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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 4d

Criticism of biased media coverage of Gaza is often discarded as baseless..

so we set out to study the coverage of Palestinian and Israeli victims by German press systematically!

The resulting study 'Hierarchies in Death' was just published #OA by Peacebuilding www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 10h

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 1d

www.context.news/socioeconomi...

Aid after Gaza: what is the future of the humanitarian system? | Context by TRF

International charities say Israel is weaponising new model of privatised, militarised aid to further war aims

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 2d

Haha, that made me laugh. What resilient people you must be! May your mother's memory be a blessing.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 2d

I just almost described something as a "temporal clock" so I think it's almost time to stop writing for tonight.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 2d

"Was my father alive last year? Last month? Did he know we were searching for him? Did he die alone? Did anyone speak his name in those final moments? These questions eat away at me. They stop me from letting him go and they stop me from living." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The families of Syria’s disappeared are asking for the truth. Our country cannot rebuild until we have it | Wafa Mustafa

Over 160,000 people, including my father, were abducted by the Assad regime. The country’s new commission for the missing must be inclusive and independent to restore our trust

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 2d

Many thanks to Mohamed Ghumrawi for this thorough and generous review of my book in the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/340/arti...

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 3d

Important new piece by Jo Kelcey and Anne Irfan: academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Rescuing the UNRWA Archive: Saving Palestinian History amidst the Gaza Genocide

Abstract. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has entailed extensive attacks on Palestinian heritage and history, including institutional archives which preserve his

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 3d

Photo essay from Yarmouk: jewishcurrents.org/returning-to...

Returning to Yarmouk

After the end of a 14-year civil war, residents are making their way back to the heart of Palestinian life in Syria.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 5d

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 5d

“CNN has reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration for comment on the incident, however it’s not clear if they will immediately respond due to the government shutdown.”

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 6d

If you’re going to try to slice my plane in half with the wing of another one of your airplanes I’m going to need that to be a Four Seasons.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 6d

“The flight from Charlotte had 57 passengers onboard and the flight to Roanoke had 28 passengers, according to Delta. They were taken to the terminal by bus and were offered hotel room and meals.“ Super thoughtful www.accuweather.com/en/travel/2-...

2 regional Delta jets collide at LaGuardia airport with a wing slamming into a cockpit window

Both aircraft involved in the “low-speed collision” were CRJ-900 regional jets operated by regional carrier Endeavor Air, according to a statement from Delta.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t think I got selected for the VISA World Cup ticket draw. But I did get an email from FIFA encouraging me to get a “Right to Buy” pass, which seems like something separate…?

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 8d

Missed this when it came out, but man, what an essay. Ismail Ibrahim on his experience as the only Arab doing fact checking at the New Yorker after 10/7. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

House Arab

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 8d

When you enter your one-time authentication code just before it does the 30-second refresh

a man with a beard is smiling and wearing a hat

ALT: a man with a beard is smiling and wearing a hat

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 9d

Israeli politicians have often admitted Palestinians have the "right" to administer themselves - repair their own roads and sidewalks, license their own businesses, distribute their own (artificially scarce) water and electricity, deal with their own sewage. That is not the same as self-rule.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 9d

Is this the "map"?

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 9d

Where do you see recognition that Palestinians “deserve to rule themselves”?

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 9d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

Here Is the Full Text of the Gaza Plan Released by the White House

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 9d

Is this what all of his press conferences are like, holy hell

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 9d

I'm sure with enough technocrats it will all be sorted

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 9d

Cool essay by Choon Hwee Koh that uses the long-term transformation of the Ottoman state to distinguish conceptually between state decentralization (which is often recruited into theories of imperial decline) from the proliferation of intermediaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Quandary of Proliferating Intermediaries: Ottoman State Formation Beyond the De/Centralization Impasse | International Journal of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core

The Quandary of Proliferating Intermediaries: Ottoman State Formation Beyond the De/Centralization Impasse - Volume 57 Issue 1

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 11d

Is there a way to fully defect from your school's LMS without running into FERPA problems? I hate all LMSs

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