I want to shout out and thank my co-author
@nozomimeanshope
for getting the ball rolling on this article and putting together the first draft. So lucky to be collaborating with fellow anti-colonial and pro-Palestinian Uchinaanchu (Indigenous Okinawans).
"The shared experience of settler-colonial dispossession, particularly the role of the US, helps explain why many Okinawans support a free Palestine."
✍️ Opinion by
@Adam_Miyashiro
and
@nozomimeanshope
A thread on how it feels to be an anti-Zionist medievalist in our field, as one of the only Palestine advocates in medieval studies. I know I have no platform on here anymore but I can’t hold my tongue any longer.
A short thread on how much Norm Finkelstein loves to police Palestinian speech. In his latest book, he trashes Steven Salaita (
@stevesalaita
). He says his scholarship "left no discernible mark, and a large portion of it is barely intelligible."
This is precisely why Finkelstein's condescending tirade went down so poorly with the students. Yes I know a lot of people think he's great, but Palestinians have long been tired of his insistence on dictating to us. If you're about to lecture me too, don't waste your time.
The inventor of the phrase “Pallywood,” a racist trope that claims that Palestinians fake their own suffering (as evidenced even now in the absurd claim that a dead Palestinian baby was a “doll”) was a professor of medieval history in Boston (Richard Landes).
Just as when in 2016/2017, I had my work on colonial uses of “Anglo-Saxon” rejected from the ISAS conference in Honolulu, all my efforts to bring Palestine into the orbit of medieval studies went completely ignored.
Exclusive:
@qantas
has counselled a number of cabin crew who wore Palestinian flag badges on a flight, breaching the airline’s uniform policy. A passenger told us he felt intimidated and
@AustralianJA
is calling for staff involved to be sacked. Watch:
@KHAMCHANH
@diaspora_red
Asian Dawn is a reactionary, anti-Black, and right wing operation. Always has been. No wonder they are attacking an Asian pro-Palestine student.
Karl is correct: medieval studies IS not equipped to challenge Zionist racism in Palestine precisely because so many medievalists are Zionists themselves. Benjamin Netanyahu’s father was a medieval historian of Spain.
Medieval studies is completely and absolutely unequal to this moment but I think it would be worse if the field's chief organizations tried to do otherwise.
In 2012, I signed onto the academic boycott as part of the broader BDS movement among academics (before I was tenured), knowing about the potential risks of backlash and getting fired.
In 2014 and 2015, I advocated for Palestinian-American scholar Steven Salaita, inviting him to my campus to talk about his firing from University of Illinois.
In 2020, I gave a talk about Crusades appropriation at the Arizona State University that included how Zionist readings of the Crusades helped justify Israeli apartheid and colonization in the 20th and 21stcenturies.
Israeli medieval historian Joshua Prawer in his 1972 book The Crusaders’ Kingdom claimed that the Europeans created a medieval form of apartheid in Palestine, like what Israel was attempting to do (when apartheid still had a positive connotation).
In 2016, I joined the organizing committee for the US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and still serve on its advisory board (). I helped to organize opposition to the Cornell-Technion partnership.
Tbh I had been procrastinating abt getting this launched for months (years even), and after quite a few false starts, it finally actually exists. Mahalo nui to
@Adam_Miyashiro
for hanging out and talking story. All episodes are on Spotify here
I have been doing this work, quietly, without any need for validation or credit from my medievalist colleagues, from my small public institution, and almost all my advocacy has either been ignored on purpose or because it wasn’t popular.
@stevesalaita
Then proceeds to compare West Bank settlers (armed and supported by the Occupation army) to marginalized queer people (and by extension, claiming that Salaita sounds like an evangelical homophobe):
I wrote this piece to underscore how racist rhetoric is deployed to justify the brutal embargo and continual assaults on Gaza that have led to over 15,000 deaths and counting, including 7,700 children. Please read and share.
Firstly, who tf cares if he's white? Secondly, Zionism IS white supremacy, going back to European ultra nationalism and imperialism, which were ALSO white supremacy. Settler colonialism IS white supremacy.
Macklemore claims AIPAC and CUFI are part of a system of white supremacy.
First of all bro, you’re white. Second of all, those groups don’t exist to promote white supremacy. Israel is not based on white supremacy. It’s based on ZIONISM.
This is a 120 mm canister cartridge from a tank round. Kind of like a giant shotgun shell fired from a tank, filled with shot. The lofty ideals of the US and Zionist entity for killing as many people as possible in a wide range. See a demo here
I wrote this piece to underscore how racist rhetoric is deployed to justify the brutal embargo and continual assaults on Gaza that have led to over 15,000 deaths and counting, including 7,700 children. Please read and share.
Only the most gullible, politically uninformed journalists and pundits thought that Tulsi Gabbard was anything but a right wing Zionist war monger. She joined the US military in 2004 to join the "War on Terror," and spoke at Christians United for Israel in 2015 (pictured below).
