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David Álvarez

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Prof/translator ~ Palestinian lit ~ Migration & borderization @ the Strait of Gibraltar in Moroccan, Spanish, & Gibraltarian arts ~ The (very) occasional poem

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David Álvarez

7 months

My translation of Refaat Alareer's "If I Must Die" into Gibraltarian vernacular ("zhanito") In memoriam Dr. Refaat Alareer, @itranslate123 , @ThisIsGaZa , @GazaWritesBack , alive in our hearts. May you rest in peace & in power, comrade. Ke dehkanseh en pâ y en poderío, kamarada.

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319 translations of Refaat's "If I must die"

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2 months

Democrats insist that Biden is the last defense against American-style fascism. Yet in Biden’s America this is the face of the establishment’s response to student encampments on campus after campus.

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@ayaghanameh Isn't it antisemitic to drip sweat & lotion onto the posters?

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9 months

In her last message to me, Huda Susi @HudaSusi33 , a writer & translator in Gaza, wrote: "I'm not sure if I'll finish writing this email, & even if I do, survival in this barbaric Israeli attack is uncertain." Yesterday, I found out that the Zionist war machine took Huda's life.

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@melnickjeffrey1 Charles Manson founded a death cult in adulthood. Eylon Levy was raised in one from an early age.

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7 months

An animation of Refaat Alareer's final poem, "If I must die," which has gone viral in many languages, a fitting outcome for this translator whose passion for translation as a political act is inscribed in his personal handle, @itranslate123 Compañero Refaat Alareer, ¡presente!

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7 months

“If I must die, you must live, to tell my story.” - @itranslate123

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@SanaSaeed Against very stiff competition, Blinken must be one of the most depraved Secretary of States in all of US history. Off the top of my head the only *even more depraved & cold blooded* Secretary of Stare that comes to mind is Blinken’s idol & mentor, Kissinger.

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Huda's 2 little boys have survived, as has her husband, who in addition to losing Huda lost 7 relatives. Huda was a gifted writer. In July we'd worked together on an essay she hoped to publish on the 2021 aggression. She's survived by her sister, @NourGaza . May she rest in power.

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2 months

Academics against students against genocide

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8 months

Italian football fans (FC Lecce) telling it like it is: “Let’s call things by their proper names. In Gaza they are massacring unarmed civilians. There’s no justification for that!”

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4 months

A demo against the #GazaGenocide & for a free Palestine with 300+ people in it just took place in my native Gibraltar (population 30,000). To hold the march, the organisers had to endure smears, threats, & multiple attempts by the authorities to quash it. They held firm.

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4 months

@_amroali Brilliant protest. It was really well coordinated and every protestor was on point. Though judging by her canned reply to their impassioned testimonies, Gillibrand is a lost cause.

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9 months

Appalling footage via @palinfoen of Gazans retrieving the bodies of dead youth from the rubble. What, I wonder, do the Israeli pilots who inflict such massacres do after work? Have a drink at a trendy Tel Aviv night club? Put their kids safely to bed in a West Bank settlement?

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Extremely graphic/ Palestinians retrieve the bodies of several victims all civilians and mostly children as a result of an Israeli massacre in Khan Tunis. #israel #gaza

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@AbAb99s @sasa_ghada has written a fine article on this topic & on other examples of Zionist green colonialism

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9 months

“If we remain alive after this war, we will give all the things we have diminished their due: we will cry for our martyrs and tell their details. We will embrace each other and console everyone who has lost what they have lost. We will find some way to live again!” @NourGaza

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إن بقينا أحياء بعد هذه الحرب، سوف نعطي كل الأشياء التي اختزلناها حقها: سنبكي شهدائنا وسنروي تفاصيلهم. سنحضن بعضنا ونواسي كل ذي فقدٍ فيما فقد. سنجد طريقةً ما لنحيا من جديد!

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7 months

@Gaza_Psych This curious linguistic tic is happening all over the anglosphere. Politicians & “journalists” alike are all pronouncing “Hamas” as KHamas, KHamas, KHamas! In your professional view, might this be a symptom of unconscious identification with Israelis? A desire to sound like them?

