Tag: Palestinian
Palestinian Resistance Tore Down the Green Line Long Ago
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was produced in collaboration with +972 Magazine and Local Call, two outlets run by Palestinian and Israeli journalists as part of a shared media ecosystem. It is one of a pair of pieces exploring what the erasure of the Green Line separating Israel from the occupied Palestinian
A Staggering Story of Palestinian Exile
The opening of Mona Mansour’s engrossing three-part epic about Palestinian displacement, The Vagrant Trilogy, was postponed for the last two years. But there’s also a sense in which its run at New York’s Public Theater was delayed by 33 years. In 1989—two and a half years into the First Intifada,
How to Misunderstand the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
In the imagination of the Christian West, Jews have been forced to fill every role. For 2,000 years, they have been seen as the ultimate shape-shifters: craven, feeble, abject, weak, and humiliated, but also powerful, conspiratorial, and demonic. They are the prime, indeed fatal, danger to the societies in which they live: arch-capitalists and arch-revolutionaries. Jews are a symbol, a metaphor, an essence. So it should come as no surprise that the state of the Jewish people, where almost