Lisa Hajjar
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo.
We live in the dystopian world Dick Cheney made. Alligator Alcatraz, masked ICE agents disappearing brown people, blowing up random boats of people declared "enemy combatants" in a "war" with no borders, unfettered presidential power. Cheney created the lawless executive power Trump now exploits.
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We live in the dystopian world Dick Cheney made. Alligator Alcatraz, masked ICE agents disappearing brown people, blowing up random boats of people declared "enemy combatants" in a "war" with no borders, unfettered presidential power. Cheney created the lawless executive power Trump now exploits.
Engineering Destruction: Militarization and the War Economy
29-31 July online and at Birzeit
This conference is organized by the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute of International Studies, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Security in Context, and the National Pedagogical University in Colombia
29-31 July online and at Birzeit
This conference is organized by the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute of International Studies, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Security in Context, and the National Pedagogical University in Colombia
July 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Engineering Destruction: Militarization and the War Economy
29-31 July online and at Birzeit
This conference is organized by the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute of International Studies, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Security in Context, and the National Pedagogical University in Colombia
29-31 July online and at Birzeit
This conference is organized by the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute of International Studies, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Security in Context, and the National Pedagogical University in Colombia
Hey @secdef.govpeeps.us @secdef.govpeeps.us THIS is what a war fighting hero looks like. Harriet Tubman is the best of us. When you peer in the mirror, you will see a cowardly incompetent loser. Don't ever forget that you are pathetic. Your best quality is your hairdo. #HairdoHegseth
June 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hey @secdef.govpeeps.us @secdef.govpeeps.us THIS is what a war fighting hero looks like. Harriet Tubman is the best of us. When you peer in the mirror, you will see a cowardly incompetent loser. Don't ever forget that you are pathetic. Your best quality is your hairdo. #HairdoHegseth
"We cannot give everyone a trial" before we decree them guilty and disappear them into a foreign torture prison, grunts our mad king.
This kind of sovereign kingly abuse was banished by habeas corpus and the Magna Carta.
Trump wants to make the Dark Ages great again.
This kind of sovereign kingly abuse was banished by habeas corpus and the Magna Carta.
Trump wants to make the Dark Ages great again.
April 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"We cannot give everyone a trial" before we decree them guilty and disappear them into a foreign torture prison, grunts our mad king.
This kind of sovereign kingly abuse was banished by habeas corpus and the Magna Carta.
Trump wants to make the Dark Ages great again.
This kind of sovereign kingly abuse was banished by habeas corpus and the Magna Carta.
Trump wants to make the Dark Ages great again.
Let's not forget the Guantánamo phenomenon.
April 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Let's not forget the Guantánamo phenomenon.
Dehumanizing realities are redundant.
April 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Dehumanizing realities are redundant.
Smells like guilloTEEN SPIRIT.
March 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Smells like guilloTEEN SPIRIT.
Primary every one of these folks. No extra credit for keeping Dem chairs warm. Let's get a new leadership top to bottom.
March 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Primary every one of these folks. No extra credit for keeping Dem chairs warm. Let's get a new leadership top to bottom.
Say hi to the new president.
January 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Say hi to the new president.
How it started: nothing the US does can be illegal because USA is sacrosanct.
How it ended: fuck laws and norms because USA is too slimy to care about the law.
How it ended: fuck laws and norms because USA is too slimy to care about the law.
November 24, 2024 at 7:50 AM
How it started: nothing the US does can be illegal because USA is sacrosanct.
How it ended: fuck laws and norms because USA is too slimy to care about the law.
How it ended: fuck laws and norms because USA is too slimy to care about the law.
Where Netanyhu can't go if he doesn't want to be arrested--and where all rational people hope he goes for that reason.
November 22, 2024 at 5:51 AM
Where Netanyhu can't go if he doesn't want to be arrested--and where all rational people hope he goes for that reason.
Today will go down in history, the way we remember, mourn and loathe Kristallnacht. Israel perpetrated a genocidal extermination operation at the Al Shifa Hospital. Also, 7 workers from World Central Kitchen, bringing food to stave catastrophic famine conditions, were bombed.
April 2, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Today will go down in history, the way we remember, mourn and loathe Kristallnacht. Israel perpetrated a genocidal extermination operation at the Al Shifa Hospital. Also, 7 workers from World Central Kitchen, bringing food to stave catastrophic famine conditions, were bombed.
The new issue of Middle East Report is out. It's open source. Read and share.
merip.org/magazine/309/
merip.org/magazine/309/
January 31, 2024 at 2:50 PM
The new issue of Middle East Report is out. It's open source. Read and share.
merip.org/magazine/309/
merip.org/magazine/309/
Palestinian artist: Beesan Arafat
Instagram: beesanarafat
“The Bulldozer”
Instagram: beesanarafat
“The Bulldozer”
October 8, 2023 at 12:09 PM
Palestinian artist: Beesan Arafat
Instagram: beesanarafat
“The Bulldozer”
Instagram: beesanarafat
“The Bulldozer”