Tag: Palestine
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Der Spekter: German Catechism Versus Memory Culture
Germany’s scapegoating of the racialised Other is the end result of the absence of a critical memory culture that seeks to confront the past in all its ugliness.
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The Breakup Theory Episode 31 – Iran and the US-Israeli Death Drive Economy
A conversation I recorded with The Breakup Theory to discuss and analyze the US-Israeli war on Iran
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Hauntologies: An elder is someone who is older than olive trees
Or: what breaks me
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Hauntologies: Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope
This essay does not end like it begins. I considered dividing it in two but ultimately decided to keep it as is. It starts with a discussion of what Assadism…
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Hauntologies: The Génocidaires Can Never Rest
The walls are closing in on the Israeli génocidaires, and this is just the beginning. Two IDF soldiers were briefly arrested in Belgium after the Hind Rajab Foundation filed a…
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Starry, Starry Night: Fatima Hassouna's Loud Death
A loud death means doing the memory work against forgetfulness, not in some distant future, but right here, right now. “This world was never meant for one/As beautiful as you”–…
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From Syria to Palestine: struggles against dictatorship, imperialism, and zionism (audio)
Panel at Left Forum 2017 With Ramah Kudaimi, Shireen Akram-Boshar, Jehad Abusalim and myself, hosted by Ashley Smith.
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‘There Is No Holiness in an Occupied City’: Jewish Activists Protest Israel’s ‘Jerusalem Day’
“This is not an occasion to celebrate. Jews around the world must resist this violence, supposedly perpetrated in our names.”
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Palestinians Mourn ‘Intellectual-Activist’ Killed in Gun Battle With Israeli Forces
“Why is his people absent? Who was those that were supposed to protect him? Who was supposed to hide him?”
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As Border Wall Looms Over Mexico, a Closer Look at Israel’s Internationally Condemned Wall
“Netanyahu’s support for Trump and the wall shows in all its meanness how low the Israeli prime minister has reached. Shameful.”
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What Eyewitnesses Say Happened When Israeli Police Tried to Demolish Umm el-Hiran, a Bedouin Arab Village
Eyewitnesses explain what happened in Umm el-Hiran on the morning of January 18, 2017 as Israeli authorities prepared to destroy a Bedouin village
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Wretched of the Earth: Thoughts on Syria, Palestine and Discourse
As a Palestinian from Gaza, Assad means nothing to me.
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On The Allies We’re Not Proud Of: A Palestinian Response to Troubling Discourse on Syria
We, the undersigned Palestinians, write to affirm our commitment to the amplification of Syrian voices as they endure slaughter and displacement at the hands of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime.
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Black-Palestine Solidarity: Towards an Intersectionality of Struggles
Tracing the historical context of both struggles and exposing the shared components of their respective struggles in order to conclude on their relation within a politics of transnational solidarity framework…
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Two Palestinian Harry Potter Fans respond to J.K. Rowling
Expressing their deep disappointment at J.K Rowling’s misleading “Culture for Coexistence” letter in The Guardian newspaper, Palestinian fans of Harry Potter have published open letters to the author of our…
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From Humanity to Bestiality, an encounter with Y. Leibowitz
Yeshayahu Leibowitz was a famous Israeli intellectual known for his outspoken opinions on Judaism, ethics, religion and politics. Here’s an interview of his on the topic of “Humanity to Bestiality”
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Stay Human: Arrigoni’s Gaza testimony read by world figures
“It’s a Reading Movie giving voice to a man whose life and death are now symbols of Palestinian resistance: Vittorio Arrigoni.”
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What did Palestine look like in 1896?
A film footage of Palestine in 1896 was recently published online thanks to Lobster Films. It shows Palestinians of all faiths – Christians, Jews and Muslims – living side by…
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Underneath the Washed White Wall of Cynicism and Hope by R. Baroud
The houses in my old refugee camp felt enormous. My neighbors’ homes had grown into strange dimensions because they had to make use of every inch of available space out…
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Visualizing Palestine [Infographics]
“Visualizing Palestine is the intersection of communication, social sciences, technology, design and urban studies for social justice.
![Visualizing Palestine [Infographics]](https://eliaayoub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/vp-bombs-diorama-2013-03-04.jpg)
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Do Not Forget Khader Adnan
By Elia Ayoub “My dignity is more precious than my food”, said the 33-year old Palestinian man as he now ends his 64th day of Hunger Strike – the longest…
