Phony Physics
Thinking with Alberto Toscano's Late Fascism, Jordy Rosenberg asks: how has liberal analogical thought around Nazi fascism foreclosed in North America the history of the Nakba and of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people?
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Writers, the time to speak out for Palestine is now!
Sarah Bernstein and Yara Rodrigues Fowler encourage UK-based writers to join the Society of Authors and vote in favour of a motion calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. -
There Can Be No Critique
Hamas's attacks on October 7 have sparked a public discussion about the nature of solidarity and how to support the fight for a free Palestine. Here, Judith Butler offers a brief response to Jodi Dean's recent critique of their position on Palestine solidarity alongside a republication of their essay "There Can Be No Critique." -
Palestine speaks for everyone
Against those who would separate good and bad Palestinians resisting occupation and onslaught, Jodi Dean writes in defence of the radical universal emancipation embodied in the Palestinian cause. -
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
The last six months of genocide in Gaza have ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. To truly understand the present crisis, Andreas Malm argues, requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine's subjugation to fossil empire. -
Josie Fanon and her fidelity to Palestinian liberation
Throughout her almost thirty-year-long career as a journalist and political analyst, Josie Fanon’s gaze remained fixed on Palestine. -
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.
