In Gaza, I studied at two universities and worked at a third. Professors who taught me have been killed, colleagues have been murdered, and the campuses where I studied and worked lay mostly in ruins. The entire academic system has been obliterated by Israel's bombs. Yet, here,

was on the train to Columbia to interview isra hirsi on Thur when she stopped replying; she had been arrested.

Isra's one of 100+ Columbia/Barnard students arrested over the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. we spoke after her eviction from the dorms Teen Vogue
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Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.

BREAKING NEWS: Columbia University Admin issuing a NEW WAVE OF SUSPENSIONS for anyone that tries to pick up their confiscated belongings from morningside and 115th.
Student councils have issued a workaround: please read for more info!!! #cu4palestine

Southwest's website in 1999. Back when we were just beginning to push the limits of web design.

In 1968, Columbia students held a dean *hostage* for 24 hours, and the police didn't show up until a week later. We used to be a proper country.

Giving us 15 minutes to pack up and leave from our housing is seriously twisted. I am not surprised at all — I am glad administration is finally showing their face to the general student body, because student organizers have known from the start how evil these administrators are.

The Palestinian child Zain Orouk survived the bombing of his family’s home in Gaza by Israeli warplanes, but was killed this morning when an airdropped aid box fell on him.

Off to a third shelter, leaving Rafah in southern Gaza and heading to the central area. My third displacement in 6 months

For the first time since the aggression on Gaza began, a bakery in northern Gaza was allowed to reopen for business. Today, I visited the bakery and witnessed the immense relief felt by the community as they held fresh bread for the first time in months.

Everything you need to know for the Milwaukee Psych Fest. Lineup. Schedule. Tickets. Check it out.

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In 2004, Peter Higgs refused to go to Jerusalem to receive the Wolf Prize because he was pro-Palestine. That is 20 years ago. History didn't start on October 7. This is also a great lesson for most of the current academics who are too scared to show any backbone.

on this day in 1944, Leila Khaled, Palestinian revolutionary, was born in Haifa. if you have time today, you should read her autobiography from 1973: My People Shall Live.

here’s a free PDF: ia601208.us.archive.org/1/items/MyPeop…

My first time at Quesabirria Jalisco, I asked Ventura Orozco why his tacos were halal.

He answered with a moving story bout how a Palestinian restaurant took him in when he was at his lowest & how making his own shop halal led him to success.

Read here: chicagotribune.com/2024/04/09/que…

You have to understand, in war there are simply lines you cannot cross. Israel has a right to defend itself but we’re talking about killing people who worked for the man who literally introduced the refined but authentic Spanish style tapas restaurant concept to DC

'Well, I love to practice, simply because that's preparation, part of the process of planning... There's nothing 'free' about any of this; it's the construction of cantilevers and inclined pylons.'

Cecil Taylor
March 25, 1929 - April 5, 2018

Shame on you, Atul Gawande. Our healthcare worker colleagues are being brutally murdered in Gaza, for simply caring for their patients. Your silence is complicity in this ongoing genocide. Your lack of ethics and professionalism as a doctor in the face of genocide is appalling.

My brother and his wife (both are Uni professors) just published in Nature. They’re both in Rafah displaced in a tent and were still able to this! Of course it’s never normal to lose your home and live in a tent due to a man-made disaster aka genocide #Gaza

Noise musician Kazehito Seki has gotten arrested for tagging Japanese ministry properties with the words “Free Gaza.” When questioned why, he responded that he “despised that his taxes are being used for the abuse of Palestinians.” fnn.jp/articles/-/679…

The seven angels killed on a World Central Kitchen mission in Gaza on Monday were the best of humanity.

The Israeli government needs to open more land routes for food and medicine today. It needs to stop killing civilians and aid workers today. It needs to start the long journey to peace