I just returned from the encampment at GWU, organized by hundreds of students from campuses across the DMV. Some initial thoughts: the students are more than all right. They’re teaching us another world is possible. As a teacher, I am in awe. Our students have done the reading. They’ve discussed the material thoroughly & in depth, both in class & outside. They are not regurgitating anyone’s lectures. They are not asking “will this be on the final exam?” They know diplomas are made of paper.

Renowned author of airport books, @harari_yuval advocates the ethnic cleansing of Gaza as a form of humanitarianism.

Haaretz 4/18 @harari_yuval Let me clarify my objection to his essay and expand on the words I posted yesterday.

#FromTheRiverToTheSea has a long history as a slogan.

(FWIW, I’m a scholar of political slogans in the Arab world.) 🧵

من النهر إلى البحر، فلسطين ستتحرر
فلسطين عربية من المياه للمياه According to sources, it emerged in the wake of the 1947 UN partition plan that sought to divide Palestine into two states. In that context, its meaning had to do with Palestinian aspirations to maintain a undivided national homeland between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean

Fifty years ago this month, Egyptian university students launched one of the great uprisings in modern history. Their efforts and accomplishments should be remembered by anyone who cheered for #25Jan

#انتفاضةـالطلاب Jan 1972: engineering students @ Cairo University organize a Palestine solidarity exhibit. Within days, this grows into a mass protest.
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