So ecstatic to see this out in
@NewYorker
today. I started on it a year ago when I heard
@shahziasikander
had a show coming and her work always fascinated me. That led to months delving into the history of manuscript painting and Sikander’s interventions.
let’s be very clear about what’s going on in this cover because I think it so aptly captures the incredibly subtle and strategic reactionary politics of the
@NewYorker
⬇️
the fact that we are all seeing these scenes daily on our screens, big and small, in our pockets and in our living rooms, and can't stop it. this absolutely will have irreversible consequences on our souls.
NYer loves to claim a progressive politics but in the same stroke erase and defang those politics. The Student Intifada has been explicit: this is about Palestine. But what’s missing in this image: keffiyehs, Palestinian flags, the actual politics putting these students in cuffs
What the NYer is trying to do is take an audience of progressively minded liberals who may be sympathetic to the cause of the students and focus their attention on the students and not the cause. The students don’t need or want your sympathy. They want you to care about Palestine
gotta love when a company gives you a union-bargained cost of living increase and says “we’re giving you a raise”… nah, I bargained that — I’m giving me a raise.
But that’s not actually the point. That’s what empire wants. The students are saying All Eyes on Rafah. Empire, through both its aggressors and co-optations, is saying All Eyes off Rafah and on to the campus
This is strategic. The right (& swathes of Zionist liberals) will come after these students for being terrorist sympathizers. The faux-progressives will co-opt and distract, and their narrative has been at play for some time now: a culture war on campuses, threats to free speech
I know those workers. they’re
@newyorkerunion
comrades and they’re fighting the fight. but in classic New Yorker fashion, their veneer of progressivism also masks a reactionary work culture. in a world where workers have actual power, they’d yield a better, more honest magazine
And the worst part is how these things happen. You have workers with radical politics who agitate for something like this and an institution that’s embedded in the subtlest insidious forms of Zionism that yields this as its final product
the fact that zionists cannot hear the statement “Palestinians deserve human rights” without bringing in antisemitism means they view their faith as inextricably linked with oppression and denial of human rights. that’s pretty antisemitic.
like clockwork, as Israel’s annihilation of Gaza becomes indefensible, the political class will shift blame onto Netanyahu in order to rescue Israel’s reputation and maintain its survival
any campus boycott at this moment must center divestment. the tide of protests and encampments are about Palestine, they are not about campus free speech. Any list of demands that falls short of disinvesting from Zionist genocide fails Palestine
ppl trying to visit family abroad need tests within 48 hrs, having to wait hours in lines, our testing infrastructure is delaying results to 50+ hrs. And then this shit + private rapid PCRs for $200+. This is capitalist bullshit, health is not something to turn a profit on
I’d like to read something on how the increasingly widespread use of therapy vocabulary (important that we’re better-versed and largely positive) has also allowed for hyper-individualistic toxic/selfish behavior under the mask of “boundary-setting,” “healing,” etc
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‼️ Hundreds of former
@nytimes
readers have reported unsubscribing over the last 48 hours. Many of those ex-subscribers have written emails to the editors responsible for “Screams Without Words” using our template, linked here. Let’s get it to thousands ‼️
an utterly useless, poorly written pile of words that’s at best not intelligent enough to see its own logical flaws and at worst deliberately misrepresenting language in bad faith
today’s my first day as an editor and producer at
@metmuseum
. Looking forward to shaping and creating stories around the museum’s collections, exhibits, and more broadly about art, history, culture, and contemporary issues
TLDR Condé exec has racist tweets, Condé employee calls out racism at the company, employee is suspended over concerns that the company is “obligated to investigate” but not obligated to be transparent about 🤔
these videos get increasingly insane. first the girl with the dog, now hugs, laughter. if you wanna believe it’s propaganda - u have to admit they’re so much better at it than Israel, and if these reactions aren’t real then what’re they doing to get it out of them
#BREAKING
| Media coverage: "Sharing jokes and goodbyes... Al Qassam Brigades has released a new video of the 6th batch of the Israeli detainees in
#Gaza
."
when this is no longer on front pages and you can’t use rising islamophobia to benefit, will you again say it was a mistake to march alongside the queers? will you go back to working hand in hand with the farright responsible for growing Islamophobic attacks?
