Ana Laura Rodríguez Quiñones

[Maya Mikdashi @mayamikdashi]

Professors are told to 1) ignore the historical record, 2) ignore the UN, 3) ignore the ICJ/ICC, 4) ignore academic consensus, 5) ignore NGO consensus. We are told to stop being academics when it comes to #Palestine. This is the threat to the university we should be talking about

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

Open letter to the world: “We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of our colleagues and students and the insistence on our future in the face of all current attempts to erase us” https://t.co/AyVQTmhp8B

[Ana Laura Rodríguez Quiñones @AnaSaidNano]

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[Int'l Criminal Court @IntlCrimCourt]

#ICC Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC announces applications for arrest warrants in relation to Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant in the context of the situation in the State of #Palestine ⤵️
https://t.co/WqDZecXFZq

[Ana Laura Rodríguez Quiñones @AnaSaidNano]

One of 8 universities in Switzerland

[Ana Laura Rodríguez Quiñones @AnaSaidNano]

The University of Neuchâtel joined the movement 🇵🇸

[Harry Pettit 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @HarrygPettit]

Maastricht University, led by inspiring comrades, is hiring a PhD position on Cultures of Palestine Solidarity in Europe. Please share widely, especially with Palestinian researchers.
https://t.co/EkOzmNKWNe

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

Pulverised. Genocidal fury. The buildings of al-Shifa medical complex and surrounding areas in Gaza after the withdrawal of the Israeli troops this morning. Hundreds of Palestinians executed, tortured, injured. Patients. Doctors. Displaced people.

[Goldsmiths UCU @GoldsmithsUCU]

Stand with us and sign the open letter in Solidarity with Goldsmiths Workers #saveourjobs #binthetp:
https://t.co/AfcRclLoJF

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

NEW INVESTIGATION: Since Oct '23, the Israeli military has systematically targeted agricultural land and infrastructure in Gaza. To mark Land Day in Palestine, we present our analysis of this widespread destruction as an act of ecocide that supports Israel’s genocidal campaign.

[SOAS Centre for Gender Studies @CGS_SOAS]

“Feminism and Palestine: Decolonisation Beyond Metaphor”.

Thursday 29th Feb, 2 PM GMT

A hybrid event in collaboration with Institute of Women’s Studies, Birzeit University and several centres and institutes in the UK

All welcome. Register here: https://t.co/uctNPRoEnh

[AE/AES - Come join us at @amethno.bsky.social ! @AmEthno]

Please read & consider signing this statement in support of critical scholarship, formulated in response to the dismissal of fellow anthropologist Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage by the Max Planck Society.
@heathcabot @AmericanAnthro @culanth #anthrotwitter
https://t.co/nzbWAcqEtO

[Ambassador Majed Bamya 🇵🇸 @majedbamya]

Palestine was not a land without a people; it was not, as Israeli leaders have described it, a wasteland. There was life on this land. There was a political life, a cultural life, a social life, a religious life. It had schools and universities, cinemas and cultural halls, it had villages and villagers, families and communities, whose life was disrupted by the impact of a promise made thousands of miles away, over a hundred years ago.  A breach of a sacred trust that relegated the indigenous people of the land to the status of ‘non-Jewish communities’, according them only civil and religious rights, denying their existence as a people and their rights as a nation, and paving the way for their dehumanization and mass expulsion from their homeland decades later.

…for decades, the Palestinian people have been denied this right (to self-determination) and have endured both colonialism and apartheid. There are those who are outraged by the use of these words. They should instead be outraged by the reality we are living.This reality is known by every Palestinian, suffered by millions, generation after generation.
It is a reality of the expulsion of the Palestinian people from their own land, not just during the 1948 Nakba, which led to the expulsion of up to 900,000 Palestinians; not just the expulsion of more than 400,000 Palestinians in 1967, but continually, including now, as I address you at this very moment. It is the indiscriminate maiming and killing of Palestinians. It means you can spend the entirety of your life as a refugee, denied your dignity and your right to return home. It means your life and family, your community and home are under constant threat, your loved ones can be taken away and thrown in an Israeli jail, held there indefinitely. Your land can be stolen, colonized and annexed without hesitation. Freedom is nowhere to be found, there is no safe haven. It means discrimination everywhere and no justice, anywhere.
It is a reality where Israel can destroy Gaza, killing tens of thousands of Palestinians, almost half of them children, leaving one million children starved, terrorized and traumatized for life, orphaned of a mother, a father, or both, amputated and disabled, leaving nearly 2 million people displaced and desperate, with nowhere to shelter from the onslaught

[MSF International @MSF]

🔴 Gaza update:

Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, was shelled in the early hours of this morning, despite Israeli Forces having told medical staff and patients they could remain in the facility.

