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The Banality of Israeli Evil: An Everyday Occupation

An excellent talk by Saree Makdisi based on his book Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation. As one listens to the stories Makdisi relates of bureaucratic blocks and irrational rules … Continue reading

29 March, 2010 · 3 Comments

Witnesses of the Ages: the Campaign to Preserve Mamilla Jerusalem Cemetery

The Never Before Campaign people have put together another terrific short video — this one is for the Mamilla Campaign to preserve the historic Jerusalem cemetery.  Under the hafrada regime, … Continue reading

17 February, 2010 · Leave a comment

A Museum of Intolerance in Jerusalem

An excellent address by Saree Makdisi who was in Australia recently as the 2009 recipient of the Adelaide-based Edward Said Memorial Lecture (there is also a US-based Edward Said Memorial … Continue reading

15 October, 2009 · 2 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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