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historians4palestine @history4palestine.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · Mar 22

NYC! Get your tix to THE ENCAMPMENTS – released early to meet, as Watermelon Pictures wrote, the "urgent need to challenge the misinformation surrounding Mahmoud [Khalil], the student movement, and all who feel the moral duty to stand against genocide."

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The Encampments still – the lawn of Columbia campus full of students, some holding Palestinian flags, and tents, as well as NYPD.

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · Mar 23

Hunter College has reposted their search for 2 scholars of Palestine Studies. Both searches are open rank and the new deadline is April 21. Please share widely!

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Jobs | City University of New York

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Medievalists for Palestine @mforpalestine.bsky.social · Mar 20

Hey, hey, MAA, how many Gazans did you kill today?

An autonomous group disrupted the Medieval Academy of America's conference at Harvard University today, dropping multiple banners and redecorating conference signage.

#MedievalSky #AcademicSky

Six images of various banners protesting the Medieval Academy of America's support of genocide. The last image features a cop car, highlighting how the Academy called upon the police as a disproportionate response to this autonomous action.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Mar 13

This is fascism and if not stopped we all know where it’s heading

White House and POTUS post: Shalom Mahmoud

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 14

NEW EMAIL FROM COLUMBIA ADMIN: DHS agents were in two university residences tonight — with two warrants

"I am writing heartbroken to inform you that we had federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in two University residences tonight."

No arrests made.

Columbia administration email announcing DHS was on campus

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · Mar 14

Cancelling an event because of Zionist intimidation is censorship. It violates academic freedom. It puts another target on a Palestinian scholar's back.
Call out "cancellations of concern." Your colleagues are NOT to be suppressed for your own worries.
www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...

On Refusing to Disappear: Stanford Anthropology’s Collusion with Genocide Denial — American Anthropologist

by Sarah Ihmoud (College of the Holy Cross)

www.americananthropologist.org

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · Mar 14

Hudson, NY – Amplify Palestine's Riham Barghouti is heading your way to talk BDS next Saturday (3/22)!

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Photo of Israel's destruction of Gaza community. Headline: "Community Responses to Israel's US-Supported War on Palestinians. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions." When/Where: March 22 3:30 PM, Hudson Area Library, Hudson, New York. Photos of event speakers: Riham Barghouti, founding member of Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI); Rebecca Vilkomerson, former Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace; graphic for Break the Bonds New York State. Logos of six event co-sponsors.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · Mar 9

To my colleagues at Columbia: if you were wondering where the rubber hits the road, this is where the rubber hits the road.

I beseech you not to act like this is business as usual or it will indeed become business as usual.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Mar 9

Breaking: ICE arrests a Palestinian student at Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, whose wife is 8 months pregnant. They revoked his student visa and his green card.

BOYCOTT COLUMBIA. WRITE & Demand answers.

This is fucking sickening.

zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say

Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

zeteo.com

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historians4palestine @history4palestine.bsky.social · Mar 9

Columbia has no interest in protecting its students. The university will continue to acquiesce to the racist, genocidal Trump Administration, betraying its mission and gaining nothing. Mahmoud must be found and freed.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 9

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

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historians4palestine @history4palestine.bsky.social · Mar 9

It's a safe bet that Columbia is currently working on a statement that will find some way to apologize to the Trump administration about the issue

ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · Mar 9

Has Columbia issued any statement about ICE disappearing a green card-holding student, or nah?

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · Mar 9

I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention

On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...

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Medievalists for Palestine @mforpalestine.bsky.social · Mar 7

Hey #MedievalSky and #AcademicSky

The Open Access Medieval Studies conference is coming up (March 20-22)! Come learn with us as we envision a different academia. One that builds communities of trust to take action together!

Registration and more goodies available at linktr.ee/mfp_lestine

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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · Mar 7

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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · Mar 7

Columbias (former) president did all that foolishness. The university threw the hammer down on students and faculty. All claiming to be in service of stopping antisemitism. And 47 STILL came for them.

Was it worth it @columbiauniversity.bsky.social?

