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GazaTalk: New Media Resistance

GazaTalk has published a list of resources and suggestions under the heading of How to Resist Online, useful both for those who have questions about how they can go about doing so, and for those who are generally interested in learning about how new media are deployed in the battle against the Israeli state’s and […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Gaza is Dying: Global Movement to End the War

As today we receive news that the Israeli military has bombed the headquarters of the United Nations’ Works and Relief Agency in Gaza, as well as part of a hospital, and the offices of two foreign news agencies, we are reminded of the need for urgent action from global civil society to pressure our governments […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Campus Gaza: Academic Boycotts and Complicit Silence

In a previous post, “Accepting the Might to Exist: Some Israeli Lessons for Anthropology,” a close Trinidadian friend and non-academic collaborator, Guanaguanare, wrote what I thought was an especially penetrating comment on complicit silence from those one might look to for some guidance in understanding issues of conflict, human rights, on the human condition itself, […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Montréal Solidarity Demonstration for Gaza, January 10, 2009

Montréal, on a bitterly cold Saturday afternoon, saw at least several thousand protesters turn out in solidarity with the people of Gaza. The crowd was massive, whose size was grossly if not deliberately understated by some of the national media — the length of the march stretched across several city blocks, often 10 people wide, […]