@dpolanski.bsky.social
"An irreversible shift" is underway "that no weapon of mass destruction, no tech firm, no military occupation, no nuclear power can ever destroy," one that threatens "to upturn the system that has made this genocide possible in the first place."
We must pledge Anti-Genocide. We must choose Palestine wholeheartedly, in every decision, in every question, in every moment of our lives. Choose Palestine because our world and the fate of humanity entirely depends on it. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/join...
Join the Anti-Genocide pledge to stop the bloodshed in Gaza
We must pledge Anti-Genocide. We must choose Palestine wholeheartedly, in every decision, in every question, in every moment of our lives. Choose Palestine because our world and the fate of humanity…
mondoweiss.net
June 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"An irreversible shift" is underway "that no weapon of mass destruction, no tech firm, no military occupation, no nuclear power can ever destroy," one that threatens "to upturn the system that has made this genocide possible in the first place."
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The US and Israel are starving Gaza. They are also starving Yemen. I wrote about these dual human-made—or, more precisely, American made—humanitarian crises, and how starvation is now a routine tool of siege warfare and collective punishment.
No Wheat, Milk, Rice, Medicines: How the U.S. and Israel Are Starving Yemen
The Trump administration announced a truce with the Houthi rebels on May 6, but this was after the United States had already bombed critical infrastructure for importing food and fuel.
inthesetimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The US and Israel are starving Gaza. They are also starving Yemen. I wrote about these dual human-made—or, more precisely, American made—humanitarian crises, and how starvation is now a routine tool of siege warfare and collective punishment.
"The facts are known. The evidence is overwhelming. The silence is a choice. And we are here to break it."
The Gaza genocide is nearing its final, most brutal phase, and Israeli universities are providing intellectual, logistical, and technological support. The academic boycott of Israeli institutions is the minimum that justice demands.
mondoweiss.net/2025/05/stud...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/05/stud...
#Palestine #Israel
Students Demand Action: TU Berlin must cut ties with genocide-enabling institutions
The Gaza genocide is nearing its final, most brutal phase, and Israeli universities are providing intellectual, logistical, and technological support. The academic boycott of Israeli institutions is the...
mondoweiss.net
May 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"The facts are known. The evidence is overwhelming. The silence is a choice. And we are here to break it."
“I am saying it clear and loud,” Mahdawi said outside the courthouse. “To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you.”
NEW: Mohsen Mahdawi has been freed from detention. “We are pro-peace and anti-war,” Mohsen told a huge crowd outside court after his release.
“To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering; and I see freedom and it is very very soon.”
“To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering; and I see freedom and it is very very soon.”
BREAKING: Mohsen Mahdawi Released From ICE Detention
'To President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,' Mahdawi said after he was freed on bail.
zeteo.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“I am saying it clear and loud,” Mahdawi said outside the courthouse. “To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you.”
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My review of Sarah Dimick’s tremendous new book, UNSEASONABLE, is out at ISLE. Academic friends and fellow environmentalists, check out Sarah’s awesome work!
academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures. By Sarah Dimick
A deceptively simple question animates Sarah Dimick’s Unseasonable: what do literary and cultural depictions of seasonal regularity (or irregularity) revea
academic.oup.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My review of Sarah Dimick’s tremendous new book, UNSEASONABLE, is out at ISLE. Academic friends and fellow environmentalists, check out Sarah’s awesome work!
academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
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I am thrilled that my piece "What American Fascism Has Already Looked Like" (co-authored w/ Gerald Horne) is now available in Issue 5 of Peace, Land and Bread!
Make to get yourself a copy & one for a comrade 🙏
Make to get yourself a copy & one for a comrade 🙏
April 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I am thrilled that my piece "What American Fascism Has Already Looked Like" (co-authored w/ Gerald Horne) is now available in Issue 5 of Peace, Land and Bread!
Make to get yourself a copy & one for a comrade 🙏
Make to get yourself a copy & one for a comrade 🙏
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I'm thrilled to see this. More of us who teach relevant topics should find ways to participate in Freedom Schools or, if we have the means, build our own. Let's Educate to Liberate.
