Alice Speri
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âHere, taking care of one another through public programs isnât radical socialism. Itâs Tuesday.â
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdaniâs supposedly radical policies as ânormalâ
Critics of New York Cityâs mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe itâs a given
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/europe-zohran-mamdani-policies-normal
about 2 months ago
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The list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the warâs many indirect victims. The 18,457 children on Gazaâs list of war dead.
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gazaâs list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israelâs offensive
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/08/young-lives-cut-short-on-an-unimaginable-scale-the-18457-children-on-gazas-list-of-war-dead
3 months ago
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Jameel Jaffer
3 months ago
"Blistering opinion" is absolutely right. But this principled, outraged ruling is an entirely appropriate response to Trump's effort to imprison and deport people for their constitutionally protected speech.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Judge issues blistering opinion against Trump policy to deport pro-Palestinian students
Judge rules non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/30/trump-administration-immigration-palestine
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New from me: I spoke to some of the dozens of university professors facing Title VI investigations over their pro-Palestinian advocacy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The chilling effect of Title VI investigations: the professors accused of antisemitism
Exclusive: Andrea Brower quits Gonzaga University after the Civil Rights Act is used to challenge her pro-Gaza activism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/campus-investigations-professors-gaza-antisemitism
4 months ago
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"Weâre going to need to politicize this fight". My latest, on what's ahead for US universities.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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âEveryone is coming into fireâ: students return to US campuses bruised and changed by Trumpâs assault
The effects of a rightwing campaign to remake American higher education are fueling fear and anxiety, but advocates say they have plans to fight back
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/23/us-college-campuses-trump-funding-protests
4 months ago
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Index on Censorship
4 months ago
More than 115 scholars have condemned the cancellation of an academic journal dedicated to Palestine by a Harvard University publisher as âcensorshipâ.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
We too condemned it. Read Index CEO
@jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social
:
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/shad...
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Shadow of Gaza conflict hangs over education - Index on Censorship
Schools and universities in the war zone have been destroyed. Attempts to write about it have been silenced
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/shadow-of-gaza-conflict-hangs-over-education/
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4 months ago
âMillions taking to streets, asking an end to genocide, beaten, arrested, held on counts of terrorism, while those wanted by ICC for war crimes are received, allowed to fly over European & western space. This is absurd. This is the end of the rule of law.â
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Recognising Palestinian state must not distract from ending Gaza mass deaths, UN expert says
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied territories, calls for practical actions and warns against distracting âattention from where it should be: the genocideâ
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/palestinian-statehood-israel-gaza-francesca-albanese
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âThe power is not just with the prime ministers or with the governments. The power is with us, and we can start choosing through our wallet.â My interview with Francesca Albanese.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Recognising Palestinian state must not distract from ending Gaza mass deaths, UN expert says
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied territories, calls for practical actions and warns against distracting âattention from where it should be: the genocideâ
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/palestinian-statehood-israel-gaza-francesca-albanese
4 months ago
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Israel has killed nearly 200 Palestinian journalists in Gaza
The latest killings were targeted attacks on reporters covering the war in Gaza, according to the news network that employed them.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/israel-gaza-palestinian-war-journalists-killed/
5 months ago
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Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvardâs feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an âeducation and Palestineâ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the âPalestine exceptionâ to academic freedom
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/22/harvard-educational-review-palestine-issue-cancelled
5 months ago
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My latest, for
@us.theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Jewish organizers are increasingly confronting Trump: âThe repression is growing, but so is the resistanceâ
As the administration continues to exploit antisemitism to arrest protesters and curb academic freedoms, more American Jews are saying ânot in my nameâ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/31/jewish-americans-antisemitism-gaza-trump
7 months ago
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ACLU
7 months ago
BREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit. We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.
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Breaking: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan was placed on administrative leave following reports of sexual abuse and retaliation by
@dropsitenews.com
and WSJ. Earlier this week, the President of ASP, which oversees the court, called on Khan to resign, but he declined.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/karim-khan...
