Tell her, don´t tell her

"Seven children", una interpretación de Caryl Churchil en respuesta a la situación en Gaza. Sobre la transmisión de la historia, entre el miedo y la negación, que impone un deber de memoria como interpretación.

Gideon Levy, hoy.

Algo más acerca de las palabras y de la comparación entre el Holocausto y la ocupación israelí.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1079368.html

Durmiendo en zona estéril

Un ensayo de Ariela Azoulay sobre fotografía y derechos humanos.
Ariella Azoulay teaches visual culture and contemporary philosophy at the Program for Culture and Interpretation at Israel’s Bar Ilan University. She is the author of The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008); Atto di Stato—Palestina-Israele, 1967–2007, Storia fotografica dell’occupazione (Mondadori, 2008); Once Upon a Time: Photography Following Walter Benjamin (Bar Ilan University Press, 2006); and Death’s Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy (MIT Press, 2001), a winner of the 2002 Infinity Award for Writing, presented by the International Center for Photography for excellence in the field of photography.

"En algún apartado rincón del universo centelleante...

desparramado en innumerables sistemas solares, hubo una vez un astro en el que animales inteligentes inventaron..." la convivencia en paz (con el perdón de Nietzsche).
http://www.pagina12.com.ar:80/diario/suplementos/rosario/9-17985-2009-04-04.html
¡Salam/shalom Rosario!

Speechlessness: In Search of Language to Resist the Israeli "Thing Without a Name"

BY Lev Louis Grimberg
Abstract This paper criticizes the words used to critique Israeli repression of Palestinians as ineffective for political struggle and not critical enough. It argues that there is no single word able to comprehend the phenomenon of constant dispossession, violent repression, and righteous blaming of Palestinian resistance as terror. Unable to suggest one comprehensive concept that can at once describe, analyze, and criticize the phenomenon, scholars use inappropriate existing terms—like occupation, Apartheid, colonialism, and Zionism—or invent new words like ethnocracy, politiciside, Bantustine, spaciocide, sociocide, or symbolic
genocide. All the concepts are discussed in the paper; it is argued that they are partially correct, but not totally comprehensive. The paper aims to uncover the sophisticated regime that can co-opt every critical word, and present always Israel as a democratic and enlightened regime, a victim of Palestinian violence. It claims that the incapacity to create a critical language is one of the obstacles to develop effective resistance to the regime.

El resto del artículo.