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Emboldened by the language of national security, a far-right vigilante politics is emerging in the West, its rise in parallel with military campaigns against Muslim populations abroad

The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State is almost here. June 16, I'll be at @wordupbooks.bsky.social in Washington Heights, with Laura Whitehorn🔥 for the official book launch.

The AHA acknowledges that history is always political. It seems like the suggestion here is that the organization can exist outside that reality, but we all know that such suggestions are themselves political. To say that the AHA isn’t political is to say a lot about the politics of the AHA

We won! 6.8K people in the meeting, all member workers of the Park Slope Food Coop. We voted 67 percent in favor of boycotting Israeli goods following more than a decade of organizing.

Enbridge’s Line 5 Reroute Blasts Through Bedrock Without Permits, Threatening the Great Lakes [Video]

Summer of SCA! (Plus bangers coming soon from @mishmoshk.bsky.social & Sam Ng & @tejnagaraja.bsky.social) @ajbauer.bsky.social

Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State (UC Press): Unscripted Conversation with Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social May 28, 2026 at 2pm PST; FREE REGISTRATION bit.ly/4tTD2fn discussants Desireé Melonas, Keith Miyake, Emma Stapely, Jaye Austin Williams; facilitator @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social

UPDATE: The execution of Tony Carruthers was postponed on Thursday, May 21 after several failed attempts to find a vein for lethal injection.

"Get in the box for Israel" Anti-war mural seen in Ithaca, New York

Everyone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at the coordinated assault on Black studies. https://bit.ly/4nA1S1P

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Abe Foxman is being remembered as a good liberal, so unlike racist frat bro Jonathan Greenblatt. But history doesn't exonerate him. Foxman was also an anti-Muslim, anti-Black, red-baiter -- and the ADL’s turn from Foxman’s liberalism to Greenblatt’s MAGA is not *that* much of a turn. Remember...

Coretta Scott King explained, “I keep seeing these books and I say, ‘It didn’t happen that way.’ … And that becomes history if you don’t correct it.” Martin Luther King married a feminist intellectual freedom fighter with unflinching determination—“beyond steel” her friends said. A 🧵:

"Another genocide behind walls: Sexual violence in Israeli prisons and detention centres and engineered impunity (October 2023 - October 2025)" euromedmonitor.org/a/7023 Please honor this work by reading as much as you can tolerate, and sharing. It is horrific, but it is important.

New York — Two years after students occupied Hamilton Hall (naming it "Hind's Hall" in ode to the little girl killed by Israeli forces), Columbia students & faculty are demonstrating on campus, honoring Palestinian scholars killed by Israel's genocide. Video: Sunrise Columbia

Send $50 (or more) for Fida’s family in Gaza, and I’ll send you a signed copy of my book when it’s out in a few weeks. tinyurl.com/book-for-fida. Email me a screenshot of your donation & your mailing info to emmaia-at-criticalzionismstudies.org. Thanks from us both ❤️

Book talks coming up in advance of pub day! Thanks to incredibly generous and supportive comrades for making these plans ❤️

New restrictions on movement and a deadly surge in settler violence in the occupied West Bank have raised fears that Israel is exploiting the war on Iran to accelerate its long-term goal of annexing the Palestinian territory. Here's how 🔗 www.newarab.com/analysis/und...

You absolutely don't ever have to hand it to Tucker Carlson.

Canadians! This is for us too! Preorder! Gelman was on @wajali.bsky.social podcast (see YouTube) this week and it is an essential listen for Canadians working to sustain public space for critical thinking about social justice, meaningful cosmopolitanism, and freedom from criminalization of speech.

The cooptation of leftist, liberatory ideas by racists, colonizers, and war machines who operate under the banner of liberalism is a defining feature of this era of collapse. Learning so much from those working in and with Iran. It's always the same shapes. www.facebook.com/share/v/1THH...

In south Lebanon, Israel is applying the Gaza playbook: mass displacement, razed villages, and permanently redrawing the physical and demographic landscape:

Afroman's epic lemon pound cake-based trolling of Adams County sheriff was on the syllabus for my course on police violence. It was good comic relief then & even better after a lawsuit. Watch the music video (youtube.com/watch?v=9xxK5yyecRo) in the interests of justice. local12.com/news/local/j...

