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Articles by Jamil Khader
The Return of the Real: Rewriting Rape in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail
Abstract This article argues that Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail reconfigures the representation of sexual violence by narrating the rape of a teenage Palestinian Bedouin girl as the threshold where symbolic mediation within the Zionist settler-colonial economy of sense-making fails. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, I argue that Shibli stages not the difficulty of recovering meaning but the breakdown of meaning as such.
Circling Gaza: screen memory and the Real of Ziofascist violence in Adania Shibli's Minor Detail
ABSTRACT This article argues that Adania Shibli's Minor Detail stages an encounter with the colonial Real—the point at which settler-colonial violence exceeds representation and narrative interpretation collapses. This Real links the novella's two trajectories: a Ziofascist commander whose unit rapes and murders a Palestinian Bedouin girl in 1949, and a contemporary Palestinian woman who retraces the crime across a landscape structured by checkpoints, surveillance, and the bombardment of Gaza.
Middle East Press On: New Turkish Air Force, Trump, Iran War, Lebanon, America, Genocide, Gaza’s Destruction, Geneva As Palestine, ILO Victory, UK, New Age Islam's Selection, 04 June 2026
By New Age Islam Edit Desk 04 June 2026 New Turkish Air Force: Airpower without dependence Trump’s desperate attempt to end the Iran War: Abraham Accords Why Iran’s real war begins when the bombing ends Lebanon: America’s bargaining chip in its standoff with Iran Fighting the opportunists who profit from genocide What Comes After Gaza’s Destruction?
Do you condemn Žižek?
Over the past two months, as Israel has waged a genocidal war in Gaza, killing more than 19,000 people, more than a third of them children, Western philosophers have come under criticism for their positions on the matter. These self-proclaimed beacons of morality and ethics have either condoned war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and forcible evacuations or taken ambivalent positions on them.
Israel Is Using Disinformation and Deflection as a Foreign Policy Stratagem
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Finding articles and accounts sensitive to the asymmetries between Israel and Palestine amid the unfolding war is no simple matter. This interview with international relations scholar Richard Falk, however, hopes to show the ways in which Israel has created asymmetric conditions that have situated the attainment of Palestinian rights and aspirations beyond horizons of realistic hope.
Genocide Is Underway in Gaza. US Leaders Can No Longer Say “We Didn’t Know.”
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation The past two weeks have been very painful for me and my Palestinian American family, but especially for our relatives in Palestine. I’ve had little sleep, and when I did manage to close my eyes, I was unable to stop the nightmares. The horror that is taking place in Gaza became like a noose around my neck preventing me from breathing.
Christian Right Cites Violent Biblical Amalek Trope to Justify Israel’s Tactics
Many Christian Zionists are backing genocide by likening Hamas to a biblical tribe that God promised to exterminate. By Aidan Orly , Truthout Published October 22, 2023 Christian Zionists wave Israeli and US flags during a rally in Jerusalem on April 7, 2008.
Unions and Workers Are Increasingly Calling for Ceasefire in Gaza
Labor voices in the U.S. and abroad are responding to a call for solidarity from a coalition of Palestinian unions.
Major European News App Told Workers to Suppress Gaza Deaths, Report Finds
Employees were reportedly told not to publish headlines that could be “misconstrued” as pro-Palestinian.
Oxfam Leader Says Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Is Worst They’ve Ever Seen
“Elsewhere, my brave colleagues would be running relief services; in Gaza today they are running for their lives.” By Sharon Zhang , Truthout Published October 19, 2023 A resident gets upset as she walks amid near the rubble of residential buildings after Israeli airstrikes at al-Zahra neighborhood in Gaza Strip on October 19, 2023.Mustafa Hassona / Anadolu via Getty Images The severity of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza that is unfolding as a result of Israel’s siege of the area is worse...
Human Rights Watch Warns Gaza Siege Puts Over 1 Million Children at “Grave Risk”
The group also says a new aid agreement “falls short of meeting the needs of Gaza’s population.” By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams Published October 19, 2023 Palestinians flee their homes to safety amid debris of destroyed buildings after an Israeli airstrike on the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza Strip on October 16, 2023.Ali Jadallah / Anadolu via Getty Images Human Rights Watch warned in a report published Wednesday that Israel’s total siege of the Gaza Strip has put more than a million...
