Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸 @LalehKhalili Twitter profile

Last Seen Profiles

@chiney

@massacriticabcn

@mathlava

@waltervw1

@susanbu1

@GFelbermayr

@YMCALincs

@charliewyatt_

@frangeladuo

@JordiMartiGrau

@tobwias

@SubwaySelects

@xiaoheiwu001

@DamianShah3

@TaisKoshino

@KNARFWONGAR

@_Sheethal_

@en_cristianos

@badgalliginha

@Hays_EMS

@InstantFunding_

@jimde86

@CROWNEDYT

@gfrisquet

@gdelmestri

@Sheridan_CoD

@basedfrg

@GregLuca

@DrWhoOnline

@GustavoTaco14

@mst3kharris

@celery1066

@TheRealDaiDaiSo

@Usmanad56660116

@iitsibarani_

@mi9uru

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

6 years

Holy shit what an image. "13th attempt to break the Gaza blockade by sea". Photo by Mustafa Hassouna (Andalou Agency for Getty):

728

38K

105K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

Break the patents on COVID vaccine. Right now intellectual "property" is not just theft, it is mass murder.

97

10K

50K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

4 years

Y'all the NY school system won't shut down because over 100,000 students are homeless and will not get a meal otherwise. The US is the dystopia they imagine everywhere else being.

104

11K

48K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

6 years

Remember him? he was shot today, because the Israeli military cannot stand that he had become an icon.

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

6 years

Holy shit what an image. "13th attempt to break the Gaza blockade by sea". Photo by Mustafa Hassouna (Andalou Agency for Getty):

728

38K

105K

128

29K

44K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

1 year

downloaded a scanned book and was unaccountably moved to tears by this connection to an anonymous scanner...

64

3K

40K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 months

There is something so brave, so life-affirming, so beautiful and at the same time so rage-inducing about this.

Murtaza Hussain

@MazMHussain

2 months

There’s a food influencer I used to follow on TikTok from Gaza who did reviews of restaurants and dishes there. He disappeared for months after the war but now he’s back making cooking videos using things from aid packages for kids in the refugee encampments:

321

28K

100K

28

8K

25K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

A few quick thoughts: 1) This was a coordinated, nationwide effort (see the break-ins & protests at various state houses ). 2) This was a massive recruiting success for fascists in the US. They don't see themselves as defeated. This was to them a charivari, a rehearsal. 1/

65

7K

24K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 years

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a man below. He descended a bit more and shouted: "'Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago but I don't know where I am".

192

5K

19K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

11 months

I feel sad for the 19yo whose father's hubris landed him here, but a libertarian billionaire ethos of "we are above all laws, including physics" took the Titan down. And the unequal treatment of this and the migrant boat catastrophe is unspeakable.

OceanGate Was Warned of Potential for ‘Catastrophic’ Problems With Titanic Mission

Experts inside and outside the company warned of potential dangers and urged the company to undergo a certification process.

www.nytimes.com

104

2K

19K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

4 years

Holy shit. According to #Panorama , the government counted EACH glove rather than each pair and counted paper towels as PPE given to hospitals, to inflate the numbers.

249

5K

18K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 years

The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my f**king fault!!!

99

621

14K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 months

This is basically what settler colonialism is, after all the jargon has been stripped away: kill the indigenous people, loot all their worldly goods, raze all their cultural and commemorative monuments.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

3 months

Israeli forces have posted videos of themselves stealing from Palestinian homes in Gaza since Israel’s ground invasion began. Gaza’s media office says that at least $25 million in cash, gold and valuables was looted from Gaza in the first 3 months of the war ⤵️

373

5K

6K

55

7K

13K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

5 months

To so brazenly destroy the soil and water in Gaza, salt the earth, kill the aquifers, all while heads of state are gathered just 1500 miles away to banter about the environment is obscene.

