Rima Najjar

“Both Iran and Israel reject the Enlightenment’s universalist project — yet only one requires the elimination of another people.” Read: Endurance and Elimination: Iran, Zionism, and America’s Strategic Captivity rimanajjar.medium.com/endurance-and-… #usiranceasefire

I just published A Superpower Besieged: America Acts Like a Cornered Animal — and the World Will Pay the Price medium.com/p/a-superpower… #HurmozCrisis #IranUSIsraelWar #SiegeMentality #AmericanDecline #IslamabadTAlks

“While others hedge, Jordan reassures—concentrating its risk in a single direction just as the region becomes more volatile.” Read: rimanajjar.medium.com/jordan-reassur… #JordanTrap #ArabAlignment #IranIsraelWar #USIranWar #SmallStateSurvival

I just published Calling Iran a ‘civilizational state’ is not wrong; it is incomplete. Why Depth Is Only Acknowledged When Bombs Fail — And Why Arab Societies and Palestinians Remain Denied It medium.com/p/calling-iran… #Iran #Palestine #MiddleEast #Orientalism #Geopolitics

No Kings Day: Knowing Without Feeling “Analysts sound urgent alarms, but American protesters often resemble Krypton’s leaders ... Read: rimanajjar.medium.com/no-kings-day-k… #NoKingsDay #KnowingWithoutFeeling #IranWar #SystemicRupture #ProtestAsUsual

The God-like power to name remains influential yet never absolute “The current war on Iran has become, in part, a contest over cartographic authority.." rimanajjar.medium.com/when-the-middl… #WestAsia #MiddleEast #NamingPower #DecolonialGeography #USIsraelWarOnIran

I just published Trump’s ‘Present’ and the Asymmetry of Escalation in the Strait of Hormuz — A Reassessment medium.com/p/trumps-prese… #StraitOfHormuz #Geopolitics #USIran #MiddleEastAnalysis #AsymmetricWarfare

I just published The Iran War, Masar Badil, and the Unraveling of U.S. Hegemonic Authority: A Legitimacy Crisis Accelerated by War medium.com/p/the-iran-war… #USIsraelWarOnIran #MasarBadil #GlobalSouth #Sovereignty #Hegemony

I just published Masar Badil in São Paulo: Defiance, Organizing, and Critical Reflection When empires tighten their grip, the revolutionary response is not retreat, but a bolder, more internationalist advance medium.com/p/masar-badil-… #MasarBadil #PalestinaLivre

Why did The Telegraph lead with 'Jewish judge' instead of the actual ruling? medium.com/p/jewish-judge… #PalestineAction #MediaBias #FreePalestine #UKPolitics #ProtestRights

Whose Dead Are Allowed to Appear? The Olympic ideal, so comfortable with the wounded body as symbol, recoils from the wounded voice as testimony. medium.com/p/whose-dead-a… #WinterOlympics2026 #Rule50IsNotNeutral #IluoghidiMiCo2026 #WhoseDeadCount #OlympicHypocrisy

I just published Annexation’s Race Against Time: Israel’s West Bank Push vs. Mobilizing Global Accountability medium.com/p/annexations-… #WestBankAnnexation #EndIsraeliImpunity #InternationalLaw #AccountabilityNow #StopSettlementExpansion

I just published Penguin’s Dilemma: Marwan Barghouti’s Forthcoming Unbroken as a Stress Test for the Cold War… medium.com/p/penguins-dil… #MarwanBarghouti #UnbrokenBook #FreeMarwanBarghouti #DissidentWriting #PrisonLiterature

Trolls, porn spam, and “sugar daddy” solicitations are growing pains of a new platform, not its agenda share.upscrolled.com/en/post/b61600…

More than Code: Breaking the Limits of Palestinian Digital Freedom through Endurance and Solidarity rimanajjar.medium.com/more-than-code… #MoreThanCode #PalestinianDigitalFreedom #HybridExit #DigitalSolidarity #NoShadowban #TechForPalestine #UpScrolled

I just published More than Code: Breaking the Limits of Palestinian Digital Freedom through Endurance and Solidarity medium.com/p/more-than-co…

I just published How UpScrolled Must Resist Capture: A Map of the Nine Pressure Points medium.com/p/how-upscroll… #DigitalResistance #UpScrolled #NoCensorship #FreePalestine #PlatformCapture”

I just published Chehade v. Foley & Lardner: A Court Refuses to Silence Palestinian Speech Beyond “Core Values” Read: rimanajjar.medium.com/chehade-v-fole… #JinanChehade #RimaKapitan #PalestinianRights #EmploymentDiscrimination #FreeSpeech

I just published Trump’s “New Gaza” Proposal: Historic Parallels, Economic Fragility, and the Limits of Imposed Reconstruction medium.com/p/trumps-new-g… #GazaReconstruction #PalestinianSovereignty #ImposedGovernance #ReconstructionPolitics #PalestinianResilience

Published "Bleakness is Relative: What Al-Haq’s Complaint Against Nir Barkat Reveals About the Limits — and Uses — of Universal Jurisdiction at Davos" Al-Haq forces platforms to confront what they host: “Davos cannot be a safe haven for war criminals” medium.com/p/bleakness-is…