saloni // سلونی // सलोनी

JD @UChicagoLaw / PhD @BerkeleyLaw

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

Arjun Poudel, a Nepali journalist for the @kathmandupost, reports his own tragedy:

"I watched my village disappear in an instant...

My eldest aunt was swept away. So was her son, my dai Madhu, and his wife. My other aunt — gone too, they told me. Her grandson Sijan and his wife, caught in the same water. His own son and daughter-in-law, unreachable, unaccounted for. My maternal uncle had gone out that morning to cut grass for the cattle. He never came back."

https://t.co/uCKcE3LLWw

[serènity @cultureartislam]

First Ramadan Iftar in Gaza, Palestine.

[The University of Chicago Legal Forum @UChiLegalForum]

We are thrilled to share The University of Chicago Legal Forum’s 2025-2026 Editorial Board. Congratulations!

[The University of Chicago Legal Forum @UChiLegalForum]

Read "Seeking the Divine: A Proposed Methodology of Religion to Resolve Adjudications Over the Nexus Inquiry in Religious Asylum Claims" now: https://t.co/U6c53HXcqB

[The University of Chicago Legal Forum @UChiLegalForum]

Saloni S. Jaiswal addresses a circuit split on the necessary causal connection to persecution for asylum claims. She proposes a four-part definitional methodology of religion and argues that a but-for causation standard is sufficient for religious asylum claims.

[Traversing Tradition @TraversingTrad]

[New Publication]

Understanding the Self Through Muhammad Iqbal’s Philosophical and Political Thought

By Saloni Jaiswal

Read more: https://t.co/qzHxmlGDNb

[saloni // سلونی // सलोनी @saloni__jaiswal]

What can we learn from Iqbal? What does Iqbal tell us about ourselves and the human condition more generally?

I seek to find some semblance of an answer in this piece, specifically by considering Muhammad Iqbal’s philosophy of khudi

@TraversingTrad

https://t.co/Y9LF1EeGWY

[Clive Stafford Smith @CliveSSmith]

Very sad to say that at 11:45 as one of his last deeds as president Joe Biden DENIED clemency to Aafia. No explanation. I’m ashamed of him. His son gets it, Aafia doesn’t. But we will move on to Plan B. Thoughts with @FowziaSiddiqui & her sister. @Aafiamovement @omarsuleiman

[Samidoun Network @SamidounPP]

Dania Hanatsheh, liberated student at Birzeit University, raises the victory sign amid her fellow women prisoners as she is freed in the Toufan al-Ahrar prisoner exchange.

[Maria Kari @mariakari1414]

A grim anniversary and a reminder that there’s still victims of the War of Terror languishing in prison for crimes they did not commit including my client Aafia. Our voices must only get louder.

[Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) @MsJamshidi]

In 1 of the most egregious violations of academic freedom 2 hit a law faculty, eminent scholar @ProfKFranke has been forced out of her position at @ColumbiaLaw 4 her support of Palestinian rts & defense of pro-Palestine students being attacked at @Columbia https://t.co/w7jy4hoqf2

[saloni // سلونی // सलोनी @saloni__jaiswal]

Throughout the week, students organized teach ins and talks on Kashmir, the Egyptian Revolution, international law, revolutionary poetry, the 1968 DNC protests, and decolonizing academia

I learned much more about the world—and myself—in a week than I ever expected

[saloni // سلونی // सलोनी @saloni__jaiswal]

At 4:45am on May 7, UCPD raided the UChicago Popular University of Gaza Solidarity Encampment

Just 20 hours before, a board was put up to highlight the day’s programming

This was the final day — a day with teach ins, religious services, trainings, performances, and rest

[saloni // سلونی // सलोनी @saloni__jaiswal]

As much as the encampment was a tactic to push for divestment given the institution’s complicity in an ongoing genocide, the encampment also radically reimagined what a university, in its truest form, can—and should—be

[saloni // سلونی // सलोनी @saloni__jaiswal]

50 riot police — or any type of police ever — are never necessary on any university campus

[UChicago Jews for a Free Palestine @UofCJ4P]

From NYT: UChicago requested CPD presence
Gerald McSwiggan, a University of Chicago spokesman, said in a statement that the university police “made the Chicago Police Department aware of our operation well in advance. We requested their support, however, they declined.”

[Helen Galvin Ross @helengalvinross]

one really jawdropping part of the campus-wide email just sent by UChicago's president

[Dissenters 🌊 @wearedissenters]

BREAKING‼️ Students and alumni at the University of Michigan have started day 1 of their Gaza Solidarity Encampment✊🏾🇵🇸

[katie smith @probablyreadit]

NOW: NYU students have set up an encampment on the plaza in front of NYU Stern, less than a week after Columbia students erected a similar encampment

The students are demanding NYU divest from Israel, including closing their academic center in Tel Aviv