Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him)

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

After 300 days of war, the UNRWA issued an analysis describing Gaza’s trauma as “chronic and unrelenting.” Mohammed R. Mhawish writes about the catastrophic effects this trauma has had on the mental-health of the people, especially children, in Gaza. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.

Crushingly difficult to read…but you should.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Akhras, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, lost his home to an Israeli strike, in early 2024. He and his family have been displaced multiple times, living in tents where the canvas sweats from too many bodies pressed into too little space. He no longer sits in a white-walled office or wears a badge. But he continues to work, seeing some fifty patients a day, most of them children. One of his regular patients is a young girl, no older than fourteen, who survived a strike that killed her entire family. She woke up in an I.C.U., alone, unable to understand where everyone had gone. Now she sits in front of Akhras in silence, until she asks, again and again, if he can bring them back. He has no answer, only a pencil stub and a coloring book, which he hopes she can use to express and process her emotions.

Read this passage, please, about trying to provide therapy for trauma in Gaza, even though it should make you feel like you are stabbing needles into your eyes.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

"... it is impossible with any honesty to teach about topics such as the history of the creation of Israel, and the ongoing Palestinian Nakba, culminating in the genocide being perpetrated by Israel in Gaza with the connivance and support of the US and much of western Europe." 4/4

"...Yet Columbia has announced that it will serve as a guide in disciplinary proceedings. Under this definition of antisemitism, which absurdly conflates criticism of a nation-state, Israel, and a political ideology, Zionism, with the ancient evil of Jew-hatred..." 3/4

"...Jewishness with Israel, so that any criticism of Israel, or indeed description of Israeli policies, becomes a criticism of Jews. Citing its potential chilling effect, a co-author of the IHRA definition, Professor Kenneth Stern, has repudiated its current uses..." 2/4

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

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"It is impossible to teach this course (and much else) in light of Columbia’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. The IHRA definition deliberately, mendaciously and disingenuously conflates..." 1/4

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

Historian Rashid Khalidi cancels his Fall class

Anyone who actually knows anything about the current political situation in Israel and the history of Israel's negotiations with Palestine knows that Israel will never allow a real two-state solution, with two real, sovereign states.

Israel has made a one-state solution the only possibility.

Is there no depth of depravity to which ICE and their enablers will not sink?

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

ProPublica has found ICE agents broke car windows:
*When kids or pregnant women were inside.
*Causing serious injuries.
*Targeting people without criminal records, including US citizens.

Such critical reporting via @nicolefoy.bsky.social + @mckenziefunk.com:
projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

“Stop This Genocide”: Gaza Aid Worker Warns of Imminent Starvation, Urges Israel to Lift Blockade We speak with Eyad Amawi, an aid coordinator in Gaza, who tells Democracy Now! about the “rapid deterioration” inside the besieged territory as Israel’s blockade causes mass starvation. Health officials...

"Stop This Genocide": Gaza Aid Worker Warns of Imminent Starvation, Urges Israel to Lift Blockade

Israel's leading human rights group issued a report this week declaring the country's actions in Gaza "our genocide," joining a growing global consensus. "Israel is taking systematic, organized action to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza," says Sarit Michaeli of B'Tselem.

“Our Genocide”: Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Destroying Palestinian Society in Gaza For the first time, two leading Israeli human rights groups — B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel — have accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. B’Tselem’s report, “Our...

"Our Genocide": Israeli Human Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Destroying Palestinian Society in Gaza

"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them."

A five-year-old child.

Pressure and organizing works.

BREAKING: In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote to Stop Arming Israel 26 Democrats joined Bernie Sanders in his effort to end certain weapons' sales to Israel - but were blocked by 70 pro-war senators, including every Republican present. Here's how the vote went.

BREAKING: In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote to Stop Arming Israel

26 Democrats joined Bernie Sanders in his effort to end certain weapons' sales to Israel - but were blocked by 70 pro-war senators, including every Republican present.

Here are the details, from Prem Thakker:

The Long Anti-Zionist History of the American Jewish Left In the last year and a half, thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. They are taking part in a long tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism in the...

“In the last year and a half, thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. They are taking part in a long tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism in the United States.” jacobin.com/2025/07/balt...

“Beyond Atrocious”: Arwa Damon on Desperation & Hunger in Gaza as Israel Continues Blocking Most Aid In Gaza, “the situation is beyond atrocious.” Aid worker Arwa Damon, a former CNN journalist and the founder of INARA, a nonprofit currently providing medical and mental healthcare to children in...

"Beyond Atrocious": Arwa Damon on Desperation & Hunger in Gaza as Israel Continues Blocking Most Aid

These Kids in Gaza Are Starving. So Are Their Mothers. “There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?” one woman says.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action

“Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it.“

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

B'tselem, today:
"[T]he unequivocal conclusion [is] that Israel is taking coordinated, deliberate action to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip. In other words: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

www.btselem.org/publications...

Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for U.N. food distribution in Gaza as more starve Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.

Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths.

ENOUGH.

I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:

Auditing the Hindu American Foundation’s Claims of “Hinduphobia” The group regularly misclassifies anti-Asian racism, anti-Muslim violence, and criticism of Hindu nationalism as anti-Hindu hate.

HAF running w/ the ADL model:

“This definition of Hinduphobia is applied to silence criticisms of Hindu nationalism and Hindu nationalist policies of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Indian government, critiques of the caste system, and anti-caste measures”

jewishcurrents.org/auditing-the...

Israeli military says airdrops of aid into Gaza set to begin tonight amid increased starvation deaths For months, the U.N. and experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke."

www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

His Name Was Obeida—and He Died Seeking Food for His Family Like hundreds of Palestinians, Obeida was killed while waiting for aid distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

"Obeida was forced to play that game because neither he nor his family had eaten anything for three days."

www.thenation.com/article/worl... @thenation.com

Is AIPAC Testing the Waters to Primary Rep. Summer Lee? A new poll appears to test how Democratic voters would treat a primary challenger to Summer Lee that's supposed by AIPAC.

NEW: A poll sent out in Pittsburgh this month asked if voters would support two Democratic candidates backed by pro-Israel groups including “a right-wing organization that supports Trump and is funded by MAGA millionaires and billionaires” against Rep. Summer Lee. theintercept.com/2025/07/25/a...

Is AIPAC Coming After Ilhan Omar? A poll sent to Omar’s district tested the waters on a Democratic candidate backed by “a right-wing, pro-Israel group that is funded by Trump-supporting billionaires.”

The language was identical to wording used in another survey sent in Rep. Ilhan Omar’s district in May. That poll was the first to suggest that AIPAC is considering running a challenger against Omar. Now, it appears AIPAC is also looking into primarying Lee theintercept.com/2025/05/22/a...