Israel’s legitimacy grows out of the tragedy of the Holocaust and the West’s guilt about this makes Palestinians killing Israelis wicked in a way that Israelis killing Palestinians cannot be NB: A brilliant analysis, to be expected of Kesavan. Here are some further reflections: All observers ought to remember that antisemitism was Christian in origin, and… Read More Mukul Kesavan: Philistines & Pharisees
Jewish Voice for Peace Right now, Palestinians, Israelis and all of us with family on the ground are terrified for loved ones. We grieve the lives of those already lost and remain committed to a future where every life is precious, and all people live in freedom and safety. Following 16 years of Israeli military… Read More The Root of Violence Is Oppression
Since October 7, the settlers, with the complete support of the army and police, have been on a violent rampage, shooting innocent Palestinians point blank.. . We are facing an acute danger of vast proportions—an irreversible disaster. David Shulman and Yigal Bronner
First posted March 05, 2017 “A woman has the right to mount the scaffold. She must possess equally the right to mount the speaker’s platform“ Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791 Written by Olympe De Gouges Olympe de Gouges was a French feminist activist, advocate of complete equal rights for women, freedom of divorce, the abolition of slavery,… Read More Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
To be considered a political being you must at the very least be considered a human being. Who gets to count as human? “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,”… Read More The double standard with Israel and Palestine leaves us in moral darkness
The driving out of peoples was ‘a thoroughly bad and vicious solution, for which the world will pay a heavy penalty for a hundred years to come’: Lord Curzon, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, commenting on the exchanges between Greece and Turkey in 1923. Cited in R. M. Douglas, Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans… Read More The Agony of Palestine
Condemning the first information report (FIR) registered by the Delhi Police against online news portal NewsClick and journalists associated with it, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Sunday said the charges in the FIR that the farmers’ protests were held to “disrupt supplies and services essential to the life of community in India” were false and mischievous. The… Read More Samyukt Kisan Morcha condemns charges against farmer protests in NewsClick FIR
Extreme positions are not replaced by moderate ones but rather by extreme ones, though of the opposite kind: Nietzsche The Will to Power In the past 24 hours, two reports out of Israel have pointed to a striking conclusion: that the failure to prevent Hamas’s murderous assault on southern Israel rests in significant part with the government… Read More Netanyahu’s deliberate extremism has failed
( IMEMC ) – An 18-year-old Palestinian man and a 13-year-old child were the latest in a long list of civilians killed on Saturday, October 7th. Following the massive attacks in Gaza, in which over 200 Palestinians were killed on Saturday, marches and protests broke out across the West Bank, calling for justice, freedom, and self-determination for… Read More Israeli Troops Kill 6 Palestinian Protesters, including a Minor, as Demonstrations against Israeli Killings of Civilians Break Out
One of Iran’s foremost public intellectuals and critics of the Iranian regime was taken to prison in handcuffs on Saturday to start serving a five-year sentence. Majid Tavakoli, who has a three-year-old child, was found guilty of spreading propaganda against the state. His dispatch to jail had been deferred for three weeks, but security officials… Read More Iranian intellectual calls on opposition to unite as he is again sent to prison
