“Israel has destroyed everything in Gaza. Everything. Except the sacred bond between a people and their land. Their roots run too deep. Their history covers millennia. The wounds of their Nakba have yet to heal.” – Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s ambassador to the UN + How do you compensate for 35 years of being knocked off […]
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+ After 15 months of unrelenting Israeli bombardment and a week of a still fragile ceasefire, this is what Gaza looks like: + At least 47,161 Palestinians have been listed by the Ministry of Health as being killed by Israeli military actions. Another 12,000 or so are missing under the bomb rubble and presumed dead. […]
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Hours after a 6.1 earthquake rippled across western Mexico (I didn’t feel it), I turned on the tube to witness a milestone event unfolding hundreds of miles away in the Zocalo, the central plaza of Mexico City. As thousands filled the historic space on January 12, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Mexico’s first woman president, was preparing to […]
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It never used to be the case here in the UK that people ignored the unions. As the Grateful Dead sang back in the 1970s: ‘What a long, strange trip it’s been.’ It was following Tory prime minister Edward Heath’s fall in the 1970s that the late financier Jimmy Goldsmith backed something sinister called Truemid—the […]
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When you ask me what was sound like growing up, I’ll say my tongue was as red as all good tombs. She, too, wanted to be a bird. So ask why the pelican screams. So ask why the plants are dead. No one modeled joy; Our freedom drenched in so much grief I look at […]
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People in Global South countries have agency. They can and do understand the realities of their material conditions. Apparently it is necessary to write the preceding two sentences.
You, dear reader, may be wondering why I have written such obvious statements. Don’t people everywhere possess agency, the ability to understand and act upon the political, cultural and social conditions of their community, nation and country? Yes of course they do. So why write the obvious? Because it appears that there are those, sadly partisans of the Left, that don’t believe the peoples of the Global South have agency.
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From Weinstein to Epstein to Diddy to R. Kelly, the under-your-nose reality of human sex-trafficking—a.k.a., modern slavery—continues to make headlines. But one moviemaker presaged today’s press 25 years ago. Today, documentarian Tony Zierra (Filmworker (2017)) gives us a fresh perspective on an overlooked work of art. Time Changes Everything In 1999, Warner Bros released director […]
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To be a journalist in Gaza is to be a target of the Israelis. To be a Palestinian journalist is to be a target of the Israelis and the international press, which refuses to recognize you as a media of their tribe. How else to explain the otherwise incomprehensible indifference to the systematic slaughter of […]
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Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) was launched in the waning hours of October 7, 2023, when growing numbers of journalists, artists, academicians, and poets around the world saw that Israel was escalating what had been a quieter, more contained genocide into the complete annihilation of the Palestinian people. WAWOG charges that this enhanced […]
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On December 17, a Dutch nonprofit organization dedicated to corporate accountability, SOMO, published a study of Israel’s energy sector amid the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip. Since Palestinian militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed more than 46,000 Palestinians, including 17,000 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as cited by Al Jazeera. The true toll of the genocide — obscured by continued Israeli attacks, blockade and propaganda — may top 330,000 deaths by the end of the year, per estimates published in The Guardian.
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Imagine living like this: You have four children, all younger than 10. Your husband was killed three months ago in an airstrike. You’ve moved five times in the last year, taking only what you could carry, which wasn’t much because you had to hold an infant in a sling. You don’t know what became of […]
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Someone said recently that AI might know more about the history of the First World War than all human historians put together but that he knew more than AI because he had read the poetry of Wilfred Owen. Here therefore is a look at today’s main conflicts through the prism of these conflicts’ poetry. For […]
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Under brutal siege for weeks, Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last functioning hospital in North Gaza, on Friday, clearing out its staff and patients and setting parts of the bomb-battered building on fire. The raid followed airstrikes on buildings adjacent to the hospital that killed at least 50 people, including five medical workers. […]
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“We’ve shown that this struggle is not in vain. We are here, the relatives and survivors of the Dirty War, and thanks to our relatives who had to participate in an armed struggle against a tyranny that was called democracy. They are the important ones,” Judith Galarza said. “We will thank all the recognitions, but it’s for them, our brothers and sisters who sacrificed their lives, their safety and their children to struggle for all the children of Mexico, for a just society so our children will have food, education, culture, sports, like what is happening now.”
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+ On December 15, an Israeli missile struck the third floor of a UNRWA school in al Mawasi camp outside Khan Younis, killing more than a dozen Palestinians on site and severely injuring many more who were taken to the emergency room at Nasser Hospital. At least 18 Palestinians injured in the blast died in […]
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Extremely dangerous ground which requires the most scrupulous prudence and caution, language also constitutes a powerful weapon through which the success of any enterprise can be guaranteed … [T]he art of oratory in ancient China tends to be identified with the art of war and of strategic intelligence. – Albert Galvany Half a millennium before […]
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In October 1947 19 screenwriters, directors and producers were summoned from Tinseltown to Washington to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged subversion in the motion picture industry. Eleven of those subpoenaed testified, including the so-called “Hollywood Ten,” and the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Eight of the “Hollywood Nineteen” were not called then […]
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Israel’s war on Gaza is increasingly a war on childhood, a war on the future of Palestinian life on the Strip. An assessment by the Community Training Centre for Crisis Management, based on interviews with more than 500 Palestinian children, parents and caregivers from 500 children, parents and caregivers from families where at least one […]
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Assuming you’d wanted things to get better, the year 2024 has got to be a major disappointment. We, who’ve spent years — especially the last one — trying to defend the right of Palestinians to exist on their own land are now asked to accept the fact that Biden’s homicidal aid to Israel was just […]
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Amnesty International has become the latest human rights group to conclude that Israel’s war crimes in Gaza amount to genocide. In a meticulously detailed and thoroughly damning report titled, You Feel Like You are Subhuman, released on Thursday, Amnesty’s researchers compiled extensive witness interviews, satellite imagery and digital evidence, and “dehumanizing and genocidal statements” by […]
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Voltaire once said of religion: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was until recently leader of the Church of England as well as ceremonial head of the vast global Anglican Communion. His resignation will take effect shortly but news of his fall from […]
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Image by Ash Hayes. Although Magen David Adom is often presented as a neutral humanitarian organization, it is in fact complicit in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. From 2022 to ‘23, the total revenue of the American Friends of Magen David Adom — the US-based fundraiser for MDA, Israel’s branch of the International Federation of […]
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+ On Tuesday, Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah that was brokered by the U.S.- and France. The ceasefire began at 4 a.m. local time Wednesday, but Israel continued to fire on Hezbollah positions throughout much of the day. According to the terms of the deal, Israel won’t remove its military […]
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Twice, when Donald Trump has won the presidency, Democratic politicians, liberal media, and ‘progressive’ academics have rediscovered – momentarily and rhetorically – ‘the working class’, and especially the ‘white working class’. Senator Bernie Sanders recently said that Democrats lost the ‘white working class’ in 2016, and important parts of ‘the Black and Latino working class’ […]
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