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Author, Towers of Ivory and Steel | UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow @UCRiverside

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@mayaywind
Maya Wind
8 months
20 years ago @PACBI called for the boycott of Israeli universities. Responding to this call, I wrote a book investigating Israeli universities' complicity in settler colonialism. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom is out today @VersoBooks
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Courageous students building libraries and negotiating for divestment and academic boycott across campuses and liberated zones: We have made Towers of Ivory and Steel available for free download for your use. Power to the students!
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Maya Wind
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As the new academic year begins, we must recommit to stand with our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza and to hold Israeli universities accountable for their role in destroying Palestinian campuses #AcademicBoycottNow
@JehadAbusalim
Jehad Abusalim ุฌู‡ุงุฏ ุฃุจูˆ ุณู„ูŠู…
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Gazaโ€™s two major university campuses, Al-Azhar University and the Islamic University, before and after they were bombed and destroyed by Israel.
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Maya Wind
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Huge congratulations to the phenomenal student and faculty organizers at Ghent on this victory! I had the privilege of meeting them at their encampent last week, and to witness not only their brilliant campaign building but also their deeply inspiring worldmaking
@PACBI
PACBI - BDS movement
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Groundbreaking update: After committing to cut ties with 3 Israeli academic institutions, Ghent University will now cut ties with *all* Israeli universities. It also commits leading the call for the EU to exclude Israel from EU research funding programs.
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Maya Wind
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To celebrate the historic wins across Belgian universities and to discuss how we continue to organize for full academic boycott, please join us for this great panel in Brussels this evening!
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Maya Wind
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While Nadera has just been released, she is not out of danger. We have to keep up the international pressure and hold Hebrew University accountable #AcademicBoycottNow
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Maya Wind
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Free Nadera!
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Maya Wind
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It was an honor to join @sareemakdisi @UssamaMakdisi and @KarimMakdisi on @MakdisiStreet to discuss how Israeli universities sustain settler colonialism and genocide and how we mobilize across our universities for #AcademicBoycottNow
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Makdisi Street
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๐ŸŽง NEW EPISODE ๐ŸŽง โ€œUniversities are complicit in Palestinian unfreedomโ€ w/ Maya Wind The brothers welcome @mayaywind , the author of Towers of Ivory and Steel, a searing critique of the Israeli academic establishmentโ€™s complicity in the regime of apartheid and genocide.
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Maya Wind
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Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a courageous scholar and activist. For years she has been the target of harassment campaigns for her uncompromising analysis. Today, Hebrew U suspended her so Zionist students can be "safe" from critique of #GazaGenocide #AcademicBoycottNow
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@mayaywind
Maya Wind
5 months
Across our campuses, Palestine is liberating us. This historic moment demands accountability. Looking forward to meeting faculty and student organizers in England and Scotland for conversations about how to decolonize our universities and organize for Palestinian freedom. Join us
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Maya Wind
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"Nuseirat, like all massacres committed by colonialists, whether in Algeria, South Africa, Ireland, or other settler colonies, will be a signpost in our long walk to freedom. Only those who stand on the right side of history can read the signs." Essential reading by @haidareid
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Al-Shabaka ุงู„ุดุจูƒุฉ
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"Nuseirat, one of Gazaโ€™s eight refugee camps, has become a major component of my national and class consciousness, a place of both destitution and revolution." By @haidareid for @Mondoweiss
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Maya Wind
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Israeli universities are complicit in this #AcademicBoycottNow
@EuroMedHR
Euro-Med Monitor
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Israel's targeted attacks have killed many academics in #Gaza , especially those with advanced degrees. The deliberate & pervasive targeting of educational institutions is an additional manifestation of the ongoing crime of genocide Israel has been committing since 7 October 2023
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Maya Wind
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A great template for academic boycott organizing
@PACBI
PACBI - BDS movement
2 months
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis pledges no ties with Israeli academic or other institutions complicit in Israelโ€™s genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity against Palestinians. ASCA further commits to no procurement from complicit companies.
