Vasanthi Venkatesh

It’s not law’s repressive face that’s the issue here but that of academia (& its cravenness)!
Using generalities like “recent events” without a single mention of Yale? Not even a call to investigate the termination of Dr. Doutaghi or how you are planning to support her through this!

Yesterday, in protest of Harvard University's response to the genocide in Gaza and deepening repression of campus activism against it, I submitted a letter of resignation from my job there. Here is that letter.

In solidarity with Prof. Franke. Day of disgrace for all academia. LAW schools might as well shut down if condemning & fighting against occupation & genocide is to be censored.

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

Columbia Professor Says She Was Pushed to Retire Because of Her Activism Katherine Franke, a law professor and vocal advocate of pro-Palestinian students, had been under investigation over remarks she made about Israeli students.

I’m genuinely at a loss for words - Katherine Franke is as brilliant as she is principled and her being forced out of a tenured position for her position on Gaza and student protests feels like a gut punch to whatever remains of academic freedom in the US.

“If I get killed, don’t wear black; my heart is red, not black. Wear rainbow or pink instead.”

Israel wiped out Fatima and her entire family in Beirut, dropping bunker buster bombs on their home as they slept. #JusticeForFatima

Today marks 300 days since Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her in Gaza.

For months, I have pressed the US government again and again on the killing.

How they’ve responded is shocking.

Watch all 300 days here: zeteo.com/p/300-days-a...

Anti-genocide protestors have laid waste to Montreal. I toured the wreckage today: potholes everywhere, McGill's campus walk ripped up, sinister-looking construction workers playing Uno nearby, & worst of all French citizens running amok calling chocolatines "pains au chocolat."

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Please donate and share this fundraiser in support of a comrade in Canada who was arrested recently and had their apartment raided for organizing for Falastin. They will remain anonymous but they need funds to move and cover legal fees.
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CSIS “objective was to keep [Canadian] Abdelrazik detained [and tortured] in Sudan” as it “felt he was a terrorist.” in 2007, the RCMP confirmed that it had no "substantive information" that he was involved in any criminal activity. Gross Islamophobic Charter violation.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

“The complete dismissal of entire populations as sub-human, or not equivalent to European or Euro-American bodies, is a stark reminder that the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and colonial genocide of indigenous populations by Western empires have never left us.“

Reddish orange background with white text workshops for Gaza cascading down the square

We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀

Reasons why our struggles in Latin America are deeply entangled with Palestine's liberation/decolonization.

Israel’s role in Indigenous/campesino genocide in Guatemala
—technologies of violence imported from Israel are still used to repress the movements in Guatemala.🧵1/

Keep it going. Let’s see how much reach this place has.

Rashid Khalidi, The Neck and The Sword, NLR 147, May–June 2024 Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali discuss the political and intellectual history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught entanglement with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the ‘peace p...

Must read interview of Rashid Khalidi by Tariq Ali- two intellectual powerhouses.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii147...

Great title too. When asked why don’t you “just talk (with Israel)”. Ghassan Kanafani answered “That is [a] kind of a conversation between the sword and the neck"

All power to you, Sara, for standing up to the racist, craven forces in legal academia who hide behind DEI to prop up white supremacy. Your refusal to back down when they try to make you feel like you don’t belong as you challenged ABR & APR is the radical example we ALL must be

"We will be ok.... We will stand up and rise again from the midst of destruction as we have always done as Palestinians..But for those who are complicit [and silent] I feel sorry for you. Will you ever recover from this?"

“The war has confirmed the world does not see us as equal...To our European friends: I never ever want to hear you lecture us on Human Rights or International Law again. We are not white - it does not apply to us according to your own logic” 🔥🔥 Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbHzqU3ZdTs

If no Fb, his speech starts at around 28:00 on this YT link. "They [US] send us bombs while celebrating Christmas in their land. They sing of the Prince of Peace in their land while playing the drum of war in our land" www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbHz...

Christ in the Rubble A Liturgy of Lament Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac... Christ in the Rubble A Liturgy of Lament Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church Bethlehem Saturday December 23rd, 2023 We are...

"The South African Church taught us the concept of state theology defined as the theological justification of the status quo with its racism, capitalism and totalitarianism.
Theology of empire is disguise for superiority, supremacy, “chosenness”, and entitlement." www.facebook.com/christmaslut...

"Gaza is now a different colour from space" apnews.com/article/isra...

Everything Elon Musk Did While Visiting Israel Facing millions in lost advertising revenue after he championed an antisemitic conspiracy theory on Twitter, Elon Musk toured Israel and met with the country’s leaders. The Onion examines everything...

❤️❤️❤️ The Onion:

"According to witnesses, South African–born Musk immediately dropped to his knees after stepping on Israeli soil, overwhelmed with joy to be back in a state segregated by race and religion."

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.

Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

Gaza’s main public library has been destroyed. Authorities in Gaza City have condemned what they say was the deliberate destruction of the city’s main public library by Israeli forces after finding the building in ruins while a ceasefire was be�...

Israel’s bombing of universities and libraries is a “calculated, and often vindictive, destruction of a people’s culture, language, history, and shared sites of community…to erase all evidence of Palestinian life, Palestinian humanity, from Gaza.”
lithub.com/gazas-main-p...

Who else had no fucking clue that the KKK is considered a tax-exempt religious organization instead of a terrorist organization

archive.ph/wUICX (free link to article)

#ReadPalestinianSpecFic Reading List The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…

ICYMI: All the Palestinian speculative you can eat. Fantasy, Sci-fi, futurism, dystopias, fabulism, horror. All lengths and shapes, with links to where to find the good stuff. Curated and kept up to date by me. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

The Right to Speak for Ourselves For far too long, Palestinians have been denied the freedom to tell our own story.

You’re supposed to be polite in your suffering. & I completely refuse this. I refuse these politics of appeal.

We are human not just because we cry when we lose our mothers, or our homes, or we have pets or hobbies. We are humans because we feel rage & disdain—because we resist”

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Precisely how many more people will lose work by standing AGAINST genocide???