“Fire in Every Direction”: Palestinian Author Tareq Baconi on Gaza, Zionism & Embracing Queerness

“Fire in Every Direction”: Palestinian Author Tareq Baconi on Gaza, Zionism & Embracing Queerness

Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi joins us to discuss his new memoir, Fire in Every Direction, a chronicle of his political and queer coming of age growing up between Amman and Beirut as the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa. While “LGBTQ+ labels have also been used by the West as part of empire,” with colonial projects seeking to portray Native populations as backward and in need of saving, “there’s a beautiful effort and movement amo…

Western colonialism in Gaza : Indybay

We are facing a moment of truth. And Gaza is the wake-up call... The role of Zionism was to normalize atrocities against dark-skinned people — indeed, to give these crimes a moral purpose — while breathing life into colonialism's favorite narrative: the “clash of civilizations” between Western progress and Eastern barbarism. The success of Zionism depended on creating a politics of fear.