Jon Randell Smith
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Recent essays:
You Could Be Braver
You Could Be Braver
This is my first post since moving to this platform last year; if you are a subscriber, hopefully your subscription survived the transition. Note: The “we” here refers to non-Palestinia…
The right to speak and the right to be complicit
The right to speak and the right to be complicit
A response to The Globe and Mail Editorial Board.
Between the Bubble and the Deep Blue Sea
Between the Bubble and the Deep Blue Sea
On the media and losing our minds.
Jana's Story
Jana's Story
Palestinians, in their own words
Palestinians, in their own words
And a primer on anti-Palestinian racism.
As If I Were a Wall
As If I Were a Wall
A selection of poetry from Dima Khalil.
Recognizing the Familiar
Recognizing the Familiar
On liberalism vs. liberation and Isabella Hammad
Indulgences and The Consumer Imaginary
Indulgences and The Consumer Imaginary
To Read or Not to Read
To Read or Not to Read
The Substack controversy, mass media and genocide.
Ignoramus Rex
Ignoramus Rex
On the late career and legacy of Rex Murphy.
The Nakba in Colour
The Nakba in Colour
On a Monday in Gaza
On a Monday in Gaza
Al-Shifa Hospital, World Central Kitchen Al-Shifa Hospital The story of the week is not World Central Kitchen, but Al-Shifa Hospital: On Monday, Israeli forces withdrew following a two-week siege. …
Technologies of Mystification
Technologies of Mystification
More thoughts on food security. The poor are those who don’t have enough money. – Leslie Dunbar, The Common Interest In an essay in the newsletter Culture Study, finance writer Dana Miranda explore…
You give us lovely words
You give us lovely words
Gaza “food security” update. This is a follow-up to “What We Talk about When We Talk about Food Security”, which you can read here. -JRS To turn back to Gaza, things have gone from wors…
Gentrification on My Mind
Gentrification on My Mind
A story of a house. “But at the end of the day, that’s what gentrification is: a void in a neighborhood, in a city, in a culture.” – P.E. Moskowitz, How to Kill A City You can still find the …
We will write and film, this is what we do
We will write and film, this is what we do
On the life and death of Mohannad Hussam Muqdad. The only antidote to ward off self-destruction and the indiscriminate use of force is humility and, ultimately, compassion … [We] must all act and t…
We cook there with mixed feelings
We cook there with mixed feelings
Eating in Gaza vs. Eating in Gaza And a binary phantom there, Stygian, erect. / Saying, here is the untranslation of the world. -Forrest Gander, “Carbonized Forest”. I. Gazans eat animal food; anim…
Screaming into The Waves
Screaming into The Waves
On bearing witness and Palestine on film. “And my ambition is to write both in defiance of tragedy and in blindness of its possibility, to keep screaming into the waves.” –Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were…
A Small, Good Thing
A Small, Good Thing
Oh, the Places You'll Cook!
Oh, the Places You'll Cook!
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