Birzeit University affirms that education will remain an act of anti-colonial resistance, and that the University will continue to be a space for knowledge and freedom, despite all attempts at repression and aggression. www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...

Every single professor or instructor of record or TA in higher education needs to start handing out way more 0s when students bullshit their way through an assignment. The "you get 50% for turning something in" asinine standard enables fascism. Do it for Mel, & for all our sake

Join us for the People's Special Meeting to discuss what BDS and solidarity should look like in the AAG!

What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG? Our archival research has shown that member-driven political activity has been common in AAG's history, including struggles around the Equal Rights Amendment; the US funding of contras in Nicaragua; and nuclear proliferation and war.

How have geographers, geography departments, and geographic thought been affected by Israel?

I’ll be moderating!

Re-appearing to ask a niche question: in 2015 Sara Ahmed wrote "Against Students," in which the "complaining" or "censorious" student was mostly left-wing/feminist. But now the largest % of student complaints are "against woke" -- any reading recs on that? thenewinquiry.com/against-stud...

5th ISA Forum of Sociology is right around the corner - If you are in Rabat, join us and follow our activities during the Forum through this link: drive.proton.me/urls/S4H3ZHN...

The other week I found myself telling my students Capital Vol 1 starts at the end but ends at the beginning, and using sweaters/"the sweaterizer" machine as my commodity metaphor. That's all Jclo. He lives on in many ways big & small but, I'll hold this small one with particular fondness.

Can’t stop won’t stop If you’re a paid up AAG member and haven’t signed, DM me for the petition!

Had a heartening time at #AAG2025 especially organizing with @geogboycott.bsky.social — an antidote to despair in these times! Worth it to come home to 40+ ungraded midterms…

@geographers.bsky.social join us tomorrow (Tue) 8:30 am for Decolonial Methodologies from Palestine to the Americas. 3 incredible Palestinian political ecologists in convo with decolonial and Indigenous geographers of North & South America. Hybrid! Check the app for location & Zoom. #AAG2025

I’m en route to Detroit for #AAG2025 and we have our first two pieces in our new ongoing series on Mapping Palestine up at @jadaliyya.bsky.social ! @geographers.bsky.social www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46572

Mark your calendars for the 2025 Unruly Natures Party @geographers.bsky.social!

In addition to the seven "Dismantling the Palestine Exception" sessions we've organized at the AAG, we have also collected a list of related plenaries, panels, and paper sessions on Palestinian geographies. These are now available at geog4pal.org/aag/related-...

Really exciting to have helped with this. We have a long way to go still and need all hands on deck! If you are a geographer please sign; if you are coming to AAG in Detroit sign up for our pre conference happening March 23!

Israel is continuing an offensive on the West Bank city of Jenin that analysts say is meant to appease the settler movement as it pushes the government to exert more control over the occupied territory in preparation for annexation. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/jenin-is-only-the-beginning-israel…

“What do you do with the clothes your wife was wearing when she was killed, now stained with her blood? How do you preserve them as evidence for an investigation that may never happen?” A painful opinion piece by Hamid Ali, widower of Ayşenur thehill.com/opinion/inte...

@jadaliyya.bsky.social: Lebanese agriculture has suffered under Israeli bombardment. Learn how you can support mutual aid efforts in Lebanon which center food & resistance #lebanon #menasky #geosky #climatesky

Powerful & heartbreaking piece from @lukewcarneal.bsky.social -- Israel assassinated Youssef Abu Rabie literally as we were editing it. Please read about the challenges & hope of farming in Gaza in a genocide @jadaliyya.bsky.social www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46334 #menasky #palestine #geosky

Hi #geosky #climatesky (is that still how things go) apply to be my colleague in Environmental Studies, sister department to mine! careers.humboldt.edu/hm/en-us/job...

#geosky I am teaching the undergraduate senior capstone for geography majors in the spring for the first time. Recs of your favorite readings or activities to teach methods to undergrads (especially decolonial, Indigenous, feminist geo methods)?

Unfortunately this post is evergreen

Filed! #geosky #menasky

The Harvard Law Review was supposed to run a piece by Palestinian lawyer Rabea Eghbariah about the war on Gaza. But HLR leadership took the unprecedented step of blocking its publication. Today, @thenation.com is sharing the piece the HLR didn't want you to read. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

Very important event that should be on people's radars arabcenterdc.org/event/the-wa...

