Recent days have seen an upsurge of signs of solidarity between African-American and Palestinian struggles. On August 17, an open letter entitled “Palestinians express solidarity with the people of Ferguson,” signed by Susan Abulhawa, Ramzy Baroud, and many other individuals and organizations was posted online.

Originally published in Critical Legal Thinking. 

In Gaza and elsewhere, those who politically support anti-occupation politics are easily cast as un-civilian.

Fashion's penchant for glamorizing horrible things reached new lows this week. Mumbai fashion photographer Raj Shetye's latest series, entitled "The Wrong Turn," depicts a woman being harassed and groped on a bus, evoking the brutal 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a bus in New Delhi. The outrage from the public was immediate.