, masked ICE agents disappearing brown people, blowing up random boats of people declared "enemy combatants" in a "war" with no borders, unfettered presidential power. Cheney created the lawless executive power Trump now exploits.
Over 3 million life-years lost in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Sammy Zahran and Ghassan Abu-Sittah found that 60,199 recorded deaths translated to an average of 51 years of life lost each—most of them civilians, including over 1 million years among children under 15.
Over 3 million life-years lost in Gaza
On July 31, 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of Health (PMH) in Gaza released a list of named people directly killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023.1 The list had 60 199 decedents with their reported age, se...
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Gift link The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
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My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:
The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
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“By cloaking naked power in the trappings of the law, the Trump administration, like the Bush administration before it, channels objections to its behavior into sterile disputes about who has the best lawyers—a dispute that no one really expects to resolve.”
The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public - Boston Review
Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.
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The Associated Press@apnews.com · 10mo agoDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest strike on a boat near Venezuela that he says was trafficking drugs. The strike comes after President Donald Trump declared the U.S. is in "armed conflict" with cartels.
