1/4 Palestine reading list (maybe some Egypt) - things on my bookshelf i either want to read again or forgot i read... Reminds me of a time i used have to scour second hand bookshop shelves regularly for books on Palestine because the internet wasn't a thing, i didn't have access yet or maybe it was social media that ended that primary method of search for me. #FreePalestine#apartheid#palestine#savegaza#bookstagram#books#reading#booklist#palestineliterature @bookstodon
Soul in Exile, Fawaz Turki - poet/essayist relates his refugee story in the 90s in a refugee camp in Lebanon.
Wild Thorns, Sahar Khalifah - born in Nablus in 1941, predating the apartheid state of Israel. Her first novel was confiscated by Israeli authorities; the second was published in Cairo. Fiction. Published 1976.
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4. Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi - she taught at Duke University. Fiction. Story told from prison, villager, prostitute, prisoner. You'll probably have some feelings. Also see (8) Two Women In One. And (9) Daughter of Isis, autobiography.
Beggar at Damascus Gate, Yasmine Zahran - Fiction. Published 1995. Archaeologist finds diary of lovers - a Englishman and exiled Palestinian woman working for the PLO. Could give insight into displaced people.
I Saw Ramallah
Children of Catastrophe
Also:
(10)In the Eye of the Sun and the (11)Map of Love by Ahdef Soueif
Just finished Etaf Rum's A Woman Is No Man. An unexpected, sad, generational story of resilience. Not that i didn't know women or Palestinians were resilient, but it begins in a certain patriarchal way but spreads out hopefully as we get to know our characters.
And i love an author's essay at the end talking about their life, what inspired them, what is autobiographical about their fiction, which this one has.
#BlackMastodon#BlackTwitter#Genocide#CrimesAgainstHumanity#Palestine#Israel
Genocides happened before the coining of the phrase see e.g. attempted extermination of Indigenous in the US, the killing and deaths of Africans during Transatlantic slavery, as well as the Armenian situation mentioned. In addition after WW2 genocides continue to happen with frightening regularity. It can only be applied to the 4 groups mentioned : national, ethnical (ethnic), racial, religious. 2/4
Crimes v. Humanity is a serious international crime although as yet there is no treaty or convention on it. But, it is considered part of customary international law. Notice that genocide did not protect against killing political groups. But crimes v. humanity does. Again, a short video for background. 3/4 https://youtu.be/lWN40FEzfNg?si=X6S0gaQ3fYsjMiE_
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Although both crimes evolved out of war time/armed conflict, today the crimes can be committed in times of peace. Note that several of the factors that constitute crimes v. humanity can be identified as activities Russia has engage in v. Ukraine, in addition to the obvious war crimes. Intelligent questions are welcomed. 4/4
Hey all,
I'm still in Jerusalem, here to spread one more thing that isn't making much news outside of Israel, and even outside of leftist circles within Israel -
Academia has also been swept up in the suppression of speech against the bombing of Gaza.
It began when several Palestinian students at Haifa University were suspended without a hearing for pro-Hamas posts.
I think there are plausible restrictions on free speech, so I didn't object to that.
However, this soon expanded into the suspension of more students who spoke out against the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.
Now it has expanded further with the dismissal of faculty members - I think so far all adjuncts - who oppose the war.
At this moment, I don't know how you can support, but if you are an advocate of academic freedom we would greatly appreciate you ready to support us. If there are people who are interested, I can ask around about the best way to support those who have lost their positions.
In the meantime I will post some links to relevant organizations and information in my reply to this post.
A Wagner group mercenaries received an offer to fight for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, one of them told EANews.ru [it's a local news agency from the Ural region of Russia] on the terms of anonymity. According to them, wagners were offered a salary of 650,000 rub (roughly 6,700 usd) per month.
'Publishing books on the struggle for justice in Palestine has been a central part of Haymarket’s mission since we published our first book, The Struggle for Palestine, in 2001. Now as ever, we recognize the root cause and ongoing perpetrator of violence in Palestine to be Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid, and we stand in solidarity with Palestinians in their struggle for freedom.
We also believe that books, as tools for education, analysis, combatting misinformation, and inspiration, have a vital role to play in the global Palestine solidarity movement. In that spirit, we’ve made three crucial books free to download.'