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No more excuses. The international community must force Israel to end the occupation. Responding to the ICJ’s advisory opinion, B'Tselem says: Over the past 57 years, Israel has demonstrated it has no intention of ending the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem...

My review article of Zoller's "Indo-Aryan and the Linguistic History and Prehistory of North India" is now out in "Kratylos": kratylos.reichert-online.org/article/KRATYL…

Now out in Bhāṣā (open access): My article on Gāndhārī orthography/phonology and how it relates to the modern Indo-Aryan languages of the far northwest: doi.org/10.30687/bhash…

New Akkadian dictionary project at Leipzig: saw-leipzig.de/de/presse/pres…

Now available for download from the publication server of the University of Cologne: The revised and expanded version of my dissertation “A Grammatical Description of the Katë Language (Nuristani)” kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/73732/ Proper book publication coming a while later.

Proto Sarada writings: A new #Indology project @Uni_Wue & @unil is focussing on a hitherto little-researched period of ancient Indian history: the time of transition from #Buddhism to #Hinduism in the northwest of #India. Funded @dfg_public @snf_ch ➡️ uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-ev…

"What I'm the most scared of is that the President is using us as justification for slaughter. That he's making Jews the face of the American war machine and I want my community to be clear-eyed and consider what that means for us.... it doesn't make us safe." -@LGreenbergCall

My contribution to the "Roots of Peristan" conference volume: "Nuristani Theonyms in Light of Historical Phonology" (with some updates and corrections in the margins) researchgate.net/publication/38…

Stellungnahme: Wir fordern, dass die Ausladung Nancy Frasers von der Albertus Magnus Professur an der Universität zu Köln zurückgenommen wird. Ihr findet den gesamten Text hier im Thread und auf unserer Webseite: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/interventions/…

A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German…

Good new commentary article from Piha, Heikkilä & Häkkinen on some common errors made in interdisciplinary research on prehistory; in particular on still-lingering echoes of equating languages, archeological cultures or genetic groups with peoples (or each other).

Obsessed with this Nuristani folklore song 🏔 #Nuristan

Good morning form cloudy and rainy Barge Matal, Nuristan 🇦🇫 @Nuristantribune

A short etymological note on Bactrian λαδο 'law' and its likely descendants in Nuristani, which I wrote around two years ago, is now finally out in the Bulletin of SOAS (Open Access): doi.org/10.1017/S00419…

.@mashagessen for @NewYorker on Germany and Europe's perverse Holocaust memory culture, and how it frustrates discussion and understanding of Israel and Gaza: newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…