Tag: israel
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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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Ronit Lentin, Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism
Mahmoud Ababneh Journal of Holyland and Palestine Studies 19(2) https://www.euppublishing.com/…/10.3366/hlps.2020.0251 In Traces of Racial Exception, Ronit Lentin prefaces her book with a list of crimes that the Israeli settler-state committed against the indigenous peoples of Palestine. After each crime, Lentin concludes with but that’s not who we are, we are better than this (vii–viii). This…
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‘That’s not who we are, we are better than this’
From Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism (Bloomsbury Academic 2018). Preface [1] This is an adaptation of Ghassan Hage’s elegiac and angry J’Accuse against settler colonial white Australia, posted on Facebook on 19 October 2016. With Ghassan Hage’s kind permission.