Nick Posegay
@nposegay.bsky.social
Itinerant scholar, ex- @theul.bsky.social | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | he/him | Publications: linktr.ee/NPosegay
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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.
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Jesus christ this question. For shame.
Malley and Daniel Levy (who I think is a British Israeli?) are the only Westerners who seem to have actually learned anything from having been involved in the peace process themselves as negotiators.
![In a discussion at Harvard, host Tarek Masoud asked former U.S. diplomat and longtime Middle East peace negotiator Rob Malley [
@Rob_Malley
] why Americans should “invest in the Palestinian cause” when Palestinians reject what Masoud called the only “realistic” outcomes available under Israel’s overwhelming power.
Malley responded that weakness does not create an obligation to “surrender,” saying “dignity, pride [and] national self-determination matter. You don’t simply say we’re weaker, therefore we’re going to give everything up.”
Under the logic Masoud proposed, Malley pointed out, “the Israelis could say: we’re going to give you 10% of the West Bank, you’re going to live in Bantustans… and why shouldn’t the Palestinians accept it?”
Malley, who took part in negotiations in the 1990s and early 2000s, said the U.S. peace team “was not that diverse in terms of understanding why a Palestinian may not react as enthusiastically to what some people call a ‘generous’ offer.”
He said decades of talks were shaped by a “major discrepancy of narratives”: “The Israelis believe that the original sin was Palestinian rejection of ’48. The Palestinians think it was the partition plan which took away the majority of their land.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vlpy6zuqqum5tumv7b6dw5fp/bafkreibgsay7mhsuv2miolitb5ez7vghp6lek74kvqjmb6oof527oouvrq@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Jesus christ this question. For shame.
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Malley and Daniel Levy (who I think is a British Israeli?) are the only Westerners who seem to have actually learned anything from having been involved in the peace process themselves as negotiators.
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Malley and Daniel Levy (who I think is a British Israeli?) are the only Westerners who seem to have actually learned anything from having been involved in the peace process themselves as negotiators.
I knew about this story before, but this video has a lot of details and context of the Israeli prison system I was unaware of www.youtube.com/watch?v=DujF...
The Six Men that Humiliated Israel
YouTube video by uncivilized
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I knew about this story before, but this video has a lot of details and context of the Israeli prison system I was unaware of www.youtube.com/watch?v=DujF...
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"Israel and other governments committed ecocide in Gaza."
"[A]t least 97% of Gaza's trees, 95% of its shrubland, and 82% of its annual crops have been destroyed."
"Ecocide is committed to guarantee the objective of genocide."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Climate #Food #Water #Genocide #Courts
"[A]t least 97% of Gaza's trees, 95% of its shrubland, and 82% of its annual crops have been destroyed."
"Ecocide is committed to guarantee the objective of genocide."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Climate #Food #Water #Genocide #Courts
Prosecutors at International Tribunal on Palestine Accuse Israel of Ecocide
Prosecutors at the International People's Tribunal on Palestine decried Israel's destruction of farms and water sources.
truthout.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.
🐦🔎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 12:42 PM
When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.
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I adore miniminuteman and his efforts as a science/history communicator, fighting the tide of bullshit out there. But he left one important note out of his vid on the "mystery" out the Roanoke colony.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDl5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDl5...
America's Atlantis: The "Lost" Colony of Roanoke
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I adore miniminuteman and his efforts as a science/history communicator, fighting the tide of bullshit out there. But he left one important note out of his vid on the "mystery" out the Roanoke colony.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDl5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDl5...
I am too young to remember this - did politicians publicly declare that CAIR was a FTO in the aftermath of 9/11?
"Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a 'threat to our freedom' on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label."
"[S]tates do not have the authority to make such a designation."
#Texas #USA #Israel #Palestine #Courts
"[S]tates do not have the authority to make such a designation."
