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MfP is a non-hierarchical, leaderless collection of early period scholars advocating for Palestinian liberation.

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Medievalists for Palestine @mforpalestine.bsky.social · Dec 26
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.
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The next book in our recommended reads is Colonizing Palestine by Areej Sabbagh-Khoury which shows how, in the decades before the Nakba of 1948, Zionists settlements, including "left-wing kibbutzim," were integral to the slow displacement of Palestinians.
Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the center top, MfP Recommended Read. On the center bottom the book cover of Areej Sabbagh-Khoury's Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the left top, Why MfP Recommends It. On the left center, the book cover of Areej Sabbagh-Khoury's Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. On the right, the following bullet points: -Examines how Zionist settlers acquired and used land alongside and eventually in replacement of Indigenous Palestinians. -Illustrates that, while the Nakba was a violet event of displacement, it roots lie in policies of landholding under the British Mandate. -Challenges the belief that "Left" or "Liberal" Zionism was not complicit in Palestinian displacement. -Explores how the expansion of Zionist settlement, Left Zionism, and the Nakba are represented in historical memory.
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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A US inspired winter season background with a frame on the center. Inside the frame it says: Season's Greetings & Happy New Year ... May you receive this holiday season what you would give to Palestinians
December 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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The next book in our series is Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine. In this work, the Palestinian political thinker Kanafani analyzes the Palestinian revolt against Zionism and British imperialism through a Marxist-Leninist framework.
Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the center top, MfP Recommended Read. On the center bottom the book cover of Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936-1930 in Palestine. Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the left, the book cover of Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936-1930 in Palestine. On the right, bullet points that say: -Examines the economic, political, and social landscape of British Mandatory Palestine in the decade before the Nakba. -Illustrates the roles of British imperialism and Zionism in disrupting Palestinian Society. -Challenges the narrative of an "Israel-Palestine Conflict" by presenting Zionism as a settler-colonial movement. -Places the Arab Revolt in its proper political context to challenge the myth that it was driven by antisemitism.
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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The next book in our "MfP Recommended Read" series is Nur Masalha's Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. This fast-paced history moves from the bronze age to the present to demonstrate that Palestine has always existed.
Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the center top, MfP Recommended Read. On the center middle, book cover of Nur Masalha's Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the top left, MfP Recommended Read. On the bottom left, book cover of Nur Masalha's Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. On the right five bullet points: 1. Provides overview of Palestinian history from the Bronze Age to the Present. 2. Demonstrates that Palestine has a long history that predates modern nationalisms. 3. Challenges the Zionist narrative that Palestine never existed or is a Western invention. 4. The chapter on Medieval Palestine are perfect for introducing Palestine to the Medieval Studies classroom. 5. Contrasts Palestine's pluralistic history to Zionism as a settler-colonial movement.
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The Urgency of Palestine for Premodern Critical Race Studies

By Nora Galland, Katherine Gillen, Margo Hendricks, and Anna-Claire Simpson

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The Urgency of Palestine for Premodern Critical Race Studies
By Nora Galland, Katherine Gillen, Margo Hendricks, and Anna-Claire Simpson
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November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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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)
Background of a keffiyeh pattern with an image of the book cover of Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the left side an image of the book cover of Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. On the right side 4 bullets points that say: 1. One of the first major works in English written by a leading Palestinian American intellectual. 2. Analyzes Palestinian displacement, resistance, and self-determination. 3. Explains the nature of Zionism "from the standpoint of its victims." 4. Examines the relationship between Zionism, Western liberalism, and imperialism.
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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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)
Background of a keffiyeh pattern with an image of the book cover of Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Background of a keffiyeh pattern. On the left side an image of the book cover of Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. On the right side 4 bullets points that say: 1. One of the first major works in English written by a leading Palestinian American intellectual. 2. Analyzes Palestinian displacement, resistance, and self-determination. 3. Explains the nature of Zionism "from the standpoint of its victims." 4. Examines the relationship between Zionism, Western liberalism, and imperialism.
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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mforpalestine.bsky.social Medievalists for Palestine @mforpalestine.bsky.social · Nov 5
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...

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image of a wooden floor board with home made stickers. The stickers include the flag of Palestine with the words Free Palestine, a half circle watermelon, a circle with half the circle as the Palestinian flag and half the circle a watermelon.
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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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-...
image of a wooden floor board with home made stickers. The stickers include the flag of Palestine with the words Free Palestine, a half circle watermelon, a circle with half the circle as the Palestinian flag and half the circle a watermelon.
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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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.
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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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.
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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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 👇
November 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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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
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December 16, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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More information on divesting here 👇
November 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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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 👇
mforpalestine.bsky.social Medievalists for Palestine @mforpalestine.bsky.social · Dec 26
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 ⬇️
October 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Just a reminder of who we are and what we stand for!
mforpalestine.bsky.social Medievalists for Palestine @mforpalestine.bsky.social · Dec 26
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.
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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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.
December 26, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Please help a Black trans comrade who has been targeted and fined for Pro-Palestine speech

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August 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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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
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"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!
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...
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July 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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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...
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June 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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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!
Screenshot from the Medieval Academy of America's email to members reminding them to renew their membership by June 30
June 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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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
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@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 ..." The image shows people on Harvard University's campus and a police car with a cop inside. There is text added that continues the previous image's critique: "...when they literally called the cops on pro-Palestine expression at their own meeting." The image highlights one of the protest banners hanging outside of window of a building on Harvard's campus. The banner reads "MAA/Harvard Divest Now!" The text added around the image reads "Fuck your strongly worded letter" and "Divest now."
April 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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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
mforpalestine.bsky.social Medievalists for Palestine @mforpalestine.bsky.social · Mar 20
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
Six images of various banners protesting the Medieval Academy of America's support of genocide. The last image features a cop car, highlighting how the Academy called upon the police as a disproportionate response to this autonomous action.
March 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM