Wonder what Archaeologists and Antiquity Scholars did (or not) about Palestine in 2025? Here's a 80-item timeline! everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a...

www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n... #savesebastia

"You Know Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. Now Meet the Dangerous Israeli Minister You've Never Heard Of" Amichai Eliyahu is helping lead one aspect of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign: the stealing of Palestinian land for “archeological” reasons. By @dianabuttu.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/heritage-m...

zeteo.com/p/heritage-m... #savesebastia #archaeology #🏺

Shai recently advertised an upcoming conference about "Jerusalem and Samaria" that he co-organizes w Christian Zionists from the US. This archaeology-washing by grifters cosplaying as scholars aims to legitimize the illegal theft of E Jerusalem and Sebastia by 🇮🇱 bsky.app/profile/isis...

Illegal settler Aharon Tavger, who is seen on the cover of @archagainstaparth.bsky.social's post rocking a machine gun in front of vandalized ruins at Sebastia, was also at ASOR. Affiliation: "Civil Administration of Judea & Samaria" 🤡 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/i...

ASOR also hosted the directors of the illegal excavations at Silwan, East Jerusalem (called “City of David” by Zionists): Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv U) and Yiftah Shalev (🇮🇱 Antiquities Authority). ASOR's President even took a pic w Shalev at the banquet👇 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/a...

Did you know that 115 of the speakers and poster authors at ASOR's 2025 annual meeting were affiliated with Israeli institutions? More fun stats here 👇 #boycottasor everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/.../archaeol...

For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE – Spectre Journal spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur... #boycottuae

The campaign calls on scholars and artists to refuse Emirati funding and partnerships, demands divestment and full financial transparency, and urges a sustained boycott until the UAE ends its patronage of the RSF and its role in Sudan’s mass killings.

The letter asserts that Emirati academic & cultural institutions, alongside Western universities that accept Emirati funding, are being used to whitewash genocidal violence & suppress criticism. It names major recipients of UAE money, including NYU, Harvard, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, & UC Berkeley...

Organized by TAGATU3, the Sudanese-led boycott movement, the campaign accuses the UAE of creating, funding, and prolonging the war since April 2023 by backing the Rapid Support Forces, whose campaign of massacres, ethnic cleansing, and mass displacement has devastated Darfur and other regions.

🇸🇩 More than 500 academics & cultural workers have signed an open letter calling for a global academic and cultural boycott of institutions based in or funded by the United Arab Emirates over its role in Sudan’s war. Signatories include Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore... More 👇🧵

🚨ARCHAEOLOGY X ETHNIC CLEANSING: More illegal initiatives from ASOR's friends at illegal-settlement-based ArielU. Make no mistake: This conference aims to justify Israel's theft of East Jerusalem & Sebastia. It was advertised recently by one of the ASOR 2025 speakers featured in yesterday's EO post👇

everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/a... #archaeology #🏺 #boycottasor #savesebastia

The post above was written as a complement to the @archagainstaparth.bsky.social guest post we published yesterday bsky.app/profile/isis...

What can ASOR’s recent annual meeting tell us regarding its Zionist, and anti-Palestinian, agenda? To answer this question, I did one of the things I love doing: I dissected the program and crunched data. Here are some key findings. everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/a...

everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/i... #🏺 #archaeology #boycottasor

The Magdala Stone was excavated in the area of the Palestinian village of al-Majdal, which was ethnically cleansed during the Nakba Today, only ruins and an old shrine of Muhammad al-’Ajami remain. Pic credit + more info: www.palquest.org/en/place/168...

A year ago, @infinitejaz.bsky.social wrote this piece on Sebastia. A year later, NOTHING was done by international archaeological organizations. see @archagainstaparth.bsky.social for more details www.thedriftmag.com/in-ruins/

More on those who wish to steal and ethnically cleanse the West Bank village of Sebastia. bsky.app/profile/isis...

And let us not forget that ASOR has funded scholars from Ariel U + welcomed them at their congress as early as a few weeks ago. Here is one of them, a IOF soldier who we see posing w fellow Zionist thieves in Sebastia (note the graffito) bsky.app/profile/isis...

