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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…
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Genocide is not a metaphor: reflections on Gaza and genocide denial
I recently published a blog post on the Identities blog on the Gaza genocide. Read it below or visit the Idenities blog. The question to be asked is… how long are we going to deny that the cries of the people of Gaza… are directly connected to the policies of the Israeli government and not…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.