Recent endorsements of Hillary Clinton by Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem brought into focus a long-standing division between powerful, privileged white women’s feminism and intersectional feminism, with its focus on the necessity of analyzing overlapping and intersecting systems of oppression. Nada Elia writes that Palestine stands at the fault line between these two understandings: “Global feminist solidarity is necessarily an anti-colonial, intersectional practice, rather than a diamond-bejeweled white fist raised towards a glass ceiling which prevents privileged women from achieving the presidency of the world’s largest hypermilitarized imperial power.”

Below are excerpts from a correspondence over a proposed article between novelist, academic and playwright…

John Pilger’s article at the Information Clearing House, ‘Never Forget That Bradley Manning, Not Gay Marriage,…

A documentary history of Brand Israel, Israel’s campaign to re-brand itself in the minds of the world, shows how the country developed pinkwashing as an explicit and deliberate marketing project.