Musa al-Gharbi
@Musa_alGharbi
Asst. Professor @SBUjournalism. Author, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (now available in stores, from @PrincetonUPress)
"Those People" will explore the causes and consequences of the growing sociological distance between communities, institutions and stakeholders tied closely to the symbolic economy versus those who are not. More info on my website, here: musaalgharbi.com/2025/06/16/boo…
“Israel's forced starvation of Gaza and the weaponization of aid has, after months of warning, reduced Gaza to a state of famine. In addition to the daily stream of war crimes broadcast on social media by IDF soldiers since the war's start, the world has become witness to a new…
A moral failure of unspeakable proportions, the Gaza war is also the result of a tactical, strategic and military failure. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because it has proved unable to defeat Hamas by force of arms | Opinion | Joshua Leifer haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…
"It’s not difficult to say something interesting. It’s not difficult to say something true. The real challenge is saying something both interesting and true. Unfortunately, the overlap in the Venn diagram of those two categories is slim." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
I must respectfully disagree: Lots of data show that, in fact, academia began to moderate, and the speech environment on campus, began to improve starting after 2021 -- well before Trump's reelection: liberalpatriot.com/p/the-great-aw… Schools also began adopting institutional…
Imagine your local police department has a bunch of problems with its professionalism, and there is tons of evidence of this. Now ask yourself this hypothetical question: Is the department more likely to reform internally without external accountability, or with external…
Former U.S. Green Beret and GHF contractor to the BBC: "Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israel Defence Forces, without a doubt." "Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.”
This is getting close to the logic of holocaust deniers who often point to the existence of survivors, escapees, the existence of Jewish partisans, the sporadic use of Jewish labor, and the fact that not all camps were used for extermination to cast doubt on genocidal intent
"Elite overproduction occurs when a society produces too many people who feel entitled to high status...and try to form alliances with genuinely marginalized populations in order to depose existing elites and install themselves in their stead." press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
“The appeal of the “wrecking ball” narrative lies partly in its promise of a simple fix to complex problems.” Excellent summary, as usual, from @danwilliamsphil asteriskmag.com/issues/11/scap…
The woke have never been that woke. My chat with @Musa_alGharbi thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360770…
"the women who sympathized with Friedan's critique...wanted well-compensated and socially respectable professional jobs...they ultimately achieved that goal by offloading unwanted domestic labor onto other women—lower-income women, typically immigrants" press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
"A key obstacle faced by frustrated elites...Hard times for most people are usually pretty good times for elites...Conversely, hard times for elites are usually relatively good times for everyone else." press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
Saifullah Kamel Musallet is the 7th U.S. citizen killed in the West Bank by settlers or the IDF since 2022, and the 5th in the last 19 months. Today I led 28 Senators in writing to Rubio & Bondi demanding an independent, U.S.-led investigation — and accountability for ALL these…
A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
Stop pretending it has anything to do with October 7.
We strongly condemn President Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state next to Tel Aviv in the wake of the October 7 massacre. Such a move rewards terror and risks creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza became. A Palestinian state in these conditions would be a…
how crazy is it that JEWISH leaders "fear being labelled antisemitic" if they speak out against starvation
It's unbelievable that American politicians and media outlets still get away with genocide denial every single day while the Israeli government is voting overwhelmingly to put their war crimes in the legislative record. This is unambiguously illegal, and they're proud of it.
Total triumph of secularism over Christianity among the American right
Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's controversial new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened deep in the Everglades, the archbishop of Miami said. bit.ly/3IFk8qd
Gaza's reality: Palestinians aren't just being starved. They're being shot while seeking aid. More than 1,000 have been killed by Israeli forces while seeking aid, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry & the UN. 60% have been killed while trying to reach GHF sites.