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dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/isad/... A Turkish Islamic studies journal has published a forum on Sherman Jackson's "The Islamic Secular," with four reviews, followed by Sherman's responses. I was one of the four reviewers, along with Rachel Scott, Roshain Abbasi and Florian Zemmin.
İslam Araştırmaları Dergisi - 2026
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dawnmena.org/what-egypts-... “Successful teams in sports are a microcosm of a smoothly operating democracy. A democracy, like a team, is also more than a sum of its parts.”
What Egypt’s National Football Team Teaches Us About Democracy and Authoritarianism - DAWN
This was a record-setting year for Egyptian football. The national team became the first to qualify for the knock-out round at the World Cup, as well as the first to win an elimination game. Were it n...
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Click the link, support the Canadian Museum for Human Rights' Nakba Exhibition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...
We Stand with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Its Curatorial Independence
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights recently opened Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present, an exhibition examining Palestinian history, culture, displacement and lived experience. The exhibition...
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abovethelaw.com/2026/07/kent... “What’s the “extraordinary circumstance” here? Well . . . it’s who the partisan powers-that-be wanted seems to be the answer. Everything leading up to the selection was set up to vest decision making in the fewest — and most easily lobbied — hands possible.”
Kentucky Law Professor Sues To Stop New Dean And Every Federal Judge Already Recused - Above the Law
Soon-to-be UK Law dean Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove got sued in his own old courthouse.
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www.aclu.org/press-releas... “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit today struck down the higher education provisions of the Stop W.O.K.E. Act, a classroom censorship law in Florida that severely restricted educators from teaching about race and gender in schools and workplaces.”
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Florida’s Unconstitutional Classroom Censorship Law | American Civil Liberties Union
The “Stop W.O.K.E.” Act was signed into law in 2022 and prohibited teachers and professors from discussing topics related to race and gender in the...
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Excited for tonight’s Doha Debates’ Townhall on the commodification of football @dohadebates.bsky.social
This passage from @davidlat.bsky.social perfectly captures the false dichotomy you see so often from the Supreme Court's defenders: The Court is held out as "independent" because it doesn't *always* rule for Trump. That whitewashes (1) how often it *does*; & (2) its bad behavior in non-Trump cases.
Dr. Salman Khan, an infectious disease specialist, traveled to Gaza on a three-week medical mission in February 2026. He found infectious diseases running rampant, all directly due to Israel's siege and genocide. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/how-...
How Israel is weaponizing infectious diseases in Gaza
Dr. Salman Khan, an infectious disease specialist, traveled to Gaza on a three-week medical mission in February 2026. He found infectious diseases running rampant, all directly due to Israel’s siege...
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More than 100 distinguished scholars of Middle East Studies, Antisemitism Studies, and Holocaust Studies criticize the “Draft Act on the Criminalization of the Denial of the State of Israel’s Right to Exist,” submitted by the State of Hesse to the Bundesrat. krisol-wissenschaft.org/wp-content/u...
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onedemocraticstateca.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/4...
Strangle, Expel, Collapse: The Smotrich Doctrine for Bringing Down the Palestinian Authority
A religious-right Israeli outlet celebrates the freezing of Palestinian funds and the spread of chaos in the West Bank as political achievements Amira Hass. Haaretz. May 18, 2026. With the di…
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open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/... ““We have books written about it. We have testimonies. We have film testimonies even of the soldiers committing these acts,” says Ben Marmarelli, an anti-Zionist Israeli lawyer and author, “the world only listens when the New York Times publishes it.”
‘They’ve Been Raping Palestinians Since 1948’: Israeli Lawyer From NYT Exposé Speaks to Zeteo
Marwan Barghouti’s lawyer Ben Marmarelli discusses the health of the Palestinian leader, torture in Israeli prisons, and why liberal Zionists are ‘the worst.’
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open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/... “We have books written about it. We have testimonies. We have film testimonies even of the soldiers committing these acts,” says Ben Marmarelli, an anti-Zionist Israeli lawyer and author, “the world only listens when the New York Times publishes it.”
Rioting for the Right to Rape Palestinians
This is what it's like to live in Israel today.
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x.com/faisalkutty/... “A deeply disturbing and meticulously documented report by historians Liat Kozma and Lee Mordechai of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem traces the starvation of Gaza over the past three years.”
