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A few days ago I watched a video on LBCI TV of Alem Dechasa being savagely beaten by Ali Mahfouz in front of the Ethiopian embassy. At the time we did not know their names. Now we do. Mahfouz works for one of the 500 agencies that employs migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. Of these [...]
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the whole point of the academic boycott of “israel” is that palestinians have no rights to education (not to mention the right of palestinian refugees to return to their land among a whole host of other daily violations they endure every day). but critics of the academic boycott always love to shout how much more [...]
Filed under: Academic Freedom, Apartheid, Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions, Colonialism, Human Rights, Justice, Militarization, Occupation, Palestine, Refugees, U.S. Foreign Policy, Universities, Zionism | Tagged: bds, ben gurion university, david ben-gurion, ezra nawi, gideon sa'ar, jewish, jewish voice for peace, Los Angeles, los angeles times, muzzle watch, neve gordon, richard silverstein, rivka carmi, yaakov dayan | 11 Comments »
i’ve been reading the selected writings of eqbal ahmad this week. there are some excellent, insightful essays about palestinian politics and resistance strategies in this volume, which are especially interesting given ahmad’s history–as someone who lived in algeria and tunisia during the algerian revolution that kicked out the french colonists and although he was born [...]
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today is world refugee day. there are 42 million refugees world-wide. there are also 7.6 million palestinian refugees, who are not included in the numbers that the united nations high commission for refugees (unhcr) uses because palestinian refugees fall under the united nations relief and works agency (unrwa) which means something different in terms of [...]
Filed under: Activism, Afghanistan, Africa, Apartheid, Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions, Colonialism, Economy, Environment, Gaza, History, Human Rights, Imperialism, Indigenous, International Law, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Justice, Lebanon, Literature, Media, Militarization, Music, Occupation, Pakistan, Palestine, Poverty, Racism, Refugees, Syria, tamil, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: abu ali mawed, Al Jazeera, António Guterres, badil, Ban Ki Moon, bds, bhannine, bosnia, burundi, chad, climate change, colombia, Convention on the Elimination or Reduction of Statelessness, Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, Darfur, democratic republic of congo, deportation, dispossession, dorot, east jerusalem, electronic lebanon, france, gaza strip, Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Georgia, Germany, guinea, Haiti, house demolition, idps, internally displaced people, ismael sheikh hassan, jewish, jewish state, judaization, k-salaam, Kenya, land confiscation, le monde, Lebanese army, muhammara, Nablus, Nahr al-Bared Reconstruction Commission for Civil Action, Nahr el Bared refugee camp, nakba, nasser aruri, nazanine moshiri, nbrc, nidal abdelal, nidal ayyub, non-refoulement, on refugees, pastures of eden, pflp, popular front for the liberation of palestine, primaat, proxy war, ray smith, right of return, Rwanda, settlements, somalia, South Africa, sri lanka, stateless, Sudan, Suheir Hammad, susan akram, tanzania, trader joe's, tripoli, unccp, unhcr, united kingdom, United Nations, United Nations Conciliation Commission on Palestine, united nations high commission for refugees, united nations relief and works agency, united states, unrwa, world refugee day, xenophobia, yemen, yvonne ndege | Leave a Comment »
another great video from the beirut-based never before campaign:
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yesterday there was some good news coming out of iraq: Five US contractors have been arrested by Iraqi police in connection with the murder of a colleague, officials have said. If the men appear in court, it would be the first time American citizens face Iraqi justice since a bilateral security pact came into force [...]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Human Rights, International Law, Iraq, Justice, Media, Militarization, Obama, Pakistan, Prisons, U.S. Foreign Policy | Tagged: Barack Obama, bill moyers, green zone, Jeremy Scahill, jim kiterman, mercenaries, private contractors | 1 Comment »
