The attempts to resurrect/reimpose apartheid as a legitimate political value, whether on the model of Israel, South Africa, or the US South, is to me one of the most bizarre turns of the current political moment and one that needs to be stamped out before it takes an ever darker turn
Finally. My fellow Fulbright Scholar Rumeysa Ozturk has been freed.
My country jailed her for over a month as—let’s be perfectly frank—a political prisoner. Why? Because she wrote a mild oped that criticised Israel in her student newspaper.
I've thought of her every day.
May 10, 2025 21:10
