Huge thanks to Joshua Sperber and @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social for a rave review of @stevesalaita.bsky.social's new novel JERRY AND RODRIGO GO TO WAR! Read the full review👇

"Of the campus lit I’ve read, Kingsley Amis’s LUCKY JIM and Bernard Malamud’s A NEW LIFE are the funniest, John Williams’ STONER is the most poignant, and Vladimir Nabokov’s PNIN is the most playful. JERRY AND RODRIGO GO TO WAR brings together the best of each of these."

Short Circuit | The Imperial '80s Episode 37 MONDAY AT 10 AM EDT www.youtube.com/live/pTiuqzh...

if you get a copy from Open Books' Bookshop4Gaza, they donate all of their proceeds to the Sameer Project!! open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sal...

Finally got a copy. I hope you'll get one, as well.

I was interviewed for the Chronicle of Higher Education about my new novel "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War" as well as a host of other topics relating to the current state of the university.

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Existence and Belonging: Six Reflections on Palestine

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I'm giving a talk in London next week (Queen Mary University). Please come out if you can. Would love to catch up with old friends and comrades.

Steven Salaita on scholasticide: www.youtube.com/live/74N6t8s...

Should you be kind enough to buy my new novel, "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War," please stay on the Common Notions website and browse the many amazing titles. I hope you'll support @commonnotions.bsky.social in general--it's a brilliant revolutionary publishing project.

I can’t recommend this new Project 2052 story by @cowbellemoo.lets.abolish.family highly enough. Revolutionary hawks taking down police drones and military jets, sex forests, and much more. Reshare, check out new stories every day this week. www.commonnotions.org/project-2052...

I'll be live on Breaking Culture this Tuesday at noon eastern to discuss scholasticide and the (pitiful) condition of higher education today. I'm sure the conversation will make its way to the current war, as well.

This is tomorrow! Still very underenrolled for this one, please share widely! We'll be discussing the role of labor and labor strikes within US prisons, specifically how incarcerated people understand the role their labor plays in upholding or disrupting the prison system.

Here is an excerpt of "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War," which is officially released today: stevesalaita.com/an-excerpt-o...

Right as a book of mine is close to being published, I worry that I'm about to make an enormous fool of myself. Even so, I am proud to announce the publication of my second novel, "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War." May it provide you warm and meaningful company.

Here's a long essay analyzing the recent emergence of rightwing critics of Israel. I argue that it is a bad idea for the Palestine solidarity movement in North America to seek any kind of alliance with those critics or to validate the ideologies they represent. stevesalaita.com/palestine-so...

Daily bombings, hundreds of thousands of people living in tents, cell phones brought in by the entity instead of medicine and food exploding in people's hands, approval of another fucking infrastructure of settler colonial genocide, and Palestinians continue to support each others' survival.

It's a little depressing how the bodies in Gaza haven't even been buried and US national socialists are already back to positioning Palestine as a faraway irrelevant cause (except when useful to build credibility for their celebrity politicians)

Do you get annoyed when uncompromising anti-Zionism is dismissed as "purity politics"? If so, you might find this short essay worth a read: stevesalaita.com/palestine-an...

"One looks at the United States right now and wonders, What democracy? Which law? Where free speech? Whose human rights? If these existential treats can’t be located in the metropole, then we certainly won’t find them anywhere on the periphery." stevesalaita.com/palestine-an...

Please read this amazing essay by my dear friend Saher Safi, who discusses his childhood in Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza, and the pain of now witnessing genocide. Saher worked for months on this essay, which was a difficult process for him. He ended up producing some exceptionally powerful writing.

today in about 15 minutes!

ALERT!!! Casey Goonan is entering DAY TWO of their hunger strike at Santa Rita in solidarity with T. Hoxha, who has entered critical condition 🚨🚨🚨🚨

Powerful letter by our Chairperson Zoë Lawlor @zazafl.bsky.social in yesterday's Irish Examiner. We need immediate sanctions on apartheid Israel to protect Palestinians from its genocide. #EndIsraeliImpunity #GazaGenocide

Don't give your money to NGOs, politicians, or online pundits. Please donate instead directly to Gaza. Below is a link to the Sameer Project's South Gaza Campaign, which urgently needs support: chuffed.org/project/1132...

Please help if you can. No one should have to endure this.

Gaza is the slaughterhouse // my latest report for @intifada.bsky.social electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-b...

Here's a short essay about what it means to be caring and careful amid the turn to fascism in the United States:

Chicago: this is TOMORROW, 4/29! Don't miss it

Here is another longform essay dealing with Zionist genocide and higher education that I hope you will find useful: "The Meaning of Honesty in Academe"

New essay: No Resurrection: The Life and Death of the Modern University

This Monday at Villanova University.

Dear friends in Philly and Western Mass: I have two upcoming events. Come say hello if you're around. --Villanova U, Monday April 14: "No Resurrection: The Life and Death of the Modern University" --UMass, Wednesday April 16 (James Baldwin Lecture): "The Meaning of Honesty in Academe"

Everything the Israelis have used to justify genocide--schools as weapons depots, hospitals as Hamas bases, incinerated babies, the mass rape event--proved to be a straight-out lie. Don't even entertain the bullshit from here on out and just automatically disbelieve whatever they say, instead.

Israeli almost certainly killed hundreds like this. They are putting out stories now and then about small numbers to test how the public reacts so they can test the waters for when it all comes out.

A most worthy fundraiser for a brother in Gaza and his lovely family. Please donate whatever you can.

Let's go Day 2 of Blanket Drive! We're gonna keep this initiative going till the end of "Cyber Monday," to combat the distraction of consumer capitalism and help people stay focused on what actually matters rn. Keep donating, fill out the form to get some merch from us <3

It's true that bluesky isn't great for news and commentary about Palestine. Maybe it will get better, maybe it won't. But we have to keep trying because it's crucial to talk about Palestine precisely where it feels unwelcome.

The liberal administrators who spent the last 13 months siccing riot cops on students for daring to protest a genocide have been all too happy to help them do it.

Why isn’t anyone talking about GZ on this app or trying to raise money for people there?

Ceasefire proposals by the US have become a form of psychological terrorism, not an attempt to stop the fighting. The latest ceasefire proposal involved Hizballah disarming and the Israelis being allowed to occupy Lebanon and continue the genocide in Gaza.

New essay: "Arab Americans, Ignore the Haters: Rejecting Kamala Harris was the Right Thing to Do."

I'm reading a diplomatic history of the 1956 Suez Crisis (i.e., the British/French/Israeli invasion of Egypt) and what jumps out at me is that Eisenhower--a military lifer and staunch conservative--was well to the left of today's Democrats on foreign policy.