What I remember most isn’t anger or shock, but loneliness.  The feeling was pronounced.  I was saddened by what I viewed at the time as a betrayal.  (I view it now as normal protocol.)  But the sense of being alone on the issue, embedded in every Palestinian’s consciousness, felt almost brutal.  Indeed, calling Zionist colonization an “issue” feels a bit obscene.  It’s not an issue limited to rhetoric or opinion; it’s a matter of survival and sustenance, of justice and reparation, of dignity and self-respect.  How could educated people miss something so obvious?  How could society’s leading lights be so hard-hearted? 

— Read on stevesalaita.com/no-resurrection-the-life-and-death-of-the-modern-university/

Telling somebody who is traveling to the United States or expressing unpopular opinions inside the United States to “be careful” seems perfunctory, the kind of thing one says (or hears) without thinking too much about it.  This time it didn’t feel perfunctory, though.  It managed to convey the severity of the moment. 
— Read on stevesalaita.com/care-and-carefulness-in-todays-united-states/

A recent conclusion to the series of articles chronicling the movement against Cop City offers an impressive benchmark for analyses of ongoing struggles, but many of our descriptions of the ruling bloc still presume that it is a unified, wholly self-conscious force, whose true motives are unknown to us. As an attempt to think in the opposite direction, this essay inventories the Trump administration’s coalition of bourgeois class forces, along with the competitive projects and motives that animate them.
— Read on lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/15/a-conspiracy-of-dunces/