TheMuslimLawyer on X: "A deeply disturbing and meticulously documented report by historians Liat Kozma and Lee Mordechai of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem traces the starvation of Gaza over the past three years through data, testimony, official statements, food prices, aid access, and powerful https://t.co/c8x7RLrbQk" / X
A deeply disturbing and meticulously documented report by historians Liat Kozma and Lee Mordechai of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem traces the starvation of Gaza over the past three years through data, testimony, official statements, food prices, aid access, and powerful https://t.co/c8x7RLrbQk
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More on the most moral army in the world (story from 1995). "Israeli soldiers killed hundreds of Egyptian prisoners of war during the 1967 Mideast war -- deaths that commanders who are now prominent leaders have known about for years." goodtimesweb.org/diplomacy/20...
AP: Historians: Israeli Troops Killed Hundreds Of Egyptian POWs
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As you can see, Arab Israelis enjoy full equalities, they even serve as public prosecutors
bearing-witness.com/starvation-s... We aim to trace here a chronicle of starvation, from the beginning of the war to spring 2026: from the declared intent, through the sustained practice of siege, to the consequences for family life — the young man walking kilometers in hopes of securing flour.
Starvation Story — Witnessing the Gaza War
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Tomorrow 6pm I will talk about Ashkenazi medical practitioners in the Middle East, in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine. Please join in person - or on Zoom! see details below
Parkes Institute@parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur next event is the annual Howard Rein Memorial Lecture. Join @yairwallach.bsky.social (@soasuni.bsky.social) for a talk on 'Ashkenazi Medical professionals in the Arab Middle East: Rethinking the stories we know'. 📍 Hybrid 📅 Tues 5 May, 6pm (BST) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ashkenazi-...
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Prominent Christian Zionist Group Is Lobbying U.S. Lawmakers on Israel—Without Revealing It's Funded by Israel
This week, Eagles’ Wings is spearheading a push on Capitol Hill against Israel’s public relations crisis. They don’t disclose their $700,000 Israeli check.
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The MESA Academic Freedom Initiative tracks and analyzes threats to academic freedom on North American campuses since October 7, 2023. Our databases record experiences of faculty, staff, and students to enable understanding of these issues. afi.mesana.org
The MESA Academic Freedom Initiative
Featured Data Employment Retaliation Database Find data about retaliation against faculty and staff by their institutional employers in connection to pro-Palestine advocacy. Type of Retaliatory Action...
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Two years after the NYPD SRG raided our campus and discharged a firearm in the building where I teach, one year after our trustees signed a “deal” with Trump, the effects on morale and confidence among my faculty and staff colleagues have been documented. opir.columbia.edu/content/colu...
Columbia Employee Climate and Engagement Survey Findings | Columbia OPIR
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"The former editor of (‘First Source’) wrote a tirade in that paper . . . argu[ing] that American Jews are traitors to the Zionist cause because they could have come to Israel by the millions, but chose to remain in the “disgrace of their willful exile.” mondoweiss.net/2026/04/an-i...
An Israeli Op-Ed calling U.S. Jews ‘traitors’ for refusing to emigrate to Israel points to the looming Jewish fracture over Zionism
An Op-Ed by a well-known right-wing Israeli journalist has laid bare the looming conflict between Israeli and U.S. Jews as more Americans abandon Zionism.
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Author of ‘Israel: What Went Wrong?’ Omer Bartov talks on the moral dege... youtu.be/5mEJGXL9Yfc?si… He declares #Zionism to be unreformable and responsible for the genocide
Author of ‘Israel: What Went Wrong?’ Omer Bartov talks on the moral degeneration of Zionism
YouTube video by The Newsmakers
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This president’s voters chose him to protect and dignify women’s sports They never minded his record of locker room talk Here is how he chooses to congratulate a women’s sports team To be this misogynistic, you really have to try To be this incompetent, you really have to be misogynistic
open.substack.com/pub/sethacke... Still genocidal. “To salvage Israel’s dwindling support, Jonathan Chait wants pro-Israel Democrats to throw a bone to the public: let Israel buy its weapons from the US, rather than giving them the weapons for free.”
The weirdness of the aid-to-Israel discourse
To salvage Israel’s dwindling support, Jonathan Chait wants pro-Israel Democrats to throw a bone to the public: let Israel buy its weapons from the US, rather than giving them the weapons for free.
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"This is no brain drain; it's political exile" says to Haaretz a Israeli doctor who left for the UK. Tens of thousands of Israelis left the country in recent years due to political reasons. If Netanyahu's coalition survives in power after the October election, this trend is likely to accelerate.
www.csohate.org/press-releas... "It is a coordinated campaign that uses social media to generate fear, legislation to codify that fear into policy, and a formal congressional caucus to institutionalize it. Nearly 90 Republican elected officials are involved.”
Inside the GOP's Anti-Muslim Social Media and Legislative Campaign
This policy report examines the stark disconnect between India's official AI rhetoric and the ground reality of AI-enabled hate, surveillance, and repression targeting minority communities.
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