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9 months

So many bright lights extinguished, so much unnecessary suffering caused by a colonial ideology that only produces racism, hatred, bloodlust, self-delusion, & savagery. I feel sick to my stomach, & as a friend put it to me this morning, "as useless as international law."

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David Álvarez

1 year

Brilliant to see @m7mdkurd make smug Lord Ricketts wince & squirm! The Baron was national security advisor in David Cameron’s anti-Palestinian govt. & later served as strategic advisor to war profiteers Lockheed-Martin. Linking Lord Ricketts w/ Lord Balfour = le coup-de-grâce!

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Mohammed El-Kurd

1 year

The BBC invited me to talk about Al-Aqsa, but *of course* had two “experts” (who I didn’t know were gonna be there) condescend to me about rockets instead.

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9 months

3-minute video of the devastation visited upon Gaza & on the displacements it causes, as experienced by Palestinian CNN reporter, Ibrahim Dahnan, his wife, & their two boys. Not to be missed. #Gaza_under_attack

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@equalityAlec Among the NYT’s many appalling “explainers” and editorials on Gaza, and against very stiff competition, Lopez’s mis-explainer on why aid isn’t getting to those who need it ranks as one of the most egregious. What it leaves out of the frame is as important as what it distorts.

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David Álvarez

7 months

Even for non-Palestinians, it's costly to stand up for 🇵🇸 In my case those costs include: * harassment & ostracism at work * libel by Zionist students & orgs * loss of friendships & family ties But the gains-- @itranslate123 's comradeship, for instance--are priceless. Free🇵🇸

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7 months

@MouinRabbani “Three battalions of teghorr forces.” They’re really laying it on thick, aren’t they? Their overblown rhetoric seems to swell in inverse proportion to their actual grip on things.

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David Álvarez

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@losotrosjudios @ElOjoEn El hecho de que una mujer de clara ascendencia europea pueda afirma sin parpadear que un país ubicado en Asia occidental “es nuestro” confirma su talante racista y colonialista.

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David Álvarez

3 months

@hebagowayed "The student shoved her" "The antisemitism to which I've been subjected" Only someone endowed w/ inordinate power & privilege can spout such toxic lies & expect to get away w/ spouting them. Thankfully, the @NLGnews has published a corrective 👇 And solidarity w/ Malak Afaneh

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David Álvarez

2 years

These two statements need to be read alongside each other: @MuhammadSmiry ’s & @BreeNewsome ’s: Folks celebrate the sinking of a Russian ship as a victory for democracy but cops are still murdering us with impunity in the USA & it’s crickets

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Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸

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Every morning in Palestine there's a Palestinian killed while the world is silent.

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David Álvarez

7 months

The horrors of the Nazi bombardment of the Basque town of Gernika were immortalized by Picasso. As @JorgeRTolosa reports, 86 years after Gernika sounded its sirens to warn of the impending Nazi attack, the town sounds its sirens again to denounce the bombings & genocide in #Gaza .

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7 months

86 años después de que sonasen las sirenas por el bombardeo nazi, Gernika vuelve a hacer sonar las sirenas contra los bombardeos y el genocidio israelí en Gaza.

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@thrasherxy I think you speak for many millions of us, Steven, not just in the USA where you and I live but also in Canada, the UK, Australia, and all the other insufferable neoliberal states whose so-called leaders insist on collectively punishing the Palestinians & on gaslighting us.

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David Álvarez

1 year

@rohantalbot I wonder what Ms. Reeves would say about the anger that Sir Gerald Kaufman expressed in Parliament & elsewhere over Israel’s assaults on Gaza? Were Sir Gerald still around to denounce Israeli state terror, Reeves & Starmer would probably have him kicked out of the Labour Party!

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David Álvarez

8 months

If there were Nobel Prizes in gaslighting the Palestinian people and in desecrating the memory of their martyrs, today genocide-enabler Joe Biden would handily have won both.

