Nour Joudah

Reposts ≠ endorsements | Lost Geographer | Assistant Professor @ UCLA

[Nour Joudah @nsdoud]

A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share far and wide and encourage colleagues to give generously!

https://t.co/31Zz21wuOI

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Scores of trucks carrying new tents and caravans (mobile homes) have been waiting at Gaza's border for more than a year, but Israel has blocked them from entering despite a US-brokered and monitored ceasefire.

Israel’s deliberate and systematic cruelty to deprive displaced Palestinians of shelter and compound their suffering is part of an effort to drive Palestinians out of Gaza, and is continuing with full U.S. support.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️The petition calling on Democrats to choose a different House Speaker than Hakeem Jeffries has now gained over 500K signatures.

“We believe the Speaker should represent the Democratic voters, not just the Democratic establishment,” it reads. 

“The Speaker has enormous influence over the direction of the House, including its legislative priorities and agenda. Before casting their votes, representatives should closely examine Jeffries's public record, policy positions, campaign donor record and leadership...and listen to constituents who do not want him elevated to Speaker.”

[Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA]

Kenneth Mejia is the most SELFLESS politician in LA. He could have sat out this election and prepared to run for mayor in four years. Instead he put his all into getting Nithya elected — ending any hope of him running for mayor in 2030.

Nithya could NOT have won without Kenneth. He put a lot of faith in you when no one else did. Prove him right.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Oh the irony of this quote with this image.

[Safa Joudeh @SafaJoudeh]

For those of us from Gaza, the debate on Israel’s military technology is not abstract. These are the systems and calculative techniques that have been weaponised against us for decades, and through which our homes, families and entire social worlds were systematically and deliberately destroyed in the genocide. Yet it was the testimony of Israeli soldiers that brought into wider public view what Palestinians have long lived and documented. Which is why I find the revelations in NAZA both welcome and tragically absurd.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

Lana Nusseibeh (pictured here with Israel regime ambassador Gilad Erdan) who is being pushed by US-Israel aligned Gulf monarchies and several US and Western figures to become the next UN Secretary-General, is most known in diplomatic circles for running cover for the genocide in Sudan and for pushing to normalize the Israeli apartheid regime as it perpetrates a genocide in Palestine. Fluent in Hebrew and with a master’s degree in Israel studies, she has been a key actor in pushing the treacherous “Abraham Accords” and Trump’s colonial “Board of Peace.” In the Epstein Files, she is seen helping Epstein (and Israel) collaborator Terje Larsen to get his son into NYU, and helping Epstein himself to visit the UAE. A truly terrible candidate.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️ Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a three-year, $750,500 no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet, an AI-driven device that mimics a cell tower to track phones and can be mounted on police cars and drones or hidden in a backpack, the New York Daily News reported.

Cognyte won a tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar's state telecom weeks before the 2021 military coup, Reuters previously reported. Meta banned the firm the same year, saying its customers used fake accounts to target journalists and politicians in Kenya, Mexico and Indonesia.

The firm is part of an Israeli surveillance industry that grew big as a result of the military's monitoring of Palestinians, whose phone calls Israel's Unit 8200 has intercepted and stored by the millions, including to carry out genocide in Gaza and enforce a brutal illegal occupation in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

[Fady Joudah @FadyJoudah]

Towards a more serious reading of Palestinan literature
@LAReviewofBooks

https://t.co/bEvZCmtttH

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

A nuclear state & army w advanced weapons tech has been kidnapping children, raping captives, demolishing homes, sniping journos, slaughtering livestock & torching fields for 8+ decades a US support & “allies” want to frame self defense as fueling a “cycle of violence.”

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

Brad, ur in Palestine. Pls exercise some humility. Listen more, lecture less. Framing the targeting of soldiers as a “cycle of violence” - rather than resistance 2 apartheid & genocide- while also not demanding US sanctions/arms embargo is asking Palestinians to die politely.

[Mona Harb @mona_harb_]

Not sure who's on "X" still... here's our article on the post-blast reconstruction of Beirut, published a few months ago now--with reflections on how aid & NGOs are producing a micro-urbanism in the city.
If interested, DM for copies as the paywall was too pricey to remove.

