Maryam Alemzadeh

An Ohio University professor who was recently detained by Israel for trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza has been removed from his only in-person class this semester, according to the university. Tom Hayes, 70, was removed from teaching his in-person, master's-level film class, "Art of Editing," less than a day after he returned to Ohio from his detention in the Ktz'iot prison in the Negev Desert in Israel, he said.

Another instructor resumed in-person instruction of Hayes' class this week and will teach it for the rest of the semester, Pittman said. Students walked out on the new instructor in protest on the first day of instruction, Hayes said. He plans on uploading his lectures to DropBox, so his students can finish his curriculum. He will also continue having online meetings with students to collaborate with them on their projects, he said.

An Ohio University professor was removed from teaching a MFA class a day after returning home from an Israeli prison where he was detained upon being illegally abducted from the flotilla.

His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest.

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If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

“Eyes of Gaza”: Palestinian Journalist Plestia Alaqad Chronicles Life Under Israeli Bombs We speak with Plestia Alaqad, an award-winning Palestinian journalist whose on-the-ground reporting from Gaza captured global attention during the early days of Israel’s military assault two years ago...

“History didn’t start on October 7. It’s been two years of the genocide, but it’s been 77 years, if not more, of the ongoing Nakba that started in 1948."

@mark-carney.bsky.social, do you hear us yet? Today, our message fills Canada’s biggest newspapers: @theglobeandmail.com, @thestar.com and @lapresse.ca.

Doctors can’t stop genocide. World leaders can.

Israel’s Peace Plan: Assassinate the Ceasefire Negotiators In “a mockery of international law,” per one expert, Israel has bombed the residence of Hamas officials negotiating peace in Doha, Qatar.

In “a mockery of international law,” per one expert, Israel has bombed the residence of Hamas officials negotiating peace in Doha, Qatar.

"If this had been a terrorist attack.. an initial explosion, everyone rush to that & the 2nd explosion to create as much carnage as possible. Its hard not to see this in that light even though its a state defence force carrying out the attack"

BBCs Christian Fraser getting close

Thank you Bisan. We will never give up. Day of action: this Thursday, July 24.

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.

This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.

We are doing this and history will never forgive us.

Gaza:

WATCH NOW: 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' – The Full Film They Didn't Want You To See Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel's destruction of Gaza's hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors.

Gaza Doctors Under Attack: documenting Israel's genocide of doctors and medical staff in Gaza. The documentary that BBC didn't show because of its Zionist board member Robbie Gibb, who has damaged the BBC and it's credibility as a news media.

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Amazing to be in a country where your identity is used as a slur.

Having mastered toilet paper supply chain logistics, large language models, Middle Eastern history, submarine design, and balloon dynamics, I would like to explain why I think the US military strikes in Iran obliterated the Fordow nuclear site while leaving Natanz and Isfahan largely intact...(1/37)

Contributor: Why 'bunker busters' won't end Iran's nuclear ambitions Even if there is a regime change in Iran, no new government there will survive unless it sustains and perhaps surpasses the current leadership's belligerence.

My latest op-ed for the @latimes.com out this morning. Regime change is once again on the agenda, treated as an obvious solution, a magic bullet for Iranians & the world. But very few voices are asking, "Then what?" Where does the magic bullet land? #Iran #Nationalism
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The United States is bombing Iran, but the real Ayatollahs are the professors at America’s elite universities.

Yes, it’s totally different when you have an even *dumber* president.

The thing that is infuriating is that the vast majority of people who will die over this will be innocent Brown people but 90% of the discourse will be about Americans possibly dying

BREAKING: US STRIKES IRAN | Mehdi & Trita Parsi Discuss YouTube video by Zeteo

My reaction to the Trump illegal strikes on Iran tonight:

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

[Petition] Stop the war on Iran! Stop the war on Iran! For peace, justice and democracy Tehran and many other Iranian cities are reeling under Israeli attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians, while destroying residential area...

We (a group of academics and scholars) are calling for an immediate end to #Israel’s war against #Iran and #Palestine. If you support this call, please add your name to the petition here. Thank you!
#solidarity #ceasefirenow #petition
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Is Fordo really the most important thing about Iran’s nuclear program or is the focus on it designed to drag the US into the war? Since Fordo is the only target that needs US planes and bunker buster bombs.

Israeli strikes kill 18 in Gaza, including 15 waiting for aid <article data-history-node-id="424407" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-kill-18-gaza-including-15-waiting-aid" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-kill-18-gaza-including-15-waiting-aid" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli strikes kill 18 in Gaza, including 15 waiting for aid</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="116" data-start="37">Gaza’s civil defence agency says Israeli forces killed at least 18 people on Thursday, including 15 who had gathered near an aid distribution site in central Gaza.</p> <p data-end="116" data-start="37">Mohammad al-Mugghayyir, a senior civil defence official, told AFP that the deaths occurred as a result of Israeli shelling that began at dawn.</p> <p data-end="116" data-start="37">He said at least 15 were killed while waiting for aid, while three others died in separate shelling near Gaza City.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israeli strikes kill 18 in Gaza, including 15 waiting for aid - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-kill-18-gaza-including-15-waiting-aid

'No war on Iran': New Yorkers rally against US and Israeli regime change plans Demonstrators say any further US involvement in Israeli attacks on Iran would be catastrophic for the world

'No war on Iran': New Yorkers rally against US and Israeli regime change plans - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-new-york-protest-israel-attacks-iran

Jewish-Palestinian Solidarity Behind New Hunger Strike for Gaza Because, writes columnist Eman Abdelhadi, starving Palestinians are met with bullets not bread.

As @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social writes, I don’t know how to live with the fact that my country is killing my people every day. But I know I am not alone… These hunger strikers are standing up for humanity and for the will of the American people.”

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Today is day two of the Jewish Voice for Peace hunger strike to stop starving Gaza and stop arming Israel. We are hosting a full day of People’s education on Federal Plaza in solidarity. Join us, Chicago!

2 postdoc posts in in 19th Century Political History: (Public Opinion and the Crimean War):

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Post picked up by @theguardian.com; give it a read: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Everything that is happening and will happen with Iran is a direct consequence of Trump’s first-term decision to shit on American diplomatic credibility by impulsively shredding a hard-won nuclear agreement.

3am and the fucking Israelis are telling a city if 10 million to evacuate their homes.

I cannot believe they are evacuating Tehran! That’s like an order to evacuate New York! What is this world coming to?!!

Authoritarian-friendly Fifa fest shows why next year’s World Cup must be boycotted | Byline Heba Gowayed and Nicholas Occhiuto The Club World Cup is being staged across the US as citizens from 12 countries are banned and masked agents demand people’s papers based on the color of their skin

“No country should send their team to play when the citizens of 12 among them are banned. No person is safe when agents roam the country and its stadiums masked…. If what we’re witnessing is a precursor to the World Cup, then it has never been clearer that a boycott is necessary.”

My sister had finally managed to get some gas (2 am local time) and was planning to leave Tehran tmr when I delivered the news of this development. She’s wondering which road to take as a tired, stressed out single woman at 2 am, while explosions can already be heard from both East and West Tehran.