#maryturfah — Public Fediverse posts

"Jiryis is a scholar; he witnessed the start of the Nakba and its consequences, and is not writing for those who won’t listen. If the anomalists appease the colonizer as they demean the colonized, Jiryis faces the colonized as he dissects the colonizer."

#MaryTurfah reviews the first English edition of #SabriJiryis's #TheFoundationsOfZionism

https://thebaffler.com/latest/given-this-reality-turfah

#Palestine #PalestineQuestion #Gaza #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon

"Imagine looking at a photo of an injured or killed child and thinking—at all, even subconsciously—that it makes you look bad. Now imagine that you see nothing beyond how it makes you look, and you have our #mainstreamMedia’s current approach concerning #Israel’s genocide, set to damage control mode until it becomes time to admit hard truths." - #MaryTurfah

The Rest Is History

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-rest-is-history/

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaCoverage #USmedia #media #USpol #colonialViolence @palestine @israel

"You can’t disprove intention. #Iran has to prove it doesn’t want a nuke, and the more it is attacked, the less convincing its assurances will be. So, ironically, the more #Israel attacks Iran, the more justification it has to do so in the minds of Israel and the propagandized American public." - #MaryTurfah

https://thebaffler.com/latest/youll-see-turfah
https://archive.ph/Masth

#MiddleEast #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy #NPT @iran @israel @palestine

"To call for peace after an act of aggression is to endorse the aggression. It’s to say that one party gets to act, and the other has to take it. This is the basic logic of supremacy."

Politics as Usual: #MaryTurfah writes on #Iran

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/politics-as-usual/

#Israel #MiddleEast #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy @iran @palestine @israel