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The world supports Palestine w/ Saree Makdisi

The East is a Podcast

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The Question of Zionism

The book aims to answer how can a violent project of colonial dispossession and racial discrimination be repackaged via a system of emotional investments curated perceptions and carefully staged pedagogical exercises into something that can be imagined felt and profoundly believed in as though it was the embodiment of ecological regeneration multicultural tolerance and democratic idealism. There are two main strands designed soft core what i call hard core Zionists and hardcore Zionism which is kind of an archaeology of a formation that's actually going already in decline now. The new historicism and their love of historical anecdotes at the beginning of things I don't know I'm so tired I've read so many anecdotes at the start of the beginning of the beginning

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