Tag: thinking about fascism

Chased, beaten and robbed: survivors describe Israeli settler violence in West Bank / Chris Hedges on The End of the Western Mythology

Palestinians and activists forced out of the village of Mughayyir al-Deir say they were harassed, stoned and shot at Lorenzo Tondo, Quique Kierszenbaum and Sufian Taha in Jerusalem Survivors of an attack by violent Israeli settlers have described being “hunted” across a West Bank valley by men armed with pistols, rifles and batons, who beat them so badly that all 10… Read More Chased, beaten and robbed: survivors describe Israeli settler violence in West Bank / Chris Hedges on The End of the Western Mythology

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Germany trumpets its reckoning with its Nazi past – except when it’s inconvenient

From a media prize with a dubious pedigree to the horrors of Gaza, the establishment forgets and remembers what suits it best Hanno Hauenstein Growing up in Germany, we were taught to believe we had done better. Better than our grandparents’ generation, who swept their complicity under a thick rug of silence. Better even than… Read More Germany trumpets its reckoning with its Nazi past – except when it’s inconvenient

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Gabor Maté, Chris Hedges & Aaron Maté on Palestine: The Moral Issue of Our Time

The problem of evil will be the fundamental problem of postwar intellectual life in Europe – as death became the fundamental problem after the last war: Hannah Arendt, Nightmare and Flight, (1945) Essays in Understanding ***** Gabor Maté, Chris Hedges & Aaron Maté on ‘Palestine: The Moral Issue of Our Time’ Chris Hedges and Gabor Maté, introduced… Read More Gabor Maté, Chris Hedges & Aaron Maté on Palestine: The Moral Issue of Our Time

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Israeli MP forcibly removed from podium after blasting Gaza war / The Bloodied Emirates: How the UAE Fears a Free Muslim World

NB: This is the simplest and most incisive statement after 18 months of racist bloodshed by the IDF: “After a year and a half in which you killed 19000 children, 53,000 residents, destroyed all the universities and the hospitals, you feel there is no political win, that’s why you go crazy. Why are you sad?… Read More Israeli MP forcibly removed from podium after blasting Gaza war / The Bloodied Emirates: How the UAE Fears a Free Muslim World

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Israel’s Military Leaders Are Not ‘Only Obeying Orders.’ They Could Have Stopped the Gaza Massacre

We have heard it all before: ‘We were only obeying orders’. It’s the standard excuse by state sponsored murderers, torturers and assorted sadists when finally brought to book. As Gideon Levy points out in this latest column in Haaretz, it applies very much in Israel today. Gideon Levy; May 22, 2025 The Israel Defense Forces… Read More Israel’s Military Leaders Are Not ‘Only Obeying Orders.’ They Could Have Stopped the Gaza Massacre

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International opinion has rounded on Israel, but it’s not enough to force Netanyahu’s hand

Sanam Vakil Nineteen months on from the 7 October Hamas attacks and the war in Gaza, Israel is under a new wave of international pressure and increasingly isolated from its partners and allies. Benjamin Netanyahu’s government recently announced its intention to reoccupy Gaza yet again, and called up Israeli reservists. In tandem, the illegal expansion… Read More International opinion has rounded on Israel, but it’s not enough to force Netanyahu’s hand

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Criminalising thought?

Ashoka University academic’s arrest shows how rapidly universities, once spaces for debate and discussion, are pushed towards restraint and silences. Deepanshu Mohan Wilhelm von Humboldt, a great liberal reformer and a humanist, once defined the university as “nothing other than the spiritual life of those human beings who are moved by external leisure or internal pressures… Read More Criminalising thought?

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