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[Mezna Qato @meznaqato]

This is the glorious Inea Bushnaq. A folklorist and oral historian, she in part descends from the Bosnians who found a home in Tulkarm, Caesarea and elsewhere in the 1880s. https://t.co/7wNvBEF070

[MERIP @meriponline]

NEW PODCAST: Aslı Bâli and Darryl Li joined MERIP's Executive Director James Ryan to discuss the challenges posed to academic freedom since 10/7, and how academic associations like @mesa_1966 are fighting back.

LISTEN NOW

https://t.co/voEy2EKlyI

[darryl li @dcli]

@JeffreyASachs @MESA_1966 https://t.co/ncBBekdPQL

[darryl li @dcli]

Introducing @MESA_1966's Academic Freedom Initiative website, including data on:
-weaponization of civil rights law/Title VI
-employment retaliation
-event cancellations/censorship
-Congressional harassment campaigns

https://t.co/aueivbuLbE

[MERIP @meriponline]

NEW ISSUE: Campus Politics--Palestine and the New University Order is out today!

The issue features articles reflecting on two years of student protests & struggles for academic freedom & against authoritarianism in the US, Europe and the Middle East.

https://t.co/ZZuwjZ3IUi

[darryl li @dcli]

@fredleept turks have a leg up on korean and vice versa b/c of grammar overlaps like agglutination, postpositional article, etc.

[darryl li @dcli]

@humanprovince i guess the silver lining is that douglas and the rest of the transitional justice mafia was rendered irrelevant by WoT (hello, STL!) before their reactionary tendencies could actually become consequential

[darryl li @dcli]

new issue of @meriponline

https://t.co/WXUPcoKrZL

[A-100 gecs @PinstripeBungle]

okay well I'm at least for the first step of this where we make a big registry of American IDF veterans

[darryl li @dcli]

@wyoumans had that concern too but then rationalized as a terrible people talking about other terrible people thing

[darryl li @dcli]

“Oh really? I had heard that ‘Commentary’ and ‘Dissent’ had merged and formed ‘Dysentery.’”

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Former PMs Bennett, Lapid say they will run together in 2026 election, merge parties
https://t.co/CpMdwTz7ra

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Mahmoud Darwish recites 'Earth Poem', 1986

[Yezid Sayigh يزيد صايغ @SayighYezid]

Open access to "The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries," by my amazing mother, Rosemary Sayigh, who turned an impressive 99 this month. Published in 1979, it went thru several reprints & translations and remains a landmark book:

https://t.co/TgcYEI9M2J

[m @skitzocat]

the dead horse is beating me

[darryl li @dcli]

his boldest political stance ever was to oppose bds

[metabolic grift @nicodemvs]

Amitav Ghosh spoke at the New School last night, and he came off as a defeated, catastrophist who could not articulate a cohesive vision that grapples with the stakes of climate change for the global south and the intersections of tech, AI, climate, and the state.

[Ziad Abu-Rish @ziadaburish]

The Biden admin helped realize a two-decades-long campaign to reinterpret Title VI so that anti-discrimination laws could be used to deter and punish criticism of Israel on campuses.

Trump admin is now wielding that tool to advance a broader far-right agenda in higher ed.

[darryl li @dcli]

jstreet basically calling for zentity to be treated on the same terms as that other famously upstanding client state, saudi arabia

[DJ Branham 🗽 @DJBranham]

This is terrible. This money could be used for Israel or corporate subsidies.

[darryl li @dcli]

@AmeemLutfi @nikhil_palsingh I guess, insofar as it’s not a total bluff

[darryl li @dcli]

can’t wait for the lego rendition of this

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

The most loser shit ever: YOU can’t blockade the Strait of Hormuz because WE’RE going to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.