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Maryam Jamshidi

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Law Prof. Interested in Intl law, national security, sanctions, & SWANA (aka the Middle East & North Africa).

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · Aug 23

My new piece for @mondoweiss.net. Those who only recognize the genocide of the Palestinian people when they starve adopt a dehumanizing logic /n bsky.app/profile/harm...

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Aug 23

"Palestinian life remains bifurcated into these two categories—terrorist and victim—separating those who may be eradicated from those who should be protected, making starvation outrageous but the bombing of civilians insufficiently genocidal."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Why it took Palestinians starving for many to finally admit Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

Why has starvation been so crucial in getting some to finally admit Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, as compared to deadlier atrocities? The answer lies in the dehumanization of the Palestinian…

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 7h

Apropos of nothing Bluesky sucks

Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 7h

Can someone PLEASE explain to me Trump’s deluded obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize? Please. This is NOT NORMAL. Is it competition with Obama, the drone-president-in-chief? What’s the angle?

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 7h

If UNRWA isnt allowed in, there’s no helping Gaza at scale, at the speed & efficiency needed. Only UNRWA can deliver. It’s unclear UNRWA will be allowed in, given Israel’s war on the org & the US’s willingness to go along with that campaign. Support UNRWA. Don’t let the bullies win. www.unrwausa.org

UNRWA USA: Showing Palestine refugees that Americans care

UNRWA USA is an independent 501c3 nonprofit organization that provides support for the humanitarian work of the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) through advocacy, fundraising and e...

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 7h

This isnt an end to genocide. This isnt “peace.” This is the most hegemonic, coercive project stripping Palestinians of their most basic rts, inc their right to self-determination. Still, Palestinians need a reprieve. This must & should end. Still, this ending is coerced and unlawful under intl law

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 8h

Watching countries - & outlets like Al Jazeera English - fawn over Trump's "peace deal," which is little more than genocidal coercion, stripping Palestinians of their rt to self-determination is utterly disgusting. Palestinians had no choice. "Death or _" is not a defensible negotiating tactic.

Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 1d

The work is just beginning.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2d

This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world.

Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free.

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On Parenthood and Genocide

A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss "is a self-described 'Zionist fanatic.' The idea that a 'neutral media organization' is led by someone who has a long history as a pro-Israel ideologue...is really worrying. I think there will be a lot more censorship of Palestinian voices." - me to Piers Morgan about CBS News and Weiss:

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 1d

“Do not forget Gaza . . . And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance” - Anas al-Sharif

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 1d

Video of Anas announcing the ceasefire in January www.instagram.com/stories/jenz...

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif announcing the last ceasefire in January 2025. He was an icon and a hero. Israel assassinated him in August - one of over 300 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in the last 2 years. May god bless his soul. May he be announcing this ceasefire in heaven.

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 1d

If this ceasefire proceeds according to the 20-pt Trump/Netanyahu plan, it will be a new British Mandate - with war criminal Tony Blair at the helm - with intl actors, esp Israel, controlling everything that happens in Gaza. This is not a peace deal. It is subjugation coerced through genocide.

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 1d

No public text yet apparently, she notes to herself and herself alone, 🦗

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 1d

The emperor is stark raving naked

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a text of this “ceasefire” deal anyone has seen??

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to believe the genocide is over - there have been ceasefires before all of which Israel has broken - and it will certainly continue thru the starvation and disease Israel has unleashed. But looks like there’s a ceasefire now

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 2d

2 years of genocide

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 3d

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

NPR @npr.org · 3d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Is the irony of the president’s friend buying something called “the free press” and immediately installing a government truth compliance officer lost on everybody?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Breaking News: Paramount is buying The Free Press for $150 million and appointing Bari Weiss, the news site's co-founder, as the editor in chief of CBS News. nyti.ms/4gUnu5D

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

The only thing anyone needs to know about Bari Weiss is that she first came to national attention trying to get a Middle East Studies professor at Columbia fired for anti-Israel views, and yet somehow huge amounts of the US media elite think she is committed to "free speech" and "heterodoxy."

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 3d

The NYT's Michael Grynbaum reported that this is the note that Bari Weiss sent to CBS News staffers this morning (1/2)

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 3d

Weiss continued to hone her skills as a pro-Israel journalist and “activist” after graduation through stints at various neo-conservative and pro-Israel outlets mondoweiss.net/2018/03/isra...

Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 3d

Her pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian perspective, which she came to college with, continued during and after university in a myriad of ways including through various stints in Israel proper, one of which involved doing a media fellowship mondoweiss.net/2018/03/isra...

Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 4d

Including the fact that the whole thing is styled as a reply to hate mail.....