1/ Arendt's leeriness of the State of Israel went far deeper than any of her specific writings on Zionism from the 1930s and 1940s would suggest. It's at the heart of her most profound—and most Jewish—book, Eichmann in Jerusalem. Some excerpts from a piece I wrote 8 years ago.

Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza bit.ly/4asgPMo

fascism.

The Senate with a Democratic Party majority.

So often the thing Israel accuses Palestinians of doing — in this case they said without evidence that Palestinian journalists were active Hamas collaborators and proceeded to kill more than 90 of them, including many of their families — Israel is actually doing itself. Here’s an

George Washington University GW University has rescinded its invitation for me to speak at its 2024 MLK event. I assume it’s because of my outspoken support for Free Palestine at a time students face increased repression on campus. Thank you GWMSSC for extending the invite. 1/3

.Chris Hayes: “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—and truly Oct. 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza and what we as Americans and our government are abetting. It must end. We must stop it.”

Watch/listen. Good people have lost jobs for calling Israel a "settler colonial" state and its terror campaign in Gaza genocidal. Listen this "romantic" vision of the frontier.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken just criticized other nations demanding a ceasefire, claiming he hears almost no calls for Hamas to lay down its arms and surrender. "How can it be that there are no demands made of the aggressor and only demands made of the victim?"

“OHCHR has confirmed the killings…” though not the other details. Still, the confirmation puts this massacre beyond the realm of rumor.

Witnesses say Israeli soldiers separated a group of Palestinian men from women and children and then killed at least 11 of the men in front of their family. The remaining family were either shot at or hit with a grenade, seriously injuring some, including an infant and a child.

But they keep insisting everything is going great!

This is the longest piece I ever published, and with the New Yorker. “A Palestinian Poet’s Perilous Journey Out of Gaza” It’s about my painful experience of being separated from my family, beaten and shackled, as well as the terrorizing days before and after. It’s published

Must-read from Ta-Nahesi Coates on those left out of the #DNC's diversity displays: "No Palestinian American is scheduled to address the convention from the main stage. I suspect this is because of what such a speaker might feel compelled to say." vanityfair.com/news/story/dnc…

Democrats' support of Israel's military assault on Gaza, "which is nothing less than a genocide, suggests to me the need to break out of the two-party system," says historian and professor of Black Studies Barbara Ransby.

Tomorrow is Howard Zinn’s 102nd birthday. 🎂 His optimism and hope for a better world were not about blind faith or religiosity. They were grounded in his deep historical knowledge and personal experiences. We need his hope. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor buff.ly/30YFJjy

Even as Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have deftly avoided any mention of race or racism in their campaign, its centrality in the looming election is undeniable, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes. nyer.cm/Vd1wsnK

🧵Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor out with the best piece yet on the contradictions of the Kamala Harris candidacy: "Harris and the Party leadership have acquiesced to the terms of the Republican backlash and rejected anything having to do with the successful 2020 election...

The problem of Gaza is at the heart of the contradiction of liberalism. From an important piece from Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in the The New Yorker this week.

BREAKING: My fall LGBTQ reporting & virus classes were cancelled & I’m not allowed to teach at Medill while I’m “investigated.” Whatever happens, I’ll be fine— like Medill, I “write boldly & tell the truth fearlessly”— but I’ll neither stay nor go quietly.x.com/democracynow/s…