Kuwait has extraordinary analysts Bader Al-Saif بدر السيف Hamad H Albloshi حمد البلوشي + محمد جمال اليوسف Mohammad many many others. In Western academe follow Kristin Diwan Dr. Clemens Chay Michael Herb Daniel L. Tavana لؤي اللاركيا Luai Allarakia Kristian Ulrichsen courtney freer + many many others.

Next months and years will be a bumpy ride...

BREAKING: Political science professor Tulia Falleti resigned from her position as chair of the Faculty Senate in response to Penn’s disbandment of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment early this morning. thedp.com/article/2024/0…

Historic step taken by the Emir of #Kuwait : suspended a few articles of the constitution for at most 4 yrs till recs out to reform constitution. Dissolved parliament w/ emir + gov overtaking legislative authorities.

This last happened in 86 & 76. What’s at stake for Kuw? A 🧵

A quick word on this. And I say this as someone who has been very critical of Biden for months. But this thread is sort of a funhouse-mirror reality in which Biden has been too restrictive of Israel rather than too indulgent of what has become an aimless war. 🧵

Great piece from Christopher Hooks on the last of the Habsburgs & their trip to Plano, TX for @thebaff

thebaffler.com/latest/feeling…

Further indication that university leaders are paying astronomical sums for useless advice on these situations.

How Public School Leaders Upstaged Republicans and the Ivy League nytimes.com/2024/05/09/us/…

After protest crackdown, some students and faculty criticize Tulane’s approach to pro-Palestinian speech

Michelle Liu for Verite
veritenews.org/2024/05/06/aft… via Verite

We stand with students and staff against the criminalization of speech and the militarization of campus.

Tulane can do better.

As a reminder, Air Fleischer used to live tweet minute-by-minute recollections of where he was on 9/11 every year, until he abruptly stopped after taking a contract with Saudi Arabia.

The man is as bought as a person can be, and this is the product his buyers are getting.

I'm a professor Tulane University.
I was present at the pro-Palestinian protest on campus.
I observed Tulane students engaging in peaceful & nonviolent demonstration.
Lift suspensions & drop charges.
We condemn the violent & disproportionate police response.

We stand with our students.

We stand with students and staff against the criminalization of speech and the militarization of campus.

'Democracy is messy, loud and uncomfortable. Our campuses should reflect that.'

Tulane University Professors Mauro Porto & Patrick Rafail explain for NOLA.com why the aggressive policing of protests is doomed to fail - both at our institution and elsewhere.

nola.com/opinions/guest…

End the suspension of students & staff.

Drop the charges.

No militarization of campus.

Instead of providing a buffer against unwelcome external pressures, the endowment 'always needs to keep growing, according to the logic of those who run+rate elite universities, which means that major donors always need to be cultivated while their political patrons are placated'

This communication initially mischaracterized the public letter signed by over 250 Tulane University faculty and the experience of faculty in attempting to convey the letter to university leadership - an updated text partly addresses this but for context... (1/4)

x.com/tulane/status/…

I put together a (non-exhaustive!!!) list of people of cover the US Jewish politics (broadly defined) beat day in/day out and then felt funny about sharing it but I do think you should follow all these people so:
Ben Samuels, Ron Kampeas, Arno Rosenfeld, Alex Kane, Mari Cohen

tulanehullabaloo.com/66280/views/le…

Perfect visual metaphor for town-gown relations, no notes.

Principled take from McFaul. I’m noticing a bit of a geographic pattern—McFaul and many other West Coast campus stakeholders calling for restraint are otherwise very ideologically similar to those who have called for police crackdowns on midwest and east coast campuses

This is not Google translate. Jordan’s Arabic daily newspaper Al-Ghad is running its front page lead today in English ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Patience with Western/Global North hypocrisy appears—at last—to be running out everywhere.

H/T ⁦Ahmad Humeid⁩