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Steven Salaita

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Steven Salaita

@stevesalaita

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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Joined September 2009

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Steven Salaita
@stevesalaita
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
@stevesalaita
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
@stevesalaita
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
@stevesalaita
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.
Steven Salaita
@stevesalaita
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
Steven Salaita
@stevesalaita
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.
Steven Salaita
@stevesalaita
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
@stevesalaita
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
@stevesalaita
Nov 16, 2020
Why stop at student loans? Let's cancel mortgage, utility, and credit card debt while we're at it.
Steven Salaita
@stevesalaita
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
@stevesalaita
Dec 26, 2021
Jesus doesn't need to be Palestinian for you to support our freedom.
Steven Salaita
@stevesalaita
May 20, 2021
"Palestinian rights" is vague and easily coopted. Try "Palestinian liberation," instead.
Steven Salaita
@stevesalaita
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.
Steven Salaita
@stevesalaita
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.