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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 20h

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20h

‘The theme of exile guides the utilitarian design of the new show. Around a hundred archaeological finds from Gaza are laid out in a ground-floor bunker space, complete with strip lights, cold grey-blue walls and chilly steel benches.’

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Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’

This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 23h

A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according to authorities. In full: buff.ly/roPWvdO

HK bars 13 films from screening on nat. sec grounds since 2021 censorship law

A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according to...

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t need Doug Ford qualifiers in this headline. The Hospital for Sick Children’s study showing “automated speed cameras reduce aggressive driving and speeding by almost half” didn’t make the cut.
Just call them speed cameras.

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 1d

#Breaking: Doug Ford rejects mayors' plea to rethink banning speed camera 'cash grab'

‘The answer is no’: Doug Ford rejects mayors’ plea to rethink banning speed camera ‘cash grab’

“The only thing municipal speed cameras are 100 per cent effective at is taking money from hard-working people,” Doug Ford wrote in his response.

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 3d

Roger Cohen has a long, long article in the NYT today that examines, with a performatively thoughtful, “taking into account the sufferings of all peoples” tone, to ultimately conclude that committing acts of genocide against Gazans has been a terrible, painful experience for *Israelis*…. 1/

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 3d

4/ Having been victims of genocide imposes higher ethical requirements on Jews; it doesn’t release us from basic standards of humane behaviour in the interests of perpetuating survival.

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 3d

3/ The article is high point in the Jews as eternal victims narrative, an ideology, integral to Zionism, under whose soothing moral comfort I grew up in and had to slowly, with difficulty, reject as ideologically based.

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 3d

2/ A perfectly symptomatic example of who — in the eyes of increasingly marginalized U.S. conservative voices — are considered humans worthy of compassion, & who are marginalized victims condemned to passive-voice-inflicted suffering. Cohen seems oblivious to the moral pit he’s buried himself into.

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 3d

Roger Cohen has a long, long article in the NYT today that examines, with a performatively thoughtful, “taking into account the sufferings of all peoples” tone, to ultimately conclude that committing acts of genocide against Gazans has been a terrible, painful experience for *Israelis*…. 1/

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not sure if Lou Ye was searching for a form that could monumentalize trauma and loss, but I fear his up-to-the-minute festival-ready hybrid of fictionalized documentary, or “documentalized” fiction, isn’t adequate to the task. 5/5

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 4d

Wang Bing’s THE DITCH 夹边沟 (2010) struggles to commemorate, through fiction, the 1960 anti-rightist repression, labour camps, and famine. But it’s hard to mobilize fictional narrative to do this, especially for a famous documentarian like Wang. 4/

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 4d

Films certainly can be monuments: Xu Xin’s KARAMAY 克拉玛依 (2009) is the missing monument to the 796 victims of the 1994 Karamay theatre fire (“Let the officials exit first”). Xu accomplishes this with a meticulously structured 356 minute documentary of searing power. 3/

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 4d

As if the film is a necessary monument to their experience, or as you say, one part of their experience, that they can’t find adequately articulated elsewhere yet in Chinese contemporary culture. 2/

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 4d

When I talk about AN UNFINISHED FILM with my Chinese friends who have seen it, either in Taiwan or overseas, they with few exceptions report being emotionally overwhelmed by their viewing experience. 1/

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 4d

I wish I had written this sentence: “The most important question, then, is not whether An Unfinished Film is a masterpiece — it is not — but why so many people demand it to be.” That’s absolutely the crux of this film’s reception and significance. Great piece by Yangyang Cheng.

Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 4d

For @npr.org, I review Lou Ye's acclaimed Covid movie "An Unfinished Film," its courage in venturing into the forbidden, and limitations in what it seems unable or unwilling to confront. The Chinese people deserve better, more honest stories. The work remains unfinished.
www.npr.org/2025/10/04/g...

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 12d

It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

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