Top State Dept. Official Resigns Over “Immensely Disappointing” Israel Policy
“There’s no space for substantive dissent within the system on this one,” the former U.S. official said. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout Published October 19, 2023 National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (2nd L), US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (3rd L) and U.S. President Joe Biden (4th L) listen to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they join a meeting of the Israeli war cabinet in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
Scholar Warns Biden’s “Israel-First Approach” Will Have Lasting Consequences
President Biden is in Israel to show more support for its relentless assault on the Gaza Strip, which has reduced much of the territory to rubble, killed at least 3,300 Palestinians and displaced more than a million people. Israel also continues to maintain a complete siege, refusing to let in food, water, fuel, medicines and other necessities. Meanwhile, international outrage is growing over a massive explosion at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital that killed hundreds of people on Tuesday.
Media’s Selective Moral Outrage Manufactures Consent for Palestinian Genocide
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation In a viral post on X, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis ignited an intense debate about selective condemnation and moral outrage surrounding Israel’s massive bombardment of Gaza, which the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations described as “nothing less than genocidal.” Varoufakis stated: I condemn every killing with equal passion.
The Purge and the Failure of Leftist Politics
Although Director James Demonaco’s movie franchise, The Purge, has been labeled a leftist screed, the most recent installment in this series, The Purge: Election Year (2016), exemplifies the deep crisis of liberal leftist politics today. In its commitment to the dominant neoliberal multicultural ideology in the US, Election Year leaves untouched several leftist taboos that are central to the multicultural ideals of tolerance, pluralism, and inclusion.
“The End”: Anti-normalisation, Islamofuturism and the erasure of Palestine
The End (Al-Nehaya), the Egyptian dystopian science fiction thriller series, has captured the imagination of audiences throughout the Arab world this Ramadan TV season. It is ranked the third most popular series this season and has generated of a lot of discussion in social media about its futuristic technology and debt to Hollywood science fiction and dystopian films.
McJesus in Palestine: Using bad art to whitewash Israel's crimes
Hundreds of Palestinian Muslims and Christians descended on the Haifa Museum of Art last Friday to protest the display of various artworks that use mass culture merchandise and corporate mascots to depict Christian icons. An online petition has also been launched to demand the removal of Finnish artist Jani Leinonen's artworks, which included a crucified Ronald McDonald and Mattel dolls - Ken and Barbie - representing Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary.
Rehumanizing Palestinians? Radicalize the Struggle!
As the Israeli military continues to carry out its anti-kite air raids in the Gaza strip, another war has been raging in the mainstream and social media about Palestinian humanity.
Hollywood and the Case of the Missing Arab Woman
Iraqi women, who fled the fighting between government forces and Islamic State jihadists in the Old City of Mosul, sit in waiting in the city's western industrial district prior to being relocated, on July 8, 2017.
Palestinians Must Unite With Others the Trump Administration Deems Disposable
Hundreds protest the US's declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in Philadelphia, December 8, 2017. (Image: Joe Piette / Flickr) After dealing two devastating blows to the Palestinians on the status of Jerusalem and US aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and/or the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, Trump might be ready to reverse US policy on the occupation.
Liberal Politics and the Challenge of White Supremacy: Anti-anti-Eurocentrism and the Question of Identity Politics - The Philosophical Salon
An important moment in the highly emotional debate over President Trump’s controversial comments about white supremacist terrorism went unnoticed in the mainstream media: On CNN’s Don Lemon’s show, African-American Professor Michael Eric Dyson took umbrage at the false equivalence President Trump was drawing between revolutionary era slavery of the Founding Fathers and Confederate slavery.
On ISIL, Arab TV and post-ideological politics
Saudi-owned TV channel MBC finally caved in to the barrage of scathing criticism of its Ramadan series, Black Crows, pulling it off air after only 20 episodes. MBC has marketed the Black Crows series as the stories of women who join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, known as ISIS) group for different reasons.
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