We’re interpreting this broadly: colonialism, apartheid, occupation, displacement, & etc. Whatever aligns with your work, we want to see it! Essays on Palestine very welcome!!
Reminder! Cait Jones & I are looking for scholars studying: - literature/cultural studies, - police/policing, & - home/homelessness for our ACLA panel! The submission portal closes this coming MONDAY, 10/14. Please submit, & share!! acla.org/node/47766
Academic friends! I am co organizing an ACLA panel on policing, the home, & law & lit... have a look, & please share with anyone who might be interested: "Safe as Houses: The Force of Law In & Outside of Home," link here: acla.org/node/47766
“If I must die, you must live to tell my Story:” On Gaza, Biden is Violating International Law
By Farrah Hassen | – ( Otherwords.org ) – “If I must die, you must live to tell my story,” wrote Dr. Refaat Alareer, a 44-year-old Gazan poet and literature professor. A few weeks later, Alareer was killed while sheltering in his sister’s apartment, along…
The apartheid regime is deliberately targeting Palestinian journalists.
Al Jazeera statement on Israel’s threat to Gaza correspondent Youmna ElSayed: ‘This vile threat comes only a few days after the indiscriminate killing of the family of Al Jazeera Arabic’s journalist, Wael al-Dahdouh … Israel’s actions continue with impunity as they attempt to silence the messenger.’
Fierce fighting on the ground in Gaza as Israeli forces push deeper inside the besieged enclave amid heavy bombing.
This belongs in my sci fi class.
What has to happen to a person’s intellect and soul for them to say, with sincerity and righteousness and the firm belief that they are being helpful, “Technically it’s not a genocide, at least not by some definitions.”
Link to my full article if anyone has interest (it's also posted to my academia.eduwww.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
In Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt thinks through mid-century totalitarian movements in relation to statelessness and human rights. According to Arendt, state...
Dont let ppl try to quell outrage or stop you from shutting down genocidal rhetoric via the framework of respect & decorum. Arendt saw in Eichmann what we see so often every day. Sure, he was a big ol boring loser. He was, at the same time and without contradiction, DEEPLY evil.
I wrote this email yesterday. When people call for the deaths of civilians, no matter how many people agree with them and no matter how calmly they appear to present it, no matter how "respectable" they appear, no matter how affectively normal... they are fanatics.
