If Edward Said were alive now, the BDS organisation would likely cancel him for the Divan Orchestra bc it includes Jewish Israelis. In fact, BDS boycotted Divan in 2010 over Said’s widow’s objections. It even criticised Qatar for inviting Divan. Beinart is following its leaders

He was right the first time. We should be encouraging and cultivating the few Israelis willing to stand against what their government is doing. Refusing to speak at TAU does nothing to undermine the Israeli war machine. It just means students there never hear views like his.

If Edward Said were alive now, the BDS organisation would likely cancel him for the Divan Orchestra bc it includes Jewish Israelis. In fact, BDS boycotted Divan in 2010 over Said’s widow’s objections. It even criticised Qatar for inviting Divan. Beinart is following its leaders

𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟐-𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐒 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 Guest-edited by @NinaFarnia, it contains 14 interventions from 🇮🇷 scholars and beyond reflecting on the 12-Day War unleashed by US-Israel in June 2025. A must read for

Highlight - OPEN ACCESS for the next month! 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟐-𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐒 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 "The June 2025 US–Zionist aggression against Iran, launched in the shadow of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, offers a

One damaging thing about "one day, everyone will have always been against this" is that it's not true. One day, many people (Zionists, Islamophobes, white nationalists, settlers, liberal racists too) will still be for this. Saying otherwise gives cover to this historical reality.

I believe that, especially following the past few years, it has become certain to the US and Zionists that the resistance’s support base is in itself the danger to their colonial plots. That, despite decades of crimes against the resistance community, it only drove it to uphold

By speaking earlier this week at Tel Aviv University, I made a serious mistake. In the past, when formulating my views about Israel-Palestine, I’ve sought out Palestinian friends and interlocutors and listened carefully to their views. In this case, I did not. I really wanted

On the issue of genocide, It’s not so much the numbers of people killed (though that is in and of itself immense) but the total destruction of the ability to live in Gaza, on every level. It will take decades for genuine recovery.

Important to remember many of the philosophical darlings of the so-called western left contributed to much of the anti-Arab bigotry which became normalized in politics, media, rhetoric, etc.

@PeterBeinart In over 30 years as a trauma psychologist, I’ve seen this exact posture in abused women and in people caught inside cultic systems. When they speak, they frame not checking in with the group’s gatekeepers as a kind of sin, as if having an independent thought requires repentance.

One reason I cannot think of a clearer example of an Indigenous people than the Jewish People is precisely because indigeneity has never been a question of racial status or blood-and-soil logics, despite the way antizionist imperialists and fascists relentlessly try to frame it.