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The Hollowed Vocabulary: Jewish Voice for Peace and the Institutional Capture of Anti-Zionism
All of a sudden we were navigating a new organizing terrain where everyone became self-avowed anti-zionists almost overnight. The act of people calling themselves anti-zionists was completely decoupled from political implications and became a rhetorical move similar to how people will declare that they aren’t racist, without ever really considering what racism is, how it…
Cow Pastor: Song Lines of Memory – the A-Line
In or around 1995, the Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020) bought a property, which included a three bedroom dwelling, in Christ Church, Barbados, in the vicinity of the international airport. Brathwaite referred to this property as Cow Pastor or Cow Pasture. Shortly after purchase, the Barbadian government informed him he could neither build on nor…
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