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I interviewed four cultural figures across the West Bank about how they are responding to a context which has become more deadly, volatile and oppressive than ever
James Greig
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James Greig
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- Whether you’re dancing with abandon or quietly enjoying the music, however you behave in a public space is now fair game for a stranger to film you and mock you on the internet. I worry that this kind of thing represents the death of fun!
- If people want to complain about TikTok radicalising young people into supporting Palestine they need to reckon with the fact that the most effective anti-Israel propaganda is being posted by the IDF itselfIsraeli soldiers intentionally placing prayer rugs inside a bathroom, stepping on them while shi**ing inside Gazan houses to then throw their shit around for people to collect it after the war– only then comes the best part “POV: you’re freeing Palestine” it’s indeed astonishing
00:00 - Me: oh, the coco pops monkey *definitely* has he/they energy 😂 My mum: your cousin just bought a house
- They’re running out of things to like about Taylor SwiftIdk if this makes sense, but I love how her home looks lived in. Like sometimes you see celebrities houses and it’s like I can tell you spend no time here..?
- Palestinians were offered: no hope of return for refugees, ever; no dismantling of settlements; no possibility of a sovereign state capable of setting its own foreign and economic policy, and a continued Israeli military presence in the West Bank
- Me when my screen time is down by 13 percent this week, to an average of a just seven hours a day
- Prince Harry is often caricatured as a dim-witted Hooray Henry. But his new memoir reveals a more sensitive, even rather bookish side
- Like many on the left, I’d fooled myself into thinking that Meghan Markle would lend a revolutionary liberation movement and overthrow late capitalism. This is a sobering, bracing read.For all her talk about changing society, Meghan Markle is mostly interested in promoting herself as an aspirational figure of the enlightened liberal ruling class on her new podcast. jacobin.com/2022/09/meghan…
- It’s kind of wild to think that Coronation Street had a hugely popular and sympathetic trans character introduced in the late nineties, and that it was never a big deal
- Israel advocates today: erm, describing Israel as “settler-colonial” is a slur 🙄 Early Zionists: Our settler colony - which is a good thing btw - will provide a European buttress against the barbarous hordes of the orient 😃
- Watching “fight club” for the first time since I was like thirteen and the ennui it depicts is so comfortable and luxurious it feels totally alien now. You got a microwave cordon blue on your business flight and a tiny bar of soap in your hotel, oh nooo!
- This has been the worst summer in living memory, and I think it would be of enormous psychological benefit to us all if we just could admit that
