Matthew Teller

At last. It’s taken the British news media almost two years to reach this point of unequivocation

I keep thinking about this essay, and this conclusion.

"In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier."

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Out this week

Edinburgh - this Book Fringe chat with Mahmoud & Matthew about Gaza and Palestinian culture is Tuesday 12th, 1pm, and it is FREE, join us!

(or watch online! Because yes, it'll be livestreamed like all our Book Fringe gigs!)
lighthousebookshop.com/events/stori...

Illustrious company! Thanks so much, Shafik, that’s very kind of you. Paging @saqibooks.bsky.social ⬆️⬆️⬆️

Russell Vought and Elon Musk, funded by bad Coors beer, have in 6 months destroyed everything I worked for in my half-century career, of promoting and institutionalizing international understanding

Watch online: Mahmoud Muna & Matthew Teller: This Is Gaza From Mon 11 Aug - Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller join us to discuss Daybreak in Gaza, an anthology they have co-edited which illuminates in vivid detail the extraordinary individuals, meaningful plac...

3 Gaza book talks in Scotland:

11/8 Edinburgh festival: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

12/8 Edinburgh fringe @lighthousebks.bsky.social: lighthousebookshop.com/events/stori...

13/8 Dundee Palestine Solidarity: www.eventbrite.com/e/daybreak-i...

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

When people who know tell you that starvation is imminent & you do nothing, responding with tears or fury at images of starvation exposes your immorality, not morality. It identifies you as the cause, a problem not a solution. Needing to see suffering to comprehend suffering is sadism and moral rot

I Spent Decades at Columbia. I’m Withdrawing my Fall Course Due to Its Deal With Trump Palestine Square

Professor Rashid Khalidi has withdrawn his fall course at Columbia in protest of the university’s deal with the Trump administration & adoption of the IHRA definition. He calls it a surrender of academic freedom and complicity in genocide.

His open letter: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Daybreak in Gaza -Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture Join us for this special Book event with the editors of Daybreak in Gaza - Event by Dundee SPSC, DNTA and Dundee for Palestine.

@simonvarwell.bsky.social hi Simon, just in case you can make this… but it’s Dundee, so still not exactly close…

www.eventbrite.com/e/daybreak-i...

This is quite something

This thread names slightly less than one percent of them

Btselem—Israel's leading human rights group—has found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. www.btselem.org/publications...

It ain’t something but it’s not nothing

Israel and the U.S. Withdraw From Cease-Fire Talks With Hamas President Trump’s special envoy said that “we will now consider alternative options to bring the hostages home,” though it was not clear that negotiations had halted.

Breaking News: Israel and the U.S. are withdrawing from Gaza cease-fire talks with Hamas.

Huge congratulations to the editors Mahmoud Muna, @matthewteller.com, Juliette Touma and Jayyab Abusafia.

Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Palestine Book Awards!

www.palestinebookawards.com/news/item/an...

Hi friends & followers. I'm unusually quiet on here just now. Partly because I've earned it (over the last 15 years I've done more social media than anything else, and change is good). Also, I'm focusing on writing books & talking about Gaza. Gaza changes everything. I can't post like I used to.

Don’t forget to remember

Publishing 🙄 So much winning

No, no, the longlisting is fantastic

Thank you so much, Alison

2m Palestinians in Gaza have been pushed to 18% of the Strip's total area - the white areas on the map. Source: www.cccmcluster.org/sites/defaul...

PBA 2025: Longlist announced in a landmark year for Palestinian voices <br /> <b>Warning</b>: Undefined variable $sm_desc in <b>/www/wwwroot/middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/themes/memouk/header.php</b> on line <b>159</b><br /> ...

Could not be prouder that our book DAYBREAK IN GAZA has been longlisted for the Palestine Book Awards

@saqibooks.bsky.social
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250620-pba...

Aussie mate who's never done any kind of political protest about anything in his life before is out on the streets today in London, marching for Palestine

LA protests live: Trump orders Marines to the city in additional deployment as unrest calms California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is suing the Trump administration over troop deployments, calls the president

Don’t use AI to factcheck. It consistently makes “mistakes” ⬇️⬇️⬇️

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Over? In their dreams

Israeli forces take control of Gaza aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg The British-flagged yacht Madleen, operated by the pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition , was aiming to deliver a symbolic amount of aid to Gaza

This is called a hijacking when other people do it, but when Israel does it, it weirdly becomes 'diverting'.

& all of us are old enough to remember the other times Israel has done this.

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

While low-income people are the first targets of actors using AI to make decisions, they won’t be the last. Employers already use AI to decide the fates of higher-income workers such as finance executives, therapists, insurance underwriters, radiologists, and computer programmers. Many of the insurance companies’ and landlords’ practices mentioned extend to people at all income levels. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has already made universal programs like Social Security harder to access and is threatening to automate away the federal government workforce, a bedrock of middle-class jobs. Less immediately, long-term reliance on AI hurts our collective well-being by further degrading the environment, consuming scarce water, and raising energy prices. While nobody will escape AI, only a few will prosper under it, as its track record so far is decidedly one-sided. There are no examples of AI being used to meaningfully improve access to jobs, housing, health care, education, or public benefits at a scale that matches the scope of its harms. This current dynamic suggests that the technology’s underlying purpose is to entrench inequality and reinforce existing power dynamics.

Any day now tho. techpolicy.press/austerity-in...