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Doctoral student at the University of Oxford
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‘Censorship’: over 115 scholars condemn cancellation of Harvard journal issue on Palestine
In an open letter, writers denounced abrupt scrapping of a Harvard Educational Review issue dedicated to Palestine by
Alice Speri @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘Censorship’: over 115 scholars condemn cancellation of Harvard journal issue on Palestine
In an open letter, writers denounced abrupt scrapping of a Harvard Educational Review issue dedicated to Palestine
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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rahulraothariel.bsky.social
replugging this in the week of Fanon's 100th birthday, because the way he is misinterpreted keeps me up at night

www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/h...
Rahul Rao · Review article: How settler colonialism ends (2024)
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July 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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monishabajaj.bsky.social
“The cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal, which has not been previously reported, is a remarkable new development in a mounting list of examples of censorship of pro-Palestinian speech.”

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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rahulraothariel.bsky.social
Oxford friends: I'm giving 2 book talks in the-town-where-Rhodes-has-not-fallen on Monday, June 9, 2–4 pm, St Antony's College (in person)

www.africanstudies.ox.ac.uk/event/the-ps...

and later in the month, courtesy Rhodes House, on June 24 (online)

www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/programmes-e...
rahulraothariel.bsky.social Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · Mar 10
book talks 📢📢📢
19/03 Housmans London: tinyurl.com/tta5dmur
21/03 SOAS London: tinyurl.com/y7bkzy36
24/03 Topping St Andrews: tinyurl.com/48szxjxf
28/03 Tigre de Papel Lisbon: tinyurl.com/mrx3kpuu
03/04 Lighthouse Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/mrxbsnaj
24/06 Rhodes House Oxford: tinyurl.com/ycx93naj
image of the cover of 'The Psychic Lives of Statues' by Rahul Rao featuring a picture of the Statue of Unity (Veena Nair/Alamy) endorsements of 'The Psychic Lives of Statues' by Rahul Rao, from Neel Mukherjee, Laleh Khalili, and Priyamvada Gopal
June 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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arathings.bsky.social
I'm hosting a free online workshop series on Anti-Racism and Reparations in Education.

Please join us!
10am UK time: June 11, June 18 and July 2.

Details and registration: baice.ac.uk/baice-presid...

Please help spread the word to academic/education folx! 🙌🏾
BAICE Presidential Workshop Series
Anti-Racism and Reparations: perspectives from Comparative and International Education
baice.ac.uk
May 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social
“Two million Palestinians in Gaza, nearly half of them children, are now surviving on a single meal every two or three days.

…signs of prolonged starvation are becoming more frequent and alarming.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...
Opinion | This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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sandeepbak.bsky.social
Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Palestinian Scholarship
www.gold.ac.uk
April 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing..."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says
Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
yuvrajs.bsky.social
"Even before Trump had a chance to weigh in, Joe Biden immediately characterized the protests at Columbia as “antisemitic” and declared that “order must prevail” on college campuses."
Don’t just blame Trump – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdown | Musa al-Gharbi
Both parties are responsible for the mess facing Columbia and other institutions. It’s time for their leaders to take a stand
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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ali-alkhatib.com
Momodou Taal left the United States. forwarding his statement from twitter:
I would like first to thank from the bottom of my heart every single individual and organization that supported me through this, particularly my fantastic legal team. Everything I have tried to do has been in service of affirming the humanity of the Palestinian people, a struggle that will leave a lasting mark on me. Today I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high. For those following this story: I decided to sue the Trump administration with the hope that it would offer reprieve for myself and other similarly situated persons. But Trump did not want me to have my day in court and sent ICE agents to my home and revoked my visa. We held out but our first motion was denied. We were due to submit a second briefing with the hope that I could stay out of detention whilst the lawsuit progressed. For every person that has remained silent, just know that you are not safe either. Is the imprisonment of those who speak out against a genocide a reflection of your values? Is this the kind of nation you want to live in? We are already seeing the Trump administration exploiting the complicity of those who have remained silent on the Zionist genocide of Palestinians. The repression of Palestinian solidarity is now being used to wage a wholesale attack on any form of expression that challenges oppressive and exploitative relations in the US. Given what we have seen across the United States, I have lost faith that a favourable ruling from the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs. I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted. Weighing up these options, I took the decision to leave on my own terms. This is of course not the outcome I had wanted going into this, but we are facing a government that has no respect for the judiciary or for the rule of the law. It is surreal that we live in a world where you get into trouble for saying killing babies is wrong. Where those advocating for, and celebrating, endless massacres against Palestinians are able to, time and again, present themselves as victims while presenting those fighting against genocide as the oppressors. For months on end, we've had to listen to - ad nauseam - concerns regarding the safety of Zionist students when they are the same students who dox, monitor and collaborate with law enforcement to target students of color. If you have been led to think that your safety is only guaranteed by state kidnap, repression, deportation, the slaughter of children, and the suppression of the global majority, then let Gaza's shards of glass be your mirror.
March 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
yuvrajs.bsky.social
"It is not just international students who physically participated in campus activism but also those who shared or liked ‘anti-national’ posts that are the target of these emails, said an immigration attorney."
Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism - The Times of India
US News: The US Department of State has asked hundreds of international students, including Indians, to self-deport over alleged campus activism. Learn about the visa revocations and government polici...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
yuvrajs.bsky.social
"it’s not gravity that keeps our heads and arms down it’s just shame for someone else has always died instead of us" - senthuran varatharajah

