John Palmer

@johnrbpalmer.bsky.social

End the US-Israeli genocide and apartheid. Free Palestine.

"Dr. Abu Safiya is being held without charge in arbitrary detention, subjected to extended solitary confinement in a cold, damp, windowless cell, perhaps in the notorious Israeli torture camp Sde Teiman, perhaps elsewhere, enduring physical abuse and torture..." lithub.com/how-the-new-...

How the New York Times Failed Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

On October 29, 2023, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician and neonatologist based at Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahiya, published an op-ed in the New York Times. …

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We must insist on drawing connections across time and place — from the Holocaust to Gaza, or ICE detention to Israeli prisons — to disrupt the normalization of authoritarianism at every turn. By Amahl Bishara www.972mag.com/fascism-amer...

Fighting fascism in America during a genocide in Palestine

We must insist on drawing connections across time and place — from the Holocaust to Gaza, or ICE detention to Israeli prisons — to disrupt the normalization of authoritarianism at every turn.

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Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity, shining with human warmth.

My primer on German cultural politics in the October issue of @thenation.com brings together stories first reported separately, but need to be understood in concert. It’s the companion piece to my text on the US art world. “Fascism repeats itself: first as antisemitism, then as anti-antisemitism.”

How Germany Silenced Its Artists to Support Israel

As Israel intensified its genocide in Gaza, Germany ramped up its long-simmering war on dissent, silencing Palestine solidarity while bolstering its own far right.

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