"More than 1,000 people have been arrested in crackdowns on #UniversityProtests across the United States. Facing #PoliceBrutality, arrests, and attacks from counter-protesters, what will #StudentProtesters do next?"
"Across the US, pro-Palestine students have faced repression, suspension, and arrest. We asked more than a dozen students to share how their schools have restricted the right to protest."
Looks like #Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles has received the message from the activist community. They have given a deadline of May 6th for the keffiyeh ban in the Ontario Legislature to be lifted or else they will defy the ban and also encourage the public to do so.
"#JewishCurrents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel spoke to three Jewish student organizers arrested at the original encampments—Izzy Lapidus, Sarah Borus, and Lea Salim—about their experiences over the past week and what #PalestineSolidarity organizing has looked like on their campuses since October 7th."
"Tensions have been mounting at #ColumbiaUniversity for months, even before the school called police to clear a #GazaSolidarityEncampment. Pro-Palestine students say the administration hasn’t prioritized their safety. In the first of a two-part series, The Take goes behind the protests at #Columbia."
"#UniversityEncampments have spread across the US since New York police first came onto #ColumbiaUniversity’s campus last week. In the second of a two-part series, The Take takes a look inside the #Columbia encampment and the impact it’s having on campus."
If you wanted to buy a Pluto Book anyway, this week they donate 30% of all money* to Medical Aid Palestine.
"Any full-priced book, ebook or audiobook bought on plutobooks.com between 12:00am BST 22nd April 2024 and 11.59 BST 29th April 2024 is eligible. Please note this does not include any orders where a discount code has been applied, or the book’s price is already discounted. Pre-orders for books published in the future are also not eligible.
“Columbia University made a huge mistake calling the cops on student protesters.…It has transformed the activism of hundreds of students into a student movement of thousands.” #PalestineSolidarity#ColumbiaUniversity#StudentProtests
"There is so much love in Palestine " the Makdisi brothers talk with Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
An impressive podcast with Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian talking about the colonisation of Palestine, the crimes of IL, the body and body parts, power, necrocapitalism, and the life and affirmation of Palestinian life that grows out of all this.
"[A] transnational forum on the ongoing genocide in #Gaza & urgently needed academic responses from across the globe, featuring panels on law, medicine, history, theology, gender, education, &international politics."
w/ Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Karma Nabulsi, Avi Shlaim, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Rev. Munther Isaac, Ilan Pappe, Ghada Ageel Hamdan, Amani Ahmed & over 40 more speakers
Relistening to this Millennials Are Killing Capitalism after having seen the images coming out of Al-Shifa hospital after the IOF massacred 100s of people there. Don't @ me about "battle" when IL soldiers have documented their own war crimes.
Mental Health Check: Unpacking Affect and Resisting Psychic Intrusion with Lara Sheehi
"Many people are feeling burnt out and struggling a lot mentally, amid the constant mobilizations to stop the genocide being enacted in Gaza. And many people are experiencing incalculable trauma through the loss of family, friends, comrades and more. Dr. Lara Sheehi will join MAKC Live! for a discussion on mental health.
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Lara's work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author [...] of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the author of the forthcoming book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press, 2025)"
Relistening to this Millennials Are Killing Capitalism after having seen the images coming out of Al-Shifa hospital after the IOF massacred more than 400 people there. Don't @ me about "battle" when IL soldiers have documented their own war crimes.
Mental Health Check: Unpacking Affect and Resisting Psychic Intrusion with Lara Sheehi
"Many people are feeling burnt out and struggling a lot mentally, amid the constant mobilizations to stop the genocide being enacted in Gaza. And many people are experiencing incalculable trauma through the loss of family, friends, comrades and more. Dr. Lara Sheehi will join MAKC Live! for a discussion on mental health.
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Lara's work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author [...] of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the author of the forthcoming book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press, 2025)"
Germany uses anti-hate crime laws to silence free speech of Jews and Palestinians
‘We Jews are just arrested; Palestinians are beaten’: Protesters in Germany
"German-Israeli activist Iris Hefets was arrested for the first time in Berlin just a few weeks after the start of Israel’s war on Gaza last October – for holding a sign which read, “As a Jew and Israeli, stop the genocide in Gaza”. [...]
She was arrested a second time on November 10 for “inciting racial hatred” when she held the same sign – her charge was recently dropped. Her third arrest was for a sign warning that “Zionism kills”. Again, she was released soon after but, this time, her sign was confiscated."
Time for Autonomous Action for Palestine: A Conversation with Within Our Lifetime
'We will also discuss the benefit of - and existing calls for - decentralized actions, de-occupations, assemblies and gatherings, public testimonies, research/writing, media-making and agitprop, mutual aid stations, trainings and teach-ins in the streets, roving shutdowns, disruptive poetry readings, sit-ins and slow downs, strikes and marches, singing and amplifying sound, painting walls, resistance parties, wheatpasting, and other happenings.
"Within Our Lifetime is not only a name, but a promise, a motivational cry, a rally, and a call to action. It is the steadfast belief that no matter what obstacles we will face, victory of the oppressed is inevitable."'
"In this panel, members of the French and #AmericanLeft come together to discuss the ongoing movement in #SolidarityWithPalestine and its struggles against #Israel’s War in #Gaza, and the growing repression faced by this movement in #France and the United States."
“Against Alienation” - Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi on their book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine
"In this conversation Lara & Stephen talk about the historical relationship between psychoanalysis and colonialism, and how power relations and epistemology structure those relations.
Upending those relations of course are anti-colonial or decolonial theories of psychoanalysis and in this context relationships forged between Palestinian clinicians and their Palestinian clients. Both are subjected to the same settler colonial apartheid regime that necessitates a national liberation struggle.
Along the way they talk about the different forms of every day and extreme oppression faced by Palestinian people, we talk about the work of Palestinian clinicians to confront that harm, and how confronting that requires transgressive acts, organization and ultimately resistance."
The Anton Families in Gaza, Palestine
"On December 16th, 2023, my family, Nahida Khalil Boulos Anton and her late daughter, Samar Kamal Anton, were tragically shot by an IDF army sniper in front of the Holy Family Latin Church in Gaza, a protected area, a place of worship.
Despite Pope Francis publicly condemning their killings and their stories gaining international attention, we still struggle to navigate the administrative and financial obstacles of the system to bring our remaining families who are in danger, to safety in Australia."
In Defense of #AcademicFreedom: Defamation, Intimidation, and Suspension
"In this first installment of a new series, 'In Defense of Academic Freedom,' we host faculty members who have been suspended or placed on administrative leave for their support of #Palestine during #Israel’s ongoing #GenocideInGaza."
In Defense of #AcademicFreedom: Defamation, Intimidation, and Suspension | Part 2
"In this second installment, we host two faculty members who have been suspended/fired for their support of #Palestine during #Israel's ongoing #GenocideInGaza."