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for @Parapraxis_Mag I wrote about Palestine as an Arab issue, Arab political subjectivity in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, counterrevolution and reverberations of political defeat since 1967 in an attempt to answer the question “where are the Arabs?”
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the past week has been unnecessarily hectic and i have done a horrendous job at promoting thus far but this book i have spent the last couple years writing is finally out in the world and i am deeply horrified but proud of it. worked so hard on being as humbly sober, fair, and honest as humanly possible.
it is a polemic, historical, and theoretical. flawed, maybe even limited—but deeply curious. and rooted in an utter devotion to wanting to advance contemporary struggle beyond its severely underdeveloped and embryonic stage in which we’ve found it (but trying to perform an autopsy for the world we have inhabited).
very excited to be in dialogue with so many brilliant folks, to hear criticisms and takedowns, in the coming months!!!
Throughout the history of the United States, Black revolution has been sedated, diverted and neutralised.
Taming the Revolution by @queersocialism is out now!
ALT Book promotional review graphic set against a solid dark blue background. On the left is a 3D perspective view of the book cover for Taming the Revolution: White Power and the Fear of Black Freedom by Joshua Briond, featuring a black-and-white photograph of raised fists against a yellow header. On the right, white text reads: “This insightful book offers a clarity that is desperately needed in these times” — Joy James, editor of Beyond Cop Cities. A small white logo sits in the bottom right corner.
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🔴 Egyptian court orders closure of Mada Masr, one of the country’s last remaining independent outlets:
🚨 BREAKING: An Egyptian court has fined Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah 3 million Egyptian pounds, ordered the closure of the independent news outlet’s website and the confiscation of its property. Attalah was taken into custody following the ruling.
The court rejected the defense’s requests to present documents and call witnesses. The judge then abruptly appointed a lawyer unknown to Attalah’s defense team. Attalah objected, but the judge refused to record her objection in the court minutes, according to Mada Masr.
The judge then began recording requests on behalf of the court-appointed lawyer, who had not spoken, before reading out the conviction amid protests from the defense.
Mada Masr, one of Egypt's last remaining independent news outlets, has repeatedly applied for a license since 2018 and has never received a response from Egyptian authorities.
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BREAKING 🇧🇷 Lula Da Silva has won a historic victory in Brazil’s Presidential election, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro and overcoming an unprecedented attack on the nation’s democracy.
excited to be in this packed issue with a piece on normalization as a tool of imperialism in the Arab and Iranian region
The new issue of Tribune is out soon.
- Andreas Malm on Trump II
- @comrade_kumar_ on chokepoint resistance
- @nihalist___ on Zionism
- @joshua_craze on Sudan
- @LJFinlayson on Pal Action
- Dispatches from ten countries in the US crosshairs
Get it here: tribunemag.co.uk/subscribe/?…
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The new issue of Tribune is out soon.
- Andreas Malm on Trump II
- @comrade_kumar_ on chokepoint resistance
- @nihalist___ on Zionism
- @joshua_craze on Sudan
- @LJFinlayson on Pal Action
- Dispatches from ten countries in the US crosshairs
Get it here: tribunemag.co.uk/subscribe/?…
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Just once, I’d like the BBC to centre a Palestinian whose family has been displaced and slaughtered in the name of zionism, instead of someone whose feelings are hurt because a British party called zionism, a racist ideology, racist.
- @RMCunliffe
“I am a Jewish woman being called antisemitic. I don’t think you would sit here & lecture somebody of any other religion or race on what counted as bigotry or racism towards them in the way you have explicitly called me antisemitic..I don’t think you would do that
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Went on BBC Politics Live to discuss why Zionism is a racist ideology. The anchor and all three panelists looked like they were about to cry at the end. Very weird behaviour.
Join the Green Party.
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I wrote about Michael Olise and how I’m tired of the Ballon d’Or being the center of conversations about great players, which leads to rival fans denigrating wonderful players in order to boost their favorites
theguardian.com/football/202…
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جماهير الأهلي والزمالك تهتف ضد إسرائيل خلال مباراة القمة.. وترفع لافتات احتفالًا بذكرى انتصارات أكتوبر والعبور عام 1973
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It's Canadian writer Anne Carson. Read Alaa Alqaisi's essay "Translating the Unseen: Gaza’s Sky and Anne Carson’s Vision":
arablit.org/2025/02/10/trans…
it’s 2018 again except people aren’t buying fake antisemitism accusations anymore
Greens investigate party member behind Zionism motion bbc.in/4hwcb5M
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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“Zionism is racism” is a practical motion, despite confused insistence otherwise. This is because, to counter genocide, you must be clear on the ideology driving it. We don’t say “Hutu Power means many things to many people” — the driving force behind Rwandan genocide, do we?
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Spot on. Despite the hysteria, this has now been forced into the open and many people are having their eyes opened for the first time.
crucial from Nasser Abu Rahmeh on seeing Zionism and anti-Zionism from a Palestinian and Arab lens
"What anti-Zionism ultimately amounts to...is a liberation of land and people that is indifferent to Zionism’s self-image. As such, it does not demand a relational ethics; it demands a liberatory praxis.”
-Nasser Abourahme
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sorry this is how you find out that the Home Office has now adopted this policy
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revisiting this essay on the anniversary of the 1973 October War
I wrote a long essay on the effect of the establishment of Israel in the Arab a region on Egypt's modernization journey, why Egypt had to be taken out of the equation first, how the Camp David accords can explain the current moment and more for TNI
tni.org/en/article/the-condi…