Here at the largest protest in Washington DC for Palestine in the history of the United States. We refuse to be intimidated. We refuse to be silent. End the genocide. End the occupation. End apartheid.
it’s worth repeating - we as Americans are not “complicit.” we are effectively equal to Israel in its murderous project and arguably maintaining and using Israel in our own murderous project. we are not complicit, we are responsible.
it is not hyperbole to say that israel is categorically in effect an extension, or rather a proxy state, of the united states—even if it operates a rogue state at times. israel is the US. others have said this but it is not just “complicity,” they are damn near the same entity.
Was tired of silence in the workplace around Palestinian suffering today so I emailed our CEO and editor in chief and also posted in an all conde slack channel 🧵
I struggled with this publishing at the current moment. When all our attention needs to be on Gaza/Palestine and homonationalist politics are being used to pinkwash genocide. Is there a space to talk about the politics of queerness in Muslim communities.
its painful and exhausting to have suffered for being clear eyed ahead of the times and when people weren’t ready - but I am glad people are finally understanding this truth. Capitalists and billionaires are not your friends. They’re not liberatory. They co-opt to placate.
It’s almost the fourth anniversary of the essay I wrote about Bey critiquing her for being a capitalist btw. I feel an exhaustion that can’t be explained. They really tried to kill me over that and now here we are, finding out that billionaires are bad.
✨personal news✨ today’s my last day
@NewYorker
. I’ll be reflecting on the last three and a half years a bit and also decompressing for a couple of weeks before joining
@metmuseum
’s digital department where I’ll be editing editorial content and producing multimedia
two highlights from this year:
- organizing with my coworkers and negotiating The New Yorker’s first collective bargaining agreement
- organizing with hundreds of journalists calling for more fair and accurate reporting on the occupation in Palestine
Issue 01 is here.
Edited by
@hirawastiahmed
, our inaugural edition features
@naibmian
on rise of homophobia in some Muslim American communities, an interview with
@prisonculture
on how Islam informs her abolitionist organizing,
@SarahAziza1
on her interfaith upbringing, + more.
This is so freakin huge. After almost a century of at-will employment, we’ve finally secured this fundamental labor protection. Would not have been possible without collective action, courage, solidarity, and the most bad ass bargaining committee 🔥
Across this country, people are saying “free palestine”, people are saying “ceasefire”, people are saying “stop genocide”. And those people are being targeted, they’re being fired, they’re being doxed, they’re being surveilled. violent murders of Arabs and Muslims are on the rise
@queersocialism
the defanging of civil rights radicalism has been a decades long project-creating neoliberal forms of advancement but maintaining prison slavery, apartheid urban planning, and police brutality. The structure already existed for BLM to be turned into self-help antiracism DEIA
This is a children’s book that was written because the author was trying to explain what’s going on in Israel to his five-year-old daughter and he couldn’t find a resource with which to do it so he wrote one himself. Under the Rockets' Glow: Shira's Journey to Courage by Roman
the United States is provably the single most dangerous entity on the planet, responsible for the majority of the violence and suffering in the world. Global “security” and “peace” are not compatible with the U.S. as it currently functions
#BREAKING
United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages
VOTE
In Favour: 13
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 1 (UK)
Jewish comrades who have been clear hearted in your solidarity, sense of justice, and knowing that justice is a truer articulation of your faith than ethnonationalist violence, know that we are in community, we’re here to hold you, support you, and protect you, as you have us.
NYT staffers - now more than ever it’s vital to begin exposing the internal workings of a place whose reporting, from Iraq to Gaza and beyond, is responsible for thousands of innocent deaths.
@wawog_now
has a team ready to field leaks and maintain security
Emergency press conference held outside the Times this morning by
@wawog_now
and
@palyouthmvmt
calling for the resignations of all involved in the shoddy reporting on sexual violence and manufacturing consent for genocide. Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe!
It’s my second anniversary at the New Yorker, and I’m reflecting on how excited I am to be joining the
@newyorkerunion
bargaining committee and organizing with folks who make me proud to work here to negotiate a fair and just contract ✊🏽❤️
can we do something to get this man fired. like in all seriousness. a faculty member lying and consistently invoking violence against students is unacceptable on a campus
Quick update:
Today there was another ILLEGAL demonstration at
@Columbia
in support of campus organizations that celebrate rape and murder and who call for the eradication of an entire people from their country.
