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Mahmoud Khalil’s letter from a Louisiana jail: “even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students who steer us toward truth and justice” www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Mahmoud Khalil’s detention follows decades of targeted harassment, imprisonment, and deportation of Palestinian students, scholars, and community leaders in the U.S. mondoweiss.net/2025/03/mahm... #Palestine #Israel

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The aims of Israel's unilateral ending of the ceasefire and return to mass bombing in Gaza: 1. Facilitate's Ben Gvir's return to government 2. Passing of budget (before 31 March otherwise early elections) 3. Deflecting public outrage over the attempted sacking of Attorney General, head of Shin Bet

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Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention facility: "The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent." mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett... #Palestine #Israel

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Among those killed in Israeli air strikes last night: 174 children 89 women 32 elderly

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🧵 Israel has resumed its genocide in Gaza. After weeks of systematically violating ceasefire agreements, Israel launched massive airstrikes across Gaza overnight, targeting homes, hospitals, and shelters for displaced civilians.

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Update: the military spokesperson of the Islamic Jihad was killed. That's the only military official that I've seen so far. Over 400 casualties, most, I believe, women and children.

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Israel is erasing Jenin refugee camp because of its role in Palestinian collective memory and resistance. It might destroy the camp, but it can never extinguish what it represents. mondoweiss.net/2025/03/an-i... #Palestine #Israel

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Very grateful to the thousands of Jewish professors, staff, and students who signed this principled, powerful, and justifiably angry letter.

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Good story from the New York Times here on some of the medical research that is threatened by the cuts to federal funding to universities www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/n...

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EEOC launches DEI witchhunt on big law firms (with notable omissions) content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USE...

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The Associated Press case is more important than you think. I wrote about it for Le Monde. English: knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig... French: www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

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The Legal Argument That Could Set Mahmoud Khalil Free theintercept.com/2025/03/13/m...

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My own view is that Netanyahu's survival in power owes 30% to his (truly superb) political manoeuvring talent, and 70% to the weakness of the organised opposition and grassroots mobilisation. If and when he's confronted in earnest - he won't last.

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Israel's blocking of all aid to Gaza threatens the survival of 1 million children, UNICEF warns.

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Why Trump Is So Desperate to Keep Mahmoud Khalil in Louisiana by @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/03/14/m...

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Expelling highly-skilled transplant physicians definitely will make America great again. nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/…

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More than 14,000 Palestinians are missing and presumed dead under the rubble. Thousands of families may never have answers regarding what happened to their loved ones. www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

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open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/... “If you want to identify the Nazis who are endangering Jews, look no further than Trump and the Republican Party. In his second term, Trump is having a “mask-off” moment, packing federal agencies with alt-right losers and unabashed white supremacists.”

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Some bars from @jbenmenachem.com in @zeteo.com open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

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With the establishment of Israel, many Jewish traditions and texts, hitherto practiced and read as part of the life of small minority communities navigating an often difficult and hostile world, acquired a different meaning when used in the context of sovereign power and state violence. 1/

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Authoritarian power grabs begin by neutralizing civil servants, judges, academics, journalists, and artists. You can't have freedom or democracy in such conditions. Trump is pointing the same gun at Perkins Coie, the AP, the Kennedy Center, and Mahmoud Khalil, but many people don't see that yet.

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I would take the words of UK chief rabbi more seriously if he wasn't slated to speak at a radical-right conference in Jerusalem this month, under the perverse name "combatting antisemitism". www.jewishnews.co.uk/chief-rabbi-...

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It can happen here.

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www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

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The Trump assault on higher education is not just about anti-Palestinian animus, which it is. It is also about shutting down independents spaces of dissent and critique. x.com/Shanfaraa/st...

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They go where they can yank the money first, is what I think it is. Tons of med research (and physics and chem and engineering and…) is tied up in ARL, DOD, DARPA, NSF, NIH. Easy hits.

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Donald Trump is back to using "Palestinian" as a slur and invoking the trope that someone cannot be Jewish unless they are — according to him — sufficiently in support of the Israeli government

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how will jewish americans ever be safe if you do not deport people who say on cnn, "Anti-Semitism and any form of racism has no place on campus and in this movement."

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"I think it would be very devastating for me and for him to meet his first child behind a glass screen," Abdalla said, adding that Khalil had insisted on doing all the cooking, laundry and cleaning through her pregnancy. "I've always been so excited to have my first baby with the person I love.”

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"To our knowledge, no major university leadership has publicly denounced the attack on Columbia or Mahmoud Khalil. In the face of an open assault on a peer Ivy League institution and basic principles of free speech, Harvard remains silent." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Knight Institute statement. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

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A retired university president can finally say this out loud & on the record: where are the others?

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Over the past 2 yrs, I’ve been thinking a lot about the unquestioned assumptions that define the worldview of many Jewish Americans when it comes to the ideas of safety and vulnerability — a 🧵 (excerpted from a recent essay I wrote, link at the end). threadreaderapp.com/thread/19009...

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"We will clean Gaza from every potential murderer, and everyone there is a potential murderer" Member of Knesset Michal Woldiger, of Religious Zionism party, expressed explicit genocidal intent, in a clip filmed during a conference in Eilat on February 25. x.com/ireallyhatey...

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Why sociologists should speak out about Palestine. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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This is why Zionists are so intent on terrorizing people from speaking out about their crimes against Palestinians: without a counter-narrative, their propaganda goes unchallenged, and most people will believe it. Fight for academic freedom! www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Perhaps the most devastating part of this harrowing UN report is the attack on Gaza's maternity, fertility and reproductive health clinics, attacks which the commission describes as genocidal acts. The IDF bombing of the Basma IVF Centre killed 4,000 embryos. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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My God, they’re pretty much down to desecrating military graves. taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...

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I don't think other academics have yet internalized that the targeting of universities is taking specific, disciplinary shapes: medical/public health/bio research is on the chopping block, as is the study of the MENA region/Muslims; "diversity"-oriented disciplines like Black studies are next...

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Palestinians in Gaza's border areas have continued to be killed and injured on a daily basis since the ceasefire began in mid-January. A resident of Shuja'iyya tells Mondoweiss, "The war has not stopped, quite the opposite. The war intensified."

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Bravo to House Ds for standing strong. Given them everything you got to flip the House. Not a penny for anyone voting for this abomination

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