Hanine Hassan حنين

@Hanine09

5 months

Israeli forces are flooding Gaza with seawater, under the pretext of destroying the tunnels. This will result in the long-term destruction of groundwater & aquifers, rendering agriculture & drinking water impossible, eliminating life for decades. This is a crime against humanity

81

24K

38K

327

7K

13K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

This is in one of the most densely populated places on earth (denser than London). And half the population is under 18.

The Decolonial Atlas

@decolonialatlas

3 years

Pray for Gaza. The number of reported bombings in the past 24 hours is horrific. 2 million people trapped inside a tiny strip of land, already facing perpetual shortages of essential medicines because of Israel's illegal blockade, merciless bombed on the holiday of Eid.

35

1K

2K

21

6K

12K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

This is horrific. The destruction of subsea life, the anthropogenic earthquake, so a deathly institution can test out their lethal toys.

58

3K

12K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

This is so moving. Palestinian citizens of Israel, banned from driving into Jerusalem, walk. Just walk into the city, in support of their comrades, other Palestinians who are being ethnically cleansed from Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.

Najwan Simri نجوان سمري

@SimriNajwan

3 years

سيرًا على الأقدام، يتابع الفلسطينيون من داخل الخط الأخضر طريقهم نحو #القدس لإحياء ليلة القدر في #المسجد_الأقصى بعد أن منعت الشرطة الإسرائيلية الحافلات من الوصول إلى المدينة، نتحدث عن مسافات بعيدة.

53

826

4K

36

3K

11K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

14 days

A reminder that "Military-Aged Males" as a counterinsurgency category usually encompasses 14-65 year old men. Israel will claim they are all Hamas as it has done thus far in order to pretend it has a "proportionate" combatant-civilian ratio (I feel sick as I type this).

Ragıp Soylu

@ragipsoylu

14 days

Exclusive: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent “military age” men from fleeing Rafah, a senior Western official says

189

2K

3K

37

4K

11K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

4 years

My god @bbc what is wrong with you? Do you want to unleash mobs of Islamophobes on mosques in the UK? Your headlines say "Some mosques open despite COVID restrictions" -- but you don't mention it is a few mosques in Pakistan & Indonesia.

122

3K

11K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

When Anderson Cooper says these people go to "Olive Garden & Holiday Inn" he is circulating the cliché that the racists in the US belong to the lower orders... In fact, they are the affluent, university-educated business-owners and professionals who can afford the Grand Hyatt.

216

3K

10K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

4 years

The utter absurdity of BHL who has to stand on tiptoes to make his sorry ass look taller than the Kurdish people he is getting himself photographed with:

355

3K

9K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

6 months

Israeli rabbis issuing fatwas for destruction of Gaza; Israeli doctors issuing letters calling for destruction of Palestinian hospitals; Israeli politicians turning takfiri and casting antizionist Jews out. And people are worried about the river/sea slogan?

55

4K

9K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

25 days

What an amazing piece of art. Hadi Rahnaward - Fragile Balance (2023)

214

1K

9K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

4 years

Online teaching be like...

35

2K

9K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

And most alarmingly, 4) The police stood aside, let them in, didn't arrest but a dozen people. They helped them by inaction. Next time they will help with coordinated action. Good night. /fin

54

2K

9K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

Colin Powell's justification of the Iraq war in 2002/2003 was only one of the more recent times he lubricated the machinery of imperial warfare. In 1968, he covered up the My Lai massacre when he was assigned to investigate a whistleblower report on the massacre.

43

2K

9K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

Huey Newton of the Black Panther Party with Palestinian refugees/guerrillas in Lebanon, c. 1980

33

1K

8K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

4 years

Do they also matter on the Mediterranean?

AFP News Agency

@AFP

4 years

#BREAKING European Union parliament declares 'Black Lives Matter'

303

656

2K

29

2K

8K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, Light Sentence, 1992:

32

2K

8K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 years

The NYC landlord responsible for the fire in Bronx that killed dozens is on Eric Adams's mayoral transition team in charge of housing.

