News | Page 42 | Verso Books

Notes of Censorship and Solidarity with Palestine: Testimonial 10

Since launching our Palestine Uncensored series, we've received an influx of submissions documenting instances of censorship and retribution for supporting Palestine, as well as inspiring demonstrations of solidarity. Here, we share a collection of these stories from across the world.
"Said would be throwing stones": Columbia graduate students speak out against campus censorship

Last month, Columbia University suspended two pro-Palestine student groups: Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). In the 9th testimonial of our Palestine Uncensored series, Columbia grad students speak out against campus censorship and discrimination.
What to read when ‘self-care’ isn’t enough.

My New Year’s resolution is to care and be cared for by a community.
Radical Happiness: A Reading List

A call for collective joy.
Understanding the Cost of Living Crisis

Books to understand this deliberate crisis (and how to get out of it).
Love and Money, Sex and Death: McKenzie Wark & Toshio Meronek

McKenzie Wark & Toshio Meronek join Eleanor Penny to talk survival, sex, and sisterhood.
Kissinger's crimes in context

Kissinger is finally dead. We've been waiting. Take a look our new book: The Good Die Young plus a selection of books that detail, or give context to, Kissinger's crimes.
Tariq Ali on the death of world-class criminal, Henry Kissinger

At last. He’s finally gone.
Cancellation of Gaza Forum, University of Arkansas – Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 8

Historian of the Middle East Joel Gordon shares his story of academic censorship after being forced to indefinitely postpone an event with Ted Swedenburg on Palestine/Israel and Israel's war in Gaza.
The Second British Revolution

In the years leading up to World War I, Britain was rocked by an unprecedented upsurge of labor militancy. As James Robins writes, as millions went on strike across the country, was this Britain's lost revolution?
Enzo Traverso: The war in Gaza ‘blurs the memory of the Holocaust'

In this interview, the Italian historian Enzo Traverso warns against the devastating effects of using the memory of the Holocaust to justify the ‘genocidal war’ being waged by the Israeli army in Gaza.
The creation of a new refugee

Laura Robson charts the creation of “Palestine refugees,” which became a valuable way of differentiating between displaced Europeans and Palestinians post-1948.