Reposts ≠ endorsements | Lost Geographer | Assistant Professor @ UCLA
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A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share far and wide and encourage colleagues to give generously!
leonardeducation.org/the-pal…
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A nuclear state & army w advanced weapons tech has been kidnapping children, raping captives, demolishing homes, sniping journos, slaughtering livestock & torching fields for 8+ decades a US support & “allies” want to frame self defense as fueling a “cycle of violence.”
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will continue to do so. But violence is not the path to ending it — or to achieving safety, freedom, and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis.
And neither is collective punishment or ethnic cleansing of an entire neighborhood, or punishing millions of people for the criminal act of two, which Netanyahu has promised to enact in response.
I’ve seen a lot this week and I’ll have more to say about in the coming days (I’m on my way home shortly). There is a path to ending this excruciating cycle of violence. It starts by insisting that every life is sacred, that everyone is created in God’s image.
For now: Shabbat Shalom, to everyone who believes in the hard work of making peace & justice a reality, for everyone.
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Brad, ur in Palestine. Pls exercise some humility. Listen more, lecture less. Framing the targeting of soldiers as a “cycle of violence” - rather than resistance 2 apartheid & genocide- while also not demanding US sanctions/arms embargo is asking Palestinians to die politely.
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will continue to do so. But violence is not the path to ending it — or to achieving safety, freedom, and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis.
And neither is collective punishment or ethnic cleansing of an entire neighborhood, or punishing millions of people for the criminal act of two, which Netanyahu has promised to enact in response.
I’ve seen a lot this week and I’ll have more to say about in the coming days (I’m on my way home shortly). There is a path to ending this excruciating cycle of violence. It starts by insisting that every life is sacred, that everyone is created in God’s image.
For now: Shabbat Shalom, to everyone who believes in the hard work of making peace & justice a reality, for everyone.
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Not sure who's on "X" still... here's our article on the post-blast reconstruction of Beirut, published a few months ago now--with reflections on how aid & NGOs are producing a micro-urbanism in the city.
If interested, DM for copies as the paywall was too pricey to remove.
Aid-driven urban commoning has limits. Harb, Dayekh, Atallah & Zoughaib show how nonprofit and faith-based actors rebuilt post-blast Beirut, and why sectarian, class and market boundaries constrain their projects.
doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…
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Nusseibeh was the UAE’s point person on Sudan, according to Justin Lynch, managing director of the Conflict Insights Group research organization. “Throughout this war, she assured other governments that the UAE was not backing the RSF, even as Washington and other capitals knew internally that it was,” he told the AP.
The U.N. secretary-general’s role is to protect civilians from horrors like el-Fasher, Lynch said. “Handing the job over to the diplomat who ran cover for it would be an insult to the survivors.”
apnews.com/article/united-na…
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Absolutely phenomenal and gutting work by the inimitable @FadyJoudah
New from Chi Pham: Fady Joudah, a Palestinian American and an internal medicine physician at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has released a powerful literary survey of Palestine that charts complicity and erasure with medical precision. texasobserver.org/after-geno…
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Israel is issuing “official eviction orders” to citizens of another country, inside the sovereign borders of that country. Just in case you needed a reminder that the legal frameworks Zionists cite to justify their land theft from Palestine to Syria are all entirely bullshit.
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🇦🇪 Days before the one-year anniversary of the Rapid Support Forces' massacres in El Fasher, the UAE, the RSF's main foreign backer in its genocide in Sudan, has nominated its top diplomat to run the United Nations.
Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE's minister of state and envoy to the UN, announced her candidacy for Secretary-General on Wednesday. For three years she has been a public face of Abu Dhabi's denials, even as UN experts themselves documented Emirati weapons and money flowing to the RSF while it carried out massacres and mass rape across Darfur.
Those who have worked on Sudan were scathing:
🔸 Cameron Hudson, a former CIA Africa analyst and White House National Security Council director for African affairs: "It isn't just that UAE has been supporting the RSF, it's that Lana has been the UAE's chief diplomat denying the fact and defending the regime."