Annia Ciezadlo @annia.bsky.social

@annia

2 years

Here's the ownership of the building. The man listed as landlord, Rick Gropper, is on @NYCMayor 's transition team—for housing:

57

2K

5K

56

3K

8K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

20 days

When you google Shai Davidai's name in Hebrew, the first article has all sorts of fascinating things:

"המשטרה החליטה שהיא בעד הממשלה ולא בעד העם" | מוסף כלכליסט

שי דוידאי הוא דוקטור מוערך לפסיכולוגיה חברתית, ובנם של מקימי יחידת קוצבי הלב בשיבא. בשבוע שעבר הוא הפגין נגד ביטול עילת הסבירות וקיבל אגרוף משוטר ללא סיבה, אז הוא החליט להשיב אש: "הכוח שלי הוא...

newmedia.calcalist.co.il

56

1K

8K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 years

"Well," said the man "you don't know where you are or where you're going. You have risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise, which you've no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems.

9

424

7K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

5 years

This is not a "misuse" - as in a mistake. This is a deliberate tactic of Israeli, Egyptian and now Chilean police (and probably loads of police elsewhere).

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

5 years

Chilean protesters are losing their eyesight because of police misuse of rubber projectiles and gas cannisters.

478

5K

3K

61

3K

7K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

1 month

9 shots. For a USAID worker who stopped to help a person inhyred in a car accident and got into an argument with the Israeli policeman. Then Samantha Power issues a non-statement of "thoughts and prayers" for their murdered employee of 20 years.

Max Segal

@mxsgl

1 month

@John_Hudson USAID employee was shot and killed, apparently by an Israeli police officer, following an altercation

20

329

723

26

3K

6K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

3) The international dimension of the rise of the fascists was on display with all the international flags being flown in the protests. 2/

10

924

6K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

6 years

40

853

5K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

6 months

I was just invited to give a keynote at an amazing conference in Germany. This is what I wrote,

Ben Mauk

@benmauk

6 months

“[E]ven the minimum assertion that Palestinians, too, deserve human rights has been repeatedly challenged or construed as a “pro-Hamas” position in Germany.”

21

523

2K

222

1K

5K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 years

Saudi Arabia to execute protesting citizens ejected from their lands so overpaid consultants can pretend to build MbS's fantasy city, including a ski slope in the desert for Asian Winter Games:

Neom: Saudi Arabia sentences tribesmen to death for resisting displacement

Shadli, Atallah, and Ibrahim al-Howeiti were arrested in 2020 for opposing their eviction for the development of the $500bn megaproject to be the host site of the 2029 Asian Winter Games

www.middleeasteye.net

89

2K

5K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

25 days

Let's not forget that Minouche Shafik -the first Arab to lead an Ivy, the first woman to lead Columbia- was also a World Bank and IMF deputy director/VP. Her capitulation to the fascists will remain what is remembered of her but is also not all that surprising.

34

990

5K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

24 days

Hey @Columbia , as a former PhD and current academic, I am so deeply ashamed that while a member of your staff, the odious @ShaiDavidai , doxxes folks and asks for militarisation of the campus, the university throws its best and most committed students to the wolves. Shame on you.

36

843

5K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

If you spell your name backwards and put an umlaut over the first vowel, that is your IKEA name. Mine is Hëlal.

1K

246

4K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

1 year

Last week I resigned my post at QMUL. Although the sector as a whole is becoming inhospitable & I loved my students & colleagues, QMUL managerial decisions made staying untenable. For me the last straw was the cruel, craven call by management for students to snitch on us.

Jade Evans

@enchantedbyfilm

1 year

I’m quite honestly sick and tired of the manipulative emails that @QMUL have been sending out to students. Tactics to spy on striking staff are disguised as “support” for the students affected. A strike isn’t a strike if missed educational activities are rescheduled. @qm_ucu

6

53

357

255

704

4K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

14 days

You know that bullshit thing where Zionist apologists say where are Palestine's non-violent protesters (their Gandhi or their MLK)? Well, Bassem Tamimi has been practicing non-violent protest all his life and oh look, he is also subjected to indefinite administrative detention.

