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My take on all the Trump genuflection:
Once you have convinced yourself you can stay silent on a genocide unfolding live on your phone, you can stay silent/make peace with pretty much anything.
Israel has blown a massive hole in our moral universe and now pretty anything can drive through it.
Once you have convinced yourself you can stay silent on a genocide unfolding live on your phone, you can stay silent/make peace with pretty much anything.
Israel has blown a massive hole in our moral universe and now pretty anything can drive through it.
For @theguardian.com I wrote about how Gaza has split the academic field of genocide studies.
As one scholar put it, “Where can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?”
My latest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
As one scholar put it, “Where can the field stand if scholars from within and around it are unwilling to call the behaviour out?”
My latest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars
New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israel’s offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM
My take on all the Trump genuflection:
Once you have convinced yourself you can stay silent on a genocide unfolding live on your phone, you can stay silent/make peace with pretty much anything.
Israel has blown a massive hole in our moral universe and now pretty anything can drive through it.
Once you have convinced yourself you can stay silent on a genocide unfolding live on your phone, you can stay silent/make peace with pretty much anything.
Israel has blown a massive hole in our moral universe and now pretty anything can drive through it.
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Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
December 18, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
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I don’t even know where to begin with what it means to be without Nikki Giovanni.
Dear Nikki, Grappling with your work brought out the best writing I have ever done.
You were a Martian, born in Knoxville, TN. May you rest in peace, #NikkiGiovanni.
thebaffler.com/salvos/becom...
Dear Nikki, Grappling with your work brought out the best writing I have ever done.
You were a Martian, born in Knoxville, TN. May you rest in peace, #NikkiGiovanni.
thebaffler.com/salvos/becom...
Becoming Martian | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
How can we imagine leaving Earth’s surface and making a livable home elsewhere when we can’t even get it right here?
thebaffler.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:56 AM
I don’t even know where to begin with what it means to be without Nikki Giovanni.
Dear Nikki, Grappling with your work brought out the best writing I have ever done.
You were a Martian, born in Knoxville, TN. May you rest in peace, #NikkiGiovanni.
thebaffler.com/salvos/becom...
Dear Nikki, Grappling with your work brought out the best writing I have ever done.
You were a Martian, born in Knoxville, TN. May you rest in peace, #NikkiGiovanni.
thebaffler.com/salvos/becom...
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We published a powerful review this morning of Refaat Alareer's "If I Must Die" by @karthikpuru91.bsky.social
December 9, 2024 at 4:05 PM
We published a powerful review this morning of Refaat Alareer's "If I Must Die" by @karthikpuru91.bsky.social
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The New York Times had entire homepages full of stories on campus antisemitism hearings.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.
NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.
The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.
BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:48 AM
The New York Times had entire homepages full of stories on campus antisemitism hearings.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.