Critical Social Science Insights

🚨Be sure to listen to @GhassanAbuSitt1 and @FranceskAlbs offering a critical commentary on Israel's intentional targeting of Gaza's medical infrastructure.🏥 This details a pattern of such attacks over the prior 1.5 years.🧵 youtube.com/watch?v=Xs39Xd…

“Those who go to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's food distributions know that they have the same chance of receiving a sack of flour as they do of leaving with a bullet in their head.” The latest update from our colleagues in Gaza: msf.org/msf-finds-1-4-…

🚨 The Freedom Flotilla Coalition says a vessel and a drone is approaching the Handala Gaza aid flotilla. The flotilla is hours away from Gaza — closer to Gaza than where other flotillas intercepted by Israel have gone in the past

"They lost their father, the love, compassion and security he gave them, and they also lost their legs, the ability to move and play. Everything beautiful in their lives is gone. Their childhood was stolen. What did they do to deserve such devastation?” counterpunch.org/2025/07/25/eve…

“Rates of severe malnutrition among children aged under five at Médecins Sans Frontières’ Gaza City clinic have tripled in the last two weeks”

🚨🏥"Liberation Medicine During Genocide" - @jadaliyya conversation w/ @GhassanAbuSitt1 youtube.com/watch?v=OpjAtL…📺

Doctors report horrifying symptoms unseen in modern times—hair loss, fluid retention, and organ failure. A whole generation now faces lifelong cognitive and physical impairments due to starvation during critical brain development years. One doctor said: “Israel has used the…

While starving Gaza and its 80% refugee population, Israel is expanding its war on Palestinian refugees—and on their very ‘refugee-ness’—in the West Bank. Our updated analysis shows that the Israeli military is continuing to carve up the refugee camps of Tulkarm, Jenin and Nur…

"The violence & brutality we are witnessing today demand more than passive observation;they demand collective moral action.The tragedy unfolding in Gaza is not an isolated incident; it is part of a broader pattern of state violence & genocide"-@HenryGiroux laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/…

Columbia’s suspension of 80 students for the Basel al-Araj Popular University is the largest mass suspension in campus history, the harshest mass disciplinary action by any school since 10/7, and likely the highest # of students disciplined for Palestine ever in U.S. academia.

"The announcement came after the publishers had demanded that the articles be submitted to a legal review late into the process–a step the authors found highly unusual & called a 'dangerous form of institutional censorship' in a joint letter objecting..." theguardian.com/education/2025…

Wow ! The #US has carried out 52 airstrikes in #Somalia within the past six months alone under #Trump's second term as president - which officially surpasses the total number of #US airstrikes (51) conducted during all four years under Ex president #Biden newamerica.org/future-securit…

🚨One of our lifesaving clinics has been forced to close after the Israeli military issued new forced displacement orders. This is an attack on humanitarian operations that will sever the last remaining threads of Gaza’s health and aid system. Read more: map.org.uk/news/archive/p…

An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities: Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist. google.com/amp/s/www.alja…

BREAKING: The only meal hospital staff in Gaza were receiving — provided by World Central Kitchen — has stopped. WCK has run out of food. Doctors, nurses, paramedics — already collapsing from exhaustion — now have nothing to eat. They are saving lives while starving. This is…

In the midst of genocide, how to combat scholasticide and protect our students' right to education and a future in the midst of death and destruction. An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities aje.io/66loh2 via @AJEnglish

I just checked all of the major news sites and not a single one has a story about the starvation of the entire population of Gaza, which is at a crisis point. Palestinians are dehumanized every single day and their suffering inflicted by Israel erased and normalized.