Thousands of displaced people were ordered to evacuate it on 13 February...🧵

[EASA @EASAinfo]

EASA letter regarding academic freedom and Prof. Ghassan Hage (@anthroprofhage).
Addressed to Patrick Cramer @mpgpresident @maxplanckpress & Prof. Dr. Ursula Rao, Executive Director, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
Read it in full:
https://t.co/MqCFxwcDZm

[Scholars for Palestine UK @ScholarsForPal]

CALL TO ACTION:

Scholars for Palestine UK is joining forces with partners internationally to launch a campaign to raise awareness and mobilise support against Scholasticide in Palestine.

Join us

Share, mobilise, organise

https://t.co/WaBUuYwXtC

[Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage]

Statement regarding my sacking from Max Planck Society
https://t.co/UdD9DLpznD

[Allegra Lab @allegra_lab]

Sign this petition in support of @anthroprofhage who is falsely accused of antisemitism. Ghassan defends the ideal of a multi-religious non-racist society and is primarily critical of Israel's ethno-nationalism. His voice should not be silenced! https://t.co/YzVXs8Egj5

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

BREAKING 🇧🇷 President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has declared his support for South Africa's Genocide Convention case at the International Court of Justice.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I used to think it was wrong for Israel to be killing tens of thousands of Gazans with airstrikes and starving hundreds of thousands with siege warfare, but then Israel apologists informed me that some Palestinians did mean things to Israelis in the past, so now I support it.

What Israel is doing in Gaza would only be unethical if everyone in Gaza were a perfect little cherub who’d never committed any violence or done anything wrong ever. I could see getting upset if the IDF was raining military explosives upon a giant concentration camp full of squishy marshmallow-like beings made of pure love and conceived without original sin who do nothing but coo and sing lullabies all day, but in reality the concentration camp is populated by beings who are not nearly that perfect.

I hear people calling this a genocide, but that’s ridiculous. What’s been explained to me is that the assault on Gaza is completely different from all the genocidal massacres you’ve read about in history, because the Israelis believe what they are doing is right. See, this time the ones who are carrying out the mass-scale extermination programs and ethnic cleansing plans have reasons for doing so.

As we all know, in a proper genocide the perpetrators have no reasons for carrying out their mass extermination programs and ethnic cleansing plans; they do it solely because they are evil and like doing evil things. In a proper genocide the perpetrators historically spend most of their time cackling like cartoon supervillains and talking about how delightfully evil their genocidal actions are.

This isn’t like that at all. You see, the Israelis sincerely feel that the population they are eliminating is very bad, and they believe removing that population will make the land a much better and safer place to live. They see the Palestinians as a major problem, and, unlike a proper genocide, they are simply trying to find a solution to that problem which will be permanent and final.

So when you see Israel apologists defending Israel’s actions in Gaza, please try to keep in mind that they’re just helpfully explaining that the Israeli government has reasons and motives for doing what it’s doing, and that it believes what it is doing is correct. If this were a proper genocide, that wouldn’t be the case.

You’ve seen what genocide looks like. It looks like Nazis rounding up Jews and killing them. Are the Israelis wearing swastikas? Are the Palestinians Jewish? No? Okay then. That proves this cannot possibly be a genocide, because if it was, it would look exactly the same as a previous historical instance of genocide in every conceivable way. It’s not even the early 1940s right now, it’s a completely different time period. Like, duh.

So relax. Everything is fine. This isn’t a genocide, and if it is, we can read about it in our history books later on and be sure to get it right next time.

[Tarik Endale | ታሪክ እንዳለ @Tarik_Endale]

Professor Rashid Khalidi in an open letter to Columbia University administration in response to an email sent by deans on Dec 21st, 2023.