"Americans" would really benefit from learning more about non-U.S. histories. So much of the time, even when they are critiquing the U.S. they still center the U.S. as though everything revolves around it. The totality of people's histories and struggles is more than the U.S.

One way to support Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt is to read, circulate, cite, quote, and teach the rigorous reports she has written on self-determination, carceral system, child rights, genocide, and corporate complicity. Here is a list:

The absurdity is staggering: Mahmoud Khalil was kidnapped from his home by the U.S. government, imprisoned for being Palestinian and speaking out against genocide and now he’s forced to answer for why some Jewish students might feel “unsafe”? he calmly destroys the entire premise

Can we stop doing these comparisons. We don’t have to put other jobs down in order to justify why doctors should be paid more fairly. Yes the responsibilities are not the same but doing this comes across wrong and cleaners often are very disrespected and do gruelling jobs

Dr Sanaa Alimia reflects on why she wrote Refugee Cities, and what Afghan communities have taught us about resistance, belonging, and building home. Full interview on YouTube: tinyurl.com/bpadh5cb

in class this week I summarized Saïd's "Orientalism" by comparing it to AI: "you know how AI content is getting worse because it's now being trained based on its own output? that's how the West creates stereotypes about the Orient and teaches itself about its own superiority."

Shoutout to the Fanon scholar who put me through a disciplinary hearing about my anger on Palestine in the morning and went on to teach his Fanon class in which I was enrolled in the afternoon. May God bless you on Fanon’s 100th birthday.

“In my dream, I carry a loaf of bread And when awake, I carry a small coffin instead”

Gov decides to use unproven tech to age assess asylum-seeking children, offering child protection if a computer thinks their faces look old. AI models to be trained on images of young people. Presumably not y.p. from Middle East + Africa, aged by trauma. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

Refaat Al-Areer wrote this 27 Oct 2023. Starving Palestinians is not new. “Instead of often telling my kids "I love you," I have been repeating for the past two weeks „Kids, eat kess. Kids, drink less." And I imagine this being my last thing I say to them and it is devastating.”

The Palestinian struggle— from 1972. How many generations have been failed??

The “we can no longer stay silent” line is so deeply disturbing. As if everything up until this point was fine: the maimed children, the slaughter of tens of thousands, the non stop carpet bombing… Why were you silent in the first place? Shame on all of you.

they waited for gaza to reach stage 5 of malnutrition (which is irreversible) to finally speak up. it’s just so they could claim to be on “the right side of history” while choosing to be silent for months and months before that. fuck all of you.

“Oh well the mom looks well fed so why is the baby starving” 🤡 Babies under 6 months do not eat food. When you starve a population, babies under 6months die first because if mom can’t produce enough milk, without formula baby dies. Crazy how many people don’t understand this.

I’m thinking of Chris Smalls. And about how, because he’s Black, no Greta Thunberg, no celebrity, no darling of the liberal class, he might not make it out alive. Blackness, when vulnerable and on its knees, is a white supremacist fantasy.

When he reached the Israeli prison, U.S. human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back. When his lawyer met with him, Chris was

This is why we need people to keep talking about Chris Smalls. Keep him in concious memory until he is released.

Does this look like self-defense or genocide?

“self defense”