Author Archives: aidarends

What I remember most isn’t anger or shock, but loneliness.  The feeling was pronounced.  I was saddened by what I viewed at the time as a betrayal.  (I view it now as normal protocol.)  But the sense of being alone on the issue, embedded in every Palestinian’s consciousness, felt almost brutal.  Indeed, calling Zionist colonizationContinue reading “No Resurrection: The Life and Death of the Modern University – Steve Salaita”

Telling somebody who is traveling to the United States or expressing unpopular opinions inside the United States to “be careful” seems perfunctory, the kind of thing one says (or hears) without thinking too much about it.  This time it didn’t feel perfunctory, though.  It managed to convey the severity of the moment.  — Read onContinue reading “Care and Carefulness in Today’s United States – Steve Salaita”

A recent conclusion to the series of articles chronicling the movement against Cop City offers an impressive benchmark for analyses of ongoing struggles, but many of our descriptions of the ruling bloc still presume that it is a unified, wholly self-conscious force, whose true motives are unknown to us. As an attempt to think inContinue reading “A Conspiracy of Dunces | Lake Effect Collective”

An interview with Palestine Action. — Read on newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/tactics-of-disruption