Dena Takruri

@Dena

14 days

Bassem Tamimi, father of Ahed Tamimi, is still in Israeli prison after serving 6 months under administrative detention. He was supposed to be released yesterday, but an Israeli military court extended his detention another 6 months. He hasn't been charged with anything.

162

6K

12K

11

2K

4K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

6 years

He is thankfully still alive, but they probably picked him out specifically.

24

923

4K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 years

Al Jazeera beardy guy: "these are prosperous middle class people; they are not like refugees from the Middle East". What the fuck do you think Middle East refugees were before they became refugees? Do you actually think being a refugee is an existential/ontological condition?

𝚅𝚕𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚛 𝙿𝚘𝚒𝚝ī𝚗

@DocRobotnivik

2 years

Add Al Jazeera to the list... The Supremacy around the media coverage of this isn't even subtle.

210

1K

3K

46

887

4K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

Every contract Tories grant to their grifter pals is a redistribution of taxpayer money upwards.

MunchBunch

@Munchbunch87

3 years

#FreeSchoolMeals On the left £30 of food. On the right what private company Chartwells have supplied having been awarded a government contract to supply for £30 free school meals. Utterly shameful profiteering off some of the country's most disadvantaged kids!

2K

45K

115K

13

1K

4K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

20 days

His parents are billionaires; and his grandfather was invlved in the Entebbe operation led by Netanyahu's brother.

12

339

4K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

This is your sliver of utter beauty for today.

Caroline de Gruyter

@CarolineGruyter

3 years

Garbage collectors in Ankara open a library with books rescued from the trash. "The only regret the men have, is that they didn't start collecting sooner."

389

15K

63K

12

583

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

This is what the Police Federation guy says straight up: they are a coercive institution serving the rulers not the public. When they tell you AND show you what they are, believe them.

54

1K

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

A deportation camp. Do Europeans even hear themselves use these words?

Mazen Hassoun

@HassounMazen

3 years

Such a heartbreaking and painful photo. Syrian refugee Asmaa Al-Natour bids farewell to her Danish neighbor after the Danish authorities forced her to leave her home and sent her to deportation camps.

474

12K

64K

24

863

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 years

"You must be a technician." said the balloonist. "I am" replied the man "how did you know?" "Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you have told me is probably technically correct, but I've no idea what to make of your information and the fact is, I'm still lost....

1

197

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 years

Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've delayed my trip with your talk." The man below responded, "You must be a Tory politician". "I am" replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

1

222

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 years

The man below replied "You're in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude".

4

234

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

5 years

Hey @ChelseaClinton , watching Trump's rally last night, are you happy that you laid the groundwork for that? Your "as an American" is really just an exhortation to the mobs screaming "Send her back".

Chelsea Clinton

@ChelseaClinton

5 years

@bungarsargon @ReaganBattalion Co-signed as an American. We should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism.

3K

2K

12K

213

478

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

5 months

Behold the editors of Commentary.

36

898

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 years

When Palestinians talked about their memories of the 1948 Tantoura massacre, their oral history was dismissed as unreliable (by no less than Benny Morris). But now that Israeli veterans confess, we can all believe it.

עקבות Akevot

@Akevot

2 years

1/3 “They silenced it. It mustn’t be told; it could cause a whole scandal. I don’t want to talk about it, but it happened. What can you do? It happened.” >>

11

645

1K

16

1K

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

5 months

I've read about Israel/Palestine since I was yay high. I've written 2 books with Palestinians at their core. I've watched Israel be colonial for decades. But what Israel is doing right now, not just the violence, but their cruel jouissance with it, blows me away.

55

756

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

1 year

It is actually quite stunning how greyscaling turns the hand into a thing of silvery beauty.

