“I’m very excited and honoured to serve as the editor-in-chief of openDemocracy. I’ve long been a fan of openDemocracy’s global footprint and editorial commitment to rigorous investigations and incisive coverage of the biggest stories of our time. As newsrooms around the world are threatened by censorship, intimidation and economic disruption, the cause of independent media… Read More openDemocracy appoints Aman Sethi as editor-in-chief
Sam Gelder A Romany Gypsy woman will take on the government at the High Court next week over its “discriminatory” Policing Act. Wendy Smith has been granted permission to challenge part of the 2022 Police, Crime and Sentencing Act (PSCS) that introduced powers to fine, arrest, imprison and seize the homes of Gypsies and Travellers… Read More Romany Gypsy woman takes UK government to court over ‘discriminatory’ policing
‘There are no innocent civilians in this area’: Capt. Ernest Medina officer commanding the units that entered My Lai village; the day before the murder of 350 to 500 Vietnamese civilians on March 15, 1968 ‘There are no innocent civilians in Gaza’: Israeli President Isaac Herzog, October 13, 2023 By Simeon Man March 16 marks… Read More ‘No innocent civilians’: the Violent Legacies of the U.S. War in Vietnam
Etan Nechin GAZA casualties live statistics Since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war, Israelis have been glued to their TV sets and scrolling through news and social media. The ordinarily news-obsessed public has become even more engrossed, and the war has seen the propagation of a point of view that for much of Israel’s media history… Read More Far right infiltration of Israeli media is blinding the public to the truth about Gaza / Major US newspapers heavily biased toward Israel
No one could accuse the U.S. of double standards. What it is vulnerable to is the accusation that it no longer has any standards at all… Modern Germany needs to believe that Israel’s creation was a “happy ending” to the horrors of the gas chambers… For Germany, its commitment to Israel is offered as a… Read More Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy
Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center In her evocative book, Drinking the Sea at Gaza, the Israeli journalist Amira Hass writes, “To me, Gaza embodies the entire saga of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; it represents the central contradiction of the state of Israel—democracy for some, dispossession for others; it is our exposed nerve.” The conflict in… Read More The Gaza War and the Rest of the World
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 Certificate, a Shawl and a Cash Award. This Year 5th Ankit Junaid Social Harmony… Read More Vivek Mishra and Abdullah honoured with 5th Ankit – Junaid Social Harmony Award
‘I return often to Albert Camus’s Letters to a German Friend, written clandestinely during the occupation of France in 1943–44… published after the liberation, despite Camus’s initial opposition… His opening plea hangs in the air: “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.” ‘ On November 9 the NYR Online published an essay… Read More Seth Anziska on Dominant Orthodoxies
Jewish groups have accused the ANC of antisemitism, but ICJ case stems from party’s longstanding support for Palestinians Chris McGreal Israel has denounced South Africa’s legal action at the international court of justice accusing Israel of genocide and war crimes in Gaza as amounting to support for Hamas. Israel called the charge that it was intentionally killing… Read More How apartheid history shaped South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
NB: Approximately 90 thousand Palestinians killed, wounded or missing, including nearly ten thousand children. Wounded children with no relatives; children being amputated without anaesthesia. Vast neighbourhoods levelled to the ground. Is this enough for Netanyahu and Biden? Has any part of human cruelty toward subject populations changed for twenty five centuries since thousands of slaves… Read More More than 10 children losing legs in Gaza every day as dire health crisis grows
After the truth-shower 