Medievalists for Palestine
@mforpalestine.bsky.social
MfP is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collection of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation.
For more info: https://linktr.ee/mfp_lestine
For more info: https://linktr.ee/mfp_lestine
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Our vision statement: (1/7)
MfP is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collection of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation who form autonomous affinity groups according to interest in specific types of action.
MfP is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collection of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation who form autonomous affinity groups according to interest in specific types of action.
The Urgency of Palestine for Premodern Critical Race Studies
By Nora Galland, Katherine Gillen, Margo Hendricks, and Anna-Claire Simpson
medium.com/@acmrs/the-u...
By Nora Galland, Katherine Gillen, Margo Hendricks, and Anna-Claire Simpson
medium.com/@acmrs/the-u...
The Urgency of Palestine for Premodern Critical Race Studies
By Nora Galland, Katherine Gillen, Margo Hendricks, and Anna-Claire Simpson
medium.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The Urgency of Palestine for Premodern Critical Race Studies
By Nora Galland, Katherine Gillen, Margo Hendricks, and Anna-Claire Simpson
medium.com/@acmrs/the-u...
By Nora Galland, Katherine Gillen, Margo Hendricks, and Anna-Claire Simpson
medium.com/@acmrs/the-u...
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The 1st book in our "Recommended Read" series is Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Written in 1979 and often considered a part of a trilogy alongside Orientalism and Covering Islam, it was one of the first major books to introduce the historical context of Zionism (1/3)
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The 1st book in our "Recommended Read" series is Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Written in 1979 and often considered a part of a trilogy alongside Orientalism and Covering Islam, it was one of the first major books to introduce the historical context of Zionism (1/3)
The 1st book in our "Recommended Read" series is Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Written in 1979 and often considered a part of a trilogy alongside Orientalism and Covering Islam, it was one of the first major books to introduce the historical context of Zionism (1/3)
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The 1st book in our "Recommended Read" series is Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Written in 1979 and often considered a part of a trilogy alongside Orientalism and Covering Islam, it was one of the first major books to introduce the historical context of Zionism (1/3)
Let's build pressure AND community. Let's start with stickers!
Make your own Free Palestine stickers, stick them everywhere, give them out, show the people around you that they're not alone in caring.
www.youtube.com/shorts/0QNtR...
welcometonanas.com/how-to-make-...
Make your own Free Palestine stickers, stick them everywhere, give them out, show the people around you that they're not alone in caring.
www.youtube.com/shorts/0QNtR...
welcometonanas.com/how-to-make-...
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Let's build pressure AND community. Let's start with stickers!
Make your own Free Palestine stickers, stick them everywhere, give them out, show the people around you that they're not alone in caring.
www.youtube.com/shorts/0QNtR...
welcometonanas.com/how-to-make-...
Make your own Free Palestine stickers, stick them everywhere, give them out, show the people around you that they're not alone in caring.
www.youtube.com/shorts/0QNtR...
welcometonanas.com/how-to-make-...
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Let's build pressure AND community. Let's start with stickers!
Make your own Free Palestine stickers, stick them everywhere, give them out, show the people around you that they're not alone in caring.
www.youtube.com/shorts/0QNtR...
welcometonanas.com/how-to-make-...
Make your own Free Palestine stickers, stick them everywhere, give them out, show the people around you that they're not alone in caring.
www.youtube.com/shorts/0QNtR...
welcometonanas.com/how-to-make-...
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We've been asking the MAA to divest since 2024. Their response was to strip power from the advocacy committee, create extensive policies to control their advocacy and change their rules so that they "only consider requests" from current members and leadership of peer professional societies.
MfP urges @medievalacademy.bsky.social to divest. Read our open letter here tinyurl.com/ynxuk8b4
MAA Divestment Letter, Final.pdf
tinyurl.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We've been asking the MAA to divest since 2024. Their response was to strip power from the advocacy committee, create extensive policies to control their advocacy and change their rules so that they "only consider requests" from current members and leadership of peer professional societies.
We've been asking the MAA to divest since 2024. Their response was to strip power from the advocacy committee, create extensive policies to control their advocacy and change their rules so that they "only consider requests" from current members and leadership of peer professional societies.
MfP urges @medievalacademy.bsky.social to divest. Read our open letter here tinyurl.com/ynxuk8b4
MAA Divestment Letter, Final.pdf
tinyurl.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We've been asking the MAA to divest since 2024. Their response was to strip power from the advocacy committee, create extensive policies to control their advocacy and change their rules so that they "only consider requests" from current members and leadership of peer professional societies.
We are gearing up for new actions because we understand that our collective efforts make a difference. If you're interested in joining us, you can do so 👇
Interested in joining MfP? Fill out our intake form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Medievalists for Palestine Intake Form
docs.google.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are gearing up for new actions because we understand that our collective efforts make a difference. If you're interested in joining us, you can do so 👇
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Interested in joining MfP? Fill out our intake form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Medievalists for Palestine Intake Form
docs.google.com
December 16, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Interested in joining MfP? Fill out our intake form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More information on divesting here 👇
November 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
More information on divesting here 👇
We continue to demand divestment because we understand that intense pressure from all our communities makes a difference. We specifically ask for divestment of these companies 👇
We’ve demanded that the MAA divest from:
Barclays
CAF
Caterpillar, Inc.
Chevron
Elbit Systems Ltd.
HD Hyundai
HIKVision
Intel
TKH Security
Volvo
🧵 Divestment targets ⬇️
Barclays
CAF
Caterpillar, Inc.
Chevron
Elbit Systems Ltd.
HD Hyundai
HIKVision
Intel
TKH Security
Volvo
🧵 Divestment targets ⬇️
MfP urges @medievalacademy.bsky.social to divest. Read our open letter here tinyurl.com/ynxuk8b4
October 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
We continue to demand divestment because we understand that intense pressure from all our communities makes a difference. We specifically ask for divestment of these companies 👇
Just a reminder of who we are and what we stand for!
Our vision statement: (1/7)
MfP is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collection of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation who form autonomous affinity groups according to interest in specific types of action.
MfP is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collection of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation who form autonomous affinity groups according to interest in specific types of action.
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Just a reminder of who we are and what we stand for!
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Our vision statement: (1/7)
MfP is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collection of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation who form autonomous affinity groups according to interest in specific types of action.
MfP is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collection of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation who form autonomous affinity groups according to interest in specific types of action.
December 26, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Our vision statement: (1/7)
MfP is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collection of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation who form autonomous affinity groups according to interest in specific types of action.
MfP is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collection of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation who form autonomous affinity groups according to interest in specific types of action.
Please help a Black trans comrade who has been targeted and fined for Pro-Palestine speech
chuffed.org/project/1455...
chuffed.org/project/1455...
August 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Please help a Black trans comrade who has been targeted and fined for Pro-Palestine speech
chuffed.org/project/1455...
chuffed.org/project/1455...
Liberal Zionists can't read the room, can they? Of course there are medievalists involved... As their colleagues (us!) call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions, they're more than happy to be platformed by them. You can't "both-sides" your way out of a genocide.
August 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Liberal Zionists can't read the room, can they? Of course there are medievalists involved... As their colleagues (us!) call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions, they're more than happy to be platformed by them. You can't "both-sides" your way out of a genocide.
"Medieval studies need instead to move politically to a place of radicality, one that would, unlike liberalism, align itself coherently with the work of dismantling the violent and unjust structures in which we think, work, and live."
Brilliant piece by Seeta Chaganti for Arthuriana's The So What!
Brilliant piece by Seeta Chaganti for Arthuriana's The So What!
IRRECOVERY — Arthuriana
Archival and critical projects referred to as ‘recovery’ allow scholars to make heard the voices of those historically inaudible and marginalized. When discourses of representation, centers and margin...
www.arthuriana.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"Medieval studies need instead to move politically to a place of radicality, one that would, unlike liberalism, align itself coherently with the work of dismantling the violent and unjust structures in which we think, work, and live."
Brilliant piece by Seeta Chaganti for Arthuriana's The So What!
Brilliant piece by Seeta Chaganti for Arthuriana's The So What!
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Israel's attacks on the Madleen aid mission to Gaza and the repression of the anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles represent the same imperial logic: any challenge to injustice will be met with state violence. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/figh...
Fighting state violence from Gaza to Los Angeles
Israel’s attacks on the Madleen aid mission to Gaza and the repression of the anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles represent the same imperial logic: any challenge to injustice will be met with...
mondoweiss.net
June 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Israel's attacks on the Madleen aid mission to Gaza and the repression of the anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles represent the same imperial logic: any challenge to injustice will be met with state violence. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/figh...
It's that time of year! On top of these benefits, your membership dues likely go toward the Medieval Academy of America's investments in industries of death and destruction. DISCLOSE, DIVEST, WE WILL NOT STOP! WE WILL NOT REST!
June 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's that time of year! On top of these benefits, your membership dues likely go toward the Medieval Academy of America's investments in industries of death and destruction. DISCLOSE, DIVEST, WE WILL NOT STOP! WE WILL NOT REST!
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? 🧵 (1/3) - For its centennial, the MAA has spent the past two years soliciting member donations. After raising $417k, the Council decided to allocate 75% of unrestricted donations to the endowment. The MAA’s endowment is tied to the S&P 500 through exchange-traded funds.
April 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? 🧵 (1/3) - For its centennial, the MAA has spent the past two years soliciting member donations. After raising $417k, the Council decided to allocate 75% of unrestricted donations to the endowment. The MAA’s endowment is tied to the S&P 500 through exchange-traded funds.
@medievalacademy.bsky.social only cares about freedom of speech in a performative way. Look at this letter they sent out to their membership about freedom of speech in higher education. Yet, they called the cops on an autonomous group-we don't claim this action!-peacefully protesting the MAA.
