Mona Baker @monabaker11.bsky.social
@MonaBaker11
Affiliate Professor, University of Oslo. Co-coordinator, Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network. Oppression is not a point of view.
Using starvation as a means to strengthen counterinsurgency.
“Without hunger and thirst among the Gaza population, we will not be able to recruit collaborators, we will not be able to recruit intelligence, we will not be able to bribe people with food, with drink, with medicine.” -Tally Gotliv, member of the Knesset
I have friends who run a shelter near the UN offices in Deir al-Balah. They reached the same decision today. People cannot be moved and there is nowhere to go. They asked me to circulate this message widely. “We received evacuation orders but decided to not evacuate at all. /1
🇺🇳DEVELOPING STORY: UN staff have decided to stay in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza—despite new Israeli displacement orders and attacks. The spokesman said: “That’s our humanitarian hub. Staff is dispatched from there to different parts of Gaza. That’s where our equipment is.…
Egypt feels the heat from global climate change: newarab.com/news/egypt-fee…
✊ Dani In lunging for the flag before scuttling back to the shadows Mears is emblematic of a class of increasingly out of touch, generally older white people who run organizations in arts, politics and media. Change is coming. Dani is the future. Mears is the past. /1
“You will never work at the Opera House again.” This is the response the dancer Dani Perry got from Oliver Mears, the Royal Opera Director, for raising the Palestinian flag after a performance at the Royal Opera House in London. In addition, his act of solidarity which he said…
We are afraid for all our writers and translators, as the UN World Food Program reports that a third of all Palestinians in Gaza have not eaten for several days in a row. Please read & take action.
Read Alaa's "Beneath the Howl of Hunger." Read it again. Share it. Translate it. Poster it. arablit.org/2025/07/21/ben…
A conversation that took place today in our tent… Yara (gazing at the worn-out ceiling): "Do you remember our home? Every corner held a memory… Even the sound of the windows when the wind blew used to comfort me—not scare me like now." Imad (excitedly, his eyes sparkling):…
These people are so sick!
An Israeli soldier: “We’re looking for babies, but there are no babies left. I killed a girl, she was 12—but I’m looking for a baby.” — And yet the West still tries to paint this as “the most moral army. Meanwhile, This is the reality of these blood hungry peoples
Pesaro, my hometown in Italy, is boycotting all products “made in Israel.” No genocide economy. anconatoday.it/attualita/comu…
An Israeli soldier: “We’re looking for babies, but there are no babies left. I killed a girl, she was 12—but I’m looking for a baby.” — And yet the West still tries to paint this as “the most moral army. Meanwhile, This is the reality of these blood hungry peoples
Dancer Danni Perry raised a Palestine flag during their curtain call at the Royal Opera House, risking their career to speak out for Gaza: “I chose to do my demonstration during my curtain call, a moment for myself. I chose to make it about something bigger than me.” They say…
عاجل | مصادر في مستشفيات غزة: استشهاد 17 فلسطينيا في الغارات الإسرائيلية على قطاع غزة منذ فجر اليوم
عاجل | حماس: ندعو لأوسع حراك شعبي بكل عواصم ومدن العالم أيام الجمعة والسبت والأحد حتى كسر الحصار وإنهاء المجاعة بغزة
Video evidence shows Israeli forces using drones to hunt and murder a child and a woman as they searched for food and water in Gaza City. Western legacy media journalists and diplomats are silent. #GazaHolocaust #GazaStarving
Wonderful news! A well-deserved honour, and a credit to BRISMES. @OfficialBrismes
Professor Ilan Pappe receives @OfficialBrismes 2024 Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies. A much deserved honour brismes.ac.uk/awards/brismes… @Art4PalestineUK @PSCupdates @asoueif @PACBI @mlynxqualey @arablit @wawog_now
If you aren’t breaking the siege, at least commit to breaking stagnation.
3 days No food No help No one came Just silence, hunger, and the weight of a world that forgot us I’m holding my children close pretending I’m strong— but inside, I’m breaking like shattered glass Be the hand that reaches us before it’s too late Donate chuffed.org/project/122168…
Headache Lack of concentration Stomach pain Cramps Heartache Irregular heartbeat Blurred vision Bad mood Feeling of betrayal
This is not "intolerable", this is not "self defence" this is a livestreamed #Genocide! A #Holocaust! Their Blood is on the Hands of @Keir_Starmer, @YvetteCooperMP, @DavidLammy, @AngelaRayner and the rest of the Genocide and Holocaust supporting Zionist terrorists and murderers.
BBC News, "Witnesses said they held their hands in the air when Israeli soldiers started firing at them but that fire continued" "The World Food Program said there were snipers and tank fire involved" Is this a war crime @Keir_Starmer or just 'intolerable'?
The name of activist and writer Alaa Abd El Fattah is to be removed from national terrorism lists, as per a decision issued by the first circuit of the Cairo Criminal Court on Monday, according to lawyer Khaled Ali, who represents Alaa's family. Abd El Fattah has been imprisoned…
🚨I’m seeking the support of international law experts. I will gather testimonies, documentation, and visual evidence that can be used to hold the Gaza Health Foundation (GHF) accountable. I need to connect with individuals or organizations capable of using this material…
Horrible and the most horrific testimony you will ever hear I have spoken on a space with @AbujomaaGaza, who explained the process of the “Death Traps” the GHF have created…I quote “regularly posts the aid distribution schedule on Facebook. Each time, around 60,000 to 70,000…