Resources for August 6, 2014

Cultures of Resistance: “Once again it is the unarmed civilian population, which is in the eye of the storm, victimized in the name of a falsely construed right to self-defense, invoked after an escalation of violence provoked in the face of the entire international community.” -- Joint declaration by over 140 international legal experts (including attorneys from our ally, the Center for Constitutional Rights) denouncing the Israeli government’s collective punishment of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. The declaration recalls that “the entire population of the Gaza Strip, for over seven years, has been virtually imprisoned by the regime of closures imposed by Israel,” and urges the governmental leaders of Palestine to invoke the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.





"Israeli deceptions revealed in story of ‘kidnapped’ soldier." Mondoweiss (August 4, 2014)

Weiler, Jonathan. "The Hateful Likud Charter Calls for Destruction of Any Palestinian State." Informed Comment (August 4, 2014)








The Bat Segundo Show ["The Bat Segundo Show is a cultural and literary podcast that involves very thorough long-form interviews with contemporary authors and other assorted artists. Standard questions that have been asked of guests over and over are avoided, whenever possible."]

Best of the Left

Paley, Nina. "This Land is Mine." Brain Pickings (August 6, 2014) ["Ever since her remarkable 2008 animated feature film Sita Sings The Blues, I’ve been a great admirer of animator, cartoonist, and free-culture activist Nina Paley’s creative and meta-creative work. The recent situation in Gaza makes Paley’s 2012 animated short film This Land Is Mine — “a brief history of the land called Israel / Palestine / Canaan / the Levant” — particularly timely."]

Cox, Mick and Danny Quah. "Supremacy or Survival? The West in the Asian Century." The London School of Economics and Political Science (August 4, 2014)