Messages arrive from Gaza with news of dead children. It has become a graveyard for humanity’s conscience

Gaza has become a graveyard. A graveyard for children and for mothers. But Gaza has also become a place where the conscience of the world is being buried, alongside the failure of the world’s institutions to protect civilians. Gaza is the graveyard of human rights. Ghada Ageel Over the past week, I attempted to reach… Read More Messages arrive from Gaza with news of dead children. It has become a graveyard for humanity’s conscience

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Chris Hedges: The Horror, The Horror

Israel’s genocidal attacks, which are killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, including some 160 children, have expanded to shelling the remaining hospitals in Gaza… There are no words to express what we are witnessing. In the five weeks of horror this is one of the pinnacles of horror. The indifference of Europe is bad enough. The active complicity… Read More Chris Hedges: The Horror, The Horror

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Patrick Lawrence: ‘The Hinge of History’

500 years of global dominance by the Euro–American culture, the Atlantic culture, has come to an end… What we are seeing at the moment in Palestine is the end of settler colonialism. Settler colonialism is a phenomenon of the last two centuries or so, and it is always accompanied by genocide… But we are watching… Read More Patrick Lawrence: ‘The Hinge of History’

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We are Spartacus

NB: Delhi police have warned imams in mosques not to pray for Palestine. Not only are they ill-informed (they think Palestine = Hamas); they also have no idea Gaza and the West Bank are occupied territories. And they now have the license to enter our consciences. Our prayers are now state property. DS There can’t… Read More We are Spartacus

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How a father’s love for his daughter challenged India’s ‘rape culture’

When his 13-year-old daughter stumbled home six years ago and told her father that she had been gang-raped, Ranjit embarked on a mission to get justice in a manner that is almost unheard of in rural India. Going against the wishes of the entire village in the eastern state of Jharkhand, and challenging India’s highly patriarchal culture,… Read More How a father’s love for his daughter challenged India’s ‘rape culture’

14th November 2023 Dilip

Do Palestinian lives matter to the world?

Hani Almadhoun I keep waiting for someone to wake me up. As I witness the surreal and staggering devastation on the streets of Gaza, where my parents live, and the tragic loss of more than 10,000 Palestinian lives unfolding in real time, my heart keeps sinking. I hold on to the hope that something, or someone, can… Read More Do Palestinian lives matter to the world?

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Rosario Livatino: the judge killed by mobsters who is on his way to sainthood

There is a time for judgment, a time for love, and even a time for silence. Livatino knew when and how to practice each… he saw the duty to promote justice as a personal call. A visible sign of this call was the acronym used by Livatino in many of his texts: S.T.D, standing for… Read More Rosario Livatino: the judge killed by mobsters who is on his way to sainthood

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Grit and glamour: how Mahua Moitra shook up the misogyny and hypocrisy of Indian politics

Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi Mahua Moitra is a misfit in Indian politics. She rejects the notion that a woman must ideally be married, and if she happens to be divorced, single or widowed, should not openly date or be seen to be in a relationship. Nor should she drink or smoke in public or be… Read More Grit and glamour: how Mahua Moitra shook up the misogyny and hypocrisy of Indian politics

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My comments on Piers Morgan and Bill Maher

NB: I rarely comment on YouTube channels, but recently I did. They referred to the ongoing Palestine and Israel conflict. I enclose the links to both and the content of my observations. I used to enjoy watching Maher now and then; but after he (recently, not in this video) used the term ‘collateral damage’ to… Read More My comments on Piers Morgan and Bill Maher

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The Palestinian people have a right to their lives, land and sovereignty

Israel’s retaliation for the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas has rapidly evolved into another phase of what can only be considered a genocidal campaign to destroy and displace the 2.2 million residents of Gaza. As this article goes to publication (October 27, 2023), indiscriminate aerial bombings by the Israeli army have killed over 7,000 people in… Read More The Palestinian people have a right to their lives, land and sovereignty

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After the truth-shower

Philosophy, history, literature, current affairs, and other stuff. Posted by Dilip Simeon

Tag: justice