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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · 12d

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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Jul 29

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As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter

Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Gaza is starving. So are its journalists | Jodie Ginsberg

A desperate situation has become catastrophic. If we do not act now, there will be no one left to tell anyone’s story

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · Jul 21

Israeli authorities in the Occupied West Bank are planning to seize control of the Ibrahimi Mosque, stripping the Palestinian-run Hebron Municipality of administrative responsibilities over the historic holy site.

Israel Says It Will Hand Over Hebron Mosque to Settlers

Israeli authorities reportedly plan to strip the Palestinian municipality of control over the Ibrahimi Mosque, where a Zionist extremist massacred 29 Palestinians in 1994.

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Australia's representative at the 2026 Venice Biennale

An external review found that Creative Australia was unprepared for the risk of controversy in an atmosphere of antisemitism and Islamophobia

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Jun 24

Israel is building a tunnel to cut off Palestinians from the heart of the West Bank mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

Israel is building a tunnel to cut off Palestinians from the heart of the West Bank

Israel is constructing tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the West Bank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to...

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · Jun 11

Apply for a fully funded sound studies writing residency taking place in Amsterdam in February 2026. Open to one established artist, researcher or scholar working in the field of sound studies. Deadline to apply: 14 June sonicacts.homerun.co/the-walls-ha...

'The Walls Have Ears' – Sound Studies Writing Residency

Sonic Acts and De Ateliers/Woonhuis present The Walls Have Ears – a fully funded sound studies writing residency taking place in Amsterdam in February 2026.

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · May 20

THREAD: While students across the US celebrate graduation, Israel is erasing entire generations of Palestinian students—with weapons funded by American tax dollars.

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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · Apr 28

The MESA Board of Directors has issued a statement condemning unlawful visa revocations and intimidation targeting international students and scholars.

Read the full statement here: mesana.org/advocacy/let...

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · May 2

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Sign the Petition

In Defense of Art Research: A Call to Support ACPA, PhDArts, and docARTES

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Apr 20

Glad @kunsthalkade.bsky.social exhibits renowned Lebanese-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, however it felt a little underwhelming. The urgency and visceral aspects that so typify her oeuvre did not fully come across. Lost opportunity to contextualise her practice amid the ongoing violence in 🇵🇸 🇱🇧.

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Apr 10

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On 21 April, Germany will deport me – an EU citizen convicted of no crime – for standing with Palestine | Kasia Wlaszczyk

Four of us have received letters from the state telling us to leave or be removed. This is a terrifying illustration of Germany’s lurch to the right, says Kasia Wlaszczyk

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Apr 7

‘The demand is that to be safe from persecution, you must pluck out your eyes. Instead of ejecting Gaza from domestic politics, Israel’s allies have brought the war home.’

This week’s column

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Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine Malik

The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Mar 31

Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank isn't being ignored by accident—it's part of a deliberate global acceptance of ongoing genocide and displacement.

4 reasons why the world remains complicit—and how a new generation might finally change that. mondoweiss.net/2025/03/four...

Four reasons why Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is being accepted by the world

Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank is being accepted by the international community because it has already allowed genocide in Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians since…

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Eurozine @eurozine.bsky.social · Mar 31

Cultural journalism is a dying industry.
It's not our fault, but it needs admitting.
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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Mar 22

Excellent show ‘Stitch Witch’ by Dutch-American artist Lara Schnitger at Museum Kranenburgh. Love her ‘Slut Sticks’ that performatively repurpose lingerie and are intended to be sculptural as well as be actively used during protest marches.

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Mar 22

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‘We’re Witnessing the Last Gasp of Israeli Violence’: In Conversation With Avi Shlaim | Novara Media

Professor Avi Shlaim speaks to Sebastian Shehadi about his latest book, western complicity in the genocide in Gaza and how Israel’s own archives turned him into an anti-Zionist.

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · Mar 19

Armed Israeli settlers are violently destroying Palestinians homes in the West Bank and forcing families into homelessness to steal more land for Israeli settlements.

This is systematic ethnic cleansing.

Israel ramps up settlement and annexation in West Bank with dire human rights consequences

GENEVA – The Government of Israel last year ratcheted up settlement of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, transferring its own population into the territory and unlawfully demolishing P...

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Mar 18

Amen!

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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · Mar 17

Vandaag gaat de estafettestaking tegen de bezuinigingen op hoger onderwijs en wetenschap verder. Aan 50% van de Amsterdamse universiteiten wordt gestaakt. Succes aan de UvA-collega's! 💪🏽

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Mar 14

Impressive in situ screening at The Hague’s Hofvijver of @margitlukacs.bsky.social & Persijn Broersen’s video Het Hof Van De Leeuw. A fable as opera, a power struggle between different ideologies, all set at the ruinous heart of Dutch politics, Het Binnenhof. Apt and prescient.

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Mar 13

Mahmoud Khalil will remain detained in Louisiana following brief court hearing mondoweiss.net/2025/03/mahm...

Mahmoud Khalil will remain detained in Louisiana following brief court hearing

In a hearing in New York City on Wednesday, Mahmoud Khalil’s attorney’s said they have not been allowed to have contact with him since his detention. Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s rationale fo...

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · Mar 13

Gaza’s Eltiqa collective holds show in exile in Dubai

As a retrospective at Jameel Arts Centre gathers together two decades of work from around the globe, a co-founder describes his personal flight to safety

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Mar 11

A lot of this will resonate with freelance art workers, not independent, but often dependent on the systemic bad practices of institutions.

Carmen Salas @carmensalas.bsky.social · Mar 5

“To effectively manoeuvre through a world that is becoming more complex and to strengthen our sector, we need to take a hard look at where we are at and how we, as a sector, are directly contributing to the problems we often claim to challenge”

New essay:
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Your words say groundbreaking. Your actions say status quo.

Who knew collaborating with an arts organisation could cause so much professional and emotional distress? Watching everything that I had…

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Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social · Mar 10

Stunning Berlinde De Bruyckere show at Bozar,Bxl. Viscerally serene, solemnly estranging, monstrously creepy and therefore mesmerizing.

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