2013/03/17

Remembering Rachel Corrie, 10 Years Later

Juan Cole Remembering Rachel Corrie, 10 Years Later.

Supporters of Greater Israel succeeded in having the performance of a play based on her life cancelled in New York, but it has gone on to play elsewhere, and she and her legacy have not been erased, as the extreme nationalists would have liked. In some ways the controversy over the play led to the founding of the influential blog Mondoweiss, which has done much to create spaces in which hard line Jewish nationalism can be critiqued.

Emphasis in original

To remember is to resist.

Meminisse resistere.

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