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This is a scream and I dare you to publish it!
Nabil Echchaibi
These words are meant to land in your ears as piercing sounds to accompany the wrenching horrors crowding our screens. Do not be fooled by the silence of print. This writing clamors to be screamed. Gaza is not some eerie … Continue reading “This is a scream and I dare you to publish it!”
To Extinguish: On Aaron Bushnell and the Casualties of Nonviolence
Sharon Luk
I haven’t watched the livestream of US Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation in front of the Israeli consulate in Washington, DC, on February 25, 2024, but many of us are familiar with reports and transcripts telling of a police officer, … Continue reading “To Extinguish: On Aaron Bushnell and the Casualties of Nonviolence”
Genocide and Campus Bans on Speech Critical of Israel: Then and Now
Sherene H. Razack
Not a single day goes by now in North America or Europe without an academic being disciplined or fired outright for expressing views critical of Israel. In mid-March 2024, when the University of California Regents meet at UCLA, they will … Continue reading “Genocide and Campus Bans on Speech Critical of Israel: Then and Now”
Memories of Gaza
Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton
If there is a direct historical antecedent to the attacks of October 7 and everything that has happened since, it is Israel’s sixteen-year blockade, which devastated Gaza and harmed a generation of Palestinians. I lived in Gaza City for six … Continue reading “Memories of Gaza”
Bisan Owda Is Still Alive
Jared Joseph
Bisan Owda, under her Instagram handle @wizard_bisan1, posts stories and reels that document the realities of daily life—and death—in Gaza during the now 100+ days of military siege by Israel. While before October 7th Owda was a filmmaker and hakawatieh, … Continue reading “Bisan Owda Is Still Alive”
our love is terroristic
Çağlar Köseoğlu
the colonial question has always been: what to do with all these cypresses? what I forgot to say, dear colleagues, our university is indefensible it is stated that they love us and there is no water and no electricity fuck … Continue reading “our love is terroristic”
Epistemic Debilitation and the Erasure of Genocide
Kharnita Mohamed
In November 2023, I presented a paper entitled “Settler Colonialism as the Automation of Attritional Warfare,” based on South Africa’s history of racialized governance, at Duke University and at the University of British Columbia. This is the revised version of … Continue reading “Epistemic Debilitation and the Erasure of Genocide”
Where Scenes of Catastrophe Reappear: On Armenian and Palestinian Solidarities
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
In August, I attended a screening of Aurora’s Sunrise at the New Plaza Cinema. The documentary depicts the annihilation of Armenian lifeworlds in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century. In August, the film was received as … Continue reading “Where Scenes of Catastrophe Reappear: On Armenian and Palestinian Solidarities”
Palestine and the Contours of the Third World
Rahul Rao
No one watching the proceedings in the International Court of Justice on January 11 and 12, 2024—when South Africa accused Israel of genocide in Gaza—could have missed the racialized geopolitical atmospherics of the moment. On the South African side stood … Continue reading “Palestine and the Contours of the Third World”
Theory as Stone
Stephen Sheehi
In a 2001 telephone interview with the New York Times from Vienna, Johann August Schülein, then president of the Freud Society of Vienna, said of Edward Said’s disinvitation, “A lot of members of our society told us—they can’t accept that … Continue reading “Theory as Stone”
Rendition
Safa Khatib
Refaat, your death visited me. It stood across from me in the dim room. I told your death “I am ready. I am ready.” Your death stared back, unimpressed. I sat in the wooden chair I arranged in … Continue reading “Rendition”
Justice Without Exception: Zionist Narrative and the Crisis of Liberalism
Niko Block
Two weeks after Israel began bombing Gaza, I was messaging with a close friend who now lives in New York. I had long known her to support Palestinian liberation, but now her tone was different. She expressed that too many … Continue reading “Justice Without Exception: Zionist Narrative and the Crisis of Liberalism”
On Condemnation: Terrorism, Violence, and the Question of Palestine
Pranay Somayajula
These days, condemnation seems to be on everyone’s lips. In the nearly two months that have passed since Hamas launched its deadly attack on Israeli-controlled territory in the early hours of Saturday, October 7th, it seems that just about every … Continue reading “On Condemnation: Terrorism, Violence, and the Question of Palestine”
What Is Our Responsibility as Intellectuals to Palestine?
Balraj Gill
This is a revised version of a talk delivered at the symposium “Palestine and the Historian” at Harvard University on a panel titled “Borders, Apartheid, Carcerality.” My comrade Mary Jirmanus Saba—a filmmaker, geographer, and media studies scholar—recently participated in a … Continue reading “What Is Our Responsibility as Intellectuals to Palestine?”