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Bondage and the invented bond of “Whiteness” (The Real Democracy Movement reviews “The Dawning of the Apocalypse”)

In the early 1600s, new settlers, were uniting across class and even religious lines, and what united them was their “whiteness”. The settlements had become a kind of joint European enterprise. Religious differences, that had so hampered the Spanish invasions, fell away as the white invaders came together “to bludgeon indigenes and batter Africans”. | more…

On committed anti-Zionist elders, such as Rosalind Petchesky, coeditor of “A Land With a People” (Middle East Eye)

Sumaya Awad, a Palestinian scholar and activist based in New York City: “Seeing a growing movement of unabashedly anti-Zionist Jewish groups is an important and inspiring reminder that these groups are building on a long legacy of Jews who, long before Israel established itself as a settler-colonial state, rejected Zionism and rejected Israel’s ethnic cleansing project… ”  | more…

Horne and Burden-Stelly on anti-Blackness, anti-radicalism, and the Internationalist counterforce (The E3W Review of Books)

….Internationalism in the Black American community, in particular, has been critical, not least because of the potency of white supremacy on these shores. Historically, international alliances have allowed us to construct a countervailing power against our domestic foes. You see that, for example, with regards to the Haitian Revolution from 1791 to 1804, which ignites a general crisis of the entire slave system, not least in the Americas, which can only be resolved with its collapse…. | more…

David L. Wilson, coauthor of “The Politics of Immigration,” on the media’s ‘Border Crisis’ (FAIR)

News articles have emphasized the fact that border encounters for March and April were at the highest level since 2000, but the differences between now and then are rarely mentioned. The number of Border Patrol agents has nearly doubled since the early 2000s, the agency’s budget has tripled, and most of the 650 miles of barriers now at the border were constructed after 2000. The total monthly border apprehensions may be similar, but migrants have much less chance of eluding today’s outsized enforcement apparatus…. | more…

Horne, on the occasion of a gruesome “anniversary:” The bigger picture (Listen: By Any Means Necessary)

“And so when we take these things into account, it underscores the necessity, the obligation, of internationalizing the struggle and — not seeing 74-75 million people voting for Trump in November 2020 as some sort of aberration, but as an abomination — that it is, that calls for more stringent measures, more stringent measures that I’m afraid to say, are now being bogged in the U.S Congress…” | more…

Coeditor of “A Land With a People” (Forthcoming!) makes it into NYT Op Ed section, print version

To the Editor: I never thought that I’d live to see this day: a full, front-page article that exposes the realities of Palestinian life under Israel’s military rule….None of it is news to Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem or within Israel. Nor is it news to many thousands of your Jewish readers, like me, who have visited Palestine and closely followed what is happening on the ground….. | more…

Horne unmasks U.S. strategies to dominate the globe, starting with Gaza (Listen: The Socialist Program with Brian Becker )

As a long-time, consistent analyst of this settler colonialist society, and the writer of books on many disparate topics, Horne is in a position to weigh in with some clear perspective on Israel and Historic Palestine. In an interview with Brian Becker, Horne lay out some of the specific manifestations of a shifting political climate, and argued that if anything, the bombardment of Gaza has severely backfired…. | more…

Beyond the Golden Globes: Michael Tigar, author of “Sensing Injustice,” interviews Nancy Hollander

Up to the release of his updated memoir, Sensing Injustice, and in the midst of many interviews and events, Michael Tigar and Nancy Hollander took the time to have a chat. That is, one legendary lawyer interviewed the other, and in this case, Tigar was full of questions for Hollander.

Tigar’s interview began with the case of Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, one of the far too many detainees tortured, and held for years on end without charges, at Guantanamo Bay. After Slahi’s 14 years of administrative detention, Hollander was one of the very few lawyers who was able to secure a Guantanamo detainee’s

The fragmentation of Palestinian society, the ripping of the Israeli social fabric: “The Arabs in Israel,” by Sabri Jiryis

The seeds of today’s turmoil across Israeli cities have been well-documented for many years, actually decades. My longtime friend Atty. Sabri Jiryis wrote a classic in 1966 titled, The Arabs in Israel. One of the first law graduates of the Hebrew University and a prominent Palestinian activist, the first edition of his book was written in Hebrew only to have the Israeli military censor block its publication. | more…

Gerald Horne makes you think – about the lie of the docile subject, from America to Palestine (Watch: Conscious Mindset)

One main thread runs through every aspect of every story: Stories of Black rebellion and resistance. When Horne tells of Texas’ efforts to secede and the impact of the arsons of 1860, allegedly set by slaves, he comments, “Our enemies are the ones who put out the rumor that we’re docile, because they want us to be docile today.”  That’s fallacious, he says. “Arsons were one of our favorite tools. Arson, poisonings, insurrections, murders.” And in fact, during the Madison administration, Africans actually joined the British in torching the White House in 1814, sending James and Dolly fleeing. | more…

Gerald Horne: Against Left-Wing White Nationalism (Organizing Upgrade)

How and why the U.S. left has tailed the ruling class on such a bedrock matter as conceptualizing white supremacy soars far beyond the confines of this brief response…..What does this mean for today?  It means rejecting the new Cold War against Russians and Chinese and, instead, forging alliances with both. It means linking demands for reparations nationally with likeminded struggles in the Caribbean and Africa.  It means realizing that the uncanny ability of some on the U.S. left to hand rhetorical weapons to the right to bash the oppressed – from “political correctness” to “cancel culture” – is hardly a coincidence or accident but simply another expression of a “cross-class alliance” that has propped up settler colonialism from its inception….. | more…