Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.
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Ronit Lentin, Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism
CONTINUE READING: Ronit Lentin, Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler ColonialismMahmoud Ababneh Journal of Holyland and Palestine Studies 19(2) https://www.euppublishing.com/…/10.3366/hlps.2020.0251 In Traces of Racial Exception, Ronit Lentin prefaces her book with a list of crimes that the Israeli settler-state committed against the indigenous peoples of Palestine. After each crime, Lentin concludes with but that’s not who we are, we are better than this (vii–viii). This…
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Colonial academic control in Palestine and Israel: Blueprint for repression?
CONTINUE READING: Colonial academic control in Palestine and Israel: Blueprint for repression?Ronit Lentin In Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel, eds. David Landy, Ronit Lentin, Conor McCarthy (Zed Books/Bloomsbury 2020) Introduction In January 2018 the Israeli Knesset approved a bill bringing academic institutes in the occupied West Bank under the jurisdiction of Israel’s Higher Education Authority. According to Haaretz, the legislation is…
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New Book: Enforcing Silence
CONTINUE READING: New Book: Enforcing SilenceENFORCING SILENCE: ACADEMIC FREEDOM, PALESTINE AND THE CRITICISM OF ISRAEL EDITED BY: DAVID LANDY, RONIT LENTIN AND CONOR MCCARTHY ZED BOOKS / BLOOMSBURY 2020 “Criticism of Israel has become the litmus test of ‘academic freedom.’ Anyone believing that this is, at bottom, a straightforward and unquestionable notion will change their mind after reading this very…
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‘That’s not who we are, we are better than this’
CONTINUE READING: ‘That’s not who we are, we are better than this’From Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism (Bloomsbury Academic 2018). Preface [1] This is an adaptation of Ghassan Hage’s elegiac and angry J’Accuse against settler colonial white Australia, posted on Facebook on 19 October 2016. With Ghassan Hage’s kind permission.
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Ireland, Israel and the Occupied Territories Bill
CONTINUE READING: Ireland, Israel and the Occupied Territories BillPublished in The Irish Times, 4 February 2019 The published article is available through the link. I re-wrote the final paragraph, as it spoke of ‘human empathy’ which I do not find useful when speaking of political solidarity. Israel’s response to the passing of the Occupied Territories Bill in the Dail last week entailed, on…
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New book: Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism
CONTINUE READING: New book: Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler ColonialismTraces of Racial Exception Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism By: Ronit Lentin See larger image Published: 09-08-2018 Format: PDF eBook (Watermarked) Edition: 1st Extent: 224 ISBN: 9781350032057 Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought RRP: £91.80 Online price: £73.44 Save £18.36 (20%) Please note that ebooks are subject to tax and the…
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Book launch talk “Traces for Racial Exception”
CONTINUE READING: Book launch talk “Traces for Racial Exception”Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism By Ronit Lentin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). Book launch speech, 19 October 2018, Trinity College Dublin Sponsored by the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity and Conflict, and Academics for Palestine, and launched by Professor Neve Gordon, School of Law, Queen Mary College London. Much has changed since I finished…
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Writing is the Closing of Circles: Nava Semel
CONTINUE READING: Writing is the Closing of Circles: Nava Semel‘WRITING IS THE CLOSING OF CIRCLES’: NAVA SEMEL From R. Lentin, Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Re-occupying the Territories of Silence, (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000) Introduction I met the late Nava Semel on November 25, 1992 in the apartment she shared with her husband Noam Semel, director of the Tel Aviv Cameri Theatre,…
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Time to close the Direct Provision system
CONTINUE READING: Time to close the Direct Provision systemOn Saturday 18 November a rally organised by United against Racism heard moving speeches by several asylum seekers living the Direct Provision for-profit incarceration system where men, women and children are held often for up to ten years. The Irish Times reported Mavis who has lived in Direct Provision with her three children for fifteen…