Don’t ask Palestinians to guarantee the settler’s peace of mind when we know damn well that it can be accomplished only by our disappearance.
U.S. exceptionalism is ubiquitous in the American psyche, even on the left. It needs to be overcome if we are to deal with the existential crises before us.
Steven Salaita says Palestinians and Native Americans are perfectly suited to an “inter/national relationship” as they share mutually-affirmational national struggles with interlocking destinies.
The metaphors that attempt to render Palestine complicated obscure the simple brutality of Zionist colonization.
Steven Salaita offers his advice on what to do if you find yourself targeted for punishment by the Israel lobby.
Steven Salaita reflects on what the putative assassin of Robert F. Kennedy has meant to his generation of Arab Americans.
The six escapees from Gilboa breached something much more serious than a maximum-security prison — they burrowed into the granular underground of Zionism’s fragile psyche.
The violence in Sheikh Jarrah isn’t exceptional. It is Zionism distilled to its purest expression. Dispossessing Palestinians is Zionism’s primary function.
Steven Salaita: “I am happy, eager even, to affirm the right of Jewish people to live in peace and security, wherever that may be, a right all humans deserve in no particular order of worthiness. But I won’t ratify Israel’s bloody founding or its devotion to racial supremacy. Ultimately, when Zionists demand that you affirm Israel’s right to exist, what they really seek is affirmation of Palestinian nonexistence.”
Steven Salaita reviews James Baldwin’s statements on Palestine and Israel which he says reveal a thinker of significant prescience and a skilled rhetorician who doesn’t allow audiences the luxury of comfort. “For Baldwin, Zionism isn’t an atavistic cultural or religious attribute, but the modern articulation of an age-old colonial logic,” Salaita writes.