In Defense of Boycotting Israeli Universities: jacobin.com/2024/05/isra...

“The PA show up here with guns – why don’t they use them when the settlers attack? They only come to collect taxes…They take everything, promise us protection and provide nothing…if you try to protect yourself, you’ll be arrested by the PA before the Israelis.” www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Aid officials and health experts have for months warned that famine will come for Gaza unless Israel lifts barriers keeping most aid out, the fighting stops and vital services such as clean water are restored. None of those conditions have been met.

An atrocious violation of academic freedom: www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

The apartheid regime attacked Gazan fishing boats after seeing Palestinians using them to catch fish for food. Two days ago in Nablus IOF-backed settlers burned olive trees (they murdered Bilal Saleh while he was picking olives).

israel has bombed ambulances in every confrontation with hamas since 2004 and has never once faced accountability

Remember a few weeks ago when everyone called people antisemitic for saying Israel bombed a hospital and then yesterday they bombed three and an ambulance convoy and took credit for it

This could be me or any of my X or Bluesky or Facebook academic pals. The person they collected a dossier on was antiracist, pro union strikes, pro "scholarships for Black students" (i mean WTAF?), pro trans rights, critical of No. 10 etc

The prohibition on attacking ambulances under the first Geneva Convention is extraordinarily straightforward—even ambulances that are being used by belligerents on the battlefield. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treat...

In this podcast with @ArifCRafiq, we discuss Hamas’s evolution, what led to the 7 October attacks and the problems with mainstream Western analyses of Hamas: globelynews.com/podcast/amp/ Palestine Gaza Israel #MiddleEastStudies #MiddleEast