#LARB Radio Hour talks with #PankajMishra about his new book, "#TheWorldAfterGaza: A History”

"[H]ow the legacy of the Holocaust has shaped the contemporary world order, including how it has shaped the government of #Israel, and the current war in #Gaza. The book grapples with how, within the relentless violence of the 20th century, #trauma can lead to #nationalism, and also how one #genocide can lead to another."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/pankaj-mishras-the-world-after-gaza-a-history/

#Palestine #books @bookstodon @israel @palestine

Update. "White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/white-house-budget-proposal-could-shatter-the-national-science-foundation/

" 'This kind of cut would kill American science and boost #China and other nations into global science leadership positions,' [said] Neal Lane, who led the #NSF in the 1990s during Bill Clinton's presidency."

PS: I've never liked #nationalist arguments for funding or fostering science. Science is international. But the #Trump admin is putting us in a dilemma. Either we see deep cuts in US science funding. Or we use nationalist arguments to avert those cuts.

There are non-nationalist arguments to fund US science. For example, good science is usually expensive and those who do it well should be funded for the benefit of all. Unfortunately that argument is not likely to work on Trump admin officials. It's not US-specific and applies everywhere, even in China.

#Nationalism #USPol #USPolitics

VIDEO: “Marc Lamont Hill sits down with Chris #Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist [..], to break down America’s looming future under a toxic mix of corporate greed, religious extremism, and fascist politics. [..] The explosive talk covers the dangerous rise of #Christian #nationalism, the #genocide in #Gaza, and why the left is too weak to stop the chaos ahead. You won't hear this anywhere else”

via Al Jazeera on YouTube (36 mins)

https://youtu.be/7I-VZaOMwpA?si=JfIrkCxnODQ5D0cz

#Press #US #Trump #Fascism

Mehdi Hasan talks with Peter Beinart, author of the just-published Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning.

"In the book, Beinart calls on the Jewish community to abandon a long-held narrative of persecution and victimhood in the wake of Oct. 7 and Israel’s war on Gaza. He urges Jews to tell a new story, one that recognizes victims can also be victimizers."

#Israel #Jews #Palestine #Gaza #antisemitism #Islamophobia #victimhood #nationalism #Zionism
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https://zeteo.com/p/peter-beinart-on-being-jewish-after

Callout for anti-militarist agitation
We are being made afraid of war. Politicians are talking about reintroducing the draft. In the meantime, the #Netherlands and related countries are supplying the bombs that are being used to bombard #Gaza.

Weapons' fairs are being organised as if they're a day trip. Universities claim that their contribution to the machine of war and colonialism is merely for the purpose of science. And in 2025 the #NATO summit will take place in the Netherlands for the first time.

Let's resist the wars that will still come. Every action can be a beginning for more actions, for a countermovement, for a #struggle against the elite.

Taking this in mind, we encourage everyone to act against #militarism, #nationalism and #war between 1st and 8th of February
We call out to a week of agitation:

Spreading propaganda, pamphlets, and other material

Organising events and info evenings

Doing above ground and underground actions

Against the militarisation around us!

https://acties.todon.nl/event/callout-for-anti-militarist-agitation

"De-#globalization is suddenly fashionable (ie #Nationalism), but it’s hard to tell from the promenade in #Davos, where the sponsored halls stretch from the Google House on one end to the yellow-and-blue-draped Ukraine House on the other. Celebrities like David Beckham, Diane von Furstenberg and Maria Sharapova partied among the CEOs and heads of state..."

#Trump #Inauguration Contrasts With Davos Gathering of World Elites
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-01-21/trump-inauguration-contrasts-with-davos-gathering-of-world-elites

"The American military attaché in Berlin... met with the future leader of the 3rd Reich and... his associates, such as Alfred Rosenberg & Erich Ludendorff. "It will be much better for America and England if the decisive battle between our civilization and #Marxism is fought on German soil, and not on American or English soil. If we (America) do not help German #nationalism, then Bolshevism will take over Germany,"

How the US enabled WWII #nazis and still does in #Ukraine https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng/18363

"Today, Bauer’s work is immediately relevant to our thinking on multiculturalism, of which it can be seen as a precursor. To be clear, Bauer’s central argument is to reject any essentialist principle in the conceptualization of the national question. For Bauer, we cannot think of modern nations in terms of “metaphysical theories” (such as notions of national spiritualism) or “voluntaristic theories” (as in Ernest Renan’s theory of the nation as a “daily plebiscite”). National identities are not “naturally given” and invariable but are rather culturally changeable.

However, Bauer’s approach to the nation-state is very different from the dominant liberal one today. In the liberal nation-state, it is the cultural practice of the dominant national group that prevails. Multiculturalism is thus always limited by this hegemony and multicultural states cannot easily be constructed. Any commitment to cultural pluralism can amount to little more than a token commitment to diversity within overwhelmingly assimilationist structures.

Bauer criticized the attitude of the early 1900s “German Austrian” workers’ movement as a “naïve cosmopolitanism” which rejected national struggles as diversionary and advocated a humanistic world citizenship as its alternative. There were clear echoes of this attitude in the promotion of “global cosmopolitanism” during the early 2000s. In that sense, we very much need a Bauer 2.0 to move beyond such naïve and complacent indifference to the national question today.

Bauer fundamentally disagreed with the idea that the national movements were simply an obstacle for the class struggle and that internationalism was the only way forward. He was convinced that it was only the working class that could create the conditions for the development of a nation, proclaiming that “the international struggle is the means that we must use to realize our national ideal.”"

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/otto-bauer-austro-marxism-nationalism-theory-history

#Nationalism #History #Marxism #Multiculturalism #Socialism