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Maya Wind
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Huge congratulations to the amazing student and faculty organizers at Pitzer on this victory! Let us follow their lead and close all study abroad programs at Israeli universities #AcademicBoycottNow
@NationalSJP
National Students for Justice in Palestine
6 months
In "Towers of Ivory and Steel," @mayaywind positions the University of Haifa as a site of ongoing Israeli settler colonialism We consulted her text to generate a non-exhaustive list of reasons why U.S. academia should follow Pitzer's lead in boycotting any ties w/ the University
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Maya Wind
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It has never been more urgent to heed @PACBI 's call #GazaGenocide #AcademicBoycottNow
@PACBI
PACBI - BDS movement
7 months
Recommended book! Rich with groundbreaking research, the book illustrates how Israeli academic institutions are and have always been an integral part of Israelโ€™s crimes against Palestinians, which now include #GazaGenocide . Purchase via @Versobooks :
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Maya Wind
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Please read and share the latest Al Mezan report on scholasticide in Gaza
@AlMezanCenter
Al-Mezan ุงู„ู…ูŠุฒุงู†
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As millions of students worldwide start a new academic year, over 600,000 Palestinian school and university students in Gaza face another year of lost education due to Israel's ongoing genocide. Our latest:
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Maya Wind
5 months
The students organizers and @dutchscholarsforpalestine across encampments in the Netherlands are facing violent state repression but they are standing strong! Looking forward to learning from them and discussing how to mobilize for justice on all our campuses this week!
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Maya Wind
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Another important win! #AcademicBoycottNow
@PACBI
PACBI - BDS movement
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We commend the @AAUP for dropping its biased, unethical policy opposing academic boycotts, which was primarily aimed at shielding Israeli universities from accountability for their egregious human rights violations. Read our statement:
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Excited to be in conversation and to learn from student and faculty organizers across campuses and encampments about anticolonial solidarity. Friends in Ireland, hope to see you there!
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Maya Wind
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A call to academics: On this Palestinian prisoners' day, let us recommit to relentless organizing until our colleagues are free
@BirzeitU
Birzeit University
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On The Palestinian Prisonersโ€™ Day, we are reminded reminded by our students, ย scholars, and personnel that are detained in Israeli prisons. @Right2Edu
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Maya Wind
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It was truly inspiring to speak and strategize with the courageous students at the Warwick and UCL encampments this week. They are remaking the world. Support them and read their demands for divestment and academic boycott at Warwickstandswithpalestine and UCLstand4justice
@SSSN_WarwickUni
Warwick Student Staff Solidarity
5 months
biggest thanks @wwkstandspal for agreeing to host our talk with the brilliant @mayaywind today and to the amazing student occupier who joined us in conversation and helped us connect Mayaโ€™s work with the organising the students are doing around divestment.
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Maya Wind
8 months
As Israel commits scholasticide in Gaza, it is urgent to heed the call from @PACBI and @BDSmovement for #BDS . Israeli universities are complicit in settler colonialism, apartheid and genocide. Join the movement to remake higher education for liberation. #AcademicBoycottNow
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Maya Wind
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Really looking forward to thinking and building with student and faculty organizers at @CambridgeUCU and @cupalsoc
@REAL_Centre
REALCentre Cambridge
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TOMORROW 30 April 4pm Towers of Ivory and Steel: Israeli Universities and the Apartheid System Join us @CamEdFac for a book launch with @mayaywind @UBC moderated by @MahaShuayb @LebaneseStudies In collaboration with @CambridgeUCU @cupalsoc @bricup
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Maya Wind
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Chicago friends! Please join @thaqafatalhind and me for a teach-in on scholasticide and organizing for the academic boycott. Starting in one hour!
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Maya Wind
6 months
Please read and share this powerful essay by @thaqafatalhind on the colonial Israeli university and how Palestinian anticolonial pedagogy and writing will lead us all to freedom
@thaqafatalhind
Esmat Elhalaby
6 months
Toward an Intellectual History of Genocide in Gaza I wrote some preliminary notes, for Salim al-Nafar and the Palestinian people.
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Maya Wind
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Honored to join @JehadAbusalim for this conversation today at the @PalestineCenter
@PalestineCenter
The Palestine Center
7 months
Join us next week for a book talk featuring @mayaywind 's Towers of Ivory and Steel. Dr. Wind will discuss the role of Israeli universities in oppressing Palestinian rights. A must-attend for those interested in academia's role in political oppression. ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ March 21 | ๐Ÿ•› 12 PM |
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Maya Wind
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So grateful for the scholarship of the brilliant @DavarianBaldwin , whose pathbreaking work on the university is a model for us all and an inspiration for the book. I'm deeply honored by your support.
