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Mezna Qato

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3 months

The way UNRWA was political, economically, and intellectually disemboweled is a monumental historic crime.

UNRWA

@UNRWA

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Due to Israeli Forces operations, thousands of families have been forced to flee. All of @UNRWA 36 shelters in Rafah are now empty. 1.7 million people are estimated to be displaced in Khan Younis and #Gaza Middle Areas. The humanitarian space continues to shrink. #CeasefireNOW

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Quite a few of those killed were Palestinians. To be honoured in this way by the natives of another settler colony is incandescent in its power. And a reminder, in the midst of this rise of violence, to remember the terrors far more immense you’ve faced down for centuries.

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Incredibly emotional display of the famous #NewZealand Haka performed to honor the victims of the #NewZealandMosqueAttack

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Professor Steve Tamari is a historian of the early modern Middle East. He is a Palestinian Quaker from Jaffa and Little Rock. I look forward to a statement from the American Historical Association.

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One of many consistencies in so many university statements the last seven months is how rarely, if ever, they seem to realise that they may have Palestinian students and faculty, let alone from Gaza.

Talya Cooper

@talya_cooper

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why don’t they ever say that Palestinian students and protestors are also valued members of the university community

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Truly sad - Nawal Al-Saadawi was a giant, and fearless feminist. I once spent a long evening with her early during the Iraq war, and her fury and disgust vibrated in a way I’ll never forget.

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4 years

The news from Karachi is utterly terrifying. Climate catastrophe is already here.

Assaad Razzouk

@AssaadRazzouk

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Karachi, population 15 million, is largely underwater: Pakistan's biggest city had it roads turned to rivers, its houses destroyed and its people fleeing to shelters - suffering from its worst floods since records began #climate

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Keep receipts. Screenshot everything you see, especially by prominent individuals and institutions - state and non-state - that aided the atmosphere that got us here. Help build a new Palestinian archive: one bound to a future of accountability for genocide.

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Desmond Tutu on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1989 in Palestine during the First Intifada. His solidarity at the height of the Intifada was seismic, galvanizing and heartening Palestinians when Rabin’s “Breaking Bones” policy was fraying at morale.

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children of the nakba. three never grew old.

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3 years

Today is the eve of the Nakba. 73 years ago, Palestinian children went to bed, and woke up without a country. Palestine wiped off the map. They were told by everyone around them they didn't exist. And yet, here they are: a spectral sumud.

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The way some talk about Gaza, a reader would be forgiven in not knowing it is an ancient port city on the Mediterranean. People in Gaza (and all of coastal Palestine) eat, drink, live, in relationship to the sea. In another universe, a hotspot to rival any other riviera.

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Temporary ceasefire.

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Khader Adnan, who just died during his fourth months-long hunger strike in an Israeli prison, was a baker. He was an organiser too, and a political lodestar, but he took being a baker seriously: as work, as craft, as ethic. He'd quip: I went hungry to bake in freedom. Al-fatiha.

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There ARE universities in Gaza. They are hanging by a thread but their boards are still functioning, and some operations continue despite the massive destruction. We need to think about how to rebuild them rather than accelerate their erasure.

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5 years

Please consider using the term "Palestinians in Gaza" and not "Gazans." First, many people in Gaza are from elsewhere - refugees multifold, and this erases that history. Second, it entrenches a purposeful fragmentation and reproduces political and social isolation. 1/2

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In the last few weeks, many have reached out to 'pass the mic,' feeling it was better if a Palestinian speak or write, or whathaveyou. I so appreciate the sincerity of that gesture, and in some instances that makes sense, but oftentimes, no. In a political struggle. We all go in.

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In the last twenty years, there is no one who narrated the Palestinian story in real time more powerfully than Shireen Abu Akleh. Her dispatches from across Palestine, especially the West Bank, resonating an empathy and courage instantly recognizable to the Arabic-speaking world.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

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BREAKING: Israeli forces have shot dead Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank

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Whatever you might think of Palestinians, give us this: we've been consistent in defining this struggle.

