Lori Allen
@loriall.bsky.social
Author of A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (more interesting than it sounds)-academia escapee-writer-anthropologist-editor-mover of words. Dogless dog lover. Free Palestine.
Check out Yezid's latest substack - on the need for a real accounting (and accountability) . He voices important questions and critiques of how such silence has persisted about what Hamas did, accomplished, expected, prompted, is responsible for... open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...
A viable new Palestinian politics starts with 7 October
An updated narrative by Hamas of its 7 October attack sidesteps the question of what its concrete objectives were, but Palestinian politics requires an honest debate about exactly this.
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December 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Check out Yezid's latest substack - on the need for a real accounting (and accountability) . He voices important questions and critiques of how such silence has persisted about what Hamas did, accomplished, expected, prompted, is responsible for... open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...
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Standing with Palestinian Higher Education since 1978 | Friends of Palestinian Universities
Friends of Palestinian Universities builds UK and international academic solidarity, partnership, and exchange with Palestinian higher education institutions facing systematic attack. We work to suppo...
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December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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some of the hunger strikers are on day 51; Bobby Sands died on day 66. How heartless is this government determined to be?
Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy
Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks
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December 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
some of the hunger strikers are on day 51; Bobby Sands died on day 66. How heartless is this government determined to be?
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UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia
UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia
The bad news is that in October and November 2025, "the majority of the population continued to face high levels of acute food insecurity
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December 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia
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Help keep Palestinian network al-Shabaka continue as a critical voice and platform for debate:
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December 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Help keep Palestinian network al-Shabaka continue as a critical voice and platform for debate:
@yezidsayigh.bsky.social provides unique insights on Middle Eastern goings on. Check out his recent post on Egypt and the UAE in Sudan
Sisi threatens military intervention in Sudan if Egypt's "red lines" are breached. But can he follow through, since this means opposing the UAE, which is his main financial linchpin?
Sisi’s impossible choices in Sudan
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Sisi’s impossible choices in Sudan
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Sisi’s impossible choices in Sudan
Talk of Egyptian military intervention headed off a threat in Libya in 2020, will it do the same in Sudan now?
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December 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
@yezidsayigh.bsky.social provides unique insights on Middle Eastern goings on. Check out his recent post on Egypt and the UAE in Sudan
"Palestine 36" is not a film that Zionists will like, not least because they barely feature. ...As Jacir told The Guardian, “This film is for Palestinians. It’s our story that hasn’t been told.”
My review of Jacir's latest epic: www.merip.org/2025/12/pale....
My review of Jacir's latest epic: www.merip.org/2025/12/pale....
Palestine 36 and the Hard Facts of History
Annemarie Jacir’s epic portrayal of the revolt that never ended.
www.merip.org
December 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
"Palestine 36" is not a film that Zionists will like, not least because they barely feature. ...As Jacir told The Guardian, “This film is for Palestinians. It’s our story that hasn’t been told.”
My review of Jacir's latest epic: www.merip.org/2025/12/pale....
My review of Jacir's latest epic: www.merip.org/2025/12/pale....
My review of Annemarie Jacir’s recent epic film, Palestine 36: www.merip.org/2025/12/pale... Check it out and see the movie when you can. It's a good one.
Palestine 36 and the Hard Facts of History
Annemarie Jacir’s epic portrayal of the revolt that never ended.
www.merip.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My review of Annemarie Jacir’s recent epic film, Palestine 36: www.merip.org/2025/12/pale... Check it out and see the movie when you can. It's a good one.
The first of my 2 articles on a US court case regarding the intersection of Palestinian, academic, and speech freedoms:
jacobin.com/2025/10/pale...
A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is a win
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A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is a win
Palestinian Rights and Free Speech Rights Are Closely Linked
A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is an important win for supporters of Palestinian liberation and opponents o...
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October 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The first of my 2 articles on a US court case regarding the intersection of Palestinian, academic, and speech freedoms:
jacobin.com/2025/10/pale...
A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is a win
jacobin.com/2025/10/pale...
A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is a win
Friends! I'll be walking in a 5K UNRWA fundraiser on Sunday in support of Palestinian refugees - in honor of my mom Betty, who's turning 97 in a few days. Please donate what you can and share with others. Thanks! getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...
2025 NYC Gaza 5K
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October 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Friends! I'll be walking in a 5K UNRWA fundraiser on Sunday in support of Palestinian refugees - in honor of my mom Betty, who's turning 97 in a few days. Please donate what you can and share with others. Thanks! getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...
jacobin.com/2025/10/pale... So much wisdom in this conversation: "without focusing on that broader working-class agenda & without focusing on winning over people who don’t already agree with you ... how [will you] build enough power to... change US policy toward Israel and the Middle East”
Ultraleftism Can’t Free Palestine
Two years into Israel’s genocide, the US movement in solidarity with Palestinians is far weaker than it should be. To cut off American arms to Israel, we need to build a powerful movement oriented to ...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
jacobin.com/2025/10/pale... So much wisdom in this conversation: "without focusing on that broader working-class agenda & without focusing on winning over people who don’t already agree with you ... how [will you] build enough power to... change US policy toward Israel and the Middle East”
Hey Americans: These ICE maniacs, who clearly need lifetimes of therapy for whatever propels them into such brutality, are not staying focused on brown people and Palestinians and noncitizens forever.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Hey Americans: These ICE maniacs, who clearly need lifetimes of therapy for whatever propels them into such brutality, are not staying focused on brown people and Palestinians and noncitizens forever.
For anyone interested in Palestine, Palestinians, and the madness that is Germany, I highly recommend this essay by Sarah El Bulbeisi www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From Silence to Resistance: Second-Generation Palestinians in Germany
Germany, home to Europe’s largest Palestinian community, excludes Israeli state violence from public discourse. Although the ongoing Nakba—the systematic and continuing forced displacement of Pales...
