Amber J Martin, Ph.D.

Settler outposts spread among West Bank villages and fuel fear of more attacks Palestinians in the West Bank are living in fear of more attacks by armed Israeli settlers. In recent months, villagers say, the town of Turmus Ayya has weathered near-daily assaults by settlers.

About 94% of all investigation files opened by Israeli police into settler violence from 2005 to 2024 ended without an indictment, according to Israeli rights group Yesh Din.
apnews.com/article/sett...

@lefthemisphere.bsky.social
We are living in a post-war conflict, The war has taken so much from me - losing my father, home, and school, Now, at just 16, I'm responsible for providing for my mom and sisters while trying to continue my studies
This is a burden I can't bear
Please help us 😭

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Hello, I apologize for bothering you. My family and I lost everything in Gaza. I lost my job , My children are hungry and my children were deprived of their right to education. Please help us get up again and get out safe.
Please consider donating🙏
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Donate to Help Tala rebuild her home, organized by Tala Ahmed Hello friends, I am Tala ahmed. I live in besieged Gaza, specifically in Rafah. I have a family … Tala Ahmed needs your support for Help Tala rebuild her home

Please give to my dear friend Tala in Gaza. She and her family lost their homes and their livelihood in the bombings and now rely on our direct donations to survive. And find and help others. ❤️

www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-fa...

Tasneem in her destroyed city in Gaza.

Tasneem's three children; Alma, Hassan and Rafif.

Al Jazeera: "Gaza death toll rises as Israel intensifies occupied West Bank attacks."

Life is treacherous for Gazans. They need us as much as ever to survive.

Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children and rebuild their lives. And to others. 🙏

chuffed.org/project/1587...

Millions of full-time workers are struggling to afford a place to live. Here’s why The skyrocketing cost of living has left millions of people struggling to afford a place to live despite working at full-time jobs or a number of part-time jobs. Journalist Brian Goldstone, author of ...

For those who prefer or rely on text, the full transcript of the interview is available here (reposting with correct link):

Ben-Gvir promotes officer whose soldiers shot dead surrendered Palestinians A Day After Border Police Officers Shot Two Palestinians Dead After They Had Raised Their Hands, National Security Minister Ben-Gvir Visited Their Unit's Base to 'Strengthen and Hug Heroic Fighters' a...

Ben-Gvir Promotes Officer Whose Soldiers Shot Dead Surrendered Palestinians www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Palestinian detainees held in Gilad Prison, part of Israel’s Ofer detention complex, are being subjected to electric shocks as a primary method of torture, according to testimonies gathered by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission.

Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251201-rig...

Boycott these brands. #boycott-Israel #bds #palestine #gaza

Often when people complain you are too ideological what they mean is they wish you would stop challenging their common sense view of the world.

Often when people complain you are too confrontational what they mean is that they wish you would stop speaking out against oppression.

Keep speaking out.

My Autistic Son Needs 24/7 Support. And That's OK. We have a good life, because we stopped buying into mainstream notions about what happy families look like.

Autistic and other disabled people have always been and likely will always be part of our societies, and are valuable human beings who deserve unqualified love, acceptance, and access to supports. Truth from an older article, since I don't write so much anymore:

www.buzzfeed.com/shannonrosa/...

The genocide in Gaza is far from over | Raz Segal We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’

“Israel’s allies, primarily in the west, continued to provide Israel with weapons, ammunition, essential parts, and diplomatic cover that made the genocide possible, making hash of even a façade of international law with their complicity with genocide”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.

Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

The rain was pouring down mercilessly and my mother stood inside a tent that could no longer withstand the elements
Water surrounded her from every direction and raindrops fell on her head as if she were drowning standing up She tried to hide her trembling but the scene was more than she could bear.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

The US revoked the visa of South Africa's former international relations minister Naledi Pandor last week, in the latest effort by Washington to punish Pretoria for taking Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the charge of committing genocide in Gaza.

qudsnen.co/us-revoke...

I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.

BREAKING: The Comey indictment has been dismissed

😯

The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.

chuffed.org/project/crip... donate to crips for eSIMs for Gaza here, one of Alice Wong’s (and co’s) invaluable projects.

too real lol

This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

Did not know Alice Wong personally but some of my friends and people I know did. Her work was extremely important and extremely impactful. I feel her loss too.