2 weeks ago
Unlearning Zionism
Edward Said ends his introduction to Orientalism with a plea for “unlearning”: “If [Orientalism] stimulates a new kind of dealing with the Orient, indeed if it eliminates the ‘Orient’ and …
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3 months ago
Anti-Zionism Is Not a Luxury
What is Palestinian liberation? What kind of transformation does it entail? And what form of reason does it require? A fruitful exercise for thinking through these questions is to introduce …
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7 months ago
Fascism from the Standpoint of Its Racialized Victims
What does fascism look like from the standpoint of its racialized victims? My question here is inspired by Edward Said’s key 1979 essay, “Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims,” …
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1 year ago
The Palestinian Problem as a Problem of Being
In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois famously meditates on the question, “How does it feel to be a problem?”[i] This is …
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1 year ago
Framing Palestine
The title of my essay, “Framing Palestine,” has a double meaning. First, I’m using “framing” to describe the ways we try to make sense of Palestine—more specifically, how we make …
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