“the largely peaceful Gaza protesters of 2024 were getting arrested at higher rates than Vietnam protesters at the end of the 1960s — even as those protests had turned violent, including the burning down of dozens of military ROTC offices.” www.inquirer.com/opinion/berk...
It's hard to celebrate the anniversary of 1964's Berkeley Free Speech Movement when students are losing their right to protest.
A few days ago, the price of a small bag of pita bread in Lebanon was ~50,000LL (a/b US$.56). Now my friend can’t find bread for less than 100,000LL ($1.12), if he can find it at all. To get a sense of historical inflation, a small bag of bread before the 2019 financial crisis was 500LL.
"Of course," he added, "most of Congress was very happy to be lied to and would have denounced Blinken for the truth." www.commondreams.org/news/blinken...
"When a senior American official lies to Congress in the middle of genocide so that the government can keep funding that genocide, he is deliberately flouting the law and prolonging the suffering of m...
Here are some texts potentially found on syllabi that, in presenting critical analyses of Zionism or Israel, could make faculty vulnerable to sanction under NYU’s new NDAH guidelines and its acceptance of the IHRA examples. facultyforpalestine.education/2024/09/24/s...
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Joe Sacco’s brilliant new series on Gaza www.tcj.com/topic/the-wa...
I think this letter is the most incisive critique of NYU’s conflation of Zionism and Jewish identity and treating Zionism as a protected identity rather than a political ideology t.co/9f5WiXEKkj
Pitiful: “Amnesty claimed that there is no precedent of prosecution for criticizing “foreign nationals outside the UAE who are not government leaders,” & suggested that NYU aimed to mitigate criticism of the university’s admin rather than protect faculty.” nyunews.com/news/2024/08...
Human rights nonprofit Amnesty International reported escalated restrictions at NYU’s Abu Dhabi campus, alleging that faculty were told criticism of university leadership could lead to prosecution und...
The thoughtful historian, Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi kindly hosted me for a conversation about _Making Space for the Gulf_ @stanfordpress.bsky.socialnewbooksnetwork.com/making-space...
The family hopes to rebuild. In the meantime, Abu Nassira wants to stay in their bombed out backyard. “It amounts to the same misery as living in the camps,” she said, “but with shade and some privacy.” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
As US-backed ceasefire talks restart in Doha, calls to reconstruct the Strip are becoming louder