She, like most, is apparently for sale
@TulsiGabbard
sold her soul for the cheap thrill of being considered for Vice President… and she would not hesitate to send her “brothers and sisters” to die in a war for Israel
"What flag is that!? How can you say that, you're a Jew!" -Zionist argues with Pro-Palestinian protesters in New York during the 'Day of Rage for Gaza'
I’m proud to be the
#RaceB4Race
Curriculum coordinator for this year for Throughlines. Wait till you see what we produce in terms of teaching Race and Global premodern literature!
We're excited to announce that Throughlines, a PCRS-focused teaching resource website, created by ACMRS to further the work of
#RaceB4Race
, will launch in Fall 2024. Sign up, stay tuned—this is just the beginning.
#AcademicTwitter
עדותה המצמררת של אחות מבית חולים שיפא.
"אנשי חמאס השטלתו על בית החולים הם גונבים את הדלק ואת התרופות".
את הסרטון הזה צריך להפיץ לכל העולם בכל השפות.
@DrEliDavid
@elicoh1
@IsraelMFA
My own students know more about the history of the "Middle East" (read: Arab world) than you because they aren't imperialist, colonialist, genocidal warmongers like you are.
Please tell us about the recent history of Libya since you were Sec of State? What happened to Libya?
Hillary Clinton criticizes pro-Palestinian protests and says many young people she’s spoken to “don't know very much at all about the history of the Middle East or, frankly, about history in many areas of the world.”
A woman supporter of the Israeli genocide,suffered a mental breakdown from a protest in support of Palestine in Tokyo,Japan
As the pro-Palestinian group chanted Israel is a terrorist state,the woman,who was clearly not Japanese.ran around shouting and insulting the Protestants.
Just a reminder that the US perpetrates the same kind of mass violence as Israel does. And they also prosecute the journalists who expose it in the same way that Israel does. If you object to Israel's mass violence, but not the US mass violence, just watch this video below.
#MLA2025
in New Orleans. Locating Palestine in Medieval Studies.
Please send 250-word abstracts to Adam Miyashiro (adam.miyashiro
@stockton
.edu) by March 17 with the subject heading MLA Abstract 2025. Link below.
To add to this (as a medievalist) the particular kind of trebuchet here is a counterweight trebuchet, whose earliest mention is made by Mardi ibn Ali al-Tarsusi, a 12th century military writer who served under the Sultan Salah ad-Din (Saladin) who defeated the Crusaders.
Tour guide on the Birthright bus: “Israel is the ONLY modern, progressive country in the Middle East!”
*Kid from Florida looks out the window to see the IOF launch a flaming rock from a medieval trebuchet*
This the old (and correct) theory about the "demographic threat" that the Zionists are so scared of. That's why they "mow the lawn" (the casual way they describe mass killings) and starve the population.
I love this professor so much. I listen to him all the time on TikTok. Here is giving us awesome home truths on why Israel never wants to see Palestinians integrated into any state.
Dawkins is a super hard core racist and bigot and chauvinist -- not just Islamophobic, but anti-Black and transphobic. He's just simply a white supremacist.
Richard Dawkins accused student protesters of antisemitism at his panel event - he then runs away when stumped on follow-up question by
@russelldobular
Indiana Jones was a colonizing grave robber, and the movies promoted one dimensional Islamophobic stereotypes of Arabs/Muslims. Archaeology was birthed out of Egyptology, which was begun by Napoleon's 1798 invasion of Egypt and began Orientalist colonial academia in Europe.
Hillary Clinton and “Hamilton’s” Lin-Manuel Miranda are reportedly stepping into the spotlight for President Biden’s campaign, hosting a Broadway-themed fundraiser together.
BREAKING: State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller's home was surrounded by protesters this morning. As Miller leaves for work, he turns to the protesters and says, "I hope you'll tell Hamas to accept the ceasefire."
Such a genocidal asshole. I can’t believe people thought he was a “progressive.” He’s further right than many Republicans but you know, the US is a settler colonial society built on genocide so it tracks.
I hope you lose all your followers, until you recognize the cynical way that the Holocaust is weaponized to justify the continual genocide, displacement, and erasure of Palestinians by the settler colonial ethnostate known as "Israel."
Our account has lost over 7,000 followers in December.
We continue to ask for your engagement. You create this incredible community and help us keep the memory alive.
Support
@AuschwitzMuseum
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Gaza city |
“These are the only uninvolved civilians in Gaza. We are taking care of them. Come here Fatima”
Israeli soldier Dor Dahan in Gaza city recorded himself in a video stating that animals are the only civilians in Gaza.
