Moustafa Bayoumi

Consider the new wave of (slight) global pressure being placed on Israel, it's worth recalling what Henry Kissinger said in 1976: "Israel has no foreign policy, only domestic politics.”

Edward Said and the Question of Palestine : Throughline Edward Said brought the question of Palestine into the American mainstream. He taught at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, and today, more than two decades after his death, pro-Palestine…

Charting a lineage from his own institutional battles to his posthumous life as a lodestar for today's campus insurgents, this conversation profiles Edward Said as the intellectual who ruptured the American consensus on Palestine.

With @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social et al.

“Where is my antisemitism money?”: A Columbia professor’s letter to the university president. [Last week, Columbia University reached an agreement with the Trump administration to “resolve multiple federal agency investigations into alleged violations of federal anti-discrimination la…

No one exposes the corrosive absurdity of Columbia University capitulating to Trump better than @jamesschamus.bsky.social

This letter is pitch-perfect: lithub.com/where-is-my-...

Edward Said and the Question of Palestine : Throughline Edward Said brought the question of Palestine into the American mainstream. He taught at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, and today, more than two decades after his death, pro-Palestine studen...

The NPR show Throughline interviewed Mariam Said, Tim Brennan, and me for an hour-long episode on Edward Said. You can listen to it here: www.npr.org/2025/07/17/1...

The way the UK government has labelled protesters to defend now forbidden Palestine Action terrorists is yet another example of @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social point that Israel's actions in #Gaza and many governments defence of this, is tearing democracies apart bsky.app/profile/geor...

Thanks,Tim!

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

Fantastic piece by @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social

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The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

Great piece by @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social.
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Israel

"If there’s a glimmer of hope in all this rage-inducing misery, it can be found in the growing number of people around the world who refuse to be intimidated into silence."

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"This is a form of total war the modern world should never see, let alone condone. No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us...."

Thank you @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social

It’s really good and really powerful, thank you for that. The UK is going down a similarly dark path when it comes to protesting about Gaza and I hope they won’t succeed.

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

This @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social piece is spot on.

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The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

important essay by the inimitable @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social :

I’ve written a long-ish article on how the destruction of Palestine is breaking our world.

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi

From now on, if we still talk about him, we should call him Amdrew Cuono.

Trump’s coalition is self-destructing over the Iran war question | Moustafa Bayoumi You don’t have to be a fan of Tucker Carlson to enjoy the spectacle of a Republican civil war

Trump’s coalition is self-destructing over the Iran war question | Moustafa Bayoumi

Benjamin Netanyahu must be stopped | Moustafa Bayoumi

"The Israeli prime minister’s lust for war as a solution to his myriad problems is nothing short of a threat to us all," writes author and professor Moustafa Bayoumi.

Trump is deliberately ratcheting up violence in Los Angeles | Moustafa Bayoumi

"What makes these times abnormal is the administration’s deliberate escalation of the violence, a naked attempt to ratchet up conflict to justify the imposition of greater force and repression over the American people," writes author and professor Moustafa Bayoumi.

Trump is deliberately ratcheting up violence in Los Angeles | Moustafa Bayoumi The president is escalating the situation to justify greater force and repression. Now he’s talking about sending ‘troops everywhere’

Trump is deliberately ratcheting up violence in Los Angeles | Moustafa Bayoumi

The Israeli embassy shooting was a stupid and horrific attack | Moustafa Bayoumi The killing of two Israeli embassy staffers is unconscionable and does not advance the cause of Palestinian liberation

The Israeli embassy shooting was a stupid and horrific attack | Moustafa Bayoumi

The Israeli embassy shooting was a stupid and horrific attack | Moustafa Bayoumi The killing of two Israeli embassy staffers is unconscionable and does not advance the cause of Palestinian liberation

This brazen act of political violence in the heart of the nation’s capital only underscores the obvious: all this violence – whether it’s in Wash DC, Gaza, Jenin or Israel, by bullet, bomb or forced starvation – all of it must end, and it must end immediately. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Excited to enter Gaza today. Praying that we eliminate Hamas as a terrorist organization. Yesterday, the guys from the battalion eliminated dozens of terrorists. I expressed a request to take part in the killings, as a doctor, under the framework of preventive medicine. One of the medics corrected me and said, it's under the framework of public health. On second thought, he's right. After all, we're talking about exterminating cockroaches and other loathsome insects."

This guy is a doctor who entered Gaza today with Israeli forces. Here’s what he tweeted today:

We’ve never seen a more error-prone, incompetent presidency | Moustafa Bayoumi In their rush to implement a barely concealed authoritarian agenda, this administration is producing a litany of blunders, gaffes and slip-ups

In their rush to implement a barely concealed authoritarian agenda, this administration is producing a litany of blunders, gaffes and slip-ups.

I call it “rule by error.”
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The case against Mahmoud Khalil is meant to silence American dissent | Moustafa Bayoumi The open door of American democracy is slamming shut faster and louder than we could have imagined

“Mahmoud Khalil is clearly a remarkable, principled man. He doesn’t deserve this unjust detention the US government is subjecting him to. The irony is that this United States doesn’t deserve a Mahmoud Khalil.”

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Outrageous but not unexpected, since immigration judges serve at the pleasure of the Department of Justice (the executive branch) and not the federal judicial branch. The fight for justice and freedom of expression will carry on.

Elon's involvement in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race cost his candidate around 5% of the vote--even though he spent $25 million dollars on his behalf.

Elon's endorsee ran 5 points behind the other statewide Republican candidate. That's an unbelievably negative return on investment.

Exclusive: New transcript of Signal chat [SATIRE] I have obtained a new transcript of the Signal conversation between high-level government officials and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg and am publishing it here in full in the public interest…

I have obtained a new transcript of the Signal conversation between high-level government officials and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg and am publishing it here in full in the public interest.

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Beginning to think AI is running Columbia University

The truth is that the Democrats won’t have a future in the USA until they stand against genocide

Another academic is detained by the Trump administration for his freedom of thought and expression.