Tag: israel
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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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Bounded by the Nation-State: The OIC and the Question of Palestine
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), established in 1969, has long styled itself as the collective voice of the Muslim world and the institutional embodiment of the ummah. With fifty-seven member states representing nearly 1.8 billion people, about one-quarter of the world’s population, the OIC is the second largest intergovernmental organisation after the United Nations.…
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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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When Muslim Blood Is Spilled and Holy Sites Desecrated, We Speak with Clarity
The article discusses the challenges faced by Muslim Palestinians in the West, particularly post-9/11, in articulating their oppression. It emphasizes the necessity of clarity in naming oppressors, specifically identifying Jewish supremacism as the ideological root of their struggles. The author argues that failing to name this ideology obscures the true nature of oppression and hampers…
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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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Notes on Synthetic-Lazarusian Kahanite Wombfare
The term “wombfare,” coined by international relations scholar Monica Toft, is a queasy but nevertheless accurate depiction of this ongoing struggle connecting the battle for reproductive-demographic supremacy to control of land, resources, and ultimately, sovereignty.
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Femonationalism and Homonationalism: Who Gets to Commit Genocide?
“The first ever pride flag raised in Gaza,” read the caption of a picture featuring a beaming soldier raising an In the Name of Love pride flag while standing amidst the rubble and dead children his state and army have carpet bombed. Meanwhile, Noah Schnapp, one of America’s most famous gay actors, shared a post…
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Thinking Palestine Through Islam: The Mirage of Secular Dissent as Epistemic Resistance Against Israel
The central tenet of Islamic belief – the proclamation of lā ilāha illallāh, or “there is no God but Allah” – forms the underlying consciousness that breathes meaning into the existence of every Muslim. This proclamation, or kalimah, is made up of two seemingly opposing statements – a negation followed by an affirmation. Ostensibly, this…
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The Palestinian Conflict is an Islamic One
A version of this article was originally published here and has been republished with the author’s permission. Language is molded by perception and ideas, forming our worldview. It is not only how we communicate with others, but also how we construct our beliefs (something the media and the movie industry know all too well.) We…