Louis Allday

@Louis_Allday

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Semantics matter. Listen to Ghassan Kanafani.

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Shout out to the thousands of young people who organized Israeli Apartheid Weeks all over the world over the last 17 years. You were railroaded, arrested, expelled, stigmatized, cancelled, and blacklisted. You are the bravest Report. Cheers to you.

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Most of these universities were bombed in Oct-Dec. What is also missing here is that before they were bombed several of them were used as torture and detention centres. The bombings were, in part, about destruction of evidence.

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Gaza’s universities embodied the ambitions of young Palestinians. In weeks, the Israeli military destroyed them.

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The Nakba is a structure, not an event. Return is a structure, not an event.

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@UniofOxford As an alum of Oxford, I find this position alarming. Wellington Square has no business intervening in the organising of students. If they wish to disinvite someone that is their prerogative. This heavy-handed attempt to override students is what endangers freedom of speech.

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Two bookshops were destroyed in Gaza. One, New Iqra, is owned by Shaaban Aslem. The gofundme for his shop has reached its goal. Please help Samir Mansour’s bookshop reach its goal tool:

Rebuild Gaza's Samir Mansour Book Store, organized by Mahvish Rukhsana

Gaza’s largest and most beloved book shop and library was destroyed by air s… Mahvish Rukhsana needs your support for Rebuild Gaza's Samir Mansour Book Store

www.gofundme.com

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I'm grateful to those highlighting Palestinian scholars. But Palestinians have built institutions for knowledge production over the last century, hundreds of scholars and thousands of works of scholarship across multiple fields, conceptual frames, and ideological positions. 1/3

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This was the point.

Anera

@AneraOrg

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Our team has determined that at this point the risk of actively delivering aid in Gaza is far too great. This decision was not made lightly. Please visit our website for FAQ’s:

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Palestinians have produced so much material for you to work with, talking points you can use, evidence you can marshall, reading lists, organisations to join, actions to take. Go on. You got this, and we got you.

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@meznaqato

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Fellowships and scholarships are being announced in support of scholars and students from Gaza (and elsewhere in Palestine.) They are mainly in Europe. Below are two with deadlines soon. Here is a link to a list of others:

Initiatives to support Palestinian students, academics and universities 🍉🍓

I have started to compile a list of initiatives and resources to support Palestinian students, academics and universities (please see below), particularly in the UK and Ireland. Please use the form...

docs.google.com

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2 years

General strikes are magical. Industrial action is dream-weaving. Acts that shimmer with a rejection of order; and with the discipline to weld a new world.

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11 months

If you're willing to echo Palestinian demands, speak everywhere: Libraries, churches, community centres, set up a table in the market, write an oped, get on the local news, organise a reading group or a study get-together, call your reps. All very retro, and still so important.

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3 years

When Palestinians call for a general strike, they mean it. The Palestinian General Strike during the British Mandate is one of the longest in colonial history, 19 April 1936 until 12 October 1936. A mass revolt followed.

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It is the 34th anniversary of the First Intifada. Here is an image I took as a child from the window of my bedroom. It is of children in my neighbourhood gathering before the fire. About ten seconds later a live bullet flew over me and remains lodged in the wall.

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2 years

The IDF is on the hunt for a man described as bald. So Jerusalem and the camp’s barbers got busy.

القسطل الإخباري

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الشاب الذي يدعي الاحتلال تنفيذه لعملية إطلاق النار على حاجز مخيم شعفاط السبت الماضي "أصلع".. هذه موضة الحلاقة اليوم في مخيم شعفاط شمال شرق القدس

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There’s always been a bit of a rebellious streak amongst Schmidt School students. They drove the headmistress nuts during the 1936 revolt with their shenanigans. They were very effective resistance couriers, and were at the forefront of school strikes in the city. ✊🏽✨

Amro Ali

@_amroali

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A German teacher at the private Catholic-run Schmidt Girls School in East Jerusalem scolded & forbade her students from drawing a map of Palestine on the grounds that it was "Israel", so the students protested at the school with painted Palestinian flags.

