Rivkah Brown

Nov 13, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Rivkah Brown

Complexity is often the first port of call for liberals seeking to derail conversations on what should be straightforward questions of principle. Nowhere is this truer than of Israel and Palestine, a century-long conflict to which a seemingly infinite number of critical lenses can be applied. One might narrate Israeli apartheid in terms of the history of western imperialism or Jewish persecution, as a linchpin of the military-industrial complex or of climate breakdown.

Nov 12, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Rivkah Brown

Six leading gender clinicians associated with a controversial NHS review of transgender healthcare spoke at the conference of a designated anti-trans hate group that shares funding with key pro-Trump outfits, Novara Media can reveal. The news has prompted “grave concern” from a leading UK trans rights charity, as well as several senior NHS clinicians who currently work or have previously worked in NHS gender services.

Nov 7, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Rivkah Brown

Germany has passed a resolution to restrict public funding to critics of Israel under the guise of fighting antisemitism. On Thursday, MPs in the German Bundestag (parliament) voted for the resolution, entitled “Never again is now: Protecting, preserving and strengthening Jewish life in Germany”, which ties funding for cultural and scientific projects to support for Israel in several ways.

Oct 30, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Rivkah Brown

A year ago, it was highly controversial to claim – even for a genocide scholar, and an Israeli one at that – that Israel was committing a genocide in Gaza. Today, it is becoming controversial to deny it. Terms such as “genocide”, foreign secretary David Lammy on Monday, in response to a question from Theresa May’s former aide and now Tory MP Nick Timothy, “are quite properly, legal terms that must be determined by international courts”.

Oct 28, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Cynthia Zarin |Jude Doyle |Rivkah Brown |Adrian Van Young

Sky streaked with azure and bloodred. That memory swift-hooved, tramples itself,   the cart wheel rutting in the ditchwould turn backward. That sound   in bridal raiment to meet Achilles.       A mouse-tail mattered less to me      Less than that, that took          my love, my thrush         my heart forfeit.       And you, it was youNo god cares where I lay my headI don’t care where I make my bedMy bond unmade where my sweet deer lies.