@DavarianBaldwin
Davarian L. Baldwin
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This is a GAMECHANGER! Scholar and activist #MayaWind blows the roof off the myth of the liberal Israeli university. She offers a forensic accounting of the varied layers of complicity between Israeli unis and settler colonialism in ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ. This is a book for the moment!
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In the midst of the student uprising, it was so inspiring to meet the amazing thinkers and organizers at @REAL_Centre , @LebaneseStudies , @CambridgeUCU , @cupalsoc , and particularly to learn from @MahaShuayb and @Weamhamdan about what justice in higher education should look like
@REAL_Centre
REALCentre Cambridge
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We are honoured to have @mayaywind with us today for her book launch: Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom Available from @VersoBooks to buy or download the ebook for free: @CambridgeUCU @cupalsoc @LebaneseStudies
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Maya Wind
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I am immensely grateful and humbled that @NadiaAbuElHaj1 and Robin D. G. Kelley are part of this book, and am truly honored to have the endorsement of brilliant thinkers @NaomiAKlein @DavarianBaldwin , J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Jessica Winegar, @sarahschulman3
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Maya Wind
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Toronto friends! Really looking forward to seeing you at UofT this afternoon, where I have the privilege to be in conversation with @thaqafatalhind and rosalind hampton
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Maya Wind
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Grateful for the brilliant leadership of student and faculty organizers at @Galway_ipsc , particularly @Rania_Muhareb , whose analysis of Israeli apartheid is indispensable for our organizing
@Rania_Muhareb
Rania Muhareb ุฑุงู†ูŠุฉ ู…ุญุงุฑุจ
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Powerful talk by @mayaywind @uniofgalway speaking about her book โ€˜Towers of Ivory & Steelโ€™ on universitiesโ€™ complicity in #IsraeliApartheid after the historic #BDS victory @tcddublin . Irish universities must cut ties with Israeli institutions & end complicity in #GazaGenocide 2/2
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Maya Wind
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As we work to heed the demands of courageous student organizers across encampments, I spoke with @redandinexpert at @poltheoryother about the complicity of Israeli universities in settler colonialism and #GazaGenocide , and the urgency to heed @PACBI 's call for #AcademicBoycottNow
@poltheoryother
Politics Theory Other
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๐Ÿ“ขNEW EPISODE ๐Ÿ“ข @mayaywind on how, contrary to their reputation as bastions of freedom and pluralism, Israeli universities are directly complicit in the project to ethnically cleanse historic Palestine: @VersoBooks
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Maya Wind
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@NadiaAbuElHaj1 @NaomiAKlein @DavarianBaldwin @sarahschulman3 I am deeply indebted to the brilliant Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, @Lana_Tatour @4noura @shereneseikaly @haidareid , whose work has taught me so much over many years
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Maya Wind
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Got to spend the day with the amazing students at the Radboud encampment yesterday, where they showed us the path to the university and world we seek to build. Follow them and read their demands at @nijmegenencampment
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Maya Wind
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It was great to speak with @JournalSpectre about Israeli university complicity in genocide and the case for the academic boycott
@JournalSpectre
Spectre Journal
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Brand new interview with @mayaywind on her book new book on Zionist scholasticide, out now on @VersoBooks :
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Maya Wind
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I am always grateful for the opportunity to be in conversation with @Lana_Tatour . Friends in Australia, join us to discuss the complicity of Israeli universities in genocide and the work we must do across our own settler universities
@Lana_Tatour
Lana Tatour
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Folks in Australia. Join us for a conversation with โฆ @mayaywind โฉ on her important book "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom", hosted by the ANU Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies. Via Zoom. Thu 20 Jun, 12โ€“1pm.
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Maya Wind
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DC friends! Please join us tonight at 6pm at Busboys and Poets, 14th & V
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Maya Wind
5 months
Really looking forward to this conversation with @devikadutt , @SaraMarzagora and @LuqmaanWaqar this evening. London friends, please join us!
@devikadutt
Devika Dutt
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Join us for the next @KingsIntDev Interrogating Development Seminar series this academic year, with @mayaywind on her new book "Towers of Ivory and Steel" on May 2, 5 PM. Sign up here: Organized in collaboration with @kcl_sjp ! Hope to see you there!
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Maya Wind
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Really looking forward to being in conversation with @nevegordon and Tanzil Chowdhury tonight at @clsgcQM . London friends, please join us!
