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Ariella Azoulay is a curator, filmmaker, and Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Her latest book is Potential History—Unlearning Imperialism.
Israel's weaponization of images since October 7 obfuscates its genocidal campaign against Palestinians.
Images seized from enslaved people are not private property to be owned but ancestors to be cared for.
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