Cheri

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[Cheri @CheriChe]

A conversation with Prakash Kumar, on his must-read paper on agricultural modernisation in early 20c India. We talked on the longer history of the American interventions in rural India, and its implications for the postcolonial state.

https://t.co/wLUjK4N5RB

[TheMuslimLawyer @faisalkutty]

A deeply disturbing and meticulously documented report by historians Liat Kozma and Lee Mordechai of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem traces the starvation of Gaza over the past three years through data, testimony, official statements, food prices, aid access, and powerful visual storytelling.

The report documents not only the collapse of food access and humanitarian relief, but also the public rhetoric surrounding it, including statements by Israeli officials openly discussing restrictions on food, water, electricity, and aid. It shows how aid convoys became lifelines measured in “tons of survival,” while ordinary Palestinians faced destroyed roads, military checkpoints, looting, shortages, and impossible food prices.

One image that stays with me is their description of a sack of flour becoming “a month of life.” Another is the simple line: “The lack of access to food led to death by starvation.”

Whatever one’s politics, this is devastating reading. The fact that this report comes from Israeli scholars at a major Israeli university makes it even harder to dismiss.

Originally published in Hebrew in March and now available in English. Worth reading carefully and reflecting on.

The link to the full article is here -- https://t.co/QAKeQ42qJC

[John Handel @_John_Handel]

Corey Robin reviews Sven Beckert's "Capitalism" (and it seems like he is one of the only people to have actually read the book) and more broadly evaluates 15 years of the "New History of Capitalism."

[Journal of Global History @GlobalHistJnl]

New out! Open Access!

Samuel Dolbee links the transnational environmental history of agriculture with the history of racial formation and immigration in the United States.

#Ottomanempire #California #agriculture #environmentalhistory #races #Armenians

https://t.co/43pmOmOVDk

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Imagine this: you post a sharp, satirical comment about rising fuel prices, it gets a few likes, then quietly disappears. No explanation, no court order, no offence charged yet your visibility shrinks. This isn’t far-fetched. It’s a plausible outcome of the draft amendments to India’s IT Rules released by MeitY on March 30, 2026, changes that subtly reshape how online speech is governed and who gets to decide its limits.

IFF's @Vikram0Raj write for @the_hindu

[vaudais toujours 🍉 🍉 @TFilastin]

À Auschwitz, un homme porte une pancarte où il est écrit
"Israël exploite la mémoire de l'Holocauste pour commettre un génocide. Est-ce que le "plus jamais ça" est pour tout le monde ?
Cet homme reprend les mêmes propos JUSTES de Meyer Hajo, victime et rescapé d'Auschwitz

Par Palestine, Mon Amour 🇵🇸

[𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓙 @JimmyJ4thewin]

PaIestinian poet and writer Omar Hamad has officially opened the Phoenix Library, the first library in Gaza amid the destruction.

cc: @OmarHamadD

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

****Statement from Mosab Abu Toha in response to LeMoyne College's President's email to students today*****

This is deeply shameful. I cannot believe what I am reading.
How dare you tell a person who survived a genocide that they cannot speak about it?
On April 15, I had the honor of visiting and speaking at Le Moyne College. I spoke about my lived experience in Gaza, shared the family trees of those killed by Israel, and read my poems. I also played the actual recordings of Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling that I documented myself while on the ground in Gaza.
This morning, the President of the college sent out an email condemning my use of the word GENOCIDE when describing these crimes. She claimed that using that word is "antisemitic." She stated that she recognized the "real hurt" that the word caused to Jewish students.
Seriously? Are the crimes of the Israeli state representative of all Jewish people? I personally refuse to believe that is the case.
It is utterly ridiculous to begin a letter by stating that your institution welcomes the "free exchange of ideas," only to immediately condemn a speaker, not for sharing abstract ideas, but for sharing his own life. I still carry the physical wounds of a 2009 airstrike on my neck, my forehead, and my cheek. My wife and I have lost over one hundred relatives, most of them children. Some of them have still not been buried.
Who are these students you are talking about? Not a single person who identified themselves as Jewish approached me after my talk to offer condolences or acknowledge the actual crimes committed against me and my family. I never once used the word "Jewish" during the entire event; I refuse to conflate the faith of Judaism with the actions of the state of Israel.
Yet, you suggest my language caused "hurt." Whoever went to your office to complain about my words should have been the first to approach the stage to show humanity and support for a survivor.
It may surprise you to know that I used the word GENOCIDE to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza long before most human rights organizations, including prominent Israeli organizations, and leading Holocaust and Genocide scholars arrived at the same conclusion. I hope this fact does not "hurt" anyone even more.
If anyone told you they felt "hurt" because I used the word GENOCIDE, then I ask you: how should I feel? How should my wife feel after losing her father? How should my three children feel after losing their grandfather?
At a time when a GENOCIDE should be condemned, it is the survivors and those who speak out against it who are being targeted instead.

