Pro-democracy Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was released from prison late Monday after being granted a presidential pardon.

Charlie Kirk’s shocking killing sets the stage for a federal crackdown | Moustafa Bayoumi

RFK Jr’s anti-science agenda will be catastrophic for the United States | Moustafa Bayoumi

RFK Jr’s anti-science agenda will be catastrophic for the United States www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Moustafa Bayoumi says, "The difference between not believing the lies and believing in the truth may sound slight, but it’s exactly in that distinction where some people are allowed to live and others must die." Holding onto truth matters. No pay wall. tinyurl.com/y7ae3vme

Trump’s Washington DC takeover is straight out of a fascist playbook| Moustafa Bayoumi

Consider the new wave of (slight) global pressure being placed on Israel, it's worth recalling what Henry Kissinger said in 1976: "Israel has no foreign policy, only domestic politics.”

Charting a lineage from his own institutional battles to his posthumous life as a lodestar for today's campus insurgents, this conversation profiles Edward Said as the intellectual who ruptured the American consensus on Palestine. With @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social et al.

No one exposes the corrosive absurdity of Columbia University capitulating to Trump better than @jamesschamus.bsky.social This letter is pitch-perfect: lithub.com/where-is-my-...

The NPR show Throughline interviewed Mariam Said, Tim Brennan, and me for an hour-long episode on Edward Said. You can listen to it here: www.npr.org/2025/07/17/1...

The way the UK government has labelled protesters to defend now forbidden Palestine Action terrorists is yet another example of @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social point that Israel's actions in #Gaza and many governments defence of this, is tearing democracies apart bsky.app/profile/geor...

Fantastic piece by @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Great piece by @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social. #Gaza #Palestine #Israel "If there’s a glimmer of hope in all this rage-inducing misery, it can be found in the growing number of people around the world who refuse to be intimidated into silence." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"This is a form of total war the modern world should never see, let alone condone. No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us...." Thank you @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social

It’s really good and really powerful, thank you for that. The UK is going down a similarly dark path when it comes to protesting about Gaza and I hope they won’t succeed.

This @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social piece is spot on. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

important essay by the inimitable @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social :

I’ve written a long-ish article on how the destruction of Palestine is breaking our world.

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi

From now on, if we still talk about him, we should call him Amdrew Cuono.

Trump’s coalition is self-destructing over the Iran war question | Moustafa Bayoumi

"The Israeli prime minister’s lust for war as a solution to his myriad problems is nothing short of a threat to us all," writes author and professor Moustafa Bayoumi.

"What makes these times abnormal is the administration’s deliberate escalation of the violence, a naked attempt to ratchet up conflict to justify the imposition of greater force and repression over the American people," writes author and professor Moustafa Bayoumi.

Trump is deliberately ratcheting up violence in Los Angeles | Moustafa Bayoumi

The Israeli embassy shooting was a stupid and horrific attack | Moustafa Bayoumi

This brazen act of political violence in the heart of the nation’s capital only underscores the obvious: all this violence – whether it’s in Wash DC, Gaza, Jenin or Israel, by bullet, bomb or forced starvation – all of it must end, and it must end immediately. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This guy is a doctor who entered Gaza today with Israeli forces. Here’s what he tweeted today:

In their rush to implement a barely concealed authoritarian agenda, this administration is producing a litany of blunders, gaffes and slip-ups. I call it “rule by error.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Mahmoud Khalil is clearly a remarkable, principled man. He doesn’t deserve this unjust detention the US government is subjecting him to. The irony is that this United States doesn’t deserve a Mahmoud Khalil.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Outrageous but not unexpected, since immigration judges serve at the pleasure of the Department of Justice (the executive branch) and not the federal judicial branch. The fight for justice and freedom of expression will carry on.

I have obtained a new transcript of the Signal conversation between high-level government officials and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg and am publishing it here in full in the public interest. moustafabayoumi.com/exclusive-ne...

Beginning to think AI is running Columbia University

The truth is that the Democrats won’t have a future in the USA until they stand against genocide

Another academic is detained by the Trump administration for his freedom of thought and expression.

BREAKING: The Southern District Court of New York ruled that the case challenging ICE’s unlawful detention of Mahmoud Khalil should be transferred to New Jersey. The Trump administration had sought to move the case to Louisiana.

Dr Rasha Alawieh, a Brown U asst prof of medicine, was deported to Lebanon last night, as ordered by Trump officials *despite having a valid H1B visa!* A federal judge issued a court order forbidding her immediate removal. The government did it anyway. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

Ha! Great story about the rise and fall of strawberry perfection and corrupted empires, by @loisbeckett.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...

In what must be an act of resistance, Mahmoud Khalil *refused to sign* his “Notice to Appear” (the first step in a deportation proceeding)

Mahmoud Khalil’s treatment should not happen in a democracy | Moustafa Bayoumi

"For each minute that Khalil is held in detention, every one of us should feel like our own individual rights in this country are being shredded." I wrote about the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil for The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The era of the federal gov arresting us for our opinions is now here. We cannot let this stand. BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detain...

The opposition: paddles with words. Decorum seems more important than democracy to the Democrats.

"The days of rule of unelected bureaucrats are over," says Trump. So...Elon is gone?

“The decision will eliminate jobs for 166 Defense Department employees.” It will , incidentally, also potentially kill thousands upon thousands of innocent people

As the postwar liberal order unravels, new arrangements will be necessary | Moustafa Bayoumi

Ukraine and Gaza are connected. Here, I explain why. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m literally in tears right now www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Thrilled to host @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social on campus today for a talk “Dawn’s Early Light or Twilight’s Last Gleaming?: How the Fight for Palestine is Changing America” Last night was probably the first time in my life I went to bed hoping NOT to wake up to a snow day.

This reminds me of John Ashcroft’s daily announcement of number of arrests after 9/11. Triggering and disturbing.