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Withholding funding from UNRWA as punishment for accusations as yet unadjudicated is not just a response to the ICJ. UNRWA is the sole UN org with a registry of Palestinian refugee status and claims. They aim to gut a political demand for reparation, restitution and return.

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Shall I do a thread about the history of the complicated uneasy relationship of UNRWA with Palestinians?

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3 years

In the videos from Gaza, I don't have the words to describe the gestures of tenderness I see as civil defense workers rescue people from the rubble. "'Ammu, who else was with you in the room?" as he brushes her hair from her face.

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Anti-Palestinianism (noun). Prejudice, hostility or discrimination against Palestinians. Denial of the Nakba. Accusing a Palestinian of ‘latent’ racism(s) without cause. Allowing Palestinian exception to all other held liberal or left values/politics.

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I have always loved that in Arabic a campus is called: حرم الجامعة [the sanctuary of the university]. It is sacral. That is what Shafik violated today.

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Gaza, 1957. From the Bergen Collection.

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An entire legal institution defending Palestine speech, Palestine Legal, @pal_legal , had to be set up because 'Academic Freedom' and 'Free Speech' people and orgs were unwilling to defend Palestine/Palestinian scholars and students. Check some of the accounts on here, zip.

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Ramadan Karim to the orphaned, the hurt, the hungry and the unfree.

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3 years

My favourite element of this was how Palestinians would distinguish between greenhouse grown Israeli watermelons and locally-grown watermelon ('baladi'). Guess which ones were eaten and which ones got hurled at tanks? :)

afikra | عفكرة

@afikra

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In the years after the 1967 Six Day War, the Israeli army arrested/harassed anyone displaying the Palestinian flag's colors in Gaza and the West Bank. In response, many Palestinians in the region would carry sliced watermelons in a sign of subversive protest.

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Nasser era, first gen Ain Shams engineering grad on scholarship, 48 war veteran, sending remittances to family in the village the last 20 years vibes.

Gabriella Paiella

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My biggest takeaway from The Batman is that John Turturro is Egyptian

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If you're thinking of organising a Teach-In on Gaza/Palestine, @CambridgeUCU and Cambridge Palsoc developed a Resource Guide that you can make a QR code for and distribute if you'd like.

PalSoc Teach Out Resources

PalSoc Gaza Teach In Resources Palestine 101 Resources Courses and Curricula Maps + Visualizations Data + Databases Archives + Oral Histories Human Rights Reports Teach-In Recordings Intro to...

docs.google.com

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Palestine has an incredible history of industrial action. Here are excerpts from George Mansour's 1937 report on 'The Arab Worker under the Palestine Mandate.' A key document of the 1936 - 1939 Revolt, and of settler colonialism's impact on labour.

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Two notes on Jabalia Camp as it is bombed by Israel into oblivion. One, its the birthplace of the First Intifada (1987), a crucial long phase of Palestinian non-violent resistance. Two, its neighborhoods (Yaffawiyeh, Fallujah) are named for places refugees were expelled in 1948.

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As a historian of education and the Middle East, I just want to register that this tweet is a stunning pedagogical jewel.

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There is a whole rich lexicon of Palestinian protest and struggle: learn it, use it. It helps no one to take up language that a) is not being used by Palestinians, b) is context-specific, b) does not translate, c) appropriates from a shared struggle and movement. Wa shukran.

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How brilliant for the Oxford encampment to be set in front of the Pitts Rivers Museum. Colonialism, enslavement, extraction, and theft. All in one place. Well done.

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What incredible news - the first established chair of Palestinian Studies in the US was just announced at @BrownUniversity . Titled the Mahmoud Darwish Chair, Beshara Doumani is the inaugural holder. "And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness."

News from CMES

cmes.watson.brown.edu

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Absolutely adore watching students revising for exams and submitting their theses whilst in the encampment. Education as liberation.

