Tag: Imperialism

Netanyahu and His Nightmare Coalition Are the ‘New Antisemites’

B. Michael Israel-antisemitism relations are a model of successful ambivalent relations that efficiently serve both sides. Israel, with its actions, provides vital fuel for antisemitism. And in exchange, antisemitism provides Israel with a host of excuses for its actions, and helps to nurture Israelis’ paranoia and hysteria, which is so vital for taming the citizenry… Read More Netanyahu and His Nightmare Coalition Are the ‘New Antisemites’

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Israel’s Tents Massacre in Rafah Is a Heinous War Crime / Israel Is Blind to Rafah’s Inferno, but Its Own Ruin Is Entwined With Gaza’s

Toddlers go up in flames, and the Israeli public celebrates, erases, chatters or yawns – that’s what our hell looks like. When you embark on a campaign of vengeance, as the saying goes, dig two graves; Israel has such a strong desire for revenge that it is slowly sinking in a dark abyss, hand in… Read More Israel’s Tents Massacre in Rafah Is a Heinous War Crime / Israel Is Blind to Rafah’s Inferno, but Its Own Ruin Is Entwined With Gaza’s

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Israel Already Razed Hundreds of Homes in This Bedouin Village. Next, It Tore Down Anything Left Standing

‘Authorities are behaving like the hilltop youth in the West Bank,’ says Jabr Abu Assa, one of the leaders of the campaign against the demolition of Wadi Khalil Eden Solomon; May 24, 2024 At the entrance to the ruined community of Wadi Khalil there is a sign: “Our children deserve a home like every child… Read More Israel Already Razed Hundreds of Homes in This Bedouin Village. Next, It Tore Down Anything Left Standing

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Hundreds walk out of Harvard College graduation; UCLA contends with new protest

NB: Salute! For resisting state oppression, for defending the defenceless people of Gaza, and for upholding the democratic traditions of American students, I salute you. We are Spartacus. DS A group walked out during Harvard College’s commencement to decry the exclusion of 13 would-be graduates who were said to be involved in an earlier pro-Palestinian… Read More Hundreds walk out of Harvard College graduation; UCLA contends with new protest

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Arsenal of Genocide: US Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza / NATO Spreads Nuclear Weapons and Risk

The Arsenal of Genocide: The US Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a delivery of 1,700 500-pound and 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, and threatened to withhold more shipments if Israel went ahead with its full-scale invasion of Rafah.  The move… Read More Arsenal of Genocide: US Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza / NATO Spreads Nuclear Weapons and Risk

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The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza

During the Second World War, the United States proudly called itself the “Arsenal of Democracy,” as its munitions factories and shipyards produced an endless supply of weapons to fight the genocidal government of Germany. Today, the United States is instead, shamefully, the Arsenal of Genocide, providing 70% of the imported weapons Israel is using to… Read More The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza

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Indo-Palestine Solidarity Network

Commemorates the 78th Anniversary of the NAKBA of 1948, when over 7.5 lac Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages by violence and terror ************************ GAZA casualties, live statistics United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem The Crisis of Ideology The west’s complete contempt for the lives of Palestinians will… Read More Indo-Palestine Solidarity Network

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In 1968, protests forced Columbia University to change graduation. Here’s what happened next

NB: I am proud to say I belong to the 1968 generation. 1968 was one of a very few moments of radical utopia in the twentieth century. We protested the imperialist war in Vietnam then; and those of us still alive will protest injustice today. I salute the students in the USA and all over… Read More In 1968, protests forced Columbia University to change graduation. Here’s what happened next

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