Vasanthi Venkatesh
@drvv.bsky.social
UWindsor law prof; @j4mw; Movements, Radical Resistance. Migration, Labour, anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism || Irreverent cynic, wanderer, many interests
It’s not law’s repressive face that’s the issue here but that of academia (& its cravenness)!
Using generalities like “recent events” without a single mention of Yale? Not even a call to investigate the termination of Dr. Doutaghi or how you are planning to support her through this!
Using generalities like “recent events” without a single mention of Yale? Not even a call to investigate the termination of Dr. Doutaghi or how you are planning to support her through this!
March 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It’s not law’s repressive face that’s the issue here but that of academia (& its cravenness)!
Using generalities like “recent events” without a single mention of Yale? Not even a call to investigate the termination of Dr. Doutaghi or how you are planning to support her through this!
Using generalities like “recent events” without a single mention of Yale? Not even a call to investigate the termination of Dr. Doutaghi or how you are planning to support her through this!
In solidarity with Prof. Franke. Day of disgrace for all academia. LAW schools might as well shut down if condemning & fighting against occupation & genocide is to be censored.
"I have come to the view that the Columbia University administration has created such a toxic and hostile environment for legitimate debate around the war in Israel and Palestine that I can no longer teach or conduct research at Columbia." Full statement here: drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
January 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
In solidarity with Prof. Franke. Day of disgrace for all academia. LAW schools might as well shut down if condemning & fighting against occupation & genocide is to be censored.
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
Statement from Katherine Franke.pdf
drive.google.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
I’m genuinely at a loss for words - Katherine Franke is as brilliant as she is principled and her being forced out of a tenured position for her position on Gaza and student protests feels like a gut punch to whatever remains of academic freedom in the US.
Columbia Professor Says She Was Pushed to Retire Because of Her Activism
Katherine Franke, a law professor and vocal advocate of pro-Palestinian students, had been under investigation over remarks she made about Israeli students.
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I’m genuinely at a loss for words - Katherine Franke is as brilliant as she is principled and her being forced out of a tenured position for her position on Gaza and student protests feels like a gut punch to whatever remains of academic freedom in the US.
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
“If I get killed, don’t wear black; my heart is red, not black. Wear rainbow or pink instead.”
Israel wiped out Fatima and her entire family in Beirut, dropping bunker buster bombs on their home as they slept. #JusticeForFatima
Israel wiped out Fatima and her entire family in Beirut, dropping bunker buster bombs on their home as they slept. #JusticeForFatima
November 25, 2024 at 5:02 PM
“If I get killed, don’t wear black; my heart is red, not black. Wear rainbow or pink instead.”
Israel wiped out Fatima and her entire family in Beirut, dropping bunker buster bombs on their home as they slept. #JusticeForFatima
Israel wiped out Fatima and her entire family in Beirut, dropping bunker buster bombs on their home as they slept. #JusticeForFatima
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
Today marks 300 days since Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her in Gaza.
For months, I have pressed the US government again and again on the killing.
How they’ve responded is shocking.
Watch all 300 days here: zeteo.com/p/300-days-a...
For months, I have pressed the US government again and again on the killing.
How they’ve responded is shocking.
Watch all 300 days here: zeteo.com/p/300-days-a...
November 24, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Today marks 300 days since Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her in Gaza.
For months, I have pressed the US government again and again on the killing.
How they’ve responded is shocking.
Watch all 300 days here: zeteo.com/p/300-days-a...
For months, I have pressed the US government again and again on the killing.
How they’ve responded is shocking.
Watch all 300 days here: zeteo.com/p/300-days-a...
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
Anti-genocide protestors have laid waste to Montreal. I toured the wreckage today: potholes everywhere, McGill's campus walk ripped up, sinister-looking construction workers playing Uno nearby, & worst of all French citizens running amok calling chocolatines "pains au chocolat."
November 24, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Anti-genocide protestors have laid waste to Montreal. I toured the wreckage today: potholes everywhere, McGill's campus walk ripped up, sinister-looking construction workers playing Uno nearby, & worst of all French citizens running amok calling chocolatines "pains au chocolat."
