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Dr. Nick Posegay

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Itinerant scholar, ex- @theul.bsky.social | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | he/him | Publications: linktr.ee/NPosegay 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' available now: linktr.ee/CambridgeGRU Banner: 15th c. bull head watermark screaming with existential dread

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · Jul 22

Good news if you like history, manuscripts, or nice books! 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' is now available at *greatly* reduced shipping costs via @theul.bsky.social (UK) and Amazon (worldwide) from this link: linktr.ee/nposegay. There's also a free sample file there with the entire first chapter.

5 copies of 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah', by Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee, stacked on a light brown tabletop. The books' spines are facing the camera. The book is large and the covers are dark red, with the title and authors' names in white. The cover also has a grid of 21 square images each cut out from a different medieval manuscript.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13h

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 18h

It was in reference to this btw
bsky.app/profile/npos...

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

Simplest way to the disarm the "right to exist" rhetorical trap. It's not complicated.

Bsky thread:

mountainrangifer.bsky.social
‪@mountainrangifer.bsky.social‬
Seems like you don’t believe Israel has a right to exist.

‪Salmon‬
@spamtongpayne.bsky.social‬
no shit

‪mountainrangifer.bsky.social‬
‪@mountainrangifer.bsky.social‬
So what is your proposal for where Jews should live then? Do you deny they have a right to exist in their homeland?

‪Salmon‬
@spamtongpayne.bsky.social‬
everywhere

‪mountainrangifer.bsky.social‬
‪@mountainrangifer.bsky.social‬
Everywhere except Israel?

Salmon
@spamtongpayne.bsky.social‬
everywhere including palestine

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 18h

Given my post history I get a surprisingly small amount of abuse like this. I've spoken to women and Muslim colleagues who have it much, much worse. But I'm mentioning it now because it's increasingly from anti-Trump liberal accounts. We can't defeat fascism at home while supporting genocide abroad.

Screenshot of DM conversation between @ahtsah.bsky.social and @nposegay.bsky.social:

Atsa
You're an idiot.
Also FYI: [2 links to Cambridge University Press publications]
3:47 AM

NPosegay
Is this about my general idiocy or are you referring to a specific instance?
6:48 PM

Atsa
I like that you blocked me and then unblocked me to ask a question to which you already know the answer.

NPosegay
I did unblock you because I saw this message but don't remember what I said that might make you call me an idiot. Can you link the post please?

Ohhhh I see now. thank you

Atsa
Your entire attempt to justify the destruction of Israel and its right to exist as a nation-state is pure antisemitism.

You’re an idiot, because you think wrapping yourself in academia hides the intent behind your words.

Am Yisrael Chai

NPosegay
I'm sorry you feel that way
But thanks for letting me know

[You have blocked this user]

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 19h

Exactly. Our state-controlled fascistic security forces who specialise in intimidation and wanton violence should be out there arresting our state-controlled fascistic security forces who specialise in wanton violence and intimidation.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 19h

And this too? bsky.app/profile/reli...

James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 19h

In case you had doubts that Turning Point is a Christian Nationalist organization

newrepublic.com/post/201664/...

Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy’s Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism

Event attendees asked Ramaswamy why he felt he could be the governor of Ohio even though he isn’t Christian.

newrepublic.com

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 20h

Scahill’s been relentless on this, and I admire and thank him for the clarity he’s brought to discussions of the media narrative on the Palestinian liberation struggle.

More people need to absorb and reiterate this. Watch. 👇🏼

Bravo @dropsitenews.com and @jeremyscahill.com

why’s no one asking if Israel will disarm?

YouTube video by HasanAbi

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 23h

The IDF is supposed to withdraw in three phases. This is Phase I, where they retain control of 58% of Gaza. Critically, even Phase III formalises Israeli control of a portion of Gaza, including all of Rafah and the border crossing with Egypt.

The January ceasefire never made it past Phase I.

Al Jazeera-produced map of the first IDF withdrawal zone for the Gaza ceasefire. Palestinian-controlled land is shown in white and IDF-control is shown in yellow. The yellow areas include the following areas listed in a box on the side of the map: Beit Lahiya; Beit Hanoon; Parts of Gaza City's Shujayea, Tuffah, and Zeitoun; more than half of Khan Younis; nearly all of Rafah; all crossings in and out of Gaza. A large caption in the top left reads: "Israel retains control of 58% of the Gaza Strip"

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 23h

"Turn around or you're going to get the dog." The cruelty is the point.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

Did the UEFA ever have that vote?

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

#BREAKING | Israel is bombing in Southern Lebanon

Israeli occupation warplanes bombard Al‑Musaylih area heavily in southern Lebanon.

More than Ten Israeli airstrikes hit the outskirts of Tebnine town in southern Lebanon.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

Aren't the "heads of the organizations that pursue the fighters" basically just European human rights lawyers? Is he advocating for Israel to assassinate the people running the Hind Rajab Foundation?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

is this what people on the right side of history say

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

Someone blocked me for saying capitalisation in French book titles isn't that important

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

It's genuinely shocking how little of Rafah is left. An ancient city that had a pre-war population of ~200k, forced to take over 1,000,000 refugees from Gaza City and Khan Younis, then completely levelled for the crime of being the only city in Gaza with an escape route.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d

This is a GENOCIDE

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

To what extent do you think Trump's decision making here was actually influenced by protests?

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

Simplest way to the disarm the "right to exist" rhetorical trap. It's not complicated.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 2d

Bluesky is so weird. Just found someone denying genoc*de while also saying "we are all antifa." The list of these accounts grows daily.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 2d

When we had the 100-day Palestine Solidarity Encampment in Cambridge, every Saturday afternoon, there was a pro-Ukraine protest on the other end of the street. Both actions would be illegal under this change.

Protests 'recur' because the government does not listen. That's the whole point.

Chris Guiton @chrisguiton.bsky.social · 2d

'The escalating crackdowns under Starmer’s Labour expose not only its authoritarian instincts but also its political weakness. It is scrambling to shut down every avenue of opposition because it knows its agenda lacks legitimacy and popular support.'
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/labo...

Labour’s War on Protest

Labour’s plan to criminalise recurring protests strikes at the heart of democratic life, transforming political freedom into a privilege granted by the state.

tribunemag.co.uk

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 2d

Ah the UK, home of the free, land of where you have free speech unless you say the same thing every weekend.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 2d

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 2d

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 2d

Too bad MBAs sap their hosts of the ability to answer those questions

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 2d

Yep if a 12-year-old black kid gets killed or commits a crime that's a young man, but if a 19-year-old white soldier gets captured in war that's a teenage girl.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps. South Africa still exists. The end of the state of Israel as we know it, certainly, but Israelis still have a right to exist. Israel could end the occupation, give everyone in the WB/Gaza/East Jerusalem full citzenship and right of return, then continue as some kind of pluralistic democracy

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 2d

The last one lasted eight 🤷
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ga...

2025 Gaza war ceasefire - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org