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darryl li

2 months

i wrote for @HammerandHope about zionism in u.s. racial politics: how it anchors jewishness in whiteness, disciplines black (and other poc) radicals, and unites liberals with the right on the glide path to fascism.

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darryl li

@dcli

2 years

saw ted chiang give a talk yesterday where he basically told a bunch of ai bros, "we are nowhere near having real ai, and what we call ai today is just a tool of capitalism. i don't fear ai, i fear capitalism" and the ai bros got their feelings hurt. it was great.

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biden is the fourth consecutive us president to bomb yemen.

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this questioning of death stats from gaza is not only disgustingly racist, it also obscures the basic logic on the ground: like so many other things, the registration of deaths is ultimately controlled by israel.

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standing with colonizers is a reflex so deep it’s the muscle memory of the west

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in 2006 the israelis announced that they would bomb a house in jabalia. a mosque rallied people and they gathered on the roof of the targeted house in defiance. the strike was called off. human rights watch accused the palestinians of the war crime of human shielding.

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@AstroLoay

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From Gaza now: Mosques are the only means of communication through speakers. 'We have no communication with the outside world. They are using their military might to harm us. We have no power but the power of God, no one but God. Please, pray for us.'

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message from friend in rafah: "the whole family is with me, kids and grandkids. whether we live or die, we'll be together." رسالة من صديق في رفح: "العائلة معي الاولاد والاحفاد ان عشنا او منتا نكن سويا"

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darryl li

@dcli

4 months

legacy media is at its best when it meticulously debunks the same lies it helped spread in the first place

Noura Erakat

@4noura

4 months

. @washingtonpost investigation confirmed there was no command & control center under Al Shifa. @nytimes invest confirmed Israel bombed safe zones where it told Palestinians to shelter. @ForensicArchi investigation confirmed systematic targeting campaign of hospitals #Gaza

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darryl li

@dcli

5 months

never quite got the "in our thousands, in our millions ..." slogan until feeling the energy in this thread

blkp🔻

@blkpaws

5 months

Came across Dr. Refaat Alareer's poem "If I must die" just a few days ago, I cried and couldn't help but translated it to Chinese without his permission. Now that he's gone.

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darryl li

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7 months

Let’s just save time and run through the playbook: 1. They did it to themselves 2. Ok we did it but they were human shields 3. Ok no Hamas fighters there but it was accidental while they kill intentionally 4. Why are you still asking about this, are you an anti semite?

Richard Engel

@RichardEngel

7 months

The Israeli military says Hamas likely boobytrapped the road heading south from northern Gaza, causing an explosion on Friday that killed 70 Palestinians, many on a flatbed truck.

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darryl li

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5 months

maybe it’s been pointed out already, but seldowitz’s threats about torture in egypt were very … specific. as in “i speak from experience” specific.

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@dcli

5 months

hope everyone who thought a unilateral release of captives was somehow a progressive demand sees images like these

Hanine Hassan حنين

@Hanine09

5 months

“She was 16 when they snatched her from me, she’s 24 now. I couldn’t watch her fall asleep for 8 long years, tonight she’s sleeping in my arms. She’s still my little baby. Time stopped for me.” The mother of Marah, who was released today in the hostage swap. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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@dcli

2 years

⚰️⚰️⚰️

Andrew Ferguson

@epiktistes

2 years

@OneShoup @dcli @varsha_venkat_ Saw him at an academic conference where someone pressed kinda aggressively whether he wrote “hard” SF & asked if he would’ve called it that if he lived a century ago & Ted thought carefully & said if he had lived a century ago he’d probably have died working on the railroads

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darryl li

@dcli

7 months

somewhere out there an israeli soldier has misgivings about their role in annihilating gaza. one day they will make an award-winning piece of art in the west about their experience. a palestinian who survives this onslaught and attempts the same will face censure and blowback.

