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Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 7, Letter from artists and curator to the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (CAC)

The director and staff of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (CAC) have neglected to publish a Palestine solidarity statement written by the artists and curator of A Permanent Nostalgia for Departure: A Rehearsal on Legacy with Zaha Hadid, which is currently on view at the CAC. We publish their letter in full in Testimonial 7 of our Palestine Uncensored series.
The United States and Gaza

Eliot Weinberger makes sense of the response in the United States to the invasion of Gaza.
I’ve Had Enough With Marx

Foucault’s hostility to the post-war Left is explored in The Last Man Takes LSD by Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora.
Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 6, Let the children speak

A young Arab school teacher from London describes her students' expressions of solidarity with Palestine and the British school system's attempts to silence them in the 6th installment of Palestine Uncensored.
Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 5, The corporate clamp-down on academic freedom

Eventbrite de-platformed an event with Omar Barghouti and Neve Gordon after a previously planned talk's title was changed to "Carnage in Palestine: Oppression, Complicity and Ethical Responsibility” following Hamas's October 7 attacks. Neve Gordon explains the danger of such suppression in Testimonial 5 of our Palestine Uncensored series.
Palestine Uncensored: Diaries of Censorship

Across the world, people standing in solidarity with Palestine in the face of Israel's genocidal siege are being silenced and punished for their principled stance. We are launching a call for stories of censorship and retribution for demanding justice for Palestinians. This is Palestine Uncensored.
Zionism’s Political Unconscious

“From the river to the sea” is “threatening” and “intimidating” speech; it is a call to “genocidal violence.” Perhaps such interpretations are revealing in ways those voicing them cannot quite hear—or admit.
Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading

Download From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, a free ebook published in collaboration with Haymarket Books.
Palestine Uncensored: Testimonial 4

'This city and this country cannot criminalise and mute our voices and still expect our cultural work to continue its active resonance. Mine will most definitely not.' Dr. Khyam Allami declares an indefinite strike against German state-funded cultural institutions until Germany stops their violent suppression of pro-Palestine solidarity.
From the River to the Sea: A Historical Inquiry

Attacks and smears against those who proclaim “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” were always part of a strategy for erasing and undermining Palestinian self-determination.
Palestine Will Be Free

Today there is only one progressive way out: to democratize the entire territory, to grant all of its inhabitants equality of political, social, and economic rights, to allow the refugees to return, and to make decisions on the future based through the basic principle of one person one vote.
Working in the grey area

Naomi Braine draws parallels between the current state of affairs for many self-managed abortion activists and her own experience in harm reduction through syringe distribution.