Queer sociolinguist 🏳️🌈 Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Palestine 🇵🇸 Unfollow if you are a transphobe, TERF, or any other kind of bigot.
@StAModLangs
@EneoliCost
The
@univofstandrews
has disgracefully dismissed its elected Rector, Stella Maris, after she called for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the genocide and apartheid Israel continues to carry out. Take action today and sign the petition:
Some of you already know that I was suspended 9 days ago from my college job "pending a disciplinary hearing" for voicing my opinions against the Israeli genocidal actions in Gaza (officially because someone or something interpreted them as "support for Hamas").
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I envy all y’all who can’t read Hebrew. The vast majority of comments about Gaza, Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims in my native language are vile, evil, violent, and as if taken directly out of the Nazi Party playbook.
The hearing never came, but last night, with no warning, my access to college email and other databases was cut off, and my name and professional web page removed from the college server. I was also not sent an appointment letter for the current/upcoming academic year.
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The initial announcement caught me on the last day of a conference I was attending in NYC. Given that most flights to TLV have been canceled indefinitely, I changed my flight destination to London, and I am currently staying here in the United Kingdom for the time being.
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Respect to
@SusanSarandon
; shame on
@unitedtalent
.
UTA Drops Susan Sarandon As Client Following Recent Pro-Palestinian Remarks She Made At A Rally In New York
The cat is out of the bag. In January I will begin teaching in the Department of Arabic and Persian at the University of St Andrews. Watch out, future monarchs.
I am an Israeli citizen and I assert that the Zionist project has been a racist one from the get go. How calling out racism makes one an anti-Semite is beyond me.
To be clear, those who criticise Israel the country for the actions of an Israeli government do not come to the debate with clean hands. Delegitimising Israel as a country is part of a systematic strategy to undermine its existence. Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism, plain and simple
I was among hundreds of thousands of marchers in London chanting “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” these past 3 weeks. I’m a citizen of Israel who strongly opposes the concept of a Jewish state. It is nothing short of apartheid. Who are you to judge?
I voted for the censure resolution.
Calling for the end of Israel as a Jewish State, through the insidious phrase “from the river to the sea,” crosses a line of hate speech that no public official should ever cross.
Congress has a right to take a principled stand against
@BoardofDeputies
You’re disgustingly justifying he murder of innocent Palestinians whose only ‘crime’ was trying to hold Israel to the ‘democratic’ nature you have just boasted.
PS: It took me a while to go public with this, partly because I was in a state of shock, especially by some libelous, borderline threatening remarks made to my face by colleagues. Additionally, please don't forget the children and adults of
#Gaza
. They are the real victims.
I rode an Uber in Sheffield today. The driver was a Palestinian man from Gaza. I told him I couldn't apologize on behalf of the Israeli people, but asked him to accept apologies on behalf of my family, even though I knew apologies alone were unhelpful. He was extremely gracious.
I have a problem with Jews who are Zionists. I also have a problem with non-Jews who are Zionists. I have a problem with people who support a racist ideology regardless of their own personal demographic details.
Courageous Israelis - who support peace and Palestinian rights - are being victimised.
One striking example is
@urihoresh
.
They are a sociolinguistic academic who faces being fired for speaking out.
Here's my exclusive interview with them 👇
Smear campaign in Germany against anthropologist Ghassan Hage for his position on Israeli occupation and apartheid. The Max Planck Institute where he is currently a visiting scholar is moving to terminate him rather than uphold his academic freedom.
No,
@nytimes
— Palestinians cultivated citrus fruit long before Zionist colonizers usurped their groves. Calling Jaffa oranges “Israeli” is a vile mischaracterization.
@OwenJones84
@alon_mizrahi
The problem, Owen, is that most of what has been labeled "antisemitism" in the past nine months is not, in fact, antisemitism. It's the boy who cries wolf syndrome.
It’s tiring to see people equating Israel’s artillery and fighter jet attacks on Gaza to Palestinians’ desperate efforts to show resistance with makeshift weapons. Israel is the war crime criminal, not Palestinians, not Gaza, not Hamas. The violence is unilateral and viscious.
@LizGabayMW
@OwenJones84
Students are in distress because they’re reminded of our moral responsibility to oppose genocide? If anything, the University has sent a chilling message to all of us working to save human lives and to our Palestinian student community that some lives are worth more than others.
President of the Zionist Organization of America: 1. Calls Arabs filthy (imagine anyone saying “filthy Jewish brethren”). 2. Claims there is no occupation in the West Bank (“Judea and Samaria” is the extreme right’s code for the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Fact: Israel is NOT bombing indiscriminately
Fact: Israel IS obeying intl law
Fact: There already ARE conditions on Israel aid
Fact: If Hamas surrendered themselves, their weapons & the hostages, Israeli military action would end immediately
Why aren’t you urging Hamas to do
I love it when people 'remind' me that because I'm queer, it's supposed to be some kind of an anomaly for me to support human rights. Or do these people do not consider Palestinians to be humans? They definitely seem to think there are no LGBTQ+ people in Gaza.
It should not be difficult to understand or recognise that this is an intimidating atmosphere for Jewish people on their way home from work.
Many have had to turn back.
Chants ‘From the river to the sea’ are calling for the destruction of Israel, the only Jewish state.
Enough.
President of the occupation state Isaac Herzog on MSNBC: "This war is not only a war between Israel and Hamas, it's a war that is intended, really, truly, to save Western civilization. To save the values of Western civilization."
.
@Airbnb
You're either for equality or not. You announced a delisting of illegal Israeli settlement rentals and have now backpedaled, allowing rentals on the ruins of Palestinian lives and land. I will
#deactivateAirbnb
on May 15, Nakba Day.
I’m a descendant of families who lost daughters and sons to the Nazis. I was brought up to apply ‘never again’ universally. We shall not let genocide happen again. Not to our own, not to others, and most definitely not by ourselves to others. מה ששנוא עליך אל תעשה לחברך.
Netanyahu on Instagram:
"Israel is not the country of all of its citizens. According to the Nation Law we have passed, Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people - and of them alone."
“Left-wing” Jewish Israelis who are upset at Palestinians for low voting turnouts can go fuck themselves. If y’all cared that much about what Palestinians think, you would have fought for the right of ALL of them to vote.
@noatishby
למעשה, מה שאנטישמי פה זו ההנחה שהכיבוש הישראלי משקף ״ערכים יהודיים״. הכיבוש הוא אכזרי, אלים וגזעני. בקביעתך שהאשמת ישראל ברצח של גב׳ אבו עאקלה (ובעקיפין של פלסטיניות.ים רבות.ים אחרות.ים) היא סממן של אנטישמיות, את רומזת כי כיבוש ורצח = יהדות. אנא, הימנעי מזאת וחזרי בך.
The Middle East Studies Association's (
@MESA_1966
) Committee on Academic Freedom has published a letter it sent to the leaders of my former employer in protest of my termination:
Netanyahu's statement about Israel belonging to Jews only & not to the rest of its citizens should not come as a surprise. He said it in Hebrew for a reason: this is the normative approach within Israel. It will get him more votes on April 9. Any other view is considered treason.
More and more ‘mainstream’ Israelis, have been calling recently for a total annihilation of Gaza. What they must understand is that if indeed Israel kills 2 million ppl, it would not only warrant the long argued against analogy to the holocaust; it would literally be a holocaust.
@oli_0331
I was in Oxford once chatting with a guy. I told him about my interest in Arabic and he said he spoke Somali, which was also a Semitic language. I explained to him that yes, they’re both Afroasiatic, but Somali belongs to a different branch called Cushitic. He blocked me.