Nakba Day Reading List
To commemorate Nakba Day, a reading list on the history of the region and the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
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Posts tagged: israel-palestine
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The viral emergency in Palestine
How has the pandemic made itself felt in Palestine? S C Molavi and Eyal Weizman, of Forensic Architecture, look at how Israel has used the coronavirus crisis in order to further consolidate its regime of surveillance and domination against Palestinians.
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Quarrying the Stones of Palestine
An interview with Andrew Ross on the stone industry in Palestine, the Zionist version of settler colonialism, the importance of technological changes in the construction industry, and more.
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If only Kushner knew...
Jared Kushner recently outlined the Trump administration's vision for the future of the Middle East. The Bahrain summit saw Kushner announce a $50 billion "peace plan for Palestine", a plan that is filled with "white man’s burden" racism and that would steamroller the rights of the Palestinians. In this article, Dominique Eddé discusses the plan and what the Trump administration's pro-Israeli one-upmanship means for the future of the region.
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Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel
Stone Men explores how Palestinian labour built the land of Israel, and how to use this history in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
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Politics in the Streets
While the revival of reformist social democracy is cause for optimism, it cannot win a new world without mass pressure from below.
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When Claude Lanzmann Made Propaganda for the Israeli Army
Claude Lanzmann's five-hour documentary on the Israeli Defence Forces, Tsahal (1994), is a nauseating tribute to an army that supposedly defends Israel but has become an instrument of conquest and oppression
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Jewish Exceptionalism Will Not Combat Antisemitism
On definitions of antisemitism and the latest Labour pseudo-controversy.
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Ocasio-Cortez, Palestine, and the Left
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory as an open critic of the Israeli Occupation may be a new bellwether in American politics.
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On the Myth of Jewish Self-Hatred
Rather than accusing Jews who criticize Israel of self-hatred, we should be asking ourselves what love can and should be able to tolerate.
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Murderous humanitarianism
Richard Seymour on the Israeli attacks on the protests in Gaza and murderous humanitarianism.
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Resistance as Survival: Recalling May 15th, 1948
70 years since the Nakba and the founding act of the state of Israel, Lynne Segal reflects on survival, resistance and memory.
