From settler-colonialism to ethnic cleansing, apartheid and genocide …
“It is no exaggeration to say that the Intifada questions the future of Judaism with force and obstinacy. The tragedy of the Holocaust is well documented and indelibly etched into our consciousness: we know who we were, but do we know who we have become? Contemporary Jewish theology helps us confront our suffering; it has little to say about a today where we are in a position of strength. This theology, stretched between Holocaust and emancipation, puts into eloquent words the victims of Treblinka and Auschwitz, but ignores Sabra and Chatila. It pays tribute to the Warsaw ghetto uprising, but gives no place to the Intifada of those ghettoised by Israeli power. Jewish theologians are committed to ensuring that the torture and murder of Jewish children be remembered and mourned in Jewish ritual and spirituality. It remains to take into account the possibility that Jews, in turn, tortured and killed Palestinian children. Holocaust theology recounts the greatness and suffering of the history of the Jewish people, but it fails to recognise the contemporary history of the Palestinian people as an integral part of ours. This theology accounts for who we were, but it does not help us to understand who we have become. […]
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Maria Kakogianni: Pour une lutte maîtresse
T.N. “maîtresse”: the french word for teacher, or for that which teaches; “l’idée maîtresse” or “la lutte maîtresse”: the key idea or struggle, but not in the sense of essential (and exclusively so), but that idea or struggle which “teaches”. The expression “master struggle” below should be understood against the background of this.
From lundi matin #399, 16/10/2023
To Stand. . .
To stand, in the shadow
of the scar up in the air.
To stand-for-no-one-and-nothing.
Unrecognized,
for you
alone.
With all there is room for in that,
even without
language.
Paul Celan
A 71-year-old man in Plainfield, Illinois, has been charged with murder and a hate crime after stabbing a child and his mother because they were Muslims.
“Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,” the Will county sheriff’s office said.
Six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was killed and his mother seriously wounded in the attack. Police said they responded to an emergency call made by a 32-year-old woman who alleged her landlord had attacked her with a knife.
The Guardian, 16/10/2023
Pour une lutte maîtresse
October 7, 2023. Hamas commits war crimes. The Israeli state is an occupier; the Israeli government and Israeli army have been committing war crimes for years. One does not justify the other.
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