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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · 1d

Friends! I'll be walking in a 5K UNRWA fundraiser on Sunday in support of Palestinian refugees - in honor of my mom Betty, who's turning 97 in a few days. Please donate what you can and share with others. Thanks! getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

2025 NYC Gaza 5K

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · 2d

jacobin.com/2025/10/pale... So much wisdom in this conversation: "without focusing on that broader working-class agenda & without focusing on winning over people who don’t already agree with you ... how [will you] build enough power to... change US policy toward Israel and the Middle East”

Ultraleftism Can’t Free Palestine

Two years into Israel’s genocide, the US movement in solidarity with Palestinians is far weaker than it should be. To cut off American arms to Israel, we need to build a powerful movement oriented to ...

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · 15d

Hey Americans: These ICE maniacs, who clearly need lifetimes of therapy for whatever propels them into such brutality, are not staying focused on brown people and Palestinians and noncitizens forever.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 16d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · 22d

For anyone interested in Palestine, Palestinians, and the madness that is Germany, I highly recommend this essay by Sarah El Bulbeisi www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From Silence to Resistance: Second-Generation Palestinians in Germany

Germany, home to Europe’s largest Palestinian community, excludes Israeli state violence from public discourse. Although the ongoing Nakba—the systematic and continuing forced displacement of Pales...

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Jul 24

"No, the New York Times is not committing journalism."
"No, the New York Times is not committing to truth."
What Bret Stephens meant to say.

Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Jul 18

because none of us is free until Palestinians are free. 4/4

Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Jul 18

from across lines of difference and ignorance into shared refusal of human destruction-a moral act in these immoral times. An act of solidarity with Palestine and Palestinians, and with each other, a means to enhancing our efforts at building a more just world 3/4

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Jul 18

of our tools (facts, words, narratives) of our audiences, and impacts. Contributors to this issue assert the importance of continuing our efforts to witness and denounce, to analyze and explain, to encourage boycott and to unionize. It brings together people 2/4

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Jul 18

Public Anthropologist issue on Israel's genocide of Palestinians is now open access until October: brill.com/view/journal... (I co-edited with Heidi Mogstad). It's reflections on what anthropologists can contribute to public education about the genocide in Gaza, and the limitations 1/4

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Jul 17

Novel analysis of Egypt - now available for readers of Arabic

Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social · Jul 17

دراستي الجديدة: إعادة تحديدٍ جذرية للعقد الاجتماعي، إنتاج شكلٍ جديد من رأسمالية الدولة، وتكريس سلطاتٍ رئاسية موسّعة في إطار الوصاية العسكرية الناشئة:

‏الجمهورية الثانية: إعادة تشكيل مصر في عهد عبد الفتاح السيسي | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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الجمهورية الثانية: إعادة تشكيل مصر في عهد عبد الفتاح السيسي

الرئيس المصري عبد الفتاح السيسي في صدد بناء جمهورية جديدة تستند إلى مبدأ "مفيش حاجة ببلاش"، وشكلٍ جديدٍ من رأسمالية الدولة، فضلًا عن صلاحيات رئاسية فائقة في إطار وصاية عسكرية تضمن تماسك النظام إلّا أن...

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Jul 8

Of possible interest, esp. if you're planning a trip to Paris by November: my review essay on an exhibit, “Treasures rescued from Gaza – 5000 years of history”, at the Arab World Institute
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What Treasures of Gaza We Save

While Palestinians are made invisible by Israel and its Western allies, the The Arab World Institute’s special exhibit, “Treasures rescued from Gaza - 5000 (…)

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Jun 21

A little victory in London - Lockheed can eff right off: novaramedia.com/2025/06/19/a...

A Group of Musicians Took on an Arms Company – And Won | Novara Media

London music venue Kings Place quietly cut a Lockheed Martin-sponsored event after performers began cancelling shows. Maybe there’s hope for this world after all, writes Simon Childs.

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Jun 21

Our editors' introduction, "Naming the Unfathomable," and more is open access. brill.com/view/journal... 3/3

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Jun 21

Read anthropologists' efforts to grapple with how to name, analyze, mourn, and condemn what Israel and its supporters are doing to Palestinians and Palestine. There's art by Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, poetry, satire by the Allegra Collective, and more: brill.com/view/journal... 2/3

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Jun 21

"Speaking Out Against Genocide and Repression," a special issue of Public Anthropologist edited by Heidi Mogstad and me is out brill.com/view/journal... 1/3

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · May 26

No arts venue should hostarms dealers. Yet Kings Place is planning to host a ‘Defence In Space’ conference in October, sponsored by Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin make F-35 fighter planes for the Israeli military, who are using them to bomb civilians in Gaza.

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · May 26

Join us in condemning Kings Place’s morally bankrupt decision to host this arms conference by adding your name to this growing list of artists and audiences of conscience.

Genocide cannot become “business as usual”.

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Open letter to Kings Place about hosting arms manufacturer-sponsored Defence in Space conference

#KingsPlaceUnwrapped We call upon Kings Place and its commercial arm, Green & Fortune, to cancel the Lockheed Martin-sponsored arms-industry conference, Defence In Space, on October 28th and 29th, 20...

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · May 20

So salient for today: we've "no longer enough gatekeepers willing to host cantankerous debate and accept contestation in good faith in the manner that those precursors once did...a calamitous hindrance to their struggle."

Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · May 20

Yezid Sayigh's review of a history of the PLO research center. carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

On Reading Herzl in Beirut

Or how the absence of insights about the Israeli “other” is a hindrance for the Palestinian liberation struggle.

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Mar 26

Prof. Khalidi: "Columbia barely merits the name of a university, since its teaching & scholarship on the Middle East, & soon much else, will...be vetted by a “senior vice provost for inclusive pedagogy”, in reality a senior vice provost for Israeli propaganda." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi

Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Mar 19

We refuse to accept the normalisation of Palestinian deaths. End arms sales to Israel, now.

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Mar 12

A few (8) members of Congress who still care about the constitution. Wonders never cease.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · Mar 11

Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife.

Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped.

We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · Mar 10

🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE

Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.

We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

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Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social · Mar 6

Ajantha Subramanian and I talk w/ John Plotz about our chats w/ Peter Beinart and Subir Sinha in the roundup episode of Violent Majorities. recallthisbook.org/2025/03/06/1... We ask: Will the ominously successful assimilation of Zionism into American right-wing politics start working for Hindutva?

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Mar 5

Labour could tax the super-rich to end poverty, build social housing and fix our NHS.

They are choosing to go after the worst-off instead.

For a while, many people didn’t know what this government stood for. They do now: tough choices for the poor, endless money for war.

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