Diana B. Greenwald

Excerpt from assignment instructions: "Now, do some web-based research and consult at least three (3) additional sources to begin answering the questions below. Your responses do not need to be polished; just jot down some ideas. Please use the space at the end of the questionnaire to list the sources you consulted. You will also be asked to describe in a couple of sentences why you chose each source. If you are copying and pasting wording from a source, you must place quotation marks around it (“...”) and clarify the original source for the quote. Please, I beg of you, do not copy and paste AI-generated output for your answers below. The expectation with this exercise is that you are trying to identify sources that represent actual human (or organizational) perspectives on the interaction that you are studying."

Instructors, I hear you about all those great AI-detection hacks you've developed but have you considered adding begging to your toolbox

Photo of Rabbi Emily Cohen speaking at the mayor’s interfaith breakfast

“Religion is often characterized as a home for the right, but I am continually inspired by the religious left, by ordinary people who wear their faith not as a suit of armor guarding against the ‘other’ but as a big coat warming us as we navigate an icy world.”
- @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social

HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONALISM IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS ▪ Abstract This article provides an overview of recent developments in historical institutionalism. First, it reviews some distinctions that are commonly drawn between the “historical” and the “ration...

This is still such a masterful review essay. #sorrynotsorry www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

"Knowing how institutions were constructed provides insights into how they might come apart," (Thelen 1999, p. 400).

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Educational Freedom in Palestine. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. In this special event, Palestinian scholars and activists working on the ground throughout Palestine and their international allies foreground the centrality of education to Palestinian life, identity...

Starting in half an hour: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

An excerpt from the article, describing some of the most frequent "resistance keywords" in Arabic identified in the dataset, which includes algorithm-defying spellings of the Arabic words for flood, Palestine, Gaza, Zionism, bombardment, Israel, resistance, and Hamas.

"despite these obstacles, Arab users benefit from the peculiar nature of the Arabic language and continue to resist oppressive practices through creative strategies that challenge the power and accuracy of algorithmic systems."

"current NLP tools (Alotaiby et al., 2009; Al-Shaibani and Ahmed, 2023). These challenges complicate the development and implementation of algorithms for content moderation, translation and other linguistic applications, often leading to errors and biases in automated systems. On the other hand...

"Lexical algorithmic resistance" in >10k pro-Palestine Arabic-language Facebook posts Oct 7 2023-Apr 27 2024: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"As a cursive writing system, written from right to left with a dense morphological framework, the Arabic script presents significant challenges for...

"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending":

1. Action Against Hunger
2. ActionAid
3. Alianza por la Solidaridad
4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine
5. CARE
6. DanChurchAid
7. Danish Refugee Council
8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion
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If your recipe calls for a jalapeño “seeds removed“, just no.

Ah may his memory be a blessing. Saw him live in Meknes in 2004! 😭💔

Toddler holiday travel sleep schedule: 1
Peptide firming eye cream: 0

Probably between 1-1.5 inches? That is encouraging!

Reddit is telling me I can block and unshrink my cashmere sweater that accidentally went in *the dryer* (gah! I know), but is this false hope? I’ll report back. In a the meantime, please feel free to share carefully curated anecdotes of success.

French Army map of Mandate Syria in 1926. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...

Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 125, No 2 Using newly collected data on association density in 229 towns and cities in interwar Germany, we show that denser social networks were associated with faster entry into the Nazi Party. The effect is ...

Oof the title of this paper. Perfect strike. 🎳 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

HRF Files Against Israeli Soldier in Spain Over Beit Hanoun | THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION HRF initiates legal action in Spain against a soldier accused of taking part in the destruction of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.

www.hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/hrf-se...

The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too. On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.

Closures, Cantons and the Palestinian Covenant - MERIP On April 24, 1996 -- Israel’s forty-eighth Independence Day -- PLO leader Yasser Arafat made good on his 1993 pledge to the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to amend “those articles of the Pa...

An eerie read from the archives: "Closures, Cantons and the Palestinian Covenant" by Graham Usher, June 28, 1996: www.merip.org/1996/06/clos...

😂😂😂

Common terms and phrases in my book, according to Google.

With a sickening amount of caffeine, truly anything is possible.

Vague soundbites for their funding recipients to use?

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.

This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.

I didn't see your original reply!

Two Years of War on Gaza: A Timeline of Events and Anera's Humanitarian Response - Anera Explore a timeline of key events and Anera's ongoing efforts in response to the Gaza war, regularly updated with unfolding developments.

FYI: @aneraorg.bsky.social 's timeline of events in Gaza is an invaluable resource: www.anera.org/gaza-war-tim...
It also highlights the work of their teams, giving us a tiny sliver of a sense of what it has meant to do humanitarian work in Gaza over the past 26 months.

This is in Hebron (al-Khalil), December 7, 2017.

A young boy, perhaps 13-15 years old (my guess), being hauled away by 15-20 IDF soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron (al-Khalil).

Every year or two I think about this photo and wonder about this kid. Where is this young man now? It hit me again today, hard, almost exactly 8 years after the picture was originally taken. (Photo credit: Abed Alhashlamoun, European Pressphoto Agency)

Outrage over killing of two unarmed Palestinians in Jenin – DW – 11/29/2025 In footage filmed by Palestine TV in the West Bank, Israeli security forces open fire on two men who appear to have surrendered. The UN has called the incident an apparent execution. WARNING: This rep...

This is in the West Bank. Everyone should watch this footage. Amidst and on top of the continuous live stream of horrors from Gaza, this clip, too, will haunt me forever. www.dw.com/en/outrage-o...

Floods swamp homeless Palestinians' tents in Gaza as winter looms Some tents completely washed away as floodwaters rose 40 to 50 centimeters above ground level.

This story is from last week - watch the video too: www.reuters.com/business/env...
The UN reports today that “some 1.5 million people still require “urgent support” with regard to shelter: news.un.org/en/story/202...
Most are living in tents like these.