Samer Badawi

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Contributor Writer at +972 Magazine

Contributor Writer at The Progressive

Palestinian writer, bylines @theprogressive, @972mag, @thenation, @newlinesmag, @AJEnglish. Views are my own.

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Netflix Removes Palestinian Stories From Its Library

Dec 1, 2024 | portside.org | Samer Badawi

Netflix Removes Palestinian Stories From Its Library Published December 1, 2024 In October, streaming giant Netflix quietly announced that it would be removing a category of films on the platform known as “Palestinian Stories,” a curated collection that included award-winning films like Annemarie Jacir’s Salt of this Sea and Golden Globe-winning director Hany Abu-Assad’s film Omar, which took the Jury Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Netflix Removes Palestinian Stories From Its Library

Nov 13, 2024 | progressive.org | Samer Badawi

In October, streaming giant Netflix quietly announced that it would be removing a category of films on the platform known as “Palestinian Stories,” a curated collection that included award-winning films like Annemarie Jacir’s Salt of this Sea and Golden Globe-winning director Hany Abu-Assad’s film Omar, which took the Jury Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. As of this writing, the collection’s landing page still appears on the Netflix website but is empty.
Netflix Removes Palestinian Stories From Its Library

Nov 13, 2024 | flipboard.com | Samer Badawi

Five movies nobody ever needs to watch more than onceWe all have those movies we could watch over and over. They might be a feel-good family comedy or a delightful rom-com, perhaps a tense thriller or …
After Trump’s Victory, Palestinians Cannot Afford To Wait Until the Next US Election

Nov 11, 2024 | portside.org | Samer Badawi

After Trump’s Victory, Palestinians Cannot Afford To Wait Until the Next US Election Published November 11, 2024 In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, I exchanged daily voice messages with a close relative in Lebanon who had fled her home soon after the Israeli army began leveling entire buildings with American weapons.
After Trump’s Victory, Palestinians Cannot Afford To Wait Until The Next US election

Nov 9, 2024 | znetwork.org | Samer Badawi

In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, I exchanged daily voice messages with a close relative in Lebanon who had fled her home soon after the Israeli army began leveling entire buildings with American weapons. That these arrived courtesy of a Biden-Harris administration that had already sunk more than $22 billion into Israel’s “war of self-defense” — straining even the Pentagon’s resources — had long since alienated many would-be supporters of the Democratic ticket.
Fears For The Future As Fascist Donald Trump Wins Second Term

Nov 8, 2024 | progressivehub.net | Samer Badawi

By Samer Badawi, +972 MagazineProgressives abandoning the Democrats over their ongoing support for Israel certainly wasn’t the only factor that swung the election for Trump, or even the most pivotal. For one thing, the president-elect’s margin of victory, both in the national popular vote and in states that President Joe Biden had won in 2020, outstripped the number of Democratic voters who had cast “uncommitted” protest ballots in the spring primaries.
After Trump’s victory, Palestinians cannot wait until the next election

Nov 7, 2024 | 972mag.com | Jonathan Adler |Samer Badawi

Palestinians and their allies must build on down-ballot wins, while recognizing the limitations of electoral politics in the face of Israel’s genocidal campaign. facebook twitter email link In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, I exchanged daily voice messages with a close relative in Lebanon who had fled her home soon after the Israeli army began leveling entire buildings with American weapons.
Israel Could Still Decide the Election

Oct 8, 2024 | progressive.org | Samer Badawi

The more time passes since President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential election, the more Democrats’ initial euphoria over his exit subsides. Supporters of his replacement, Vice President Kamala Harris, are acknowledging that victory is far from certain. Heading into what will likely be her only debate with her Republican rival, Donald Trump, Harris was trailing by a point in a New York Times/Siena College poll.
An Indictment of Genocide

Oct 7, 2024 | progressive.org | Samer Badawi

Of the ten names on this year’s National Book Award longlist for poetry are two Palestinians: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Fady Joudah. To the Palestinian American reader, their nominated collections—published during what Tuffaha has fittingly described as a “livestreamed genocide”—come as close to conveying our collective anguish as the English language will allow. But their searing poems wrest far more than lament from our year of constant mourning.
'American society will have to divest from Israel before our leaders'

Sep 27, 2024 | 972mag.com | Jonathan Adler |Samer Badawi

In Ohio, a state that has voted for Donald Trump in the last two U.S. presidential elections, a staunchly pro-Palestinian congressional candidate may seem unlikely and unviable.