Basema باسمه

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. ~Albert Einstein

نشرت مجندة اسرائيلية صورا لها من منزل جنوبي.. أكثر ما يوجع في هذه الصورة أنها تجعل الفقدان قاسياً إلى حدّ لا يُحتمل. الحديث هنا عن بيت ما زالت فيه خضاره، ما زالت فيه حياة أهله، لكنهم هم وحدهم الغائبون قسراً. هم ممنوعون من العودة، فيما جندية من جيش الاحتلال تدخل المكان، تقطف وتطبخ وتضحك كأن البيت بلا أصحاب. كأن القرى الخمس والخمسين الممنوعة على أهل الجنوب لم تُفرغ من ناسها، وكأن هذا الخراب كله لا يكفي. المشهد مهين لأنّه يختصر كل شيء: اقتلاع الناس من أرضهم، ثم تحويل بيوتهم وحدائقهم إلى مساحة مباحة للغزاة. هذا احتلال وإهانة متعمدة لذاكرة الناس وكرامتهم وحقهم البديهي في أن يعودوا إلى ما زرعوه بأيديهم.

Palestinian children were prevented from going to school by razor wire and Israeli soldiers — so they sat down and studied right in front of them

Teacher Ahmad Atallah shares the English language exam taken by the young "moon" Yousef Ashtiyeh before his martyrdom today in Nablus. On the exam paper, instead of grading, the teacher wrote in red ink:

A conversation with Narges Bajoghli about her reporting on the spectacular success of Iran’s new generation of meme warriors – and the new global audience formed by the experience of watching the destruction of Gaza equator.org/articles/iran-…

This is only the second volume I have seen published about African resistance to the slave trade. The other is a critical anthology by Senegalese scholar Sylvia Diouf.

A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan Eve M. Troutt Powell . Univ of California Pr 2016 sahistory.org.za/archive/differ… PDF 🎯 sahistory.org.za/sites/default/…

Ontluisterend! Ook CDA stemt met rechts mee om medische evacuatie van KINDEREN uit GAZA niet mogelijk te maken. Niks barmhartigheid of solidariteit. Schaam jullie! @HenriBontenbal @JudithBuhler Motie: 23432-724 De situatie in het Midden-Oosten

“If you want to erase people’s memory, their sense of cultural and historical belonging to a land, you destroy their monuments. You destroy their memory of the past.” Archaeologists have built an interactive map geolocating every damaged site in Iran: humanities.uci.edu/news/heritage-…

During an online PhD interview, the candidate pauses to say: “Sorry… they're bombing here. I'm a bit stressed.” Some realities shouldn't exist. 😞

The Hormuz oil shock has made it possible to see how American hegemony ends. A brilliant new essay by @MonaAli_NY_US on the ‘hydrocarbon dollar complex’ and the emergence of a new international order:

The saddest advisory: after at least 100 Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, advice should you come across a parentless child. It says stay calm and reassure them, take them to the nearest rescue centre, call the authorities

Israeli forces killed prominent academic and humanitarian Dr. Ali Zaiter, director of the Institute of Social Sciences (First Branch) at the Lebanese University.

Ussama Makdisi on how the success of Zionism shattered the religious pluralism of the Levant aeon.co/essays/what-ha… via @aeonmag

Today was one of the most horrifying days of my life as an academic. Walking through Iran University of Science and Technology, a top-ranked public university in Iran, I was struck by the devastation. Only last month, this campus was alive with students, bustling between classrooms. Now, parts of the campus lie in ruins, classrooms shattered, hallways choked with dust and shattered glass. I saw the offices of professors burned. A newly renovated building, where students gathered for programs, for socializing, for life, destructed. One student, tearfully, told me: “My professor’s office was still burning a little. That’s where I used to wait for office hours. To ask questions. To appeal my grade.” This is the same university that launched Iran’s Omid and Zafar 2 satellites, symbols of homegrown technological achievement. A week ago, one of its professors was assassinated. Yesterday, they bombed it. From sanctions to targeted killings, to the bombing of research centers and universities, there’s a clear pattern: de-development & de-industrialisation/ the systematic dismantling of a nation’s indigenous development, its industrial base, its capacity to stand on its own. We will never forget that as the American and Zionist war criminals blatantly target universities, schools, hospitals/ assassinating professors and killing children, and after 2 years or genocice, western intellectuals are still debating whether or not to pass a symbolic, non-enforceable BDS resolution. Photos taken by me, full report incoming.

“They have stolen my harvest and taken everything from us they’ve left us with absolutely nothing. They’ve destroyed our identity.” A Palestinian grandfather cries after Zionist settlers destroyed his olive groves and stole the olives in Tulkarem (West Bank).

Ultimately, it was about the formation of a new Christian Papuan lineage. How did Papuans react to all this at the time?

"Why would a gender historian concern themselves with missionary work? Or a historian of colonial missions with gender? Geertje Mak wrote a microhistory of a handful of missionary couples, their children, and their many Papuan foster children, who had been bought out of slavery."

The latter play a central role in the question of how ‘good intentions’ could simultaneously support the Dutch colonial project. Sexuality, upbringing and the household – in the sense of oikos – were central.

📢 New Publication Alert! Published a few weeks ago, but with the war and blood and tears in 🇵🇸 and 🇱🇧, I’ve only just gotten around to sharing this. 📰 THE FALL AND RISE OF SOVEREIGNTY in @BritJPIR (Open Access) 📲 doi.org/10.1177/136914…

Ha muerto el historiador Walid Khalidi, referente académico y autor de grandes libros sobre Palestina. Profesor de Estudios Políticos en la Universidad Americana de Beirut, socio investigador del Centro Harvard para Asuntos Internacionales y profesor en Princeton. Aprendí con sus investigaciones, las usé para uno de mis posgrados y fueron durante muchos años compañeras de mis días