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David Álvarez

4 months

In a case reminiscent of @stevesalaita ’s firing, decolonial scholar @Jairo_I_Funez , an outspoken advocate for Palestinian liberation, has been suspended by his university , @TexasTech , whose president has knowingly conflated antisemitism and anti-Zionism. #TheNewMcCarthyism

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4 months

So my university placed me on suspension today.

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8 months

"You cannot decry Israel as a colonial apartheid state w/ all the horrors that implies and then pontificate about the appropriate methods to resist it. Decolonization is not an academic thought experiment; it is Algeria, it is Haiti, it is Vietnam."

The world would rather show solidarity with our corpses than honor our resistance

It’s easy to show solidarity with powerless victims who endure their suffering with stoicism. But Palestinians chose to break free of their cage, even if it shattered the image of perfect victimhood.

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2 months

It’s a good thing that for the most part today’s students have no idea about the absolute garbage that passes for respectable journalism in US legacy media. Like this utterly irresponsible & reprehensible take on the campus Gaza solidarity movement by CNN propagandist Dana Bash.

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2 months

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.

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8 months

I don't think I've ever read a more concisely eloquent description/ denunciation of Zionism as a death cult & as a killing machine. From the inimitable pen of @stevesalaita #FreePalestine

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Steven Salaita

8 months

I hope Westerners now understand that Palestinians have no choice in how Israel behaves. It kills when we're calm. It kills when we're upset. It kills when we're active. It kills when we rest. Death is Israel's only answer to our presence on this earth.

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2 months

@nasawiyya Something is very wrong with that department.

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David Álvarez

2 years

"We should defend victims of imperialism & state violence, no matter who the perpetrator. Palestinian children. Yemeni children. Somali children. Syrian children. Afghan children. Ukrainian children. They are the victims...They need us to stand up for them against global powers"

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Peter Daou

2 years

MY POSITION: Condemn ALL warmongers. #Ukraine ️ #UkraineRussianWar

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1 year

@_ZachFoster "I'm an Arab Jew" "You're funny" "No, I'm quite serious" "Arab Jew? I've never heard of that" ... "How can you say 'Arab Jew' when all the Arabs want is to destroy the Jews?" How can you say 'European Jew' when the Europeans have already destroyed the Jews?" Sami Shalom Chetrit

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David Álvarez

4 months

These airdrops are among other things visual emblems of Biden Administration & Dem establishment politics as a whole: * mostly show, hardly any substance * woefully wrongheaded & inadequate * inhumane & humiliating * environmentally damaging * anti-Palestinian to the core

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Hunger Games Humanitarianism.

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9 months

@itranslate123 @intifada @AliAbunimah What awful news, Refaat. I’d corresponded w/ Huda since shortly after she published her 2nd piece in EI, & this past summer I worked w/ her on a different essay. Such a talented writer & lovely soul. I can’t believe she’s gone. Do you know if her sons & husband are still alive?

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David Álvarez

2 years

Yesterday, UK activists mobilised to prevent the deportation of refugees to Rwanda. Today, Spanish activists are mobilising to close down “foreigner internment centres.” Activism against Europe’s deportation machine grows stronger by the day & is increasingly led by refugees

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2 years

Hoy es 15J: Día por el cierre de los Centros de Internamiento de Extranjeros. Hoy nos centramos en #disidenciaDeportada . En estos centros se NOS encierra para deportarnos #CIEsNO Canción: #Regulariza en apoyo a la #ILPRegularizacion 🙌🏾

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3 months

It's mostly academics I follow in Border & Migration studies who in most cases have nothing to say about the #GazaGenocide or about Palestinian liberation. In contrast, activist intellectuals like @HarshaWalia & @_maxgranger have a lot to say about all of these matters.

