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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…
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‘Gaza in context. The duty of solidarity in the West’: BDS group forum at Sydney University, 20 October 2023
I was born in Haifa, British-occupied Palestine, and grew up in occupied Palestine, a.k.a. the state of Israel. Throughout my childhood and youth, I have been indoctrinated by the Zionist regime and told to de-humanise Palestinians and regard their country as ‘ours.’ This was done through the education system, everyday discourses, popular songs, literature, youth…
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Notes on Racial Capitalism and Palestine: Land, Labour and Jewishness as Property
Haider Eid and Andy Clarno’s (2017) analyze Zionist apartheid as both a racialized and an economic regime; racial capitalism is central to understanding race and the question of Palestine relating to questions of land, labour and resources. Charisse Burden-Stelly (2020) theorizes US racial capitalism as “a racially hierarchical political economy constituting war and militarism, imperialist…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.