This post comes to us from our activist friend Lior Hadar, who is currently in Israel/Palestine doing justice work with different organizations and groups. In this post he reflects on the borders people place on themselves, from the UC colleges to Israel/Palestine. A man once walked into a Black Lau[...]
Posts Tagged ‘occupation’
November 6th, 2009 - 11:22 am § in Academia, Uncategorized
Turning Banners Into Flags: Thoughts from Palestine/Israel on Solidarity and Exclusion
September 15th, 2009 - 6:39 pm § in Activism, Commentary
MaGav: Thoughts on race and class in Israel’s border police
Whenever I encounter people who have been or continue to serve in the Israel Defense Force in my travels through the Jewish-Israeli community, sooner or later we get to talking about the occupation. I always find myself in an awkward place: it seems that there is a disjuncture between what the soldi[...]
Violence and the Crime of Dispossession in Israel/Palestine
When I was learning about South African apartheid, its (formal) collapse, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, I remember learning about a very telling story about what aspects of apartheid the TRC process concentrated on, and what it avoided. One day, at the time that TRC’s were hearing [...]