Toby Craig Jones
@tobycjones.bsky.social
Professor, Middle East History, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and the Gulf, Rutgers University, Faculty for Justice in Palestine.
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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
October 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
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Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social
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September 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social
🪑 @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social
🪑 @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
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Duke University Press. In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now!
In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w
September 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Duke University Press. In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now!
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Mahmoud Khalil Hails Judge’s Scathing Ruling Against Trump Efforts to Deport Pro-Palestinian Students
Mahmoud Khalil Hails Ruling Against Trump Deportation Effort Targeting Pro-Palestinian Students
A Reagan-appointed judge has issued a scathing ruling rebuking the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestine students. Judge William G. Young called the case AAUP v. Rubio “perhaps the most im...
www.democracynow.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Mahmoud Khalil Hails Judge’s Scathing Ruling Against Trump Efforts to Deport Pro-Palestinian Students
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Hoooooly shit. I'm curious/concerned (especially as an Illinoisan) as to what Trump's retribution will be.
BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well.
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
Pritzker calls for Trump to be removed from office
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hoooooly shit. I'm curious/concerned (especially as an Illinoisan) as to what Trump's retribution will be.
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I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.
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The deliberate exclusion of Palestinians from the absurd Trump-Netanyahu peace plan is just one more piece of evidence that if you don’t see what’s happening in Gaza as genocide, you are not a serious person.
September 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The deliberate exclusion of Palestinians from the absurd Trump-Netanyahu peace plan is just one more piece of evidence that if you don’t see what’s happening in Gaza as genocide, you are not a serious person.
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Pic from a comrade - Rutgers police in riot gear preparing to respond to a student protest today. No arrests but RUPD with an absurd response.
May 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Pic from a comrade - Rutgers police in riot gear preparing to respond to a student protest today. No arrests but RUPD with an absurd response.
Stanford caving in to genocide denialism. I’m shocked…
www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
On Refusing to Disappear: Stanford Anthropology’s Collusion with Genocide Denial — American Anthropologist
by Sarah Ihmoud (College of the Holy Cross)
www.americananthropologist.org
March 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Stanford caving in to genocide denialism. I’m shocked…
www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
Phish N1 at MSG. Not the best NYE run show we’ve seen, but it’s never a bad time with friends.
December 31, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Phish N1 at MSG. Not the best NYE run show we’ve seen, but it’s never a bad time with friends.
That kind of rainy night. Also, we see your blanket and don’t care.
December 12, 2024 at 12:47 AM
That kind of rainy night. Also, we see your blanket and don’t care.
Rutgers FJP hosted a teach in with Joan Scott, Jonathan Wallace, Jonathan Feingold, and Judith Surkis on BDS and academic freedom. #palestine #bds
youtu.be/Ttat3-hC1EY
youtu.be/Ttat3-hC1EY
BDS and Academic Freedom Panel
YouTube video by Rutgers Faculty for Justice in Palestine
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December 3, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Rutgers FJP hosted a teach in with Joan Scott, Jonathan Wallace, Jonathan Feingold, and Judith Surkis on BDS and academic freedom. #palestine #bds
youtu.be/Ttat3-hC1EY
youtu.be/Ttat3-hC1EY
It’s a genocide. Biden did much more than just abet it.
December 2, 2024 at 9:10 PM
It’s a genocide. Biden did much more than just abet it.
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A former Israeli defense minister who once served in Netanyahu’s
cabinet had accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.
“They’re basically cleaning the territory of Arabs.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...
cabinet had accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.
“They’re basically cleaning the territory of Arabs.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...
Former Defense Minister Accuses Israel of Committing War Crimes in Gaza
The comments by Moshe Yaalon were swiftly denied and condemned by allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who said that they would hurt the country and help its enemies.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:12 PM
A former Israeli defense minister who once served in Netanyahu’s
cabinet had accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.
“They’re basically cleaning the territory of Arabs.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...
cabinet had accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.
“They’re basically cleaning the territory of Arabs.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...
Ceasefire is whatever Israel and the US want it to be. Or, fuck the rules based international order…or whatever.
Four Israeli tanks have entered the western side of the Lebanese border village of Khiam, according to Lebanon’s official National News Agency.
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Israel kills dozens across Gaza, accused of ceasefire violations in Lebanon
Israeli air strikes hammer Gaza as ceasefire in Lebanon continues to hold despite Israel accused of truce violations.
aje.io
November 29, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Ceasefire is whatever Israel and the US want it to be. Or, fuck the rules based international order…or whatever.
Ah, yes, a newspaper with a superb and noted track record at getting Middle East analysis right.
News Analysis: After 13-months of war, Hezbollah entered a cease-fire with Israel on Wednesday that it will struggle to convince anyone, other than its most fervent loyalists, is not in fact a defeat.
A Battered and Diminished Hezbollah Accepts a Cease-fire
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Ah, yes, a newspaper with a superb and noted track record at getting Middle East analysis right.
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Monday 12/2 @ 3:30-5:30 pm
The Department of Africana Studies Presents: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book talk & conversation w/ Professor Noura Erakat of Africana Studies & Criminal Justice
Teleconference Lecture Hall
Alexander Library, 4th floor
College Avenue
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The Department of Africana Studies Presents: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book talk & conversation w/ Professor Noura Erakat of Africana Studies & Criminal Justice
Teleconference Lecture Hall
Alexander Library, 4th floor
College Avenue
RSVP: rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
November 25, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Monday 12/2 @ 3:30-5:30 pm
The Department of Africana Studies Presents: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book talk & conversation w/ Professor Noura Erakat of Africana Studies & Criminal Justice
Teleconference Lecture Hall
Alexander Library, 4th floor
College Avenue
RSVP: rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The Department of Africana Studies Presents: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book talk & conversation w/ Professor Noura Erakat of Africana Studies & Criminal Justice
Teleconference Lecture Hall
Alexander Library, 4th floor
College Avenue
RSVP: rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Migrant workers face ‘cycle of abuse’ in Saudi Arabia before World Cup, UN told. “Saudi Arabia’s treatment of migrant workers encourages whimsical and egregious human and labour rights violations.” www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Migrant workers face ‘cycle of abuse’ in Saudi Arabia before World Cup, UN told
ITUC-Africa has raised ‘severe concerns’ over labour practices in Saudi Arabia and has called on the Confederation of African Football to press Fifa on its human rights commitments
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Migrant workers face ‘cycle of abuse’ in Saudi Arabia before World Cup, UN told. “Saudi Arabia’s treatment of migrant workers encourages whimsical and egregious human and labour rights violations.” www.theguardian.com/football/202...
I wish our students ran the Democratic Party.
November 25, 2024 at 4:14 PM
I wish our students ran the Democratic Party.