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David Álvarez

2 years

Watching Israeli thugs beat pallbearers reminds me of similar scenes from apartheid South Africa, where funerals were also attacked & mourners also fought back. Israel is losing the plot. & these scenes suggest that as per @AliAbunimah , it’s also losing the battle for Palestine

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2 years

⭕ LIVE: Israeli occupation forces are beating crowds carrying the casket of killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh ⤵️

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@sasa_ghada Such a beautiful voice! Last semester, I played my students two music videos with Rahaf and her band ( @solbandgaza ), one of which shows them performing atop a wharf at Gaza’s harbor front. I hope her fellow band members are also safe (well, “safe”) & are able to revisit the sea.

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7 months

"Even though Dr. Refaat is no longer with us, his story lives on. His death has sparked a bit of Refaat in everyone who loved him. Anyone talking about Palestine now carries a piece of Refaat within them." A tribute to #RefaatAlareer by Asmaa Abu Matar.

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Refaat Alareer was killed because his message reached the world

The struggle for justice will persist.

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6 months

@Elis_Gj Birds of a genocidal feather flock together. (With apologies to the two-winged denizens of the skies.)

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1 year

Looking at this photo & watching footage of people in Jenin celebrating the retreat of the colonizer’s forces, I’m reminded of the final scenes of The Battle of Algiers. Amid the haze of the destruction that the occupying army’s wreaked the people defiantly take to the streets.

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1 year

"Return" on the plaque at the entrance to Jenin Refugee Camp sooner than we know....

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3 months

@SanaSaeed Hard to believe she calls herself a "rule breaker" in her profile when she subserviently follows the unspoken rules of US corporate media coverage of Palestine; e.g., always soft-soap Zionist viewpoints (& rehearse Zio talking-points) & always browbeat anti-Zionist perspectives

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1 year

@kuzbarah I’ve been aware of UK Lawyers for Apartheid’s malevolent malpractice for some time now. Is UK Hospitals for Apartheid a new outfit?

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David Álvarez

2 years

Useful stats provided by @nandosigona , which show, among other things, that Poland’s government, no friend to the wrong sort of refugee, has admitted close to 1 million Ukrainians, & that the UK government, no friend to any sort of refugee, hasn’t even admitted 100 of them

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Nando Sigona

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#Refugee arrivals from #Ukraine (5/3) Poland: 885,303 Hungary: 169,053 Slovakia: 113,967 Republic of Moldova: 84,067 Romania: 71,640 Other EUMS: 157,000 UK: 50 In response to @Ianblackford_MP & @LSRPlaid , shameless @BorisJohnson claims the UK is already doing a lot for refugees

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6 months

@Jairo_I_Funez “We hope Israel’s leaders grasp their situation as a settler-colonial state” is an odd thing to say, especially for a journal of settler colonial studies. Israel’s leaders & the leaders of the Zionist movement have grasped it for 75 years and more. That’s the core of the problem!

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8 months

@NourGaza on parenting: "Every moment in our lives is difficult, and just keeping my nerve and composure in front of 3 children is a miracle. My kids miss their home and crush my heart with questions...I havent slept for 26 days. Maybe my lack of sleep protects them in some way"

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وين نروح؟

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كل لحظة في حياتنا صعبة، ومجرد الحفاظ على أعصابي ورباطة جأشي أمام 3 أطفال معجزة. أطفالي يفتقدون منزلهم ويسحقون قلبي بالأسئلة. لا أعرف كيف صرت أجيد احتضان 3 أطفال مرة واحدة. لا أنام منذ 26 يوماً، لعل عدم نومي يحميهم بطريقةٍ ما.

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7 months

Hilary Clinton publicly shamed by Columbia University students on the same day as her beloved Henry Kissinger finally stops desecrating the world with his insulting presence. Anti-imperialists don’t often have much to celebrate, but today we’ve had two reasons to raise a glass!

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Layla 🪬

7 months

At today’s sit in for palestine, Hillary Clinton was shamed out of the SIPA building. She teaches a class at Columbia University and has refused to let students ask her questions about Palestine.

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@ZahiraJaser @Gattocolfilo1 Every 2 weeks, at the start of our dept. meeting, I updated my colleagues on the status of several guests from Gaza who virtually visited my classes in 2022-23. I also made it a point to describe Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s universities. Every 2 weeks, I was met with silence.

