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Still outraged! Still believe in protecting our students & their right to free speech. Today! Come out!

Launching our new Off Assignment column, "Goodbye to that Place," with this stunner of an essay by Leslie Jamison. Please read: short & oh-so-powerful. Writers, if you have your own narrative farewell to a bygone place--start drafting, we'd love to read it. offassignment.com/gttp/leslie-ja…

Introducing our new column—"Goodbye to That Place"—with a gut-punch of a short piece by Leslie Jamison (one of OA's very first contributors!) about a home—now lost—that witnessed her childhood and adolescence in the Palisades. Read this stunning piece here: offassignment.com/gttp/leslie-ja…

“Some were buried and [are] still under the rubble of their houses. I personally lost thirty-one members of my family, eighteen of them were children.”  —Mosab Abu Toha Mosab Abu Toha #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/you-were-…

Sonnet V by Mahmoud Darwish whose poetry remains among the world’s greatest and who was born on this day. (Translated by Fady Joudah)

This Columbia University Prof will keep saying FREE MAHMOUD

NEW—Khalil’s wife, Noor: “This felt like a kidnapping because it was: Officers in plainclothes — who refused to show us a warrant, speak with our attorney, or even tell us their names — forced my husband into an unmarked car and took him” Didn’t know where he was for 38 hours

Proud to stand beside you Leslie Jamison (you too Freddy Jesse’s shoulder ❤️)

“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian & member of the academic freedom committee of the AAUP. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.” apnews.com/article/columb…

"How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?"- June Jordan

🚨 BREAKING: New Yorkers take the streets in NYC on the National Day of Action for Palestine, standing with Mahmoud Khalil! 🇵🇸 “HANDS OFF OUR STUDENTS NOW!”

People who know Mahmoud Kahlil wrote letters to the court. At a protest, a Jewish student recalled, when a non-affiliate began shouting antisemitic slogans, Mahmoud immediately intervened. "He has committed no crime, nor has advocated for anything that I have not also stood for."

"Mahmoud has protected Jewish students at Columbia like myself more than the university ever has[, even] from the university itself. To punish him under the pretense that this kind, brave, gentle person somehow endangered us is the most egregious lie I’ve ever heard."

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

My second book, MOTHER MEDIA, is out in just a few weeks from The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social. The book is about the 20th century crisis of the family, and how, from the prison to the commune to the suburban home, psychology and media each transformed our ideas of mothering. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049559/…

Meet Noh, or Noah. Yes, we share the same names with others. Yesterday was Noh’s birthday. He celebrated with his father. In the video you see, his father gives him 20 NIS (~5 USD) as a gift. Noh went out in the street this afternoon and was killed in the air strike that killed