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Léopold Lambert – Paris on June 16, 2015 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! Two recent events involving the policed/militarized evacuation of a swimming pool based on the ethnicity of the swimmers have recently came to light. 1. McKinney, U.S. /// On June 6, 2015, in McKinney, a suburban...

Chinese anti-riot police exercising in a drill before the 25th anniversary of the 1989 student revolt (AFP/May 2014) Léopold Lambert – Paris on May 26, 2015 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! I recently encountered a video showing a 2011 South Korean anti-riot police drill (watch it below), which I...

Map created by Léopold Lambert for The Funambulist (May 2015) / Download a high-quality version of them here (8.1MB) (license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 4.0) Léopold Lambert – Paris on May 11, 2015 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! The Israeli settlement of Gilo (26,929 inhabitants), whose construction started...

Léopold Lambert – Paris on April 7, 2015 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! Too often along the lines of the work articulated here, I tend to propose a vision of Palestine that is involuntarily centered on a post-1967 narrative. The latter reinforces the essential separation between the various people...

Assistant state attorneys John Guy, left, and Bernie de la Rionda, right, display the hooded sweatshirt worn by Trayvon Martin the night he was shot by George Zimmerman. (Credit: AP) The Speech of Things /// Originally written for The New Inquiry (published on Nov. 25, 2014) Ceci n’est pas une preuve. René Magritte’s painting of a pipe...

A few weeks ago, I was asked to write a text for The Fall Semester, an in situ (Miami) and online symposium that occurred last week. I figured that it would be a good opportunity to make a synthesis of my thoughts/maps about the recent Israeli military massacre on Gaza as being ‘only’ a spectacular episode of...

The new public square of Fawwar refugee camp Photograph by Adam Ferguson for the New York Times A few days ago, the New York Times exceptionally published an interesting article about Palestine entitled “Refugees Reshape Their Camp at the Risk of Feeling at Home” (Michael Kimmelman, Sept 6, 2014). This article describes the dialogue between...

On July 13, 2014, Palestinian Gaza-based journalist Mohammed Omer wrote the following tweet: “Most difficult moment for a father: split his children in all corners of the house or all in one corner and die together?“. This heartbreaking question in the context of the siege of Gaza by the Israeli army reveals the duress (a term...

Erez Crossing: one of the only land access to Gaza While I am writing these words, the Israeli army is starting its land invasion of the Gaza strip, thus providing the conditions for the continuation of the massacre that this army has been undertaking this last week. Once again, the fact of writing about the...