🔸 Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International, said Nusseibeh "must not be SG if she cannot first admit and condemn the UAE's complicity." He said he interviewed survivors of RSF massacres and systematic sexual violence in Sudan last week, including the mother of a 12-year-old girl who was shot in front of her. "Most if not all of these horrific violations were directly enabled by the UAE's support," he said, adding that the UN has documented it for three years.
🔸 Mohanad Elbalal, co-founder of Khartoum Aid Kitchen, said she "used her position as UAE Ambassador to the UN to cover up and gaslight" on the UAE's role, calling her candidacy "a direct insult to Sudanese."
Her bid has been cheered by figures who backed three years of Israel's genocide in Gaza while staying silent or covering for the UAE's integral role in the genocide in Sudan. Brett McGurk, former President Joe Biden's Middle East coordinator, called her "an inspired choice for this impossible job." Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza on U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, has also praised her.
I am standing to be Secretary-General because I believe this is a moment to act with greater urgency: to act earlier, bring people together across difference, and drive the work forward until it produces concrete results. That is how we rebuild trust in the United Nations and ensure it delivers meaningful change for the people it exists to serve.
My vision: lananusseibeh.org
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Israel has long claimed that Hamas went around slaughtering children on October 7th. Yet even the Israeli records and the camera footage it released show this is not true. 16 children under 14 were killed on October 7. I went through every one of them, case by case. There is not a single case of a child targeted and executed intentionally by Hamas. But that false narrative has been used to justify the slaughter over 20,000 Palestinian children in Gaza. Watch the full analysis.
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This is all true. This former GOP state legislator closely aligned with DeSantis and Randy Fine -- Mike Caruso -- was arrested in August on charges of sexually abusing multiple young kids in his family, including his grandson and a niece.
He had previously advocated the death penalty for pedophiles. This picture is when Caruso, Randy Fine and DeSantis went to Israel in 2023 to sign a "hate speech" law that restricted the free speech rights of Floridians on behalf of Israel. They signed it in Israel.
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Mourning the loss of this incredible landmark. It only ever took you 5 minutes to get through security, the food options were abysmal and it had the general aura of an infrequently attended bus depot. I will miss it every day.
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I recently published a piece in Insaniyyat detailing how the decolonial turn (especially the writings of Mignolo) obfuscates the history of 🇩🇿 Algeria and works against an emancipatory politics in the MENA region. A possibly unpopular take, I realize. shorturl.at/Q2c9N
The longer the commission takes to deal with this appeal and announce sanctions for immediate effect this season, the more the entire Premier League becomes a sham. PL is heading for ShamLeague not just Shamcity, and fast.
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HALF-A-BILLION 🤯
Remember: Police liability payouts come out of the General Fund, NOT the police department's operating budget.
This is why other city services like street services, animal services, transportation, youth development, & audits got cut.
latimes.com/california/story…
ALT Police lawsuits have cost LA nearly half a billion dollars since 2019, LAPD recruits stand for a uniform inspection at the Los Angeles Police Academy in Elysian Park on Sept. 18, 2026. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)
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We regularly featured his stunning social media reports on our @intifada livestream newscast as he narrated the heroic work of his colleagues during "Israel's" holocaust in Gaza. He was so proud of his work as a civil defense rescuer. Allah yerhamo Mohammad. The world failed you.
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Our first testimony is live. Somaia trusted us with her story. Now we need you to carry it further.
Watch it, share it, and make sure it's seen.
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🚨BREAKING: Israeli forces killed civil defense volunteer Mohammad Tamous in a strike in Gaza City while he was attempting to rescue wounded civilians.
He is the first victim of the FOURTH year of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Palestinian journalist @Rashaaboujalal1 in Gaza has launched a campaign to provide winter clothing for around 400 displaced children living in three shelter camps in western Gaza City. Please donate if you can:
rashaaboujalal1.substack.com…
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Today, Wadee Alfayoumi would’ve celebrated his 9th birthday. But anti-Palestinian hate took the life of this beloved child.
In his honor, let’s realize a future of true safety and opportunities for all our children.
Happy heavenly birthday, Wadee.
