The difficult task of making sense of the moral conflict: Gad Saad interviews Mosab Hassan Yousef

Negotiating the generational legacies of the long-standing conflict. Perspectives for those of us far from the lived experience.

Some context for 2024: Israeli Scholar Neve Gordon on Israeli Mass Surveillance in Gaza & Use of AI to Kill Palestinians

We go to Part 2 of our conversation with Israeli scholar Neve Gordon, professor of international law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London and chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom for British Society of Middle East Studies. Gordon talks about the "massive surveillance apparatus" Israel has imposed on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, the use of artificial intelligence tools to bomb targets despite the high error rate in those systems, and the shock of the October 7 attack by Hamas that killed some 1,200 Israelis. "The state seemed not to be functioning, so most Israelis were in great pain, were in great fear," he says. "My fear is that most Israelis are still trapped, still stuck in that October 7th moment and unwilling to lift their eyes to see basically the genocide unfolding in the Gaza Strip."

Watch Part 1 of this interview, the "Road to Famine: Israeli Law Prof. Neve Gordon on Israel's History of Weaponizing Food Access in Gaza" at https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/4...

The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth, in Verso

 

White Phosphorous #2, by Rafat Asad, a Palestinian artist based in Ramallah.

The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth

"The last six months of genocide in Gaza have ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. To truly understand the present crisis, Andreas Malm argues, requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine's subjugation to fossil empire."

Andreas Malm   8 April 2024 in VERSO