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The past two years, there has been some amazing writing about what it's REALLY like to be an Arab in the "West." (Not that we were never writing it before, just wasn't getting published too much.) Here's another essay. The author doesn't name names, but I will: The New Yorker. David Remnick.

Please donate and share to help families being forcibly displaced from Gaza City chuffed.org/project/1494...

I find it impossible to stomach college or university presidents who today … speak out in favor of hosting “controversial” speakers on campus after spending the last two years shutting down speakers and panels about Gaza.” abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/the-straight...

This was a popular dessert in the 1970s: the next best thing to Robert Redford. RIP, you delicious man. www.allrecipes.com/recipe/12413...

I am here for Cumo being asked about globalize the intifada

I had the opportunity to review Elham Fakhro's excellent and highly timely book on the Abraham Accords. It sheds light on Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, the GCC, and the US at this current moment. merip.org/2025/09/the-...

The document values Gaza today at “practically $0” – but projects it could be worth $324 billion within a decade.Gaza is described less as a society than as a distressed asset to be flipped.This is disaster cap’ism at its sharpest.It is devastation reframed as the precondition for speculative profit

I fear this is only the first case of universities directly helping the government create a black list

The Dept of Education has officially cancelled funding for this year’s previously awarded FLAS grants for critical language study as “inconsistent with administration priorities.” What’s left to say?

The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

Israel killed a Qatari citizen. “According to preliminary information, the attack resulted in the martyrdom of Corporal Bader Saad Mohammed Al-Humaidi Al-Dosari, a member of the Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya).”

When all you have is a lawn mower everywhere looks like a lawn. Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Qatar,……

They are playing checkers, while he plays chess

Kaouthar Ben Hania's "Voice of Hind Rajab" received an unprecedented 22-min ovation at the Venice film festival. The reviews from both Variety and Hollywood Reporter seem to mark a watershed in film biz engagement with Gaza, as both reviewers openly speak of apartheid and genocide.

This is a good article, but it is curious that it doesn’t mention that plastic is made from hydrocarbons (I.e. fossil fuels) and therefore does not ponder the role of oil firms in the plastic word we inhabit. Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us

*How Commerce Became Legal* is finally out with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped along the way. www.sup.org/books/middle... (50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)

Why have Palestinians demanded the return of the hostages that Israel holds? Israeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees Classified Israeli army database indicates vast majority of 6,000 Palestinians arrested in Gaza and detained in appalling conditions are civilians.

I didn’t know Messick well, but both loved his writings and admired the way he mentored his students over the years

📰🧵Hot off the press! Issue #21 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. Click this link to read: facultyforpalestine.education/2025/08/28/a...

Pretty amazing that the university president who on more than 3 occasions in the past 18 months called police onto campus to arrest faculty and students, started the new school year by telling students “Question those with the urge to silence or cancel others,” nyunews.com/news/2025/08...

These photos by Mariam Dagga and Hussam al-Masri are stunning and devastating even if they were not killed by Israel

Gaza Biennale in NYC

"the Israeli army believed it had killed around 8,900 operatives since Oct 7— the deaths of 7,330 of whom were considered certain & 1,570 recorded as 'probably dead'. The vast majority of them were junior, with the army suspecting it had killed 100-300 senior Hamas operatives out of a total of 750."

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians

Important new report on Baluchistan

This roundtable discussion of Palestine — recognition of a state and belated acknowledgment of genocide — is a very good

“Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif have been able to tell their own people’s story directly to the world. And Israel is methodically killing them for it, while many of their Western colleagues and international journalistic institutions remain shamefully silent”— my latest @theguardian.com

This is a BIG deal: The approval and implementation of the E-1 settlement plan on the West Bank will fragment the occupied Palestinian territory further and cut it off from access to Jerusalem, thereby making formation of a contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital impossible. 1/2

"The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel." A statement like this should force this ICJ judge to recuse herself from ruling on any matter related to Israel, and ideally step down. A shocking violation of the most basic principles of our profession at the worlds highest court

UEFA says “stop killing children; stop killing civilians.” Who is this aimed at, I wonder?

Here's our latest statement on the German Sociological Association's (@dgsoziologie.bsky.social) objection to the suspension of Israeli Sociological Society’s (ISS) membership in the International Sociological Association (ISA) drive.proton.me/urls/WCCB71P...

Hello from Vichy DC. A reminder that as low as the crime rate is in DC - compared with decades past - the crime rate also ALWAYS goes down in the fall. Why? Because kids are in school all day. So…1) Trump will take credit for what is a perennial drop 2) Expect many pics of bored troops on the mall.

A study estimates that over half a million deaths per year are due to sanctions! More than all wars combined Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis - The Lancet Global Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

MAT: This is a video none of you have seen yet. It was filmed aboard an Egyptian aid plane and aired on an Egyptian TV channel just three hours ago. It captures even more shocking scenes of devastation. The Egyptian journalist described Gaza as “the city of rubble.” x.com/mosababutoha...

At least 700,000 Afghans have been deported from Iran since June and many more in the past couple years.

Abraham accords are supposed to signal familial solidarity. We all know that family members can be the most noxious

Between 2020 and 2024, $771 billion in Pentagon contracts went to just five firms: Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon), Boeing, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

“According to a study published by MSF in December 2024, nearly all of Gaza’s 1.2 million children were in need of mental health and psychosocial support due to symptoms of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and more.”

💥IN DEFENSE OF CUNY LAW PROF RAMZI KASSEM💥 We REJECT Rep. Elise Stefanik's baseless attacks! "Any discipline against Kassem for his representation of Mr. Khalil would violate AAUP standards on academic freedom & tenure & the terms of CUNY’s faculty labor contract." Read the full letter here⬇️

1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧵 www.latimes.com/california/s...

85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani. 79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani. 67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. 65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?

An Israeli settler, who Donald Trump removed from US sanctions list in January, has killed a Palestinian journalist and community leader who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land'.

"NYC Comptroller Brad Lander has withdrawn tens of millions of dollars of the city’s pension funds from the State of Israel."

The global war on terror was one hell of a boomerang

Israelis do “shooting and crying;” Americans do “shooting and sleeplessness.”

An internal US government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by Hamas of humanitarian supplies, which is the main rationale for Israel and the US for backing a new armed private aid operation www.reuters.com/world/middle...

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

Shaul Magid is always good to read