Hans Kundnani in Dissent: In the five months since October 7, people around the world have looked on in horror as Germany has wielded the memory of the Holocaust to silence criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza. The German government’s response to the conflict itself has not been all that different from that of theContinue reading “Zionism Über Alles”
Category Archives: Palestine
Fasting for Ramadan While Gaza Goes Hungry
How do you celebrate the holy month when you fear the suffering may not end? Zaina Arafat in The New Yorker: I believed in God and loved Islam, but my fasting was less about religion than about ritual. In the diaspora, with its handed-down stories and its longing to be elsewhere, Ramadan helped us connect withContinue reading “Fasting for Ramadan While Gaza Goes Hungry”
The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé
Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, and Daniel Boguslaw at The Intercept: Anat Schwartz had a problem. The Israeli filmmaker and former air force intelligence official had been assigned by the New York Times to work with her partner’s nephew Adam Sella and veteran Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman on an investigation into sexual violence by Hamas onContinue reading “The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé”
The War in Gaza is Creating a Health Crisis That Will Span Decades
Grace Wade in New Scientist: The situation in Gaza is rapidly devolving into the worst humanitarian crisis in modern memory, and international health organizations have no long-term plans for addressing the territory’s post-war needs. More than three-quarters of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents, half of whom are children, are internally displaced, trapped in one of theContinue reading “The War in Gaza is Creating a Health Crisis That Will Span Decades”
‘Guernica’ in Gaza
The town of Guernica in northern Spain was heavily bombed during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The bombing had a great impact on people all over the world, including the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. He characterized the impact by painting his famous work, “Guernica” –it conveyed a profound message describing the ugliness of theContinue reading “‘Guernica’ in Gaza”
Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah After Gaza
Mishra is an Indian author based in the West and a staunch supporter of Israel’s victims. He is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and the author of ‘Age of Anger’, among other books. A powerful Western narrative holds the Shoah to be the incomparable crime of the modern era. But weContinue reading “Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah After Gaza”
WhatsApp Share: A Video From Gaza
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Back in December, a poetic expression of emotive thoughts on Israel’s Gaza invasion enabled me to curate this clip (below) –selecting what’s available on the Internet (why recreate the wheel) and curating a 30+ second powerpack of my take on the situation as I saw things unraveling: Months later, Majid, aContinue reading “WhatsApp Share: A Video From Gaza”
‘Empire: A Ghost Story’ a Talk By Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist whose best known award-winning novel Home Fire is a must read. Shamsie has also been named on Granta magazine’s list of 20 best young writers. At a Palestine Festival of Literature event held in London in December 2023, Shamsie reflected on the Palestine-Israel crisis. “WhatContinue reading “‘Empire: A Ghost Story’ a Talk By Kamila Shamsie”
An Israeli and a Palestinian Talk Peace
About Ali Abu Awwad and Ami Dar: Nonviolence activist Ali Abu Awwad works to establish international peacebuilding movements. In 2016, he brought his focus to building a national nonviolent movement of Palestinian people, cofounding the Taghyeer Movement, which means “change” in Arabic. He received the 2023 Luxembourg Peace Prize. Ami Dar is the founder andContinue reading “An Israeli and a Palestinian Talk Peace”