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“Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.”

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“The international community...cannot simply call on Palestinians to abandon violence in the face of Israeli occupation and remain silent when the nonviolent activists are politically repressed. This only reinforces the idea that the use of force reigns supreme and that Palestinians have no choice but to accept hardships at the hands of their Israeli lords.”

“Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning violent Palestinian resistance while remaining silent in the face of Israeli crackdowns and political arrests, they are simply endorsing violence against civilians by one side instead of the other.”

Has Beens Faces Political Sides Leader Violence Silent Violent Resistance Abandon Palestinian Civilians Israeli Repression Condemning Endorsing Remaining Silent

Author:Yousef Munayyer

“The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.”

Wells Performances Importance Importance Of Music

Author:Lewis Gordon

“The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.”

Modern Offers Reflection Mature Existential Modern Life

Author:Lewis Gordon

“For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected with colonialism. So, it is not simply about finding new concepts from anywhere, but being both critical and self-critical and also being very open to what is happening on the ground.”

Ideas Self Becoming Findings Happenings Concepts Humanism Connected Critical Colonialism

Author:Nigel Gibson

“The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.”

Mind New Beginnings Revolt

Author:Nigel Gibson

“Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.”

Thinking Years Long Periods Long Time Contemporary Fifty Thinker Relevance Time To Think

Author:Nigel Gibson

“I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.”

Want Able Moving Fingers Necks Tubes

Author:Jack Kevorkian

“Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the axiom that the wretched of the earth, understood socially, think and thus must be a basis of a new politics. This, of course, is not achieved immediately, but it must become an explicit element of the struggle for liberation.”

Thinking Earth Courses Struggle Elements Understood Bases West Humanism Ideology Liberation Elites Contrast Wretched Axioms Explicit

Author:Nigel Gibson

“The only way that we can prove the relevance of Fanon in a certain way outside of some academic circles is to ask, do people involved in social struggles engage with Fanonian concepts and find something relevant for them, even if they have never heard of Fanon because Fanon is implicitly in the struggles?”

People Ifs Way Certain Asks Social Struggle Heard Involved Prove Concepts Circles Relevant Academic Relevance

Author:Nigel Gibson

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