Monday (tomorrow!) we'll host @drdadabhoy.bsky.social to talk about the original Indiana Jones film, George Lucas & Steven Spielberg's 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark and the imperialism and orientalism that pervades the celebrated movie:

the latest from RD: @drdadabhoy.bsky.social on the Mamdani campaign's success in defeating electoral Islamophobia religiondispatches.org/bad-muslim-g...

feels weird-but-good to work on a hopeful piece about Islamophobia? thanks to @drdadabhoy.bsky.social for breaking down how this campaign did (and didn't) disrupt anti-Muslim racism in NYC's mayoral election

There is no nuclear weapons program. Fetterman’s pals in the Trump administration - including DNI Gabbard - have confirmed there is no nuclear weapons program. Fetterman is lying. Openly. Demonstrably. Shamelessly.

Hajj begins on June 4. Here is a 3D tour that walks you through all the key steps of the annual Muslim pilgrimage.

US envoy dismisses Hamas’s calls for amendments to ceasefire proposal.

We have a tradition at HMC where students write Valentines hearts to faculty, and I just got mine. I love that I am tiring my students into #FeministKilljoys

I feel like I’m going crazy witnessing how easy it is for people in the imperial core to ignore the genocide they are complicit in. Must be nice to have blue sky as your safe space.

The news overnight is devastating, possibly the worst night yet of the US/UK/EU backed Israeli genocide. Civilian centres are being bombed relentlessly in Gaza, while armed militias attack civilians across the West Bank. This is *Western terrorism* — of the highest order.

While Palestinian mothers collect the limbs of their dead children, Zionist mothers talk of how asking the killers to stop offends and upsets them. Not standing against this madness makes you complicit in it.

This is not only incompetence but it reveals that US media is colluding with the government.

If you are (rightly) mad at the Democrats it’s worth noting how this shit is used to protect them from challenge.

Chuck Schumer admits that he doesn’t work for the American people but for a genocidal entity.

First, pull funding from Columbia and start to lock up its students. Second, threaten other universities with the same. All 60 schools on this list need to join together to fight this assault on academic freedom.

The Senate just voted 67-32 to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary, which means a lot of Dems voted for her. During a fucking constitutional crisis.

GOLDMAN: “We have cut our 2025 US growth forecast to 1.7% Q4/Q4 — our first below-consensus call in 2½ years — and raised our US inflation forecast, both on the back of more adverse tariff assumptions. By contrast, our Euro area growth forecast has risen .. especially for 2026 - 2027 ..” [Hatzius]

The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's

Email from Columbia President Armstrong makes clear that admin still has no idea what it’s dealing with. No amount of “serious action to combat antisemitism” (read: punish Palestine activists) will satisfy the Nazis. They see universities as an enemy institution to crush underfoot.

Israel committing more war crimes.

Israel says it is stopping the entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza

Have you seen how US presidents have treated leaders of non white nations? Obama had the audacity to tell African leaders not to "blame colonization" for their economic problems, while wealthy nations like the US were plundering the continent and proliferating their drone warfare there.

Europe out there earnestly wishing to change the world order and replace the US as ‘world leader’. Per usual. Destroy the world four times over and still think you or the US should lead. Take the back seat. There are more ways to relate to this world than self-appointing ‘a leader’.

It doesn’t matter if you say Ramadan Kareem or Ramzan Mubarak, the ummah is united in its joy at welcoming in this blessed month when our beautiful Qur’an was revealed to the prophet and we have been enjoined to fast. May our prayers be answered and our fasts accepted. Ameen 🌙

Liberals rewriting history in real time.

The "Times Literary Supplement" calls HMC prof. @drdadabhoy.bsky.social's "Shakespeare and the Islamic Worlds," "an overdue work that [...] raises an alarm about the nonchalantly perceived universality of the world's most famous writer [Shakespeare]." Read more about Dadabhoy at bit.ly/dadabhoy-hmc.

not a clue what this means.

You shouldn’t only care about the genocide in Gaza because of imperial boomerang. You should care because it’s a genocide.

If I'm looking for 'moral clarity' in this moment or any other, I'm not looking to individuals or groups who very deliberately chose to remain silent throughout a prolonged genocide enabled by their own country because they worried speaking truth might affect their fundraising.

Palestine is the litmus test.

I already had low expectations for American civil society, but I have to admit being surprised by the sheer number of people and institutions who seem to have decided to sit out the next 4 years in the hopes that fascism blows over. They're going to regret not having done more when it was easier.

'Even the biggest EU proponents of preserving a close bond with the US know Europe cannot afford to remain dependent.' — #AJOpinion by Dimitar Bechev ⤵️

It's cool that Democrats have so universally accepted their opponents' exact narrative about why they lost the election uncritically. Really gives me faith that they're able to resist the right wing propaganda machine that defeated them and won't just become another wing of it

Modi tried to crush civil society, free press, and political opposition by weaponizing the income tax departments.

Davidai, who was hosted in Winnipeg to speak on "antisemitism", now found to be part of a group looking to deport protestors of the US funded genocide. This crosses administrations.

Our research university leaders are totally failing us in the authoritarian moment. Not even trying to loudly & publicly defend the project of academia or the institutions. Just choosing a combination of “keep our heads down” & anticipatory compliance. Shamefully inadequate to the moment.

Last day to get the #monthlyyarnclub colorway for February. I missed out on the chance to call this "Fibreuary" dammit. Anyway this gorgeous yarn is based on a Black nobleman outfit. You get more details abt him, a little silk purse, beads for accessories & more. 🧶 #indieyarndyer #yarnsky

Tonight (Sat.) 5 pm at Interference Archive in Brooklyn! Cultural workers for Palestine in NYC – a community panel discussion + live global broadcast on Radio AlHara in Palestine

So thrilled to have been asked by ACMRS to talk about early modern representations of Islam in English texts.

My latest in @theguardian.com argues that Trump’s obsession with immigration is an obsession with it as a tool of segregation and white supremacy, which is how it has long been used in the United States. www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

I will never forget that Biden lied about seeing pictures of beheaded Israeli babies to justify genocide, while we saw little Palestinian girls hanging from walls with their legs shredded & a Palestinian man flattened into a smear of flesh by a tank.

I honestly don’t care what people have to say about the condition of Israeli detainees in Palestine if they supported the illegal starvation and genocide of Palestinians.

I resigned from @modernlanguage.bsky.social today for their support of scholasticide and genocide in Palestine.