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darryl li

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7 months

You have spent decades vilifying Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims. You spied on anti-apartheid activists and even the ACLU

The Anti-Democratic Origins of the ADL and AJC

The history of the ADL and AJC reveals that they were created to consolidate the power of wealthy men and stifle the grassroots left.

jewishcurrents.org

ADL

@ADL

7 months

We're disgusted and horrified that a 6-year-old boy was murdered and his mother was severely injured in #Plainfield , IL, allegedly because they are Muslim. We express our condolences to the Muslim community and categorically reject all anti-Muslim hate.

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darryl li

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7 months

@m7mdkurd Important line dropped from the translation: “my family and I will not repeat the mistake of 1948”

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5 months

a very detailed and horrifying anatomization of algorithmic genocide in gaza

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an AI system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza.

www.972mag.com

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darryl li

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this paragraph

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darryl li

@dcli

6 months

the map on the left most have probably seen; the map on the right is much more clarifying it shows where palestinians are authorized to live between the river and the sea gaza represents about 15% of the total population -- confined to about 1.4% of the land

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darryl li

@dcli

6 months

99% of the discourse is basically a distraction from this

Isaac Chotiner

@IChotiner

6 months

Several years ago, I interviewed Michael Oren, Netanyahu’s former ambassador to the US. I thought his answers here were worth thinking about now, in terms of both Gaza and the West Bank.

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7 months

in 2006, i interviewed one of the first people subjected to this tactic. one night, his landline -- which had been deactivated for months due to unpaid bills -- suddenly rang. it was the army telling them to get out. the line went dead again, the bomb fell minutes later.

Esmat Elhalaby

@thaqafatalhind

7 months

when i called a friend in gaza this morning he sounded shaken as i said hello. later in the call he told me that my number came up as unknown (i was using skype) so he was sure that it was the israeli military calling to tell him they were about to blow up his home.

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darryl li

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5 months

people are always surprised to learn that aid trucks never actually enter the gaza strip. rather, goods are unloaded at crossings and reloaded onto another set of trucks that never leave gaza. this "back-to-back" system is extremely cumbersome, costly, and wasteful by design.

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darryl li

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7 months

still processing the significance of how palestinians managed to invert the spatial terms of the occupation this week like never before (to my knowledge)

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4 months

there are so many countries that the us rains cruelty upon, but there is something so casual and cavalier about these decades of attacks on yemen.

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darryl li

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3 months

this is an important victory but like most victories in anticolonial struggle it comes at the very steep price of a compromised recognition of humanity

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darryl li

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6 months

don’t forget, “from the river to the sea” is also one of the few slogans that you can get to rhyme in both english and arabic and for that reason alone it’s a banger

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darryl li

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4 months

"light shells." ok.

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4 months

This piece is being rightly called for advocating ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza. But I'd like to draw attention to the fact that it is coming from a geographer writing in a tradition of colonial fantasizing about terraforming

Why moving to the Sinai peninsula is the answer for Gaza's Palestinian

The Sinai Peninsula comprises one of the most suitable places on Earth to provide the people of Gaza with hope and a peaceful future.

www.jpost.com

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darryl li

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2 months

aaron bushnell’s heroic act of self-sacrifice is a reminder that organizing the untapped potential for dissent in the military could very well mean the difference between success and failure in the struggle against fascism

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darryl li

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7 months

so … did conor whathisface just spam all the professors in the discipline looking for recruits in his anti-trans crusade just now?

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7 months

given how far i am from any expertise on these issues, one can only assume the net is a wide one

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looking forward to a third ivy league president going down in less than a year

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2 months

refaat haunts this site in the best possible way

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3 months

Mr. “Suck On This” finally crashed his cognitive Lexus into a racist olive tree on the flat earth of mangled metaphors

Dalia Hatuqa🪬🤌

@DaliaHatuqa

3 months

How is racist genocidal garbage like this allowed in the @nytimes

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2 years

some algorithms clearly need updating

Diffused Minds 🌌

@diffusedminds

2 years

@yesevillivesey @dcli @LabSpecEth The craziest part: You are on a tool of capitalism right now, exchanging opinions.

