Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

The FEDS are investigation  the University of Massachusetts Amherst for anti-Palestinian bias

A very good piece by the historian Vincent Brown

These same Arab nations  [sic] are now pivotal in stopping Israel from further escalating the war after Iran’s missile and drone attack. *The states decided not the nations. And those states are by no means representative of their respective population even when measuring representation by bourgeois democracy.

The Zionist claim to return to the pre-diaspora past in the land of Israel was in practice the negation of the actual history of the Jewish people for more than 2,000 years. Zionism, or for that matter any modern nationalism, could not conceivably be a return to a lost past, because the sort of territorial nation-states with the sort of organization it envisaged simply did not exist before the nineteenth century. It had, in fact, to invent the history it claimed to bring to fruition. As Ernest Renan said a century ago: 'Getting history wrong is an essential part of being a nation.' It is the professional business of historians to dismantle such mythologies, unless they are content – and I am afraid national historians have often been – to be the servants of ideologists. —Hobsbawm, On History , 2013 ed., p. 21 and pp. 34-5

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I think the figure is reasonable and could be higher as the BBC suggests.

By Refaat Alareer Read in English by Brian Cox إذا كان لا بُدَّ أن أموت …

For this a leading American professor has been placed in leave. “Who could not feel energized seeing oppressed people bulldozing the fences enclosing them, taking to the skies in escape, and flying freely through the air? Imperialists and Zionists reduce October 7 to a list of horrors not simply to block from view the history and reality of colonialism, occupation, and siege. They do it to prevent the gap of the disruption from producing the subject that caused it. Hamas wasn’t the subject of the October 7 action; it was an agent hoping that the subject would emerge as an effect of its action, the latest instantiation of the Palestinian revolution. More often than not, though, left intellectuals echo the condemnations that imperialist states make the condition for speaking about Palestine. In so doing, they take a side against the Palestinian revolution, giving a progressive face to the repression of the Palestinian political project, and betraying the anti-imperialist aspirations of a...

What a razor-sharp letter!

A regional war led by the US and a hot of Arab regimes, UK, in defence of Israel Related “Though the U.S. created the conditions that may have encouraged Netanyahu’s gambit , it was reportedly Israel, acting on its own behalf, without coordination with its allies, that precipitated the latest grave escalation.”

A sample: the Metro, which is owned by the same people who own the Daily Mail. Some people injured are called “a rain of terror”. 

Very, very insightful.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. —Aldous Huxley

“ The speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style).”

A British-Palestinian surgeon speaks after had refused entry to take part in a conference.

“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

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