Inspired by @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social to get back on TikTok, and back to talking about imagining the ancient world beyond Eurocentrism! 🤓

Trump's 20-point Gaza “peace” plan is nothing more than an imperial power portraying anti-colonial resistance as savagery, barbarism, and terrorism, but the global majority already knows that these terms more accurately reflect the West’s actions for over five centuries.

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights expresses concern over the Netherlands' arms exports to Israel Calls on the Netherlands to "take all necessary and urgent measures to ensure a complete ban ... on the export and transit of weapons, weapons parts, and dual-use item to Israel"

Very excited for this next week! 🥳

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

it’s time for all the academics still describing the present as “postcolonial” to open a newspaper

Back on my grind today at the Leeds Palestine demonstration 🇵🇸✊🏻talking about our colleague Refaat Alareer who was murdered by the IOF, and what his expo marker should have taught academics about liberation.

Assata Shakur. Glory for ever.

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Never forget obama raising the bounty on Assata Shakur.

Nearly 2 yrs ago we ran an event standing against the Zionist weaponising of ancient history in Palestine. We worked so hard to make that knowledge mainstream - classicists called me a Nazi, an antisemite, a terrorist for doing so. Today it’s in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

C’est le colonialisme israélien et les puissances occidentales qui le soutiennent qui sont responsables de la Nakba continue des Palestiniens – et non pas ceux qui luttent contre cette catastrophe. www.contretemps.eu/responsabili...

Thanks @sarahebond.bsky.social and the Pasts Imperfect team for recommending this little article I wrote (open access) for Public Humanities: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

More Nijmegen plans 👇🏻🤓 Ik kijk er al naar uit om weer terug in jullie buurt te zijn! 🥳 Info: racereligionresearch.org/events/count...

🇮🇹 Partout en Italie, dans 90 villes, un souffle de révolte contre le génocide palestinien a envahi les rues : Grève générale, rassemblements et manifestations massives en soutien à liberté palestinienne 🇵🇸 STOP au génocide, STOP à l’oppression coloniale, VIVE la lutte de libération palestinienne ! 🇵🇸

And here’s those same words again in my attempt to remind academics (including myself) that we should all be looking for the Expo markers we can throw against occupations and injustices. 🍉 🖊️

Thinking about all the places I still keep his words - and his Expo marker: my protest placard, my bookshelf, the acknowledgments in my recent publications…

Nijmegenaars! Ik kom eraan 😊 Doing a couple of lectures in October in one of my favourite cities including this one about my least favourite thing: the Zionist weaponisation of history. Come and say hi! 🍉🧡

Thank you for reading @thomascauvin.bsky.social! 😊

How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine | Marchella Ward www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#PhotoDuJour A bas le colonialisme

This one is by me! 🤓 Thanks @scienceopen.bsky.social for sharing 🥰

Not that historians can see the future or anything, but I did explain why colonial powers would start “recognising the state of Palestine” while continuing to support the genocide of the Palestinians months ago… 👇🏻 A state - like peace - is nothing without freedom. 🇵🇸

In any case the thing to do if you’re sick of the Zios bullying me on the classicists list is to come to this conference and help us do better history in solidarity with the occupied and the oppressed!👇🏻

It’s a public service at this point to haunt the worst the Zios to such an extent that they see my name and immediately start trying to justify occupation 👻😂

POV: you’ve put off emailing the Liverpool Classicists mailing list long enough… 😬

On Israeli archaeological malpractice, heritage crimes, and US complicity #archaeology #🏺

Don’t forget the place to be on October is here! For more info and to sign up to attend: societyforthestudyofthepast.com/annual-meeti...

On Imagining in Gaza

Relire Sabra et Chatila aujourd’hui : un continuum de #génocides depuis 1948 carep-paris.org/recherche/et... Leila Seurat

Long drive home today (I haven’t been home much this month) thinking about the little things I published this summer, and whether writing can really change the world the way I always hope. Free Palestine, always and always. 🍉

#PhotoDuJour 🇵🇸

'After Savagery' by Hamid Dabashi detonates the West's moral alibi on Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/hamid-dabashis-after-savagery-detonates-wests-moral-alibi-gaza

I get called a Nazi by classicists when I point out that archaeology provides the “ideological scaffolding” for apartheid - but the Zionists have never doubted that it is. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

So important to read this...

Next time they come complaining that climate crisis protestors have defaced some art, don’t forget it’s absolutely fine for authoritarian powers to deface art 🤷🏼‍♀️

Just in case you are not yet bored of articles by me coming out this summer, here is a new one out today on ‘Theorising Historiographical Islamophobia’ which has basically been my intellectual project of the last half decade! 🤓 It’s open access here: www.scienceopen.com/document_fil...

Come with me to Nimrud… oh no wait, to the Brooklyn Museum. 🙄

New (and absurdly short) list of genocide deniers just dropped. In the entire world, this is all the credentialed people they could find to sign. www.scholarsfortruthaboutgenocide.com

Goed zo Brussel! 😍

Reflecting on #OpenFest25, I'm grateful to the presenters (Almarzouq, Bowie, Sanders) who reminded us that openness is a social practice > we must not lose sight of this. E.g. open practices per se cannot dismantle the humanities' centrality in the ideological scaffolding of apartheid and genocide 👇

#PhotoDuJour 🌙

And for precisely 0 pounds / dollars / euros / riyals / mark / rupees / pesos / ringgits etc you can join us at the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social, a society dedicated to studying the past in solidarity with the occupied and the oppressed, instead: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

Jummah Mubarak from beautiful blue skies in NYC 🍎

🩸🏺 Look: @asor-research.bsky.social is hosting a talk by a Tel Aviv U + 🇮🇱 Antiquities Authority scholar on Sept. 10 Topic: Tell Moza, which is located on the spot of the ethnically cleansed Palestinian village of قالونيا /Qalunya 🙃 www.palestineremembered.com/Jerusalem/Qa...