My review in the Dublin Review of Books: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Isabella Hammad's on solidarity and Palestine. We are being invited to confront how we are implicated as bystanders. But what to do with our witnessing--of ourselves, of victims, of the perpetrators of genocide? drb.ie/article/pale...

drb.ie/article/pale.... My essay out in the Dublin Review of Books, on Ta-Nehisi Coates and Isabella Hammad's ideas about solidarity and Palestine.

UK citizens: Use @pscupdates.bsky.social new e-action to report UK Lawyers for Israel to the Charity Commission today: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/uklfi-charit...

Report UKLFI to the Charity Commission

Dear Charity Commission,

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A strong piece by Mohammed Fadel about the Trump (and Biden) administration's weaponization of civil rights law for the protection of Israel www.chronicle.com/article/how-... vil-rights-law-was-turned-against-civil-rights?sra=true And see report it's based on 👇⬇️

Opinion | How Civil-Rights Law Was Turned Against Civil Rights

Title VI is now a tool for silencing dissent.

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Yezid's latest - very interesting and provocative - substack. "Palestinian politics faces an existential crisis." Not for the first time open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

The third death of Palestinian politics

This is part of a series of occasional posts critically assessing Palestinian politics and 7 October

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Yezid's latest Substack post, a poignant and interesting brief essay on his family's history, as the last of the Nakba generation passes away : substack.com/inbox/post/1...

We buried my aunt Mary last Friday

I pause my weekly commentary on Middle East and global politics for a more personal reflection

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Yezid's latest ponder: A core feature of the far-right is its penchant for rupture, whipping up emotions it can harness for transgressive violence. I argue that comfortable certainties must be set aside, & ask: How far might Israel’s far-right go? sayighyezid.substack.com/p/how-far-mi...

How far might Israel’s far-right go?

Everything that once seemed to be far-fetched should now be treated as probable, worldwide but also in Israel—including overturning parliamentary elections

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I just signed the bsky.app/profile/tamu... petition: Defend Academic Freedom at Texas A&M University! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

Judge Stops Trump from Deporting Noncitizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy www.juancole.com/2026/01/depo...

Judge Stops Trump from Deporting Noncitizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

Middle East Studies Association of North America | - American Association of University Profe...

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Yezid's latest Cassandrapost: When the United States leaves the United Nations open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

When the United States leaves the United Nations

We are already witnessing the manifestations of U.S. withdrawal from the UN, even if its formal departure has not yet been announced—and may not be

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open.substack.com/pub/sayighye... Yezid's latest substack about Saudi-UAE relations and what's impacting lives of the people of Yemen, Sudan, and the rest of the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea

Mischief in Arabia—and its ripple effects

The regional effects of Saudi-Emirati tensions will complicate, or even derail, any attempt to repair the two countries’ relationship

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Check out Yezid's latest substack - on the need for a real accounting (and accountability) . He voices important questions and critiques of how such silence has persisted about what Hamas did, accomplished, expected, prompted, is responsible for... open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

A viable new Palestinian politics starts with 7 October

An updated narrative by Hamas of its 7 October attack sidesteps the question of what its concrete objectives were, but Palestinian politics requires an honest debate about exactly this.

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Standing with Palestinian Higher Education since 1978 | Friends of Palestinian Universities

Friends of Palestinian Universities builds UK and international academic solidarity, partnership, and exchange with Palestinian higher education institutions facing systematic attack. We work to suppo...

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some of the hunger strikers are on day 51; Bobby Sands died on day 66. How heartless is this government determined to be?

Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy

Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks

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UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia

UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia

The bad news is that in October and November 2025, "the majority of the population continued to face high levels of acute food insecurity

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Help keep Palestinian network al-Shabaka continue as a critical voice and platform for debate:

‪@yezidsayigh.bsky.social‬ provides unique insights on Middle Eastern goings on. Check out his recent post on Egypt and the UAE in Sudan

Yezid Sayigh@yezidsayigh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Sisi threatens military intervention in Sudan if Egypt's "red lines" are breached. But can he follow through, since this means opposing the UAE, which is his main financial linchpin? Sisi’s impossible choices in Sudan open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

"Palestine 36" is not a film that Zionists will like, not least because they barely feature. ...As Jacir told The Guardian, “This film is for Palestinians. It’s our story that hasn’t been told.” My review of Jacir's latest epic: www.merip.org/2025/12/pale....

Palestine 36 and the Hard Facts of History

Annemarie Jacir’s epic portrayal of the revolt that never ended.

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My review of Annemarie Jacir’s recent epic film, Palestine 36: www.merip.org/2025/12/pale... Check it out and see the movie when you can. It's a good one.

Palestine 36 and the Hard Facts of History

Annemarie Jacir’s epic portrayal of the revolt that never ended.

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The first of my 2 articles on a US court case regarding the intersection of Palestinian, academic, and speech freedoms: jacobin.com/2025/10/pale... A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is a win

Palestinian Rights and Free Speech Rights Are Closely Linked

A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is an important win for supporters of Palestinian liberation and opponents o...

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Friends! I'll be walking in a 5K UNRWA fundraiser on Sunday in support of Palestinian refugees - in honor of my mom Betty, who's turning 97 in a few days. Please donate what you can and share with others. Thanks! getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

jacobin.com/2025/10/pale... So much wisdom in this conversation: "without focusing on that broader working-class agenda & without focusing on winning over people who don’t already agree with you ... how [will you] build enough power to... change US policy toward Israel and the Middle East”

Ultraleftism Can’t Free Palestine

Two years into Israel’s genocide, the US movement in solidarity with Palestinians is far weaker than it should be. To cut off American arms to Israel, we need to build a powerful movement oriented to ...

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Hey Americans: These ICE maniacs, who clearly need lifetimes of therapy for whatever propels them into such brutality, are not staying focused on brown people and Palestinians and noncitizens forever.

Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

For anyone interested in Palestine, Palestinians, and the madness that is Germany, I highly recommend this essay by Sarah El Bulbeisi www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From Silence to Resistance: Second-Generation Palestinians in Germany

Germany, home to Europe’s largest Palestinian community, excludes Israeli state violence from public discourse. Although the ongoing Nakba—the systematic and continuing forced displacement of Pales...

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"No, the New York Times is not committing journalism." "No, the New York Times is not committing to truth." What Bret Stephens meant to say.

Public Anthropologist issue on Israel's genocide of Palestinians is now open access until October: brill.com/view/journal... (I co-edited with Heidi Mogstad). It's reflections on what anthropologists can contribute to public education about the genocide in Gaza, and the limitations 1/4

Novel analysis of Egypt - now available for readers of Arabic

Yezid Sayigh@yezidsayigh.bsky.social · last yr.

دراستي الجديدة: إعادة تحديدٍ جذرية للعقد الاجتماعي، إنتاج شكلٍ جديد من رأسمالية الدولة، وتكريس سلطاتٍ رئاسية موسّعة في إطار الوصاية العسكرية الناشئة: ‏الجمهورية الثانية: إعادة تشكيل مصر في عهد عبد الفتاح السيسي | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Of possible interest, esp. if you're planning a trip to Paris by November: my review essay on an exhibit, “Treasures rescued from Gaza – 5000 years of history”, at the Arab World Institute orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entend...

What Treasures of Gaza We Save

While Palestinians are made invisible by Israel and its Western allies, the The Arab World Institute’s special exhibit, “Treasures rescued from Gaza - 5000 (…)

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A little victory in London - Lockheed can eff right off: novaramedia.com/2025/06/19/a...

A Group of Musicians Took on an Arms Company – And Won | Novara Media

London music venue Kings Place quietly cut a Lockheed Martin-sponsored event after performers began cancelling shows. Maybe there’s hope for this world after all, writes Simon Childs.

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