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Anthropologist | Assoc. Professor | Author, My Brother, My Land (Silver medal IPPY Award); War is Coming | Tweets self destruct

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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
1 year
We have a cover! 😍 And I can finally announce that my book #MyBrother_MyLand with @SireenSawalha will be out in the world March 2024. For now, I hope you enjoy the cover. Watch this space for more details on pre-ordering.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
11 months
This is the first time in the history of this struggle that Palestinians have retaken a town from settlers, even if for a brief moment and even if they don't ultimately hold onto it. This is a significant moment in the psychological war.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
6 months
On Thursday Feb 29, I was meant to speak at Johns Hopkins about my book but my talk was "postponed". I have now learned this was due to zionist pressure over my tweets! Welcome to America. Where universities cover for genocide & gaslight you while pretending academic freedom. 1
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
5 months
I do know of Jewish faculty being targeted, suspended or fired for pro Palestinian views, same with Jewish students. Does that fall under antisemitism? If not, why not?
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
6 months
I am happy to be in the company of others canceled before me. And stand by every tweet I have ever made in relation to Palestine since I've been on X. 2
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
5 months
I'll add that I agree with him. An Israeli lobby can only have pwr because US interest will always be with settler colonialism. If the lobby disappeared today, something else will come around to ensure European presence in the ME.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
5 months
It's not a simple equation but basically he's saying Israelis (and therefore Jews) don't control the empire. The empire controls Israel. I think that's about right.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
6 months
I'm sad the organizers caved to pressure but understand these situations are difficult & delicate. We must all stand firm though, and not embolden zionists by caving to their bullying tactics.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
6 months
Also here's the book with a discount code if you're in the US. Hope you'll read it and fight for liberation.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
8 months
Less than a month till the book is out! You can preorder and use the discount code on this flyer to get 20% off.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
1 month
Also, for added measure, the plane is full. F the Zionist state!
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
2 months
@tksshawa @moorehn If we lived in a just world, addidas would just respond with the middle finger. Instead, they will likely take zionists seriously.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
6 months
And here's a discount code if you're outside the US.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
6 months
My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine can be bought outside the US with a 20% discount. Website and discount code are in the flier below.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
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@OmerYeroush @Helenreflects If you want to go with "Zionism is a cultural identity" then you have to accept that it is one premised on supremacy, genocide and ethnic cleansing. You're free to identify with it, and we are free to make sure we don't fratrenize with such ppl & try to root out this ideology.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
5 months
This thread got over 120 comments. Only 2 ppl tried 2 answer question. 1 of those a Palestinian. The rest who disagreed just called me silly names. 1 person took the time 2 explain & his thread is worth amplifying even though I don't agree with all of it.
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Adam Brown
5 months
@HermezSami I have college aged Jewish kids attending some of the most controversial schools. You are partially correct: - there is gaslighting by the AIPAC crowd, trying to weaponize charges of antisemitism to silence Israel critics… 1/x
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
5 months
@SanaSaeed Also, would she have gotten that riled up if the speaker did not have a Kuffiyeh? It's clearly the zionist in her that starts seeing red even before the student mentions Palestinians. And even while the student is so composed & talking about Ramadan.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
5 months
There's a lot to say in response but I'll just say on the point of anti zionist responses sometimes going too far, if there is a rise in blanket attacks on zionists of all spectrums, that's not the fault of students or antisemitism, it's the fault of zionism and Israel.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
8 days
Genocide apologist pretends he has nothing to do with why Israelis feel immune to punishment. The very tweet itself absolves Israeli command and makes it seem like it's just rogue bad apples.
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Chris Hayes
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@MazMHussain To me the thing I continue to not understand, truly deeply, is why the IDF hasn't cracked down on the absolutely insane sh*t posting of its soldiers, when it is very obviously a PR disaster. Do they not care? Has command discipline just totally broken down?
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
3 months
Israel is like Europeans settling New York or Sydney and stopping there. Let's all agree that the natives would have eventually kicked out the Europeans in those cases. It was the expansion of the settler colonies that did it for those Indigenous populations, for now at least.2/3
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
3 months
The Israeli state and Zionists can only survive through expansion. But good luck with that. 3/3
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
4 months
Please amplify #northwestern win so students & faculty everywhere can see what's possible. Take wins and build on them. We have a lot more to do. Fight for disclosure. Fight for ending genocide.
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@HermezSami
Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
5 months
@Playerinthgame @itsjustelvy I did end with "as we stand with Columbia students". Agree with you. But there's a danger with how the focus switched in a lot of online content.
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@HermezSami
Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
5 months
@jets_headache We can't use violence but Israelis can. We can't use boycotts but Israelis can. And now we can't even stand up and make a speech because we'll offend our hosts. How should Palestinians or other oppressed groups bring better light to their cause? Please enlighten us.
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Sami Hermez | سامي هرمز
2 months
For the benefit of others, all ideas welcome. I don't face this issue personally. But I think faculty need ideas and to protect themselves since no one else will.
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