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Steven Salaita
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An Honest Living (memoir) now available in paperback from Fordham University Press. Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War (novel) now available from Common Notions Press.
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    Steven Salaita
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    Feb 26, 2024
    My book An Honest Living is now available. It’s about the ostracism and loneliness and alienation (and vitality and joy and regeneration) that comes of being loyal to the oppressed and downtrodden of this world. fordhampress.com/9781531506353/…
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    Steven Salaita
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    Nov 10, 2023
    Now that (even moderate) pro-Palestine sentiment has been effectively outlawed in both the public and private sectors, I hope we can soon say goodbye to the Western myth of “free speech” from which so many reactionaries built their careers.
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    Steven Salaita
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    Nov 8, 2023
    I hope Westerners now understand that Palestinians have no choice in how Israel behaves. It kills when we're calm. It kills when we're upset. It kills when we're active. It kills when we rest. Death is Israel's only answer to our presence on this earth.
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    Steven Salaita
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    Nov 22, 2020
    Never forget: in 1954, the CIA, at the behest of the United Fruit Company, orchestrated a coup against Guatemala's democratically elected president, leading to decades of obscene poverty, ecological devastation, and Indigenous genocide.
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    Steven Salaita
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    Apr 16, 2018
    Here's why calling the cops on "loiterers" is bad: --We live in overwhelmingly privatized spaces, ever subject to state violence --It's usually racist and always classist --It allows the wealthy to socially engineer access and belonging --Mind your own damn business
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    Steven Salaita
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    Apr 28, 2020
    When they say that COVID has killed more people than the Vietnam War, understand that they're only counting Americans. Vietnamese people died by the million, many of them unarmed villagers gunned down, poisoned, and burned alive by US soldiers.
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    Steven Salaita
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    Sep 27, 2024
    Don't let Zionists convince you that the hundreds of civilians incinerated in Beirut weren't the actual target. Any other possibility would be completely ahistorical.
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    Steven Salaita
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    Nov 18, 2023
    The Palestinian people don't simply deserve aid; they deserve sustenance. The Palestinian people don't simply deserve rights; they deserve liberation. The Palestinian people don't simply deserve to live; they deserve life.
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    Steven Salaita
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    Nov 16, 2020
    Why stop at student loans? Let's cancel mortgage, utility, and credit card debt while we're at it.
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    Steven Salaita
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    Dec 2, 2023
    Palestinians are experiencing a kind of hell that most people in the West can't even begin to imagine. They don't need moralism or reproof from professional leftists. They need robust defense of their struggle for liberation. Offer that or shut the fuck up altogether.
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    Steven Salaita
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    Dec 26, 2021
    Jesus doesn't need to be Palestinian for you to support our freedom.
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    Steven Salaita
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    May 20, 2021
    "Palestinian rights" is vague and easily coopted. Try "Palestinian liberation," instead.
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    Steven Salaita
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    Jan 25, 2018
    In American mythology, people are rich because of "hard work." Yet nobody can explain why those who do all the actual labor have no money.
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    Steven Salaita
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    Apr 12, 2020
    "I don't know." "I need to learn more." "That's best addressed by someone from the community in question." "I'm not sure yet. What do you think about it?" Avoid intellectuals who never say any of these things.