2

14

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

I have to start emails this way from now on:

8

424

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

@RozKaveney @TeresaPalomar1 Qhy do all women in the 1970s/1980s look so lusciously glamorous?

8

14

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

80-90% of the money spent in the US in Afghanistan found its way back to the US via contracts with private military company and other corporations. The corruption is closer to home than @maddow thinks.

MSNBC

@MSNBC

3 years

"Part of the reason even that scale of investment over 20 years didn't materially change more ... is because so much of what we put into Afghanistan was shoveled off and diverted by the boatload by a fantastically corrupt elite," @Maddow says.

151

380

1K

20

803

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

5 months

We are dust, constituted through serendipitous accident. To assume somehow that *you* are the endpoint of fortune, fate or god's will, beyond being the height of arrogance seems to me a 19thC ethnonationalist conceit that has nought to do with 5000 years of anything.

Eve Barlow

@Eve_Barlow

5 months

Anyone who wants to question me: I have 5,000 years on my side. What you got?

1

20

214

39

420

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

1 year

The wording in this headline is shameful. Police beating unarmed people is not "clashes". *Occupied* holy sites are not "contested".

13

753

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

17 days

Holy shit. The Swiss are even worse than the Germans. They have disbanded a whole Institute.

The Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies (ISNO) in its current form is...

Based on the findings of the report from the administrative investigation of the Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies (ISNO), the Executive Board of the University of Bern...

mediarelations.unibe.ch

66

1K

3K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

I am so grossed out by celebratory accounts of Israel's vaccination programme when it is predicated on denial of vaccine to Palestinian people under its de jure and de facto control in its prisons, the West Bank and Gaza.

38

620

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

11 months

Also, we as taxpayers are paying for the cost of their search and rescue in really rough waters, where the folks in the submersible would probably sneer at any kind of public services provided without a profit motive.

8

248

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

4 years

At 11, I fucking lived through a revolution in which my parents participated and after which they were imprisoned. I then left iran on my own at 16 and moved to the US. Everything i have written or thought was shaped by that. And i wasn't even at the university yet.

Ash Sarkar

@AyoCaesar

4 years

By the time I’d finished university, I’d lost two of my closest friends. Other friends had mourned parents, siblings, a partner. Columnists think everyone’s lives are the untroubled journey from Hampstead to home ownership just because theirs were? Get out of it.

421

2K

16K

32

236

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

21 days

May the smug smiles on their faces and the tears of the children whose toys they have looted haunt them

196

858

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

1 year

These billionaires are all eugenicists who believe they have money because they are superior beings and everything they do and say is shaped by this belief in über- and untermenschen.

Yasmin Poole

@yasmin_poole

1 year

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and one of the largest individual donors in US politics, just referred to Greta Thunberg as part of the “autistic children’s brigade” in his Oxford address.

3K

4K

30K

5

487

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

"Complete quiet"... "mowing the lawn".... "putting Gaza on a diet"... There has not been a time when Israeli security apparatuses have not declared their intentions towards 2 million people corralled into an open air prison.

Guardian news

@guardiannews

3 years

Israel vows not to stop Gaza attacks until there is ‘complete quiet’

987

8K

10K

24

705

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

5 months

Israel is very specifically targeting intellectuals, scholars, doctors, journalists; basically anyone who can act as a spokesperson for Palestinians. It is a tactic they have always used. See for example Ghassan Kanafani, Wael Zwaiter etc.

Abdalhadi Alijla عبد الهادي العجلة

@alijla2021

5 months

So. Israel killed the president of the Islamic university in Gaza Prof. Sofian Tayah and his entire family. He is one of the prominent and leading researchers in physics and applied mathematics. He is @UNESCO chair in physics and space science in Palestine. He received

4

573

902

23

1K

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

25 days

Truly, wouldn't it have been more dignified to defend students/staff/free speech rather than be remembered as a daughter of aggrieved feudal landlords who served IMF/World Bank AND then threw her students under the bus to appease moronic Congressional fash?