#Texas #USA #Israel #Palestine #Courts
Abbott Says Muslims Are "Threat to Our Freedom" as He Targets Civil Rights Group With Terrorist Designation
Governors do not have the authority to designate groups as a foreign terrorist organization.
truthout.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I am too young to remember this - did politicians publicly declare that CAIR was a FTO in the aftermath of 9/11?
The Lebanese-government-run Lebanese Ministry of Health says 11 killed and 4 wounded. Just one of several Israeli bombings in Lebanon today.
Israel just hit the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Ain al Hilweh, with missiles.
It’s a dense camp with the presence of many Palestinian factions but also many civilians.
It’s a dense camp with the presence of many Palestinian factions but also many civilians.
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The Lebanese-government-run Lebanese Ministry of Health says 11 killed and 4 wounded. Just one of several Israeli bombings in Lebanon today.
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In a clearly anticonstituional move, the University of Munich @lmumuenchen.bsky.social have just cancelled a series of lectures titled „The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia“ after pressure from righ-wing groups. Germany prides itself on academic freedon, till it comes to Palestine.
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
In a clearly anticonstituional move, the University of Munich @lmumuenchen.bsky.social have just cancelled a series of lectures titled „The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia“ after pressure from righ-wing groups. Germany prides itself on academic freedon, till it comes to Palestine.
Hey @jacculturelmu.bsky.social, this is part of your faculty, right? What happened?
The @lmumuenchen.bsky.social cancels a seminar titled "the Targeting of the Palestinian Academia". They claim that there were "doubts this event's academic standard would be acceptable".
This is outrageous. Yet again, a German university silences Palestinian academics
www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
This is outrageous. Yet again, a German university silences Palestinian academics
www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
Die LMU als Ort des pluralistischen Diskurses
Stellungnahme zur geplanten Veranstaltung „The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia“ an der LMU München
www.lmu.de
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Hey @jacculturelmu.bsky.social, this is part of your faculty, right? What happened?
If these children would just release the hostages that were already released then this would all be over.
Video shows injured Palestinian children being rushed to hospital after Israeli drones attacked the Al-Daraj School in Gaza, hitting people sheltering in tents inside the school compound.
November 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
If these children would just release the hostages that were already released then this would all be over.
Totally normal democracy. The only one in the region.
Israel’s Ben-Gvir urges killing PA officials if UN backs Palestinian state flip.it/ZCt2CA
Israel’s Ben-Gvir urges killing PA officials if UN backs Palestinian state
Key Israeli minister say Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas should also be jailed if Palestinian statehood advances.
flip.it
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Totally normal democracy. The only one in the region.
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💭 Samira Mohyeddin:
This is the same client in your video?
💭 Israeli Lawyer Ben Marmarelli:
It’s my only client.
💭 Samira Mohyeddin:
So that same client is being brutalized in the way you described every time you go to see him?
💭 Israeli Lawyer Ben Marmarelli:
Yes. And I want to say something...
This is the same client in your video?
💭 Israeli Lawyer Ben Marmarelli:
It’s my only client.
💭 Samira Mohyeddin:
So that same client is being brutalized in the way you described every time you go to see him?
💭 Israeli Lawyer Ben Marmarelli:
Yes. And I want to say something...
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
💭 Samira Mohyeddin:
This is the same client in your video?
💭 Israeli Lawyer Ben Marmarelli:
It’s my only client.
💭 Samira Mohyeddin:
So that same client is being brutalized in the way you described every time you go to see him?
💭 Israeli Lawyer Ben Marmarelli:
Yes. And I want to say something...
This is the same client in your video?
💭 Israeli Lawyer Ben Marmarelli:
It’s my only client.
💭 Samira Mohyeddin:
So that same client is being brutalized in the way you described every time you go to see him?
💭 Israeli Lawyer Ben Marmarelli:
Yes. And I want to say something...
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UNIFIL: “This morning, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fired on UNIFIL peacekeepers from a Merkava tank from near a position Israel has established in Lebanese territory.
