Mehammed "Abou" Mack
UPDATED: Shahar Peer and the Dubai visa denial
AP Columnist Jim Litke responds: Mehammed: Thanks for the thoughtful note. No right-thinking person disputes the carnage in Gaza, only the root causes. The same is true about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict going back centuries, which is why I didn’t go into it. Likewise, I could argue the comparisons to South Africa are specious, but certain [...]
UJA uses 1300+ deaths in Gaza to raise money for… Israel!
I could not believe my eyes, my poor innocent eyes. Here I was reading a deeply personal and unsettling account of the Gaza aftermath in the Huffington Post, when I came across an ad at the bottom of the article that seemed to contain an unforgivable typo: After Gaza1,300 Deaths, Many Were Civilians. Send Aid [...]
If Canada Launched Rockets at the US…
Hoping to depart from analogies that steamroll all nuance… Wishing to kill the spirit of comparisons that ignore imbalances of power… If Mexicans settled the US en masse, and then established a state of their own on American soil, with the blessing of the Latin American Alliance, do you think Americans would just sit there [...]
Little Red Balloons
Whenever I see Zionuts commemorating the bottle rockets that have fallen on Israel since the so-called “disengagement” from Gaza, it reminds me of a certain moment in the history of cinema. Well actually two moments, one inspired by the other. If you’re like me and you grew up with semi-hippie parents who wanted to expose [...]
The special relationship just got sour…
Slowly but surely, and despite being massaged into a catatonic state by Israeli PR hypnotists, American seems to be coming round to reason, especially if they happen to be Democrats. See this auspicious polling news mentioned on Democracy Now!: Poll: Americans Divided Over Israeli Attack A new public opinion poll has shown that Americans are [...]
Modernity cuts through Israeli Propaganda
If there is anything at all to be glad about this week, it’s that the Israeli Propaganda Machine (IPM) has been completely discredited, in spite of the ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza (an action determined illegal by Israel’s own Supreme Court). Much of this has to do with some advances in New Media. A [...]
Guest Post: Put your hands up in the Fnaire!
(This piece was co-written with my friend Cheryl, an amazing polyglot California girl who is doing her dissertation on Maghrebian rap, among other things…) FNAÏRE (or “lanterns”, in Moroccan darija or dialect), hailing from the former imperial city of Marrakech, seamlessly blend rap with the boisterous rhythms of Morocco’s musical patrimony including ‘Issaoui, Gnaoui, and [...]
I need a towel, I feel gross
So I’ve just come back from an excursion to see Towelhead, the new film by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, American Beauty) that purports to uncover the “truth” about one poor little girl’s nascent Arab sexuality. It was already an ordeal just to pronounce the film’s name at the ticket booth, without feeling pangs of [...]
Postcard from Paris: Justice and Rachida Dati
It sure has been a long while since I last wrote, my master’s defense and then structurally adjusting to a demanding Euro have really zapped my energy. But today I emerged so fresh and so clean from the wonderful Hammam (de la Grande Mosquée de Paris), I can tell you a little about the cultural [...]
The Bubble, a Film by Eytan Fox
I’ve just returned from seeing Israeli director Eytan Fox’s new film The Bubble. You may have heard of his previous films Walk on Water, and Yossi and Jagger, which has been ridiculed in a previous posting on this site (I thought that snow cavorting scene, notwithstanding the problematic Lebanese backdrop, was very sweet!). A hugely [...]
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