Tag: justice

Erasing Palestine in the name of Jewish trauma: Jewish Voice for Labour (Nov 2024)

Seeing Things Clearly: How projecting past persecution onto Palestinians only perpetuates the war… We need to see what is really happening in all its precision… Only then can we see what specific political responses are necessary. Instead, a substitution occurs, Nazis are substituted for Hamas, the Holocaust for acts of political violence. Israelis, alongside many… Read More Erasing Palestine in the name of Jewish trauma: Jewish Voice for Labour (Nov 2024)

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Italian dockworkers threaten Israel cargo ban if Gaza flotilla blocked

NB: I salute the Genoa dockworkers unon and all their comrades across Europe. No government is bothered about stopping the genocide and mass starvation being implemented by the Israel-USA-UK Axis. Workers are quite capable of confronting these criminal establishments; and coming to the aid of the helpless people of Gaza. God bless you. DS “If… Read More Italian dockworkers threaten Israel cargo ban if Gaza flotilla blocked

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Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it’s coming out

By  HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf said Sunday. “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” is scheduled for release Oct. 21, the publisher confirmed to The Associated Press. Giuffre,… Read More Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it’s coming out

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Bulldozing Gaza

The singularity of the Israeli campaign in Gaza lies in the asymmetry of power, its intensity, its enclosure, its direct connection to a settler colonial project. All this leads us back to the 1940s and Raphael Lemkin’s definition of genocide, which he modeled on Nazi-occupied Poland. That line of thought should not be dodged, or… Read More Bulldozing Gaza

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The Caravan archive: Malegaon Acquittals, NIA’s Decline, and Sangh Parivar Terror Links

Welcome to The Backdrop, a selection of fine narrative journalism from The Caravan to put the news in context. The Independence Day Sale is now live. Last week, a special National Investigation Agency court in Mumbai acquitted Pragya Singh Thakur, a former member of parliament from the Bhartiya Janata Party, and six others in the… Read More The Caravan archive: Malegaon Acquittals, NIA’s Decline, and Sangh Parivar Terror Links

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Mumbai: St Xavier’s College cancels Stan Swamy lecture after ABVP protests

St Xavier’s College in Mumbai has cancelled its annual Stan Swamy Memorial Lecture, which was to be held on Saturday, after protests by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, reported The Free Press Journal. The ABVP is the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the parent organisation of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The lecture, titled “Migration for… Read More Mumbai: St Xavier’s College cancels Stan Swamy lecture after ABVP protests

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Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London. Mass civil disobedience is the only way forward

Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in past decade, according to police NB: Some advice to the brave protestors: fill the jails. Get the police to arrest thousands more of you. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been murdered with the help of the USA and UK, with its self-proclaimed… Read More Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London. Mass civil disobedience is the only way forward

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Trump. Epstein. Maxwell. Intelligence. Immunity. A multinational enterprise of leverage and silence

‘Because this isn’t just about Trump. It’s about a transnational, state-backed criminal enterprise that trafficked girls, laundered billions, and rewired democracy for the benefit of the rich, the ruthless, and the politically untouchable. We are all victims of this machine. The girls whose names we know, and the ones we never will. The families silenced.… Read More Trump. Epstein. Maxwell. Intelligence. Immunity. A multinational enterprise of leverage and silence

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