Nick Fuentes headed up Identity Evropa, the fuckers that doxxed me in 2017. They called me an “anti-white” racist and a terrorist and tried to get me fired. Fuck these guys. Fake anti-Zionists, they are just white supremacists. And fuck this dude who hosted them.
Wow, this blew up — fyi don’t boost StopZlonistHate! Sadly, they’re Anti-immigrant neo-Nazis who blame Jews for Muslim immigration.
They’re working to divert energy for 🇵🇸 liberation into fascist antisemitism, using your engagement to reach & recruit Tucker Carlson/MAGA types.
This is Israa University in Gaza being destroyed. This is destruction, violence, and hate. What happened at Columbia and around the country is done out of peace and love.
Today: Destruction, violence and hate overtake college campuses across the country with Jewish students feeling unsafe at their own schools. It is unacceptable, and harkening back to the 1930s in Europe. Our
@InsidePolitics
show open, here.
She also helped to deny tenure (fire) the amazing Lorgia García-Peña who wrote an excellent book on Black Dominican women as the Dean of FAS. Harvard under her watch also suppressed pro-Palestine voices:
Another takeaway is to remember that Claudine Gay was not pro Palestine. She used her leadership to suppress Palestinian voices. So a reminder to any person of color trying to maintain status/ hold onto power by doing the same; it will not save you.
Asian Dawn keeps showing itself as a reactionary, right wing op. Super anti-Black during 2020, most likely a Zionist and Asian-American militarist/imperialist/pro-cop account.
Another boba liberal arrested. I have a deep dislike for boba liberals, almost anything that they stand for, I stand against. I once had an argument with a boba liberal back in 2020, she basically lectured to me Asians don't have the right to defend themselves and we should allow
ISIS has officially taken responsibility for the twin bombings at the cemetery holding Qassem Soleimani's tomb yesterday that are now the deadliest attacks in the history of the Islamic Republic.
🔊LISTEN | “It’s a terrible argument”, says
@jacksonhinklle
, who argues that there is no similarity between early Native American “genocides” and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:
💬 “The old the Native American tribes were being used by the French and the British to launch
A counter-protester jumps up and down and hoots like a monkey toward a protester who was live-streaming on her phone at
@OleMiss
today.
Chants of “lock her up” as the Dean of Students (
@marsh_brent
) and multiple law enforcement agencies regain order.
On this Eid al-Adha, we recommit to our efforts to help build a more peaceful future in which all can enjoy freedom and prosperity. Eid Mubarak and Hajj Mabroor.
I’ve never used my university money to buy a computer because university purchased computers — even laptops — have “security” software that allows the university to remotely control your computer, meaning everything on there belongs to the institution and not you.
Speaking out while working for a
#university
?
Some tips to protect your career— cuz neither tenure nor the union will be enough.
(1) Put a copy of every file & email you care about your *own* computer or cloud. Do not leave anything valuable solely on university computing.
The University of Virginia is perfectly okay with white supremacists marching around, killing Heather Heyer, and saying "Jews will not replace us," but drags students protesting the genocide of Palestinians away in full riot gear. Thomas Jefferson would be quite proud.
I was skating in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, when an anti-Semitic, Israel, hating, pro Hamas thug, came over to me on the ice and screamed free Palestine, endangering me, as I was on the ice, and would not leave me alone. He said your name is Rabbi, Shuli, and you can’t
I was just thinking about how the Ivy League schools have always been on the wrong side of everything in their histories: colonialism, slavery, Jim Crow, all wars, gender equality, apartheid, Cold War, and Palestine.
A good law of history is that if you ever find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you are wrong. Every single time. In every era. No matter the issue.
Imagine having a medieval studies conference celebrating genocide supporters, while protesters are being threatened with arrest right outside. So fucking typical.
And I don't care what you think of me anymore. I said what I said.
US Sen. Elizabeth Warren describes Israel's targeting of an UNRWA displacement camp in Rafah yesterday as "horrific" and calls for an immediate ceasefire.
Last month, Warren voted to send $14 billion in weapons funding to Israel.
Destiny is so humiliated by his “cookies are Hamas” take that he starts panicking and firing off all the Hasbara talking points simultaneously T1000-in-lava style. Love watching this worm writhe.
Shoutout to
@ryangrim
and
@OmarBaddar
These settlers are destroying food aid for Gaza at a time when people in Northern Gaza are trying to survive on 245 calories per day (according to Oxfam ). Instead of these Israelis protesting the hostage release, maybe go down and stop these settlers. Fuck
Look at these Israeli settlers destroying aid on its way to Gaza. This is the very essence of the zionist settler project. How dare anyone reduce this to a ‘government’ when this is the soul of the project, how it came to be and how it continues
Can everyone please stop the dumb "from the river to the sea" chant? It is incredibly hurtful to our Jewish brothers and sisters. It's also incredibly counterproductive to protecting Palestinians. Do not chant something that majority thinks is call for genocide. Not complicated.