Tolerance is a wasteland: Palestine and the culture of denial (2022). What a gloomy title! I am overwhelmed by the horrors of Gaza, all the boringly excruciating details of genocide, our helplessness. For some reason, I ordered this book from the library and finally forced myself to open it. When I got to the detailed comparisons of apartheid South Africa and Israel, I was hooked. I get goosebumps realizing how close we are now to a rivetting, deja vu replay of that glorious struggle leading to victory. Makdisi shows beyond a doubt that Israel's shipwreck-of-state is sinking under its phony, slipshod 'Jewish-democratic-state'. How can it be both Jewish and a 'state-of-all'? Of course, it can't. Q.E.D.

But Tolerance gets better and better.

Draw the Line drew the lines

So many red lines. Putin, Macron, Hamas, Israel. Our Palestine-Environment demo Saturday September 20 drew hunanity and Nature's red lines, drenched as they are in the blood of martyrs and poisons sucked out of Earth – inflicted on us all.

I'm worn down by a half-century of calling for things that no one should deny. But joining the thousands (not nearly enough),

Just when I figured I had plumbed the depths of capitalism's toxicity, I came across yet more proof; in fact, the apotheosis of toxicity. The toxicity to end all toxicity. Chris Hayes' The sirens' call: How attention became the world's most endangered resource (2025) describes how, with the latest social media revolution, capitalism has managed to penetrate our skulls and steal our very consciousness, what makes you you.