“ #FromTheRiverToTheSea‬⁩ has a long history as a slogan.

‏(FWIW, I’m a scholar of political slogans in the Arab world.) 🧵

‏من النهر إلى البحر، فلسطين ستتحرر
‏”فلسطين عربية من المياه للمياه

👏 @abumrouj.bsky.social for this excellent 🧵too
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We now have a record of members of Congress calling for a ceasefire:
–Cori Bush
–Rashida Tlaib
–André Carson
–Summer Lee
–Delia Ramirez
–Jamaal Bowman
–Bonnie Watson Coleman
–Chuy Garcia
–Jonathan Jackson
–Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
–Ilhan Omar
–Ayanna Pressley
–Nydia Velázquez

American politicians:

I will mourn your dead

You ask us to mourn
Your dead
And I will
 
I will mourn
Your dead
 
But they are not
The only ones to grieve
Did you forget?
Or imagine that
You’re the only one
To suffer
Or that
Your sorrow is purer
Or juster?
 
Even so,
I will mourn
Your dead
As if they were mine

living thru Gilded Age II makes 1910s cartoons hit like never before

Only when John Michael Greer wins a MacArthur will I believe in all this noise about geniusness.

I've been an academic for nearly 25 years.

The entire time, the editor of the main journal in my field has never changed.

He just commissioned 2 reviews of his most recent "book"

هحكيلكم حكاية اهل الشر للمرة السبتعلاف

The latest issue of MERIP is out: "Journalism and Activism in an Age of Transnational Repression."

I had a blast editing this issue alongside an exceptional group of editors: Ayça Alemdaroğlu, Marc Owen Jones, and Kevin Schwartz.