Queer sociolinguist 🏳️🌈 Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Palestine 🇵🇸 Unfollow if you are a transphobe, TERF, or any other kind of bigot. @StAModLangs@EneoliCost
Hi everyone, Thank you to all who have donated so far. We are still £140 short of the £300 target. Every penny counts. Please give if you can. Love, Uri
Some of you already know that I was suspended 9 days ago from my college job "pending a disciplinary hearing" for voicing my opinions against the Israeli genocidal actions in Gaza (officially because someone or something interpreted them as "support for Hamas").
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I envy all y’all who can’t read Hebrew. The vast majority of comments about Gaza, Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims in my native language are vile, evil, violent, and as if taken directly out of the Nazi Party playbook.
The hearing never came, but last night, with no warning, my access to college email and other databases was cut off, and my name and professional web page removed from the college server. I was also not sent an appointment letter for the current/upcoming academic year.
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The initial announcement caught me on the last day of a conference I was attending in NYC. Given that most flights to TLV have been canceled indefinitely, I changed my flight destination to London, and I am currently staying here in the United Kingdom for the time being.
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The cat is out of the bag. In January I will begin teaching in the Department of Arabic and Persian at the University of St Andrews. Watch out, future monarchs.