Dissidents
Glucksman says the role of the intellectual is to warn, to predict horrors, to be a Cassandra who tell us what is going on outside the walls of the city. I share this notion….I too…
The Way It Looked in 2004
Israeli historian Benny Morris: Remember another thing The Arab people gained a large slice of the planet Not thanks to its skills or its great virtues But because it conquered and murdered And forced those…
The Way It Looked in 1981 (The Arab Mind)
Anybody you catch outside his home First thing you beat him with a truncheon All over his body Except for his head Don’t have pity on anyone Don’t explain anything Beat first Then after You…
Elementary Maxims of U.S. American Satyagraha
Do not give in Do not give up Do not give out John Lewis
Remembering and Forgetting/2
French intellectual Françoise Vergès observed: “Europe’s colonial domination has been the subject of a profound forgetting. This forgetting should be seen as a system: it is vital, for instance, to place the history of slavery…
Remembering and Forgetting (The Way It Looked in 2008)
With the establishment of a Palestinian state, we wish to see the end of the conflict. The Palestinians will be able to celebrate their independence if on that same day they also strike the word…
Share the Wealth with Jane Safina: My City, Saint Petersburg
This week Jane Safina will share what she loves about her city Saint Petersburg and her Russian culture. Jane (Zhenya) has performed professionally in Russian Folk Dance. (She also learned tap, hip-hop, break-dance and more.) She…
Hate
What is hateful to thee, do not do unto thy fellow Rabbi Hillel It is indeed human nature to hate the man whom you have injured. Tacitus
Children
Children in Albany, Georgia A small Deep South town Where the atmosphere of slavery still lingered Mass demonstrations took place In the winter of 1961 And again in 1962 Of twenty-two thousand black people in…
The Way It Looked in 1948
A small reaction does not impress anyone. A destroyed house–nothing. Destroy a neighborhood, and you begin to make an impression. David Ben-Gurion