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Racial capitalism and white Jewish property
Presentation at the Academics for Palestine webinar, 17 April 2025. Speakers: Dr Sai Englert, Leiden University; Dr Greg Burris, Northwestern University in Qatar; Dr Ronit Lentin, Trinity College Dublin (ret). Chairs: Eman Aboud, Trinity College Dublin; Bana Abu Zuluf, Maynooth University. This is a short version of my papers for the special issue on Racial Capitalism and Palestine, for the Journal of…
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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,…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.