Podcast: Canada’s spring of occupations
Welcome back to the first podcast episode after a two-month hiatus! This week, three guests talk about two significant occupations of public space that have happened in Canada in…
Occupation
Atlanta billboard features Banksy’s mural of West Bank wall: ‘Christ at the Checkpoint’ conference
This is a two-part post dealing with resistance to the Israeli occupation. The common thread is Christian-related... in one case billboard art with a controversial slant on the the nativity…
Atlanta billboard features Banksy’s mural of West Bank wall: ‘Christ at the Checkpoint’ conference
This is a two-part post dealing with resistance to the Israeli occupation. The first part covers news of a controversial Israel-related Banksy mural in the Atlanta area. The second stays…
Jerusalem’s checkpoints and ‘Kafkaesque’ restrictions through the eyes of visiting authors: video
Stills from Jerusalem: Uprooted, Walled Out and Cut off – (view video beneath). The video Jerusalem: Uprooted, Walled Out and Cut off was first released by the Palestine Festival of…
Max Blumenthal’s Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel – reviews: liberal hypocrisy on Israel
Max Blumenthal‘s Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel is a remarkable and courageous book that reveals hard truths about Israel’s dark side. What makes Goliath especially impressive is the…
CBC interview with Dana Golan of Breaking the Silence: "Our Harsh Logic" compiles testimonials of Israeli soldiers
Dana Golan, a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces and former director of Breaking the Silence, was interviewed last Sunday on the CBC radio program The Sunday Edition. When asked…
Israeli soldiers testify: powerful new Breaking the Silence videos featuring female ex-soldiers
I’ve posted before about the work of a remarkable site called Breaking the Silence. It features candid video testimonials by former Israeli soldiers about the experience of being the uniformed…
Art at War surveys creativity under Nazi occupation, from Picasso to Dubuffet
“History isn’t the lies of the victors … I know that now. It’s more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious nor defeated.” – The Sense…
Misguided Journalist Terry Glavin Misunderstands ‘Idle No More’
Don Maroc-Cowichan Conversations Contributor MISGUIDED VICTORIA JOURNALIST MISUNDERSTANDS IDLE NO MORE by Don Maroc Terry Glavin is a well know media commentator on all things cultural and political. He claims…
40-Years of Peace Tossed in the Garbage
Apparently forty years of peace has been too much of a good thing for Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel has enjoyed peace with its Arab neighbours since 1973.Don’t blame yourself if you…
Life in Gaza is no day at the beach – Beach by video artist Guli Silberstein
In this 2006 work by Israeli-born, London-based video artist Guli Silberstein, painful footage from the infamous Israeli shelling of a beach in Gaza is juxtaposed with scenes of a happy…
Emotionally devastating documentary explores Israeli bombing of Gaza – Friday Film Pick: Tears of Gaza
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed or wounded in Israel’s latest bombing campaign of Gaza, while the Israeli military stubbornly insists the child-killing attacks are necessary to stop “terrorism”. Such…
What Would Happen if You De-occupy the Cognitive Surplus?
The “West” is known for its consumers. Much of the rest of the world is trying its best to head in that direction too. Reading Clay Shirky’s recent blog post,…