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Thou shalt not mix: Israel and the verdict “rape by deception”

لتارن و ريم —The ethical dilemma raised by an Israeli court's decision to sentence a Palestinian man eighteen months in prison for "rape by deception" after he lied to a Jewish woman about his race and had consensual sex with her is not one over rights or equality, but over the legitimacy of race as [...]

On Elia Suleiman’s “The Time That Remains,” History and Critique

The Time That Remains

Cinema can have love and often at first sight. But justice is something cinema cannot frame. It is always outside the frame. Cinema is inept also in that it cannot keep up with the devaluation of time and the shrinking of space. The very industrial revolution that gave rise to cinema is destroying both. The [...]