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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
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
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
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
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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Tagged anti-fascism, anti-militarism, anti-nationalism, anti-racism, anti-semitism, Fredy Perlman, israel, palestine
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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
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
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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Tagged colonialism and anti-colonialism, genocide, israel, palestine
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Free Palestine/Free Israel (VI): Jeff Halper
There is de facto a single state between the Jordan River an the Mediterranean Sea: Israel, as an occupying settler-colony, is the only state that exists in this territory. What remains under anything describable as a Palestinian authority are a … Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism and anti-colonialism, israel, Jeff Halper, palestine, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The geopolitics of carnage
By Frédéric Neyrat (of the collective Contre-Ciel), published in lundi matin #425 (22/04/2024) That we can no longer say “free Palestine” without being qualified as terrorists, that the signifier Palestine is now banned, is often interpreted as a “fascist” or … Continue reading →