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
Please donate and share this fundraiser in support of a comrade in Canada who was arrested recently and had their apartment raided for organizing for Falastin. They will remain anonymous but they need funds to move and cover legal fees.
gofund.me/ee220c7b
gofund.me/ee220c7b
Donate to Help a Black Militant Facing Political Repression., organized by She Her
A well known Black militant in Canada has gone through a series of politica… She Her needs your support for Help a Black Militant Facing Political Repression.
gofund.me
November 22, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Please donate and share this fundraiser in support of a comrade in Canada who was arrested recently and had their apartment raided for organizing for Falastin. They will remain anonymous but they need funds to move and cover legal fees.
gofund.me/ee220c7b
gofund.me/ee220c7b
CSIS “objective was to keep [Canadian] Abdelrazik detained [and tortured] in Sudan” as it “felt he was a terrorist.” in 2007, the RCMP confirmed that it had no "substantive information" that he was involved in any criminal activity. Gross Islamophobic Charter violation.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca
November 18, 2024 at 11:30 PM
CSIS “objective was to keep [Canadian] Abdelrazik detained [and tortured] in Sudan” as it “felt he was a terrorist.” in 2007, the RCMP confirmed that it had no "substantive information" that he was involved in any criminal activity. Gross Islamophobic Charter violation.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
“The complete dismissal of entire populations as sub-human, or not equivalent to European or Euro-American bodies, is a stark reminder that the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and colonial genocide of indigenous populations by Western empires have never left us.“
The ecocide and genocide in Gaza embody eco-apartheid, a violent, racialized expansion of colonial land grabs and resource plunder that enriches a privileged few at the expense of the majority. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/pale..
Palestine against an eco-apartheid world
In coming years, eco-apartheid will become more prominent worldwide as colonial violence is used to maintain and safeguard Western interests and profits. We are seeing this future in Gaza today.
mondoweiss.net
November 18, 2024 at 3:47 PM
“The complete dismissal of entire populations as sub-human, or not equivalent to European or Euro-American bodies, is a stark reminder that the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and colonial genocide of indigenous populations by Western empires have never left us.“
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀
November 16, 2024 at 9:45 PM
We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
Reasons why our struggles in Latin America are deeply entangled with Palestine's liberation/decolonization.
Israel’s role in Indigenous/campesino genocide in Guatemala
—technologies of violence imported from Israel are still used to repress the movements in Guatemala.🧵1/
Israel’s role in Indigenous/campesino genocide in Guatemala
—technologies of violence imported from Israel are still used to repress the movements in Guatemala.🧵1/
November 16, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Reasons why our struggles in Latin America are deeply entangled with Palestine's liberation/decolonization.
Israel’s role in Indigenous/campesino genocide in Guatemala
—technologies of violence imported from Israel are still used to repress the movements in Guatemala.🧵1/
Israel’s role in Indigenous/campesino genocide in Guatemala
—technologies of violence imported from Israel are still used to repress the movements in Guatemala.🧵1/
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
Keep it going. Let’s see how much reach this place has.
November 16, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Keep it going. Let’s see how much reach this place has.
Must read interview of Rashid Khalidi by Tariq Ali- two intellectual powerhouses.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii147...
Great title too. When asked why don’t you “just talk (with Israel)”. Ghassan Kanafani answered “That is [a] kind of a conversation between the sword and the neck"
newleftreview.org/issues/ii147...
Great title too. When asked why don’t you “just talk (with Israel)”. Ghassan Kanafani answered “That is [a] kind of a conversation between the sword and the neck"
Rashid Khalidi, The Neck and The Sword, NLR 147, May–June 2024
Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali discuss the political and intellectual history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught entanglement with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the ‘peace p...
newleftreview.org
November 16, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Must read interview of Rashid Khalidi by Tariq Ali- two intellectual powerhouses.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii147...
Great title too. When asked why don’t you “just talk (with Israel)”. Ghassan Kanafani answered “That is [a] kind of a conversation between the sword and the neck"
newleftreview.org/issues/ii147...
Great title too. When asked why don’t you “just talk (with Israel)”. Ghassan Kanafani answered “That is [a] kind of a conversation between the sword and the neck"
"The South African Church taught us the concept of state theology defined as the theological justification of the status quo with its racism, capitalism and totalitarianism.
Theology of empire is disguise for superiority, supremacy, “chosenness”, and entitlement." www.facebook.com/christmaslut...
Theology of empire is disguise for superiority, supremacy, “chosenness”, and entitlement." www.facebook.com/christmaslut...
Christ in the Rubble
A Liturgy of Lament
Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac...
Christ in the Rubble
A Liturgy of Lament
Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac
Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church Bethlehem
Saturday December 23rd, 2023
We are...
www.facebook.com
December 24, 2023 at 6:24 PM
"The South African Church taught us the concept of state theology defined as the theological justification of the status quo with its racism, capitalism and totalitarianism.
