Category Archives: Lit Review

One Year – The New Inquiry

That day, a prison break. Displaced from their towns and villages all across Palestine during the nakba of 1947–1949, the people of the land held on to the promise of return, the commitment that has animated each new generation penned in by the forces of Zionism, Western imperialism, and Arab reaction. Over seven decades, theyContinue reading “One Year – The New Inquiry”

Statement for the Anniversary of October 7th | IndyMedia

On the ground, Gazans broke the seventeen year siege, destroying the barriers that were installed by Zionist colonizers to bar our people from our lands, our histories, our futures. With their bulldozers and bullets, history was broken open – there is simply no going back. — Read on http://www.indymedia.nl/node/55115

Your Crisis of Faith is not My Concern (There’s a Genocide Going on) – Steve Salaita

There’s been too much blood.  If you don’t share in our spirit, whether it cycles through pain or longing or fury or despair, then you’re a Zionist.  It doesn’t matter how you self-identify.  We suffer the oppression and so we get to name the oppressor.  It’s the only real benefit to being oppressed.  — ReadContinue reading “Your Crisis of Faith is not My Concern (There’s a Genocide Going on) – Steve Salaita”

Peace From Our Point of View • Protean Magazine

Israel’s unsettled borders, writes Mary Turfah, are not “a bug… but a feature of the Zionist state,” allowing it to justify endless war in the name of an intentionally elusive “peace.” This essay appears in Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps. — Read on proteanmag.com/2024/09/19/peace-from-our-point-of-view/

Fascism Late, Early; Fascists Now, Then | The Brooklyn Rail

During the Trump era, when troops of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, Proud Boys, MAGA hats, militiamen, and Men’s Rights Activists descended on my city, there was little debate about what to call them: “fascist” seemed simple enough, even if one did not always know what ideology, exactly, moved which knife- or stick-wielding creep. — Read onContinue reading “Fascism Late, Early; Fascists Now, Then | The Brooklyn Rail”

Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC – Doc Pop’s Blog

The Remote Lounge was a high-tech bar in NYC’s Bowery District from 10/2001 to 11/2007. The bar’s gimmick was that it was packed full of monitors and closed-circuit television cameras. Anyone in the bar could control each CCTV camera via any of the terminals located throughout the establishment, thanks to their servo-mounted design. Each terminalContinue reading “Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC – Doc Pop’s Blog”