Nader Hashemi
@naderalihashemi
Director @ACMCU @georgetownsfs (views are my own)
How the Israel-Iran war has changed geopolitical dynamics in the region ? My interview with CBC radio in Toronto cbc.ca/listen/live-ra… @georgetownsfs @mehdirhasan @tparsi @MacaesBruno @PeterBeinart @sarahleah1
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication theguardian.com/education/2025… @JehadAbusalim @MouinRabbani
Left or right—this should shake you: The EU’s former top diplomat & an Israeli Holocaust scholar now say what’s happening in Gaza is genocide. Why is America still backing this? This is a burden on our collective conscience—and a threat to our collective future.
Update on the free market and the crisis of US democracy (what is left of it). @DannyPostel @davidsirota @RBReich
The average US family health insurance premium has increased from $6,000 in 2000 to over $25,000 in 2024. That’s a 297% increase, more than triple overall inflation. The biggest beneficiaries of this massive increase in costs: health insurance companies.
When artists start taking a stand on that kind of stage, where empathy is supposed to live, those in power know they’re losing control of the narrative. That fear and anger from staff, especially from someone like Oliver Mears, (the alleged guy trying to snatch the flag) doesn't…
A Turkish parliamentarian to Erdogan’s MPs: The pilots bombing Gaza and Palestine trained in Konya. Israeli jet fuel is sent from Iskenderun. Israeli soldiers’ food is sent from Alanya. And their water comes from Manavgat. You send drones to Ukraine and Azerbaijan but settle for…
It would be nice if the name of this festival mentioned Uyghurs, and others whose tradition it features. "China Xinjiang" is such obvious colonial erasure the organizers should be embarrassed. Wants to promote aspects of Uyghur culture; why not call it by its real name?
The 7th China Xinjiang International Dance Festival.
“We’re in the death phase,” one UNRWA worker said. “Everything around people at the moment is death, whether it’s bombs or strikes, children wasting away in front of their eyes from malnourishment, from dehydration, and dying.” news.un.org/en/story/2025/… @mehdirhasan @MacaesBruno
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention – named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide – says it plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU…
Break *all* collaboration with Israel, impose draconian sanctions, expel all its ambassadors - otherwise this appeal is window dressing.
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK: "the war in Gaza must end now."
"Today, genocide scholars, the serious press and even voters have interpreted Gaza as a genocide — but the point is to stop it. Until we do that, we are still in denial."
Genocide scholar @martinshawx on Gaza While the dam on genocide denial in the West has finally broken, there remains a deafening silence on accountablity. newlinesmag.com/argument/the-d… @mehdirhasan @sarahleah1 @MacaesBruno @bartov_omer @amanpour @NaomiAKlein @FerozeSidhwa
This is the inner logic of colonial states which, having internalised that they not belong to their region, see a threat in everything, even the existence of normal societies. Only generalised weakness, fragmentation, anomie look acceptable
“Strong nation states are a threat — especially Arab states are viewed as a threat to Israel,” US envoy Tom Barrack says, suggesting Israel would prefer to see Syria fragmented and divided rather than a strong central state in control of the country. english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-ea…
Important essay by genocide scholar @martinshawx Let me summarize his thesis: Western media are finally acknowledging a genocide in Gaza but what about accountability? Why the silence?
The dam of Gaza genocide denial has well and truly broken. While Israel’s supporters in the West still reject the charge, many media outlets are coming off the fence. Genocide scholar @martinshawx reflects on this shift in the discourse for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/argument/the-d…