more reading
Mansour, Semler, Tlaib
arts
Mona Mansour’s The Vagrant Trilogy, three plays that explore alternate realities in the life of a Palestinian family
labor
Jacobin on American arms dealers
US investments in fueling carnage abroad have helped make living conditions in America increasingly precarious for everyone and untenable for many. The US Census Bureau itself acknowledged a staggering 60% increase in poverty among Americans in 2022. Subscribe to Stephen Semler’s excellent newsletter on the US defense budget and its domestic ramifications.
media
Rashida Tlaib’s response to congressional censure
An op-ed by Columbia Jewish Voices For Peace. The university suspended this group, along with Students for Justice in Palestine, Friday afternoon, on a pretext related to permit policies, under pressure from donors:
“I think these kids at the colleges have shit for brains,” [billionaire hedge fund manager] Cooperman said to Fox Business when asked about the walkout and similar demonstrations at Harvard University, Stanford University, NYU, and many other colleges across the country.”
Most Americans and many Jewish activists want an immediate ceasefire in Gaza; Human Rights Watch has called for an arms embargo.
