Remembering Black Hawk
Boston Review
A history of imperial forgetting.
A history of imperial forgetting.
A history of imperial forgetting.
‘The State of Israel vs the Jews’ — Important New Book Chronicles Israel’s Spiritual Demise
Mondoweiss
Sylvain Cypel's "The State of Israel vs. The Jews" shows how bereft of human decency Israelis have become in their treatment of Palestinians, and how much Jewish moral patrimony has been given up in creating, supporting, and tolerating a Jewish State
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Utopia’s Settler Colonialism Problem
Los Angeles Review of Books
Whatever their promises, one problem with Utopias is that the creators of such communities tend to bring with them the values and habits they thought they were leaving behind. Reviewer Namakkal discusses a book about one such settlement.
When Palestinian Political Speech Is “Incitement”
Jewish Currents
The broad criminalization of Palestinian social media users occurs as Jewish Israeli extremists have been left free to incite violence on platforms in full view of authorities.
Not a Nation of Immigrants
Monthly Review
The thrust of American struggles has been to deracialize but not to decolonize. A deracialized America still remains a settler society and a settler state.
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"Cousins": New Zealand Maori Film About Family Separation and Land Rights
Hollywood Progressive
Central to "Cousins" is the struggle of the Maoris to retain ownership of their age-old lands in the face of settler colonialism dating back to the British invasion of Aotearoa/New Zealand by 1840.
Israel Sends Weapons to Duterte: Filipinx and Palestinian Struggle Are Linked
Truthout
While the Philippines and Palestine might not be obviously linked in popular imaginary, there is a complicated web of relations — threaded through militarism, settler colonialism, empire and racial capitalism — that binds these entities together.
To Confront Sexual Violence, We Don’t Need Better Prosecutors — We Need to Abolish Them
Truthout
Prosecutors’ offices deal in punishment, not healing, prevention or justice.
How Israel Weaponizes International Law
Boston Review
The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on.
Against Left-Wing White Nationalism
Organizing Upgrade
When reality does not correspond to the facts on the ground, the U.S. left often responds like the fictional French intellectual who maunders: “I know what you are saying is true in fact, the question is—‘is it true in theory?’”
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