Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In case anyone had missed the message, the cause of and movement for Palestinian rights is flatly incompatible with anti-Semitism. Put differently, there is no justifiable way of being in favor of Palestinian rights on anti-Semitic grounds or for anti-Semitic ends. When anti-Semites try to appropriate the Palestinian cause for their own purposes, or hijack…

[…] again, but how different is Hacohen’s comment from things I’ve heard from homeowners grousing about low income housing right here in New Jersey? Just the other day, I […] LikeLike

[…] again, but how different is Hacohen’s comment from things I’ve heard from homeowners grousing about low income housing right here in New Jersey? Just the other day, I was in my old lilly-white town of Whitehouse Station, when I he…

I’ve been reading The New York Times just about every day for the last 35 years, paying special attention to their coverage of Palestinian-Israeli issues, and I don’t think I’ve seen coverage like this, below. I don’t know what took so long, but this article, for once, captures the lived reality of Palestinian experience in…

[…] must continuously be cultivated, or else it reverts to state ownership.* But since the farm lies in Area C (under full Israeli military control), it’s regulated so strictly that continuous cultivation of the whole farm is a near [&#8230…

[…] ← The ‘Tent of Nations’ Tragedy (1) […] LikeLike

This post is a follow-up to part 1, about the fire at Nassar Farm, and was originally posted on Facebook, August 14, 2019, just after my visit there. I guess I was painfully right about “uncertain” outcomes. What you see below are photos of the Nassar Farm, or the Tent of Nations, on a hill…

The Tent of Nations (aka “Nassar’s Farm”) is, or perhaps was, a small produce farm located southwest of Bethlehem, Palestine, and the subject of a decades-long property dispute with a set of Israeli settlers. I visited the farm back in August 2019, and had intended to return some day to do volunteer work there. The…

Here is the NYT’s review of “Tears of Gaza,” which pretty much coheres with mine: LikeLike