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The sacrifices of these students is a powerful riposte to the careerism that grips so many faculty, to say nothing of the genuine complicity (in genocide, no less) and monumental cowardice of university administrators.
@Princeton
Hassan Sayed, a fifth year PhD candidate in economics, and Achinthya Sivalingan, a SPIA MPA second year, have been arrested, evicted, and permanently banned from the
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Refaat Alareer's course on English poetry at the Islamic University of Gaza from 2019. 28 sessions on form and content, text and context, meter, metaphor, rhyme, caesura, and parody. Our teacher.
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Peace to Aaron Bushnell. We add him to the rolls of yesterday's martyrs in Gaza. Of the nearly 100 killed: two fisherman shot off the coast of Khan Yunis; seven year old Heba Abdin whose home was bombed; and Muhammed al-Zayegh, 60 days old, who died of starvation. Free Palestine.
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professors buried beneath their homes in gaza. professors arrested from their homes in jerusalem. professors, safe in their second homes upstate, denying genocide and attacking students.
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Probably the oldest hospital in Gaza. Originally founded by the Church Missionary Society in 1882. Where my father was born.
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"I was told by one of the editors of the New York Times: 'The New York Times does not recognize Palestine.' I said well Palestine does not recognize the New York Times either." — Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (1988)
The Israeli police raided the Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, to detain scores of Palestinians who had barricaded themselves inside. This prompted rocket fire from Gaza, to which Israel responded with strikes on Gaza military sites.
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In 2002, Edward Said gave a lecture at UCLA. There's a moment near the end which I've always loved. Said gets frustrated with a heckler and says "I don't feel like answering the question for you, you lout." As uniformed louts swarm the campus, don't answer their questions.
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Peace to Walid Daqqa (1961 – 2024), one of the most important Palestinian intellectuals of his generation. Husband of Sana and father of Milad. Imprisoned by Israel since he was 24, he exposed for us the details of Palestinian prisoner life and Israeli methods of confinement.
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our poets, our critics, editors, historians, painters, and photographers. our professors. your colleagues. our libraries, archives, printers, and universities. our theatres and bookshops. every cafe. first a site of daily struggle, then a grave. for israel, a target.
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When Balfour came to Jerusalem in March 1925 on the eve of Ramadan to inaugurate the Hebrew University, the colonized population initiated a general strike. Jerusalem was made a ghost town and Palestinian dailies published English editions condemning and British colonialism.
BREAKING: Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do.
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I've scanned George Hajjar's 1974 biography of Ghassan Kanafani (who was assassinated by Israel on this day in 1972). Self published by Hajjar in Lebanon, the book is extremely rare.
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Edward Said: "Rushdie is the intifada of the imagination."
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Peace to the Palestinian photographer Majd Arandas (1994 – 2023), among those killed last week by Israel's relentless campaign of aerial bombing.
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"I was told by one of the editors of the New York Times: 'The New York Times does not recognize Palestine.' I said well Palestine does not recognize the New York Times either." — Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (1988)
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A beautiful spring morning at the University of Toronto.
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i refuse the view of the israeli thermal camera that floats above my people like a vulture circles carrion.
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Today, nine of our colleagues were awarded the Dan David Prize, headquartered at Tel Aviv University. Less than fifty miles south of Tel Aviv, hundreds of our colleagues and thousands of students have been killed in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli state.
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Etel Adnan's 1977 covers for Shu'un Filistiniyya (Palestinian Affairs), the journal of the PLO Research Center in Beirut (edited at that time by Mahmoud Darwish and Elias Khoury).
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when i called a friend in gaza this morning he sounded shaken as i said hello. later in the call he told me that my number came up as unknown (i was using skype) so he was sure that it was the israeli military calling to tell him they were about to blow up his home.
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Intellectual history doesn't feel as urgent today as it did last week but anyway I wrote about Edward Said, for the Palestinian people
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At least eight more members of my family were killed in this morning's bombing of Tel al-Hawa. Several other families also effected as their entire residential tower was destroyed.
