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A Palestinian woman sits on the ruins of her house that was destroyed by the Israeli military in Masafer Yatta, January 2023. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.

‘No Other Land’: The paradoxes of an Oscar win in a West Bank under siege

Award-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’ has been criticized for normalizing the Occupation and violating BDS guidelines, writes Anna Lippman.
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Tolkien’s deplorable cultus: Right-wing hobbit enthusiasts and the urgency of Marxist criticism in fantasy

Robert T Tally Jr — While some Marxists may look upon this scene with bemusement, fantasy as a mode and a genre is far too important to allow the right-wingers to take for themselves, and that includes the works of Tolkien.