What Harris is saying here is that she will openly violate existing US law, the Leahy Amendment, which bars US weapons from being provided to countries where they are being used to commit human rights abuses. Freedom and security don’t apply to Palestinians, evidently.

Today is the 25th anniversary of Timor Leste'/East Timor's independence referendum to end 24 years of US-backed Indonesian invasion and occupation. Indonesia sought to terrorize Timorese who turned out in historic numbers to demand their freedom. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…

I have amazing colleagues.

Any queer people who try and argue that Israel is more LGBTQ friendly than Gaza should read this grotesque account of Israeli intelligence targeting queer Palestinians for blackmail and exploitation, arrest, torture, and more.

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Now do Palestinians murdered by Israel with US weapons.

I did this as a senior in college in 1993. And I’ve been doing it every year since.

You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying? My latest article can be read here: middleeasteye.net/big-story/west…

Are you a US college/university student? Did your university institute new protest/demonstration policies after last spring’s encampments? Do you want to talk about how that’s impacting you as you begin the new school year? DM me! (For a Mother Jones article)

Just found out that an amazing collection of North Korean posters at Leiden University is now fully available and viewable online. Over 1,000(!) posters here, but here's a message we can all get behind: "Let's make reading books a regular part of life!" …italcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/collectio…

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Out Now! Pick up a copy of our (w Rui Lopes) #OpenAccess edited volume ‘Globalising Independence struggles in Lusophone Africa’. Many thanks to our authors from across the world and to Bloomsbury for making it happen ! #twitterstorians Department of Humanities, Uni Strathclyde NOVA FCSH

Trump is truly one of the dumbest, most ignorant people to ever hold public office. Totally incapable of discussing a single substantive policy idea with any detail whatsoever. Moderator: “What’s your childcare policy?” Trump: “we are going to tax China! Billions! Trillions!”

I was at this concert. Probably the best life show I’ve ever seen. Tom Morello’s mom came out and introduced them as “the most dangerous fucking band in the world.”

This is an awesome book by David Myer Temin. Congrats!

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Hoping Rep. Jamie Raskin and Senator Chris Van Hollen will use what weight they have to press Biden/Harris to cut off military sales and aid to the murderous Netanyahu government, which commits genocide and murders US citizens with equal impunity. What will it take for the US to finally act?

This. For more than 30 years, Israel has been shooting and killing US citizens with total impunity and zero accountability. Alone among the nations of the world, successive US administration have granted Israel a de facto license to murder Americans w/o consequence.

CANNOT WAIT to share what has been one of the coolest and most important projects I’ve worked on, a podcast series on the history of the sanctuary movement. This collaboration with my pal Lloyd D. Barba and our partners at Institute for Religion Media and Civic Engagement examines…

Some of you will be interested in and qualified for this teaching position at the American University in Cairo: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37711238/a…