![Screenshot from a letter that the Medieval Academy of America sent to the President and Provost of Columbia University and shared with its membership. The letter claims that the MAA "decr[ies] the extreme punitive actions taken by Columbia University" and that it cannot condone violating students' and instructors' freedom of speech and civic rights" among other things. There is text added by Medievalists for Palestine above the screenshot that reads "Not the MAA virtue signaling about repressing political speech ..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wozhnf7uhmbifaso5l654z7p/bafkreigxdhvmv7lx5j5znifekp5ykskox6rqox7kqaqg3nh4eaxrciia4u@jpeg)
April 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
@medievalacademy.bsky.social only cares about freedom of speech in a performative way. Look at this letter they sent out to their membership about freedom of speech in higher education. Yet, they called the cops on an autonomous group-we don't claim this action!-peacefully protesting the MAA.
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These signs appeared yesterday denouncing MAA and Harvard and calling for them to divest from supporting genocide in Gaza! Stay vocal and hold our institutions accountable #MedievalSky #AcademicSky
Hey, hey, MAA, how many Gazans did you kill today?
An autonomous group disrupted the Medieval Academy of America's conference at Harvard University today, dropping multiple banners and redecorating conference signage.
#MedievalSky #AcademicSky
An autonomous group disrupted the Medieval Academy of America's conference at Harvard University today, dropping multiple banners and redecorating conference signage.
#MedievalSky #AcademicSky
March 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
These signs appeared yesterday denouncing MAA and Harvard and calling for them to divest from supporting genocide in Gaza! Stay vocal and hold our institutions accountable #MedievalSky #AcademicSky
Israel has killed 500 Gazans since Wednesday. If you're doing business as usual, you're part of the problem.
It's not too late to walk out of the #MAA2025, disrupt business as usual, demand divestment, join us for OAMS, organize for Palestine.
@medievalacademy.bsky.social DIVEST NOW
#MedievalSky
It's not too late to walk out of the #MAA2025, disrupt business as usual, demand divestment, join us for OAMS, organize for Palestine.
@medievalacademy.bsky.social DIVEST NOW
#MedievalSky
March 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Israel has killed 500 Gazans since Wednesday. If you're doing business as usual, you're part of the problem.
It's not too late to walk out of the #MAA2025, disrupt business as usual, demand divestment, join us for OAMS, organize for Palestine.
@medievalacademy.bsky.social DIVEST NOW
#MedievalSky
It's not too late to walk out of the #MAA2025, disrupt business as usual, demand divestment, join us for OAMS, organize for Palestine.
@medievalacademy.bsky.social DIVEST NOW
#MedievalSky
If your first response is to call the cops, you're on the wrong side. Period.
We also heard of some ruckus outside the plenary. Wonder what actions might be planed for the last day of the conference?
#MAA2025 #MedievalSky #AcademicSky #MedievalAcademy
We also heard of some ruckus outside the plenary. Wonder what actions might be planed for the last day of the conference?
#MAA2025 #MedievalSky #AcademicSky #MedievalAcademy
March 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
If your first response is to call the cops, you're on the wrong side. Period.
We also heard of some ruckus outside the plenary. Wonder what actions might be planed for the last day of the conference?
#MAA2025 #MedievalSky #AcademicSky #MedievalAcademy
We also heard of some ruckus outside the plenary. Wonder what actions might be planed for the last day of the conference?
#MAA2025 #MedievalSky #AcademicSky #MedievalAcademy
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This is tomorrow. Sign up today!
rather than despair, join us for collective study and support Palestinians who continue to endure the genocidal settler state's relentless attacks.
On Mar 22, join Medievalists4Palestine in a reading group of Orisanmi Burton's Tip of the Spear.
www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/tip...
On Mar 22, join Medievalists4Palestine in a reading group of Orisanmi Burton's Tip of the Spear.
www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/tip...
March 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is tomorrow. Sign up today!
Hey @medievalacademy.bsky.social,
We heard you had some visitors and you called the cops on them.
Your $ supports violence overseas, your policies support violence here. We expected nothing else, but we still hope you'll DIVEST NOW
#MedievalAcademy #MedievalSky #AcademicSky
We heard you had some visitors and you called the cops on them.
Your $ supports violence overseas, your policies support violence here. We expected nothing else, but we still hope you'll DIVEST NOW
#MedievalAcademy #MedievalSky #AcademicSky
Hey, hey, MAA, how many Gazans did you kill today?
An autonomous group disrupted the Medieval Academy of America's conference at Harvard University today, dropping multiple banners and redecorating conference signage.
#MedievalSky #AcademicSky
An autonomous group disrupted the Medieval Academy of America's conference at Harvard University today, dropping multiple banners and redecorating conference signage.
#MedievalSky #AcademicSky
March 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Hey @medievalacademy.bsky.social,
We heard you had some visitors and you called the cops on them.
Your $ supports violence overseas, your policies support violence here. We expected nothing else, but we still hope you'll DIVEST NOW
#MedievalAcademy #MedievalSky #AcademicSky
We heard you had some visitors and you called the cops on them.
Your $ supports violence overseas, your policies support violence here. We expected nothing else, but we still hope you'll DIVEST NOW
#MedievalAcademy #MedievalSky #AcademicSky