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Historian of Decolonization; Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan; Grand partisan du Canadiens de Montréal.

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Archiving the Tricontinental — archive stories ︎︎︎ All     ︎︎︎ Launching Archive Stories     ︎︎︎ Archiving Palestine     ︎︎︎ Archiving the...

interesting series of essays on the archives of postcolonial/socialist/Tricontinental actors

archive-stories.com/Archiving-th...

22.02.2026 13:48 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Call for Papers: Peace Movements - A Global History From the First World War until the height of the Cold War, actors from the decolonizing world sought to build connections with international peace movements. These efforts produced new networks and pr...

This call for papers looks so good:
Peace Movements: a Global History
@unileiden.bsky.social
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...

16.02.2026 01:03 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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radical online collections and archives I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

Nearly 10,000 *online* and *open access* collections of radical, labour and anti-colonial historical documents are now listed.

But always looking for more!

If you know of any collections not listed, please get in touch.

#history #archives

hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

15.02.2026 02:45 👍 12 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Historians Must Reclaim AHA (opinion) Two recent vetoes by the association’s governing council raise the question of who defines what counts as “history.”

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

06.02.2026 01:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A global wave of resistance to the US empire must begin with ending Israel’s genocide Building a global wave of resistance to US imperial designs is now an existential need for humanity, to save us all from the abyss of utter lawlessness, immense suffering, and possibly a nuclear war

BDS condemns and rejects Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace.”

A global wave of resistance to the US empire must begin with ending Israel’s genocide.

We call for escalating all forms of BDS pressure and for forming the broadest possible intersectional coalitions.

Read more ➡️ loom.ly/4ytTiLg

21.01.2026 15:59 👍 139 🔁 82 💬 3 📌 1
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Historians Have a Duty to Condemn Scholasticide in Gaza An overwhelming majority of American Historical Association members voted earlier this month to condemn scholasticide in Gaza. AHA leaders overruled members to block the measure, opting for cowardice ...

jacobin.com/2026/01/hist...

21.01.2026 02:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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wîhtamawik / Tell Them Cree poet and kēhtē-aya Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer chronicles her childhood in a cabin on reserve, through the Indian Residential School system, and into her reclamation of her nēhiýaw languag...

uofrpress.ca/Books/W/wiht...

18.01.2026 17:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AHA’s Leaders Vetoed Its Members’ Condemnation of Scholasticide in Gaza — Again American Historical Association members are undaunted by the veto: “We educate. We organize. We have to keep fighting.”…

truthout.org/articles/aha...

16.01.2026 20:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We Refuse to be Silenced: The Palestinian Historians Group Responds to the AHA Council Vetoes We, the Palestinian Historians Group, are outraged by the American Historical Association Council’s decision to veto two resolutions that members passed by 78 and 79 percent at the AHA Annual Business...

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47115

15.01.2026 16:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Joyeux Noël !!!

26.12.2025 01:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In 2025, press freedom came under direct attack. We must not respond to this existential crisis with silence and apathy.

In 2025, press freedom came under direct attack. We must not respond to this existential crisis with silence and apathy. Read @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

22.12.2025 14:47 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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Palestinian Historians Group Responds to AHA Council Blocking Two Anti-Genocide Resolutions We, the Palestinian Historians Group, reject the American Historical Association (AHA) Council’s antidemocratic decision on November 26, 2025 to unilaterally deny AHA members the right to vote on the ...

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47046

03.12.2025 18:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New hate crime law is a cover for suppressing Palestine protests ⋆ The Breach The proposed 'Combatting Hate Act' is built on the idea that protests inspire hateful violence, and gives police the tools to crack down on expression

breachmedia.ca/new-hate-cri...

12.10.2025 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Livestream of the global sumud flotilla on @dropsitenews.com : open.substack.com/live-stream/...

