A news story of Indian migrant workers who hid in a cement mixer to avoid a national lock down reminds Aarushi Punia of Ghassan Kanafani’s classic novella ‘Men in the Sun’
The Palestinian Authority is facing its most serious existential threat yet: bowing down to Kushner or insisting on returning to a dead political paradigm that was constructed, then abandoned, by Washington.
Trump has made the establishment nostalgic for the last Republican president. But Bush made the most destructive executive mistake of recent times, the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. It was based on lies, and a weakminded strategy of bringing democracy by gunpoint, and its wrongness was obvious at the time to millions who protested it.
Naim Mousa writes, “[Inside Arab Music’s] greatest achievement is its ability to accurately reflect Arabic culture as a whole.”
Jewish scholars defend Achille Mbembe, one of the most important intellectuals in Africa, from attack by Germany’s antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein. Klein, they say, is seeking to curb free speech about Israel and “is clearly obsessed by the
BDS campaign.”
Two months ago the first cases of the coronavirus were detected in Bethlehem, and a state of emergency was declared in Palestine. Today, police checkpoints are unmanned, and the so-called nightly curfew has barely been enforced. Yumna Patel writes, “People seem to have reached their breaking point.”
Data on coronavirus in Palestine reveals a context of structural racism and apartheid, a reliance on military solutions, and a disregard for the health and lives of Palestinian people who matter less than their Jewish cohorts in the eyes of the Israeli government, Alice Rothchild writes.
Jews who criticize Israel are increasingly being excommunicated from the Jewish community. Barry Trachtenberg reflects on this marginalization, and what legacies anti-Zionist Jews can draw upon.
In leaked email, a Democratic official in Las Vegas cites objections of Jewish community for decision to strip 3 pro-Palestinian planks from 500-plank platform. The planks would divide Democrats, not unite them, he warned.
Activists are protesting a recent Op-Ed by Point Park University President Paul Hennigan titled, “Anti-Semitism in all forms, including BDS, has no place at Point Park”.