If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!By Régis Debray, Le Monde Diplomatique
Foreword from the journal: Last year President Jacques Chirac asked Régis Debray to study the situation in the Middle East. On 15 January 2007 [...]
I have been invited to Haiti by “Haiti Solidarity” so am off there shortly. I will be staying and meeting with women activists from the Lavalas movement. I have a pretty good knowledge of Haitian history and contemporary politics but there is always more to learn and I needed to focus on [...]
Also tagged Democracy, Politics, Racism, Regional, USAThe British Medical Journal has featured two opinions on the subject, one for and one against, and is allowing its readers online, either academics or members of the public, to vote.
Go to this page. Scroll down a bit and you can find the icon to click on to participate in the vote. Once you open [...]
From the New Yorker's David Remnick: The Apostate
Excerpts:
Short of being Prime Minister, Burg could not be higher in the Zionist establishment. His father was a Cabinet minister for nearly four decades, serving under Prime Ministers from David Ben-Gurion to Shimon Peres. In addition to a decade-long career in the Knesset, including four years as Speaker, [...]
French philosopher Alain Badiou gave this interview to Le Monde last week. The original title was about the crisis of the intellectual Left. While the first two questions focused on the crisis of the French Left, most of the interview was about the particularisms lying at the foundations of Israel as a Jewish only [...]
Also tagged History, Israel, Judaism, Middle East, Palestine, ZionismThanks as well as a hat tip to the great ladies at Jordan Journals for making this article available. (Unless you have a print subscription to the Jordan Times, this article is not freely available online, the only other site that has it requires subscription). Cross-posted at Reclaiming Space at http://peoplesgeography.com by Ann El [...]
Also tagged Human Rights, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Peace, USAThis blog needs an urgent resuscitation … a sentence which is an oxymoron in itself as every resuscitation is urgent.
I am tired of posting articles exclusively, interesting and up to date as they may be - I need something more alive. I like interaction with people, feedback - I hate having monologues. Talking to a [...]
Iran is the latest country to sign up to "wall building" borders - in this case along the Iranian Pakistan border in the Baluchistan region. Iran's justification for the wall is a familiar one. To prevent smuggling of drugs and guns and movement of illegal immigrants.
Whilst the Apartheid wall being built by [...]
Also tagged Africa, Europe, Israel, Migration, Morocco, Palestine, Racism, Refugees, Senegalese, USA, Western-SaharaA warning to readers, the below article contains graphic passages.
In January of this year, my teenage daughter and I went to an event in Los Angeles sponsored by Women in Black at which Hedy Epstein*, a Holocaust survivor, ardent anti-Zionist, human rights worker spoke. Hedy did not speak of her own biography today, but from [...]
I've been thinking a lot about Nadia's post about sexual violence and historical trauma. In the post, Nadia states:
Reading this article makes me think about the types of historical trauma we as Palestinians, and Arabs in general, are carrying around with us. When Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart speaks about sobbing uncontrollably after viewing a [...]
Also tagged Culture, Human Rights, Opinion, SabbahYesterday I forwarded this insightful observation made by Susanne Scheidt, the coordinator of Al-Awda Italia, and person who is exquisitely informed on events in the Middle East. Since then, we have seen the tragedy deepen and unfold with the entrance of Lebanese Armed Forces into the refugee camps. Susanne has added some background information to [...]
Also tagged Bleeding Edge, Breaking News, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Transfer, War, War CrimesIn the U.S., the issue is framed as "Immigration"
The face of the issue is framed as a brown skinned Mexican man.
And yet, all you have to do is scrape just a little under the surface to know what immigration really means and who it effects.
750+ Immigrants Detained in "Operation Return To Sender" Raids
Immigrant youth shelter [...]
Hello Haitham,
I’m mailing from Haifa, we had corresponded once before (Who knows ‘Arab-Israel’?), and I wanted to update your readers on what is happening recently (a group event) and respond to some of your wonders, questions and statements mentioned in the former blog post (my own individual analysis), but first, here’s a video of our [...]