Oudai Tozan

@OudaiTozan

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I submitted my PhD from Cambridge encampment, where I lived recently. A thesis I dedicate to the millions who died, were tortured or have been exiled for demanding freedom and to the brave students who interrupted their education to join the encampment to stop the war (1/4).

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@AFP This you, EU?

EU accused of using aerial surveillance to help push migrants back to Libya

A number of humanitarian groups claim that the EU is using aerial surveillance to spot stranded migrants in the Mediterranean but only alerting Libya's coast guard to intervene. They say the alleged...

www.infomigrants.net

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It’s here! Congrats @HKalisman 💫🧿 @PrincetonUPress

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You cannot, on the one hand, support the IHRA definition, and on the other, condemn the theft in Sheikh Jarrah. The former, as we have learned, is an attempt to criminalise ability for Palestinians and others, to speak about the latter.

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Coronavirus arrived into Gaza. Vectors will now be bouncing off the walls of a large prison. There are 60 ICU beds for 2 million ppl. Israel is blockading N95 masks and facilitating only 500 yet to arrive WHO tests.

Palestinians report 1st cases of coronavirus in Gaza Strip

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry announced early Sunday that two residents who returned recently from Pakistan to the Gaza Strip tested positive for the coronavirus, the...

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Be gentle a bit with the valorising of the young people in Sheikh Jarrah. They're our gems, but let's be mindful of the political historic weight we're calling on them to carry.

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On the 48th anniversary of the assassination of the novelist Ghassan Kanafani, alongside his niece, Lamis Najim, in a car bomb by the Mossad. Both were burned alive. He never made it to the next Afro-Asian Writers Conference, but they awarded him the Lotus Prize in 1974.

Esmat Elhalaby

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At the 1966 Afro-Asian Writers meeting, Kanafani burst into tears when a Vietnamese writer distributed shrapnel from a downed American fighter jet. So moved, Kanafani didn't give his speech, saying he had nothing of such magnitude to share, but promised he would by the next meet.

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Because Palestinians often have patronymic names, these lists map out a set of relations: sons and daughters, fathers and grandfathers. A family tree obliterated.

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Wow! Thank you for all you do @gigihadid . Clarification though, this isn’t a formal/official Cambridge definition (though maybe those of us in Cambridge should explore that possibility), merely my own attempt to define this phenomenon.

Danya

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Palestinian model @GiGiHadid did not need to defend herself against vicious attacks for her position on freedom for her people and land—the Palestinian people and Palestine. She did however and quoted @meznaqato 's definition of ‘anti-palestinianism'

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I’m hesitant to proclaim tides are shifting until we get a sense of the backlash against all those who spoke up at work, at school, at home, on the streets, online and in closed meetings. Tides can shift back.

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During the Siege of Beirut in 1982, Darwish wrote his prose poem, “Memory of Forgetfulness.” There’s a part where he admonishes: “Fallen is the mask! You have no brothers my brother!” The bravery despite the loneliness.

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I want to hear more from Black Palestinians please.

ديما

@dimaeleiwa

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يسعد قلبها طول العمر ❤️❤️

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No condition is permanent. Engraved soap. 9 x 6 x 4 cm, Taysir Batniji, 2014.

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20 years ago, Fadia Rafeedie, brilliant young Palestinian, and University Medalist, spoke at her @UCBerkeley graduation. Madeline Albright spoke before her. After, Fadia threw away her notes, breathed fire and made headlines. Her words are still powerful:

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Librarians and Archivists with Palestine ( @Librarians2Pal ) has issued its Report: Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, Oct 2023 to Jan 2024

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Let’s get one thing straight, settler colonialism in Palestine did not begin with Netanyahu.

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Here are two in English. First, the Journal of Palestine Studies @PalStudies founded in 1971. More than any other institution, it has insisted on Palestine as place for intellectual inquiry, and Palestinians as agents of scholarship.

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Journal of Palestine Studies - Issue 197

www.palestine-studies.org

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I understand that conditions of war and siege create identities that do work - ingather socialities of care under duress, for example. I understand the power to self-reference as Ghazzawi. But in English, I would argue 'Gazan' is a form of linguistic siege. 2/2

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Nada Tarbush, a future of young Palestinian diplomacy and international representation. Listen in.

