The realities we inhabit continue to outstrip our capacity to analyze them. We witness the kidnapping, capture, and deportation of immigrants throughout the United States; the targeting of everyday dissidents through shoot-to-kill policies; the toppling and capture of the president … Continue reading “Palestine Is Shrinking, Palestine Is Everywhere”
There is a shadow cast over the student uprisings of 2024. Details of the events and memories of the moment’s promise are fading at various campuses. Efforts to eviscerate the student movements’ tenacious energy are palpable, but not accidental. Most … Continue reading “In the Shadows of Genocide: The US Palestine Movement and the Promise of the 2024 Student Uprising”
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”
Originally published in Agos (Istanbul), May 2011. Armenians in the U.S. consistently hear–because so many of us constantly insist–that “Turkey is silent about the Genocide and the Armenians.” Meanwhile, so many of us in the U.S. speak incessantly about the Genocide and … Continue reading “On Sound and Silence, "in a place I’d never been before"”
I think today must go down in history as the moment when humanity collectively failed to secure its own future. It also has to be seen as one of the greatest crimes of the rich and powerful of the world … Continue reading “Failure”