SHAME!!!!!

[Idrees Ahmad @im_PULSE]

J.M. Coetzee is a magnificent writer. And, naturally, his rejection of an invitation to a literary festival in Israel is also magnificent. Brief and unsparing.

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

📍From Göttingen, Germany

[Duncan Money @mininghistory]

I'm a historian and my province is the past not the future but this is going to end badly

[Seema Chishti @seemay]

Israel is committing genocide, says architect @weizman_eyal “genocide is taking place, not only through killing people, but also through the removal of the conditions of existence – buildings, agriculture, infrastructure – and that this process has been going on for decades”

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨Israel assassinated Imad Miqdad yesterday in a drone strike, targeting his solar-powered phone charging station in Gaza yesterday.

Miqdad had been providing civilians with a rare means of communication amid ongoing electricity cuts.

The strike killed him and destroyed the facility, further limiting access to basic services and connectivity for residents.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

‘My grandmother told me about the Holocaust and about never again. This isn’t never again’

A legend

A Jewish activist protest at Rutgers University after they invited an Israeli soldier.

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

“Israel built its military doctrine on the use of disproportionate force, collective punishment and destroying civilian infrastructure – all acts that constitute war crimes prohibited by international humanitarian law.” https://t.co/tbi0raldKd

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

They could barely bring themselves to say her name and when they did used the dog whistle “Hezbollah aligned” in order to dehumanise Amal and justify her killing by I$rael.

Amal Khalil was a friend to me and many others having worked in the field since the 2006 war. What she did was unique, reporting from the south and raising the voices of the people there who are subjected to brutal treatment and attacks from I$rael.

Amal had herself received numerous death threats, some warning her to leave and if she didn’t her head would be removed from her shoulders. It’s a testament to her that she defied those threats and up until the end continued to expose I$raeli war comes.

She was a brave and courageous journalist, a daughter of the south and her mic and her pen was a tribune of the people. This is what made her so dangerous, with I$rael fearing a camera and a pen more than a Hezb0llah fighter.

Her body wasn’t “found under the rubble” as though it had been mysteriously placed there. I$rael targeted a car in front of her, when she sheltered in a building it was struck collapsing it, then the emergency operations were delayed for at least 7 hours as ambulances and civil defence workers were fired on.

This was a deliberate assassination and a war crime. But try as they might they will never stop journalists here from reporting the truth.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

“We apologise for cancelling the wedding ceremony because the bride was killed by the zionist jewish settlers,” the family of Abdul Jaleel Juneed said in an SMS sent to guests had been invited to that wedding ceremony.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

The West will only celebrate a Malala when the oppressor is a brown Muslim. When the oppressor is white colonial supremacy, they’re human shields.

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

#BREAKING Election duty officers move Supreme Court saying they themselves are not on West Bengal #SIR List

Se Adv MR Shamshad: These are 65 petitioners who are on election duty. Their duty orders mention EPIC numbers. Now those numbers are deleted. Now the persons conducting elections cannot vote ! This is on the face arbitrary. Many not given reasons.

CJI: Make these arguments before the appellate tribunal. Let the tribunal look into it

Justice Bagchi: Appropriate orders will be passed by the tribunal .. this election yes perhaps they can't vote. The more valuable right to remain on the rolls shall be preserved.

[Aruna Urs @Arunaurs]

The heat induced food inflation will start to bite from July. And then El-nino will take over. A very tough year ahead.

[Cheri @CheriChe]

@AnkurBisen1 So another to be filed under ‘decolonisation’ ? 😬