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Gaza and Germany’s Path to Authoritarianism
The German government’s stance on the war in Gaza and its increasingly repressive treatment of critics are causing growing national and international concern. The administration made up of Social...
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Telling the ‘Untold’ Stories of Palestinian Lives, Dreams, and Hopes—in Gaza...
After a decade of struggling with infertility and undergoing IVF procedures, 27-year-old Alaa gave birth to her first son, Kareem—an “energetic and brilliant child” with a “sweet” soul who “filled the...
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The McCarthyist Attack on Gaza Protests Threatens Free Thought for All
With the encouragement of the state, universities from coast to coast are taking draconian steps to silence debate about US-backed violence in the Middle East. The Columbia University community looked...
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There Can Be No Critique
An earlier version of this essay was published in the Boston Review on Dec 13, 2023 with this version appearing on the Verso blog on April 16, 2024. Jodi Dean’s badly misinformed polemic against what...
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The Media is Advancing a False Narrative of ‘Rising Antisemitism’ on Campus...
What is the mainstream U.S. media’s greatest single distortion about the protests at Columbia University and elsewhere? Here’s the winner so far: the media is ignoring the fact that Jewish students are...
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The Irony: Israel’s Supporters use ‘woke’ Playbook to Censor Palestinian Voices
In recent years, a new line of attack has emerged from many pro-Israel groups, conservative commentators, politicians and activists – the idea that “wokeness” and oversensitivity to giving offence are...
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Palestinians as “The Others”
Throughout history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of “The Others.” The political and mass media institutions usually follow suit by...
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Isra Hirsi On the Resilience of Columbia University’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
On Wednesday, students at Columbia University and its women’s college, Barnard, pitched tents on the lawns at the school’s campus commons. They planned to stay until Columbia divested from companies...
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The Most Important Thing I Teach My Students
Friends, The most important thing I teach my students is to seek out people who disagree with them. That’s because the essence of learning is testing one’s ideas, assumptions, and values. And what...
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Elites in the Global North Are Scared to Talk About Palestine
Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians with abandon. Al Jazeera published a story about the destruction of 24 hospitals in Gaza, each of them bombed mercilessly by the...
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The Media Lens Chamber Of Propaganda Horrors
Tourists visiting Spanish cities like Córdoba, Toledo and Sevilla have the option of whiling away an hour or so at a ‘Museum of the Inquisition’, sometimes known as a ‘Gallery of Torture’. For around...
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How an ‘Antisemitism Hoax’ Drowned Out The Discovery of Mass Graves in Gaza
Agruesome discovery was made in Gaza at the weekend. Some 300 Palestinian bodies – of men, women and children – were unearthed from an unmarked mass grave in the courtyard of the Nasser hospital in...
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Can Responsible Journalism and Investor Capitalism Co-Exist?
Gannett Newspapers Severs Its Relationship With Associated Press To Please Its Shareholders Gannett Newspapers is the largest publisher of newspapers in the United States with millions of readers and...
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Antisemitism: The Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters
Mainstream journalists and politicians have engaged in a campaign of mass slander against US college students protesting the Gaza genocide. Their “antisemitism’ Big Lie echoes the racist hate campaigns...
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War, Money and Universities
Peaceful protest, violent response – that says it all. Human politics – from global to local – remain mixed with hatred, dominance and . . . well, dehumanization. We’ve organized ourselves across the...
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House Passes Bill That Defines Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”
House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve legislation directing the U.S. Department of Education to consider a dubious definition of antisemitism, despite warnings from Jewish-led...
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NYC Mayor Smeared A Grandmother As An “Outside Agitator” To Justify NYPD...
Nahla Aa-Arian has been living a nightmare for the past seven months, watching from afar as Israel carries out its scorched-earth war against her ancestral homeland in the Gaza Strip. Like many...
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The Fiction of the “Outside Agitator”
More than 2,000 people have been arrested on US college campuses for peacefully protesting Israel’s war on the people of Palestine. For the “crime” of forming tent cities, or “encampments” on campus,...
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Media Coverage of Campus Protests Focuses on Spectacle, Rather Than Substance
Protest movements can look very different depending on where you stand, both literally and figuratively. For protesters, demonstrations are usually the result of meticulous planning by advocacy groups...
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