Former executive director of both Human Rights Watch and ACLU, Aryeh Neier, says he is “now persuaded that Isarel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.” nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Missed this three days ago. The US and UK are opposing any independent investigation of the mass graves that are being discovered in Gaza.

NEW: Harrison Mann, an officer in the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, has resigned in protest of the U.S.-backed Israeli war in Gaza.

Here's the resignation letter, which he just shared on LinkedIn. linkedin.com/posts/activity…

Good luck Mercedes! Workers in Vance, AL will begin their election today, determining whether they'll join the UAW. They'll be the 2nd addition to the UAW family from the country's Southern region, after the Volkswagen plant in Chatanooga, TN. The election runs through May 17

To imagine that a brilliant doctor, whose vocation is to save and heal, went through the hell of two of Israel's torture camps that CNN described in its report.

A Senior Gazan Doctor Died During Israeli Detention. Officials Refuse to Explain How

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All my thoughts today with Palestinian mothers, Sudanese mothers, Congolese mothers, Black mothers, indigenous mothers, incarcerated mothers… may we honor and strengthen the love that binds us to you and protect and defend the life you’ve given this planet.

I can't believe how much worse it is getting in Gaza right now, while our leaders say nothing and do nothing to stop Israel's war of annihilation. I'm terrified for my friends and their families. Calling for a ceasefire isn't nearly enough, there must be action immediately.

No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him.

Police State, meet Police Campus. I think you two will get along handsomely 🙃
Penn

We are now at the point where the IDF is dropping flyers in the north telling Palestinians to flee to the south and in the south telling them to flee to the north

my favorite paper on the topic - the debate between Justin Lin and Ha Joon Chang that clarifies what is at stake in the comparative advantage framework and why you should ignore it if you're serious about transformative industrial policy

This series on the history of 20th century Arab radicalism w/ Abdel Razzaq Takriti عبدالرزاق التكريتي and Daniel Denvir is extraordinary, even by The Dig's already sky-high standards. As a resource for political economy education, the whole podcast really is unmatched.

Civilians in #Gaza are being starved and killed, and we are prevented from helping them.
 
This is Gaza today, even after 7 months of horrors.

Israel fully intends to destroy Rafah, the last habitable place in Gaza, which shelters more than a million displaced Palestinians, against overwhelming international condemnation. Just obscene levels of depravity with total impunity provided by Western politicians and media.

I just want to point out how objectively minimal divestment calls really are. Every single university has responsible investment policies in which there are some sort of safeguards for human rights violations. What we are seeing in Gaza is the most extreme form. Basic compliance.

100,000 Palestinians Flee Rafah as Israel Pummels Region from the Sky, Keeps Border Shut democracynow.org/2024/5/10/head…

“In fact, [freedom of speech] is one of the cornerstones of the United States as a country, which has always been proud of its robust tradition of academic freedom. Today, this foundation is crumbling.”

Reading this as the militarized American police state attacks students & teachers for protesting war and companies like Lockheed itself is very chef's kiss

“This repressive action was a violation of the University’s Guidelines on Open Expression and a cowardly, shameful attempt to silence and punish speech that administrators simply do not want to hear,” the statement wrote.

Israel’s ambassador to the UN literally shredding the UN Charter in front of the General Assembly. Is there a better image of Israel’s approach to international law and institutions?