Legalized immorality: the scapegoating of Hassan Diab
The fate of Dr. Hassan Diab is being determined by scapegoating and by an absolutist moral belief that law is engraved in stone. This undeveloped form of morality reduces justice…
Judy Deutsch
“A world of people without a people”
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Quinn Slobodian Harvard University Press, 2018 Quinn Slobodian’s masterful exegesis, an old term befitting his subject, tells of the ur…
Mothers of colour challenge white feminism
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines Edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens and Mai’a Williams Between the Lines and PM Press, 2016 This is an extraordinary book. Its…
Militarism: Revolutionary Mothering and Rosie the Riveter
Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in California, June 1942 • Photo by Alfred T. Palmer The women who mobilized the January global protest…
Syria and the Antiwar Movement
Syrian refugee children at a half-built apartment block near Reyfoun in Lebanon, close to the border with Syria, give the peace sign. • Photo by Trocaire The enormity, complexity and…
“Putting climate solutions in formaldehyde”: A challenge to the climate movement
Photo by University College London In 2004 Dov Weisglass, the Israeli bureau chief under Ariel Sharon, famously said that the various brokered Israeli-Palestinian disengagement talks were “actually formaldehyd...
Judith Butler: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism
Book Review: Judith Butler (2012). Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism. Review by Judy Deutsch Judith Butler comes to her critique of Jewishness and Zionism with impressive credentials.…