Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

“We recognize the cruel irony that the very language and discourse of feminism is being used to justify our own elimination as a people by the very powers decrying gendered violence. We must, then, ask the question: What is Zionism performing when it simultaneously rapes and violates our women, mass murders our children and attempts to starve us to death while disciplining us for naming this as genocidal ?”

Excellent! I don’t agree with Lordon’s optimism though. 

“The idea of quotidian as an ongoing practice rather than a completed action is certainly visible through several of these photographs . There is a power, rendered quiet as it may be, in simply existing when wielded by those living under the command of a colonial project.”

Nancy Fraser

   الحل–التصفية

I read Twain’s novel when I was at university. I think Everett’s novel also is worth a read .

“ Why do the majority of Western mainstream media outlets continue to adopt and defend the Israeli narrative? Why is there a tendency towards dehumanising Palestinians and placing disproportionate blame upon them for current events? What interests do Western mainstream media organisations have in maintaining this type of coverage?”

They are Palestinians, not Ukrainians. Even right-wing, pro-Israel, conservative, oligarchic … paper cannot ignore what the UN is saying. “The UN said on Tuesday that more than 12,300 children died between October and February in the Gaza Strip, mostly in Israeli airstrikes, citing its own data and reports from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry.  At the same time, the UN’s own calculations show that 12,193 children were killed in fighting in all armed conflicts globally between 2019 and 2022. At least 31,272 people have been killed in Gaza since October last year , according to the Gaza health ministry. Although it is run by Hamas, the ministry’s casualty figures for previous conflicts have been found to be accurate.” And after the killing of white Westerners, it is more if a reason to publish what cannot be ignored. Israel, is now being argued, has to change its way of conducting the war. Israel though has its own logic: a demographic one that complements the territorial...

When Only God Can See

“‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza.”

The West has become a vast moral project, an intimidating claim to write and speak for the world, and an unending politicisation of power. Becoming Western has meant becoming transformed according to these things, albeit in a variety of historical circumstances and with varying degrees of thoroughness. For conscripts of Western civilization this transformation implies that some desires have been forcibly eliminated—even violently—and others put in their place. The modern state, invented in Europe, is the universal condition of that transformation—and of its 'higher truth'. — Talal Asad,  Conscripts of Western Civilization , 1992, quoted in Joseph Massad's Islam in Liberalism, 2015, pp. 251-2

Cancelled then restored  منع "يوميات الإبادة" لعاطف أبو سيف في مانشستر Under pressure from the local Jewish Representative Council, the Manchester’s progressive art centre , HOME cancels a celebration of Palestinian writing A liberal review in the Guardian