الاحتلال يشن غارات عنيفة على منطقة الكلية الجامعية في تل الهوا.
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Some of Walid Daqqa's many drawings from prison.
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On April 5, 1956, the Israelis bombed Al-Shifa Hospital, precipitating a major, days-long campaign by commandos from the Gaza Strip. The bombing and its aftermath is recounted in a book by the Palestinian militant and historian, Subhi Yasin. I've translated an excerpt.
The Israeli Bombing of Al-Shifa Hospital in 1956 (and After)
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Peace to Refaat Alareer (1979 – 2023), murdered by Israel. Born in Gaza, he received his MA from the University College London and his PhD (on John Donne's poetry) from the University of Putra Malaysia. He was professor of literature at the Islamic University of Gaza.
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In a single day: the undermining of Gaza's groundwater and soil; the incineration of Gaza's municipal archives; and, if yesterday's numbers are any indication, the annihilation of a 1000 souls (more flesh and blood beneath the rubble). The demand remains the same, disappear.
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Thinking through the syllabus today for my graduate seminar in the Fall on "Intellectuals and Decolonization"
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Edward Said in 1983 on Obama's book list/kill list: "humanists and intellectuals accept the idea that you can read classy fiction as well as kill and maim because the cultural world is available for that particular sort of camouflaging..."
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An elegiac letter from C.L.R. James (1901 – 1989) to Edward Said (1935 – 2003)
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"Much of Western Marxism, in its aesthetic and cultural departments, is similarly blinded to the matter of imperialism." — Edward Said
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how do we calculate the debt we owe Wael al-Dahdouh and all the other journalists in Gaza reporting their own death?
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After weeks of reading I've settled on the syllabus for my seminar on "Intellectuals and Decolonization." We shall consider the role of intellectuals in the history of decolonization (or national liberation) and how scholars have narrated intellectual histories of decolonization.
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that Palestinians, faced with the demand that we shut up and die, don't and won't, should fill us with pride, despite the expectation that we be grateful, defensive, or apologetic.
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At the 1966 Afro-Asian Writers meeting, Kanafani burst into tears when a Vietnamese writer distributed shrapnel from a downed American fighter jet. So moved, Kanafani didn't give his speech, saying he had nothing of such magnitude to share, but promised he would by the next meet.
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Toward an Intellectual History of Genocide in Gaza I wrote some preliminary notes, for Salim al-Nafar and the Palestinian people.
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The great anthropologist Susan Slyomovics—known for her study of the Palestinian village of Ein Houd—on being arrested as a seventeen-year-old Barnard student in 1968.
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Peace to the poet Saleem Al-Naffar (1963 – 2023), murdered by Israel. Born in Gaza to a family displaced from Jaffa, he grew up in exile in Jordan and Syria. He studied literature at Tishreen University. He returned to Gaza in 1994. He wrote a dozen books of poetry and prose.
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our excellent graduate students made this banner.
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Why protest? Because on day 202, Israel (with American support) committed five massacres in the Gaza Strip, killing dozens. On day 202, the number of bodies discovered in three separate mass graves reached 392. In Ramallah, 16 year old Khaled Raed Arouq was shot and killed.
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We demand you refuse the Dan David Prize not because it's dirty money—all our institutions are complicit, every prize is a cover up—nor simply in response to the genocide in Gaza, but because of the call made by Palestinians 20 years ago for the boycott of Israeli universities.
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Freedom is the minimum. Every Palestinian prisoner must be liberated from every Israeli dungeon. Thereafter, all the prisons razed. Then, an end to land robbery and political domination. When any and every Palestinian can live in any and every part of Palestine, that's the start.
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two major, thoroughly researched, studies. must reads for all historians of colonialism and anti-colonialism.
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All power to Professor Alatout, a great scholar of water in Palestine. Read his important article "Bringing Abundance into Environmental Politics: Constructing a Zionist Network of Water Abundance, Immigration, and Colonization"
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Professor Samer Alatout is back at the protest. He said he was detained and cited and police inflicted the gash on his head. He said police are “singling out” people of color.
