William Lafi Youmans
@willyou.bsky.social
Professor and filmmaker. Wrote 'An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America.' #footie #afc
Our documentary — Who Killed Alex Odeh? — made the top 20 most anticipated documentaries of 2026 by Nonfics. It will premiere at Sundance on January 26. Tickets go on sale January 14. #justiceforalexey
January 4, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Our documentary — Who Killed Alex Odeh? — made the top 20 most anticipated documentaries of 2026 by Nonfics. It will premiere at Sundance on January 26. Tickets go on sale January 14. #justiceforalexey
That time when Golda Meir was going to civilize the whole continent of Africa with Israel’s “hard-won expertise.”
October 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
That time when Golda Meir was going to civilize the whole continent of Africa with Israel’s “hard-won expertise.”
Curtis Sliwa from the Guardian Angels and current Republican candidate for mayor of New York appeared on Morton Downey Jr. in 1989 to confront a Jewish militant. He had with him an Arab American wearing a keffiyeh who supported the intifada.
August 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Curtis Sliwa from the Guardian Angels and current Republican candidate for mayor of New York appeared on Morton Downey Jr. in 1989 to confront a Jewish militant. He had with him an Arab American wearing a keffiyeh who supported the intifada.
DC protest against the Trump takeover. They will meet in DuPont at 2 pm Saturday and march to the White House.
August 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
DC protest against the Trump takeover. They will meet in DuPont at 2 pm Saturday and march to the White House.
Adding to the nearly 270 media workers Israel has eliminated in Gaza, here are 5 Al Jazeera staff that Israel struck fatally yesterday: Anas al-Sharif, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Qreiqeh.
They gave their lives so we could witness the crime of the century.
They gave their lives so we could witness the crime of the century.
August 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Adding to the nearly 270 media workers Israel has eliminated in Gaza, here are 5 Al Jazeera staff that Israel struck fatally yesterday: Anas al-Sharif, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Qreiqeh.
They gave their lives so we could witness the crime of the century.
They gave their lives so we could witness the crime of the century.
Forty years ago, Alexander Cockburn wrote this opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. A similar essay could be written today, though Israel’s only expanded and intensified its war on journalism. And there’s no way the Journal would publish it.
August 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Forty years ago, Alexander Cockburn wrote this opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. A similar essay could be written today, though Israel’s only expanded and intensified its war on journalism. And there’s no way the Journal would publish it.
In the early 1980s, Arab American activist Dr MT Mehdi predicted that the American public would eventually break with Israeli militarism. He was correct that Israel would produce “permanent wars,” but is so far wrong that American sponsorship would cease.
August 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
In the early 1980s, Arab American activist Dr MT Mehdi predicted that the American public would eventually break with Israeli militarism. He was correct that Israel would produce “permanent wars,” but is so far wrong that American sponsorship would cease.
The @washingtonpost.com published a very small percentage of the names of Palestinian children Israel has killed in Gaza. In tiny print size, it still took up more than a newspaper page. The scale of destruction Israel has enacted on Palestinian lives is unforgivable.
July 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The @washingtonpost.com published a very small percentage of the names of Palestinian children Israel has killed in Gaza. In tiny print size, it still took up more than a newspaper page. The scale of destruction Israel has enacted on Palestinian lives is unforgivable.
You think it started on October 7th? Palestinian artist Iyad Sabbah created these statues amid rubble to depict Palestinians fleeing their homes during Israel’s shelling of the Shuja’yyeh neighborhood in Gaza in *2014* Israel has since flattened Gaza city and surrounding areas.
July 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
You think it started on October 7th? Palestinian artist Iyad Sabbah created these statues amid rubble to depict Palestinians fleeing their homes during Israel’s shelling of the Shuja’yyeh neighborhood in Gaza in *2014* Israel has since flattened Gaza city and surrounding areas.
People who think it all started on October 7, 2023 need to see this editorial cartoon from 2014.
July 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
People who think it all started on October 7, 2023 need to see this editorial cartoon from 2014.
In a 1985 LA Times oped, Mark Bruzonsky compared Israel and South African apartheid. He described how he first rejected the analogy but then came to see it as apt. Now, of course, Israel’s variation has proven to be far more destructive and deadly.
June 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
In a 1985 LA Times oped, Mark Bruzonsky compared Israel and South African apartheid. He described how he first rejected the analogy but then came to see it as apt. Now, of course, Israel’s variation has proven to be far more destructive and deadly.
Israel’s self defense means killing minors in prison
April 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Israel’s self defense means killing minors in prison
In a 1977, Senator James Abourezk, an Arab American civil rights icon, talked to CBS News about the impact of the pro-Israel lobby on his colleagues’ positions. He described how dissenters were subjected to “intellectual terrorism.”
March 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
In a 1977, Senator James Abourezk, an Arab American civil rights icon, talked to CBS News about the impact of the pro-Israel lobby on his colleagues’ positions. He described how dissenters were subjected to “intellectual terrorism.”
Israel diminished Gaza’s life expectancy by more than 30 years, according to this *conservative* estimate published in The Lancet.
February 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Israel diminished Gaza’s life expectancy by more than 30 years, according to this *conservative* estimate published in The Lancet.
I don’t think you’ve been paying attention to where US tax dollars are going in the Pentagon, but I wouldn’t fault you because even Defense doesn’t know…
February 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I don’t think you’ve been paying attention to where US tax dollars are going in the Pentagon, but I wouldn’t fault you because even Defense doesn’t know…
Regimes that consider books dangerous are historically on the wrong side
February 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Regimes that consider books dangerous are historically on the wrong side
An Al Jazeera English panel on the rubble of Khan Younis.
January 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
An Al Jazeera English panel on the rubble of Khan Younis.
Ceasefire doesn’t take effect until Sunday so naturally Israel is intensifying its violence against Palestinians.
January 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Ceasefire doesn’t take effect until Sunday so naturally Israel is intensifying its violence against Palestinians.
The New York Times’ The Morning newsletter passive voices “mass casualties” in Gaza
December 26, 2024 at 11:44 AM
The New York Times’ The Morning newsletter passive voices “mass casualties” in Gaza
Planning to tune in for this panel on Israel’s obliteration of academia in Gaza, a crime which has disappointingly generated zero outcry from western institutions of higher learning. RSVP: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/outre...
December 3, 2024 at 6:56 AM
Planning to tune in for this panel on Israel’s obliteration of academia in Gaza, a crime which has disappointingly generated zero outcry from western institutions of higher learning. RSVP: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/outre...
Check out this CFP for an ICA pre-conference by @iasnuq.bsky.social more info: www.qatar.northwestern.edu/research/ias...
November 25, 2024 at 7:17 AM
Check out this CFP for an ICA pre-conference by @iasnuq.bsky.social more info: www.qatar.northwestern.edu/research/ias...
Is that Christopher Walken circa the late 1970s?
November 23, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Is that Christopher Walken circa the late 1970s?
Heard a terrific talk by Dr. Mariam Karim, a postdoc at @nuqatar.bsky.social, on her archival research into Matiel Mogannam and her book “The Arab Woman and the Palestine Problem” (1936). It’s one of the first works of Arab feminist anti-colonialism in English.
November 21, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Heard a terrific talk by Dr. Mariam Karim, a postdoc at @nuqatar.bsky.social, on her archival research into Matiel Mogannam and her book “The Arab Woman and the Palestine Problem” (1936). It’s one of the first works of Arab feminist anti-colonialism in English.