Tag: human rights

The People First: Rohini Hensman on Democracy, Resistance, and the Global Left

NB: An important interview about an important book. DS Documents unearthed by Robert Parry and reported in an article entitled When Israel/Neocons Favoured Iran show that Israel’s Likud government of Menachem Begin became an important source of covert arms supplies to Iran after Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, with the profits being invested in Jewish… Read More The People First: Rohini Hensman on Democracy, Resistance, and the Global Left

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Jewish organizers are increasingly confronting Trump

As the administration continues to exploit antisemitism to arrest protesters and curb academic freedoms, more American Jews are saying ‘not in my name’… “As a Jewish person, I’m really appalled at the idea that they are trying to make it sound as if opposing genocide is somehow antisemitic,” said Josh Dubnau, a professor who received… Read More Jewish organizers are increasingly confronting Trump

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Visual testament

The two-state two-step wasn’t a serious commitment; it was a way of pretending that the shrinking bantustans of Gaza and the West Bank were a state in the making Mukul Kesavan Over the last month, global opinion on Israel’s unending massacre of Palestinians in Gaza has shifted, at least rhetorically. Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and… Read More Visual testament

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Chased, beaten and robbed: survivors describe Israeli settler violence in West Bank / Chris Hedges on The End of the Western Mythology

Palestinians and activists forced out of the village of Mughayyir al-Deir say they were harassed, stoned and shot at Lorenzo Tondo, Quique Kierszenbaum and Sufian Taha in Jerusalem Survivors of an attack by violent Israeli settlers have described being “hunted” across a West Bank valley by men armed with pistols, rifles and batons, who beat them so badly that all 10… Read More Chased, beaten and robbed: survivors describe Israeli settler violence in West Bank / Chris Hedges on The End of the Western Mythology

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A wake-up call

Our democratic and secular fabric has frayed, our economic progress has stalled. The gap between China and India is now so large that the phrase, ‘Chindia’, has dropped out of circulation Ramachandra Guha India and Pakistan were born at the same time, cut from the cloth of the same Empire. They inherited a common political,… Read More A wake-up call

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Brahmachari Sudhanand ji and Karan Rawat honoured with 6th Ankit Junaid social harmony award

The Ankit Junaid social harmony award for youth was started in September 2018, by Khudai Khidmatgar in memory of Hafiz Junaid and Ankit Saxena. Junaid was Killed brutally in a train two days before Eid  while Ankit, killed in Delhi for loving a girl from different faith. The fellowship and award includes a Memento, a… Read More Brahmachari Sudhanand ji and Karan Rawat honoured with 6th Ankit Junaid social harmony award

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Gabor Maté, Chris Hedges & Aaron Maté on Palestine: The Moral Issue of Our Time

The problem of evil will be the fundamental problem of postwar intellectual life in Europe – as death became the fundamental problem after the last war: Hannah Arendt, Nightmare and Flight, (1945) Essays in Understanding ***** Gabor Maté, Chris Hedges & Aaron Maté on ‘Palestine: The Moral Issue of Our Time’ Chris Hedges and Gabor Maté, introduced… Read More Gabor Maté, Chris Hedges & Aaron Maté on Palestine: The Moral Issue of Our Time

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A Pathetic Apologist

NB: The pathos here is twofold, a transparent attempt to deceive; and an equally transparent ambition. The Pahalgam terrorist attack was a horrible and inhuman crime; and its perpetrators have not yet been arrested. However, the resultant outrage included expressions of communal hatred. These were referred to by none other than a bereaved person, the… Read More A Pathetic Apologist

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