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Items by Jwan Zreiq
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Cartographic digital colonialism across Lebanon and Palestine
Apple and Google Maps have become the primary cartographic imagination of the world. Two billion people navigate through them, trust them, defer to them. When Apple Maps displays no village names across Lebanon, not only in the south facing Israeli invasion but nationwide, while nearby Israeli and Syrian localities remain…
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The Board of Peace and the economics of occupation
Donald Trump speaks of Gaza in the past tense. The violence continues. Ceasefires are announced and ignored. On the same day reconstruction plans circulate, four Palestinians were killed in Gaza, according to Al Jazeera. Violence persists on the ground whilst development schemes multiply above it. Trump frames Gaza as a…
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Who gets to be a hostage? The language that legitimises Palestinian captivity
The answer lies deeply entangled within global biases in how violence and captivity are framed. Consider two seemingly similar terms: “hostage” and “prisoner.” Hostage evokes an image of innocence violated; a life unjustly taken. Prisoner implies process, legality, perhaps even guilt. A prisoner, after all, tells us less about the…
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Sarah Hurwitz and the human carnage no argument can break
What does it mean when the truth itself becomes unbearable? Not a distorted truth, not a manipulated image, but the unfiltered reality of what is being done in our name. Sarah Hurwitz, former speechwriter for Barack and Michelle Obama, recently offered an answer at the Jewish Federations of North America…
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Erasing the future: Gaza’s educational sociocide
What makes a society? Is it merely existing as individuals, or is it the threads between them – the schools, the universities, the archives where memory lives? And what happens when those threads are being cut. Deliberately. Systematically. In tent cities now in Gaza, students sit on dust. On rubble.…