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The condition of being hostage
Who counts as a hostage, and what does it mean to be one?
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Campus Dispatch II
It is the end of term at the University of Oxford, but the university’s Palestine solidarity encampment operates on a different timeline.
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Kapos and coconuts
The strange history of an intra-racial slur.
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We Are Not Numbers: Refusing Gaza’s dehumanisation
An exhibition reminds us that with every Palestinian life lost, there were mothers who cooked, students who learned and children who swam.
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Live from the Oxford encampment
"We camp to show the world that we will not accept business as usual."
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‘People are really fired up and angry’: Resisting the Rwanda plan
Vashti speaks to activists fighting detentions, deportations, and the wider “hostile environment”.
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The expropriation playbook: Offshore finance and the Israeli settler movement
Through a British legacy of financial secrecy, the Israeli settler movement has a way to avoid international regulation and sanction.
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Tracing the apocalypse
For Israel and its allies, Iran’s attack has ushered in a new political reality in which Palestinians once again fade from view.
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Six months of liberal Zionist doublethink
Since 7 October, the principal dividing line on Israel-Palestine has been supporting or opposing a ceasefire. For a faction accustomed to taking the middle ground, that has posed a unique dilemma.
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Israel’s Mogadishu-fication of Gaza
What a reductive analogy can tell us about the unfolding catastrophe.
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Symbolism is not enough
The UN Security Council’s first call for an immediate ceasefire is little more than a nod.