Thank you to everyone who has read and shared our story about the allegations the President of the #EAA supported a campaign pressuring the Executive Board to reverse its Gaza vote. There is now a #WatchingBrief video with a discussion putting the story in context. Please Like Share and Subscribe.

A reputation in ruins? Some would sooner sacrifice institutional reputations, careers, colleagues’ free will and mental health, democracy…all to enable Israel to continue their unabated slaughter of Palestinian men, women and children. What a hill to die on, what a thing to be remembered for.

This is more than distressing. Unless there is full accountability, I do not see how the EAA can continue in its present form.

This is shocking and concerning for the EAA and its membership. As a signatory of the open letter asking the EAA to act responsibly and ethically, the way @archagainstaparth.bsky.social and EAA members were treated is appalling. More thoughts later.

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/17/h... #archaeology #🏺

On Israeli archaeological malpractice, heritage crimes, and US complicity #archaeology #🏺

Israeli strikes damage Yemen’s national museum! #🏺#archaeology www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/15/y...

The program for the upcoming hybrid workshop on Endangered Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine is now out! I cannot overstate how much I am looking forward to this important event everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...

🚨 IOF plans to bomb the archaeological magasins of @ebafjerusalem.bsky.social! Huge respect for + immense solidarity w all the 🇵🇸 colleagues risking their lives on the daily to save what remains of their archaeological heritage from 🇮🇱 rampage & theft www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I have a new article out today in Public Humanities, where I try to find some words for how historicide is (and has always been) a project of European colonialism - and I try to find some words for the historians who continue to support it. 🇵🇸✊🏻 Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Important book on Gaza from SOAS @soasuni.bsky.social colleague Dina Matar, scheduled for publication by Saqi Books in November: Archiving Gaza in the Present Art, Memory and Erasure Edited by Dina Matar and Venetia Porter saqibooks.com/books/saqi/a...

Report from @theguardian.com on the IOF's plan to bomb decades of finds in Jerusalem's French Biblical and Archaeological School. Immense solidarity with all our Palestinian colleagues risking their lives daily to save heritage in Gaza, and all of Palestine. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

À Gaza, évacuation en urgence du dépôt archéologique de l’EBAF La veille, la tour de 13 étages, où sont stockés les 180m3 d’objets et d’histoire a reçu un ordre d’évacuation avant bombardement. #🏺 www.terresainte.net/2025/09/a-ga...

In Gaza, Emergency Evacuation of the EBAF Archaeological Repository The day before, the 13-story tower, where 180 cubic meters of artifacts and history are stored, received an evacuation order prior to bombing #archaeology #🏺 www.terresainte.net/2025/09/a-ga...

ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ New form to sign the petition for a Special Meeting of the EAA (to discuss the genocide in Gaza and the handling of the situation by the Executive Board). Previous one was reported and taken down by Google for "violating its terms". Wonder who reported it?🤔 #eaa2025

And here's the new one: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ . Please keep sharing, we're *super* close now!

EAA members. The new form is here: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ Sign and share to annoy a fascist today! #eaa2025

Thanks to colleagues in Spain who, following the EAA AGM last week, have taken the lead in calling for a special meeting - open to all EAA members to sign if they so wish ⬇️

After the disaster that was the EAA AGM, the contact info for the board is no longer on the website. If needed: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

We are starting to move an initiative from concerned EAA members, mainly from Spain… if you are/were and are interested to support it, sign and share! forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...

🏺 Seeing some folks looking to drop their #EAA membership following the truly deplorable way #EAA2025 has been handled and just want to suggest that perhaps some (or all, if you’re able!) of the money you might have spent on upcoming fees could be donated to a Palestinian fundraiser!

EAA members: 305 signatures needed on this. The aim of the meeting is to discuss again the genocide in Gaza, and the handling of the situation by the Exec. Board. Now is the time to make our voices heard. Deadline = end Sept, but don’t delay, sign & share now #eaa2025 #🏺 forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...

L’European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) traverse une crise après un revirement de dernière minute sur la participation de délégués affiliés à des institutions israéliennes. @blacktrowel.bsky.social @archagainstaparth.bsky.social thepipeline.info/blog/2025/09...

Any help sharing this much appreciated! ✊🏼 @archagainstaparth.bsky.social @a-rfa.bsky.social @blacktrowel.bsky.social @watchingbrief.bsky.social

Response from the BDS-movement (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) on the EAA. If you are a member, go to the AMBM today and voice your opinion!

Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences. aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site

I've just resigned from the EAA. Sad to leave an organisation I have been part of for decades, but collaboration with genocide is unthinkable. #stopthegenocide #stopapartheid @archagainstaparth.bsky.social

🚨An asbolute disgrace on the part of the EAA! "Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity" cc @archagainstaparth.bsky.social blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

Given the EAA has gone back on excluding Israeli institutions from the conference - and is also trying to prevent @archagainstaparth.bsky.social from protesting in their sessions - it’s time to walk away until they can find their moral compass. blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

The @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social is suspending constitutional cooperation with Israel until further notice. Campaigning works. More action needs to follow but this is an important step 🍉 @archagainstaparth.bsky.social

www.facebook.com/share/p/1E7c... #eaa2025 #archaeology #🏺

Did you know the 🇨🇦 embassy in Tel Aviv is working to "strengthen ties" w genocidal 🇮🇱's academia? 🩸🎓 "The meeting discussed the renewal of the cooperation agreement btw the 🇮🇱 National Academy of Sciences & the Royal Society of 🇨🇦 & strengthening ties btw the young academies"

Keep your eyes open for the next campaign, as together we continue to hold our representative organisations to account. In the meantime, the open letter to EAA will be open for continued registration of support. #boycottisrael #archaeology #🏺#eaa2025

I've signed this - it's imperative that archaeologists challenge the uses of the past to justify and perpetuate genocide, and to apply our reseasrch and teaching expertise to critique, investigate and challenge those conducting genocide.

The department of Antiquity, Religion and Classics at the U. of Ottawa is granting this genocide denier a platform in 2025, a year we've seen Israel continue to starve + slaughter Gazans by the hundreds, daily, and genocide experts and Israeli human rights orgs alike have all declared it to be one.

We are honored to have the endorsement of Professor Mahmoud Hawari of Bethlehem University, Palestine, for the Archaeologists Against Apartheid campaign in support of the Palestinian people. forms.gle/m8De7pW2oG4K... #archaeology #eaa2025 #🏺

Sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thank you for circulating our open letter. Your cooperation is much appreciated 🙏 #archaeology #🏺 #eaa2025

Professor John Waddell, from the University of Galway, Ireland, has endorsed the Archaeologists Against Apartheid campaign in support of the Palestinian people. forms.gle/RdnXZK93iANv... #archaeology #eaa2025

WE HAVE PASSED 1000 SIGNATURES! We are extending the deadline, to give all who want to join this movement the chance to add their signature. Please do sign and share, archaeologists can and should take a stand and make a difference! #🏺 #eaa2025 #archaeology

I am absolutely thrilled to announce the upcoming international workshop Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving & Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan & Palestine. Oct.31-Nov.1 AUC Tahrir, Cairo + on zoom. Join us! Details + rsvp here: shorturl.at/bnrIZ

Prof. Roberto Macchiarelli has endorsed the AAA campaign in support of the Palestinian people. Prof. Macchiarelli is a renowned palaeoanthropologist, recognized for his research on Pleistocene health and human evolution…https://forms.gle/YkcYuikrqh1DqscR6 #🏺 #eaa2025 #archéologie

Thank you all for showing that archaeologists stand with Palestine. With just 1 day left, we ask you to continue to sign, share & talk about the open letter to @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social demanding they do the right & principled thing: #boycottisrael forms.gle/YkcYuikrqh1D... #archaeology #🏺#eaa2025

La carta abierta ahora también en español! drive.google.com/file/d/1f37G... Para firmarla: forms.gle/PzQPDP1FRyEd... #arqueología #🏺 #eaa2025

Dr Anna Revedin, former Director of the Italian Institute of Prehistory and Protohistory, has endorsed the Archaeologists Against Apartheid campaign in support of the Palestinian people. #archaeology #🏺 #archaeology🏺 #eaa #archeologia

A an exhibition in Paris telling the story of Gaza, part of Palestine. Hopefully these artefacts can one day return there, to a museum in a safe, peaceful nation free from occupation🏺 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Israel has signed the Hague Convention of 1954. Yet its Antiquities Dept was allowed to illegally excavate a major Dier el-Balah, Gaza occupation site between 1972 and 1985 youtu.be/alb0mGJNJ9o?... The sarcophagi found are now on show in the entrance hall of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.