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Short Circuit | The Imperial '80s Episode 37
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Yeah, you make a good point. I used to stew about all the prominent academics who opposed BDS before they didn't. A dear friend told me to just take the W (in our own middle-aged vernacular, obviously) and consider it a job well done. I'll do the same with your POV here.
if you get a copy from Open Books' Bookshop4Gaza, they donate all of their proceeds to the Sameer Project!!
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Finally got a copy. I hope you'll get one, as well.
The apprehension comes from a deep well of (unfortunately justifiable) mistrust, as you note. I don't think most people are opposed in principle to liberal orgs adopting our positions. My sense is that J-Street will have to do a lot more before anyone takes it seriously.
I was interviewed for the Chronicle of Higher Education about my new novel "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War" as well as a host of other topics relating to the current state of the university.
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Thank you for the kind words. Much obliged.
I'm giving a talk in London next week (Queen Mary University). Please come out if you can. Would love to catch up with old friends and comrades.
Steven Salaita on scholasticide:
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Should you be kind enough to buy my new novel, "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War," please stay on the Common Notions website and browse the many amazing titles. I hope you'll support @commonnotions.bsky.social in general--it's a brilliant revolutionary publishing project.
I can’t recommend this new Project 2052 story by @cowbellemoo.lets.abolish.family highly enough. Revolutionary hawks taking down police drones and military jets, sex forests, and much more. Reshare, check out new stories every day this week.
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No. He's given them a million chances to figure it out already.
I'll be live on Breaking Culture this Tuesday at noon eastern to discuss scholasticide and the (pitiful) condition of higher education today. I'm sure the conversation will make its way to the current war, as well.
This is tomorrow! Still very underenrolled for this one, please share widely! We'll be discussing the role of labor and labor strikes within US prisons, specifically how incarcerated people understand the role their labor plays in upholding or disrupting the prison system.
I do, yes! Started relatively recently.
Here is an excerpt of "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War," which is officially released today:
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Cover of a new novel, in yellow, that shows the title "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War" and the author "Steven Salaita." The cover image shows an open clamp trap for animals with a small drawing of a coyote.
Right as a book of mine is close to being published, I worry that I'm about to make an enormous fool of myself. Even so, I am proud to announce the publication of my second novel, "Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War." May it provide you warm and meaningful company.
Here's a long essay analyzing the recent emergence of rightwing critics of Israel. I argue that it is a bad idea for the Palestine solidarity movement in North America to seek any kind of alliance with those critics or to validate the ideologies they represent.
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from Sameer Project X: THIRD winter in a row iN GENOCIDE! Donate now: https://chuffed.org/project/149178-sameer-project-x-mass-displacement-campaign Let that sink in. Palestinians in Gaza’s body are malnourished, their immunity is low, they’re exhausted and they’re entering their third winter in genocide. This is happening with no adequate shelter for 1.47 million people, barely any tents and tarps coming in and zero caravans or building materials have entered. Disaster is an understatement for what’s about to come and even though it feels like a drop in the ocean, the Translating Falasteen ( @translatingpal ) x Sameer continues the Yalla Na’merha (let’s build it) campaign. We can’t shelter a million and a half people but for around $350, your donations can provide a waterproof tent for 7-8 people! Despair is a luxury that Palestinians in Gaza don’t have. This is why we need to rise and do whatever we can to end this genocide and for aid to come in. Disruption and direct action are crucial during this time. Simultaneously we ask you to continue to provide material support to Palestinians in Gaza. Donate today to the Return Home Campaign: https://chuffed.org/project/149178-sameer-project-x-mass-displacement-campaign Other ways to donate include: http://paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Winter") http://account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Winter")
Daily bombings, hundreds of thousands of people living in tents, cell phones brought in by the entity instead of medicine and food exploding in people's hands, approval of another fucking infrastructure of settler colonial genocide, and Palestinians continue to support each others' survival.
It's a little depressing how the bodies in Gaza haven't even been buried and US national socialists are already back to positioning Palestine as a faraway irrelevant cause (except when useful to build credibility for their celebrity politicians)
Right on schedule!
Do you get annoyed when uncompromising anti-Zionism is dismissed as "purity politics"? If so, you might find this short essay worth a read:
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"One looks at the United States right now and wonders, What democracy? Which law? Where free speech? Whose human rights? If these existential treats can’t be located in the metropole, then we certainly won’t find them anywhere on the periphery."
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It's so hard to get through autumn or spring without layering lol.
Please read this amazing essay by my dear friend Saher Safi, who discusses his childhood in Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza, and the pain of now witnessing genocide. Saher worked for months on this essay, which was a difficult process for him. He ended up producing some exceptionally powerful writing.