This resulted in yet another shut down of the university's gates.
if u see inequity in your workplace one of the best things you can turn to is collective solidarity and a union. we improve our conditions and the representation of our voices together
If you are a writer or staffer interested in anonymously leaking information about this piece of Zionist propaganda, please email wawog_now
@protonmail
.com
Emergency press conference held outside the Times this morning by
@wawog_now
and
@palyouthmvmt
calling for the resignations of all involved in the shoddy reporting on sexual violence and manufacturing consent for genocide. Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe!
During Pride Week, Tel Aviv is displaying special pride flags across the city featuring a widened yellow stripe to honor the +120 hostages still captive in Gaza.
We want to share it as a reminder that they are in our thoughts every moment.
Thank you,
@TelAviv
💛
@sorayashock
@deccamuldowney
@nytimes
🙏🏽✊🏽 for your commitment to truth. I’m sorry you received that disrespectful message. been hearing this “doesn’t help Palestinians” line from journos and it’s concerning - I can’t figure out if it’s to make oneself feel better or if there’s some circulation of this talking point.
I made my boyfriend’s dad chai yesterday and this morning he wakes up and says to me “I want chai made by you. It was the best chai I’ve had” y’all I’m WINNING. 😂🤲🏽✨
The company has also taken a troubling position on hours and overtime. In management’s view, the very idea of a workday or workweek is meaningless—it’s not so much “8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will” as it is “24 hours for
@newyorker
and
@condenast
.”
Condé execs want us to be able to “speak openly” about systemic racism, but only in private spaces, behind closed doors, where our words and the effort that it requires can be taken “into consideration”, “heard”, (maybe even thanked!!) and then ignored
This is not about Netanyahu, this is the Israeli project. It is the core of Zionism. There is no moment in Israeli history that has been free from the blood stains of Palestinians. Israel and the Zionist project cannot exist without it.
Fantastic screening of
@NidaKirmani
’s Shadowlands today at Columbia U. A moving documentary on Karachi’s Lyari and navigating violence—from the heightened flashpoints of gang wars to the more easily forgotten daily violence of the state. Thank you
@sepoy
for sharing the info!
Michael, IDF kidnapped and detained Toha* while he fled South with his family as instructed. After benefitting from his voice to bolster some idea of “diversity,” to turn around on colleagues like this using language that criminalizes them simply for existing-deeply disrespectful
David Remnick sent a note to staff this morning abt the worrisome news on Mosab Abu Toa, the Palestinian poet and essayist from Gaza, whose work we have been publishing. We had lost touch w/ him and learned he was arrested in central Gaza. Here's a thread of his
@newyorker
work.
slowly but surely everything is walked back. No beheaded babies. No rape rampage. Many ravers killed by the Israeli military. The worst folks in the last month were the liberal/non-zionists who so adamantly still wanted to believe that scary brown men are baby killers and rapists
what’s common between this tweet, the Hillary clinton-ification of politics, and Taylor swift being times person of the year - white feminism. I don’t think people register how legitimately harmful and nefarious it is.
Today I spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu to express my concern for the remaining hostages — and to note that it was Hamas’s refusal to release women civilian hostages that broke down the humanitarian pause.
We will continue to pursue every opportunity to free them.
We will make sure that history never forgets those who called for these crimes against humanity. Police us, silence us, surveil us, fire us, crush us all you like. The record will remain.
we’re calling for an end to a culture that says that we should be grateful for “prestige” while being underpaid, a system that pits us workers against one another through an uncertain and exploitative “merit based” system. together and in solidarity we improve conditions for all
Today, the New Yorker Union is undertaking a twenty-four-hour work stoppage in protest of
@newyorker
management's egregious wage proposal. Our statement:
We, more than 500 journalists, condemn Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza, without whom many of the horrors on the ground would remain invisible. We also call for integrity in reporting on the current assault and the ongoing occupation.
BREAKING: We have averted a strike! After more than two and a half years of negotiations,
@newyorkerunion
,
@p4kunion
, and
@ars_union
are proud to announce that we have reached an agreement in principle on our first contracts. Here are some of our wins:
still contending with what this ramadan meant to me, but it’s the first time I fasted all 30 days, and I think I can congratulate myself for that. Alhumdulillah ✨