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.
The first of my 2 articles on a US court case regarding the intersection of Palestinian, academic, and speech freedoms:
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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...
carnegieendowment.org
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”.
bit.ly/3Sfol5D
@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
Ajantha Subramanian and I talk w/ John Plotz about our chats w/ Peter Beinart and Subir Sinha in the roundup episode of Violent Majorities. recallthisbook.org/2025/03/06/1... We ask: Will the ominously successful assimilation of Zionism into American right-wing politics start working for Hindutva?
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Ajantha Subramanian and I talk w/ John Plotz about our chats w/ Peter Beinart and Subir Sinha in the roundup episode of Violent Majorities. recallthisbook.org/2025/03/06/1... We ask: Will the ominously successful assimilation of Zionism into American right-wing politics start working for Hindutva?
Reposted by Lori Allen
Labour could tax the super-rich to end poverty, build social housing and fix our NHS.
They are choosing to go after the worst-off instead.
For a while, many people didn’t know what this government stood for. They do now: tough choices for the poor, endless money for war.
They are choosing to go after the worst-off instead.
For a while, many people didn’t know what this government stood for. They do now: tough choices for the poor, endless money for war.
March 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Labour could tax the super-rich to end poverty, build social housing and fix our NHS.
They are choosing to go after the worst-off instead.
For a while, many people didn’t know what this government stood for. They do now: tough choices for the poor, endless money for war.
They are choosing to go after the worst-off instead.
For a while, many people didn’t know what this government stood for. They do now: tough choices for the poor, endless money for war.
Reposted by Lori Allen
The first episode was on Zionism with Peter Beinart: recallthisbook.org/2025/02/06/1...
143 Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on long-distance Israeli ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB’s Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on long-distance ethno-nationalism. Today, they …
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February 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The first episode was on Zionism with Peter Beinart: recallthisbook.org/2025/02/06/1...
Reposted by Lori Allen
The second episode of the podcast series on long-distance ethnonationalisms that I did with @loriall.bsky.social is now out. Please check out our conversation on Hindutva in India, the UK, and US with Subir Sinha! recallthisbook.org/2025/02/20/1...
144 Violent Majorities 2.2 Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism
Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian continue their second series on Violent Majorities. Their previous episode featured Peter Beinart on Zionism as long-distance ethnonationalism; here they speak wi…
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February 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The second episode of the podcast series on long-distance ethnonationalisms that I did with @loriall.bsky.social is now out. Please check out our conversation on Hindutva in India, the UK, and US with Subir Sinha! recallthisbook.org/2025/02/20/1...
Listen to my podcast episode with Ajantha Subramanian & Subir Sinha on Recall This Book/ New Books Network
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We discuss the growth of Hindutva in the US & UK, & the manufacture of wounded Hindu sentiments: a false claim to victimhood 1/2
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We discuss the growth of Hindutva in the US & UK, & the manufacture of wounded Hindu sentiments: a false claim to victimhood 1/2
Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism - New Books Network
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February 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Listen to my podcast episode with Ajantha Subramanian & Subir Sinha on Recall This Book/ New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com/subir-sinha-...
We discuss the growth of Hindutva in the US & UK, & the manufacture of wounded Hindu sentiments: a false claim to victimhood 1/2
newbooksnetwork.com/subir-sinha-...
We discuss the growth of Hindutva in the US & UK, & the manufacture of wounded Hindu sentiments: a false claim to victimhood 1/2
My review of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart
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Blending biblical critique with political observations, it rethinks the meaning of Jewishness today.
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Blending biblical critique with political observations, it rethinks the meaning of Jewishness today.
From Zionist Myths to Humanist Ethics
In his latest book, Peter Beinart calls on American Jews to see the horrors of Gaza and abandon blind Zionism in favor of a justice-driven Jewish identity. Blending biblical critique with political ob...
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February 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My review of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart
jacobin.com/2025/02/zion...
Blending biblical critique with political observations, it rethinks the meaning of Jewishness today.
jacobin.com/2025/02/zion...
Blending biblical critique with political observations, it rethinks the meaning of Jewishness today.
The New Yorker once described Peter Beinart as the most influential liberal Zionist of his generation. No longer. Listen to my conversation with him and Ajantha Subramanian about his latest book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning newbooksnetwork.com/being-jewish...
Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS) - New Books Network
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February 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The New Yorker once described Peter Beinart as the most influential liberal Zionist of his generation. No longer. Listen to my conversation with him and Ajantha Subramanian about his latest book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning newbooksnetwork.com/being-jewish...
Ajantha Subramanian and I had a good conversation w/ Peter Beinart about his new book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. Listen on Recall This Book/ New Books Network podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/being-jewish.... The 1st of 3 episodes on long distance ethno-nationalism.
Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS) - New Books Network
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February 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Ajantha Subramanian and I had a good conversation w/ Peter Beinart about his new book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. Listen on Recall This Book/ New Books Network podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/being-jewish.... The 1st of 3 episodes on long distance ethno-nationalism.