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8 months

Those of us old enough to recall the global mobilizations against S. African apartheid feel a sense of déjà vu upon seeing this week's massive demos against #GazaGenocide . S. African apartheid fell; Israeli settler-colonial apartheid will fall too. @Africa4Pal #World4Palestine

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8 months

Massive pro-Palestine Demo in Kerala, India

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7 months

It's been a week since #Refaat Alareer ( @itranslate123 , @ThisIsGaZa ) was assassinated in an airstrike that also took the lives of 2 of his siblings, a nephew, & three nieces. May the cowardly murderer who fired the missile & the war criminals who planned the murder burn in hell.

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Middle East Eye

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Professor Refaat Alareer was killed by Israeli forces, his friend announced on Thursday. Alareer was a co-founder of the ‘We Are Not Numbers’ project, a professor at the Islamic University of Gaza, and one of Gaza's most prominent writers, poets & activists

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Finally got around to printing a flyer in honor of Refaat Alareer to affix to my English Department office door & to share with departmental colleagues. Compañero Refaat Alareer, ¡presente! @itranslate123 , @ThisIsGaZa , @GazaWritesBack , @chefalize

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8 months

@fidaazaanin Those labels are about as convincing as that medic who turned out to be a Mexican actress

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3 months

@hebagowayed Keenly looking forward to the day when all the space that the likes of Yoseph Haddad & Shai Davidai will take up will be that of a very minor footnote in the history of late Zionism’s terminal unraveling. In the meantime, thanks for handling their obnoxiousness so deftly!

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David Álvarez

6 months

Palestinian print journalist @aselmousa isn't as well known to western audiences as @byPlestia or @wizardbisan , but for the past 2 months she's been doggedly reporting from the ground in Gaza. She's also penned tributes to her colleague #RefaatAlareer & to some of their students

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Aseel Mousa

6 months

The conflict has filled hospital wards with patients classified by the abbreviation “WCNSF” – “wounded child, no surviving family”. My reporting on the ground with @julianborger for @guardian #Gaza_Genocide

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@RandaAFattah @PalStudies "The Israelis' collective memory of fighters characterized by 'purity of arms' is...undermined by the evidence of rapes committed in conquered towns & villages [in 1948]". Thus Israeli historian Benny Morris, who is no friend to Palestinians. Every accusation is a projection!

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David Álvarez

2 years

Mass protests against the massacre perpetrated at Melilla began taking place across Spain today & will continue taking place over the next few days. The number of young men on the move that were wounded & killed by Moroccan & Spanish border guards keeps rising #violentborders

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Yeison F. García López

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2 years

Concentraciones contra la #masacreMelilla . Os dejo por aquí los carteles de las concentraciones que están saliendo a lo largo del territorio. Aquí tenéis los de Sevilla, Madrid, Granada y Cádiz. Abajo: Valencia, Bilbao y Barcelona.

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7 months

I wasn't able to get any scholarly research or writing done this term. But I did experience the joy of giving away 20+ free copies of this beautiful book edited by the great @itranslate123 & featuring contributions by @NourGaza , @YousefAljamal , @GazaSubaltern , @Saritah_91 et al.

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David Álvarez

5 months

@PolkAwards The NYT is probably unsurpassed in its uncritical propagation of Israeli govt. talking points, although CNN might give it a run for its money. But does this sort of stenography deserve any kind of award? PS It's not an "Israel-Hamas war". It's Israel's war on Gaza & its people

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David Álvarez

8 months

Another photo from writer @AreejRantis , who's survived 4 previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, & who during the ongoing #Gaza_Genocide has twice narrowly escaped being murdered by Israel's bombs. Apropos these close shaves Areej writes: "We're surprisingly alive" #CeasefireNOW

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@sarahleah1 @David_Cameron @PhilipRBarton It comes as no surprise to discover that bumblingly tongue-tied though he appears to be over Gaza, Barton proudly sports a “UKraine Together” logo on his Twitter profile.

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David Álvarez

1 year

I'm about to start teaching a course/module on settler colonialism & resistance to it in testimonial literary texts from S. Africa, Guatemala, & Palestine & am glad to have found this bracing article by @MuriamDavis on trans[settler]colonial imaginaries

Settler Entanglements from Citrus Production to Historical Memory - MERIP

Although settler colonies are often depicted as unique and distinctive, Muriam Haleh Davis argues that analyzing settler colonialism in a global framework reveals their multiple commonalities. Here...

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David Álvarez

6 months

"Say, too, that I love life, happiness, freedom, children’s laughter, the sea, coffee, writing, Fairouz, everything that is joyful—though these things will all disappear in the space of a moment." Part of writer Nour al-Din Hajjaj's last message. @lithub

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These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza.

One of my dreams is for my books and my writings to travel the world, for my pen to have wings so that no unstamped passport or visa rejection can hold it back. Another dream of mine is to have a …

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David Álvarez

6 months

@AliAbunimah @washingtonpost @intifada In her timeline she reposts Bari Weiss & speaks warmly of onetime Irgunist Eli Wiesel, the same Wiesel who re: the 1982 Sabra & Shatila massacre of Palestinian civilians stated "I don’t think we should even comment” & noted that he felt "sadness–-w/ Israel, & not against Israel”

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David Álvarez

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@TameeOliveFern @TalulaSha After the 2002 assault on Jenin refugee camp by Zionist forces, the Israeli writer Michel Warshawski wrote that the symbol of Israel was no longer the Star of David but the bulldozer. He said this in reference to a bulldozing rampage carried out by a Kurdish settler in the IOF.

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David Álvarez

6 months

@Rrrrnessa I’ve passed the list along to a student of mine whose parents are survivors of the Bosnia genocide. He tells me me that they know many fellow survivors in the greater Grand Rapids, Michigan area where he & I both live and he imagines that quite a few will want to sign on.

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David Álvarez

3 months

An incisive analysis of an instantly infamous image: that of a white liberal law professor aggressively silencing a Palestinian hijabi student. It’s always ugly when liberals vent their racist rage. But it’s also salutary to see the violence lurking behind the veneer of civility

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professor mir 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine

3 months

Below is a powerful analysis of this photo by Hend. I specialize in higher education culture, and this photo is also a study in Muslim and Palestinian students on U.S. university campuses. 🧵

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David Álvarez

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@Remroum About the Sabra & Shatila massacre, former Irgunist Elie Wiesel declared "I don’t think we should even comment," & then noted that he felt "sadness–-with Israel, and not against Israel." Not a word about the Palestinians slaughtered in the camps under Ariel Sharon's watch.

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David Álvarez

6 months

Netanyahu admin spox Eylon Levy adopts a whiny tone when pressed to explain his boss’s references to Amalek. But when the anchor notes that this situation didn’t start on Oct 7, Levy angrily warns him not to contextualize that day! S. Africa @ ICJ is making Levy & co stumble.

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Censored Men

6 months

🇬🇧🇮🇱 Israel's propaganda puppet, @EylonALevy , is pressed by Channel 4 (UK) journalist, Krishnan Guru-Murphy. "Why did Mr Netanyahu invoke such a violent biblical tale, if not, to prompt a genocide?"

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David Álvarez

3 months

For the first time since last summer, I combed through accounts I follow--1/2 of them Palestine-related, 1/4 of them border & migration studies-focused, the rest misc.--& was dispirited but not surprised to discover that most B & M accounts say not a word re: the #GazaGenocide

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David Álvarez

2 years

@UkraineLive2022 Before you crossed the border into Poland, did you happen to bump into any of the refugees from countries like Iraq & Yemen whom Polish border guards have been repelling with barbed wire, billy clubs, & police dogs? If so, it would be good to hear yr thoughts on their plight. 🙏

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David Álvarez

4 months

@_amroali Amanpour has finally had it with Regev's lies, yes. But she's five months too late. Ever since October, she's been rehashing Israeli talking points about Hamas & about Gaza. Having said that, it's good to see Regev sputter & squirm for a change.

