There’s an opinion piece in the New York Times today called “To Focus on Hamas Is to Miss the Point.” In it, Basma Ghalayini discusses growing up in Gaza, where experiences or near misses with violence are not a novel experience, but instead are a fundamental part of living in what is effectively an open-air…
Tag: palestine
News & Structural Violence
Last week, a handful of students walked (or logged into) my classes asking about what was happening with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One of the interesting elements of the news cycle’s return to the conflict is the way the news cycle itself responds to an escalation in violence on the part of Israel or Palestinians, but…