Omar D. Foda 🇵🇸

@EgyptsBeer

25 days

What's wild is Shafik is getting fired regardless

29

352

4K

8

333

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

This is exactly right, and the last line is 🔥🔥

12

607

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

6 months

I am afraid people who hate the word "martyr" don't even understand its etymology in English -- which is Greek for "witness". The people who hate it just operate on vibes and ignorance of history.

big b and the b stands for ‘bedour’🌙

@balagonline

6 months

i recommend folks who don’t speak any arabic at all refrain from expressing their “hate” for a concept that has already been unbelievably distorted by islamophobic propaganda

53

5K

14K

19

625

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 years

I genuinely love it that two of the biggest con artists who made the degraded world we live in are on a stage in Bahamas selling crypto with a ponzi scammer (Sam Bankman-Fried)

55

389

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 months

Just downloaded this from an online site, and perused it, and I have to say I am ashamed that I did not know this extraordinary book. Written by a Somali scholar who worked with Frantz Fanon's family and friends and on original Algerian and French documents 1/...

Tarek Younis

@Tarek_Younis_

2 months

I've read many books on Fanon and affirm Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan wrote one of the best ones, way back in 1985! I've come to assume many reasons why people are not more aware of Bulhan's writings on Fanon, just look him up and see where he's based...

11

227

1K

15

390

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

20 days

He was part of the protests against the judicial reforms in Israel which is just another way of saying he is for demcracy for Jewish citizens of Israel.

3

114

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

20 days

He was also punched by some policeman, and given that the news made the top of Google in Hebrew, I think he is itching for the same to happen again so he can be top of the news in the US.

3

107

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

I've been thinking about the Israeli Foreign Ministry calling the continuing Nakba in Shaikh Jarrah "a real estate dispute". Setting aside its derisive attempt at diminishing the violence of Israeli security apparatuses (including settlers) & belittling Palestinian resistance 1/

15

647

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

@classiclib3ral Also, isn't "debate me" (or "come on my show") just a bit tedious and passé?

16

3

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

5 months

Jewdas is not even joking. The Charity Commission is challenging an application for a Palestinian cultural NGO on the basis that Palestinian existence as a distinct group is "controversial".

jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה

@jewdas

5 months

It's controversial for Palestinians to exist

32

651

4K

14

722

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

5 months

What Toni Morrison said -“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being"- also applies to Palestinians constantly having to explain themselves.

5

774

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

This is the Gaza bookshop destroyed by Israeli bombing using US-provided weapons. The shelves over to the right carried Abdulrahman Munif's books:

Malaka

@MalakaShwaikh

3 years

Around 3:00 this morning, there was some quiet in Gaza. I managed to get some sleep. I woke up to my sister's message, "they caught us by surprise. very heavy airstrikes now". They destroyed the biggest bookshop and main publishing house of Samir Mansour. I'm shattered.

60

4K

11K

15

805

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

1 year

Martin Hall

@martinhall18

1 year

Show me a more British scene , I’ll wait 🇬🇧

939

365

7K

14

136

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

"Memorial to 418 Palestinian Villages which were Destroyed, Depopulated and Occupied by Israel in 1948" by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir

10

602

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

20 days

The policeman who punched him, ironically, was part of the Israeli Border Police, who are some of the most brutal against Palestinians... They also have a lot of members of Arab and Druze origins, so I suspect there is some kind of dog-whistle in the story as well.

6

104

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

4 years

I wrote a piece about how the catastrophe in Beirut was also partially caused by the depredations of global maritime capital and the deadly legal devices that make such danger possible. Thanks to @danhancox for commissioning & editing it.

