Excited to talk to and tomorrow about why the rejected Ken's fellowship and about the pressures that make it harder for universities to defend human rights in Israel-Palestine and beyond. Join us. peterbeinart.substack.com
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What's 100% a total scam, but we still accept it in society?
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How do Israel’s proxy orgs in the U.S. use baseless lawsuits to try and *crush* the Palestinian freedom movement?
Tune in to the latest in lawfare: Jewish National Fund (JNF) v. US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, oral arguments TOMORROW!
🎥 Link: bit.ly/USCPRArguments
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Wow, the Elmendorf Scandal at Harvard continues to grow
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If the last time you were free was 2002, the world looked like this:
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Shocking and terribly sad. Take care of yourselves folks and all those around you.
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I am so shocked and so sad to hear about the tragic death of Blake Hounshell (@NYTBlake @blakehounshell.) I met him in Cairo when I was 22, on the day I got my very first newspaper job. I was excited when he joined The Times and wish I’d spent more time hanging out with him here.
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‘The Water is Surrounding Us’: #Gaza Grieves as #Israel Opens Floodgates, by Asma Abu Amra, in partnership with buff.ly/3QsZoSg via
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"They don’t want less criticism of Israel. They want no criticism of Israel."
I once ran Human Rights Watch. Harvard blocked my fellowship over Israel | Kenneth Roth
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Is it a "myth" that ADL & other pro-Israel orgs, cooperated w/ a Israeli govt ministry that boasted about jointly promoting unconstitutional laws to silence critics, conducting lawfare, shutting down bank accounts & cutting off funding for human rights groups?
There are receipts
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This article concocts a conspiracy theory about the @Kennedy_School and the military-industrial complex and implicates Israel and the American Jewish community. It plays into antisemitic myths about power and money and draws conclusions unsupported by evidence.
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Definitely would agree with shameful, not sure about curious though.
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"When it comes to standing for pro-Palestinian views on campus, or criticisms of Israel, there's a curious - and I would say shameful - silence."
My commentary on Harvard's decision to deny @KenRoth a fellowship, reportedly over his 'anti-Israel bias':
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Palestinian alum of the Harvard Kennedy School call to reverse the denial of a fellowship to former head Ken Roth, based on his and HRW's record documenting rights abuses by the Israeli gov't. We're a global rights group. We document abuses globally.
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As long as Palestinian leadership remains committed to dependence and subservient to the Israeli regime and donor community, it will never seek liberation and the Palestinian people will continue to take resistance into their own hands
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Just as inssurectionists inspired and learned from each other across borders, I'd imagine lessons were drawn in many capitols from Jan 6th on how to respond.
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There are, obviously, some key differences but the reaction of the Brazilian police on Sunday compared to the US on Jan 6 was far more firm, efficient and impressive. twitter.com/davidrkadler/s…
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And sign off on $ 4 billion in weapons to Apartheid Israel again?
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Back in Washington.
Ready to lift up Democratic values.
And push back against political extremism.
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Today in Apartheid
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Earlier, MK Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud) said "In the State of the Jews, I prefer Jewish murderers to Arab murderers." Now, MK Limor Son Har-Melech of Otzma Yehudit says: "Whoever murdered an Arab should sit in prison, and whoever murdered a Jew should die."
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So after the Israeli flag appeared among insurrectionists on Jan 6th, it seems to have been among the crowd of insurrectionists in Brazil yesterday. Apparently Bolsanaro's wife wore a shirt with the Israeli flag on it while voting.
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The most successful businessperson on earth is the guy who makes the nails for the two-state solution's coffin.
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Israel holds an entire stateless nation under military occupation.
They got enough nukes to start a regional conflagration.
But they fear a piece of cloth
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Fascists gonna fascist
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Israeli far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has instructed police to remove Palestinian flags from public spaces, calling the Palestinian national symbol an act of “terrorism” 
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America continues to inspire the world, I guess
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#BREAKING
Bolsonaro supporters break into Brazil Congress building, presidential palace: social media
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The more one reads about this case the more absurd it becomes. An egregious case that has nothing to do with emancipation, just reifying a conservative interpretation of tradition by a corporation at the expense of adjunct via
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Palestinian academic/organizer has been suspended on Twitter
A spambot link was tweeted from her account to after her account was hacked
A response to hacks & spam tweets should be notifying user, not suspension. Reverse the suspension . Pls RT
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The 's Jack Hughes is not just a legit all star, it is time to put him in the MVP conversation with the way he has played this season. Name the players that mean more to their team right now than him? It has to be a short list.
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6-year-old shoots teacher in Virginia classroom
Seriously, WTF America?
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Some of you are watching C-Span on a Friday night. I'd understand that if historic legislation was on the cusp of passing, but for this? I'd rather watch paint dry.
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"We urge Harvard to reverse the decision."
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Still absurd
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We spend $750 billion annually on "defense" and the center of American government fell in two hours to the duck dynasty and the guy in the chewbacca bikini
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Supporters of Israeli Apartheid will leave no person unsmeared in their effort to defend a fundamentally unjust system that violates the human rights of Palestinians every single day.
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can you imagine what it must be like for the victims of Israel's human rights violations, Palestinians, to speak out against them?
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If a Jewish American, who got into human rights work because of his parents fled the Nazis, & ran a Human Rights org for 3 decades, which issued 1000s of HR reports, the vast majority had nothing to do with Israel, can't criticize Israeli HR violations without career consequences
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Just think about this for a moment.....
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Former head of Human Rights Watch, @KenRoth, tells me how he was blocked from Harvard Kennedy School fellowship over criticisms of #Israel: "I falsely assumed that the dean of the Kennedy School values academic freedom." @HRW @Kennedy_School theguardian.com/education/2023
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What is happening to Palestinians at the hands of Israeli forces is a #humanrights violation. We are in a crisis and must find a way to true peace.
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84% of #Arabs oppose the recognition of #Israel by their respective countries, according to the 2022 📊#Arab_Opinion_Index
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Ben Gvir literally glorified a terrorist who gunned down Palestinian worshipers as they prayed in a mosque and now he enters the Al Aqsa mosque compound with an armed escort and the problem is anyone concerned about it is overreacting?
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Before the UNSC's emergency session on Ben-Gvir's holy site visit, #Israel's @giladerdan1 tells reporters: the "visit was in line with the status quo, and whoever claims otherwise is only inflaming the situation.”
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Don't need to be an MD to know he is full of hot air
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Netanyahu to undergo gastric test on Friday, with partial anesthetic; Deri to stand in as PM - @IsraeliPM
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So much for academic freedom at Harvard's : Dean Douglas Elmendorf was so fearful of 's reporting on Israel (applying the same standards as HRW does everywhere else) that he vetoed a fellowship that the Kennedy offered me.
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The Israeli military has already killed three Palestinian children this year. The year is 5 days old.
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Health ministry: Amer Abou Zaytoun, 16, shot dead by a live ammunition in the head during clashes with the Israeli army in Balata Refugee camp near Nablus.
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Must read thread on Palestinian threads
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Once a traditional craft practiced by village women, Palestinian embroidery also known as Tatreez, has become an important symbol of Palestinian culture & identity. It is a rich artistic tradition, passed down through generations.
A thread on the art of Palestinian embroidery…
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Think this is an important thing to watch in light of what happened to Damar Hamlin.
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Here's the scary side of the Damar Hamlin story nobody but @Gbush91 wants to talk about.
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