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Throughout her almost thirty-year-long career as a journalist and political analyst, Josie Fanon’s gaze remained fixed on Palestine.
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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" relies on Jews placidly accepting their equation with Zionism and thus Israel's racist discrimination and violence against Arab Muslims.
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After Pantin
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. -
Becoming Monsters: What happens when the witness becomes the defendant?
To whom should Palestinians fighting for liberation speak? For our Palestine Uncensored series, Islam Al-Khatib writes that the focus on appealing to an international audience has moderated and censored how Palestinians can imagine their fight for freedom. Instead, she argues that Palestinians must break out of the Western discursive frameworks that police their thinking about how liberation can be achieved. -
The New McCarthyism: a personal testimony
In November, Professor Warren Montag gave a talk at his university arguing that "anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism." For Palestine Uncensored, he recounts the ADL's campaign to get him fired as retaliation. -
Testimonial 20: Cancellation of Anaïs Duplan's exhibition at Museum Folkwang
Artists respond to the Essen-based Museum Folkwang's cancellation of Anaïs Duplan's exhibition after Duplan spoke out in solidarity with Palestine and condemned Israel's relentless bombardment of Gaza. -
Against Art-Washing
Opening in April this year, the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale has caused controversy by refusing to take a stand on the brutal ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza. Signatories of Art Not Genocide Alliance argue that it is time for the Biennale to cancel the Israeli pavilion and refuse to provide a platform for the art-washing of genocide. -
Sabri Hammoudeh: A life in exile
Testimonial 19 of our Palestine Uncensored series details the life of Sabri Hammoudeh, a Palestinian refugee who was displaced during the Nakba in 1948. -
Come back, my friend! On reading Ghassan Kanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”
Written for Valentines4Palestine, a series of events held at independent bookshops across the UK to raise money for the PEN Emergency Fund for Palestinian writers at risk, Emily LaBarge reads Ghassan Kanafani’s poem "Letter from Gaza" against the current Israeli assault as a revolutionary love letter to his homeland. -
"In Gaza you can witness what the end of the world will look like": A diary from Rafah
"...there is nothing here except the pervasive smell of death." 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 our Palestine Uncensored series.
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In Gaza, “This Isn’t Legitimate Self-Defence. It’s a Genocide”
In France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been accused of antisemitism for his opposition to Israel's relentless siege on Gaza. In this interview, Mélenchon explains why the Left must assert a universalist antiracism in the face of Europe's accelerating slide to the far right. -
Testimonial 17: Daring to speak out for Palestine
British universities are targeting and punishing their students for expressing support for Palestinians. In Testimonial 17 of our Palestine Uncensored series, a medical student describes being suspended from their university as retribution for their public solidarity with Palestine.