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Ussama Makdisi

@ussamamakdisi

Professor of History and co-host of @MakdisiStreet podcast rp & rt≠endorsement

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calendar_today17-11-2011 21:25:19

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Israel has dropped almost double the bomb tonnage on Gaza than the US dropped on Hiroshima and Germany dropped on Britain in World War II combined. The campus micro-aggressions discourse is intended as a distraction.

Israel has dropped almost double the bomb tonnage on Gaza than the US dropped on Hiroshima and Germany dropped on Britain in World War II combined. The campus micro-aggressions discourse is intended as a distraction.
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For those who were apoplectic over college students chanting “from the river to the sea,” this is what actual erasure looks like.

For those who were apoplectic over college students chanting “from the river to the sea,” this is what actual erasure looks like.
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PR disaster in the context of the actual disaster of Israeli genocide and US complicity in this genocide that the US mainstream media, US institutions of high culture, and US government seem determined to deny or pretend is not happening.

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What does it mean to ask Palestinians to engage in “dialogue” with those who support the state perpetrating genocide in Gaza, 11 months into the live-streamed obliteration of Palestinian humanity?

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Translation of my ⁦New Left Review⁩ essay “Overwriting Palestine” into Arabic ⁩ التاريخ الفلسطيني في الأكاديميا الغربية | صفر alsifr.org/overwriting-pa…

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Israel bombed the entrance of Al-Fakhoura School, a designated “safe zone” for children to get the polio vaccine. My friend’s baby nephew, who was scheduled for vaccination today, is now internally bleeding from shrapnel in his spine/lungs. “It’s the same lie & mockery by Israel”

Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For everyone just “outraged, outraged” by the execution of an American citizen by a bunch of terrorist thugs, I remind you of the execution of American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu-Aqleh, assassinated in cold blood, broad daylight, by the Israel Defense Forces in 2022.

For everyone just “outraged, outraged” by the execution of an American citizen by a bunch of terrorist thugs, I remind you of the execution of American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu-Aqleh, assassinated in cold blood, broad daylight, by the <a href="/IDF/">Israel Defense Forces</a> in 2022.
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Meanwhile, recall, that many U.S. campus leaderships in America—under relentless anti-Palestinian donor, board, and congressional pressure—are not concerned with the actual genocide but about students talking and marching and camping to protest genocide. Let that sink in.

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Alas, they are far more worthless to the liberal West than any of us could ever have imagined. And then when you add the illiberal West it gets that much worse. The disregard of Palestinian humanity is an indictment of Western discourses about human rights, equality, and the

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They opened a coffee shop in Berkeley celebrating their Palestinian heritage. Someone keeps vandalizing it berkeleyside.org/2024/08/28/the…

Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So now Israeli soldiers have gone from posting dehumanizing selfies from occupied Gaza to dehumanizing selfies from the occupied West Bank. reelisrael.film

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I just returned from an amazing trip in Sydney where I met the most beautiful people! We talked about Palestine and together we will continue to struggle for liberation. ✊🏽❤️ saree makdisi سريّ المقدسي jumana Randa Abdel-Fattah sweatshop

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Just think about this: Israel has ensured a polio outbreak in Gaza because of its deliberate and methodical obliteration of society, housing, infrastructure, water supply, sanitation and hospitals there. The liberal West has enabled this led by the United States which has

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“Dialogue” during a genocide serves whose and what purpose? The premise of any dialogue has to be equality and freedom and dialogue should be how to get there. Otherwise “dialogue” is just distraction. Especially in a time of genocide.