Category Archives: Lit Review

“Muslim nationalism tends to emancipate itself from the English yoke. They have ample reasons.” Blood in Palestine – Solidaridad Obrera (1936)

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”

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/

An interview with Fathi Nimer on the West Bank since the war in Gaza, and the history of annexation and occupation. — Read on http://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/fathi-nimer/

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”

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”

i saw a coyote cross the ocean roadtwo black kitties in the abandoned field in a comradely way you saidwe disagree but soon we be red orange blue banana smoothie we had a time didn’t we

We’re a year into unspeakable brutality, so let’s keep it simple:  there is no electoral solution to the problem of Zionist genocide.  If anything useful comes about in the United States, then it will be at cross-purposes with all these silly dreams of American redemption.   — Read on stevesalaita.com/let-america-be-your-periphery/

Settler colonialism, and class collaboration more generally, have been the motor of the roots of fascism in the United States; once a culture based upon genocide against the Indigenous was established alongside a culture of slavery based upon expropriation of certain “racialized” groups, then it could, and does, continue to serve as a kind ofContinue reading “What American Fascism Has Already Looked Like”

Fathi Nimer traces the origins of food sovereignty and the challenges Palestinians face today to effectively put the framework into practice. — Read on al-shabaka.org/briefs/food-sovereignty-in-a-palestinian-economy-of-resistance/