NB: A blurb for a book of philosophical essays asks if ours is the era of ‘faint-hearted’ philosophy, because we were/are not ‘able to bear the greatness, the immensity of the claims made by the human spirit.’ The ongoing ideological assault on the mind and the very soul of humanity point to the widespread failures… Read More Natalia Ginzburg: Our Monstrous Ideas
This article was authored in June 2024. It appears in our fifth print issue, Contra Temps, available here Buber had written that for “political Zionism,” “the State is the goal and Zion a ‘myth’ that inflames the masses.” That propaganda employed to shore up nationalist militarism and settler-colonialism could leverage European guilt to “distort and exploit respectable… Read More Zionism Breaks
Peace cannot be engineered on the basis of coercion. It requires justice, and justice is precisely what has been denied to Palestinians for generations – Rashid Khalidi In a region where peace has been promised and broken more times than history can count, optimism is a luxury few can afford. The latest proposal put forward… Read More Trump’s Gaza Plan Is Built on Sand: Why This Proposal Cannot Deliver Peace
United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month.The fragile, US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October, after two years of war. “The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion… Read More Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says / Israeli forces shoot Palestinians dead after surrender
“Khalil,” I whisper, not sure which Khalil I’m addressing. “The sky is gone.” Illustration by David Sankey A short story “Black Hole above Gaza” is the winner of the second annual Commonweal Prize for Short Fiction, which recognizes original and outstanding short fiction by emerging writers. Written by Elina Kumra, the story was selected by… Read More Black Hole above Gaza
This article, The Deconstruction of the Walls of Jericho; is an abridged version of The Bible: No Evidence on the Ground; by Zeev Herzog, Professor at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University. He participated extensively in collaboration with other archaeologists in excavations at ancient sites relevant to Biblical legends.… Read More Biblical Archaeology and the Judeo-Christian legends / The Deconstruction of the Walls of Jericho
https://www.youtube.com/@redcreators 50,000 fans cheer for Palestine at friendly football match in Spain Peoples of the world! / In the days when the earth weeps, when children are buried without names / we raise our voices like a barricade: with anger and with hope. Venceremos Palestine In my mouth, the bitter taste of gunpowder, / and… Read More Venceremos Palestine !
Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was one of the world’s preeminent geopoliticians, which is why he entangled so many powerful people in his misdeeds. The human-trafficking sexcapades were not the main thing bringing him together with his pedo friends. It was money and power politics, forming a vital artery… Read More Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians “they’ve destroyed all my pride in being an Israeli – in being an IDF officer. All that’s left is shame” Julian Borger Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual… Read More ‘All that’s left is shame’
There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict Orly Noy About two weeks after 7 October, I received a WhatsApp message from an acquaintance in Gaza. He asked me to check on his mother, who at that time was hospitalised in East Jerusalem. He had… Read More Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel
After the truth-shower 