James Ryan

That is of course true but it’s not as though the Republic of Turkey recognizes the Armenian Genocide either. Short of that, I do think international recognition has had positive social effects among Turks. I don’t expect any state to voluntarily recognize such crimes given the consequences.

It’s really great to see two former close colleagues and friends — Helga Tawil Souri and Nasser Abourahme — on this list :)

I’d be very hesitant to say what any of this portends, but I think it is one reason why this wave is notable — as a signal of disjunction between the State of Israel and its soft power apparatus, and important, influential pockets of its diaspora.

State recognition had many other contingent factors, but recognition, study, and advocacy by Turkish scholars and activists was one of the necessary preconditions. It was far slower in coming than we are seeing amongst Israelis/diaspora institutions, at least on the liberal/left end of the spectrum.

US official recognition took over a century, despite the fact that several prominent Americans, US-based groups, and a large Armenian diaspora were critical to documenting the genocide while it was happening.

Something that I’ve been thinking about in the recent wave of genocide recognition among Israeli/diaspora institutions — recognition of the Armenian genocide on a similar scale among Turkish diaspora figures and institutions took ~70 years for green shoots to start peeking through.

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Important clarification

In case it needs to be spelled out, CM and groups like it have been planting students in MidEast classes for decades now to make exactly these kinds of bad faith complaints. It’s an insurgency and these schools are just bending over for it.

Really fantastic how every Ivy League school is outsourcing its academic integrity and oversight to Canary Mission.

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Canada has announced that it will recognize the State of Palestine

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We should have excised “pre-existing conditions” from the lexicon well before 2008…

Relatively speaking, though, Turkish liberals then (as now, as ever) were tiny in number. Can’t say the same about US politics.

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It’s crowded. You hear and see all kinds of crazy stuff out your window. You have to deal with petty bs from time to time. This is what living in a society is like.

Once the guy started plying his craft in the daytime, our landlord finally installed cameras and caught him like five minutes later.

NYC is so safe that while I was living there, we had a two week long spell of almost nightly car arsons on our block and the only precaution we took was “I guess park farther down the street.”

Yuval Abraham ...7al" • 34m Odeh just died. Murdered. Yuval Abraham ..x 7a1' • 2h An Israeli settler just shot Odeh Hadalin in the lungs, a remarkable activist who helped us film No Other Land in Masafer Yatta. Residents identified Yinon Levi, sanctioned by the EU and US, as the shooter. This is him in the video firing like crazy.

An Israeli settler sanctioned by the European Union just shot and killed one of the Palestinian activists and filmmakers a part of the No Other Land crew

BREAKING - B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel call Israel's actions in Gaza genocide

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Hence using a year’s worth of THAAD interceptor production to defend Israel.

FWIW, Gaza’s starvation made it to the front page of my local paper on Friday, after being A6-10 for weeks. I think it will catch on a bit after this weekend.

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British doctor comes back from Gaza and confirms two things we knew: 1- the Israelis *specifically* confiscate formula feed to starve children 2- there is a clear pattern in gun shot wounds pointing to the fact that IDF soldiers are playing games hunting humans.

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All for the Pope leveraging his position here, of course, but the article does seem rather unaware of the symbolism involved.

Wait, uh, isn’t this how the actual Crusades started?