Lisa Hajjar
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo.
Lisa Hajjar is an American sociologist. She is a professor and department chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara sociology department, and a co-editor and contributor at the online magazine Jadaliyya. .. more
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Lisa Hajjar
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
· Dec 2
The War in Court by Lisa Hajjar - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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My book covers Guantánamo as the bipartisan forever debacle, domestic and transnational battles over torture, how the executive excess of our present was institutionalized, and much more.
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De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life | Al-Shabaka
By tracing the historical evolution of de-healthification, this brief argues that naming the process is essential for accountability.
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De-healthification restructures health into a domain of domination, where illness and vulnerability are deliberately produced and administered by manufacturing illness, dependency, and the degradation of the conditions of Palestinian life.
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Lisa Hajjar
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
· Dec 13
Josh Brolin plays Adrian Vermuele in the new Knives Out.
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Lisa Hajjar
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
· Dec 11
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...
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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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Lisa Hajjar
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
· Dec 2
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.
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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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Lisa Hajjar
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
· Nov 4
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.
Lisa Hajjar
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
· Nov 4
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.
Lisa Hajjar
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
· Nov 3
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...
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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.
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.