🔗 Edward Said seems like a prophet: 20 years on, ‘there’s hunger for his narrative’
“Frustration that he’s not actually here to respond to the very obvious censorship that is afoot in all of the major dailies in the United States. Said could have broken through and found a hearing, at a moment when so many more people around the world are seeing for the first time what the Zionist project really is in practice.”
there can be no way of satisfactorily conducting a life whose main concern is to prevent the past from recurring.
In many instances, there is an unmistakable coincidence between the experiences of Arab Palestinians at the hands of Zionism and the experiences of those black, yellow, and brown people who were described as inferior and subhuman by nineteenth-century imperialists.
I cannot understand how raw, naked evidence can be overridden by American intellectuals just because the ‘security’ of Israel demands it,” Said wrote.