@clsgcQM
Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context
6 months
// BOOK DISCUSSION // Towers of Ivory, Towers of Steel: Israeli Universities and the Apartheid System @mayaywind . Learn how Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against Palestinians. Sign up here
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Maya Wind
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Brooklyn friends! Please join us tonight for a conversation about Israeli university complicity in genocide and the urgency of the academic boycott
@NationalSJP
National Students for Justice in Palestine
7 months
NYC! Come out today at 6pm EST to hear Maya Wind talk about her groundbreaking new book
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Free Nadera!
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Friends in Scandinavia! Looking forward to seeing you on campus. The new academic year demands of us a full #AcademicBoycottNow
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Maya Wind
8 months
This book builds on crucial work over decades of many Palestinian activists and academics, many of whom I cannot name to protect their safety, who have transformed my thinking about the questions that prompted this project
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Maya Wind
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University admins take notice!
@NYCLU
NYCLU
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BREAKING: We've notified @Columbia that they must reverse the unlawful suspensions of two student groups ( @ColumbiaSJP & @JVPColumbia ) for engaging in peaceful protest and to reinstate both chapters by March 1. If the university fails to respond by then, we're prepared to sue.
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Amplify the call from @Addameer . International intervention is urgently needed
@Addameer
Addameer โ€“ ุงู„ุถู…ูŠุฑ
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Today's raid at Sde Teman camp exposes severe abuses against Gaza detainees. We urgently call for the ICC to investigate and ensure accountability.
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Maya Wind
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Really looking forward to being back at SCA and to join @nikhil_palsingh in conversation about Israeli university complicity in settler colonialism and how we can remake our own universities for justice
@SCAatNYU
NYU SCA
8 months
Join us on 3/13 for a book talk with author and SCA alum, Maya Wind! Please RSVP to attend:
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Maya Wind
7 months
Please share this organizing guide for Israeli Apartheid Week 2024
@BDSmovement
BDS movement
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This IAW letโ€™s not just educate about Israeli apartheid! Letโ€™s escalate #BDS campaigning & take meaningful action to support the ongoing Palestinian struggle to dismantle it & end Israelโ€™s #GazaGenocide ! Check out the #IAW24 Organising Guide for more info!
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Maya Wind
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Deep gratitude to @_proletaricat_ for her vision and for believing in this project from the beginning and shepherding it over several years. And many thanks to @bravohotelpapa for his expert editorial support in the final stretch.
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Maya Wind
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ASA members! Please join @Soc4Pal today to discuss the urgency of joining the movement for #AcademicBoycottNow
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Maya Wind
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A must read from @meznaqato about Israel's destruction of Palestinian libraries, private book collections, and ministerial archives, and how we must refuse to participate in this erasure
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Maya Wind
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Really forward to being in conversation with @Ellie_AA87 in Newcastle today!
@Ellie_AA87
Ellie Armon Azoulay, PhD, #UCU
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I'm pleased to be moderating this event on @mayaywind important and timely book published by @VersoBooks The event has been co-hosted by @NCLsocsciences @NewcastleUcu @bricup See you all there.
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Maya Wind
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Call for actions on our campuses this week!
@sawporg
sawporg
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International Call to Action Against Scholasticide | Feb 18 โ€“ 29 @sawporg its international partners are calling on faculty and students globally to raise awareness & mobilize in an international campaign against Scholasticide in Palestine Share widely
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Maya Wind
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Please share this crucial resource widely
@sawporg
sawporg
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Join SAWPs International Actions Against Scholasticide from Feb 14-29 2024. #Scholasticide Toolkit A resource for organizing. Share widely. Upload photos & videos of your events & actions on scholasticide & tag us at #sawporg (on X & Instagram)
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Maya Wind
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@Lana_Tatour I am deeply grateful to be learning from you over many years @Lana_Tatour . Your writing has deeply shaped my thinking and this project ๐Ÿ™
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Maya Wind
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Crucial reading
@AlShabaka
Al-Shabaka ุงู„ุดุจูƒุฉ
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"This brutal campaign of torture & violence against Palestinian prisoners has so far led to the deaths of seven prisoners, in addition to an unknown number...of Palestinians killed at an Israeli military base in southern Palestine." - Basil Farraj
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Maya Wind
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@bravohotelpapa Your expert editing got me over the finish line Ben. Thank you so much for your support!
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Maya Wind
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@MinotaurLives So grateful for all that you do @MinotaurLives and for the critical work of CCMS
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