In The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, Antony Loewenstein details how Israel’s military-industrial complex has grown from a minor industry into a dominant economic and social force at home and abroad. He traces how, since 1967, the Occupied Territories and their people have furnished Israel with a living […]
Read MoreBrave spaces, but not safe ones: what Louise Adler did next
Louise Adler is in familiar surrounds. She is at a table near the back of Tonka — where she became so besotted with the house dal that she cajoled chef Adam D’Sylva to hand over the recipe (she likens her homemade result to a lumpy concrete mix) — and in the middle of a flaming […]
Read MorePrivacy under threat: Why we should all worry about the growing spyware trade
Antony Loewenstein Imagine a weapon so powerful that it makes every person on the planet with a mobile phone potentially vulnerable. It isn’t a scammer or traditional hacker but a new, much more virulent form of intrusion that takes control of all your personal information without you even knowing and uses those details to exercise […]
Read MoreA stranger in my own land
Fida Jiryis’ parents left their home, in what was once Palestine, in 1970 in voluntary exile. In 1994, after the first Oslo Accord, Fida and her family returned – to a very different country. Fida’s book ‘Stranger in My Own Land’ tells the story of her family from 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled […]
Read MorePresent Absences: A century of struggle in Palestine.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/hundred-years-war-on-palestine-rashid-khalidi/ A book review by By Kaleem Hawa The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 By Rashid Khalidi 698
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