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I'm thrilled to see this. More of us who teach relevant topics should find ways to participate in Freedom Schools or, if we have the means, build our own. Let's Educate to Liberate.
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We were all reading our Karl Marx and he says the tools have to be in the hands of the guys doing the work, and so we tried to keep the fabrication and the distribution in the same hands.
- Peter Brötzmann, in Daniel Spicer’s Peter Brötzmann. Free Jazz, Revolution & the Politics of Improvisation
- Peter Brötzmann, in Daniel Spicer’s Peter Brötzmann. Free Jazz, Revolution & the Politics of Improvisation
April 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
We were all reading our Karl Marx and he says the tools have to be in the hands of the guys doing the work, and so we tried to keep the fabrication and the distribution in the same hands.
- Peter Brötzmann, in Daniel Spicer’s Peter Brötzmann. Free Jazz, Revolution & the Politics of Improvisation
- Peter Brötzmann, in Daniel Spicer’s Peter Brötzmann. Free Jazz, Revolution & the Politics of Improvisation
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We are proud to be a sponsoring organization for a new academic society, along with our comrades at @CTW_ATC and @worldmarxistrev: The Society for Peace, Internationalism, and Ecology (SPINE).
The Society for Peace, Internationalism & Ecology (SPINE)
The Society for Peace, Internationalism & Ecology (SPINE) provides a platform for rigorous scholarly research, cultural work, and organizing that stands up for peace, international solidarity, and env...
spine.ju.mp
February 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
We are proud to be a sponsoring organization for a new academic society, along with our comrades at @CTW_ATC and @worldmarxistrev: The Society for Peace, Internationalism, and Ecology (SPINE).
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I don’t know Mahmoud Khalil but I love him because every time he opens his mouth, even if he’s sleeping on a floor of a prison cell estranged from his pregnant wife, he advocates for others, for people in Gaza, for immigrants in holding. No wonder they’re terrified of him. They fucking should be ✊🏼
April 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I don’t know Mahmoud Khalil but I love him because every time he opens his mouth, even if he’s sleeping on a floor of a prison cell estranged from his pregnant wife, he advocates for others, for people in Gaza, for immigrants in holding. No wonder they’re terrified of him. They fucking should be ✊🏼
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Thank you to @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social for publishing the text of my letter to Notre Dame after they canceled my speech.
inthesetimes.com/article/notr...
inthesetimes.com/article/notr...
“Do Not Participate”: The Absurd Excuse Notre Dame Gave Me When They Canceled My Talk
What a tragedy when we cannot rely on universities to house our most critical conversations.
inthesetimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Thank you to @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social for publishing the text of my letter to Notre Dame after they canceled my speech.
inthesetimes.com/article/notr...
inthesetimes.com/article/notr...
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people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.
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Yesterday, the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studies’ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltier’s return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.) Our expertise matters if we don’t oppose genocide. web.archive.org/web/20250322...
Statement on Palestine, Genocide, and Repression
The Department of American Indian Studies issues a statement in support of Palestine.
web.archive.org
March 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Yesterday, the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studies’ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltier’s return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.) Our expertise matters if we don’t oppose genocide. web.archive.org/web/20250322...
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Please donate to legal fees and other expenses for Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts grad student abducted by ICE because of an op-ed in a student newspaper. I've heard confirmation her legal team is aware of and supports this effort:
chuffed.org/project/just...
chuffed.org/project/just...
Justice for Rümeysa Öztürk
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
chuffed.org
March 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Please donate to legal fees and other expenses for Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts grad student abducted by ICE because of an op-ed in a student newspaper. I've heard confirmation her legal team is aware of and supports this effort:
chuffed.org/project/just...
chuffed.org/project/just...
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Nearly 1000 teachers, academics, and more are mounting an academic boycott of Columbia.
Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.
Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.
Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.
Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.
March 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nearly 1000 teachers, academics, and more are mounting an academic boycott of Columbia.
Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.
Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.
Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.
Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.
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I'd like to make one thing clear: I've LONG been an advocate for Open Access to scientific knowledge. Both of my books w @mitpress.bsky.social are freely available, and I fought for that!
