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Dana El Kurd
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Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Profile by Molly Crabapple • Header my grandfather's publications danaelkurd.com to contact
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · Nov 14
Wow so many new people following. Maybe I need a real intro:

Hi I'm from Jerusalem & work on Palestine, authoritarianism, and US intervention in the Arab world. I'm a professor and a senior nonresident fellow at the Arab Center Washington.

I'll link a few essays, podcasts, & presentations below
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6h
doomscroll break
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 1h
This is america
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h
#WarRavagedPortland
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 11h
Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15h
BREAKING: Israeli forces have opened fire on a young Palestinian man near Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, reports our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/72upo8
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15h
⚠️ In the last two years, the United States has supplied $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel.

$21.7 BILLION.

responsiblestatecraft.org/us-aid-israe...
$21.7 billion in US military aid has fueled Israel's war on Gaza
A new report shows how American support has been essential to what many experts are now calling a genocide
responsiblestatecraft.org
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid
The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid
Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed
www.theguardian.com
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 17h
Grieving for all the lives taken. I dont know what we look like as a society when this is over
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h
NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.
EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel
The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 20h
I spoke with El Tiempo on the 2 year anniversary of the war

www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-...
El abismo entre palestinos e israelíes se acentúa tras dos años de guerra en Gaza
El conflicto más mortífero de la historia reciente de Oriente Medio deja una devastación humanitaria sin precedentes.
www.eltiempo.com
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 23h
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d
Aww is Weird Stephen mad?

Don't put in the paper that AOC made Weird Stephen mad.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d
Stephen Miller responding to AOC calling Miller a clown and saying he is angry that he is 4’10”: We knew her brain didn't work—now we know their eyes don't work.
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 23h
The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 1d
"They made it clear that our government's normalisation meant nothing. To them, we were still enemies."
Flotilla’s Maghreb activists say Israel specifically abused them
"They made it clear that our government’s normalisation meant nothing. To them, we were still enemies," said one Moroccan Flotilla activist.
www.newarab.com
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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 1d
It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.
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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 1d
U.S. political scientists, are any of your depts *not* admitting new PhD students this year (esp. for international applicants)?

I'm gathering info to help students know where to reconsider applying. Applications are not cheap and they're despairing. Appreciate any details.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d
What Trump is doing here in failing to defend David Adler is a threat to Jewish safety because Trump is saying Jewish safety is conditional on agreeing with him.

Too many obsess over students wearing keffiyehs when basic rights are being taken away.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 1d
2 years. Everything fell apart.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 1d
Lest we forget!
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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 1d
For the children
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d
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."
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d
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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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 1d
Cool cool cool

The American dream of failing upward is still possible for some people!!
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 2d
"Ms. Weiss said that her new role at CBS News would allow her to work on programs like “60 Minutes” and “CBS Sunday Morning” that are 'shaping how millions of Americans read, listen, watch, and, most importantly, understand the news.'"

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News
www.nytimes.com
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 2d
Woa cool!
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Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial) @teaonews.bsky.social · 2d
The whānau of the three New Zealand citizens, who were illegally taken by Israel, spoke to media this morning.
Whānau of three kiwi detained in Israel speak out in emotional address
The whānau of the three New Zealand citizens, who were illegally taken by Israel, spoke to media this morning.
www.teaonews.co.nz
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donnadeka.bsky.social @donnadeka.bsky.social · 3d
“Judge Diane Goodstein is known for her recent ruling that blocked the Trump regime from accessing all sensitive information about South Carolina voters.”

www.live5news.com/2025/10/05/3...
3 hospitalized following reported Edisto Beach fire, SLED investigating
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating a house fire that hospitalized three people Saturday afternoon.
www.live5news.com
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 2d
Our academic freedom committee on how Cornell egregiously violated its own rules in discipling Prof Cheyfitz and cancelling his class on Gaza
GUEST ROOM | Cornell’s Actions Against Professor Cheyfitz Violate Academic Freedom, Faculty Governance and Due Process
The Cornell AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom writes against Provost Kavita Bala's non-compliance with a unanimous Faculty Senate decision vindicating Prof. Eric Cheyfitz of alleged discrimination in...
www.cornellsun.com
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