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For Edward Said, the intellectual’s role “cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions ... whose raison d’être is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.”
Israel’s War on Journalists - Boston Review
Anas al-Sharif delivered what Edward Said expected from intellectuals.
www.bostonreview.net
August 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
For Edward Said, the intellectual’s role “cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions ... whose raison d’être is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.”
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This case was so bad, the right-wing lawyers bringing it were ~sanctioned~
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"Bedi said she hoped the judge’s decision makes clear 'to the other powers that be' that the lawsuit was improper and the legal clinic did the right thing in taking up the case."
www.wbez.org/public-safet...
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"Bedi said she hoped the judge’s decision makes clear 'to the other powers that be' that the lawsuit was improper and the legal clinic did the right thing in taking up the case."
www.wbez.org/public-safet...
Judge tosses lawsuit likening pro-Gaza expressway shutdown near O’Hare to ‘false imprisonment’
A federal judge sanctioned the Indiana lawyer who filed the suit over a protest last year on Interstate 190 near the airport, saying it was “intended to harass” rather than make legitimate legal claim...
www.wbez.org
August 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This case was so bad, the right-wing lawyers bringing it were ~sanctioned~
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"Bedi said she hoped the judge’s decision makes clear 'to the other powers that be' that the lawsuit was improper and the legal clinic did the right thing in taking up the case."
www.wbez.org/public-safet...
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"Bedi said she hoped the judge’s decision makes clear 'to the other powers that be' that the lawsuit was improper and the legal clinic did the right thing in taking up the case."
www.wbez.org/public-safet...