Heavy machine gun rounds hit approximately five meters from the peacekeepers, who were on foot and had to take shelter...
Heavy machine gun rounds hit approximately five meters from the peacekeepers, who were on foot and had to take shelter...
November 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
UNIFIL: “This morning, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fired on UNIFIL peacekeepers from a Merkava tank from near a position Israel has established in Lebanese territory.
Heavy machine gun rounds hit approximately five meters from the peacekeepers, who were on foot and had to take shelter...
Heavy machine gun rounds hit approximately five meters from the peacekeepers, who were on foot and had to take shelter...
Ah so 840 according to the Hijri calendar, 1748 in the Era of Documents, 540 before the Battle of Yavin, and 5197 since the Creation of the world.
I like when we get to ask "what year does this guy think it is?"
This scribe finished this book on February 12, 1436. But he was on Cyprus, which used the Venetian calendar, where the new year started on March 1. So if we convert to a year starting on January 1, it was actually 1437.
This scribe finished this book on February 12, 1436. But he was on Cyprus, which used the Venetian calendar, where the new year started on March 1. So if we convert to a year starting on January 1, it was actually 1437.
November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ah so 840 according to the Hijri calendar, 1748 in the Era of Documents, 540 before the Battle of Yavin, and 5197 since the Creation of the world.
Breaking this down from Israel's defense minister today:
"IDF will remain at the peak of Mount Hermon" = Mt Hermon is between Lebanon and Syria
"and in the security zone" = i.e. the demilitarised UN zone in Syria, which Israel invaded
"Hamas will be disarmed in the yellow line *by the IDF*" =
"IDF will remain at the peak of Mount Hermon" = Mt Hermon is between Lebanon and Syria
"and in the security zone" = i.e. the demilitarised UN zone in Syria, which Israel invaded
"Hamas will be disarmed in the yellow line *by the IDF*" =
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Breaking this down from Israel's defense minister today:
"IDF will remain at the peak of Mount Hermon" = Mt Hermon is between Lebanon and Syria
"and in the security zone" = i.e. the demilitarised UN zone in Syria, which Israel invaded
"Hamas will be disarmed in the yellow line *by the IDF*" =
"IDF will remain at the peak of Mount Hermon" = Mt Hermon is between Lebanon and Syria
"and in the security zone" = i.e. the demilitarised UN zone in Syria, which Israel invaded
"Hamas will be disarmed in the yellow line *by the IDF*" =
I wonder why this keeps happening
BREAKING: The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says Israeli soldiers have fired at its peacekeepers from a tank near an army position in southern Lebanon.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/bbojcn
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/bbojcn
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I wonder why this keeps happening
The IDF damaged or destroyed ~90% of homes in Gaza. Over a million people are internally displaced. This was part of the plan.
#WATCH | Displacement is recurring in Gaza, but this time it’s caused by the rain that has flooded the tents of the displaced.
(Osama Abu Rabee)
(Osama Abu Rabee)
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The IDF damaged or destroyed ~90% of homes in Gaza. Over a million people are internally displaced. This was part of the plan.
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I see no path forward between what people are saying they want and the Democratic party as currently constituted. No path.
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I see no path forward between what people are saying they want and the Democratic party as currently constituted. No path.
Report: occupiers poison water supply
Comments: okay but it's not like it was 'genocidal' poison
Comments: okay but it's not like it was 'genocidal' poison
Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in 5 years, data reveals. Armed forces & settlers used bombs, dogs, poison & machinery to attack people & infrastructure. It's "an important part of a genocidal strategy" says Pedro Arrojo-Agudo
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals
Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Report: occupiers poison water supply
Comments: okay but it's not like it was 'genocidal' poison
Comments: okay but it's not like it was 'genocidal' poison
Biden got no "credit" for reducing US drone strikes because he was still supplying a genocidal force (with drones!) and bombing the crap out of Yemen. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
"Well, when you say 'working,' are [the airstrikes] stopping the Houthis? No," he said. "Are they gonna continue? Yes."