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darryl li

@dcli

3 years

today's general strike among palestinians from the river to the sea is a lesson that everyone needs to know about 1936 as much as 1948, 1967, 1982, 1993 -- the need for dates beyond a timeline of loss and aggression.

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6 months

they later walked back the statement. but it was a good example of how eager people can be to throw palestinians under the bus in the name of being “credible”

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darryl li

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2 years

new year, new syllabus // first attempt at a people's war course

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4 months

“in light of Germany’s inability to draw lessons from its horrific history” and so many other sick burns

Namibian Presidency

@NamPresidency

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Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza On Namibian soil, #Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most…

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a magazine consisting solely of pulled/rejected/canceled palestine pieces

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2 years

so being in academia is basically just constantly questioning your sanity while people around you fulsomely praise things for reasons you don't understand and then you die?

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“only jews and palestinians should have opinions on this” is the standpoint epistemology equivalent of that anatole france line about the law equally barring rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges

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darryl li

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4 years

My book, "The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity" is officially out today from @stanfordpress . It's an ethnographic history of "jihadist foreign fighters." The full introduction is here

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2 years

there is no federal solution to this death cult

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I wrote a short primer on race, law, and capitalism in Palestine. “The systemic harm here is not merely discrimination; it is one of colonialism.”

On Law and Racial Capitalism in Palestine

The anti-discrimination framework imagines a situation where authorities unjustifiably favor some categories of its population over others. While this analysis is not wrong, it obscures how Zionism…

lpeproject.org

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7 months

i used to think i might see the end of us imperialism in my lifetime. biden’s speech is making me think we may see it during *his* lifetime.

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@danyaqato it was especially great because his introducer opened with an insufferable paean to the greatness of u of c before being like "ok now for our keynote speaker -- where is he?" and ted chiang was literally sitting next to him the whole time 🤦🏽‍♂️

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a country deemed enough of a nuisance to bomb (or let proxies bomb) but never important enough to invade and risk imperial troops -- makes the oblivion even more complete.

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get it? terrorists are terrorists because they target civilians ... and they are really targeting civilians even when they kill soldiers, because they are terrorists states that oopsie kill 100x more civilians are not terrorists, they just have really riveting ethical dilemmas

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3 years

will never kick the childhood habit of compulsively bringing a book in case i get bored to any gathering of more than two people

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terrifying to see in real-time the slowdown in content from accounts i follow in gaza

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the population registry -- a database of every palestinian with legal residency in the west bank and gaza strip -- is one of israel's key levers of control.

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There's no discourse worse than genocide discourse. So of course I had to write about the gatekeeping that makes it so terrible -- how defenders of the US and Israel monopolize and weaponize the "g-word" and why their grip may finally be loosening.

The Charge of Genocide - Dissent Magazine

South Africa’s willingness to file a case with the International Court of Justice is a sign that the old tactics used to police discourse about genocide have lost much of their power.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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can’t wait to see the “journalism” that comes out of this

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Wrote something in partnership with @pal_legal and @theCCR mapping the anti-Palestinian foundations of US "terrorism" legislation and the role of Zionist organizations like the ADL in shaping that body of law.

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still reeling from news that two @pchrgaza staff, both lawyers in the women's rights unit, have ascended to martyrdom within days of each other. israeli airstrikes murdered nour abu al-nour, along with 7 family members in rafah; and dana yaghi, among 40 killed in deir al-balah.

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my point is not to convince you that they aren't faking deaths (because if you believe that, i have nothing to say to you). my point is that thinking about gaza like some kind of separate country from israel with its own government is a fundamental category error

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axios scoop: biden was so mad at bibi he couldn't even finish his ice cream cone this time

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tal'at qasim (abu talal) was the first known victim of the 'rendition' program. he was abducted by cia in 1995 while en route to bosnia and sent to egypt for torture. his fate remains unknown. seldowitz worked on bosnia policy for the state dept at the time.