Columbia University’s notice to encampment document with “I ain’t reading all that Free Palestine” written over the print in large red letters.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Mar 7

Email from Columbia President Armstrong makes clear that admin still has no idea what it’s dealing with. No amount of “serious action to combat antisemitism” (read: punish Palestine activists) will satisfy the Nazis. They see universities as an enemy institution to crush underfoot.

Columbia’s mission is to teach, create, and advance knowledge. For over 270 years, that mission has been grounded in an enduring and essential commitment to freedom of expression, open inquiry, and generous, respectful debate.

Today, we were notified of federal action from Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) cancelling $400 million in federal funding to the University. The federal agencies cite “the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”

There is no question that the cancellation of these funds will immediately impact research and other critical functions of the University, impacting students, faculty, staff, research, and patient care.

But let me be very clear: Columbia is taking the government’s action very seriously. I want to assure the entire Columbia community that we are committed to working with the federal government to address their legitimate concerns. To that end, Columbia can, and will, continue to take serious action toward combatting antisemitism on our campus.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Mar 2

Sameer Project has a Ramadan campaign that we hope you will support and share. If you are unfamiliar with “zakat” please read through and learn! Donate thru this link and sign up for our workshops, as the former cannot be used on commissions.

chuffed.org/project/1239...

Sameer Project x Ramadan Campaign

Salam Alikom,

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historians4palestine @history4palestine.bsky.social · Mar 1

Genocidal racism is bipartisan

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Feb 27

I don't have words for the -- censorious, fascist racist overreach happening here, besides

ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT IN MY NAME

New York governor orders removal of Palestinian studies job posting at Cuny

Hunter College faculty and staff union condemns Kathy Hochul’s order to take down listing, calling it ‘overreach of authority’

www.theguardian.com

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historians4palestine @history4palestine.bsky.social · Mar 1

A great reminder of Isreal's attempt to obscure genocide through pinkwashing

thebaffler.com/latest/pinkw...

Pinkwashing the Timeline | Schuyler Mitchell

Pro-Israel propaganda is often ideologically indistinguishable from the hatred that flows from the American right.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · Feb 24

Are you experiencing censorship of materials or programming related to Palestine in your library or archive? Librarians and Archivists with Palestine is gathering data and telling these stories. Report here:

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Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Censorship Reporting Form

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP) is gathering data about incidents of censorship regarding Palestine in libraries and archives since October 2023. If, at your library or archive, you hav...

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · Feb 27

We are happy to launch Workshops4sudan to raise funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan. Our debut series features the writer and abolitionist @williamcson.bsky.social and the organizer, artist and social justice educator @raniawrites.bsky.social.

To sign up go to:

sudansolidarity.com/workshops4su...

Workshops4Sudan – Sudan Solidarity Collective

sudansolidarity.com

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · Feb 27

Discuss.

(fun additional facts: she’s the first female governor of NY. also is not a Republican)

The Guardian:

New York
New York governor orders removal of Palestinian studies job posting at Cuny
Hunter College faculty and staff union condemns Kathy Hochul’s order to take down listing, calling it ‘overreach of authority’
Marina Dunbar
Wed 26 Feb 2025 16.25 EST

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Feb 27

what the zionist entity is doing by withholding "aid" like tents, medical equipment, shelter, and food, while destroying water and sewage infrastructure, is economic warfare that is part and parcel of the genocide it is committing against Palestinians. this is a place where we can intervene. do it.

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · Feb 26

Just learned that this Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide will be considered @oah.org's Annual Business Meeting in April. www.oah.org/2025/02/26/r... 🗃️

OAH | Resolution for Consideration at the 2025 Annual Business MeetingOAH | Resolution for Consideration at the 2025 Annual Business Meeting

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Alan P. @aparkes.bsky.social · Feb 26

We’re addressing Israel’s scholasticide at OAH. Please join and vote to acknowledge and express opposition to scholasticide, the least any US historian should do

www.oah.org/2025/02/26/r...

OAH | Resolution for Consideration at the 2025 Annual Business MeetingOAH | Resolution for Consideration at the 2025 Annual Business Meeting

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