"Well, when you say 'working,' are [the airstrikes] stopping the Houthis? No," he said. "Are they gonna continue? Yes."
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Biden got no "credit" for reducing US drone strikes because he was still supplying a genocidal force (with drones!) and bombing the crap out of Yemen. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
"Well, when you say 'working,' are [the airstrikes] stopping the Houthis? No," he said. "Are they gonna continue? Yes."
"Well, when you say 'working,' are [the airstrikes] stopping the Houthis? No," he said. "Are they gonna continue? Yes."
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@support.bsky.team is this creating a safer alternative to Twitter? Are you happy with the regime threatening people like this on your website? Meanwhile, anyone who says something vaguely mean about Charlie Kirk or who is Palestinian and wants to raise funds gets kicked off?
this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
@support.bsky.team is this creating a safer alternative to Twitter? Are you happy with the regime threatening people like this on your website? Meanwhile, anyone who says something vaguely mean about Charlie Kirk or who is Palestinian and wants to raise funds gets kicked off?
It was no coincidence that the first people this admin snatched off the street were Palestinian student activists. Universities had already decided, under the previous president, that those students weren't worth fighting for. The debate became about whether or not they deserved to be kidnapped.
I hate to be a broken record, but this is exactly what happened with Gaza. Palestine was the trial run for institutional capitulation. Some faculty self-censored, some spoke out, some lost their jobs. Universities showed they were willing to crack down on speech, and they're primed to do it again.
As the DEI Crackdown Escalates, Faculty Choose Between Silence and Resistance
While one professor says faculty are “pre-emptively censoring themselves” in response, others are defiant—while another is asking himself, “What would I be willing to lose my job for?” #HigherEd #EDUSky bit.ly/413XhLP
While one professor says faculty are “pre-emptively censoring themselves” in response, others are defiant—while another is asking himself, “What would I be willing to lose my job for?” #HigherEd #EDUSky bit.ly/413XhLP
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
It was no coincidence that the first people this admin snatched off the street were Palestinian student activists. Universities had already decided, under the previous president, that those students weren't worth fighting for. The debate became about whether or not they deserved to be kidnapped.
I hate to be a broken record, but this is exactly what happened with Gaza. Palestine was the trial run for institutional capitulation. Some faculty self-censored, some spoke out, some lost their jobs. Universities showed they were willing to crack down on speech, and they're primed to do it again.
As the DEI Crackdown Escalates, Faculty Choose Between Silence and Resistance
While one professor says faculty are “pre-emptively censoring themselves” in response, others are defiant—while another is asking himself, “What would I be willing to lose my job for?” #HigherEd #EDUSky bit.ly/413XhLP
While one professor says faculty are “pre-emptively censoring themselves” in response, others are defiant—while another is asking himself, “What would I be willing to lose my job for?” #HigherEd #EDUSky bit.ly/413XhLP
Trump attacks DEI; faculty pick between silence, resistance
While one professor says faculty are “pre-emptively censoring themselves” in response, others are defiant—while another is asking himself, “What would I be willing to lose my job for?”
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I hate to be a broken record, but this is exactly what happened with Gaza. Palestine was the trial run for institutional capitulation. Some faculty self-censored, some spoke out, some lost their jobs. Universities showed they were willing to crack down on speech, and they're primed to do it again.
"Her writing about Jewish identity influenced later Jewish thought leaders, while many of her poems are easily read as alluding to a same-sex attraction painfully frustrated by the current social mores, and foreseeing a future where such love was permissible."
She committed suicide at 27.
She committed suicide at 27.
The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Her writing about Jewish identity influenced later Jewish thought leaders, while many of her poems are easily read as alluding to a same-sex attraction painfully frustrated by the current social mores, and foreseeing a future where such love was permissible."
She committed suicide at 27.
She committed suicide at 27.