Theater of the absurd: The Jewish state vs. Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour
What is a poem, what is a translation and who is a translator: The trial of an Israeli from the Galilee exposes regrettable aspects of local culture
Category: Columns
Radiohead is art-washing Israeli apartheid
Cultural boycott of Israel, not dialogue, is needed. We had dialogue for decades and that did not bring any justice.
Where Zionism and the ‘alt-right’ meet
In August of 2014, Palestinian-American scholar Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after pro-Israel groups contacted the university administration to complain about….
AXA must comply with international law and break with Israel’s colonial, apartheid policy!
70 french organizations, associations, parties and unions have published a call to AXA to respect international law and cut ties with Israel’s colonial and apartheid policy. AXA is a shareholder….
Lettre ouverte à M. le Président de la République française
L’historien israélien Shlomo Sand interpelle Emmanuel Macron sur son discours, tenu en présence de Benjamin Netanyahou, pour la commémoration de la rafle du Vel’ d’Hiv : « L’ancien étudiant en philosophie, l’assistant de Paul Ricœur a-t-il si peu lu de livres d’histoire, au point d’ignorer que nombre de juifs, ou de descendants de filiation juive se sont toujours opposés au sionisme sans, pour autant, être antisémites ? »
Welcome: A letter from Mahmoud Darwish
The renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was the first writer that the Palestine Festival of Literature approached with a request to be a Founding Patron. He accepted. He was due to speak at PalFest’s inaugural event in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah in May 2008 but medical reasons prevented him from attending. He sent a letter instead. Darwish passed away three months later in August.
The English translation of his 2008 letter features as the opening piece of This Is Not a Border, a newly published collection of essays, diaries and poems marking a decade of PalFest. Darwish’s letter appears online here for the first time.
My Family in Gaza Tells Me: We Can’t Breathe
They’ve given up trying to sleep in the suffocating heat, but that’s not all Gazans are giving up hope for: “The war is coming. I’m beginning to believe I’m going to die before I even experience living.”
Testimonies From the Censored Deir Yassin Massacre: ‘They Piled Bodies and Burned Them’
A young fellow tied to a tree and set on fire. A woman and an old man shot in back. Girls lined up against a wall and shot with a submachine gun. The testimonies collected by filmmaker Neta Shoshani about the massacre in Deir Yassin are difficult to process even 70 years after the fact.
Defend Academic Freedom at San Francisco State
Dear President Wong and CSU Board of Trustees: We undersigned want to express opposition to the ongoing defamation, intimidation, and assaults against the academic freedom of SFSU faculty members by….
Notes from a Finalist: On the cancelled Edward Said Professorship search at Cal State Fresno
Steven Salaita recently stated, “If an entire nationality/ethnic group/political concern is going to be systematically excluded from Western universities, then the sources of that exclusion need to be vigorously identified….