Palestine at the Creative Time Summit: Arts Conference Highlights Parallel “Doomocracies”

Haneen Zoabi’s message is clear: democracy in the United States and Israel-Palestine will continue to be doomed, until decolonization takes place.

by Sara Swetzoff

Haneen Zoabi – a well-known Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament – should have been the first speaker to walk on stage three months ago at the Creative Time Summit, an annual international conference on art and social change. Instead, a wave of arrests and investigations in Israel targeting her political party, the Balad Party, f…