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this year felt like being awake during surgery

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Remember when Israel bombed the first hospital in Gaza and the world wouldn't believe it and Israel blamed a misfired rocket from Hamas. Israel has now destroyed all hospitals in Gaza.

Mount Hermon is in Syria

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The wildfires and the genocide raise the same question: how much pain and suffering are we willing to inflict on ourselves, each other, and our world before we do anything different? How bad does it have to get? I deeply fear the answer to that question.

Syrians last month, Palestinians this month, I hope the Sudanese people will be next 🙏

467 days. None of us will ever be the same. Nor should we be. Nothing will ever be the same. Nor should it be.

Israel killed more journalists in a year than any other regime has in totality since records began. More than 140 media workers were martyred for refusing to abandon their responsibility. This ceasefire is here because of their tenacity and bravery. We should know their names.

Stop calling them Palestinian detainees or prisoners—they’re hostages. Israel is releasing Palestinian hostages. Thousands of them.

This is like a case study in extreme apartheid. They built a cage around a Palestinian family's home to separate it from the Jewish settlement surrounding it. The only gate to the cage is controlled by the Israeli army.

The advice my faculty friends at elite universities are getting from senior colleagues, who are themselves following their own advice: "Just keep your head down and don't attract attention. It'll pass." It may serve self-interest, but, at scale, it ushers fascism onto campus.

under no circumstances should columbia be open for classes/business tomorrow or any day until Khalil is returned home safely. in fact, any university worth its salt would halt business until the feds return him to his fam

I love my job. If I had my life to do over, I’d pick this career and this job, this life. But if I lose all that over protesting a genocide, over speaking up for Palestine, over supporting my students—then so be it. I will not have a single regret.

There's a profound imbalance in the Israel debate. Nearly all mainstream pro-Palestinian voices take care to distinguish between Israel and Jews. But pro-Israel voices are routinely anti-Palestinian, using "pro-Hamas" as shorthand for anyone who supports the Palestinian cause.

Hamdan Ballal — the co-director of No Other Land — has been kidnapped and beaten (and allegedly lynched). The fact that there is barely any coverage of this is horrifying.

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New Rubio order (leaked to me) directs the State Department to spy on student visa holders and applicants social media for "a hostile attitude toward U.S. citizens or U.S. culture (including government, institutions, or founding principles).” Order here: kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-tr…