Co-operatives and Liberation, not necessarily in that order
The two state solution is supported by both sides only insofar as both sides are allowed to believe that it means something different. Saying most agree on it is like saying a Frenchmen and Englishmen agree to buy a car, while the Frenchmen is unwilling to buy anything cheaper than a Bentley and the Englishmen […]
Read More “But don’t a majority on both sides support the two-state solution?”Some of you are probably more familiar with this than I am, but for the sake of clarity I’ve compiled some of the relevant documents on the incident regarding the tweet that shook the Free Gaza movement.
Read More a Tweet blows Free Gaza out of the waterJenin
Read More Sameeh ShuqeirI’ve been thinking a lot about love this weekend. Partially because it was Maria and Scott’s wedding (congratulations!), which I performed at. And partially for personal reasons. Love is something which is quite important to me, both personally and politically. Genet’s Prisoner of Love was very influential on me. So, I wanted to share with you […]
Read More Thoughts on Love, Relationships and the Structure of RevolutionSitting eating some tomatoes and blue potatoes from my friend’s farm, I started wondering what it would take to grow all one’s own food. After looking at a few pages on the blogosphere addressing this question, I realized – this is what pioneers/homesteaders did. In other words, colonizers. And I realized that the ideal of […]
Read More Eat Local? The Pioneer and the ColonizerLast night I attended two anti-colonial events. The first was “She Speaks”, an event organized by one of my favorite organizations “No One Is Illegal”, and the second was the Toronto premiere of “Roadmap to Apartheid”. The clash between them shocked me a little, provoked me to think about the racism that is implicit and […]
Read More Hypocricy in Western Anti-Colonial attitudes to Traditional Knowledge: North American vs the Arab WorldTonight I was among the fortunate 200 who saw the premiere of “Roadmap to Apartheid”. I have been excited about this film since I saw the trailer on kickstarter. And then I was even more excited when I saw the extended trailer, which is just the first ten minutes of the film. Why was I so […]
Read More TPFF Review: Roadmap to ApartheidTonight at TPFF there is a screening of “This is my land, Hebron”. If you want to watch it, (and I don’t feel bad about posting this because it’s sold out), it’s on youtube. If you don’t know about Hebron, then watch the film. Or, pretty much any film about Hebron. They are all similar. […]
Read More A different kind of film about HebronOn Saturday night I did not go out to explore the Nuit Blanche. Instead, I stayed home, had some friends over, and watched the livestream of Zizek’s talk on our house projector.
Read More Nuit Blanche: “Cinema Zizek” at Toad LaneWe can easily enough attribute the fact that the PA is forced to use political violence to maintain its position of dominance and control to its failure to carry a revolutionary line; its failure to speak for the will of the people. This failure is materially exemplified by the rise of Hamas, the defections from […]
Read More Thoughts on the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian Revolution, and the admissibility of disciplinary violence
Only a Northern Song 