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Rebecca Ruth Gould
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Global poetics+politics @SOAS |author Erasing Palestine @versobooks.bsky.social |The Persian Prison Poem |Writers & Rebels |🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist also on Substack rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · Oct 4
Honored to share this brilliant story from my friend Lujayn in Gaza in @thenation.com "this war isn't just a war against Gaza. It is a war against the very essence of humanity, one that every person w/a conscience is enduring & fighting in every corner of the earth"
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
October 7, One Year Later
Palestinians and Israelis on 365 days of slaughter, devastation, grief, and resistance.
www.thenation.com
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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 2h
If some VCs don't resign over this, I don't know when they will.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 1d
Statement from Lujayn on learning tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) and witnessing the destruction of Gaza City.

"I have always walked through my small town, Gaza City, as if it belonged to me. As if its streets knew my name and its sidewalks awaited my passing."
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Palestine is everywhere
Palestine is everywhere is a contributor led anthology and digital art project.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 1d
"My writing about what embroidery means to me was like a butterfly taking flight in a beautiful garden called Palestine Is Everywhere."
This statement describes her essay on tatreez in the forthcoming book. Images above are of Lujayn's own tatreez creations. www.silverpress.org/products/pal...
Palestine is everywhere
Edited by Skye Arundhati Thomas. Pre-order: publishing October 2025 ‘Palestine is everywhere because it names a political subject of radical universal emancipation,’ writes teacher and writer Nasser A...
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 1d
"I wrote about embroidery as a form of hope, not merely a craft. When I threaded my first stitches, they were not just threads—they were a message, whose words declared: We are still here, dreaming and striving to make our dreams come true."
Lujayn's tatreez (red bag) Lujayn's tatreez (green and black shawl)
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 1d
"Neither it nor I knew what wrong we had committed. And so, I decided to learn embroidery from my neighbour in displacement, Umm Aide, a primary school teacher. I stitched the details of my memory onto everything and from everything, reviving my soul with a dream that had always dwelt within it."
Lujayn's tatreez (four pillows) Lujayn's tatreez (two pillows)
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 1d
"I would embroider its landmarks into my heart before they settled in my memory. How I longed to learn embroidery, so that the whole world might see the beauty of my homeland, the beauty in its details. Then, one day, they assassinated my little town, and it began to fade from existence."
Lujayn's tatreez (two ship bookmarks) Lujayn's tatreez (lighthouse bookmark)
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 1d
Statement from Lujayn on learning tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) and witnessing the destruction of Gaza City.

"I have always walked through my small town, Gaza City, as if it belonged to me. As if its streets knew my name and its sidewalks awaited my passing."
palestineiseverywhere.tba21.org
Palestine is everywhere
Palestine is everywhere is a contributor led anthology and digital art project.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 3d
I condemn the global mainstream media for failing to cover the credible accusations, Greta Thunberg has been abused, beaten, humiliated and mistreated in Israeli custody. It is absolutely essential that the media focus on this story, to put pressure on Israel.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 4d
The Encampments is streaming for free on the Palestinian film platform Watermelon+ @watermelonpictures.bsky.social through 8 October
watch.watermelonpictures.com/the-encampme...
The Encampments - The Encampments - Watermelon Pictures
When a group of students launch a movement protesting genocide, they spark a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 5d
Bristol now, calling for an end to the siege and genocide in Gaza and in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 6d
Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza is out on 30 October. My review coming soon. Clearly an essential read orbooks.com/catalog/comp...
cover of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza back cover of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza table of contents of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza endorsements of Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 6d
Leigh Evans, a retired nurse & Gaza medic from Swansea is on-board intercepted Abd Elkarim Eid (boat 1) of the #Flotilla to bring aid to Gaza.

Leigh is part of the Lift The Ban campaign and a friend to humanity. He and the flotilla must be allowed to proceed.

🎥 filmed on Aug 9
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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 7d
A new issue of Diacritics (52.3) is out!
With contributions by William Stroebel, Alexander Diones, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Tobias Ertl, and Nina Farizova. Featuring art by Misha Wyllie, with an interview by Philip Glahn. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55662
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 7d
Yes, fully agree - as we’ve argued repeatedly, and thanks for the heads-up.

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Starvation is a war crime. So why is it so rarely prosecuted?
From Bengal to Gaza, hunger is often used as a weapon of war but almost never punished.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 8d
Not even close to enough but nice to see the Palestinian flag flying in front of Bristol City Council @bristolcouncil.bsky.social @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social

(I just wish the wind was better and the flag stayed permanently).
Palestinian flag flying in front of Bristol City Council Palestinian flag flying in front of Bristol City Council Palestinian flag flying in front of Bristol City Council Palestinian flag flying in front of Bristol City Council
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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Nina C. Krickel-Choi @nckc.bsky.social · 15d
Came across this timely piece of research 👇
"What does free speech have to do with Palestinian liberation? On resisting genocidal epistemicide"

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What does free speech have to do with Palestinian liberation? On resisting genocidal epistemicide
In this article, I argue that epistemicide exists in relation to genocide as scholasticide exists in relation to war: it attempts to erase not just educational institutions in their current state, ...
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 10d
Israel has killed yet another Palestinian journalist, Mohammed al-Daya, in a strike on his displacement tent in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. His death brings the toll of journalists killed since October 2023 to 252.

🎥 Video via Anadolu Agency (@anadoluajansi)
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 17d
I thought it might amuse @rrgould.bsky.social to see the books in my sandwich stack this weekend. :)
TURGENEV. First Love ERASING PALESTINE REBECCA RUTH GOULD PEN GUI IF YOU'RE A GIRL NVAI THV PUR Ann Rower Semiote 19MP9 PIAS
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 17d
A wonderful reading list! Mine was written right before the beginning of the genocide, so much remains relevant but much more needs to be said (and will be said). Enjoy Turgenev!
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 21d
The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.
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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 21d
Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 21d
My rage knows no bounds
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 23d
In August, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification classified Gaza as having reached phase 5, meaning Gaza was deep into a famine. Despite this, Israel's denial persists as Western media reinforces misleading narratives, argues Rebecca Ruth Gould 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/west...
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Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social · 19d
Check out our new blog post from @rrgould on Ibn Faḍlān’s Mission to the Volga, Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead, and The 13th Warrior!

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The Many Journeys of Ibn Faḍlān’s Mission to the Volga - Library of Arabic Literature
In this blog post, noted scholar and translator Rebecca Ruth Gould examines the cultural legacy of Ibn Faḍlān and the chronicle of his journey to the Volga, dissecting the various ways it has been abs...
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Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social · 19d
We're speaking for Medium Day about Empowering Palestinian Voices Through Mentorship (1:30 GMT/ 8:30AM ET). Join us by registering here:
events.zoom.us/ev/Av7REBItl...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 23d
#OtD 15 Sep 1983 Michael Stewart, a 25-year-old Black student, was beaten to death by 10 NYPD officers after being caught painting graffiti. The medical examiner then helped them cover up the murder. No officers were convicted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8745...
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