Robin Monotti

@robinmonotti

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"Your carpet explanations for your carpet bombing will not fly!" State of Palestine representative at the UN demolishes the genocidal rhetoric of Israeli politicians, exposing their genocidal intent for all the UN to see. Now it's time for Palestine to #InvokeGenocideConvention

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Tomorrow is of course the designated day of a Nakba that goes on. But why is tomorrow so important? Because it was the day the rest of the world decided to recognise one state by erasing another.

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Land libel in the Arab world against Palestinians is such a fascinating phenomenon. By 'land libel' I mean the lie that Palestinians "sold their land". It is has had such longevity in multiple political ideologies, and is disturbingly pervasive at a popular level.

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As if children had no fathers killed, no mothers. As if only mothers and sisters are permitted to mourn their fathers, brothers, as the world mourns the children. Maybe it is better to be unmournable together than mourned apart.

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@ztsamudzi One thing about it I find especially irritating is the “please.”

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Two underlying themes in these images that help us to understand why a funeral procession would be a target of Israel violence: the firm steel of Palestinian anti-sectarianism and the unifying power of commemoration.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

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

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30000 near Karameh. Close to the Allenby Bridge. This is historic in Jordan, and speaks to the intensified refusal of both Palestinians and Jordanians of the post-Black September 'Hashemite contract.'

Wael Elayyan

@WaelElayyan1

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ما يقارب ال٣٠,٠٠٠ الف اردني على حدود الكرامة و تجمعات اخرى على الجسر و الشونة 🇵🇸❤️🇯🇴 #يلا_على_الحدود #فلسطين #Palestinian #PalestineWillBeFree #FreePalestin #GazaUnderAttack #الأردن

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Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel win is wonderful, every book a gem. He is also such an incredibly generous scholar, and a fiery protector of literature colleagues the academy marginalizes for their politics. And on Palestine, he is unwavering, loud and clear. 💫

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Nearly every Palestinian anywhere is one or two degrees removed from a massacre.

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I know of at least nine books in the works on the politics, literature and history of Gaza from prominent trade and left presses. More announcements forthcoming I’m sure. Not a single one by a Palestinian scholar. Maybe those are forthcoming 🤷‍♀️Editors, help me understand.

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Re the NY Times and Ha’aretz cover pages, I think one of the finest micro-studies of “shoot and cry” is Naira Antoun’s classic review of the film “Waltz with Bashir” from 2009:

Film review: "Waltz with Bashir"

To say that Palestinians are absent in Waltz with Bashir, to say that it is a film that deals not with Palestinians but with Israelis who served in Lebanon, only barely begins to describe the

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Second, the Jerusalem Quarterly @JQuarterly . Founded in 1998, it is the leading journal for the study of the city, its histories, politics, economies, and one of few intellectual homes for emerging Palestine scholars. And it is open-access:

Spring 2021, Issue 85

Jerusalem Quarterly - Issue 85 Spring 2021

www.palestine-studies.org

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Rubber bullets are munitions Palestinians know well. When we were children, we used to collect them from the courtyards after protests. Thousands of Palestinians were killed, disabled and disfigured by them. They are rubber capsules over a steel core, and they are made in the US.

Trita Parsi

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They were shooting rubber bullets at students on UCLA for protesting a genocide. This is Biden's America. Not Trump's.

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Alf mabruk to the brilliant historian, kind principled scholar, archival whiz, Nadim Bawalsa. He's won the 2023 Palestine Book Award ( @MiddleEastMnt ) for his study of Palestinians in Latin America, citizenship, commitment, and economic transformations in exile. @stanfordpress 🧿

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5 months

Feeling like this is even more relevant now that it’s confirmed what the NYT style sheet demands - complete disappearance of ‘Palestine’ and ‘Palestinians’.