Mom come pick me up leftists are doing racial science on the MENA again

Please someone tell the Zoomers to stop with this weird Starbucks/McDonald's boycott!! They could be using this energy to shut down weapons companies and instead this is what they're told is political action 😩 I can only reply to so many tweets with the bad "endless" boycott list

Oct 17 2013 was my first JVP meeting. I already knew anti-Zionist Jews as I had been organizing in SJP and in Palestine for 2 years, but it was my first time in a Jewish solidarity space. We met at a church in Sunnyvale. Maybe 5 people. Tonight 250 people at Shabbat at Lake Merritt.

A Virtual Special Issue of Politics & Space ( t.co/tBto4VKM9k ) on Critical Political Geographies of Palestine/Israel, published in the face of the current horror, containing papers since 2019, now made free-to-access. t.co/xMRzlfRvfV

Of course ceasefire now is insufficient. Slow death returns when fast death disappears from the headlines. But the criticism of it seems to think the call came out of nowhere and not from Palestinians in Gaza fighting for survival —and Palestinian survival is always a form of resistance

need to learn how to say “may your house be covered with tumbleweeds” in Yiddish

As a geographer it feels real weird when even sympathetic people talk about solidarity with Gaza or end the war on Gaza and not Palestine. Especially when attacks on Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line intensify #geosky #menasky

I’ve now seen multiple protests with signs that flips the old Zionist slogan “If Palestinians stopped fighting there would be peace; if Israel stopped fighting there would be no more Israel.” Anyone know where or when the slogan got swapped? #menasky

In the midst of all this did anyone notice Chloe Valdary rebranded herself at some point as a wellness/mindfulness grifter with Christian overtones???

I remember the first time I realized the IDF spokesman would lie (2010 Freedom Flotilla). I remember the children of Gaza I have cried for over a decade. It feels like we've gotten nowhere, that it blurs together. But I cannot let myself abstract -- every life stolen is its own life, its own world.

Spoke to 250 people via Zoom at my new university yesterday, a former prof joined from Palestine to talk about what she's facing. I talked about Zionism's reliance on antisemitism and writing Jewish history otherwise. Got a praising email from the dean today. Holding out hope for stopping genocide

In more powerful news, we recorded Dr. Munira Khayyat’s powerful and gut wrenching talk on the resistant ecologies of war in south Lebanon. “War is a place people live and also where they die.” #geosky #menasky

The amount of Jewish men out here I want to shake and say stop crying get to work!! People are dying!! You’re the critical theory equivalent of Woody Allen all of you I simply cannot

Everything that felt big and important on Friday literally feels so meaningless now. I'm terrified of waking up to even more massacres in Gaza. I'm terrified of when this will reach my friends in Jenin and Jerusalem. I'm very, very tired.

Having a son makes me even more aware of the dead end that is the “women/children/elderly” framework of innocence. This so called feminist preoccupation with sexual violence against women as the ultimate immorality. It cheapens life and dehumanizes.

MULTIPLE people posting “if Native Americans rose up I would totally embrace them k*lling me” is a level of discourse absolutely no one asked for, not the least any Indigenous person anywhere. I need to log off

Trying to moral relativize out of settler complicity in US genocide might be what breaks me. Spitting in the face of decades of Palestinian-Indigenous solidarity for internet gotcha points. Brain worms, all of them

I see people are literally using the “US settler colonialism is older so we are less complicit than Israelis who are uniquely evil settlers” on the other app and to that I ask have you ever considered just not?? And shutting up??

Some friend to Palestinians you are if you only support Palestine when you can find a way to justify every action taken during resistance. If Jenin taught me anything it’s that sometimes you have to sit with the horror and not always try to make it morally “deserved”

It’s getting to me that people feel the need to fight Zionism on its own false moral ground, that of the “just war.” The colonized’s right to resist doesn’t mean perfect victimhood or ethical behavior every time! You don’t have to square that circle!! And it’s often worse if you do tbh!

I keep going back to the bulldozer tearing down the fence imprisoning Gaza. I think about how my friends in Jenin, Kufr Dan, Silat al-Harthiya know bulldozers too well as weapons of destroying their livelihoods, homes, lives. I will ask them tomorrow how they feel when they saw it freeing prisoners.

Fleet Week is always disgusting but it is particularly stomach churning to be refreshing the news of the bombardment of Gaza and see the same model jets showing off overhead. To the end of empire here and in Palestine

Got to speak briefly with a friend in Jenin and she captured the same mix of tentative hope and visceral fear I felt when I woke up at midnight to the news. The sounds of planes over Jenin are terrifying she said. But “Freedom needs sacrifices” she says.