02.10.2025 01:21 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history"
doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

17.09.2025 18:11 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
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31.08.2025 13:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed? | Ahmed Ibsais Western academics now speak of ‘genocide’ with newfound authority. Why weren’t our voices enough?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

30.08.2025 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What the Media Won’t Tell You When It Embeds With the Military When reporters embed with an invading army, do we get journalism or propaganda?

thepublicsource.org/media-ethics...

30.08.2025 13:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Co-op to start stocking new beer by Palestinian brewery in the UK Sun & Stone lager, co-produced by the Taybeh brewery in West Bank, will be stocked in 1,600 stores from 10 September

Co-op to start stocking new beer by Palestinian brewery in the UK - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/co-op-start-stocking-palestinian-taybeh-beer-uk

29.08.2025 13:10 👍 52 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
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Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi This hypocrisy of western media has been laid bare by Israel’s targeting of journalists since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack

“Israel is able to kill Palestinian journalists with impunity not just because of the unconditional military support it receives from the US, but also the failure of many western media organizations and journalists to stand up for their Palestinian colleagues” — my oped @theguardian.com

26.08.2025 00:21 👍 185 🔁 94 💬 2 📌 1
The Assassination of Palestinian Journalists - Other News - Voices against the tide By Richard Falk* – Daniel Falcone* – CounterPunch In contemporary conflict the “weaponization of information” or “targeting of journalists” shows a pattern of squashing dissent. Analysts like Martin L...

www.other-news.info/the-assassin...

15.08.2025 15:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...

Life expectancy at birth reportedly declined by approximately 35 years in 2024.2 This represents a greater collapse in longevity than that recorded during the genocide in Rwanda.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

09.08.2025 14:09 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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Leaked Cabinet minutes reveal Israel chose to starve Gaza as a strategy of war Netanyahu chose to blow up the ceasefire and starve Gaza’s population in order to force a surrender from Hamas, while top military and security officials favored moving to the second phase of a ceasefire,...

Netanyahu chose to blow up the ceasefire and starve Gaza’s population in order to force a surrender from Hamas, while top military and security officials favored moving to the second phase of a ceasefire, leaked cabinet meeting minutes reveal.

mondoweiss.net/2025/08/leak...

#Palestine #Israel

07.08.2025 15:03 👍 71 🔁 44 💬 3 📌 2
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Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.

The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️

05.08.2025 15:24 👍 106 🔁 28 💬 310 📌 297
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What 1990s Internet History Tells Us About the AI Boom In the 1990s, tech companies used utopian language to sell the internet. The AI industry is taking a different approach.

Check out this article in time magazine written by my colleague Kate Flach! She compares the rise of the internet in the 90s and the rise of AI today. Worth a read!

time.com/7302216/inte...

01.08.2025 03:41 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Israeli Knesset hosts conference on plan to 'Occupy Gaza' and 'Relocate Gazans' - Other News - Voices against the tide By Stephen Prager* – Pearls and Irritations “There is a purpose to this war, and it’s a criminal one,” wrote Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in Haaretz this past weekend. The Israeli Knesset  hosted a ...

www.other-news.info/israeli-knes...

28.07.2025 15:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Challenging the Silence Over Palestine in the American Historical Association Institutional complicity in injustice.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

25.07.2025 17:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scenes from the end of Zionism: Reflections on the Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Vienna The first Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress, which drew 1,000 anti-Zionist Jews and their allies to Vienna, marked a significant moment in the rising tide against the settler-colonial state of Israel.

The first Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress, which drew 1,000 anti-Zionist Jews and their allies to Vienna, marked a significant moment in the rising tide against the settler-colonial state of Israel.

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/scen...

#Palestine #Israel

20.07.2025 15:03 👍 115 🔁 60 💬 3 📌 1
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Today Canadian journalists for justice in 🇵🇸 (@cjjpmedia on ig + X) was launched in several cities across Canada. At the Toronto launch press conference, @smohyeddin.bsky.social read Hossam Shabat's last statement, which was published after he was assassinated by the IOF last March.

25.06.2025 22:12 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0