I tell academics I teach a 6/6, to their horror. They are less horrified when they find out it’s high school students. The irony is that teaching high school classes is significantly more challenging. I need to finish my dissertation

The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced

That a for-profit “community” was created by a historian and is promoted by historians is shameful. It’s hard to have faith in the discipline when we allow this

When I had to read it for my Historiography seminar in grad school, Joan Scott’s Gender and the Politics of History shaped my whole intellectual trajectory. I’m glad she is calling out Scholasticide, unlike the AHA itself

Before long, we won't be able to even mention the most horrific crime of our times, let alone try to stop it.

If you are a member, please vote!

Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, reports that IDF soldiers and officers told the newspaper that they were "ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present."

Re: the big No Kings protests this weekend, remember that the corporate media, politicians, etc are obviously champing at the bit to be able to force a “good protestors vs bad protestors” narrative to discredit the anti-ICE/anti-genocide movement. Do not let them. Embrace a diversity of tactics.

Lots of great genocide scholars have recognized this for a long time. Many haven’t. I don’t take comfort in being able to identify a genocide better than many genocide scholars. It raises questions about the importance of their work and history more broadly

Faculty and staff at UC Irvine have been criminalized for exercising their freedom of speech on campus in defense of Palestinian life and dignity. They are now in the position of needing to defend themselves. Can you help? If you have $5, please join me in donating. www.gofundme.com/f/defend-aca...

"The agreement includes meaningful raises, smaller class sizes, and more classroom resources, but it also codifies some of the most comprehensive LGBTQ+ protections ever included in a public school labor deal." Check out "bargaining for the common good" www.advocate.com/news/chicago...

“Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose, mother, to help people,” he cries, his voice weak.

Tonight I was in excellent company at the @oah.org as the members meeting overwhelmingly voted to endorse a Resolution Opposing Scholasticide in Gaza. Speakers addressed the need for historians to stand up for the right to teach, study, & learn. #OAH25

CBS reporting 12 visa revocations at UC Davis; 7 current students and 5 recent graduates.

The motion passes, 104–25.

NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility. 1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken. A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.

RUMEYSA OZTURK KIDNAPPING VIDEO Here is a video of federal agents detaining Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk Tuesday night. Rumeysa was abducted as she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast.

Prof Rashid Khalidi in fine form pointing out the long history of where Columbia has now arrived. And its where we all are. 'Columbia has long been run more like the vast, wealthy business and real estate empire that it is, than as an educational institution.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?

the law clinic repping this student, CLEAR, is based out of CUNY.....once again the public city university absolutely flounces the ivy league when it comes to having a backbone and standing on actual principles

Note to Columbia interim president Armstrong: you can only be heartbroken if you have a heart

The level of antisemitism like actual antisemitism against Jews that people are willing to tolerate for the sake of Israel is truly extraordinary. And I'm not even addressing the racism against Palestinians here.

for those in nyc

To my colleagues at Columbia: if you were wondering where the rubber hits the road, this is where the rubber hits the road. I beseech you not to act like this is business as usual or it will indeed become business as usual.

Free Mahmoud Khalil. Profound shame on Columbia University in particular.

Columbia has no interest in protecting its students. The university will continue to acquiesce to the racist, genocidal Trump Administration, betraying its mission and gaining nothing. Mahmoud must be found and freed.

Breaking: ICE arrests a Palestinian student at Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, whose wife is 8 months pregnant. They revoked his student visa and his green card. BOYCOTT COLUMBIA. WRITE & Demand answers. This is fucking sickening. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

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.

A great reminder of Isreal's attempt to obscure genocide through pinkwashing thebaffler.com/latest/pinkw...

Genocidal racism is bipartisan

who says dems are paralyzed? here's my dem governor getting in on war on woke. one less state job. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. anyway, much love to all y'all banging away for a world much better than this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just learned that this Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide will be considered @oah.org's Annual Business Meeting in April. www.oah.org/2025/02/26/r... 🗃️

We’re addressing Israel’s scholasticide at OAH. Please join and vote to acknowledge and express opposition to scholasticide, the least any US historian should do www.oah.org/2025/02/26/r...

Congratulations are in order here to the Democrats, Labour, and all of the parties who provided the weapons and ideological cover for the genocide that has made the politics of our moment possible. Watch this and take a bow.

"What with all the critical national and [int'l] issues that the House and Senate have to deal with....why would any of their members have anything to say about a random rec center in a DC neighborhood full of people who don’t get to vote for them?" More at @51st.news. 51st.news/district-of-...

Historians For Palestine demands an AHA that’s answerable to its members. Historians recognize scholastics and genocide when they see it. H4P isn’t going anywhere

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WHA members are now voting on a resolution in opposition to scholasticide in Gaza. If you're a member, you know what to do. Let's see the resolution pass!

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...

From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...

As AHA combats acknowledgement of the fact that Israel is engaged in scholasticide, Palestinian students, teachers, and professors combat the consequences of scholasticide every day

oh ok leftists, the one group mentioned that spends half of every day thinking about expressing cohesive and practicing cohesive political thought, are the ones who aren’t logically consistent. we’ll reflect on this

I thought the AHA was supposed to be an "unbiased historical actor." Why is the AHA commenting on executive orders that have just been issued, which surely cannot be considered "settled history"? Are we even "clear what happened or who to blame or when it began even"? 🗃️

It’s a good time to get behind @history4palestine.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...