On the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophe, I analyze how Palestine is exemplary of the catastrophe of white sight, concentrating on the checkpoint as the defining infrastructure of racializing surveillance capitalism today.
Thank you for writing such a thorough and thoughtful piece about this horrific situation. As a secular Jew who has been anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian since I was sent to Israel in 1969 (by grandparents who wanted me to "get Jewish"), I wish that more American Jews would wake up to these issues. I started making art about this topic in the early 1990s, and was accused by other Jews of being anti-Semitic. I responded to them by saying that I was following the ethic of "tikkun olam" - to repair the world.
The Nakba: The Catastrophe of White Sight
Thank you for writing such a thorough and thoughtful piece about this horrific situation. As a secular Jew who has been anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian since I was sent to Israel in 1969 (by grandparents who wanted me to "get Jewish"), I wish that more American Jews would wake up to these issues. I started making art about this topic in the early 1990s, and was accused by other Jews of being anti-Semitic. I responded to them by saying that I was following the ethic of "tikkun olam" - to repair the world.