Behind the Beirut explosion lies the lawless world of international shipping | Laleh Khalili

The disaster has roots in a global network of maritime capital and legal chicanery designed to protect businesses at any cost, says academic and author Laleh Khalili

www.theguardian.com

36

804

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

As everyone talks about Afghan corruption, brutality and ineptitude, can i remind you the country has been invaded by 2 superpowers in my life time, the last of whose intel services thought it wise to drop off millions of dollars in cash 1/

9

363

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 months

People are rightly mocking this non-mea culpa, but what enrages me is this line: "It’s not too late for Israel to try something different." Not too late for whom? There are 30,000+ Palestinians including 15,000 kids dead; 1.5 million people left homeless. What else do you want?

Zack Beauchamp

@zackbeauchamp

3 months

I've spent the past month talking about what's happening in Gaza with some of the world's leading experts on military strategy, counterterrorism, and the law/ethics of war. What emerged was a story of a war gone terribly, horrifically wrong:

451

299

826

15

440

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

5 years

Israel has halted the entry of vaccines to Palestine:

83

2K

1K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

4 years

Culturally conservative is code for anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, openly racist, anti-feminist.

Blue Labour

@blue_labour

4 years

Welcome to the hundreds of new followers that have followed in the past 48 hours. A socialism which is economically radical and culturally conservative is the future of the Labour Party. New essays and analysis will be published over the next few weeks. Glad to have you with us.

3K

224

1K

34

356

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

5 months

It is truly ironic that the only actual action against Israel comes from the poorest Arab state which has been battered by Israel's super-rich Arab allies for the last few years.

Ibn Riad - ابن رياض

@IbnRiad

5 months

Yemen is enforcing a humanitarian naval blockade for the sake of Gaza against the rogue Zionist occupation, on behalf of an entire world that has failed to act. Yemen is the only sovereign nation taking direct action against the genocide unfolding before the eyes of the world.

3

3K

6K

21

735

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

Maya Mikdashi wrote this piece years ago asking why only Palestinian women and children were construed as victims. Why men were not. I think this can also be repurposed for thinking about the arid, skewed, terrible discussions of Afghan women/men too.

Can Palestinian Men be Victims? Gendering Israel's War on Gaza

Every morning we wake up to an updated butcher’s bill: one hundred, two hundred, four hundred, six hundred Palestinians killed by Israel’s war apparatus as of this writing. These numbers gloss over...

www.jadaliyya.com

8

466

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

Just been reading elements of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and the bits that jump out of the House of Commons summary are horrifically authoritarian: 1/

16

1K

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

4 years

The racist little monster over on the left is Laura Trott, MP elected in 2019. For shame.

Maya Goodfellow

@MayaGoodfellow

4 years

Full solidarity with the amazing @DawnButlerBrent who handles this awful exchange really well. An example of how the act of naming something racist is treated as worse/more “offensive” than actual racism (racism which itself is erased and denied)

460

3K

14K

62

354

1K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

1 month

How I miss Dawn Foster:

Wes Streeting MP

@wesstreeting

1 month

The Cass Review must be a watershed moment for the NHS’s gender identity services. My response for @UKLabour underlining our support for the Cass Review’s evidence-led recommendations and our determination to put children’s health and wellbeing above the political fray 👇🏻

1K

596

3K

5

142

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 months

Dear comrades please do not repost Israeli military drone footage of groups of Palestinians searching for aid. It is intended to portray them as insects (genocidaire social media groups all portray them as such).

12

500

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

2 years

34th anniversary of the start of the First Intifada:

3

284

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

6 months

I look at this image, and think "Palestine shall rise from the rubble of Gaza".

Advaid അദ്വൈത്

@Advaidism

6 months

A map of US bombing of Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Each black dot represents a 1000 kg bomb. The legacy of war-criminal Kissinger.

155

16K

46K

14

471

2K

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

3 years

Back then people using "postmodernism" hadn't actually read any theory and mixed up Lyotard/Baudrillard/Derrida/Foucault. Today, they haven't read any "Critical Race Theory" either, and perniciously, they use the term as euphemism for Black academics in humanities/soc sciences.

28

221

2K