NB: The travesty of Indian justice continues unabated, with the mainstream media shamelessly reporting the issue as of Khalid were guilty, even though he has not been tried in court nor been convicted. To keep a trial suspended for six years, and refuse bail – this is horrible but to be expected now under the… Read More Umar Khalid documentary screening at IIIT-Hyderabad cancelled
A leading Israeli think tank issued a rare strategic alert on Tuesday warning that Jewish terrorism against Palestinians in the West Bank threatens Israel’s security, international standing and functionality as a state. This is only the second strategic alert that the Institute for National Security Studies has ever issued. The first came in March 2023, seven months before the… Read More A rare warning about Jewish terrorism, and how Israel’s response to ‘NAZA’ drew more attention than the film did
Ellise Shafer, Nick Vivarelli “NAZA,” the new documentary from Israeli “No Other Land” directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, earned a massive 24.5-minute ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere on Thursday. This marks the longest-ever standing ovation in Venice — besting the 22 minutes for “The Voice of Hind Rajab” last year — and apparently the longest… Read More Gaza Doc ‘NAZA,’ From ‘No Other Land’ Directors, earn record-breaking 24.5 minute Venice Ovation
For now, it is Palestinians who are being killed & displaced. But ideologies of supremacy and domination threaten us all. Ahdaf Soueif Last week, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s minister of national security, put out an AI-generated video that showed a conveyor belt of overweight Palestinian prisoners – dreaming of food and education – entering one of his prisons;… Read More In Gaza, we’ve seen horror unfold with global powers’ support. Is that a blueprint for elsewhere?
J. M. Coetzee, F. M. Siccardi This diptych of memoirs, set respectively in South Africa and Argentina, frontally address a subject that most in the west would prefer to forget – the legacy of colonial genocide. The novelists J.M. Coetzee and F.M. Siccardi, both products of settler societies, recount uncannily similar memories of childhood visits… Read More Dusklands: Growing up in the shadow of genocide
Katrin Bennhold Good morning, world. Israel’s role as a safe haven for Jewish people after the Holocaust is central to its identity and values as a modern, democratic state. And so it was striking to read, in a recent story by my colleague Azam Ahmed, multiple prominent Israelis, including former military and intelligence officials, using World War… Read More The retired generals sounding the alarm over the West Bank
Bharat Bhushan A morning walk in Delhi’s Nehru Park turned into a nine-hour ordeal for former civil servant Ashish Joshi who was picked up by Delhi Police’s Special Cell, with his family kept in the dark for most of the time. The episode is not an aberration. It fits the larger pattern of how the… Read More The Nine-hour Walk: Dissent Criminalised
4 PM पर हाथ डालना भारी पड़ गया विश्वगुरु को,दुनिया भर में हंगामा ॥ 4 PM ॥ Media मुस्लिम पत्रकार से कथित मारपीट का मामला अब सत्ता और पत्रकारिता की आजादी पर बड़े सवाल खड़े कर रहा है. क्या सवाल पूछने की कीमत एक पत्रकार को पुलिस की लाठी से चुकानी पड़ेगी? जिस आवाज को… Read More 4 PM पर हाथ डालना भारी पड़ गया विश्वगुरु को, दुनिया भर में हंगामा / Mystery behind the relationship of PM Modi & Swantantra Bharadwaj unraveled
Ashish Joshi shared a social media post by the Hindutva Party calling on its state units to ‘rip apart propaganda’ of ‘dimagi Naxals’. Former civil servant Ashish Joshi, who was picked up during his morning walk on Wednesday by plainclothes police personnel and interrogated for hours, said on Friday that a first information report had been registered… Read More Ex-bureaucrat says he was booked over X post for ‘provocation’, asks if BJP will face same action
Andrew Roth Global affairs correspondent Israel’s defence minister has said his country is seeking Donald Trump’s support to approve plans to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in what has widely been condemned as a potential war crime. Israel Katz said there was “no real solution for Gaza in the end without thismigration” during a conference… Read More Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’
After the truth-shower 