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The Canadian arms embargo on Israel that was not | Israel War on Gaza

March 25, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , , ,

Alex Cosh is an editor with the status-quo-allergic independent Canadian news upstart, The Maple. Cosh is a young reporter with an old-style muckraker’s temperament. His bunkum antennae are tuned to detect and expose the state-sanctioned flimflam that much of Canada’s establishment media hand-deliver like obedient couriers. So, while the big, corporate mastheads fell promptly and [...]read moreThe Canadian arms embargo on Israel that was not | Israel War on Gaza

The Max Planck Society must end its unconditional support for Israel | Israel War on Gaza

March 24, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , , , , , ,

We, a diverse group of employees at the Max Planck Society (MPS), Germany’s top research institution, are writing this letter to express our disapproval of the position our employer has taken on Israel-Palestine and call for a serious change in discourse, both within the MPS and in Germany as a whole, about Israel-Palestine. On October [...]read moreThe Max Planck Society must end its unconditional support for Israel | Israel War on Gaza

What Aida of Khan Younis can teach us about courage | Opinions

March 23, 2024 No Comments News , , ,

In the days leading up to Ramadan, we heard the hopeful word “ceasefire”. The US president uttered it, and the media repeated it. For a short moment, the lives of Palestinians in Gaza hung in the balance, caught between the possibility of a truce for the holy month and Israel’s relentless drive to eliminate my [...]read moreWhat Aida of Khan Younis can teach us about courage | Opinions

The US war on reproductive rights should concern women everywhere | Women’s Rights

March 22, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , , ,

In the United States, women’s reproductive rights, gained through half a century of feminist struggle, are rapidly being replaced with reproductive wrongs. In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade – the landmark 1973 ruling that gave women the constitutional right to abortion. Since then, in 28 states access to abortion has been restricted [...]read moreThe US war on reproductive rights should concern women everywhere | Women’s Rights

Switch 2, Rise Of The Ronin, And More Of The Week’s Opinions

March 21, 2024 No Comments Gaming , , ,

Screenshot: Team Ninja / Kotaku Just as I arrive in Yokohama, one of Rise of the Ronin’s three major cities, I hear a soft meowing in the distance. Spurred by what must be the cutest of cats, I sprint off in the direction of the mews when I encounter a dilapidated bandit camp. I kill [...]read moreSwitch 2, Rise Of The Ronin, And More Of The Week’s Opinions

Censorship is a crucial complement of genocide | Israel War on Gaza

March 20, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , ,

Last month on the BBC’s flagship news programme, Newsnight, author and journalist Howard Eric Jacobson complained that Britain’s public broadcaster had been showing too many images of Palestinian suffering in Gaza. He added that in televising Palestinian suffering in this way, BBC was “taking a side” and that while it was “agonising to see what [...]read moreCensorship is a crucial complement of genocide | Israel War on Gaza

Protecting climate refugees requires a legal definition | Climate Crisis

March 2, 2024 No Comments News , , , , ,

During the UN Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai last year, the terms “climate migrants” and “climate refugees” echoed loudly across meeting rooms and panels. These labels were passionately used by high-ranking UN officials, external stakeholders, scholars and activists grappling with the consequences of climate change. During a panel discussion, I emphasised that these terms hold [...]read moreProtecting climate refugees requires a legal definition | Climate Crisis

German memory culture, anti-Semitic Zionists and Palestinian liberation | Racism

March 1, 2024 No Comments News , , ,

I am a Jewish pro-Palestine solidarity activist originally from the New York area and now based in Berlin. My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor from Cologne who fled to the United States during the Second World War at the age of 16. Her parents and much of her family were murdered during the Holocaust. I [...]read moreGerman memory culture, anti-Semitic Zionists and Palestinian liberation | Racism

The war on Gaza is a health justice issue, too | Israel War on Gaza

March 1, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , , , , ,

This week, more than 40 organisations working on health justice around the globe put out an urgent call to the global health and human rights community. In an open letter, we issued a call to global health bodies, health institutions, professional associations and the World Medical Association (WMA) to take immediate action on the Israeli [...]read moreThe war on Gaza is a health justice issue, too | Israel War on Gaza

Israel’s killing rage | Israel War on Gaza

March 1, 2024 No Comments News , , , , , , , ,

Another day, another outrage. That is the inevitable lot of Palestinians in the grim, dystopian wasteland that is Gaza. It is inevitable because it does not matter the scale, nature or manner of the outrages, Palestinians have been, and always will be, considered disposable human fodder by Israel’s army of unrepentant enablers and apologists. They [...]read moreIsrael’s killing rage | Israel War on Gaza