www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/cover/...
How to smoke a cigarette by Senthuran Varatharajah
Cover News:How to smoke a cigarette by Senthuran Varatharajah
www.thehindubusinessline.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
yuvrajs.bsky.social
what if we were to rethink God as kneeling on the floor like a wounded, tired animal, and bent forward like a shape, with one ear closer to the concrete and Their knuckles bruised and open?

artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/taking-...
TAKING CARE OF GOD
artsoftheworkingclass.org
March 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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ellroche.bsky.social
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
March 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
yuvrajs.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Parents and children occupy the South Bank Centre over JCB's complicity in ethnic cleansing
Parents and children occupy the South Bank Centre over JCB's complicity in ethnic cleansing from Canary on 25 March 2025
www.thecanary.co
March 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
yuvrajs.bsky.social
“Hamdan tried to protect his family and the settlers attacked him. Soldiers started shooting in the air to prevent anyone to help Hamdan. He was shouting for help. They let the settlers attack him and then the army abducted him.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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hajarpress.bsky.social
‘I don’t believe we can build a different, better world without being heartbroken.’

In ‘We, The Heartbroken’ (2023), Gargi Bhattacharyya plays with the 7 stages of grief to explore heartbreak as class consciousness, asking how being broken by this world could move us to remake it 🌹
March 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
yuvrajs.bsky.social
The Trump administration is now targeting Momodou Taal, seeking to detain and possibly deport the Cornell University PhD student.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities
Momodou Taal, dual citizen of the UK and Gambia, received email from homeland security days after filing lawsuit
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
yuvrajs.bsky.social
"I feel like my heart is going to stop from the grief."

- Basma Mashharawi (Gazan)
March 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
yuvrajs.bsky.social
"Those who were bombed tonight died hungry."

- Ne'ma Hassan (Gazan)
March 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
yuvrajs.bsky.social
"The children are back to lying on the morgue refrigerator floors. There's no more room for the bodies. Has the world really become too small to hold us?"

- Anis Ghanima (Gazan)
March 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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insurgentthought.bsky.social
Israel killed over 400 Palestinians in one night
March 19, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social
"Mahmoud is not safe...He is in real danger, and everyone who helped fashion a moral panic around students fighting to stop the outright annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza—and increasingly also in the West Bank—bears moral responsibility for that fact." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
‘Mahmoud Is Not Safe’ | Nadia Abu El-Haj
Mahmoud Khalil has been a public face of the pro-Palestine student movement at Columbia University and Barnard College since last spring. I have known him
www.nybooks.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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silkys13.bsky.social
Here's @detentionwatchnetwork.org statement on ICE's detention of Mahmoud Khalil: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
March 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
yuvrajs.bsky.social
excited & looking forward to reading this promising upcoming book on the politics of memorialisation by @rahulraothariel.bsky.social

www.plutobooks.com/978074535076...
The Psychic Lives of Statues
From Cape Town to Bristol and Richmond, statues have become sites of resistance and contestation of our imperial past and postcolonial present. The Psychic L...
www.plutobooks.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM