Articles by Adam Shatz
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Israel’s Descent
Adam Shatz | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 Issue – Ariel Sharon withdrew over eight thousand Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005 to consolidate Israel’s colonisation of the West Bank, where the settler population increased. But also to enable Israel’s air force to bomb Gaza at will, something they could not do with settlers there.
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No Direction Home: The Journey of Frantz Fanon
Adam Shatz | Raritan Quarterly, Rutgers University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
Winter 2019 – Reading Fanon, one sometimes has the impression that mere expository prose cannot do justice to the impulsive movement of his thought. I use the word “movement” advisedly: Fanon did not write his texts; he dictated them while pacing back and forth, either to his wife, Josie, or to his secretary, Marie-Jeanne Manuellan (who has just published a memoir about the experience). This method of composition lends his writings an electrifying musicality: restless, searching, and, as he fell prey to the leukemia that would kill him, otherworldly in its call for a new planetary order, cleansed of racism and oppression.
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