(Mar)Chella Ward
@luxmea.bsky.social
Open University Classical Studies lecturer. Recovering Oxford don. Critical Ancient World Studies person. Podcast host @ Radio ReOrient. Children’s author by night.🌙 🍉She/her. Writing a 📗 on the Islamophobia of Classicism.
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(Mar)Chella Ward
@luxmea.bsky.social
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How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine - Volume 1
www.cambridge.org
I have a new article out today in Public Humanities, where I try to find some words for how historicide is (and has always been) a project of European colonialism - and I try to find some words for the historians who continue to support it. 🇵🇸✊🏻
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In this week’s episode of Radio ReOrient from @reorient.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Hizer and I spoke to Sarah Bracke and Luis Aguilar about the long genealogy of racist conspiracy theories and the entanglement of Islamophobia and antisemitism in Europe’s racial project. 🎙️ 🌙
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
In this week’s episode of Radio ReOrient from @reorient.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Hizer and I spoke to Sarah Bracke and Luis Aguilar about the long genealogy of racist conspiracy theories and the entanglement of Islamophobia and antisemitism in Europe’s racial project. 🎙️ 🌙
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The American Studies Association was one of the first US academic institutions to approve by member vote the academic boycott of Israel. I was proud to vote “yes” on the resolution. The US ACBI guidelines are v clear usacbi.org/guidelines-f...
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The American Studies Association was one of the first US academic institutions to approve by member vote the academic boycott of Israel. I was proud to vote “yes” on the resolution. The US ACBI guidelines are v clear usacbi.org/guidelines-f...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Fifty, France??? Seriously?! Nothing says “our ethnonationalist fairy tale is real I promise!!!” like repeating it 50+ times… 🙈
*Opens up the BnF website with a sigh…*
*Opens up the BnF website with a sigh…*
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Fifty, France??? Seriously?! Nothing says “our ethnonationalist fairy tale is real I promise!!!” like repeating it 50+ times… 🙈
*Opens up the BnF website with a sigh…*
*Opens up the BnF website with a sigh…*
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November 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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KONSYSE: Israeli authorities have advanced a plan to seize about 1800 dunams of land around the Sebastia archaeological zone. Thousands of olive trees and land privately owned by Palestinians may be affected.
Israel Moves to Seize Major Archaeological Site in the West Bank — Konsyse
Sebastia, a site of biblical and Roman significance, is set for partial expropriation under Israeli plans.
www.konsyse.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
KONSYSE: Israeli authorities have advanced a plan to seize about 1800 dunams of land around the Sebastia archaeological zone. Thousands of olive trees and land privately owned by Palestinians may be affected.
Join us for our last event of Islamophobia Awareness Month at the @openuniversity.bsky.social with the brilliant @asimqureshi.bsky.social iA! All welcome, just email my colleague Amo (on the poster) to sign up. 🌙
November is Islamophobia Awareness Month in the UK and the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s Tackling Islamophobia Working Group have some events in store for you! 🌙 All welcome - please use the email on the poster to sign up.
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Join us for our last event of Islamophobia Awareness Month at the @openuniversity.bsky.social with the brilliant @asimqureshi.bsky.social iA! All welcome, just email my colleague Amo (on the poster) to sign up. 🌙
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November 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It’s Islamophobia Awareness Month at @reorient.bsky.social 🌙✊🏻
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
It’s Islamophobia Awareness Month at @reorient.bsky.social 🌙✊🏻
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November 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
UBC hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
This is indenture. It’s not a new suggestion for this disgusting little island, it’s a Great British value: it was how Britain dehumanised colonised people (especially Indo-Caribbean people but not only) for labour under empire.
Colonial dehumanisation then, colonial dehumanisation now. 🤢
Colonial dehumanisation then, colonial dehumanisation now. 🤢
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is indenture. It’s not a new suggestion for this disgusting little island, it’s a Great British value: it was how Britain dehumanised colonised people (especially Indo-Caribbean people but not only) for labour under empire.