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âHiding Behind Atrocitiesâ
As Prosecutor Karim Khan seeks a flurry of arrest warrants, ICC staff accuse him of using court cases to dodge sexual abuse allegations.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/karim-khan-abuse-allegations-icc-israel-warrants
7 months ago
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Breaking: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan was placed on administrative leave following reports of sexual abuse and retaliation by
@dropsitenews.com
and WSJ. Earlier this week, the President of ASP, which oversees the court, called on Khan to resign, but he declined. Read our story here âŹď¸
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âHiding Behind Atrocitiesâ
As Prosecutor Karim Khan seeks a flurry of arrest warrants, ICC staff accuse him of using court cases to dodge sexual abuse allegations.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/karim-khan-abuse-allegations-icc-israel-warrants
7 months ago
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âHiding Behind Atrocitiesâ The ICC prosecutor's handling of serious sexual abuse allegations has plunged the court into a deep crisis at one of the most vulnerable moments in its history. My investigation, for
@dropsitenews.com
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âHiding Behind Atrocitiesâ
As Prosecutor Karim Khan seeks a flurry of arrest warrants, ICC staff accuse him of using court cases to dodge sexual abuse allegations.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/karim-khan-abuse-allegations-icc-israel-warrants?r=dfokv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
8 months ago
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10 months ago
Must read by
@alicesperi.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
about organized attacks on faculty research.
@bletiecq.bsky.social
quoted: âWe are totally under attack...weâre like sitting ducks.â We need strength and solidarity. Keep doing the good work, and fight back.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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âWeâre like sitting ducksâ: the rightâs âwar on wokeâ has a well-tested playbook to take down academics
The campaign against Claudine Gay, Harvardâs first Black president, has become a blueprint increasingly wielded against women and scholars of color
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/chris-rufo-jo-boaler-academics-woke
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Exclusive: Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal. New from me, for
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal
Exclusive: records show evacuees with pending applications to enter US âforced to remain in limboâ in at least 36 countries, some in âuntenable conditionsâ
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/14/evacuees-us-withdrawal-afghanistan
12 months ago
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about 1 year ago
My take on all the Trump genuflection: Once you have convinced yourself you can stay silent on a genocide unfolding live on your phone, you can stay silent/make peace with pretty much anything. Israel has blown a massive hole in our moral universe and now pretty anything can drive through it.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Guardian US
about 1 year ago
A pair of reports published this month mark a significant contribution to the raging debate over how to characterize a war that has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians and decimated Gaza. But the reports are unlikely to quell deep divisions in the academic field of Holocaust and genocide studies.
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Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars
New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israelâs offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/genocide-definition-mass-violence-scholars-gaza?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=us_bsky
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What is genocide studies for? Or as a student put it, "Do you only study genocide or do you also want to prevent it?" My latest for The Guardian, on a field in crisis.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars
New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israelâs offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/genocide-definition-mass-violence-scholars-gaza
about 1 year ago
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Boyd van Dijk
about 1 year ago
âFor a lot of colleagues it's very difficult to accept that a nation of victims could commit genocide,â says
@uungor.bsky.social
. âBut now that Israel is doing the killing, all of a sudden weâre not supposed to apply everything we learned about violence?â
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars
New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israelâs offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/genocide-definition-mass-violence-scholars-gaza
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@theguardian.com
I wrote about how Gaza has split the academic field of genocide studies. As one scholar put it, âWhere can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?â My latest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars
New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israelâs offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/genocide-definition-mass-violence-scholars-gaza
about 1 year ago
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PEN America
about 1 year ago
In The Guardian,
@alicesperi.bsky.social
reports on Trump's planned attack on DEI policies. Fear of future repercussions has prompted some campus leaders to cut back on DEI initiativesâeven where no laws have been passed, notes
@jeremycyoung.bsky.social
.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Trump promises a crackdown on diversity initiatives. Fearful institutions are dialing them back already
As the president-elect and his allies plan a multi-pronged attack on DEI policies, companies and campuses are complying with threats even though they donât have to
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/05/trump-dei-initiatives-colleges
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)
about 1 year ago
âWhere life is precious, life is precious.â - Ruth Wilson Gilmore And where itâs not, itâs not. The for-profit health care industry profits off denying care. Across the industry 1 in 7 claims are denied. Our job isnât to debate a murder, itâs to create a system where life is precious. My latest:
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What's a life worth?
