Gil Hochberg, Author at Contending Modernities

From “Shooting and Crying” to “Shooting and Singing”: Notes on the 2019 Eurovision in Israel.

Gil Hochberg
May 17, 2019May 17, 2019

The days of shooting and crying are over. Shooting continues, but crying has stopped. It has been replaced with laughter: hysterical, cynical, crude, perhaps even desperate laughter.

Freedom of Speech? Palestine as an Exception

Gil Hochberg
January 26, 2019February 20, 2019

Can a Jew speak about Palestine not as a Jew, but in the name of solidarity? Can the question of Palestine ever become more than essentially a Jewish question?

This City that Isn’t One: Fragments on a Fragmented City

Series: Jerusalem

Gil Hochberg
December 20, 2017October 4, 2018

The city that speaks its fragmentation and divide so clearly and loudly cannot be forced into coherence because “cities” do not cohere. Only people do.

Forget Pinkwashing, its Brownwashing Time: Self-Orientalizing on the US Campus

Series: Decolonizing Narratives

Gil Hochberg
November 24, 2017January 25, 2024

First I saw a large portrait of a Native American wearing a traditional headdress, with the word “Judah” written across it. Here, brown-washing and self-orientalism perform political work, masking settler colonialism with the language and images of nativism.

Articles written by Gil Hochberg

From “Shooting and Crying” to “Shooting and Singing”: Notes on the 2019 Eurovision in Israel.

Freedom of Speech? Palestine as an Exception

This City that Isn’t One: Fragments on a Fragmented City

Forget Pinkwashing, its Brownwashing Time: Self-Orientalizing on the US Campus