despite the vagueness, imperfection and powerlessness of it all I am going to enjoy while I can this ICC decision that accuses of crimes against humanity one of the greatest sob that history has ever produced

immoral order of geo-political machinations governed by instrumental calculations. Despite these limitations it was important to have the ICC’s decisions as a moral horizon. There’s every indication that the Trump administration will try and destroy what is left of this order. So,

a foundational piece. But also realising how every page, indeed every paragraph, is so full of insights that help us make sense of our Gazan present.

I opened the issue I remembered that it was also the issue which featured a translation of Achille's Necropolitics piece. In fact I hadn't really thoroughly read the piece since the time it appeared. So I started rereading it. And slowly I started remembering why it is such

this to my friend Achille Mbembe's notion of Necropolitics. I am writing something provisionally titled 'The not-so-postcolonial Arab in the shadow of Gaza.' I went back to my piece on Palestinian Suicide Bombers that appeared in Public Culture in 2003. and when

ideology it is not the views of people that are upside down it is their world that is upside down. And it is the world they live in that needs to be put back in order not their ideas of it.

office’s entrance, or painting a wall, or disrupting a ceremony than they are by an unfolding genocide. And they really think that it is the people demonstrating who are the ‘unreasonable’ ones. It is truely the case here that, as Marx argues, in