Colonial dehumanisation then, colonial dehumanisation now. 🤢
Colonial dehumanisation then, colonial dehumanisation now. 🤢
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Le 18 novembre marque l'anniversaire d'une bataille décisive en Haïti, celle de #Vertières, qui vit les troupes haïtiennes l'emporter sur celles du représentant de Napoléon, le Général Rochambeau une-autre-histoire.org/vertieres/
Vertières - Une autre histoire
Le 18 novembre 1803, le général François Capois, un ancien esclave, écrasa à Vertières (Haïti) les forces françaises esclavagistes commandées par Rochambeau
une-autre-histoire.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Le 18 novembre marque l'anniversaire d'une bataille décisive en Haïti, celle de #Vertières, qui vit les troupes haïtiennes l'emporter sur celles du représentant de Napoléon, le Général Rochambeau une-autre-histoire.org/vertieres/
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November 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I really like this. I’ve yet to hear of something AI can do that I would want it to do, even if it was NOT destroying the planet and most of us to do it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I really like this. I’ve yet to hear of something AI can do that I would want it to do, even if it was NOT destroying the planet and most of us to do it.
Excited to see this book out today with a ‘Methodological Appendix’ (on D&G of course…) by me. Congrats to the editors and authors, and thanks for giving me space to go from a question I know how to answer (can D&G ‘decolonise’ reception?) to one I don’t (what do we do after post-structuralism?). 🥳
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Excited to see this book out today with a ‘Methodological Appendix’ (on D&G of course…) by me. Congrats to the editors and authors, and thanks for giving me space to go from a question I know how to answer (can D&G ‘decolonise’ reception?) to one I don’t (what do we do after post-structuralism?). 🥳
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November 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Palestinians have the right to consent to a government . “Guardianship” is indeed the imperial language por tutelage and protection. Apalling.
A Palestine occupied by Trump is not free. Zionism is a European colonial project. American imperialism is a European colonial project. This isn’t even a different occupier it’s the same occupier wearing a different hat.
🚨 In a rare English statement, Hamas rejected the newly adopted U.S.-drafted UN resolution on Gaza, saying it “does not meet” Palestinians’ political or humanitarian rights after two years of a brutal genocidal war.
Hamas said the plan imposes “international guardianship” on Gaza to achieve...
Hamas said the plan imposes “international guardianship” on Gaza to achieve...
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Palestinians have the right to consent to a government . “Guardianship” is indeed the imperial language por tutelage and protection. Apalling.
A Palestine occupied by Trump is not free. Zionism is a European colonial project. American imperialism is a European colonial project. This isn’t even a different occupier it’s the same occupier wearing a different hat.
🚨 In a rare English statement, Hamas rejected the newly adopted U.S.-drafted UN resolution on Gaza, saying it “does not meet” Palestinians’ political or humanitarian rights after two years of a brutal genocidal war.
Hamas said the plan imposes “international guardianship” on Gaza to achieve...
Hamas said the plan imposes “international guardianship” on Gaza to achieve...
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A Palestine occupied by Trump is not free. Zionism is a European colonial project. American imperialism is a European colonial project. This isn’t even a different occupier it’s the same occupier wearing a different hat.
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November 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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November 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Grateful for brave editors, for the brothers who read this before I submitted it and for my OU Classical Studies colleagues who are my secret island where no one would ever say this kind of careerist nonsense in a disciplinary ocean that is full of it 💚
“Chella stop writing on the complicity of Classics in the genocide of the Palestinians, you’ll ruin your career.”
“Chella your article on the complicity of Classics in the genocide of the Palestinians is in the top 10!”
Shall we just stop with the careerist nonsense now?! 🤷🏼♀️
“Chella your article on the complicity of Classics in the genocide of the Palestinians is in the top 10!”
Shall we just stop with the careerist nonsense now?! 🤷🏼♀️
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Grateful for brave editors, for the brothers who read this before I submitted it and for my OU Classical Studies colleagues who are my secret island where no one would ever say this kind of careerist nonsense in a disciplinary ocean that is full of it 💚