ASOR is complicit in the ongoing seizure of the West Bank village+site of Sebastia by the IOF. Why? Well, let's start w their 2023 tour of Israel and Palestine that included a visit of Sebastia, which they also call "Samaria" in their prospectus, led by an ArielU alumnus bsky.app/profile/isis...

🚨 ISRAEL STEALING ANOTHER PALESTINIAN SITE! Academics: Now's the time to pressure your associations to step + speak up! (looking at you, @scsclassics.bsky.social + @archaeological.org members who are meeting in San Fran soon). You can follow @savesebastia on ig www.youtube.com/shorts/WsstY...

🚨Israel wants to steal the archaeological site of Sebastia: Here’s what you can do about it by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/i...

🚨AUB's Archaeological Museum is censoring comments pointing to the Zionist complicity of @asor-research.bsky.social w 🇮🇱 apartheid & lamenting the obscene coloniality of this talk 👇 Comment on their and AUB's ig if you too think it is more than time to #BOYCOTTASOR cc @archagainstaparth.bsky.social

Source: Hussein Shejaeya's (@shejae3a) 's ig story www.instagram.com/stories/shej...

🚨IOF STEALING HERITAGE The IOF stormed the town of Al-Maza'a Al-Sharqiyah in the West Bank and stole an ancient column from it! Does the leadership of @asor-research.bsky.social - who had no problem hosting and partying with many 🇮🇱 archaeologists at their congress 2 weeks ago - have anything to say?

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47046 #🏺 @historians.org

🚫Academic censorship on Palestine : A recent story Last spring a colleague and I were approached by the editor of a 🇺🇸 academic journal who wanted us to write a piece on our Orientalism course for a special issue. 1/

NEW The discussion on #decolonisation is now mainstream, but it is the product of decades of social movements. The latest #AntiquityDebate explores the real, structural changes needed to begin building a decolonial #archaeology 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @yannisham.bsky.social

As 2025 comes to an end, we are reflecting on almost a year of organising as archaeologists of conscience, holding our representative organisations to account in the face of their negligence, silence and complicity. drive.google.com/file/d/1QPy8...

On the Zionist State's theft, and historically bankrupt weaponization of, Sebastia'a land and histories, see this piece by @infinitejaz.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/in-ruins/

Speaking fo Sebastia: Here is a graduate from ArielU - a university located in an illegal settlement which was represented at ASOR last weekend - posing in front of remains from the site. Note the modern graffito. Talk about professionalism 🤡 2/ bsky.app/profile/isis...

Just as ASOR's conference ends, Israel goes ahead with its plan to steal yet more Palestinian heritage: The site of Sebastia 1/

KONSYSE: Israeli authorities have advanced a plan to seize about 1800 dunams of land around the Sebastia archaeological zone. Thousands of olive trees and land privately owned by Palestinians may be affected.

Israel to seize 180 hectares near Bronze Age heritage site in West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-seize-1800-dunams-near-west-bank-heritage-site

thearabdailynews.com/2025/11/19/i... #🏺

See our full statement on how @asor-research.bsky.social continues to flout international law, platforming and legitimizing Israeli archaeologists knowingly participating in war crimes. drive.google.com/file/d/1id36... #asor2025

I have a lot more specific feelings about this, but I think it's better to talk about how things like this don't strike many people in academia as sensitive subjects because their backgrounds are so secure, and they've never had to consider issues of this nature.

When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.

🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...

Gaza’s historical and cultural heritage has not been spared Israeli bombardment during Tel Aviv’s two-year war, with over 20,000 rare artifacts spanning from prehistoric eras to the Ottoman period missing and looted, Anadolu reports. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251117-isr...

x.com/vocalpolitic... @vocalpolitics.bsky.social #🏺

More Israeli theft of archaeological artefacts from Gaza #🏺

Don’t ever quote “academic freedom” in response to the the academic boycott of Israel. There is no academic freedom wherever the long arm of Zionist pressure reaches.

Full program of the canceled conference here. There is absolutely nothing problematic in there. But as Patrick Wolfe shows, Zionism requires the "elimination of the native" not only in the present, but also in the past 2/ www.college-de-france.fr/sites/defaul...

🚨The @college-de-france.fr just canceled a conference on Palestinien history organized by one of its faculty. Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/