We met for coffee in the glass-and-steel city center, in a noisy cafe that smelled like bleach.
As a fellow longstanding supporter of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions campaign against Israel, I can imagine how Aziz felt, as he watched from afar as Gaza was destroyed once again.
Aziz Choudry was a brilliant thinker, a social movement intellectual whose work around popular education and organizing involved the constant blurring of the lines that often exist between those who are considered the intellectuals, and those who we may characterize as the grassroots of a movement.
There are a lot of people around the world grieving right now for a lot of reasons.
So, everyone is like bombing the city.
He is interested in the history of radical liberatory movements from the late medieval to modernity, from the Anabaptists to the modern political Left.