Josh Mayer

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Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And-

Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

It adds to the sadness of the moment to hear so-called liberals keep saying, "This isn't America." Everything the US power structure is doing they've already tested on Natives, enslaved people, and others "America" sees as foreign or insufficiently human. Are you libs being ignorant like the right?

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: We are destroying everything that remains in Gaza, the world isn't stopping us.

People who are still shouting that Israel is not committing genocide must be clapping their hands over their ears every time an Israeli minister steps onto a podium because

A National Day of Action for Higher Ed On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...

surprised to hear UConn is not allowing AAUP to rally on campus for the Higher Ed Day of Action because of its so-called noise policy. we are literally trying to “exercise a powerful collective voice in advancing the democratic mission of our colleges and universities” www.dayofactionforhighered.org

Ranjani Srinivasan, the Columbia grad student whose visa was revoked forcing a "self deportation", was scheduled to present their research at the AAG meeting next week. This is an outrageous attack on our colleague and on geographic thought. Share and sign the statement below.

In light of this injustice, it’s important to point out that Northwestern has been harboring a literal Nazi on its faculty for decades, Holocaust denier Arthur Butz. NU has jumped through hoops to defend Butz’s “free speech,” but fires faculty members who speak out against genocide.

Amazing things happening to language and meaning over at @theguardian.com

Indigenous Studies Response to York’s Suspension of their Program Dear Dean McMurtry, Provost Peters, and President Lenton, As two Indigenous studies administrators (Dr. Chris Andersen is the Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Dr....

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Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.

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I was supposed to discuss our book *The End of College Football* tonight in Washington, DC.

I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States.

They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.

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DHS's reasoning reflects the absurd, arbitrary nature of the US immigration system. In some cases, DHS said their convictions—from the political prosecutions that made them political prisoners!—made them inadmissible to the US. In others, DHS said their fear of return to Nicaragua wasn't credible.

The way universities have allied themselves with the most repressive and evil of all forces is truly scary.

A map of the countries in Africa and the size of Canadian mining assets in each country. The total is 31.6 billion across the continent.

Analysis | Why do Canadian mining companies own most of the mines on the African continent? We haven't asked anyone and we're certainly not asking now

Prosecutors urge suspension of Amazon carbon projects, citing Mongabay investigation According to the lawsuit, the government had failed to consult the local communities.

Brazilian prosecutors asked the Amazonas state government to suspend carbon projects in 21 conservation units. According to the lawsuit, the government had failed to consult local communities.

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BREAKING — The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during Israel's assault on Gaza.

❗️The measure to repeal ranked-choice voting in Alaska is now trailing — by 192 votes statewide.

The roughly 3.9K ballots counted today broke for the 'no' by 29%. (About as many more ballots remain, probably a little more.)

This won't change the Nicaraguan govt's behavior. I'm also not yet sure how broad a precedent was set. But the decision recognizes the validity of the Creole territorial claim and recognizes the state's failure to stop colonization. This may be a strong tool in a different political moment.

Among other things, Nicaragua was ordered to title the Bluefields Creole community's full territory and protect the Bluefields Creole and Rama-Kriol territories from colonization. Elections of parallel communal governments violated the political rights of the Rama and Kriol/Creole peoples.

Overwhelming decision for the Rama and Kriol/Creole peoples in the Inter-American Court today. Nicaragua is responsible for violating their political, territorial, and procedural rights in the process of pursuing the canal project. Ordered to halt the canal project and protect Black/Indig. rights.

The announcement of the decision in Rama and Kriol Peoples v. Nicaragua has just begun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=px2h...

The imperialism dyad (US/Global North–Nicaragua) accelerates the settler colonialism dyad (Nicaraguan settler state–Rama and Kriol peoples). Were it not for US imperialism, the entrepreneurial settler state would have less motivation to expropriate Black & Indigenous lands.

Another part of this story: In my conversations with senior Sandinista officials, they acknowledged that the canal would be a disaster. But they said it was the least bad way to generate the revenues needed to keep up with debt servicing while pursuing social spending.

This case was my entry point to community-collaborative work with the Rama and Kriol peoples. I can't express adequate gratitude to the interlocutors and friends who have allowed me to accompany, learn from, and support them in this work these past 10 years.

The Nicaraguan state will refuse to recognize or comply with this decision, like other recent Inter-American Court decisions. But the case is important to many of my Rama and Kriol/Creole friends as an archive and symbol of their ongoing resistance and a potential tool for future battles.

Today, the Inter-American Court will rule on the legality of the process to approve the canal project, but it also has the opportunity to lay out the substantive requirements of consultation processes and to require free, prior, and informed consent for projects in Black and Indigenous territories.

(Of course, this title excluded the canal route.) Even so, the communal authorities kept fighting the canal alongside their exiled attorney, Dr. María Luisa Acosta. They continued despite despite the project losing its financing and despite the Nica govt withdrawing from the Inter-American System.