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The Palestinian resistance faces a dilemma with Trump’s 'Board of Peace': reject it and risk annihilation, or engage and risk normalizing permanent occupation.
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Analysis of the compression and reduction of life in the West Bank
Palestine's most important university used to hold classes in living rooms when Israel shut it down. A devastating essay by one of its own professors on what happens when a university keeps functioning but stops meaning anything. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...
Here I write on the current state of Birzeit
Crosshairs “to live in the crosshairs is to occasionally yield to the dominance of the sniper’s lens. in this realm, two types of submission are recognizable. the first is to dodge, to acknowledge the sniper’s omnipotence, to shield oneself from death and to persist within the boundaries of the scope’s vision. the second is to stand defiantly, touched with a dash of madness, unconcerned with the meticulous contemplation of one’s past or future. it is to be utterly devoted to the present, a moment of absolute submission to the now.” Abdaljawad Omar (rusted radishes) best of the net 2025: nonfiction selection @bestofthenetanthology
Check out one of our 2025 Nonfiction Selections, "Crosshairs" Abdaljawad Omar (Rusted Radishes), selected by Jen Soriano on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-nonfiction/crosshairs/
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For the Palestinian people, psychic life is just as much a site of struggle for liberation as social life. Palestinians are persistently refused psychological amplitude, characteristics easily granted to those who are never worried they might fall out of what is constituted as the category of the human. Abdaljawad Omar’s writings in English published since October 7, 2023 (as well as writings by other Palestinians, other Arabs, and those of Palestinian descent) offer means of understanding material resistance in relation to the terrain of the psyche. Omar offers distinctive accounts of mourning, loss, and ruins, as well as of how settler colonialism reorganizes experiences of time and relations between past, present, and future. The article reads Omar’s writings against other accounts of mourning and of psychic phenomena that are indebted to psychoanalysis. Omar’s analyses of Palestinians’ resistance to unfreedom and annihilation open up other ways of understanding the psychic vicissitudes of those who suffer, grieve, and struggle to exit a colonial condition characterized by the colonizer’s repeated attempts to break psychic worlds as well as erase bodily life. Understandings of psychic life that do justice to how Palestine is redrawing the world are central to the work of ‘cracking history open’.
I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance
– to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social.
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Important and remarkably timely piece by @trillingual.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/ins...
photo of Abdaljawad Omar in front a view of Bethlehem and “TFSR 11-09-25 | Assessing the Israeli Ceasefire (with Abdaljawad Omar)”
This week, we’re sharing two segments:
A chat with Palestinian writer and assistant professor @hamayel.bsky.social ;
Plus a segment of the October 2025 B(A)D News with network participants discussing thinking through resisting the rise of fascism
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Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until it takes “accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza.”
A group of high-profile writers is launching a new magazine called Equator “to challenge the reigning assumption that global events should be narrated by and for the West,” according to a description shared with Semafor. Its founding team includes Pankaj Mishra, Mohsin Hamid, Nesrine Malik, Samanth Subramanian, and Suzy Hansen, with editing by Guardian long reads creator Jonathan Shainin. “In a post-American era, the task of a new magazine is to engage the rich variety of this historical moment on its own terms, without compulsively asking ‘What does it mean for the US?’” the nonprofit outlet, which is primarily based in London, will ask.
Our new magazine, Equator, is officially out in the world — and here @equatormag.bsky.social
Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org
A new one by @hamayel.bsky.social communispress.com/the-homely-a...
Benjamin Netanyahu's recent comments that Israel must start making its own weapons and become a self-sufficient "super Sparta" signals that the small colony might be willing to embrace its isolation — all in the name of annihilating Palestine.
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Let us vanish so governments may be excused from staging their clumsy theater of democracy, no longer forced to arrest their own citizens while policing dissent. So headlines no longer stumble awkwardly over the word Palestine, choking as if on a stone lodged in the throat. Let us vanish without memory, without residue—so we will not become what our enemies have become, so our names cannot be instrumentalized in the slaughter of another. Let us vanish without a trace, so those who remain can go on, unburdened by the loss of Palestine, relieved even of mourning.
This is not the same as nihilism, nor is it the clean poetics of martyrdom. It is something murkier: a refusal of the world’s cruel prolongation of suffering, an impatience with its slow-motion genocidal theater. A desire to collapse the unbearable waiting, to shorten the interval between loss and one’s own disappearance. A death wish, yes—but collective, almost utopian in its twisted way: that if we must vanish, we vanish together.
if you read anything today (or ever) i recommend “Death has died in Gaza” by @hamayel.bsky.social
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New essay by @hamayel.bsky.social salvage.zone/the-anxiety-... go give it a read 📚
Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staged attempt at humiliating Marwan Barghouti exposed the impotence of the Palestinian political order — but it also laid bare the insecurities and anxieties that fuel Israel’s need to publicly subjugate Palestinians.
mondoweiss.net/2025/08/marw...
Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staged attempt at humiliating Marwan Barghouti exposed the impotence of the Palestinian political order — but it also laid bare the insecurities and anxieties that fuel Israel’s need to publicly subjugate Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/marw...
My new article analyzing the need to humiliate
'[P]erhaps the hatred that simmers among the pariahs of Palestine is not a hatred to be feared, but one to be understood—as a cry for coherence, as the residue of a love unfulfilled'
Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social on how to hate is another way to love dabartis.com
Beneath the Howl of Hunger By Alaa Alqaisi Long before hunger lays claim to the body, it loosens the scaffolding of language, erasing clarity, dismantling rhythm, and leaving behind the fragile debris of thought. What begins as a coherent paragraph soon dissolves into fragments, until all that remains is the involuntary tremor of a mind too starved to hold meaning. And so, before my language deserts me entirely, I write this, less to be understood than to remain traceable, to leave behind the shape of thought before it slips into silence.
From a forthcoming essay by our beloved contributor & workshop participant & friend, Alaa Alqaisi.
An incredibly gifted writer, translator, & scholar. Being starved.
Zohran Mamdani's victory over Andrew Cuomo is a historic turning point for Palestine in U.S. politics. It reflects a growing fatigue with Israel’s role in American life and the slow implosion of Zionism under the weight of its own excess.
mondoweiss.net/2025/06/zohr...
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