Essential Books for UK Black History Month
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For the last time: Rejecting the conversation ābetween the sword and the neckā
Western media's double standard for Israel and PalestineĀ demands that Palestinians and their allies surrender to the logic of Israeli occupation. Shadi Chalesh writes of the importance of resisting and delegitimizing questions that demand Palestinian capitulation. -
Lean on Me: a Letter from the Editor
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The Eye of the Master: a Letter from the Editor
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Israel Canāt Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price
Under Israeli blockade since 2007, Gaza is the world's largest open air prison. While major Western media outlets areĀ painting Israel as the victim of a surprise attack,Ā Israeli journalist Gideon Levy argues that Israel's ruthless imprisonment of 2 million Palestinians is to blame for the present violence. -
Black British Feminist Resistance
Black feminist labour is stitched through the tapestry of Black radicalism, even as it falls out of the frame of representation. -
Palestine Was Not Empty
In this excerpt from Ten Myths About Israel,Ā Ilan Pappe takes on the myth that Palestine was an empty land. -
A System of Sabotage
The new oil companies of the late 19th century found themselves competing across countries and continents, and had to look to āmethods of sabotageā to solve the problem. -
A Hitchcock Blonde in Paris | Bluebeard's Castle
Anna Biller captures the seductively luxurious glamour of a honeymoon in Paris in her gothic novel Bluebeardās Castle.
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Who needs experts?
And what even is the role of the public intellectual in the post-truth age?
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Using the law as a weapon
What explains the absence of feminist interest in incarcerated women, and the investment in the carceral system? -
The Man Who Closed The Asylums
In 1961 an Italian mental asylum on the iron curtain got a new director. Within seven years he changed the face of contemporary psychiatry.Ā
