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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi

@peruana.bsky.social

Peruvian historian between worlds. Chola respondona. History Professor at UC-Santa Barbara & columnist in La República. Academic website: https://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/mendez/. Opinión: https://larepublica.pe/autor/cecilia-mendez.

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Why Does ICE Look More and More Like the Israeli Military Lately? Prem on the jarring parallels between the two violent forces that receive billions of US tax dollars.

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24.01.2026 21:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tracking Israel’s ‘Ceasefire’ in Gaza: These Numbers Show the Genocide Isn’t Over Three months later, as 'phase two' of Trump and Netanyahu's so-called 'peace deal' begins, these horrific statistics tell a different story.

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20.01.2026 00:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We Refuse to be Silenced: The Palestinian Historians Group Responds to the AHA Council Vetoes We, the Palestinian Historians Group, are outraged by the American Historical Association Council’s decision to veto two resolutions that members passed by 78 and 79 percent at the AHA Annual Business...

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16.01.2026 01:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grand Illusion We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the “bellicose frivolity of senile empires.”

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09.01.2026 08:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Eye on Palestine (@eyeonpalestine) “They have stolen my harvest and taken everything from us they’ve left us with absolutely nothing. They’ve destroyed our identity.” A Palestinian grandfather cries after Zionist settlers destroyed hi...

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27.10.2025 04:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mosab Abu Toha (@mosababutoha) This belongs in every headline!! This is the most heartbreaking video today. A Palestinian hostage who’s just been released was told his wife and children were slaughtered by Israel while he was hel...

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14.10.2025 04:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Palestine Will Be Free (@palestinewillbefree) DO NOT LOOK AWAY Utterly horrific scenes from the latest massacre committed by the Jewish supremacists against civilians while they were trying to get drinking water on Al-Thalathini Street in Gaza C...

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02.10.2025 06:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mosab Abu Toha (@mosababutoha) Self defense in the West Bank. Shame on you and every complicit government.

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01.10.2025 06:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi) HORRIBLE! Israel uses a quadcopter to assassinate a Palestinian doctor while he's working inside the hospital. The drone shoots him in the head from outside the window of the hospital. This is not c...

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30.09.2025 18:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi) Israel is using some of America's most advanced bombs on children hiding in tents. Israel's leadership and much of its public assert that no child in Gaza is innocent. Including this little angel, wh...

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30.09.2025 07:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Epilogue: The 116-Year War on Palestine Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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27.09.2025 20:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi) Wow! Wow! MASSIVE walkout of diplomats at the UN as soon as Netanyahu takes the podium. I don't recall seeing such a large walkout for quite some time at UNGA. Israel has chosen to be a pariah an...

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27.09.2025 04:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
AJ+ Managing Director’s Message to the Global Sumud Flotilla Setting Sail to Gaza
YouTube video by AJ+ AJ+ Managing Director’s Message to the Global Sumud Flotilla Setting Sail to Gaza

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12.09.2025 05:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This man on every news show everywhere please.

03.09.2025 23:58 — 👍 105    🔁 26    💬 0    📌 1
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Exclusive: The 100-Word Ceasefire “Proposal” Trump Sent Hamas “It looks like it was written by the Israelis,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site.

Exclusive: The 100-Word Ceasefire “Proposal” Trump Sent Hamas
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09.09.2025 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | The Border Is Invading America

The Border Is Invading America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

04.09.2025 06:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.

Criminals. "Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda" www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...

03.09.2025 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Under New Law, Greece Can Imprison Rejected Asylum Seekers

Fascism is contagious. “Under New Law, Greece Can Imprison Rejected Asylum Seekers”. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/w...

02.09.2025 23:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post from AJ+ - YouTube Since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Israel has killed over 800 Palestinian athletes. Here are some of their names and faces.

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28.08.2025 18:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Funeral held in Italy for Gaza evacuee who died after severe malnutrition | AJ #shorts
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Funeral held in Italy for Gaza evacuee who died after severe malnutrition | AJ #shorts

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23.08.2025 21:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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21.08.2025 01:52 — 👍 32    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi) YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH THE FULL 3min! UN emergency coordinator @TFletcher says people should read the IPC report about the Israeli-made famine in Gaza "in sorrow and in anger." "Be in no doubt th...

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23.08.2025 09:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Mustafa Barghouti on Israeli plan to ‘kill the possibility of a two-state solution’
YouTube video by Middle East Eye Mustafa Barghouti on Israeli plan to ‘kill the possibility of a two-state solution’

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23.08.2025 06:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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According to Hannah Arendt, to be human is to be part of a political community. We don’t think of it very often, maybe because we associate humanity mostly with charitable sentiments. But the biggest taboo is to recognize someone else's political rights. larepublica.pe/opinion/2025...,

23.08.2025 01:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now

Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

22.08.2025 02:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Administration Cut N.I.H. Grants for Disfavored Research

The horror does not stop… Supreme Court Lets Trump Administration Cut N.I.H. Grants for Disfavored Research www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

21.08.2025 22:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi) An American doctor recounts how a pregnant Palestinian woman was shot in the uterus by Israeli soldiers. The bullet went through the neck of the 15-week-old fetus. The woman went from having a baby i...

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17.08.2025 22:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) After murdering Anas al-Sharif and 4 other Al Jazeera journalists in a strike on their tent, Israel claimed Gaza’s most prominent journalist of the past 22 months was moonlighting as a Hamas fighter. ...

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16.08.2025 06:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) “There should be a disclaimer on anything the Israeli military is claiming.” Drop Site MENA editor @Sharif Abdel Kouddous calls out Reuters’ coverage of the killing of their colleague Anas Al-Sharif ...

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16.08.2025 06:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Egyptians protest for Palestine at Journalists’ Syndicate in Cairo
YouTube video by Middle East Eye Egyptians protest for Palestine at Journalists’ Syndicate in Cairo

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16.08.2025 02:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0