Lori Allen

Friends! I'll be walking in a 5K UNRWA fundraiser on Sunday in support of Palestinian refugees - in honor of my mom Betty, who's turning 97 in a few days. Please donate what you can and share with others. Thanks! getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

Ultraleftism Can’t Free Palestine Two years into Israel’s genocide, the US movement in solidarity with Palestinians is far weaker than it should be. To cut off American arms to Israel, we need to build a powerful movement oriented to ...

jacobin.com/2025/10/pale... So much wisdom in this conversation: "without focusing on that broader working-class agenda & without focusing on winning over people who don’t already agree with you ... how [will you] build enough power to... change US policy toward Israel and the Middle East”

Hey Americans: These ICE maniacs, who clearly need lifetimes of therapy for whatever propels them into such brutality, are not staying focused on brown people and Palestinians and noncitizens forever.

From Silence to Resistance: Second-Generation Palestinians in Germany Germany, home to Europe’s largest Palestinian community, excludes Israeli state violence from public discourse. Although the ongoing Nakba—the systematic and continuing forced displacement of Pales...

For anyone interested in Palestine, Palestinians, and the madness that is Germany, I highly recommend this essay by Sarah El Bulbeisi www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"No, the New York Times is not committing journalism."
"No, the New York Times is not committing to truth."
What Bret Stephens meant to say.

because none of us is free until Palestinians are free. 4/4

from across lines of difference and ignorance into shared refusal of human destruction-a moral act in these immoral times. An act of solidarity with Palestine and Palestinians, and with each other, a means to enhancing our efforts at building a more just world 3/4

of our tools (facts, words, narratives) of our audiences, and impacts. Contributors to this issue assert the importance of continuing our efforts to witness and denounce, to analyze and explain, to encourage boycott and to unionize. It brings together people 2/4

Public Anthropologist issue on Israel's genocide of Palestinians is now open access until October: brill.com/view/journal... (I co-edited with Heidi Mogstad). It's reflections on what anthropologists can contribute to public education about the genocide in Gaza, and the limitations 1/4

Novel analysis of Egypt - now available for readers of Arabic

What Treasures of Gaza We Save While Palestinians are made invisible by Israel and its Western allies, the The Arab World Institute’s special exhibit, “Treasures rescued from Gaza - 5000 (…)

Of possible interest, esp. if you're planning a trip to Paris by November: my review essay on an exhibit, “Treasures rescued from Gaza – 5000 years of history”, at the Arab World Institute
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A Group of Musicians Took on an Arms Company – And Won | Novara Media London music venue Kings Place quietly cut a Lockheed Martin-sponsored event after performers began cancelling shows. Maybe there’s hope for this world after all, writes Simon Childs.

A little victory in London - Lockheed can eff right off: novaramedia.com/2025/06/19/a...

Our editors' introduction, "Naming the Unfathomable," and more is open access. brill.com/view/journal... 3/3

Read anthropologists' efforts to grapple with how to name, analyze, mourn, and condemn what Israel and its supporters are doing to Palestinians and Palestine. There's art by Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, poetry, satire by the Allegra Collective, and more: brill.com/view/journal... 2/3

"Speaking Out Against Genocide and Repression," a special issue of Public Anthropologist edited by Heidi Mogstad and me is out brill.com/view/journal... 1/3

No arts venue should hostarms dealers. Yet Kings Place is planning to host a ‘Defence In Space’ conference in October, sponsored by Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin make F-35 fighter planes for the Israeli military, who are using them to bomb civilians in Gaza.

Open letter to Kings Place about hosting arms manufacturer-sponsored Defence in Space conference #KingsPlaceUnwrapped We call upon Kings Place and its commercial arm, Green & Fortune, to cancel the Lockheed Martin-sponsored arms-industry conference, Defence In Space, on October 28th and 29th, 20...

Join us in condemning Kings Place’s morally bankrupt decision to host this arms conference by adding your name to this growing list of artists and audiences of conscience.

Genocide cannot become “business as usual”.

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So salient for today: we've "no longer enough gatekeepers willing to host cantankerous debate and accept contestation in good faith in the manner that those precursors once did...a calamitous hindrance to their struggle."

On Reading Herzl in Beirut Or how the absence of insights about the Israeli “other” is a hindrance for the Palestinian liberation struggle.

Yezid Sayigh's review of a history of the PLO research center. carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson

Prof. Khalidi: "Columbia barely merits the name of a university, since its teaching & scholarship on the Middle East, & soon much else, will...be vetted by a “senior vice provost for inclusive pedagogy”, in reality a senior vice provost for Israeli propaganda." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We refuse to accept the normalisation of Palestinian deaths. End arms sales to Israel, now.

A few (8) members of Congress who still care about the constitution. Wonders never cease.

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Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.

We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

Ajantha Subramanian and I talk w/ John Plotz about our chats w/ Peter Beinart and Subir Sinha in the roundup episode of Violent Majorities. recallthisbook.org/2025/03/06/1... We ask: Will the ominously successful assimilation of Zionism into American right-wing politics start working for Hindutva?

Labour could tax the super-rich to end poverty, build social housing and fix our NHS.

They are choosing to go after the worst-off instead.

For a while, many people didn’t know what this government stood for. They do now: tough choices for the poor, endless money for war.

143 Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on long-distance Israeli ethnonationalism (LA, AS) Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB’s Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on long-distance ethno-nationalism. Today, they …

The first episode was on Zionism with Peter Beinart: recallthisbook.org/2025/02/06/1...

144 Violent Majorities 2.2 Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian continue their second series on Violent Majorities. Their previous episode featured Peter Beinart on Zionism as long-distance ethnonationalism; here they speak wi…

The second episode of the podcast series on long-distance ethnonationalisms that I did with @loriall.bsky.social is now out. Please check out our conversation on Hindutva in India, the UK, and US with Subir Sinha! recallthisbook.org/2025/02/20/1...

that draws on the legitimizing language of religious minority rights in the US and UK.
We also note more hopeful signs: Dalit & other oppressed caste politics have begun to strengthen in the diaspora & there are some demographic and structural barriers to Hindutva’s further growth in the UK and US.

Listen to my podcast episode with Ajantha Subramanian & Subir Sinha on Recall This Book/ New Books Network
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We discuss the growth of Hindutva in the US & UK, & the manufacture of wounded Hindu sentiments: a false claim to victimhood 1/2

From Zionist Myths to Humanist Ethics In his latest book, Peter Beinart calls on American Jews to see the horrors of Gaza and abandon blind Zionism in favor of a justice-driven Jewish identity. Blending biblical critique with political ob...

My review of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart

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Blending biblical critique with political observations, it rethinks the meaning of Jewishness today.