Absolutely horrendous. Textbook example of archaeology being used to enact state violence.

#2 in our Nakba x Archaeology series covers the stories of 2 Palestinian archaeologists whose lives & careers were irreversibly impacted by the ‘48 Nakba: Dimitri Baramki, and Yusra Al-Haifawiyah. The full 11 slide posts are available in 9 languages at the linktree in our bio #nakba #archaeology

This executive summary on AI and higher ed does not name the way that AI powers genocide in Palestine and elsewhere, is a tool of white supremacy, or even name that scientific research at universities play a key function in the development of what are weapons of war, surveillance, and ecocide. Why?

Almost 200 former senior Canadian diplomats are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to impose "robust" sanctions on Israel over deteriorating conditions in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon.

The fact that we now have a Cambridge Companion on this topic is definitive evidence that the study of race in antiquity is **mainstream.** These 24 contributions are supportive and generative offerings for the certain futurity of this work.

After Israel began expunging humanitarian organizations in Gaza for failing to comply with new rules, a Doctors Without Borders team was left scrambling to establish a permanent clinic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/huUHZP

"hiding behind ambiguous language and silencing critical voices only serves to aid the aggressor [...] A community that cares about human life and heritage can do better. If the EAA Executive is unable or unwilling to lead the way in this regard, we as a community will move forward without them." ✊🏼

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Foto taken by Beno Rothenberg, born in Frankfurt, on emigrating to Palestine he became a photographer with the vicious Haganah group, during which time he took this picture. He then went on to work with the archaeological survey of the Negev desert #archaeology #🏺 drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Read our response to recent statements by the EAA European Association of Archaeologists. Cancel attendance at EAA2026 Athens with a full refund before this Friday, May 15th. #boycottEAA drive.google.com/file/d/1lE-1...

Much respect for and appreciation of voices like @zenakamash.bsky.social 🙏❤️🙌

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

The same AHA whose council vetoed a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza which had been approved by its members? 🤔 Curious if there is a module on how leadership of democratic institutions fails to live up to the moment. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated: More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector $925 million for AI $81.8 billion over 5 years for military However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.

Please share as widely as possible. This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not. Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

This is a lot to grasp. For perspective, dropping NASA’s participation in Euclid is like giving away all of Hubble’s data and barring ourselves from ever looking at it. And that’s just one program listed here. 🧪🔭

Go read Amy Fallas’s important new piece on scholasticide in Lebanon www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...

Please share and/or consider applying to the Cambridge Amplifying Grant for underrepresented scholars. Applications are due next Monday, April 13. www.cambridge.org/us/universit.... This is a great opportunity!

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

please support the Sameer Project's medical campaign: chuffed.org/project/1368...

It’s strange to scroll through this depraved timeline today and be confronted with so many invocations of “illegal.” As if “the law” and its juridical kith hold any relevancy or power three years into a live-streamed genocide.

Donald Trump is openly threatening war crimes against the entirety of Iranian civilization. 25th Amendment proceedings must begin immediately, but if the Cabinet is too cowardly, the House should begin the impeachment process now.

We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) is introducing articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth over his role as “a chief enabler of this illegal war” in Iran. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

It is lost in the chaos of everything today but it is bug fuckin nuts that the VP is IN ANOTHER COUNTRY at a rally specifically to ensure a fellow fascist is reelected as Prime Minister. Like I cannot think of another time a VP POLITICALLY CAMPAIGNED FOR A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT in my lifetime

"Khaled Mahajna,a Palestinian lawyer with the Palestinian Authority's Commission of Detainees' Affairs and one of the very few legal representatives to have gained access to Israeli occupation detention facilities,speaks about the Israeli Knesset's passage of the "Prisoners Execution Law" #Palestine

How bleak is it that the *best case scenario* is that he is just engaging in his most ambitious bit of market manipulation yet and will call it off ("we have reached a great deal, a tremendous deal, to save Iran") at 4:30 pm after shorting everything and watching the market tank

I simply can’t believe Congress and the cabinet are sitting around, totally fine with what is absolutely demented behavior from the president.

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Half a million people dispossessed and exiled in mere days. Can't wait to see the archeological excavations that will come from this and be presented about by very nice people who don't take part in bad things because it's not bad if you're an academic and there's a publication at the end.

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.

“The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency.” — NEH.gov The NEH has $207 million for FY2026. War in Iran? 1 billion per day. We go through 4.83 NEHs a day for what?

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

This new @chronicle.com piece largely tries to summarize faculty responses to a survey about grades and worries about grades and academic standards. I have a lot I could say about it, but I really want to make one particular point about trustworthy sources. www.chronicle.com/article/the-... 1/x

A new investigation has reportedly backed up evidence given by a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13.

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

This entire medical team was murdered in an Israeli double-tap attack yesterday. 2 journalists 7 paramedics 1 Lebanese soldier After hitting Ali Shoeib’s (Lebanese journalist who covered Israeli war crimes for 30 years) car, Israel targeted the responding medics as they arrived to save him.

The refusal to acknowledge or to do anything about the complicity of archaeology with this violence is why I won't participate in the @asor-research.bsky.social meeting again this year. #BoycottASOR

In light of today's IOC ban of transgender women athletes in the Olympics, reupping this piece I wrote with @nicolanese.bsky.social last month. www.livescience.com/health/there...

Pete Hegseth removed 4 decorated Army officers—2 Black, 2 women—from a promotion list. The Army Secretary refused, calling their records exemplary. Hegseth overrode it. Possibly illegally. They gave decades to this country. He erased them & called it meritocracy. This is white Christian nationalism.

I have been informed by a reliable source that another person has died in ICE custody, this one in Adelanto. If true, it would be the 14th detained death this year, the 43rd under the Trump II, and the 4th at Adelanto. I'll share more info as available at austinkocher.substack.com.

Our latest instalment of the #PeoplingBlog, features the exciting pedagogical work of @egarcmol.bsky.social. Here, he takes us through his course “The Ancient World in Video Games” to highlight the value of bringing gaming into the modern university classroom: peoplingthepast.com/2026/03/27/b...

I am running London2Brighton 100km and raising money to support Step Forward - a youth centre in Tower Hamlets supporting queer, trans, and gender non-conforming youth - so important at a time when these vulnerable youth are under attack from almost everywhere! If you can, please donate and share!

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

There's always more than enough funding for police, and never enough funding for the things that could actually prevent crime.

Just an unbelievably horrifying headline.

😍 The one and only Hind Khoudary endorses @archagainstaparth.bsky.social's call to boycott ASOR! This is major. Here is the link to the post she hyperlinked in her ig story today everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/a...