Lisa Hajjar

Hamas Responds to Trump The Palestinian movement appears to have, for the moment, successfully thrown the ball back into the US-Israeli court.

Exceptionally good analysis by Mouin Rabbani.

open.substack.com/pub/mouinrab...

“By cloaking naked power in the trappings of the law, the Trump administration, like the Bush administration before it, channels objections to its behavior into sterile disputes about who has the best lawyers—a dispute that no one really expects to resolve.”

Got a project in mind for our special issue on ethnic studies+student activism? Apply to our workshop, Oct 11, to get feedback on your ideas and connect with others on the dreams and struggles embedded in this work. Space is limited; apply soon!

Do you ever write titles of articles or books in American English? For the love of grammar, "is" is a verb and ALL verbs are capitalized in titles. DO NOT LOWER CASE "IS" IN TITLES!!!!!!

The Self-Sabotage Doctrine Trump’s America torches its farmers, raids its firefighters, abandons its allies, and still finds time for a Navy boat parade.

Farmers bankrupt, firefighters raided, allies betrayed, the #CDC emptied and #Trump still finds time to order himself a Navy boat parade. #ukraine #Gaza #uspolitics
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

What is it called when government owns the means of production again?

No Other Land (2024) (Palestinian-Israeli) (Guests: Omer Bartov & Lisa Hajjar) - Law on Film No Other Land (2024) is the Oscar-winning documentary that shows the brutal destruction of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank. Recorded between 2019 to 2023, the film tells the story of...

Omar Bartov and I discuss the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land with Jonathan Hafetz on his podcast Law on Film. It speaks volumes about anti-Palestinian racism that it is impossible to stream or buy the film in the United States.
www.buzzsprout.com/2073468/epis...

Engineering Destruction: Militarization and the War Economy The conference sheds light on militarization and its rapid expansion and global impact, particularly in light of the brutal genocide perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people, which has ext...

Engineering Destruction conference July 29 - 31. Here is the program schedule and Zoom link. All panels will be streamed with simultaneous translation in Arabic, English, and Spanish.
Please share!
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46811

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.

This is horrifying beyond words.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8305065243...

The conference will be hybrid at Birzeit and through Zoom, with simultaneous interpretation available in Arabic, English, and Spanish.

Engineering Destruction: Militarization and the War Economy

29-31 July online and at Birzeit

This conference is organized by the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute of International Studies, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Security in Context, and the National Pedagogical University in Colombia

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Scholars fear that the the capitulation of universities is hurting an entire field of study at the time when it’s most needed. Thea Abu El-Haj warned that the special issue’s cancellation also sets a dangerous precedent...“it’s not going to stop with Palestine.”

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Our Reporter Got Into Gaza. He Witnessed a Famine of Israel’s Making. The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Afeef Nessouli and Steven Thrasher won a Pulitzer Global Reporting Grant to write a series of stories for the Intercept. This is their first story with reporting by Afeef who was the only American journalist in Gaza--he spent nine weeks there as a medical volunteer.

theintercept.com/2025/07/21/i...

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

Moustafa Bayoumi: Many of us disregard how much has shifted in the last 20 months. But we are ignoring the collapse of the international system that has defined our lives for generations at our own collective peril.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Episode 1: Mona Tajali The MERIP Podcast · Episode

In the 1st episode of MERIP's new pod, Jim Ryan interviews Mona Tajali about her article “Women and Politics in Post-Jina Iran” in MER 314: New Gender Frontlines. She discusses how feminist groups navigate repression at home and imperialist intervention from abroad.
open.spotify.com/episode/5Bco...

314 - MERIP Issue Editors: Sabiha Allouche, Fida Adely and Hesham Sallem MER issue 314, “New Gender Frontlines,” takes stock of the role gender plays in the present political moment—one of ongoing genocidal […]

The new issue is out!
merip.org/magazine/314/

Hey @secdef.govpeeps.us @secdef.govpeeps.us THIS is what a war fighting hero looks like. Harriet Tubman is the best of us. When you peer in the mirror, you will see a cowardly incompetent loser. Don't ever forget that you are pathetic. Your best quality is your hairdo. #HairdoHegseth

Israel’s War on Reproduction in Gaza - MERIP Hala Shoman reports on reprocide as a tactic of eliminationist violence.

"I collected ethnographic evidence—voice notes, text messages, emails and phone calls—from those enduring or witnessing reproductive violence...from the direct assaults on reproductive health and infrastructure to... sexual violence and its role in reproductive erasure."
merip.org/2025/06/isra...

UK faces legal challenge over role in CIA torture program Two Guantanamo Bay detainees are challenging the UK government in a rare four-day hearing, accusing British intelligence of complicity in CIA-led torture at black sites following 9/11.

The UK government’s long-standing efforts to suppress details of its intelligence agencies’ involvement in the CIA's post-9/11 #torture program face a historic challenge this week, as two #Guantanamo Bay detainees bring claims before a secretive British court.

english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...

The Sarajevo Declaration of the “Gaza Tribunal” w/ Craig Mokhiber YouTube video by Jadaliyya

Craig Mokhiber, a steering committee member of the Gaza Tribunal, discusses the Declaration that came out of the Sarajevo meeting.
www.youtube.com/live/GoDKg-R...

‘They’re Here to Detain Me’ | Rozina Ali Mahmoud Khalil’s first court hearing was held in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday, March 12, a morning that teetered between sun and clouds. Friends,

Trump administration contends that Khalil, Öztürk, Suri, Chung, Kordia, and Mahdawi are so dangerous that the government must deport them for speech that is protected by the Constitution. Yet it also claims that “there is no basis for this Court to break new ground.”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

MIT bans class president from graduation commencement after pro-Palestinian speech Megha Vemuri called out MIT for having research ties with the Israeli army and "aiding and abetting" the country with its "assault on the Palestinian people."

Shame on the faceless cogs of MIT who dare, without apparent shame, to violate the First Amendment in order to bar a distinguished student from telling truths at commencement. Oh cogs, your own children will mock and ridicule you. Shame on you.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

How to Hide a Constitutional Crisis The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.

By advancing outlandish arguments in a wide range of cases, and to a judiciary controlled by a conservative SCOTUS, the admin is hoping to wear down the courts through sheer force of will. And it’s banking on the fact that...courts will assist the gov’s efforts
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat Addresses the UN in Commemoration of the 77th Anniversary of the Nakba Comemmorating the 77th anniversary of the start of the Nakba, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat adressed the UN. During the address, Erakat  highlighted the shortcomings of international law in stoppin...

Noura Erakat on how to understand and condemn genocidal realities. 💥💥💥
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46686

The EU has simply abandoned human rights in Tunisia 37 Tunisian lawyers and opposition figures have been given prison sentences of up to 66 years for conspiracy against state security and terrorism, for offences such as meeting with European diplomats ...

The EU has been shamefully silent on escalating repression in Tunisia, as authorities weaponize arbitrary detention and abusive prosecution. Tunisians are paying a steep price for the EU’s singular focus on migration and abandonment of human rights euobserver.com/migration/ar...