Lisa Hajjar

Dirty Work—The Hidden Machinery and Human Toll of Europe’s Broken Recycling Trade As Europe sends increasing amounts of illegal waste to Turkey, activists and investigators are revealing how the country’s state-backed recycling boom depends on fraud, off-the-books subcontracting an...

Europe sends increasing amounts of illegal waste to Turkey. Activists and investigators are revealing how the country’s state-backed recycling boom depends on fraud, off-the-books subcontracting and a rising death toll of migrant laborers.
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Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.

Steven Thrasher and Afeef Nessouli's research on the global impact of Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies and the gutting of foreign aid confirms that the result is tragedy, intensified suffering, and avoidable deaths. #mustread

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Cheney should have died in a maximum security prison because torture is a gross crime. He spawned the US torture program that spawned the extrajudicial execution program. He was spared the fate he deserved because Obama decided to "look forward, not backward." Trump is what looking forward enabled.

We live in the dystopian world Dick Cheney made. Alligator Alcatraz, masked ICE agents disappearing brown people, blowing up random boats of people declared "enemy combatants" in a "war" with no borders, unfettered presidential power. Cheney created the lawless executive power Trump now exploits.

Over 3 million life-years lost in Gaza On July 31, 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of Health (PMH) in Gaza released a list of named people directly killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023.1 The list had 60 199 decedents with their reported age, se...

Over 3 million life-years lost in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Sammy Zahran and Ghassan Abu-Sittah found that 60,199 recorded deaths translated to an average of 51 years of life lost each—most of them civilians, including over 1 million years among children under 15.

The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

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The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.

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The resistance reaches into Trump country As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

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.

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“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
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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

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.
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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.
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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!
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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."
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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.

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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.
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