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...Gaza during the fighting to show solidarity with its residents, or organize blood or food help for Gaza's victims. Says Diana Buttu, a lawyer and ex-adviser on the Palestinian team that negotiated with Israelis, "The problems of Palestine are much bigger than Fatah versus Hamas, but Abbas tried to turn it into that. He couldn't see beyond the petty differences, even as his people were dying in Gaza...
...board with that?DB: I give a big spiel during shopping week, so I tend to draw people who are into that sort of thing. [Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Studio Arts] Nancy Mitchnik also teaches a foundational observational painting class.RR: Do you guys have a rivalry? Non-observational versus observational?DB: No, we’re buddies. Sometimes it’s useful to pretend that we do, but we don’t really. I think it’s important for Harvard students to practice speculative making, doing as thinking. It’s about thingness, not theory.Ian...
...Numerous observers have charged Israel with committing war crimes during the war. Without downplaying that aspect, I think it is important to understand the 1,300 Palestinian casualties, including 400 children as well as many, many women, versus 13 Israeli casualties, as typical of a particular kind of “police action” that Western colonial powers and Western “ethno-cratic settler regimes” like ours in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Serbia and particularly apartheid South Africa, have historically undertaken to convince resisting native populations that unless they stop resisting they will suffer unbearable...
This is not a simplistic “us versus them” situation. If disadvantaged minority communities are to make headway, they must fight internal crime, testify against murderers and drug dealers, and collaborate on neighborhood security, including forming organizations to monitor both street gangs and police behavior. But just as minority communities cannot pin everything on the system, police departments must stop perpetuating the idea that they are the “thin blue line” between all that is good and evil. Police must be subject to more substantial review by federal agencies such...
...pride and the other with a mix of apprehension and confusion. I had studied and discussed female circumcision before my time in Tanzania. I had debated what to call it—female genital mutilation, genital cutting, circumcision, etc. I had weighed the pros and cons of human rights versus cultural relativism. But never had I sat with a young girl who so had been recently circumcised, and heard her perspective on the experience as she drew an “x” on paper to diagram the cutting. I do not support invasive female circumcision procedures that take...