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From Land Redemption to Apartheid Regime
[1] Eli Aminov (1939-2022) was a radical anti-Zionist Israeli socialist activist, a member of Matzpen, the Socialist Organization in Israel. Aminov was one of the signatories of Matzpen’s September 1967 statement that called for the Zionist entity to withdraw from the Palestinian territory it occupied in July 1967, and predicting that “Occupation entails foreign rule, foreign…
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The zone of (dis)comfort
Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, probably the most unsettling film I have seen (twice) in a very long time, ends with Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss in an office party in Berlin, far away from his wife and five children with whom he had been living in a luxurious villa just outside the concentration camp walls,…
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Colonial academic control in Palestine and Israel
Institute of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, “Taking action for Palestine in Academic and Cultural Institutions”, 11 April 2024 Last month, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem suspended Professor Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, of the Faculty of Law and Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work for denouncing the Gaza genocide and casting doubts on the…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.