“I saw the police pointing at me and saying ‘we want him,’” Alatout told me.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza now has a form to collect data on the missing or unreported dead. The options for "burial status" are: "buried" "under the rubble" "not buried" or "other."
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Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
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On day 150, more than 120 Palestinians were killed. 13 massacres were recorded. The oldest martyr was Mahmoud Awadallah Attiya Abu Shaab, who was 91. Among the youngest was 9-year-old Yazan al-Kafarna, who was starved to death. In Jabalia, the Israelis bombed a cemetery.
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Last night my dad's cousin and two of her children were killed in an Israeli attack on Zawaideh which killed fourteen others. They are among the 215 Palestinians that were killed in Gaza over the last 24 hours. Some 300 were injured in the same period.
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some of my family in gaza are staying in a field, without even a tent for shelter. one fell and broke her hip, necessitating the fashioning of a wooden splint. upon on our ledger: the dead, the dying, and the maimed; the widowed and orphaned; the starving; a people dispossessed.
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"It is important for us as Arabs... to connect our struggle with the struggles taking place in Africa and in southern and central America, so that we develop a global consensus first in the Third World, then elsewhere... the Cold War quick-fix is not the one for us." EWS (1981)
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My mom's cousin died suddenly a few days ago. Her chidlren had taken her to the Rafah crossing to renew her passport. Upon arriving, she refused to renew the document, saying she loved Gaza and will never leave it. That night, she died of a heart attack.
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Actually, a number of Israelis have won the prize and Israel is a settler-colony in Asia, but congrats!
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Born in Beersheba in 1947, Abd al-Karim al-Hashash grew up in Rafah. He wrote dozens of books on Arab history and culture. In 2011, he left Damascus's Yarmouk refugee camp, where the library he built was destroyed. He returned to Gaza and on 24 October 2023 was killed by Israel.
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I wrote about the Dan David Prize last year.
No Palestinians Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues
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Fredric Jameson "made an appearance at a University of Michigan literary conference several years ago conditional on the university also arranging for him to give a public address on Palestine, where he defended the right of self-determination with force and clarity."
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My friend in Gaza this morning: "what is happening is a catastrophe (كارثة). By definition it is a catastrophe... My children have lost so many classmates... We will not go back to our old condition after this war. We don't need aid. We must be free to sail our sea as we please."
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It's only fitting that Minouche Shafik, who has avoided ever uttering a single word critical of Israel in the course of her illustrious career, should have that career sunk by the just cause of Palestine—both the bravery of its supporters and the mendacity of its enemies.
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Peace to my grandpa Azmi Qandil Abushaban. Born in Gaza in 1936 he died today in San Diego. In 1952 he went to Cairo to study at Ain Shams. In 1963 he moved to Kuwait where he—like many Palestinians—served the Kuwaiti state until 1990, when he was compelled to leave, pensionless.
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That the liberation of Palestine will be accompanied by the demise of the worst institutions, corporations, and states—we should be so lucky.
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Members of my mother's family. 24 people were in the building when the missile struck. At least four are dead. The rest injured. Several remain stuck under the rubble.
Nafq Neighborhood, Gaza city |
Abo Shaban family، several murdered including children and women.
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A new collection of Ottoman and Turkish writings on European Orientalism (in English translation). Edited and introduced by Zeynep Çelik. In the classroom, it could be productively paired with Max Bruce's translation of Nu'mani's West Asian travelogue
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Peace to the great playwright and theatre director Khalil Tafesh (1943 – 2024), who died last Thursday in Gaza. In 1969, he founded the Palestinian National Theatre Group in Damascus. One of his best known works is "The Chair," an adaptation of a play written by Muin Bseiso.
