John Palmer
@johnrbpalmer.bsky.social
End the US-Israeli genocide and apartheid. Free Palestine.
"Quizás podamos despojarnos del miedo y empezar a hablar abiertamente: difundir cualquier idea (también la justificación del crimen) no amplía la democracia, sino que abre la puerta al fascismo, y en la universidad convivimos con el fascismo."
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Sionismo en la universidad. Defender lo indefendible, nombrar lo innombrable
Quizás podamos despojarnos del miedo y empezar a hablar abiertamente: difundir cualquier idea (también la justificación del crimen) no amplía la democracia, sino que abre la puerta al fascismo, y en l...
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January 19, 2026 at 8:56 AM
"Quizás podamos despojarnos del miedo y empezar a hablar abiertamente: difundir cualquier idea (también la justificación del crimen) no amplía la democracia, sino que abre la puerta al fascismo, y en la universidad convivimos con el fascismo."
www.elsaltodiario.com/la-universid...
www.elsaltodiario.com/la-universid...
"Dr. Abu Safiya is being held without charge in arbitrary detention, subjected to extended solitary confinement in a cold, damp, windowless cell, perhaps in the notorious Israeli torture camp Sde Teiman, perhaps elsewhere, enduring physical abuse and torture..." lithub.com/how-the-new-...
How the New York Times Failed Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
On October 29, 2023, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician and neonatologist based at Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahiya, published an op-ed in the New York Times. …
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January 17, 2026 at 7:40 PM
"Dr. Abu Safiya is being held without charge in arbitrary detention, subjected to extended solitary confinement in a cold, damp, windowless cell, perhaps in the notorious Israeli torture camp Sde Teiman, perhaps elsewhere, enduring physical abuse and torture..." lithub.com/how-the-new-...
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"The insurrection that’s supposedly happening here is, as they say in horror movies, coming from inside the house. It’s not from the people of Minneapolis. It’s from the ICE agents themselves who are fomenting this violence."
— Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.democracynow.org/2026/1/16/in...
— Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.democracynow.org/2026/1/16/in...
“Autocratic Power Grab”: Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Deploy Troops to Minnesota
Following Minneapolis protests in response to the ICE killing of Renee Good, President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act Thursday, a move that would allow him to send military forces to…
www.democracynow.org
January 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM
"The insurrection that’s supposedly happening here is, as they say in horror movies, coming from inside the house. It’s not from the people of Minneapolis. It’s from the ICE agents themselves who are fomenting this violence."
— Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.democracynow.org/2026/1/16/in...
— Baher Azmy, Legal Director www.democracynow.org/2026/1/16/in...
EU citizens: Please sign on to this important initiative to fully suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement:
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European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
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January 17, 2026 at 5:56 PM
EU citizens: Please sign on to this important initiative to fully suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement:
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
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By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.
The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War
By framing the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.
interc.pt
January 4, 2026 at 7:59 PM
By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.
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We must insist on drawing connections across time and place — from the Holocaust to Gaza, or ICE detention to Israeli prisons — to disrupt the normalization of authoritarianism at every turn.
By Amahl Bishara
www.972mag.com/fascism-amer...
By Amahl Bishara
www.972mag.com/fascism-amer...
Fighting fascism in America during a genocide in Palestine
We must insist on drawing connections across time and place — from the Holocaust to Gaza, or ICE detention to Israeli prisons — to disrupt the normalization of authoritarianism at every turn.
www.972mag.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
We must insist on drawing connections across time and place — from the Holocaust to Gaza, or ICE detention to Israeli prisons — to disrupt the normalization of authoritarianism at every turn.
By Amahl Bishara
www.972mag.com/fascism-amer...
By Amahl Bishara
www.972mag.com/fascism-amer...
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Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity, shining with human warmth.
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity, shining with human warmth.
"In the masks and guns of the federal agents, we see the riot gear of the Ferguson cops, the billy clubs of the Alabama state troopers, the Klansman’s hood. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, we see the power of solidarity." hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...
War at Home
A record of ICE’s assault on immigrants and the people’s resistance.
hammerandhope.org
January 4, 2026 at 9:13 PM
"In the masks and guns of the federal agents, we see the riot gear of the Ferguson cops, the billy clubs of the Alabama state troopers, the Klansman’s hood. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, we see the power of solidarity." hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...
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My primer on German cultural politics in the October issue of @thenation.com brings together stories first reported separately, but need to be understood in concert. It’s the companion piece to my text on the US art world. “Fascism repeats itself: first as antisemitism, then as anti-antisemitism.”
How Germany Silenced Its Artists to Support Israel
As Israel intensified its genocide in Gaza, Germany ramped up its long-simmering war on dissent, silencing Palestine solidarity while bolstering its own far right.
www.thenation.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My primer on German cultural politics in the October issue of @thenation.com brings together stories first reported separately, but need to be understood in concert. It’s the companion piece to my text on the US art world. “Fascism repeats itself: first as antisemitism, then as anti-antisemitism.”