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September 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
For anyone interested in Palestine, Palestinians, and the madness that is Germany, I highly recommend this essay by Sarah El Bulbeisi www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"No, the New York Times is not committing journalism."
"No, the New York Times is not committing to truth."
What Bret Stephens meant to say.
"No, the New York Times is not committing to truth."
What Bret Stephens meant to say.
July 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"No, the New York Times is not committing journalism."
"No, the New York Times is not committing to truth."
What Bret Stephens meant to say.
"No, the New York Times is not committing to truth."
What Bret Stephens meant to say.
Public Anthropologist issue on Israel's genocide of Palestinians is now open access until October: brill.com/view/journal... (I co-edited with Heidi Mogstad). It's reflections on what anthropologists can contribute to public education about the genocide in Gaza, and the limitations 1/4
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July 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Public Anthropologist issue on Israel's genocide of Palestinians is now open access until October: brill.com/view/journal... (I co-edited with Heidi Mogstad). It's reflections on what anthropologists can contribute to public education about the genocide in Gaza, and the limitations 1/4
Novel analysis of Egypt - now available for readers of Arabic
دراستي الجديدة: إعادة تحديدٍ جذرية للعقد الاجتماعي، إنتاج شكلٍ جديد من رأسمالية الدولة، وتكريس سلطاتٍ رئاسية موسّعة في إطار الوصاية العسكرية الناشئة:
الجمهورية الثانية: إعادة تشكيل مصر في عهد عبد الفتاح السيسي | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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الجمهورية الثانية: إعادة تشكيل مصر في عهد عبد الفتاح السيسي | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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الجمهورية الثانية: إعادة تشكيل مصر في عهد عبد الفتاح السيسي
الرئيس المصري عبد الفتاح السيسي في صدد بناء جمهورية جديدة تستند إلى مبدأ "مفيش حاجة ببلاش"، وشكلٍ جديدٍ من رأسمالية الدولة، فضلًا عن صلاحيات رئاسية فائقة في إطار وصاية عسكرية تضمن تماسك النظام إلّا أن...
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July 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Novel analysis of Egypt - now available for readers of Arabic
Of possible interest, esp. if you're planning a trip to Paris by November: my review essay on an exhibit, “Treasures rescued from Gaza – 5000 years of history”, at the Arab World Institute
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What Treasures of Gaza We Save
While Palestinians are made invisible by Israel and its Western allies, the The Arab World Institute’s special exhibit, “Treasures rescued from Gaza - 5000 (…)
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July 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Of possible interest, esp. if you're planning a trip to Paris by November: my review essay on an exhibit, “Treasures rescued from Gaza – 5000 years of history”, at the Arab World Institute
orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entend...
orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entend...
A little victory in London - Lockheed can eff right off: novaramedia.com/2025/06/19/a...
A Group of Musicians Took on an Arms Company – And Won | Novara Media
London music venue Kings Place quietly cut a Lockheed Martin-sponsored event after performers began cancelling shows. Maybe there’s hope for this world after all, writes Simon Childs.
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June 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A little victory in London - Lockheed can eff right off: novaramedia.com/2025/06/19/a...
"Speaking Out Against Genocide and Repression," a special issue of Public Anthropologist edited by Heidi Mogstad and me is out brill.com/view/journal... 1/3
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June 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"Speaking Out Against Genocide and Repression," a special issue of Public Anthropologist edited by Heidi Mogstad and me is out brill.com/view/journal... 1/3
Join us in condemning Kings Place’s morally bankrupt decision to host this arms conference by adding your name to this growing list of artists and audiences of conscience.
Genocide cannot become “business as usual”.
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@kingsplacelondon
@webelieveinartnotarms
Genocide cannot become “business as usual”.
bit.ly/3Sfol5D
@kingsplacelondon
@webelieveinartnotarms
Open letter to Kings Place about hosting arms manufacturer-sponsored Defence in Space conference
#KingsPlaceUnwrapped
We call upon Kings Place and its commercial arm, Green & Fortune, to cancel the Lockheed Martin-sponsored arms-industry conference, Defence In Space, on October 28th and 29th, 20...
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May 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Join us in condemning Kings Place’s morally bankrupt decision to host this arms conference by adding your name to this growing list of artists and audiences of conscience.
Genocide cannot become “business as usual”.
bit.ly/3Sfol5D
@kingsplacelondon
@webelieveinartnotarms
Genocide cannot become “business as usual”.
bit.ly/3Sfol5D
@kingsplacelondon
@webelieveinartnotarms
Yezid Sayigh's review of a history of the PLO research center. carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...
On Reading Herzl in Beirut
Or how the absence of insights about the Israeli “other” is a hindrance for the Palestinian liberation struggle.
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May 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Yezid Sayigh's review of a history of the PLO research center. carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...
Prof. Khalidi: "Columbia barely merits the name of a university, since its teaching & scholarship on the Middle East, & soon much else, will...be vetted by a “senior vice provost for inclusive pedagogy”, in reality a senior vice provost for Israeli propaganda." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson
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March 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Prof. Khalidi: "Columbia barely merits the name of a university, since its teaching & scholarship on the Middle East, & soon much else, will...be vetted by a “senior vice provost for inclusive pedagogy”, in reality a senior vice provost for Israeli propaganda." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We refuse to accept the normalisation of Palestinian deaths. End arms sales to Israel, now.
March 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We refuse to accept the normalisation of Palestinian deaths. End arms sales to Israel, now.
A few (8) members of Congress who still care about the constitution. Wonders never cease.
Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife.
Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.
We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.
We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
March 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A few (8) members of Congress who still care about the constitution. Wonders never cease.
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🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
March 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud