Asli Peker

NYU Professor, Politics/IR/Middle East/Critical Security Studies. Transplant from Turkey to NYC. Adoring parent to one special kid. Rarely here...

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

10:15PM update, with 89% of the vote now in

Mamdani maintains his 8-point lead

[Zara Rahim @ZaraRahim]

Cuomo’s got the penthouses. Zohran’s got the people.

[NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine @NYUFJPalestine]

🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨
NYU is withholding Logan Rozos’s diploma for speaking out at commencement about the genocide in Palestine. Commencement is a space for moral clarity—not censorship.

Silencing students is NOT academic freedom - write to NYU now.

https://t.co/zk3731pl00

[Asli Peker @AsliOPeker]

NYC folks, see you tomorrow!

[Asli Peker @AsliOPeker]

Tracking 1,200 Student Visa Revocations: One Higher-Ed Reporter’s Mission to Understand the Trends  https://t.co/K0OiMQl3VH

[UAW Local 7902 @UAW7902]

.@nyulangone canceled talk by former President of Doctors Without Borders because it included statistics on the number of health workers killed in #Gaza:

"What we're seeing is excessive self-censorship and subservience."

https://t.co/p9mzzmpz0d

[Asli Peker @AsliOPeker]

US academic groups sue White House over planned deportations of pro-Gaza students https://t.co/yY21xU6Nzb

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Anyone who objects to the perfectly reasonable decision to cut off electricity to 1.7 million people will have their immigration status investigated and will be detained at the will of the government. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

HAPPENING NOW: In 8 hours, over 400,000 people signed the petition demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist and recent Columbia graduate who served as a lead negotiator for the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Khalil was taken by DHS agents last night

[Asli Peker @AsliOPeker]

Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention here: https://t.co/D6lSffphkx

[CFU UAW @CfuUaw]

UAW members all over the country and in every sector—not just higher ed but auto, agricultural implements, gaming, and aerospace—are uniting to defend science, universities, and health from Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The question is: which side are our higher ed bosses on?

[Asli Peker @AsliOPeker]

NYU folks, mark your calendars!

[AAUP - NYU Chapter @aaup_nyu]

if you are NYU faculty, come to our Town Hall next Tuesday! here's the optional RSVP: https://t.co/SEkWbvYBhS

[Asli Peker @AsliOPeker]

More than 300 career employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA while reversing environmental protections.
https://t.co/bMV9dGeRJW

[NYU GSOC|UAW @GSOCUAW]

Five members of GSOC, the graduate student worker union at NYU, have been investigated and disciplined for peacefully studying in the library during fall term finals week. All five members being unjustly punished are active members of GSOC’s Political Solidarity Committee.

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

“It’s really too bad, you know, we’re shooting missiles and rockets and whatnot at each other on this tiny little place we call home. It’s the only home in the universe for us humans. It’s too bad we don’t treat it a little better.” — Bill Anders

[Asli Peker @AsliOPeker]

Columbia and NYU continue to outbid each other in their race to the bottom.

[The CCR is on bsky (@ccrjustice.org) @theCCR]

Professor Katherine Franke will no longer teach at Columbia Law School, stemming from her defense of Palestinian students. In response to the end of her 25-year career as a highly-esteemed member of the Columbia University Law School faculty, we issued the following statement:

[Asli Peker @AsliOPeker]

Sign the Petition: Revoke the suspensions, come to the table!
https://t.co/Ii5Gxrc7ZZ

[Asli Peker @AsliOPeker]

NYU suspends students for a year for “significant and coordinated disruption” in the library which refers to students in keffiyehs studying quietly in the lobby, some sitting on the admin. floor asking for a meeting, a few holding banners, and flyers dropped from an upper level…

[NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine @NYUFJPalestine]

🚨 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 🚨- NEW YORK, January 8, 2025.

Press Release: New York University Launches Unprecedented Campaign of Collective Punishment Against Students Protesting Genocide

https://t.co/g6qmZjwmEl

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[Asli Peker @AsliOPeker]

How Israel turned hospitals into ‘military targets’ by lying about international law https://t.co/RApzPRfdvF