Shooting and craving: on NAZA and the mediated obscene
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There is a Hebrew phrase that has been etched into Israeli culture and is perhaps one of its most authentic expressions. The phrase is yorim ve-bochim , or “shooting and crying,” and it has become a staple of Israeli cultural production. Its first iteration is dated to a novella written in the wake of the Zionist forces’ deliberate expulsion and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948, what we Palestinians call the Nakba. The novella Khirbet…
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