An Open Letter to Independent Lens about “Beyond Utopia” | by Deann Borshay Liem, Independent Filmmaker | Medium

The following letter was sent to Lois Vossen, Executive Producer at Independent Lens, regarding the documentary Beyond Utopia, on January 7, 2024. We have updated this post with Lois Vossen’s… — Read on medium.com/@dborshay/an-open-letter-to-independent-lens-about-beyond-utopia-53b7f65a8cc5

The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist — Ebb

Solidarity with the Palestinian cause is meaningless if it dissipates the moment that the Palestinians resist their oppression with anything more than rocks. Those who are not under brutal military occupation or refugees from ethnic cleansing have no right to judge the manner in which those who are choose to confront their colonisers — ReadContinue reading “The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist — Ebb”

“Decolonization Is Not a Discourse, It Is a Material Process” – Leila Shomali and Lara Kilani on Anti-Zionism as Decolonization

For this week’s episode we interview Leila Shomali and Lara Kilani Leila Shomali is a Palestinian PhD candidate in International Law at Maynooth University Ireland and a member of the Good Shepherd Collective. Lara Kilani is a Palestinian-American researcher, PhD student, and is also a member of the Good Shepherd Collective. We interviewed them onContinue reading ““Decolonization Is Not a Discourse, It Is a Material Process” – Leila Shomali and Lara Kilani on Anti-Zionism as Decolonization”

Taiwan: An Anti-Imperialist Resource — Qiao Collective

As Taiwan makes headlines as a flashpoint for US aggression on China, this resource unpacks China’s aspirations for national reunification and Taiwan’s fraught status as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” for Western ideological, economic, and military power in Asia and the Pacific. — Read on http://www.qiaocollective.com/education/taiwan

Full article: “We are Fighting Nazis”: Genocidal Fashionings of Gaza(ns) After 7 October

Scholarly responses to the ongoing war have been mired in competing historical and socio-legal interpretations of the very concept of genocide, and these fundamental disagreements are partially owed to deep divisions within the field of Genocide Studies itself. — Read on http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2024.2305524

Anti-Zionism as Decolonisation — Ebb

In this essay, Leila Shomali and Lara Kilani, two Palestinian writers, detail what it means to be anti-zionist, laying out foundational concepts and definitions as they explore essential strategies and tactics for a militant decolonial movement against settler-colonialism. — Read on http://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/anti-zionism-as-decolonisation