Gavin Jacobson
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TK | Previously @newstatesman
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"The terrifying thought that strikes you while watching the film is that we have already crossed some kind of historical event horizon and are living in that eternal present." I wrote about the enduring power of Alfonso Cuarón’s 'Children of Men'
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How Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 dystopian masterpiece became the cultural exemplum of apocalypse, and a cardinal citation in the time of coronavirus.
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China Miéville usefully distinguishes between “belief” and “position”. Eg a lot of devout leftists believe abortion is an evil, but still take the position that it should not be criminalised: and it’s the latter that matters for coalition-building, not policing beliefs.
Re left politicians, faith & social conservatism: I don’t care much what people believe. I do care about how they do or don’t impose those beliefs on others & how they vote on policy. Those are the questions I’d prefer to see raised.
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Europeans getting the “Africa Summit” treatment, and not liking it.
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This is all the prime minister of the UK’s posts over the past three days
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Anas al-Sharif's last live report was about the starvation of infants in hospitals in Gaza City because of the Israeli-imposed famine. He was assassinated 10 hours after this aired. https://t.co/mySxYhQvWc
بينهم رضيع عمره أيام.. #الجزيرة ترصد أحوال الأطفال في قسم سوء التغذية بمستشفى أصداء المريض #حرب_غزة #الأخبار
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From Anas’s pre-written final message, to be posted upon his killing. ‘May God be a witness to those who remained silent, who accepted our killing, and whose hearts were not moved by the remains of our children and women, and who did not stop the massacre of our people.’
هذه وصيّتي، ورسالتي الأخيرة. إن وصلَتكم كلماتي هذه، فاعلموا أن إسرائيل قد نجحت في قتلي وإسكات صوتي. بداية السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته يعلم الله أنني بذلت كل ما أملك من جهدٍ وقوة، لأكون سندًا وصوتًا لأبناء شعبي، مذ فتحت عيني على الحياة في أزقّة وحارات مخيّم جباليا للاجئين،
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My life’s work of defending Israel and equivocating about its crimes is starting to feel a bit embarrassing so I’ll be spending more time watching the cricket.
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow You Will Be Killed in Familiar Deadlock
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This is a video none of you have seen yet. It was filmed aboard an Egyptian aid plane and aired on an Egyptian TV channel just three hours ago. It captures even more shocking scenes of devastation. The Egyptian journalist described Gaza as “the city of rubble.”
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“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly. Yet it’s not. It is this world. And what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras. One that casts a stain on humanity that will endure for generations.” — ITV News, with aerial footage of Gaza.
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Table of contents, preface, part of intro, and the index are available for preview now. https://t.co/idMsoZHwpm
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And this is nothing short of obscene. Using a colossal shattering of a country to sneer at ‘campus leftists’ shows that not only do you not care about Sudan, you are exploiting its people’s pain.
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Hey JewBelong, guess what
Whataboutism: Genocide Edition. Amazingly, this billboard basically admits that Israel is engaged in genocide. It does this by equating Israel’s actions with Myanmar’s genocide of the Muslim Royhinga people!
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An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague @Heidiphotos.
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The truth about US decline is that factory towns became prison towns which became deportation hubs. A return to the oldest American business of trafficking people. https://t.co/G2Oi4Ema4N via @NYTimes
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ICE wants to make immigration enforcement as efficient as FedEx or Amazon. Louisiana was poised for this moment.
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"The Gaza genocide has made plain what many leftist Jews have long feared: that virtually the entire enterprise of Judaism—and nearly every organization charged with stewarding it—is infected with a voracious rot."
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Sustaining the struggle will require spaces for reimagining our tradition.
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