Sublime

From 700,000 to 750,000 Palestinians lost their homes after the 1948 war; today 5.6 million “refugees” are registered with UNRWA due to the organization’s twisted concept of inherited refugee status.

Social control does not accommodate community participation and becomes the function of experts. Educators define how people are to be trained and retrained throughout their lives–shaped and reshaped until they fit the demands of industry and are attracted by its profits. Ideologues define what is right or wrong.

And here is the worst part: UNRWA automatically counts as refugees Palestinians who are now three to four generations removed from the 1948 conflict

Embittered, Sharon agreed to step down as defense minister, but he remained in the government as a “minister without portfolio,” not responsible for any particular ministry. Humiliated and widely detested, it would have been difficult to imagine then that just two decades later, that same pugnacious Ariel Sharon would become prime minister and woul

With regard to Israel’s law of return, there has been continuing controversy about whether it is primarily a religious law, a family reunification law, a reaction to ethnic discrimination, or some combination of these historical factors.

From this point of view, Rodney King’s protective reflexes, the disorderly movements by which he struggled to stay alive (he flaps his arms, staggers, tries to get up, stands on his knees) were described as being under his “total control” and as evidence of “dangerous intent,” as if violence were the sole voluntary action possible for a Black body,

American Architect Keller Easterling is well known for her book  Extrastatecraft  (2014), which looked at the power of infrastructural space and how this defines the operating system of the modern world. Her most recent text,  Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World   (2021) looks at the spaces between things, syste