Dr Katherine Blouin

As winter sets in, Israel is still throttling all kinds of aid including food and warm things. Press can’t go in. Sick children can’t leave. It’s a slower genocide; it’s still genocide.

🦶🏼 Day 2 included a field trip around part of Islamic Cairo led by Dr. May Al-Ibrashy & the Megawra team
🪴 The team created a fantastic community garden on a mound of garbage next to the Sayida Nafissa mosque. It is watered from underground leakages+ hosts a community garden and a playground!

🏺The conference "Urban Heritage in Crisis in Egypt, Sudan & Palestine" was SO special!
🙏Huge thanks to @gmandreou.bsky.social
@archaeologuest.bsky.social & Noha Abou-Khatwa for being a dream team
📽️Recordings coming up on Everyday Orientalism
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See our full statement on how @asor-research.bsky.social continues to flout international law, platforming and legitimizing Israeli archaeologists knowingly participating in war crimes.
drive.google.com/file/d/1id36... #asor2025

In Ruins Archaeological Warfare in the West Bank

On the Zionist State's theft, and historically bankrupt weaponization of, Sebastia'a land and histories, see this piece by @infinitejaz.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/in-ruins/

Speaking fo Sebastia: Here is a graduate from ArielU - a university located in an illegal settlement which was represented at ASOR last weekend - posing in front of remains from the site. Note the modern graffito. Talk about professionalism 🤡 2/
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Just as ASOR's conference ends, Israel goes ahead with its plan to steal yet more Palestinian heritage: The site of Sebastia 1/

YouTube video by DiEM25 The Art of Not Belonging: Shadi Alzaqzouq’s Incredible Journey

Shadi Alzaqzouq is one of 20 Palestinian artists whose work will be featured in All Eyes on Palestine - an exhibition that opens on 11th December in Athens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBcp...

El Jones - Disturbing the Peace

“And they should all be in a cell
As a prelude to their time in hell 
Instead they lounge inside hotels 
And backslap other clientele 

Who pledge loyalty to Israel 
And sign their names upon the shells
That land on hospitals and wells 
Eternal war is what they sell”

The professor invited by UBC describes his work as an "archaeology of military occupation”, cites Foucault, but does not see the contradictions of working on an archaeological site built on ruins of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village and next to one of the largest prisons for Palestinians👇

Canadians have such limited understanding of what happened to Irish people during the Troubles and in its long colonial lead up.
#HumanRights #CivilRights #Militarization #ChildhoodTrauma

All of this convo: solidarité!

This thorough discussion of the way that these archaeologists use concepts such as carcerality as career boosters to make the Roman past seem 'relevant' while contributing to the erasure of Israeli state violence against Palestinians, shows that heritage is powerful, in service of power

Exactly what I thought!

When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.

While ASOR cannot find money for Palestinian scholars and students, it has funded IOF "archaeology" soldiers like this man affiliated w ArielU (a uni located in an illegal settlement). Edifying. 10/
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What is there left to say? At this point, if you still pay your ASOR dues and remain silent, you are part of the problem 9/
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ASOR does not even hide its commitment to the Zionification of archaeology 5/
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Eternal shame on the moral deriliction of @asor-research.bsky.social's leadership 4/
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More broadly 3/
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First things first 👇 2/ bsky.app/profile/isis...

Will anyone at this year's conference ask for ASOR to be held to account for its active complicity with the archaeology-washing of apartheid and genocide in Palestine? How are they complicit, you might ask? Here's a refresher 🧵 1/

These Saudi motherfuckers need to be brought to heel.

Another unrelenting side effect of British and French imperial bullshit in the Arab world.

"A top Turkish official, presidential adviser Yasin Aktay, has said he believes Jamal Khashoggi's body was dissolved in acid after being cut up" www.bbc.com/news/world-m...

"From Cairo’s parade routes to Louvre Abu Dhabi’s exhibition halls, the Egyptian past is staged as an investment asset or negotiating chip in diplomatic relations. The real cost—displacement, demolition, and historical loss—is treated as collateral."

YouTube video by ON THE LINE MEDIA ISRAELI SOLDIER MANHANDLES TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

IDF soldiers should not be allowed to launder a genocide on Canadian campuses. youtu.be/Ya-auhpLKKY?...

Absolutely beautiful

Toronto city hall this morning ❤️🇵🇸

Want to know how Canadian universities are complicit in Israel’s genocide?

Read this thread.

YouTube video by Just Peace Advocates Palestine Tribunal Day 2

"My knowledge of the Middle East was not an asset for my employer, but a liability": The one and only @SMohyeddin, on why she resigned from CBC in November of 2023 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNN...