In bombing Gaza, then, Israel was not striking the territory of another state. It was bombing people for whose welfare it is legally accountable as the only sovereign power that exercises control over their lives – including everything from determining how their names appear on identity cards and in the official population registry, to how much electricity they receive and how much food they are allowed to eat.
About Saree Makdisi
Saree Makdisi is a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA. He is the author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation.Author Archive | Saree Makdisi
Gaza, Palestine Israel, Palestine, Zionism
The language that absolves Israel
A special political vocabulary prevents us from being able to recognize what’s going on in the Middle East. By Saree Makdisi On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow [...]
Saree Makdisi – Banned in the U.S.A. (Almost)
I didn’t think America was a place where bookstores barred people for their viewpoints, until it happened to me, right here in Washington, D.C., the city of my birth. I was scheduled to speak at Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse last month about my latest book, “Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation.” My appearance [...]
West chooses Fatah, but Palestinians don’t
They prefer Hamas, which represents an alternative to Fatah’s acceptance of the Israeli occupation. By Saree Makdisi IN THE WEST, there’s a huge sense of relief. The Hamas-led government that has been causing everyone so much trouble has been isolated in Gaza, and a new government has been appointed in the West Bank by the [...]
LA Times: Why Does The (NY) Times Recognize Israel’s ‘Right to Exist’?
In the war of words, The Times is Israel’s ally. The paper consistently adopts Israel’s language, giving credence to an inaccurate, simplistic and dangerous cliche. (By Saree Makdisi) No issue better illustrates Orwell’s point than coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the United States. Consider, for example, the editorial in The Times on Feb. 9 [...]
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