We are organizing a workshop in Alexandria on April 30! Huge thanks to our sponsors: @uoftcities.bsky.social @archaeologycentre.bsky.social @jhievents.bsky.social @cnrs.fr 's Centre d'études alexandrines and The Human and The City for Social Research everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/a...
Huge props to the colleagues and organizations who voted to divest our pensions from Israel! We will not retire on war crimes.
It’s over to UPP to stop stalling and ACT.
WE REFUSE TO BE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE.
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👏 64% of UBC senators support motion for a special meeting to discuss partnerships with Israeli universities and part. with universities in other apartheid states. Just shy of 66% support required. Amazing organizing by campus groups. Bravo! The writing is on the wall.
The statement is now signed by over 300 colleagues! Full text and link to signature form here: iranianarchaeology.org/post/6142
"The statement calls for states and international organisations to take a number of actions, preparing “to aid Iran as well as Lebanon and other inflicted countries with post-war heritage assessment and restoration, professionally, legally, and financially”.
UNESCO sites damaged in Iran.
Under International Law, “the responsibility does not lie only with the state that violates the law. Under the responsibility to protect doctrine, this responsibility also lies with those states that fail to condemn, restrain, and hold that violator accountable.”
Speaking of which 👀
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I am told this statement by Lebanon's Vichy Culture Ministry whining about the destruction done by the invaders they collaborate with was issued hours after the reports mentioning a 🇮🇱 ground operation bulldozing the site followed by an air strike that completely destroyed the site 🫠
Looting of archaeological sites and museums in occupied territories - incl. in Palestine and in the Sinai during the 🇮🇱 occupation of the 🇪🇬peninsula - must also be interpreted within this paradigm. Link to signature form 👇 5/ iranianarchaeology.org/post/6142
This is the case in Palestine, in Lebanon, and in Iran (suspecting it might also happen in the occupied Syrian Golan too). 4/ everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/i...
In other words, 🇮🇱's purposely destroys the present AND past of the Lands it wants to control as a way to dehistoricize their future and allow for a fictional, Zionist, colonial myth to be imposed on the stolen/targeted Land. 3/ everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/i...
It is of the utmost importance that these war crimes be understood as part of a broader, and premeditated, 🇮🇱 strategy of epistemicide, memoricide, theft and appropriation throughout West Asia. 2/ everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/s...
🚨 🧵 Thank you to @theartnewspaper.bsky.social's Sarvy Geranpayeh for covering this important letter re 🇮🇱's assault on Iran's pluri-millennial heritage, which I am one of the signatories of 1/ www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/15/m...
I am obsessed with this documentary on Vichy France. I knew LOADS of French people collaborated w the Nazis. I didn't know to what extent. Now this is happening all over again in many countries, including Lebanon www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRzQ...
Vichy France had Otto Abetz and his French wife.
Vichy Lebanon has Morgan Ortagus and her Lebanese partner. Plus ça change...
Alas. I am lit. nauseus. Absolute disgrace.
🩸There is nothing more morally abject and putrid than a collaborator. Treators to their people, who are willing to sell their Land and oppress their comrades for their own, personal benefit. History won't be kind to Lebanon's Vichy régime: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
🚨 The USA-vassal government of Kuwait has jailed award-winning, USA-Kuwaiti journalist @ahmedeldin.bsky.social for six weeks as part of a crackdown on journalists
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Alas we are really not done with this creepy nonsense. Reupping an EOTalks panel on Harassment X Academia from 2 years ago because what the panelists bravely shared remains, sadly, timely: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWYh...
Les bombardements israeliens menacent les sites archéologiques de Tyr au Liban.
archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/fr/tyr-2
Update: 18 months since @ubcmedicine.bsky.social SPPH let me go for speaking out about Israel's genocide in Gaza. Faculty Asscoiation grievance filed 14 mon. ago. Process is painfully slow & no arbitration has been scheduled. As I've said before: I will not sign an NDA as a condition of settlement.
From Palestine to Lebanon to Iran: Israel's illegal wars and ethnic cleansing operations involve the premeditated targeting of the region's millennia-old heritage. They think annihilating the past will make them win the future. They will fail.
ISRAEL BOMBED NEXT TO UNESCO SITE OF TYRE AGAIN
There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon.
You are being lied to
Le détroit n'est pas bloqué et vous le savez. Il est interdit aux agresseurs 🇺🇸🇮🇱 et à leurs acolytes. De plus, le détroit n'est pas en eaux internationales.
This series is SO GOOD! I have been assigning it in my 1st year undergraduate Ancient Mediterranean class. An absolute must watch. Thank you for this beautiful work, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social
As was predictable from the start, the USA-Israel axis lost
Hubris does not stand a chance against the weight of history
I beg to differ w this Liberal USA take:
The 🇺🇸 Empire is built on genocide, Land theft & slavery; it has nuked 🇯🇵 TWICE; it has cause tens of millions of deaths worldwide since; it is assisting 🇮🇱's genocide in 🇵🇸; it has elected Trump TWICE. Trump IS America, albeit without a mask.
it is wild to watch the vast vast vast majority of North Americans going about their days as if every moment that passes doesn't bring us closer to this truly unbearable in scale of evil atrocity