i do not have a satellite dish in my new apartment and my internet connection is a bit slow here so i watched barack obama’s speech to the so-called muslim world on al jazeera’s website. as he began his speech today the zionist entity was busy flying american-made f-16s in the sky above palestine in [...]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Apartheid, Colonialism, Economy, Egypt, Gaza, Hillary Clinton, History, Human Rights, Imperialism, Indigenous, International Law, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Jordan, Justice, Lebanon, Media, Militarization, Obama, Occupation, Pakistan, Palestine, Poverty, Racism, Refugees, Resistance, Slavery, Turkey, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: 9/11, ahmad yousef, al azhar university, al hadidiya, Al Jazeera, al Qa'eda, algebra, Ali Abunimah, Amnesty International, andalusia, ankara, anti-Semitism, As'ad AbuKhalil, Barack Obama, Bedouin, bible, british empire, buchenwald, Cairo, cairo university, chicago, christian, code pink, cold war, congress, constitution, copts, cordoba, democracy, dubai, east jerusalem, electronic intifada, enlightenment, ethnic cleansing, european union, f-16s, free gaza movement, gaza strip, George Bush, george mitchell, Germany, guantanamo bay, Hamas, hamra checkpoint, hijab, Hillary Clinton, holocaust, holy land 5, hosni mubarak, hossam el-hamalawy, Hurricane Katrina, India, indonesia, inquisition, institute for human rights studies, international court, Islamophobia, isra, japan, Jeremy Scahill, jesus, jews, john adams, Jordan Valley, jordanian option, kansas, kareem amer, Kenya, kuala lampur, Mahmoud Abbas, maronites, marwan bishara, medea benjamin, mohammed, Morocco, moses, muntazer al zaidi, muslim world, muslims, nakba, New Orelans, non-proliferation treaty, nuclear weapons, Palestinian Authority, qur'an, ras al-ahmar, religion, renaissance, richard goldstone, right of return, road map, roi, Saddam Hussein, settlements, shi'a, South Africa, south korea, stereotypes, sunni, taliban, talmud, tammum, the guardian, The New York Times, third reich, thomas jefferson, tikkun, torture, treaty of tripoli, turning point 3, UN Resolution 194, uniersal declaration of human rights, United Nations, violence, violent extremism, West Bank, zakat, اشتراكي ثوري | 7 Comments »
there was an interesting discussion on al jazeera’s “riz khan” show with anand naidoo this week on the genocide against the tamils in sri lanka. it featured devinda subasinghe, sri lanka’s former ambassador to the u.s. and mexico; anna neistat from human rights watch; and jan jananyagam from tamils against genocide. i’ve seen jananyagam quite [...]
Filed under: Colonialism, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Imperialism, International Law, Iraq, Justice, Media, Militarization, Palestine, Racism, Refugees, Resistance, tamil, Zionism | Tagged: abdul hameed mohammed azwer, Al Jazeera, anand naidoo, anna neistat, cambodia, catherine philip, China, colombo, concentration camp, devinda subasinghe, dvora, Gethin Chamberlain, hmong, Human Rights Watch, jaffna, jan jananyagam, jeddah, jerusalem, kfir fighter-bombers, khmer rouge, laos, ltte, mads gilbert, Manik Farm, Mexico, mig-27, Mossad, Nora Barrows-Friedman, norway, persian gulf, phnom penh, ranasinghe premadassa, ratnasiri wickremanayake, Riz Khan, sarath silva, shaul eisenberg, sinhalese, sri lanka, tamil, tamil tigers, tamils against genocide, Udaya Nanayakkara, United Nations, united states, vietnam | Leave a Comment »
just as the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign against the zionist entity picked up steam after the recent israeli terrorist savagery of gaza, so to have tamils pulled together an economic boycott campaign against sri lanka. you can click on the previous link to find out more about their campaign. their website has a lot [...]
Filed under: Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions, Gaza, Genocide, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, Imperialism, International Law, Justice, Media, Militarization, Obama, Palestine, Prisons, Racism, Refugees, Resistance, tamil, U.S. Foreign Policy, Zionism | Tagged: Al Jazeera, arthur c. clarke, Barack Obama, Basil Rajapakse, britain, brussels, Bulgaria, Chettikulam, concentration camp, consumer boycott, czech republic, england, eu observer, european union, france, Gaza, Gordon Weiss, Gotabaya Rajapakse, human rights council, icrc, international committee of the red cross, italy, jeremy page, Lakshman Hulugalle, leigh phillips, liberation tigers of tamil eelam, lithuania, ltte, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Manik Farm, mark tran, netherlands, no to sri lanka, norway, physicians for human rights, poland, red cross, robert blake, Sarath Fonseka, science fiction, slovakia, sri lanka, susan rice, tamil, tamil tigers, Thangamuttu Sathyamurthi, the guardian, Thurairaja Varatharajah, times online, tom lantos, tony birtley, united kingdom, United Nations, united states, V Shanmugarajah, Vavuniya | Leave a Comment »
below is an email i received from my friend jen marlowe on the international day of global action for troy davis: Dear friends, Troy Davis is a death row prisoner in Georgia, facing execution for a crime he very possibly didn’t commit. Two weeks ago, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his appeal for [...]
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