Tag: Gaza
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The World After Gaza: Seeds of Resistance, Hope in Ashes
Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza is a furious, wide-ranging meditation on the afterlives of the Shoah and the moral wreckage of selective remembrance. Moving from Holocaust history to Gaza and global protest, Mishra indicts Western media and political hypocrisy while asking what it means to live in a world that has normalized a hierarchy…
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The Women Writing Gaza’s Truth
A book review of Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide, a searing, intimate testimony from four Palestinian women whose everyday worlds, from pregnancy, exams, olive harvests, weddings, are relentlessly invaded by bombs, famine, and displacement, yet remain defiantly human.
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Making England ‘Abdul Free’: Flags and the Far Right
England this last month has been a tale of two nations: a seething tide of fury and desperation splitting into two very different protesting crowds. The reactions that each have garnered tell the story of two Englands, the political systems and global power structures that coalesce into the lives of ordinary people and the opportunity…
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The Doha Strike and Summit: The Arab Response to Israeli Aggression
Arab and Islamic leaders gathered in Doha after Israel’s September 9 airstrike on the Qatari capital, condemning the attack as a violation of sovereignty while issuing calls for unity and restraint. Despite fiery rhetoric, Qatar and fellow states reaffirmed their cautious strategy of neutrality and reliance on international law, highlighting the widening gap between words…
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Analogy as Erasure: The Limits of Comparison in Liberation Discourse
The authors critique the use of comparative frameworks in discussing liberation struggles, arguing that while they can foster solidarity, such as the comparison between apartheid South Africa and Palestine, they often obscure unique historical and political contexts. They argue for the need to engage with each struggle on its own terms, recognizing local specificities and…
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The Gazan Man Against Absolute Evil
The tragedy in Gaza exemplifies what Moroccan philosopher Taha Abdurahmane identifies as “Absolute Evil,” a type of evil from which all other smaller evils emanate. It aims to violate human dignity, freedom, and memory. The struggle against this evil signifies a necessary resistance for humanity.
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In a Time of Thulm, Taqwa
Their walls have fallen, crumbled, yet they remain strong, standing while the world stumbles to its knees. The world has fallen and yet they have risen.
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International Law Aids and Abets Israeli Crimes
The go-to tool for determining which party is in the wrong is international law: turning off the water supply is a war crime (never mind that for years Palestinians were forced to be dependent on Israeli goodwill to have their water tanks filled), killing civilians is a war crime (never mind human rights’ subservience to…