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David Álvarez

1 year

At the press conference she held to announce the cutting of ties between Barcelona & the apartheid state, Mayor Ada Colau specified that the city is severing ties “with the state of Israel & with all its institutions, including the twin cities program”

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David Álvarez

8 months

Husam Zomlot bluntly calls out the abdication of responsibility & racism behind the BBC’s repeated invocation of the Zionist trope of “human shields”. Zomlot also puts the presenter in his place. The presenter comes back with…absolutely nothing.

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Fatima

8 months

Husam Zomlot is absolutely done with the BBC loool 😭😭 I felt that sigh at 00:14 in my bones!!!

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David Álvarez

1 year

Striking analysis by @Jonathan_K_Cook of the danger that Itamar Ben-Gvir poses as Internal Security Minister “With his ministerial powers and a national platform to amplify his incitement, it is only a matter of time before [Ben-Gvir] sets things alight”

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Is Ben-Gvir preparing a holy war against the Palestinians?

By visiting Al-Aqsa, the Jewish Power leader showed he has the whip hand - and there are surely more provocations up his sleeve

www.middleeasteye.net

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David Álvarez

7 months

Getting ready to take part in a teach-in on #Gaza_under_attack at my uni this evening. It's been sponsored and organized by two Black fraternities on campus. I've noticed a real hunger among my own students for public discussion of the genocide. Hoping for a good turnout!

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David Álvarez

8 months

Photos of solidarity march with Palestine in Mexico City. #Gaza_Genocide #Stop_the_bloodshed_in_Gaza #PalestinaLibre #FreePalestine

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Voices in Movement

8 months

In a historic march, more than 5,000 people & 50 organizations join together in Mexico City in defense of the Palestinian people. Stop the massacre, stop the genocide! Free Palestine! 💚❤️🖤🤍

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David Álvarez

4 months

@bradleyrsimpson Well said. And contrast their utter lack of principle, rigor, and integrity with the principled and courageous professionalism of Palestinian journalists who continue to work and to honor their profession amid the horrors of the #GazaGenocide and at the cost of their very lives.

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David Álvarez

8 months

A haunting series of drawings depicting childhood & family life as they should be in Gaza versus childhood & family life being destroyed by #IsraeliTerror Via Palestine Info Center, @palinfoen #Gaza_Genocide #CeasefireForGazaNOW #FromtheRivertotheSeaPalestineWillbeFree

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Palestine Info Center

8 months

Gaza: What should be! #PalestineHolocaust #CeasefireForGazaNOW #IsraeliNewNazism #GazaGenocide

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David Álvarez

3 months

@Jairo_I_Funez "the only person I really trust to explain Fanon-Adam Shatz" has to be one of the weirdest statements ever made about Fanon!

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David Álvarez

8 months

I'm haunted by the thought that a young university graduate I know might have been killed in this heinous attack on Jabalia camp. I don't usually think in theological terms but it's hard not to regard Gaza's destruction as an expression of sheer evil!

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David Álvarez

2 years

Amid the protests against the massacre of asylum seekers at Melilla that have been roiling Spain, one protest hasn’t been getting quite the visibility it deserves, one staged in solidarity w/ their fallen comrades by residents of the migrant detention center in Melilla itself

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IRÍDIA

2 years

Atención‼️ Esta mañana unas 100 personas residentes en el CETI de Melilla han realizado una protesta contra la #MasacreMelilla Exigen una investigación internacional e independiente por los graves hechos que han acabado con la vida de 37 personas.

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David Álvarez

9 months

If you don't already do so, please follow Huda's sister, Nour at @NourGaza and her teacher & mentor, Professor Refaat Alareer @itranslate123 & @ThisIsGaZa

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David Álvarez

8 months

@SEltantawi Interrupted sleep most nights. Also, on my daily walks to work I’m experiencing a kind of hallucination in which I imagine every building I’m seeing—schools, hospitals, a cathedral, restaurants, & more—damaged or destroyed by bombs. I’m especially experiencing this at my own uni.