[Justin Lynch @just1nlynch]

Nusseibeh was the UAE’s point person on Sudan, according to Justin Lynch, managing director of the Conflict Insights Group research organization. “Throughout this war, she assured other governments that the UAE was not backing the RSF, even as Washington and other capitals knew internally that it was,” he told the AP.

The U.N. secretary-general’s role is to protect civilians from horrors like el-Fasher, Lynch said. “Handing the job over to the diplomat who ran cover for it would be an insult to the survivors.”

https://t.co/xV0tI6i3fD

[Seema Jilani @SeemaJilani]

Absolutely phenomenal and gutting work by the inimitable @FadyJoudah

[Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa]

Israel is issuing “official eviction orders” to citizens of another country, inside the sovereign borders of that country. Just in case you needed a reminder that the legal frameworks Zionists cite to justify their land theft from Palestine to Syria are all entirely bullshit.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇦🇪 Days before the one-year anniversary of the Rapid Support Forces' massacres in El Fasher, the UAE, the RSF's main foreign backer in its genocide in Sudan, has nominated its top diplomat to run the United Nations.

Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE's minister of state and envoy to the UN, announced her candidacy for Secretary-General on Wednesday. For three years she has been a public face of Abu Dhabi's denials, even as UN experts themselves documented Emirati weapons and money flowing to the RSF while it carried out massacres and mass rape across Darfur.

Those who have worked on Sudan were scathing:

🔸 Cameron Hudson, a former CIA Africa analyst and White House National Security Council director for African affairs: "It isn't just that UAE has been supporting the RSF, it's that Lana has been the UAE's chief diplomat denying the fact and defending the regime."

🔸 Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International, said Nusseibeh "must not be SG if she cannot first admit and condemn the UAE's complicity." He said he interviewed survivors of RSF massacres and systematic sexual violence in Sudan last week, including the mother of a 12-year-old girl who was shot in front of her. "Most if not all of these horrific violations were directly enabled by the UAE's support," he said, adding that the UN has documented it for three years.

🔸 Mohanad Elbalal, co-founder of Khartoum Aid Kitchen, said she "used her position as UAE Ambassador to the UN to cover up and gaslight" on the UAE's role, calling her candidacy "a direct insult to Sudanese."

Her bid has been cheered by figures who backed three years of Israel's genocide in Gaza while staying silent or covering for the UAE's integral role in the genocide in Sudan. Brett McGurk, former President Joe Biden's Middle East coordinator, called her "an inspired choice for this impossible job." Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza on U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, has also praised her.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Israel has long claimed that Hamas went around slaughtering children on October 7th. Yet even the Israeli records and the camera footage it released show this is not true. 16 children under 14 were killed on October 7. I went through every one of them, case by case. There is not a single case of a child targeted and executed intentionally by Hamas. But that false narrative has been used to justify the slaughter over 20,000 Palestinian children in Gaza. Watch the full analysis.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This is all true. This former GOP state legislator closely aligned with DeSantis and Randy Fine -- Mike Caruso -- was arrested in August on charges of sexually abusing multiple young kids in his family, including his grandson and a niece.

He had previously advocated the death penalty for pedophiles. This picture is when Caruso, Randy Fine and DeSantis went to Israel in 2023 to sign a "hate speech" law that restricted the free speech rights of Floridians on behalf of Israel. They signed it in Israel.

[Drew Taylor @DrewTailored]

Mourning the loss of this incredible landmark. It only ever took you 5 minutes to get through security, the food options were abysmal and it had the general aura of an infrequently attended bus depot. I will miss it every day.

[M Haleh @MuriamDavis]

I recently published a piece in Insaniyyat detailing how the decolonial turn (especially the writings of Mignolo) obfuscates the history of 🇩🇿 Algeria and works against an emancipatory politics in the MENA region. A possibly unpopular take, I realize. https://t.co/fOdLdhvgaT

[Nour Joudah @nsdoud]

The longer the commission takes to deal with this appeal and announce sanctions for immediate effect this season, the more the entire Premier League becomes a sham. PL is heading for ShamLeague not just Shamcity, and fast.