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The Gaza Solidarity Movement

Why the State Can’t Compromise with the Gaza Solidarity Movement, And What That Means for Us From the CrimethInc. collective (03/05/2024) … On April 17, students at Columbia University initiated an on-campus encampment in solidarity with Gaza. After the administration called in the … Continue reading

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A B [Cinétract/Film-tract]

Gilles Deleuze, revolution, Palestine and stereoscopy From Lundi Matin #427, (06/05/2024) … What follows is an extract from Gilles Deleuze’s Abécédaire/The ABC Primer, over a series of images of stereoscopic photographs of Palestine dating from the 19th century. We have … Continue reading

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The Whitening of European Jews and the Misuse of Holocaust Memory

In the aftermath of the Holocaust and the formation of Israel, Jews’ position in the Global North transformed from racialized minority into fully white members of “Judeo-Christian” society. As Gilbert Achcar shows in this essay, however, this assimilation into “super whiteness” … Continue reading

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Ghassan Salhab: The dance of death

From lundimatin, #421, 25/03/2024 … No, we do not want to catch up with anyone. But what we want is to walk in the company of man, every man, night and day, for all times. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of … Continue reading

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After Pantin: Judith Butler

From the Verso Books Blog (14/03/20249 … In response to remarks they gave at an event in Paris earlier this month, Judith Butler has received hate mail while Zionist publications have attacked them. In this article, Butler defends and clarifies their position. … Continue reading

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Für das Leben, gegen den Tod/For life, against death

From Freedom News (12/03/2024) … Writing from Vienna, Christopher Hütmannsberger grapples with the current state of confusion in the German-speaking Left around the genocide currently unfolding in Gaza and argues that this is a litmus test for understanding how people … Continue reading

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Fredy Perlman: Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom

It galls me that a new Fascism should choose to use the experience of the victims of the earlier Fascism among its justifications. Fredy Perlman We return to the work of Fredy Perlman, this time with the Israeli genocide of … Continue reading

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Yazan Alloujami: Gaza-on-the-Rhine, a history lesson

From lundimatin, #418, 04/03/2024 … To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it really was’ (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. Historical … Continue reading

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Palestine: The attempt to erase a people’s arts

We want to thank +972 Magazine for the generous permission to publish an article on the Israeli authority’s assault against Jenin’s (West Bank) Freedom Theatre and the broader Israeli war on Palestinian artistic expression. +972 Magazine is unquestionably one of the most … Continue reading

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Human Rights Discourse Has Failed to Stop the Genocide in Gaza

In December, Hudia, a refugee in Rafah, kept a diary of the horrors Israel has been visiting upon Gaza since October. This is testimonial 18 of the Palestine Uncensored series published on the Verso Books Blog. Hudia, 13 February 2024 December 6, 2023 Gaza City and … Continue reading

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