Theology of empire is disguise for superiority, supremacy, “chosenness”, and entitlement." www.facebook.com/christmaslut...
Theology of empire is disguise for superiority, supremacy, “chosenness”, and entitlement." www.facebook.com/christmaslut...
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
"Gaza is now a different colour from space" apnews.com/article/isra...
Israel's military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in recent history, experts say
After 11 weeks of war in Gaza, the Israeli military campaign against Hamas now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history, experts say.
apnews.com
December 22, 2023 at 6:53 PM
"Gaza is now a different colour from space" apnews.com/article/isra...
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
❤️❤️❤️ The Onion:
"According to witnesses, South African–born Musk immediately dropped to his knees after stepping on Israeli soil, overwhelmed with joy to be back in a state segregated by race and religion."
"According to witnesses, South African–born Musk immediately dropped to his knees after stepping on Israeli soil, overwhelmed with joy to be back in a state segregated by race and religion."
Everything Elon Musk Did While Visiting Israel
Facing millions in lost advertising revenue after he championed an antisemitic conspiracy theory on Twitter, Elon Musk toured Israel and met with the country’s leaders. The Onion examines everything...
www.theonion.com
November 28, 2023 at 8:16 PM
❤️❤️❤️ The Onion:
"According to witnesses, South African–born Musk immediately dropped to his knees after stepping on Israeli soil, overwhelmed with joy to be back in a state segregated by race and religion."
"According to witnesses, South African–born Musk immediately dropped to his knees after stepping on Israeli soil, overwhelmed with joy to be back in a state segregated by race and religion."
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies
Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.
www.rollingstone.com
November 30, 2023 at 1:59 AM
Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
Israel’s bombing of universities and libraries is a “calculated, and often vindictive, destruction of a people’s culture, language, history, and shared sites of community…to erase all evidence of Palestinian life, Palestinian humanity, from Gaza.”
lithub.com/gazas-main-p...
lithub.com/gazas-main-p...
Gaza’s main public library has been destroyed.
Authorities in Gaza City have condemned what they say was the deliberate destruction of the city’s main public library by Israeli forces after finding the building in ruins while a ceasefire was be�...
lithub.com
November 27, 2023 at 10:28 PM
Israel’s bombing of universities and libraries is a “calculated, and often vindictive, destruction of a people’s culture, language, history, and shared sites of community…to erase all evidence of Palestinian life, Palestinian humanity, from Gaza.”
lithub.com/gazas-main-p...
lithub.com/gazas-main-p...
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
Who else had no fucking clue that the KKK is considered a tax-exempt religious organization instead of a terrorist organization
archive.ph/wUICX (free link to article)
archive.ph/wUICX (free link to article)
November 27, 2023 at 9:07 PM
Who else had no fucking clue that the KKK is considered a tax-exempt religious organization instead of a terrorist organization
archive.ph/wUICX (free link to article)
archive.ph/wUICX (free link to article)
Reposted by Vasanthi Venkatesh
ICYMI: All the Palestinian speculative you can eat. Fantasy, Sci-fi, futurism, dystopias, fabulism, horror. All lengths and shapes, with links to where to find the good stuff. Curated and kept up to date by me. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
#ReadPalestinianSpecFic Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
soniasulaiman.com
October 19, 2023 at 11:51 PM
ICYMI: All the Palestinian speculative you can eat. Fantasy, Sci-fi, futurism, dystopias, fabulism, horror. All lengths and shapes, with links to where to find the good stuff. Curated and kept up to date by me. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
You’re supposed to be polite in your suffering. & I completely refuse this. I refuse these politics of appeal.
We are human not just because we cry when we lose our mothers, or our homes, or we have pets or hobbies. We are humans because we feel rage & disdain—because we resist”
t.co/cOMiRdoIjo
We are human not just because we cry when we lose our mothers, or our homes, or we have pets or hobbies. We are humans because we feel rage & disdain—because we resist”
t.co/cOMiRdoIjo
The Right to Speak for Ourselves
For far too long, Palestinians have been denied the freedom to tell our own story.
t.co
November 28, 2023 at 2:00 AM
You’re supposed to be polite in your suffering. & I completely refuse this. I refuse these politics of appeal.
We are human not just because we cry when we lose our mothers, or our homes, or we have pets or hobbies. We are humans because we feel rage & disdain—because we resist”
t.co/cOMiRdoIjo
We are human not just because we cry when we lose our mothers, or our homes, or we have pets or hobbies. We are humans because we feel rage & disdain—because we resist”
t.co/cOMiRdoIjo