(Palestinian Flag, with bullet hole, pace Jasper Johns.) “Palestinians are one of the final reminders that a future without colonialism is possible.” – Devin Atallah and Sarah Ihmoud, “A World without Palestinians” In the time since we posted the call for our special issue, “The View from Gaza,” which will be guest-edited by Michel . . .
Read MoreA massacre is unfolding in Rafah, where the population of two-thirds of the besieged Gaza strip—over 1.5 million Palestinians—has been forcibly displaced. News that the Egyptian state is building a prison camp to receive Palestinians, presumably after the impending Israeli ground invasion will have shocked the conscience of many, while footage already . . .
Read MoreThis International Holocaust Remembrance Day will not be like any other. As we mark the seventy-ninth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27 and commemorate the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust alongside the Nazis’ many non-Jewish victims, the commemoration will take place against the backdrop of extraordinary events: . . .
Read MoreOriginially published on Amanda Gelender’s Medium Blog. As I write this, the wheels of genocide are turning. As I write this, I am preparing for Shabbat. When I see Gaza, I see my own people languishing in concentration camps. I see a world that has turned its back on us, letting us . . .
Read MoreToday, January 15, 2024, marks forty days since Israel assassinated Refaat Alareer, internationally renowned and beloved Palestinian poet, scholar, and professor of English literature at the Islamic University in Gaza. Refaat taught and mentored a generation of young Palestinians in Gaza to tell their stories to the world in English. Publishers for . . .
Read MoreTranslated from Italian by Jenny McPhee The day after the events in Munich, the Catholic Press Association called me to say it was conducting an inquiry regarding the massacre and asked if I would express my opinion. I refused to respond. I told them that I never respond to inquiries.[*] Pronouncing a . . .
Read MoreDear friend, Thank you for inviting me to speak on the panel you are hosting. I am writing to you because it enables me to find words better than speaking into a Zoom group. I write from Bremen, Germany, as a retired white professor who is no longer in any political or . . .
Read MoreEditor’s Note: On the seventieth anniversary of al-Nakba, we published an eloquent essay by Michel Moushabeck, recounting his family story of dispossesion from their homeland in Palestine. Today, with the permission of The Nation, where this piece was first published, after being solicited and then rejected by the Harvard Law Review, we bring you an argument for taking . . .
Read MoreJin, Jiyan, Azadî as in Free Palestine We, the undersigned, who have been pleading for Jin Jiyan Azadî in the last year, demand an end to genocide, call for immediate ceasefire, and express our solidarity with the Palestinian people and their liberation struggle. As we witness genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli . . .
Read MoreIntroduction from Abla AbdelhadiAll support for my people in Gaza under the genocidal Zionist campaign is important. But this statement is especially meaningful to me as a Palestinian Jordanian feminist. It demonstrates to Arab societies that while Arab leaders spout empty statements of “solidarity” with Gaza, it is the people of the . . .
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