On the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson
https://www.jphilll.com/p/whats-a-life-worth
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âA university that doesnât have a new building is still a university, itâs just a poor university. A university that has lawmakers banning ideas and restricting the actions of the administration is really not a university at all.â
@jeremycyoung.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Trump promises a crackdown on diversity initiatives. Fearful institutions are dialing them back already
As the president-elect and his allies plan a multi-pronged attack on DEI policies, companies and campuses are complying with threats even though they donât have to
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/05/trump-dei-initiatives-colleges
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
"What [college presidents] need to do is find a backbone, and I say that with a lot of understanding and empathy for the situation theyâre in." I talk to
@alicesperi.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
re: colleges voluntarily closing DEI offices to appease politicians.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Trump promises a crackdown on diversity initiatives. Fearful institutions are dialing them back already
As the president-elect and his allies plan a multi-pronged attack on DEI policies, companies and campuses are complying with threats even though they donât have to
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/05/trump-dei-initiatives-colleges
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Trump promises a crackdown on diversity initiatives. Fearful institutions are dialing them back already. My latest
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Trump promises a crackdown on diversity initiatives. Fearful institutions are dialing them back already
As the president-elect and his allies plan a multi-pronged attack on DEI policies, companies and campuses are complying with threats even though they donât have to
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/05/trump-dei-initiatives-colleges
about 1 year ago
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âIt is a very scary time for universities. But universities have to continue to preserve academic freedom and the right to learn â those are critical to them fulfilling their mission.â My latest
@al-jazeera-english.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
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US universities brace for education policies overhaul under Trump
School initiatives focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion are likely to be first on the chopping block.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/24/us-universities-brace-for-education-policies-overhaul-under-trump
about 1 year ago
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Free speech advocates expect the IHRA definition of antisemitism to be âused as a sledgehammerâ in the incoming administrationâs attacks on pro-Palestine activism. New from me.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Trump likely to use antisemitism claims to launch crackdown on US universities
Schools brace for cuts and investigations as the president-elect and his advisers make them a prime target of their âanti-wokeâ crusade
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/18/trump-universities-antisemitism
about 1 year ago
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@alicesperi.bsky.social
and I recently had the chance to delve into the ties of law enforcement to the January 6th insurrection through an investigation into the Fontana Police Department, where we heard rare testimony from former officers about their experience with racism:
youtu.be/aIaQVFyStQk?...
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Fontana PD: Hate Within the Ranks
YouTube video by The Intercept
https://youtu.be/aIaQVFyStQk?si=oZUoJejhZgQOTR1p
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âI expect that we will see people who try to salvage their reputations and say, âWe were doing what we could on the inside.â But I think the evidence is clear that the US had massive leverage that it did not use.â
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
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Biden is a âlame duckâ president â but can he still put pressure on Israel?
The Biden administration has shown no willingness to change course on Israel. It is running out of time to do so.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/13/biden-is-a-lame-duck-president-but-can-he-still-put-pressure-on-israel
about 1 year ago
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"A lot of senior administration officials need to start really thinking hard about their legacy. While it is too late for tens of thousands in Gaza, I think there are still some opportunities there to salvage something."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
about 1 year ago
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Disillusioned members of the US military have turned to a Vietnam war-era policy to terminate their service because of their opposition to US support for Israel. I wrote about the US military officers filing for conscientious objector status over Gaza.
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âI had to get outâ: the US military officers filing for conscientious objector status over Gaza
Disillusioned members of the US military have turned to Vietnam war-era policy to terminate their service because of religious or moral convictions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/military-officers-conscientious-objector-status-gaza
about 1 year ago
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The Biden administration has shown no willingness to change course on Israel. It is running out of time to do so. My latest
@aljazeera.com
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
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Biden is a âlame duckâ president â but can he still put pressure on Israel?
The Biden administration has shown no willingness to change course on Israel. It is running out of time to do so.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/13/biden-is-a-lame-duck-president-but-can-he-still-put-pressure-on-israel
about 1 year ago
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Hello my friends, I guess we're doing this!
about 1 year ago
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