SeyedSajjad Hasheminejad
@sajjad-hashemi.bsky.social
Iranian teacher, former student activist, now also a translator and amateur political social commentator
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‘In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier.’
New: Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
New: Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October
The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
‘In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier.’
New: Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
New: Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘In taking Palestine Action activists to court on charges of criminal damage, they risk exposing the chasm between government policy and public opinion. It is not terror the government fears, but embarrassment.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, in the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, in the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
‘In taking Palestine Action activists to court on charges of criminal damage, they risk exposing the chasm between government policy and public opinion. It is not terror the government fears, but embarrassment.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, in the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, in the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Valuable read here:
My latest on Hauntologies. Reflections on Elia Suleiman's 'The Time That Remains', Kubrick's 'Spartacus' and Omar El Akkad's 'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This' www.hauntologies.net/p/spartacus-...
Spartacus in Palestine
Elia Suleiman's The Time That Remains
www.hauntologies.net
March 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Valuable read here:
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“We are witnessing neoliberal authoritarianism,” Joseph Daher explains, as institutions prioritize political expediency over fundamental rights. “Academia is a battleground, and repression is growing.”
Read this ITV conducted by @walidhouri.bsky.social
Read this ITV conducted by @walidhouri.bsky.social
The Crackdown on Academic Freedom in Europe: A Conversation with Joseph Daher - Untold
As Western governments crack down on Palestine solidarity, universities are increasingly complicit in suppressing critical voices—Joseph Daher’s case is just the latest in a broader pattern of repress...
untoldmag.org
March 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“We are witnessing neoliberal authoritarianism,” Joseph Daher explains, as institutions prioritize political expediency over fundamental rights. “Academia is a battleground, and repression is growing.”
Read this ITV conducted by @walidhouri.bsky.social
Read this ITV conducted by @walidhouri.bsky.social
Interesting article in Yes Magazine! on efforts to pursue communal restorative justice practices in carceral settings:
www.yesmagazine.org/racial-justi...
www.yesmagazine.org/racial-justi...
A Prison-Based Program Interrupts the Cycle of Violence
The California Institution for Men connects survivors with those who have caused harm.
www.yesmagazine.org
March 11, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Interesting article in Yes Magazine! on efforts to pursue communal restorative justice practices in carceral settings:
www.yesmagazine.org/racial-justi...
www.yesmagazine.org/racial-justi...
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In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s drive to acquire territory as property—starkly exemplified by Trump's egregious “Gaza development plan.”
proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine
In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...
proteanmag.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s drive to acquire territory as property—starkly exemplified by Trump's egregious “Gaza development plan.”
proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
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Trump's gripe is that $ supremacy may confer huge powers on US gvt & ruling class, but, ultimately, foreigners are using it in ways that guarantee US decline. So what most consider to be America’s exorbitant privilege, he sees as its exorbitant burden. unherd.com/2025/02/why-...
Donald Trump's economic masterplan
unherd.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Trump's gripe is that $ supremacy may confer huge powers on US gvt & ruling class, but, ultimately, foreigners are using it in ways that guarantee US decline. So what most consider to be America’s exorbitant privilege, he sees as its exorbitant burden. unherd.com/2025/02/why-...
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‘By the end of 1949 the Dutch had killed almost a hundred thousand Indonesians – twenty for every soldier they had lost – and war crimes had claimed more lives than regular combat.’
@vincentbevins.bsky.social on the Indonesian revolution: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@vincentbevins.bsky.social on the Indonesian revolution: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Vincent Bevins · Operation Product: Revolution in Indonesia
Indonesia was the first country to declare independence in the wake of the Second World War, shortly after the surrender...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
‘By the end of 1949 the Dutch had killed almost a hundred thousand Indonesians – twenty for every soldier they had lost – and war crimes had claimed more lives than regular combat.’
@vincentbevins.bsky.social on the Indonesian revolution: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@vincentbevins.bsky.social on the Indonesian revolution: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Biden, Blinken & Austin Accused of Complicity in Israeli War Crimes in Gaza; ICC Urged to Investigate
Biden, Blinken & Austin Accused of Complicity in Israeli War Crimes in Gaza; ICC Urged to Investigate
DAWN, a D.C.-based nonprofit organization that supports democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa, is asking the International Criminal Court to investigate former President Joe Biden,...
www.democracynow.org
February 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Biden, Blinken & Austin Accused of Complicity in Israeli War Crimes in Gaza; ICC Urged to Investigate
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Today marks one year since Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the genocide in Gaza.
“I just want people to remember his message,” said Bushnell’s friend, Levi Pierpont, when we spoke with him in the days following the death.
“I just want people to remember his message,” said Bushnell’s friend, Levi Pierpont, when we spoke with him in the days following the death.
February 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Today marks one year since Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the genocide in Gaza.
“I just want people to remember his message,” said Bushnell’s friend, Levi Pierpont, when we spoke with him in the days following the death.
“I just want people to remember his message,” said Bushnell’s friend, Levi Pierpont, when we spoke with him in the days following the death.
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