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7 months

the harvard doxxing truck and attacks on ryna workman remind me that we don't talk enough about students of color who are *not* racialized as muslim (esp Black and to a lesser extent Latinx and Asian) and why they are an important target for zionist repression

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darryl li

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6 months

in response to some queries, have compiled my palestine writings in one place and am putting them out here in case anyone finds any of it useful for anything

Writings on Palestine -- Darryl Li

docs.google.com

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van jones was onto something when after trump's first attack on yemen he said something to the effect of "he became the president tonight"

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so … kissinger outlived the guy originally tasked by the nyt with writing his obituary??

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every time i hear the word 'terrorism' i remember this thing that happened once

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the difference between having doubts and expressing them is significant and, in times like these, lethal

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6 months

On a personal note: Thrilled to announce that the University of Vienna has canceled its co-sponsorship of a Palestine teach-in series in which I'll be participating alongside distinguished colleagues @LayalFtouni @AmahlBishara , Ilana Feldman, Adriana Qubaiova

Universität Wien

@univienna

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Die vom Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie angekündigte Veranstaltungsreihe "Teach-In: Against the Present: Past and Future Perspectives on Palestine" wird nicht stattfinden.

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darryl li

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far from the most important point about it, but keep in mind the level of awful visual detail in that drone murder video next time you see the blurry black-and-white humans-as-ants shit that they put out for propaganda purposes

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it’s amazing that no matter how bad things get, some people can only find the courage to stand up by kicking others who are down

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updates to the registry -- births and deaths -- are collected by the native administration ("palestinian authority") and passed up the chain. sometimes, israel refuses to recognizes those changes as a form of leverage.

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6 months

is there a word for something like scabbing except you're doing the job of other workers who have been murdered

Arif Rafiq

@ArifCRafiq

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CNN's @FareedZakaria on journalists who have embedded with the IDF in Gaza: "As a condition to enter Gaza under IDF air support, outlets have to submit all materials and footage to the Israeli military for review prior to publication. CNN has agreed to these terms...."

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they can't just randomly make up death numbers. they need to submit a list of actual names to be removed from the israeli-controlled population registry.

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for decades, usg has kept a massive arms cache in israel, up to $4.4bn in value. a sneaky little piece of the law signed today basically allows usg to give those weapons to israel for free, with even less oversight than before (description from wh letter to congress)

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from "fringe antisemitic conspiracy theory" to "no biggie detail buried at the bottom of an nyt long read" in two months

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7 months

just gonna leave this one here Snake dies trying to swallow hedgehog whole in Israel

Snake dies trying to swallow hedgehog whole in Israel

Israel Nature and Parks Authority ecologist called to the scene explains snake tried to prey upon hedgehog, however, as it decided to abandon its unconventional meal, it became painfully aware of its...

www.ynetnews.com

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khan yunis, 1956 (from joe sacco's 'footnotes in gaza')

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what are they going to do, make up fake people who aren't in the registry? or worse yet, yet report as dead people who are really alive -- which would then result in their IDs being canceled and extinguishing any hope of travel or complicate registering new births?

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spambots masquerading as journalists have feelings too, it seems

Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

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@dcli Please don't misrepresent me. This is egregious and misleading as to my belief about trans people, which is supportive of trans rights and dignity.

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Happy that charges against UChicago students and colleagues standing up for Palestine have been dropped; dismayed that the administration's retaliatory measures are ongoing Read the students' analysis of the university's links to oppression near and far

OPINION: UChicago arrested pro-Palestine student protestors to protect investments in death and...