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@meznaqato

5 years

Please consider using the term "Palestinians in Gaza" and not "Gazans." First, many people in Gaza are from elsewhere - refugees multifold, and this erases that history. Second, it entrenches a purposeful fragmentation and reproduces political and social isolation. 1/2

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4 years

Cairo after Lumumba’s assassination. 1961.

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3 months

Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world

We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities.

www.aljazeera.com

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@meznaqato

6 months

Nowruz Mubarak everyone. May hyacinth grow again in Gaza, and may it grace your haft-sin. And a bowl of sumagiyyeh, too.

Wild flowers of Palestine. Hyacinth squill (Scilla hyacinthoides L.)

1 negative : glass, stereograph, dry plate ; 5 x 7 in.

www.loc.gov

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@meznaqato

11 months

What we need to figure out is how to archive silence.

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@meznaqato

5 years

@camcavejohnson @vivafalastin Most working models are paid terribly and work under pretty nasty conditions, and have little social safety net support. Im not surprised in the least they’d support Bernie.

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@meznaqato

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During the second Intifada her reportage was legendary, brave, steady, impeccably incorruptible. And to be killed in Jenin on the 20th anniversary of her reports of invasion and massacre…

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@meznaqato

3 years

A Nationalised Ivy+ League: Uni of Massachusetts-Cambridge College of New Jersey-Mercer County Penn State-Philadelphia Chicago State-Hyde Park Rhode Island State SUNY-Ithaca CUNY-Harlem Uni of Connecticut-New Haven Cal State-Palo Alto Uni of New Hampshire-Hanover

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1 year

On the 75th anniversary, the Nakba Archive website is gorgeously online:

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5 years

If you are interested in the politics of archives, especially of the left, of the Arab world, of decolonisation, then you should really be following the battle between Hilda Habash, widow of George Habash, a founder of the PFLP, and the famed Centre for Arab Unity Studies.

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@meznaqato

11 months

[Scammers, hustlers and grifters excluded.]

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8 months

Such remarkable people, the best of us.

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1 month

Gaza not as a place, but as a moment, is a recurring trope now, isn't it? An extension of the decades where Gaza was only ever a metaphor.

Kiara Barrow

@kfzbarrow

1 month

really thrilled that pankaj mishra is expanding on his brilliant LRB essay, "The Shoah After Gaza," with @penguinpress

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@meznaqato

5 years

This one will haunt me the most. Grenfell.

Robert Peston

@Peston

5 years

Tories take back Kensington.

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This is one of the best examples of why “settler colonialism” remains such a crucial analytic, and why its more recent dismissal, especially by parts of the left, has been so destructive. It does crucial methodological work and w/o it narratives turn into ideological mush.

Ussama Makdisi

@UssamaMakdisi

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There is a lot here that's worth reading in this long essay by @bartov_omer . He obviously empathizes with Jewish Israelis ( he served in the Israeli army as he writes here and has family there) and is deeply distressed by the reality of Israel today, and especially by the

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5 years

At Chicago, I took a course with Toni Morrison and Homi Bhabha on Global Fiction. Morrison permitted me to use it to read Palestinian fiction (my first sustained study). We talked a lot about exile and hesitances of belonging. She was invested in the world, generous and kind.

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4 years

Full digitisation of Al-'Arabi, the Kuwaiti journal, from first issue in 1958 to 1990✨

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3 years

He was killed by ‘friendly fire’ (and some think he was murdered) and the Army lied about it, including to his family, and his fellow soldiers burned his uniform and stole his journal. Say it whole.

Bleacher Report

@BleacherReport

3 years

Pat Tillman left the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the U.S. Army after 9/11. He turned down a $3.6M contract offer at 25 years old. Tillman was killed in Afghanistan 17 years ago today. RIP.

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‘A journey through the past’: lost music of the Palestinian uprising is restored | Palestinian territories | The Guardian

‘A journey through the past’: lost music of the Palestinian uprising is restored

Mo’min Swaitat uncovered 10,000 tapes in the West Bank during lockdown, and digitised Riad Awwad’s intifada album

www.theguardian.com

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