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David Álvarez

4 months

@JustaCoinToss @_amroali One of them was apoplectic with rage! Another looked as though he was about to take a swing at the protestor with his walking stick! I guess that denial is crazy-making when it’s confronted with the truth!

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David Álvarez

2 years

In a week that's brought us @4noura 's visionary essay on indigenous resurgence in Palestine & on the visions of a liberated future that impel it, how lovely it is to hear Palestinians of all ages reply to the question, "What's the first thing you'll do once Palestine is free?"

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David Álvarez

4 months

Decolonial academic & activist @Jairo_I_Funez , actively supports the Palestinian liberation struggle & has consistently denounced the #GazaGenocide . As a result, an anti-Palestinian organization is demanding that he be fired. Statement in support of Jairo attached 4 us to sign.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد

4 months

Our friend @Jairo_I_Funez is the latest target of doxing and intimidation due to his pro-Palestine views by a right wing media outlet which has FOIA'd his private correspondence & called for his firing. Please sign on to show our support!

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David Álvarez

9 months

There aren't enough curses & curse-words in all of the world's languages to express the rage & sorrow I feel over the murders of @HudaSusi33 & so many thousands more at the hands of the Zionist war machine & all of its enablers. And no hell is deep enough to accommodate them all.

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David Álvarez

1 year

The demolition of family homes: a barbaric colonial practice inaugurated decades ago by British colonial troops that continues to be methodically pursued by their Zionist successors. Via @nour_odeh

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David Álvarez

1 year

Another crack in apartheid’s wall of impunity. @Africa4Pal reports that Israeli delegates to this week’s African Union’s summit were ousted from the proceedings. This welcome news comes less than 2 weeks since Barcelona cut ties with Israel’s apartheid regime. #BDS

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#Africa4Palestine

1 year

VIDEO: Israeli delegation physically ousted from African Union Summit following pressure from Algeria, South Africa, and other member states. Apartheid states are simply not welcome! ✊✊✊

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David Álvarez

4 months

@Jairo_I_Funez Bloody hell! What “antisemitism”? What “discriminatory harassment”? Solidarity, Jairo. Nosotrxs somos muchxs y ellxs son bien pocxs!

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David Álvarez

9 months

I remember a time in the west when the mere mention of Palestine was verboten in polite company & when support for Palestinian liberation was barely visible or audible. Many westerners are still allergic to Palestine, but look at the vast crowds that now support the cause!

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Henry Hakamäki

9 months

A pro-Palestine demonstration in Barcelona tonight, just take a look! 🇵🇸

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David Álvarez

4 months

Hundreds of people of all ages and from all walks of life, marching up Gibraltar’s main artery of commerce and sociability, Main Street/ La Kazhe Reá, all the way up to the Governor’s residence & the seat of the local executive, where they called for a ceasefire & for a free 🇵🇸

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David Álvarez

6 months

@gazanotice The #Gaza_Genocide has made clear that the Israeli slogan "Am Yisrael Chai," which is typically translated as "the people of Israel live," is the equivalent of the Nazi slogan "Juden raus" ("Jews out!") in our our time.

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David Álvarez

3 years

Glad to have been part of the team of scholars who've contributed chapters to this volume for @routledgebooks series "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature." Essays on literature, film, & the visual arts in relation to a variety of sites.

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David Álvarez

3 months

How to know absolutely nothing, understand even less, and sound completely self-assured anyway.

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David Álvarez

7 months

A booklet of #RefaatAlareer 's writings & miscellanea compiled by English Ph.D students at CUNY Grad Center. Brilliant! @YousefAljamal @JehadAbusalim @NourGaza @GazaSubaltern @Saritah_91 @AreejRantis @m7mdkurd @chefalize @HamdiTahrir @maureenclarem @norabf @tom_western

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toad from frog & toad

7 months

As part of our tribute to Refaat Alareer on Friday, English PhD students at the CUNY Grad Center put together a booklet of Dr. Alareer's writing among other items. Please circulate and use as you may need.

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