What I oppose is the enclosure (privatization) of profits from 'AI' (LLMs) nonconsentually trained on my work.
What I oppose is the enclosure (privatization) of profits from 'AI' (LLMs) nonconsentually trained on my work.
March 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'd like to make one thing clear: I've LONG been an advocate for Open Access to scientific knowledge. Both of my books w @mitpress.bsky.social are freely available, and I fought for that!
What I oppose is the enclosure (privatization) of profits from 'AI' (LLMs) nonconsentually trained on my work.
What I oppose is the enclosure (privatization) of profits from 'AI' (LLMs) nonconsentually trained on my work.
"The Democratic Party, which campaigned on the existential threat Trump posed to democracy, has offered little more than begrudging responses to acts of repression that rival, if not surpass, those of the McCarthy era."
I wrote on a lawsuit filed last year against National Students for Justice in Palestine that presaged exactly what is happening now: the attempt to cast speech as terrorism
thebaffler.com/latest/guilt...
thebaffler.com/latest/guilt...
Guilt by Association | Shilpa Jindia
Casting protected speech as terrorism has long been a central strategy of the movement to crush Palestinian activism in every form.
thebaffler.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"The Democratic Party, which campaigned on the existential threat Trump posed to democracy, has offered little more than begrudging responses to acts of repression that rival, if not surpass, those of the McCarthy era."
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In a letter dictated over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil said that his arrest "was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine."
"It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."
"It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."
My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am A Political Prisoner
A letter dictated by Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.
inthesetimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In a letter dictated over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil said that his arrest "was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine."
"It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."
"It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."
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Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals
A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.
www.newyorker.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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Only 29.3% of Americans voted for Trump.
Only 28.6% voted for Harris.
42% voted for neither.
Congress's approval rating has fluctuated between 11%-29% since 2005.
Americans know we are being liquidated by the 2-party carousel. The ruling class is running out of credibility.
Only 28.6% voted for Harris.
42% voted for neither.
Congress's approval rating has fluctuated between 11%-29% since 2005.
Americans know we are being liquidated by the 2-party carousel. The ruling class is running out of credibility.
March 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Only 29.3% of Americans voted for Trump.
Only 28.6% voted for Harris.
42% voted for neither.
Congress's approval rating has fluctuated between 11%-29% since 2005.
Americans know we are being liquidated by the 2-party carousel. The ruling class is running out of credibility.
Only 28.6% voted for Harris.
42% voted for neither.
Congress's approval rating has fluctuated between 11%-29% since 2005.
Americans know we are being liquidated by the 2-party carousel. The ruling class is running out of credibility.
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A lucid, blistering review of what is probably the most damaging and intellectually dishonest book of the past year.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Reality of Settler Colonialism - Boston Review
Writers like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains.
www.bostonreview.net
March 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A lucid, blistering review of what is probably the most damaging and intellectually dishonest book of the past year.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The vicious culture of anti-Palestinian racism the liberal establishment has helped normalize strengthens Trump’s insidious narrative of migrants as terrorist threats, all as part of a massive push to facilitate deportations, ramp up surveillance, and further militarize the border.
The Boomerang Comes Back - Boston Review
How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.
www.bostonreview.net
March 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The vicious culture of anti-Palestinian racism the liberal establishment has helped normalize strengthens Trump’s insidious narrative of migrants as terrorist threats, all as part of a massive push to facilitate deportations, ramp up surveillance, and further militarize the border.
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"We are Jewish professors, staff, students from universities across the US. We hold various views about Israel, Palestine, student activism . But we are united in denouncing anyone who invokes our name to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our communities” docs.google.com/document/d/1...?
Not In Our Name
Sign the Statement March 11, 2025 Not in our name. We are Jewish professors, staff members, and students from universities across the United States. We hold various views about Israel and Palestine...
docs.google.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"We are Jewish professors, staff, students from universities across the US. We hold various views about Israel, Palestine, student activism . But we are united in denouncing anyone who invokes our name to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our communities” docs.google.com/document/d/1...?