Author: Dilip

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‘It’s lonely being a Jewish critic of Israel’ – Nathan Thrall on his book about a Palestinian father’s tragedy

Rachel Cooke In the days since the attacks by Hamas in southern Israel, Nathan Thrall, an American journalist and former director of the Arab-Israeli project at the International Crisis Group, has found himself lodged anxiously between worry for his wife and daughters at home in Jerusalem, and awareness that, as the tour to promote his new… Read More ‘It’s lonely being a Jewish critic of Israel’ – Nathan Thrall on his book about a Palestinian father’s tragedy

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Heightened Security and Shouting Matches Animate Pro-Palestinian ‘Day of Resistance’

By  Maggie Hicks Dozens of George Mason University students and other community members, many wearing face masks, kaffiyehs, sunglasses, and all-black clothing, blasted rap music, pumped their fists, and chanted, “They got tanks, we got hang gliders! Glory to the resistance fighters!” The demonstration in Fairfax, Va., on Thursday afternoon, which grew to close to 100… Read More Heightened Security and Shouting Matches Animate Pro-Palestinian ‘Day of Resistance’

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Australia is still in denial, its history of forgetting a festering wrong

The referendum became by proxy a vote on Indigenous peoples’ right to exist in our own land… and our fellow Australians voted to reject us. Imagine – just try – how that feels today Lorena Allam Anthony Albanese was fond of saying, during the campaign, “If not now, then when?” On Saturday night he got… Read More Australia is still in denial, its history of forgetting a festering wrong

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Mainstream, Oct 14, 2023

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream Oct 14, 2023 Interim Report of the People’s Commission on Land Acquisition and Police Repression in Dhinkia Region Gulab’s Struggle against Honour Killing Needs Help | Bharat Dogra A Political Man: Memories of Ranajit Guha | Dilip Simeon Karpoori Thakur: Social Justice and Its Limits | Thakur and Bhattacharjee Sustainable Consumption & Production… Read More Mainstream, Oct 14, 2023

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Chris Hedges: Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them

NB: I post this along with a separate view, contained in this essay: After the pogrom in Israel, the angel of death is licking his lips: Hamas is not identical with the Palestinian cause: it is a curse on it. With a founding charter, never revoked, packed with explicit, medieval anti-Jewish hatred, it has become an… Read More Chris Hedges: Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them

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On Justice and Sovereignty: The Limits of International Justice Architecture in a World Marred by Conflict and Conquest

By Deepanshu Mohan There is a solar flare of deep inter-state conflict, conquest, and siege erupting all over the globe.   Russia and Ukraine have been embroiled in a long drawn, painful war for over a year and a half. After a 10-month blockade, Azerbaijan launched an attack on Sept. 19, claiming the enclave in a day and causing nearly the entire… Read More On Justice and Sovereignty: The Limits of International Justice Architecture in a World Marred by Conflict and Conquest

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