"She's a Republican" "She's woke" "She's Palestinian" "She's a Zionist" All totally irrelevant to the reliability of an account of sexual or domestic violence Lots of people really telling on themselves here rn
Before that, in October, comes Ingeborg Bachman's Complete Stories (New Directions in the US) translated by Philip Boehm and Tess Lewis. At 400 pages this will be a substantial addition to her work in English!
The ongoing destruction of UK higher ed, one of the few things that made this country relevant globally, continues
Mark Pendleton@markpendleton.bsky.social · 3mo agoEast Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.
Today is the first day of Dhul Hijjah, one of the holiest months of the year in Islam. Today, two shooters attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego, which houses a school for young kids. My heart is with the community as its sense of peace and safety is so cruelly taken away from it. 🤍
Mamdani's Nakba video features Inea Bushnaq, NY Palestinian folklorist and historian. Many people point to her Bosnian roots, and the fact that her family arrived to Palestine in the late 19th century - at the moment when many East European Jews were also arriving - as some kind of Gotcha. 1/
A Russian strike involving 670 drones and 56 missiles killed 24 people in Kyiv, including three children, after a nine-story residential building partially collapsed. Kyiv declared a day of mourning. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
24 people killed in Russian strike on Kyiv. Rescuers clear the rubble of a destroyed nine-story building. The city is in mourning. — Meduza
Two days after the end of a truce that ran from May 9 to 11, Russian forces launched a massive strike on Ukraine, deploying 670 attack drones and 56 missiles. In Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district, a section…
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For two years, I've watched some Americans on the left insist that there is no way anyone in Hamas could have committed sexual violence against Israeli Jews on October 7, 2023, or against hostages in Gaza, despite Amnesty documenting it. Now I'm seeing pro-Israel people doing the same denial.
Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social · 3mo agoSince Oct 7, Palestinians in Israeli prisons face unbelievable levels of torture and abuse. They are starved, exposed to disease, beaten up, and some are sexually abused, as described here. Dozens have died. It's been going on for 30 months. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...
Open access to "The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries," by my amazing mother, Rosemary Sayigh, who turned an impressive 99 this month. Published in 1979, it went thru several reprints & translations and remains a landmark book: michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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@raniaab.bsky.social is a superb reporter and writer, here is her account of Israel's carnage in Lebanon yesterday: The Iran War Is Not Over: Scenes from a day of carnage in Beirut. nymag.com/intelligence...
The Iran War Is Not Over
Scenes from a day of carnage in Beirut.
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More details here www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Israel passes law to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks
Knesset approves measure that has been criticised by European countries and rights groups
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Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe Knesset just passed a law mandating "Death Penalty for Terrorists", that will effectively apply only to Palestinians.
Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.
Eight year old Mustafa Bani Odeh. His parents and two siblings murdered in front of him by plainclothed Israeli soldiers, while he was beaten up by them. West Bank. The same unit executed two Palestinians three months ago after they surrendered. Every. Day.
Highly recommended conversation between @peterbeinart.bsky.social and Yale Law professor Aslı Ü. Bâli for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Professor Bâli is incredibly sharp, nuanced and insightful jewishcurrents.org/americas-thr...
America’s Threat to the World
Peter Beinart speaks with Aslı Bâli about whether the war on Iran represents rupture or continuity in the history of US imperialism.
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119 UK Parliamentarians call for further sanctions on Israel and a total ban on all trade and interaction with illegal Israeli settlements in letter to @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social following yet further illegal Israeli government measures in the occupied State of Palestine. caabu.org/news/news/11...
The Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless and criminal military gamble driven by their respective domestic political considerations. Solidarity with civilians across the Middle East, many of whom living under regimes they oppose, who are paying the price for this reckless adventure.
The war is getting harder. You can help Ukrainian leftists in the army by donating to the Solidarity Collectives that help us www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/support/
Support - Solidarity Collectives
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My interview for Jacobin jacobin.com/2026/02/ukra...
A Ukrainian Socialist Went to War. Here’s What He Thinks About Peace.
Four years into Russia’s invasion, Taras Bilous — a socialist serving in the Ukrainian army — reflects on exhaustion, negotiations, and why a bad ceasefire could be a boon for the far right.
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"The Jews created pornography to undermine the family" is quite literally the fourteenth of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Not great to see left-wing accounts with 700,000 followers saying this sort of thing.
שמח לשתף מאמר שלי על המרד הערבי הגדול כפי שמשתקף בסרט ״פלסטין 36״ ובספר 1936 של אורן קסלר telem.berl.org.il/14302/
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תלם - במה לשיחה פוליטית אחרת, מיסודה של קרן ברל כצנלסון. תלם מבקש לקיים דיון מעמיק אודות האתגרים הניצבים בפני מדינת ישראל ולהציע תפיסה רחבה של דמותה העתידית הראויה, דרך עיסוק בשאלות יסוד, במדיניות ובא...
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"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 6mo agoMarc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Excited to join Joel Beinin on Feb 20 to talk Najati Sidqi and the sad parallels between 2023-24 and 1929-30. (Including: both split the Left.) Jewish Currents has unpaywalled the excerpt; UTexas Press has a 30% discount on the book for attendees. Details below. jewishcurrents.org/event/member...
Member Session: Margaret Litvin and Joel Beinin on Najati Sidqi’s…
Join Jewish Currents on Friday, February 20th, at 1 pm ET for a virtual conversation about the Palestinian activist and intellectual Najati Sidqi, whose…
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2/2 This quote indicates why. Other parties’ scandals happen when members fall short of the party’s values. Reform’s happen when they enact its core values. Racism is the party’s very essence. Scapegoating & punishing certain segments of the population is the totality of its programme.
The powerful front page of the reformist newspaper Sazandegi features the names of 3,000 individuals who, according to government reports, were killed during the protests in Iran. #Iran #IranProtests2026
London in the good old days - before everyone's feet pointed forwards.
Mi-neged demo this Tuesday at UK FCDO at 4.30pm to draw international attention to state-backed settlers aiming to forcibly evict 87 Palestinian families (700 people) from their homes and threatening demolitions of a further 116 homes (affecting 1500 people) in the Palestinian neighbourhood Silwan