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Revealing interview—in its stupidity—with Hebrew U prof on why Israelis are "losing the war on TikTok" to Palestinians: "Our society is militaristic, for us militarism is great, it's part of who we are, but in foreign eyes it is not perceived positively"
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Impossible for this colleague of ours—whose ignorance of Eastern Mediterranean history is well known—to imagine that a young historian could be a Palestinian or that a prize and its institution serve a political function.
Depressing to see colleagues here trying to shame young historians for accepting the Dan David prizes. It's one thing to argue for BDS as a way of putting pressure on Israel (not that I agree with this). It's another to call people "complicit"...
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this BBC Arena doc on Edward Said and "the idea of empire" from 1993 is extremely good. featuring Eqbal Ahmad. show it to your students and children.
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Frontispiece to the 1961 edition of Subhi Muhammad Yassin's history of the 1936-39 Palestinian revolt (in which he participated in as a teenager). The book was first published in 1959.
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"My main intention is that the English, the German, the American, the Russian, and the Chinese will read me and that their lungs will fill with a love for Palestine." — Muin Bseiso
Came across Dr. Refaat Alareer's poem "If I must die" just a few days ago, I cried and couldn't help but translated it to Chinese without his permission. Now that he's gone.
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RIP to the Syrian Marxist Abdallah Hanna (1932 – 2023). Excluded from Syrian universities due to his politics, he was a major historian of twentieth century Syria. His work on the history of the peasantry (from which he came) is unsurpassed (and drew on extensive oral histories).
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Are you a graduate student at the University of Toronto? Take my class "Intellectuals and Decolonization" if you wish.
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It's true that the American university has contributed to the death or immiseration of millions worldwide and been detrimental to the development of American thinking about capitalism and imperialism. These are some texts that can help you understand how and why that happened.
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University of Vermont SJP's "Statement on Hillel's Racist Incitement Against Palestinian Students" from November 9th.
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the distance between students (committed, brave, smart) and administrators (tools, cowards, stupid) has never been so vast.
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While the presidents of Israel's universities encourage U.S. universities to sic the cops on their students, the leaders of Palestine's universities offer their appreciation. "We welcome you at our universities in a liberated Palestine."
An English translation of the statement released today by the presidents of Israel's research universities slandering the actions of student demonstrators in the United States as violent and anti-Semitic. Israeli universities serve the Israeli state and must be boycotted.
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An English translation of the statement released today by the presidents of Israel's research universities slandering the actions of student demonstrators in the United States as violent and anti-Semitic. Israeli universities serve the Israeli state and must be boycotted.
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On 2 December, Sufyan Tayeh, President of the Islamic University of Gaza, was assassinated by Israel (along with his whole family). On Sunday the 31st, Said Al-Zibdah, President of Gaza's University College of Applied Sciences, was assassinated by Israel (with his family too).
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truly incredible paragraph to write in an essay against the academic boycott of israel in april 2024
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"According to the Israeli occupation, everything in Gaza—our history books, our atlases, even the very word 'Palestine'—is anti-Semitic." — Muin Bseiso (1971)
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burn every portrait of every bloke hanging in every hall of every university worldwide i dont give a fuck
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"Hands off Egypt" demonstration in Delhi against imperialism
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is there a more sad, scared, and pathetic group of people than a herd of riot cops ?
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Peace to Professor Abdel Nasser Mustafa Al-Saqqa, who taught a course on the geography of Palestine at Al-Aqsa University.
Al-Aqsa university Dr. Abdel Nasser Al-Saqqa was killed today by Israeli airstrikes targeting his home in Gaza.
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In the Gaza Strip, as of yesterday, 3679 students were killed and 5429 were wounded. 209 teachers and staff were killed and 619 injured. Israeli bombing has effected 90 percent of schools, 29 percent of schools were destroyed or damaged beyond repair.
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Will someone PLEASE spare a thought for our embattled Israeli colleagues ?? They may lose access to multi million euro grants !! This is an unacceptable threat to ACADEMIC FREEDOM !! And violent antisemitism !!
Exclusive:
Israeli soldiers set fire Aqsa University [
@AqsaUniversity
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