Recommended Readings

I’ll start with a list of the pieces I’ve saved on Israel-Palestine in the past few weeks:

• Israel chooses violence | Haggai Matar, 972Mag
• Sheikh Jarrah highlights the violent brazenness of Israel’s colonialist project | Noura Erakat and Mariam Barghouti, Washington Post
• Defiance in the face of Israeli aggression gives Palestinians everywhere hope | Ziad Al-Qattan, The Guardian
• Portrait of a Siege | Lakshmi Padmanabhan and Jehad al-Saftawi, Jewish Currents
• What We Did: How the Jewish Communist Left Failed the Palestinian Cause | Dorothy M. Zellner, Jewish Currents
• Reviving a Palestinian Power: The Diaspora and the Diplomatic Corps | Zaha Hassan, Nadia Hijab, Inès Abdel Razek and Mona N. Younis, Al Shabaka
• Palestinian Refugees Deserve to Return Home. Jews Should Understand | Peter Beinart, The New York Times
• Against the horror, Palestinians are still rising | Amjad Iraqi, 972Mag
• The violence that began at Jerusalem’s ancient holy sites is driven by a distinctly modern zeal | Yair Wallach, The Guardian
• Living the Nakba, over and over | Dima Srouji, 972Mag
• The Palestinian Dispossession at the Heart of the Gaza Conflict | Diana Buttu, Newlines Magazine
• Sheikh Jarrah and After | Tareq Baconi, London Review of Books
• DIARY: In Gaza, bombs drop and the conflict again hits home | Fares Akram, AP News
• What Can South Africa Teach Palestinians: Reflections on our Palestinian Youth Organizer Delegation to Johannesburg | Palestinian Youth Movement
• Palestinians and Lebanese march through Beirut in solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah | Kareem Chehayeb, Middle East Eye
• I stopped saying ‘stay safe’ to my family in Gaza. Because there is no way to stay safe in Israel’s most intense assault yet | Muhammad Shehada, Forward
• DIARY: Shouts, a hurried evacuation, and then the bombs came | Fares Akram, AP News
• Why are Palestinians protesting? Because we want to live | Mariam Barghouti, The Guardian
• Racism, Hate and Violence Are Jewish Values, Too | Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz
• How East Jerusalem flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah got its own hashtag | Suheir Sheikh and Zainah El-Haroun, Reuters
• Are social platforms deliberately silencing Palestinians? | Al Jazeera
• Israel/ OPT: Pattern of Israeli attacks on residential homes in Gaza must be investigated as war crimes | Amnesty International
• Adding insult to injury: Israel’s ‘Roof Knocking’ is colonial propaganda | Malaka Shwaikh and Shaima Ziara, Ceasefire Magazine
• No longer silent, Gulf Arab citizens express anger at Israel | Aya Batrawy, AP News
• Peaceful coexistence in Israel hasn’t been shattered – it’s always been a myth | Nimer Sultany, The Guardian
• ​This is not a conflict. This is apartheid | Inès Abdel Razek, ROAR Magazine
• Gaza children bearing the brunt in Israel-Hamas conflict | Fares Akram, AP News
• Reimagining Passover | Majed Abusalama, We Are Not Numbers
• Want to help Israelis? Become an anti-Zionist | Asaf Calderon, 972Mag
• This Moment Is Different | Youser Munayyer, The New York Times
• Between Grief and Anger, I Will Take Anger | Malak Hijazi, Rampant Mag
• Could this be the idea that secures peace for Israelis and Palestinians? | Meron Rapoport, The Guardian
• In the Firing Line: The Arabs – or the Palestinians – of Israel | H A Hellyer, RUSI
• Conversation with Palestinian Socialist Feminist Journalist, Budour Hassan | Iranian Progressives in Translation
• Is a Divided Israel Turning Into Yugoslavia? | Shlomo Sand, Haaretz
• Jewish Israelis Should Stop Being Afraid of the Nakba | Aluf Benn, Haaretz
• How an Israeli attack in Gaza led to the firing of an AP reporter | Matthew Petti, Responsible Statecraft
• No One Is Coming to Help the Palestinians | Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic
• A Gazan’s View on Hamas: It’s Not Complicated | Basma Ghalayini, The New York Times
• They Were Only Children | Mona El-Naggar, Adam Rasgon and Mona Boshnaq, The New York Times
• Only In Germany | Fabian Wolff, Zeit
• Amid Israeli–Palestinian Violence, Facebook Employees Are Accusing Their Company Of Bias Against Arabs And Muslims | Ryan Mac, Buzzfeed News
• ‘A campaign of intimidation and terror against the Arab public’ | Oren Ziv, 972Mag
• ‘Mama, You’re a Liar!’ – What It’s Really Like Living in Gaza | Eman Basher, VICE News
• We Israelis spend our entire lives seeing Palestinians only as threats | Yael Lotan, 972Mag
• Righting the history of Palestine | Jamal Nabulsi, Overland

And here’s the rest:

• Through someone else’s eyes | Lina Mounzer, L’Orient Today (previous guest of the podcast)
• ‘Sea snot’ covers Turkish coast, threatening fishing industry | AFP
• Italian climate activists sue government over inaction | Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian
• ‘A Tigrayan womb should never give birth’: Rape in Tigray | Luzy Kassa, Al Jazeera
• Voice of America is airing Ethiopian propaganda, staffers claim | Zecharias Zelalem (previous guest)
• The Impossible Dream: A Review of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future | George Katsiaficas, the Institute for Anarchist Studies
• “Sometimes People Write Poetry with Their Feet”: A Conversation with Tamim Al-Barghouti | Kate Shannon Jenkins, The New Yorker
• Why Tiananmen still matters for Hong Kong | Lam Chi Leung, Lausan
• Indigenous Solidarity at Fairy Creek | Emilee Gilpin, Indiginews
• Life in the Future Beyond the Rusted Chrome of Yestermorrow | The Jaymo
• Repressing the rebel workers of Tiananmen Square | Yueran Zhang, Lausan
• Disaster patriarchy: how the pandemic has unleashed a war on women | V (formerly Eve Ensler), The Guardian
• ‘The jobs went, the drugs moved in’: America’s addiction nightmare – in pictures |
• The Divas of the Arab World | Olivia Snaije, Newlines
• Court orders Shell to slash CO2 emissions in landmark climate ruling | CNN
• A Deep Look at Germany’s Resurgent Far Right | Terence McGinley, The New York Times
• What would happen to the climate if we reforested the entire tropics? | Phys.org
• The warped self | Mark Miller & Ben White, Aeon.co
• Breathless India | Aditya Bahl, Sidecar
• Abolish national security | Arun Kundnani, TNI
• Warning on affluence | Lorenz Keysser, Zukunftsblog ETH Zurich
• Building Fortress Europe | ARCGIS
• Nothing Works Any More | George Monbiot
• Hierarchy: can’t live without it, can we live with it? | Matthew Taylor, RSA
• Degrowth Care: Two commentaries worth mentioning | Alexander Dunlap, UiO
• Non-sovereign revolutions: Thinking across Puerto Rico and Hong Kong—Part one | Lausan
• Chickpea of the Sea | Max Ufberg, NY Mag
• The Philosopher’s Wine | Nick Foretek, Newlines Mag

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