Marion Egger > Recent Status Updates

“We must not wait for Haaretz or the New York Times to arrive at the miraculous epiphanies we have long called common truths. We should purge their prestige in our minds, the prestige that renders a Times acknowledgment of an eyewitness account more valuable than the account itself.
There are many ways to describe what I am demanding: decolonizing the press or controlling the means of production.”

“The very moment that the Palestinian exits the womb, he is “unchilded”—flung away from childhood by a “machinery that exists everywhere and always” and treated as both a good-for-nothing nobody and a dangerous ticking bomb at once” […] “It is the dehumanization of Palestinians, one Nakba at a time, that has led us here: the demonization of our people, one Intifada at a time:”

“If we are assessing a certain ideological project […], why not judge it based on how it materially manifests? Zionism is best defined by its material manifestations—Zionism is what Zionism does. When Zionism’s most recent manifestation is genocide, […] curating the native as “respectable” redirects critical scrutiny away from the colonizer, […] the innate injustice of the colonial project. .

“Brussels is not unique. In Berlin, there are no museums or monuments to the slaughtered Hereros [...]. And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.“

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