Tag: thinking about fascism

My sweet friend Awdah Hathaleen was murdered by a West Bank settler. May his memory be a revolution

A Palestinian activist, he helped his community resist Israel’s attempts to erase it. On Thursday, they buried him. Emily Glick I got the news last Monday afternoon: a text from Ali, a fellow activist, that simply read: “Awdah </3, Allah y’rahmo” – an Arabic blessing for the dead. I pulled over on the highway, jaw… Read More My sweet friend Awdah Hathaleen was murdered by a West Bank settler. May his memory be a revolution

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When will we finally admit: the Gaza death toll is higher than we’ve been told

How many people have been killed by Israel in Gaza since 7 October 2023? Arwa Mahdawi It’s an almost impossible question to answer but, as the likes of the New York Times publish atrocity-minimizing op-eds that argue Israel hasn’t killed all that many people really – certainly not as many people as it could kill if it wanted to… Read More When will we finally admit: the Gaza death toll is higher than we’ve been told

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Duplicate voters, fake addresses: Rahul Gandhi claims fraud in Karnataka rolls

Rahul Gandhi alleged that fake people were being added to voter lists by the ECI in collusion with the BJP and attempted to validate his point by showing the Karnataka electoral rolls. By: Abhishek De In a no-holds-barred attack on the Election Commission (EC), Congress MP Rahul Gandhi alleged that the poll watchdog was colluding with the… Read More Duplicate voters, fake addresses: Rahul Gandhi claims fraud in Karnataka rolls

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The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

NB: Today is the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The USA and Israel are celebrating it with the continuing genocide of the Palestinian people. DS “The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint… But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried,… Read More The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Professor Rashid Khalidi Slams ‘Crushing Repression’ at Columbia, Cancels Course to protest Trump Settlement / How Trump and Miller are rewriting US higher education to shut out international students 

The last thing I want to say is this is not just a capitulation to the Trump administration. This was an inside job. There was a fifth column, members of the Board of Trustees, senior members of the faculty of some of the professional schools, and a clutch of donors, who have been beating the… Read More Professor Rashid Khalidi Slams ‘Crushing Repression’ at Columbia, Cancels Course to protest Trump Settlement / How Trump and Miller are rewriting US higher education to shut out international students 

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Guilty silence

The IDF-induced famine in Gaza became a Live Aid moment; weirdly, starvation depoliticised the genocide, bleaching it into a humanitarian cause that writers could get behind Mukul Kesavan Why have Western writers and public intellectuals been so feeble and belated in their response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza? The general public can be forgiven for… Read More Guilty silence

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Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west’s help

NB: The Western rulers are complicit in mass murder. They are also unashamed racists – some lives are more worthy of dignity than others. We all know this and they know it too – they hurl their impunity in our faces. Had there been any justice in the world they would have been tried for… Read More Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west’s help

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Netanyahu’s Forever War in Gaza Is Crushing Israel’s Soldiers and Their Families

An overwhelming majority of Israelis support ending the Gaza war in return for the release of all the hostages, but Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners would rather sacrifice Israeli soldiers on the altar of endless war Amir Tibon On Monday afternoon, while driving my car through the streets of Tel Aviv, I happened to turn on… Read More Netanyahu’s Forever War in Gaza Is Crushing Israel’s Soldiers and Their Families

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Murder not crisis – Why Israel’s starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context

Anyone deflecting from the clear responsibility of the Israeli state for this mass starvation of two million people, anyone resorting to euphemisms about “crises” makes themselves complicit in this historic crime. NB: This is the way the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of captured Russian and Polish POWs and civilians in WW2, by placing them… Read More Murder not crisis – Why Israel’s starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context

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Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past

Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer Science is in crisis. Funding infrastructures for both basic and applied research are being systematically decimated, while in places of great power, science’s influence on decision making is waning. Long-term and far-reaching studies are being shuttered, and thousands of scientists’ livelihoods are uncertain, to say nothing of the incalculable casualties resulting from the abrupt removal of… Read More Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past

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