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Never Again Should Be for Anybody

Germany is on the wrong side of genocide, again

March 6, 2024 • by Zukiswa Wanner

As an aside, and as an African, I wish the German government exhibited the same regret for their history in Namibia with the Herero-Nama genocide and for the genocide during the Maji Maji Rebellion in Tanzania....

Democracy

The Man Who Was Too Strong

Alexei Navalny will forever remain a symbol of hope for change in Russia

February 20, 2024 • by Anastasia Shteinert

One of the first rallies I covered as a journalist was the "voters' strike" in January 2018 in Saint Petersburg. Navalny declared the strike when he was barred from participating in the presidential elections due to his criminal record. Navalny's work and his courage often inspired me to continue my ...

Activism

Elite Capture and Racial Capital, from the University to Palestine

A conversation on the part-time faculty strike and freedom on campus

February 14, 2024 • by Cresa Pugh, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Julie Beth Napolin

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and author of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else), joined Cresa Pugh and Julie Beth Napolin at The New School in December 2023, for a conversation on racial capital in university life, the New ...

Elite Capture and Racial Capital, from the University to Palestine

Colonization

The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel

If Israel chooses to continue its current course, it should do it alone, without our funding

February 13, 2024 • by Stephen Zacks

Whether or not it sways Netanyahu, we should certainly withhold military funding now and make our support contingent on clearly stated humanitarian objectives and an ultimate governing framework that conforms to our ideas of justice....

The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel

Middle East & North Africa

Wars of De-Civilization

Anti-democratic regimes and the politics of annihilation

February 5, 2024 • by Hamit Bozarslan

Syria, Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh and now Gaza: connecting all recent wars is disregard for national sovereignty as recognised by international law....

Middle East & North Africa

Losing a Country, Losing a Father

An excerpt from We Could Have Been Friends My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

January 22, 2024 • by Raja Shehadeh

My father never showed me this booklet. Nonetheless, it was the precursor to similar ones that I would write years later with the same objective, except that in my case it was to help the world better understand the nature of the Israeli occupation of the rest of Palestine....

Middle East & North Africa

The Moral Failure of My Left

I wrote as a leftist against the Left, which has discarded the values that have sustained it for over two centuries

January 10, 2024 • by Mitchell Abidor

If it was incumbent on the left to condemn attacks on civilians by Israel, it was equally so to condemn attacks on Israeli civilians. ...

Activism

Scholars Call for an End to the Violence in Israel and Palestine

This war must end now!

December 11, 2023 • by Public Seminar

We write as scholars and educators in the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts to call for an immediate and permanent cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, for the immediate lifting of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, and for the immediate release of all hostages. This war must ...

Scholars Call for an End to the Violence in Israel and Palestine

Activism

Questioning Art in a Time of War

How the fabric of my sensory experience was transformed by Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitvah

December 6, 2023 • by Abby Merrick

Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah is nominally addressed to Jewish teens in the United States who are preparing for their B’nai Mitzvahs (a gender-neutral rendering of Bat or Bar Mitzvah). It was published in an edition of 3,000 by Wendy’s Subway, an independent Brooklyn publisher, with support from ...

Activism

A Pioneering Palestinian Film Offers a Quantum of Solace

For those who question the capacity of rap to deliver powerful positive messages of social change, Slingshot Hip Hop supplies an answer

November 29, 2023 • by Zenzelé Soa-Clarke

Slingshot Hip Hop ends with a pan-Palestinian concert in the West Bank—minus the one rap group Israeli officers wouldn’t let exit Gaza. Even in their absence, the other groups maintain optimism: a belief that things can change, including people's minds. ...

A Pioneering Palestinian Film Offers a Quantum of Solace

Activism

A Response to “Principles of Solidarity. A Statement”

Human dignity for all

November 22, 2023 • by Public Seminar

Solidarity means that the principle of human dignity must apply to all people. This requires us to recognize and address the suffering of all those affected by an armed conflict....

Middle East & North Africa

The War Between Israel and Hamas Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game

We need to acknowledge the universal experience of shared human suffering

October 25, 2023 • by Ilan Zvi Baron

Exploring the zero-sum game of rhetoric surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its dire consequences. Amid the polarizing narratives, a call for acknowledging shared human suffering and rethinking the discourse to avoid a path that exults in death. ...