Free Radikal

Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.

  • Re-thinking Israel-Palestine: Racial state, state of exception

    Introduction: The dialectics of Israel-Palestine 2010 has been another eventful year in Israel-Palestine. First there was the debacle of the Gaza flotilla. Later on, Israeli police forces demolished the ‘unrecognised’ village of El Araqib three times. In Sheikh Jarrach, Silwan and Bil’in riot police keeps arresting unarmed demonstrators. In October, Israel legislated to obligate all…

  • View Ilan Pappe and Ronit Lentin in Trinity College

    Part 1: Ilan Pappé & Ronit Lentin. Trinity College Dublin. 17-11-2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKvc2P9nPcE Part 2: Ilan Pappé & Ronit Lentin. Trinity College Dublin. 17-11-2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sCPAR26bio Part 3: Ilan Pappé & Ronit Lentin. Trinity College Dublin. 17-11-2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyGgPaiJu3E Part 4: Ilan Pappé & Ronit Lentin. Trinity College Dublin. 17-11-2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVyIZjRTPuo Part 5: Ilan Pappé & Ronit Lentin….

  • The hidden lives of migrant women workers

    I saw Alan Grossman and Aine O’Brien’s film ‘Promise and unrest’, the story of mother and daughter Noemi and Gracelle from the Philippines, and was reminded, yet again, of the hidden lives of thousands of migrant women care workers in post-Tiger Ireland. Noemi came to Ireland when her daughter Gracelle was seven months to work…