There's a chapter in my book with @prisonculture.bsky.social, Let This Radicalize You, where we get into the pitfalls of pedestaling organizers. Good organizers don't want this. In fact, it can be really harmful to them, in addition to undermining our sense of collective responsibility and potential

ADL should not be considered a credible source by journalists! religiondispatches.org/2026/03/16/a... @mishmoshk.bsky.social @religiondispatches.org #DropTheADL

The multinational force is expected to include around 5,000 soldiers from Indonesia, who will make up the bulk of the deployment, alongside dozens of troops from Kazakhstan, Morocco, Albania and Kosovo

As an Arab, insofar as these people are in charge, I'm not participating in a single other thing. I'm on panels coming up. I will not be attending. Enough is enough.

Susan Abulhawa describes Zionist violence in words that don't sanitize it, and that demand we confront it. We need her, existentially. Mamdani, fire whoever gave you this lethal advice.

Trump claims the country of Iran, and its supposed plans “to take over the entire Middle East” are now “DEAD.” ➤ Note: Iran has not initiated a war in the 47 years since the 1979 Islamic Revolution brought its current regime to power.

Ending Zionism means refusing Zionist language. Thinking on this all year with the wonderful @reallyheike.bsky.social while editing (& writing) anti-Zionist essays for a forthcoming book! This lil zine comes from that project. We learn so much from police/prison abolitionism. PDF at bit.ly/4lzF8OG

I can't confirm whether any of this is true. But there are growing reports from widely disparate sources that Iran is collecting intelligence on the whereabouts of Israeli officials and may already be trying to target them for assassination. bsky.app/profile/msja...

I managed to escape Gaza, but now carry the shame of being safe - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/i-managed-escape-gaza-now-carry-shame-being-safe

Just finished writing this, inspired by your request

a helpful starter pack courtesy of Mindy as usual go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

📣 Anti-war activist Manijeh Moradian on the need for intersectional anti-imperialism as we resist US-Israel attacks on Iran. Up now on Unpacking Zionism podcast, on our new hot take series *In Flames.* podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

No war on Iran No U.S. supremacist imperialism No Zionist expansionism

🚨 The final number of dead at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, is 108 school girls, a spokesperson for the Iranian Red Crescent Society said — more than half of the roughly 170 students who attend the school. It remains unclear whether the strike was carried out by...

I still believe in building popular knowledge about empire, & the importance of undoing lies about US liberalism, liberal Zionism, and “progress toward equality.” Wrestling with the fact that they don’t intervene in the tech/oligarch death cult. New tactics.

The U.S. plan for Gaza is the final stage of Israel’s genocide. Bombs and bulldozers obliterated Gaza’s landscape, and now skyscrapers and data centers aim to dismantle its social fabric and capacity to resist. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/gaza...

Emergency protest happening now outside Columbia University after ICE agents used a “bogus missing persons flyer for a 5-year old girl” to gain access to a school-owned residence to detain a student. That student posted to her instagram this morning: “DHS illegally arrested me. Please help.”

IT’S HERE! By now, the ADL is infamously cozy with racist power, from cops to Elon Musk. This book tells how the ADL helped *make* the racial state, traversing settler colonialism, corporate power, neoconservatism, "anti-hate policy" & more. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-an...

Here's a short thread about some political and intellectual icons and their work at, and appreciation for libraries.

Apartheid Israel's barbarism against Palestinians in Gaza is armed and funded by the US and the EU. There must be accountability for these crimes. #GazaGenocide Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the Palestinian struggle. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-... #Palestine #Israel

Yes: Abolish ICE and DHS. In short, end the War on Terror.

In our new blog post, Darryl Li and I call attention to a dangerous new development: red states are purporting to "designate" civil rights groups as terrorists. Like the Trump administration, the governors are targeting their critics as "terrorists." knightcolumbia.org/blog/red-sta...

New podcast mini-series from Unpacking Zionism! Empire’s Laboratory: Latin America, Zionism, & Resistance is co-hosted by ICSZ collective's Lara Sheehi and advisory board member Alex Aviña. Ep. 1 is up now. bit.ly/unpackingzionism