🎧Lunchtime listen: @maryamalem.bsky.social (Associate Professor in the History and Politics of Iran @osgaoxford.bsky.social) on @cnn.com Professor Alemzadeh discusses the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and changing views of the war within Iran. edition.cnn.com/2026/03/11/w...

An Ohio University professor was removed from teaching a MFA class a day after returning home from an Israeli prison where he was detained upon being illegally abducted from the flotilla. His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest. www.dispatch.com/story/news/s...

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

“History didn’t start on October 7. It’s been two years of the genocide, but it’s been 77 years, if not more, of the ongoing Nakba that started in 1948."

@mark-carney.bsky.social, do you hear us yet? Today, our message fills Canada’s biggest newspapers: @theglobeandmail.com, @thestar.com and @lapresse.ca. Doctors can’t stop genocide. World leaders can.

In “a mockery of international law,” per one expert, Israel has bombed the residence of Hamas officials negotiating peace in Doha, Qatar.

"If this had been a terrorist attack.. an initial explosion, everyone rush to that & the 2nd explosion to create as much carnage as possible. Its hard not to see this in that light even though its a state defence force carrying out the attack" BBCs Christian Fraser getting close

Thank you Bisan. We will never give up. Day of action: this Thursday, July 24.

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales. This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide. We are doing this and history will never forgive us. Gaza:

Gaza Doctors Under Attack: documenting Israel's genocide of doctors and medical staff in Gaza. The documentary that BBC didn't show because of its Zionist board member Robbie Gibb, who has damaged the BBC and it's credibility as a news media. zeteo.com/p/watch-now-...

Amazing to be in a country where your identity is used as a slur.

Having mastered toilet paper supply chain logistics, large language models, Middle Eastern history, submarine design, and balloon dynamics, I would like to explain why I think the US military strikes in Iran obliterated the Fordow nuclear site while leaving Natanz and Isfahan largely intact...(1/37)

My latest op-ed for the @latimes.com out this morning. Regime change is once again on the agenda, treated as an obvious solution, a magic bullet for Iranians & the world. But very few voices are asking, "Then what?" Where does the magic bullet land? #Iran #Nationalism www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

The United States is bombing Iran, but the real Ayatollahs are the professors at America’s elite universities.

Yes, it’s totally different when you have an even *dumber* president.

My reaction to the Trump illegal strikes on Iran tonight:

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

We (a group of academics and scholars) are calling for an immediate end to #Israel’s war against #Iran and #Palestine. If you support this call, please add your name to the petition here. Thank you! #solidarity #ceasefirenow #petition docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Is Fordo really the most important thing about Iran’s nuclear program or is the focus on it designed to drag the US into the war? Since Fordo is the only target that needs US planes and bunker buster bombs.

Israeli strikes kill 18 in Gaza, including 15 waiting for aid - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-kill-18-gaza-including-15-waiting-aid

'No war on Iran': New Yorkers rally against US and Israeli regime change plans - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-new-york-protest-israel-attacks-iran

As @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social writes, I don’t know how to live with the fact that my country is killing my people every day. But I know I am not alone… These hunger strikers are standing up for humanity and for the will of the American people.” inthesetimes.com/article/hung...

Today is day two of the Jewish Voice for Peace hunger strike to stop starving Gaza and stop arming Israel. We are hosting a full day of People’s education on Federal Plaza in solidarity. Join us, Chicago!

2 postdoc posts in in 19th Century Political History: (Public Opinion and the Crimean War): fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Post picked up by @theguardian.com; give it a read: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Everything that is happening and will happen with Iran is a direct consequence of Trump’s first-term decision to shit on American diplomatic credibility by impulsively shredding a hard-won nuclear agreement.

3am and the fucking Israelis are telling a city if 10 million to evacuate their homes.

I cannot believe they are evacuating Tehran! That’s like an order to evacuate New York! What is this world coming to?!!

“No country should send their team to play when the citizens of 12 among them are banned. No person is safe when agents roam the country and its stadiums masked…. If what we’re witnessing is a precursor to the World Cup, then it has never been clearer that a boycott is necessary.”

My sister had finally managed to get some gas (2 am local time) and was planning to leave Tehran tmr when I delivered the news of this development. She’s wondering which road to take as a tired, stressed out single woman at 2 am, while explosions can already be heard from both East and West Tehran.

Had a piece on Israel/Palestine that was due to be published today postponed because of Iran/Israel war— which was the right editorial call but symbolic of how this new war is (likely intentionally) shifting global attention away from the horrific conditions of ongoing war and starvation in Gaza.

If Israel’s playbook is any prediction: they will soon be denying the death toll from their unprovoked strikes on Iran. That death toll is in the hundreds, including dozens of women and children. (And by the way Iranian *men* deserve life and grief and mourning too.)

The pressure that was beginning to build on Israel to let in more aid and honour a ceasefire has been replaced with the same mealy-mouthed defences that we saw in the early days of the war in Gaza, plus the same pabulum of urging “restraint”. The clock is reset." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Iranian strikes expose lack of shelters for Palestinian citizens of Israel, residents say - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iranian-strikes-expose-lack-shelters-palestinian-citizens-israel

Israel kills aid-seekers in Gaza and issues new expulsion orders - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-kills-aid-seekers-gaza-issues-expulsion-orders

Increasingly unpopular opinion: Israel does not want regime change. Those who think so should explain why Israel didn’t even *try* to go after the supreme leader. They want a hardliner state who tries to retaliate and make Israel the victim, but fails to inflict much damage.

My only disagreement: it’s never been about regime change. Israel kept Khamenei intact intentionally, bc that guaranteed Iran would respond. Israel needs the regime as is to keep pretending it’s under existential threat, while it knows well the issued threats are mere propaganda.

Great analysis: -Israel does not have the capacity to destroy Iran’s nuclear program; so the attack aimed to 1-disrupt talks & 2-get US involved to do the job; -decapitation is meaningless; ppl will be replaced; -Israel “owns” the US in ME foreign policy, so America First policy is out the window.

My interview with Zeteo on Israel's bombing of Iran and what comes next youtu.be/VkAA6w9tYn0?...

Israel has a right to defend itself. Iran has a right to be attacked. This is the message we are being told by many European leaders, especially this shower of cretins at the German Embassy

If you say "Israel has a right to defend itself" three times in front of a mirror Keir Starmer and David Lammy appear. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

BUT DO YOU CONDEMN ISRAEL

Netanyahu will attack America itself if it suits him, is my feeling.

Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones

'If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/if-you-see-video-we-have-been-intercepted-and-kidnapped

"diverted" is when the 75 bus goes through an alternative route due to roadworks, not when a boat is seized in international waters

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

“the 1.1 million international students studying in the US contributed $43.8bn to the US economy during the 2023–2024 academic year, creating 378,175 jobs nationwide.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...