Wrote about Walid Daqqa's book on the war that Israel has waged on Palestinian consciousness – the pscyhological operations that depend on our inability to name them, and their ability to evade consciousness while malignantly dissolving it.

On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day ghina abi-ghannam reviews martyr Walid Daqqa’s “Searing Consciousness (Or on Redefining Torture)” his study of Israel’s psychological war on Palestinian prisoners as a microcosm of its war against the Palestinian people as a whole. liberatedtexts.com/reviews/naming…

Next Wednesday, the Psychology of Resistance in Violent, Repressive Contexts virtual meeting series will offer a roundtable discussion on 'Academic Repression of Solidarity amidst Violence in Palestine: Global Psychological Perspectives Otherwise'. Registration link etc. in 🧵

The first daybreak of the year, over the Mediterranean.
The final poem Refaat Alareer wrote before he was murdered by Israel.

James Baldwin's words reverberated in Washington DC today- at the largest Palestine solidarity protest in US history.

This phone call is from a journalist stationed at a Gaza hospital. He is able to make a call because of data roaming on Turkish SIM card. Translation:
“We’re in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. We have no idea what’s happening. There’s no connection, no Wi-Fi, no reporters. We’re cut…

Do you know how much it takes for us to be in actual disbelief of the scale of violence we're witnessing? Our collective memories are generational records of Zionist massacres. We expect the absolute worst. They just bombed a hospital. 1000 dead in seconds and it's unfathomable!!

Jamal al-Dura, the father of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah who was murdered by #Israel during the Second Intifada, bids farewell to his brothers.

This testimony by Ghassan Abu Sitta is absolutely shattering.
The genocide in Gaza may be exceptional in its brutality, but it is archetypal of Israeli history. Zionism was unable to establish or maintain itself on Palestinian land without genocide, and it will continue to do so.

Read and share widely. A powerful statement issued by Teachers and Employees of Beirzet.

Those articulating their nuanced condemnation positions comfortably embraced counterterrorism as a denunciation rhetoric and presented it to be an extension of principled nonviolence. A moral commitment to nonviolence that offered absolute impunity to Zionism and its war crimes.

I was thinking about this tweet and found it again

Cowrote this (open-access!) piece on Frantz Fanon as a psychologist and a comrade whose scholarship is thoroughly entwined with resistance—contemplating the possibility of a Political Psychology that responds to and evolves with liberation struggle.
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

First first light of the year over the Mediterranean