The Commune
Our house, we believed, was a microcosm of that country. Every month, we’d gather at the kitchen table for our house meeting, where we, like politicians, unveiled our big plans for change.
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Posts Tagged: Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Dilemma of Wartime Journalism
At Guernica, Richard Falk discusses journalism during the Vietnam War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how remaining ‘objective’ is actually being biased by turning a blind-eye to suffering: I came to realize that the journalistic ethos as applied to foreign policy was indifferent to the wartime suffering of the enemy population and a humanitarian catastrophe […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Song in the Subjunctive
Perhaps the city looked more poignantly lovely because I was conscious of its tragic history.
...moreAn American In Jerusalem
Slate‘s Dahlia Lithwick took a year off to live with her family in Israel and work on a book about the US Supreme Court. Then the current conflict started. She writes about her experience in a piece titled “I Didn’t Come Back to Jerusalem To Be in a War”:
...moreDon’t Pimp the Messenger
Trying to formulate a simple opener for this post–“The latest conflict in Gaza…” “Israel’s recent war with occupied Palestine…”— I stalled, worried that my word choice itself will be a reflection of the powerful media filter through which so many of us experience the catastrophes, tragedies, and atrocities of war. That filter is the subject […]
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