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From Palestine to Venezuela: We call for unity in the struggle for self-determination and for collective solidarity against the genocidal US-Israel axis.
Read our full statement: loom.ly/0PcQonE
Read our full statement: loom.ly/0PcQonE
From Palestine to Venezuela
We call for unity in the struggle for self-determination and for collective solidarity against the genocidal US-Israel axis.
loom.ly
January 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
From Palestine to Venezuela: We call for unity in the struggle for self-determination and for collective solidarity against the genocidal US-Israel axis.
Read our full statement: loom.ly/0PcQonE
Read our full statement: loom.ly/0PcQonE
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Research Seminar | The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza (Book Launch)
⏰ Monday, October 20th from 12:00 to 13:30
Key speaker: Martin Shaw (IBEI & University of Sussex, UK)
🔎 Join us!
Click here for registration 👉 t.ly/QOfAH
#IBEIresearchSeminar
⏰ Monday, October 20th from 12:00 to 13:30
Key speaker: Martin Shaw (IBEI & University of Sussex, UK)
🔎 Join us!
Click here for registration 👉 t.ly/QOfAH
#IBEIresearchSeminar
October 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Research Seminar | The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza (Book Launch)
⏰ Monday, October 20th from 12:00 to 13:30
Key speaker: Martin Shaw (IBEI & University of Sussex, UK)
🔎 Join us!
Click here for registration 👉 t.ly/QOfAH
#IBEIresearchSeminar
⏰ Monday, October 20th from 12:00 to 13:30
Key speaker: Martin Shaw (IBEI & University of Sussex, UK)
🔎 Join us!
Click here for registration 👉 t.ly/QOfAH
#IBEIresearchSeminar
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📢 Estem organitzant la mani amb 🇵🇸 que encara no hem vist. Fes córrer la veu per desbordar els carrers de Barcelona #AturemElGenodici
❌ Per la fi del comerç d'armes amb Israel, pel trencament de totes les relacions amb Israel.
🍉 Per una #PalestinaLliure del riu al mar.
El 4-O totes al carrer! ❤️🔥
❌ Per la fi del comerç d'armes amb Israel, pel trencament de totes les relacions amb Israel.
🍉 Per una #PalestinaLliure del riu al mar.
El 4-O totes al carrer! ❤️🔥
September 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
📢 Estem organitzant la mani amb 🇵🇸 que encara no hem vist. Fes córrer la veu per desbordar els carrers de Barcelona #AturemElGenodici
❌ Per la fi del comerç d'armes amb Israel, pel trencament de totes les relacions amb Israel.
🍉 Per una #PalestinaLliure del riu al mar.
El 4-O totes al carrer! ❤️🔥
❌ Per la fi del comerç d'armes amb Israel, pel trencament de totes les relacions amb Israel.
🍉 Per una #PalestinaLliure del riu al mar.
El 4-O totes al carrer! ❤️🔥
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Palestinian civil society calls for an immediate build-up to a Weekend of Global Disruption between 18 – 21 September against complicity in Israel's genocide against Palestinians. #DisruptComplicity
August 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Palestinian civil society calls for an immediate build-up to a Weekend of Global Disruption between 18 – 21 September against complicity in Israel's genocide against Palestinians. #DisruptComplicity
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Read the whole thing. Terrifying.
Can one of hakeem's constituents call his office and ask if this is a stunt or a distraction www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
ICE released this Mass. mom with no phone, 30 miles from home in the rain after detainment for a sealed marijuana conviction
Federal authorities refused to tell the Canton woman's husband or lawyer on what grounds she was being detained until shortly before her release.
www.masslive.com
August 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Read the whole thing. Terrifying.
Please watch Dr. Shahd Abusalama's latest interview on Electronic Intifada and urgently figure out what you can do to support her campaigns to save remaining family members and loved ones trapped in Gaza, to stop the genocide, and to free Palestine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IaU....
Israel turned the home where I was born into a mass grave, with Shahd Abusalama
YouTube video by The Electronic Intifada
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August 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Please watch Dr. Shahd Abusalama's latest interview on Electronic Intifada and urgently figure out what you can do to support her campaigns to save remaining family members and loved ones trapped in Gaza, to stop the genocide, and to free Palestine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IaU....
Given Israel's massive, systematic human rights violations and international crimes, it is appalling that the EU has not yet suspended its Association Agreement, suspended ties with Israeli research institutions, or revoked Israel's Horizon Europe status. johnrbpalmer.com/letter_2025_...
johnrbpalmer.com
June 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Given Israel's massive, systematic human rights violations and international crimes, it is appalling that the EU has not yet suspended its Association Agreement, suspended ties with Israeli research institutions, or revoked Israel's Horizon Europe status. johnrbpalmer.com/letter_2025_...