When we ask “what are you protecting,” what is unearthed is a history of oppression carried out by the University and executed by its private police force.

thetriibe.com

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i get that it can be a little confusing that hamas is both fighting israel and governing under its aegis at the same time. but understanding that as a historical contradiction also begins to clarify a lot of the dynamics at work.

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my point is not to bash hrw bc they have arguably done useful things too. my point is that when asking how things got to this point we have to re-examine the structures of possibility and permissibility for critique, everywhere

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there is only one sovereign between the river and the sea, just many different zones of control and categories of rights.

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anyone shocked at the murder of those three captives should look up what happened to yuval doron castleman a few weeks back

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by tomorrow he’ll call for nuking the campus

Shai Davidai

@ShaiDavidai

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Yesterday morning, President Shafik of @Columbia put on a show for the world by calling the @NYPD to disperse an illegal encampment on campus. This was Columbia last night. They're still there. Enough is enough. Fire Shafik and bring in law enforcement. Please retweet…

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all of this is to say that no one denies that revolutionary violence should have criteria, standards, etc. but any real conversation about this is made inordinately more difficult by the fact that 90%+ of the time this is invoked in total bad faith

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_of course_ the only time a mainstream journalist would seek my “expertise” about anything would be as part of a right-wing (t)roll call 😂

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this is why “everyone for everyone” is a powerful and dangerous (in a good way) demand

Dr Asim Qureshi 🏞️➡️🌊🇵🇸🕊️

@AsimCP

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I thought this insight by Darryl on the captives taken by resistance forces was particularly interesting, "...exchanging captives creates a forced parity between the two sides..."

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one thing i was never able to properly chase down in my book was the story of how the us orchestrated the departure of mujahidin from bosnia. interviews and footnotes point to an organized effort, with buses, mugshots, fingerprinting. there's even an interpol database somewhere.

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if you want to “evacuate” gaza, let the refugees go home

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proof may never come, but that’s ok because it was never really needed

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insofar as hamas does governance, it inhabits this administrative structure of indirect israeli rule and is constrained by it.

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going back to a policy that never meant anything in the first place and counting it as a step forward is peak beltway brain

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

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BREAKING: Blinken overturns “Pompeo Doctrine” and says Israeli settlements in the West Bank are “inconsistent with international law”. The move comes a day after Israel announces thousands of new housing units in the settlements

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in 1997, congress passed a law forcing satellite companies to degrade the quality of commercial imagery only for the area between the river and the sea

Laila Al-Arian

@LailaAlarian

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Satellite companies that made photographs readily available to journalists covering Russia’s war in Ukraine are now restricting images out of Gaza, seemingly for Israel’s benefit.

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massive and richly deserved humiliation at the security council.

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2 years

@yesevillivesey @LabSpecEth yeah he had a whole extended simile of ai being like mckinsey (and hence metonymic for capitalism) and i was thinking ... bro, why not just go all the way and say ai is like the university of chicago

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4 years

there is no bottom, and never was

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@Haleaziz

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Unprecedented: ICE is launching billboards in Pennsylvania with the faces of immigrants who have been released by local police departments under so-called sanctuary policies.

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a federal judge -- a bush appointee no less -- basically saying "fuck this fucked up shit" in judgespeak while nonetheless siding with the government's genocide complicity aptly sums up the possibilities and limitations of the current moment

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good morning, columbia students 🌞

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@dcli

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these "warning" phone calls (like the "warning missiles" -- yes, that's a thing, look it up), are just a small example of how they are able to subvert gestures of humanitarian concern into utterly terrifying threats

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darryl li

@dcli

3 years

Those looking for Gaza background may find the @meriponline archives useful. Some key pieces from the past 30+ years:

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darryl li

@dcli

1 month

this report will be read and reread for many years to come. it will endure as a reference in the archives of the genocidal thing that calls itself “the international community.”

John Reynolds

@SeanMac_R

1 month

short post @TWAILReview about @FranceskAlbs important new report on the anatomy of Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

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