When you consider the mysterious deaths of BLM activists over the years, not to mention a century of surveilling Black movement leaders, this is quite something
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this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990
Israeli forces have destroyed over 1,000 homes daily since March 2, according to Lebanon’s scientific research council.
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
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I’ll be moderating this panel for the @asanews.bsky.social’s Global and Transnational Section a week from tomorrow, featuring geographer Yousuf Al-Bulushi, anthropologist Sami Hermez, historians Tithi Bhattacharya and Margaret Power, and sociologist @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social
Part of how I square this is to listen to Palestinian activists and scholars. Although not of one mind, significant sectors see BDS and related efforts as vital to the struggle against genocide and apartheid, notwithstanding complexities. This listening and heeding is what solidarity demands.
Thus entirely ruling out boycotts? Would apply such a stance to other historical cases?
So given this, your stance is that it’s better for ASA to do nothing rather than do something, even if imperfect or incomplete, to minimize organizational ties with complicit Israeli academic institutions? That’s not tactically or ethically sensible to me.
Come learn more about the boycott and pro-democracy movement in the American Sociological Association!
It’s not odd at all. The resolution calls for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions NOT individuals. It concerns the documented complicity of Israeli universities with settler colonialism, genocide, and apartheid.
"Protesters in the Italian capital raised a shroud bearing the names of 21,000 children killed by the Israeli army during the genocide, in a demonstration condemning the ongoing massacres in #Gaza" (Mahmoud Al Shebrawy) #Italy
An important reminder: The proposed resolution is NOT a boycott of individual Israeli academics. Per our FAQs, it does not target individual academics, nor does it prevent academics working at Israeli institutions from attending the ASA's annual meeting."
Only the U.S. is allowed to extort other countries.
In an unexpected turn of events, the U.S. will now be blocking the Strait of Hormuz.
One of those rare moments when perception and reality coincide.
Israel is now doing to Lebanon what it did, and is doing, to Gaza.
War crimes every single day.
I think the thing that makes me most angry is that for so long, the racism many of us experienced day-to-day in hiring, promotions, etc was dismissed as something we were projecting, while white admin who did those things to us were just waiting for it to be socially OK to do this again.
Facts!
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Pedro Sanchez Perez-Castejon, Prime Minister of Spain arrives to the European Council summit. (Photo by Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images)
PM Pedro Sánchez: "Netanyahu has launched his most intense attack on Lebanon since the offensive began — his disregard for human life & international law is intolerable.
It’s time to speak clearly: Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire — and there must be no impunity for these criminal acts"
a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate
Israel is continuing its mass slaughter campaign against the people of Lebanon. Part of its settler colonial expansion project.
Up from 20 but still astonishingly low.
20?
What is your college or university doing to support students whose entire families and hometowns have been openly threatened with genocide by the most powerful man in the world?
Only 50 of 214 House Democrats are calling to impeach a man who has openly declared intent to commit genocide in the most unpopular war in this nation's history. Truly this party has no desire to save itself. Baffling.
Publicizing books and talks right now is gross. Perhaps it always is (as someone who has done both).
The UN posting “even wars have rules” is not enough.
Have any heads of state or international bodies said anything about Trump’s latest declarations of genocide?
